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“It’s Hard to Believe, But Syria’s War Is Getting Worse”: World Powers Clash as Civilian Deaths Soar; As Deadly Flu Sweeps Country, Koch-Backed Group Fights Paid Sick Leave Policies Nationwide.
Ravi Ragbir: Immigrant Leaders Are Surveilled & Targeted for Speaking Out About Trump’s Deportations; Judges Across U.S. Are Halting Trump’s Mass Deportations & Ruling Immigrants Have Due Process Rights; Remembering the Extraordinary Life of Pakistani Human Rights Lawyer & Activist Asma Jahangir.
Breaking: Ravi Ragbir Wins Stay of Deportation After Filing Free Speech Suit Over Being Targeted for Activism; Olympics Begin with Unified Korean Team Marching Together as Trump Continues to Threaten N. Korea; Scores of Democratic Lawmakers Join GOP to Back Budget Bill with No Protection for DREAMers; Lawrence Wilkerson: I Helped Sell the False Choice … Continued
Directorate S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan; Black Lives Matter Activist Muhiyidin d’Baha, Who Grabbed Confederate Flag, Shot Dead in New Orleans.
NYC Taxi Driver Kills Himself at City Hall after Condemning Uber & Politicians for Financial Ruin; “They were Both Cops & Robbers”: Baltimore Police Scandal Exposes Theft, Cover-Ups & Drug Peddling; Bresha Meadows, Teenage Girl Who Killed Her Abusive Father, Finally Freed After 10 Months in Jail; NAACP vs. Trump: Racial Discrimination Suit Filed to … Continued
When Deportation is a Death Sentence: The Fatal Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy; When U.S. Needs MLK’s Voice More Than Ever, Automaker Dodge Waters Down His Message to Peddle Trucks; A More Beautiful & Terrible History: The Whitewashing & Distortion of Rosa Parks and MLK’s Legacies.
Head of Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Group: Trump’s Nuclear Policy “Puts Us on Path Toward Nuclear War”; As Paul Ryan Touts a Secretary’s $1.50 Weekly Pay Hike, Koch Bros. Reap $1.4B from GOP Tax Plan; 17 Arrested Outside Super Bowl, Capping NFL Season of Racial Justice Protests On and Off Field.
“Mr. Boston”: Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press; “They Repress Us Because We’re Poor”: Immigrant Rights Activist Speaks from Sanctuary in Colorado.
Marcy Wheeler on Showdown over Nunes Memo, Mueller Probe & Reauthorization of Mass Surveillance; 16 Years of War: Trump Joins Obama & Bush in Using SOTU to Hail “Progress” in Afghan War; Johann Hari on How the “Junk Values” of Neoliberalism Drive Depression and Anxiety in the U.S.
Made in the USA: The Real History of the MS-13 Gang Trump Talked About in State of the Union; We Are Not Going to Be Intimidated: Undocumented Activist Attends SOTU Despite Threat of Arrest; Ilhan Omar, First Somali-American State Lawmaker: Trump’s SOTU was “Disgusting” & “Fascist”; In Warmongering First State of the Union, Trump Doubles … Continued
