Bill de Blasio 680 undocumented workers arrested in record-setting immigration sweep on the first day of schoolCNN - By Dianne Gallagher, Catherine E. Shoichet, Madeline HolcombeMorton, Mississippi (CNN) — After immigration authorities rounded up hundreds of workers in a massive sweep at seven Mississippi food processing plants, friends and family members are desperately searching
Monsanto Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activistsThe Guardian - Sam Levin in San FranciscoMonsanto operated a “fusion center” to monitor and discredit journalists and activists, and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical book on the company, documents reveal. The agrochemical corporation
Liberal View "Don't Look Away": Videos and Images of Weeping Children and Lovedcommondreams.org Heartbreaking images and videos of weeping children and loved ones spread rapidly on social media Wednesday night after Immigration and Customs …
ACLU ACLU: 911 children split at border since 2018 court orderAssociated Press - By ELLIOT SPAGAT and ASTRID GALVANSAN DIEGO (AP) — More than 900 children, including babies and toddlers, were separated from their parents at the border in the year after a judge ordered the practice be sharply curtailed, the American
Homework Should US Public Schools Eliminate...truthout.org - Eleanor J. Bader When Finnish students enroll in school at age seven, they can expect to take three or four classes a day. There are frequent breaks, plus a daily …
Students Grades Are Capitalism in Action. Let's Get Them Out of Our...truthout.org - Richard D. Wolff The capitalist economic system has major failures. It generates extreme, socially divisive inequalities of wealth and income. It consistently fails …
Liberal View Former Bush Administration Insider Reflects on the Failure of the Iraq...truthout.org - Naman Habtom-Desta “There was a long history of the CIA’s incompetence in trying to get rid of Saddam Hussein,” says retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. Looking back at the …
Liberal View There Are No Safe Places in This...truthout.org - William Rivers Pitt Sunday was the last day of the Cheshire County fair, an annual hootenanny here in southwest New Hampshire enjoying its 81st year. It is every fair …
Deportation The US's Immigration Crackdown Began Decades Ago Under...truthout.org - Michelle Chen The scenes at the southern border — of terrified families and isolated children huddled in dreary makeshift jails — suggest that the federal …
U.S. Army U.S. Troops Are Back in Saudia Arabia—This Will End Badlytruthdig.com - Maj. Danny Sjursen It was big news. U.S. military forces streamed into Saudi Arabia in response to a supposedly serious threat to the kingdom’s eastern region. The …
Satire Paul Krassner Gave a Shit About Everythingtruthdig.com - Mr. Fish Paul Krassner died Sunday at 87, and more than anybody else in his generation, he lived his life demonstrating over and over and over again how the …
Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour EngineersBloomberg - Peter Robison It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software …
Yemen 'Blood of Jamal Khashoggi and Innocent People of Yemen' on His Handscommondreams.org In a move anti-war critics warned will "greenlight more atrocities" by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, U.S. President Donald Trump late Wednesday …
Lori Lightfoot Have you spoken at a Chicago Police Board meeting? The police know more about you than you realize.Chicago Tribune - By Jeremy Gorner and Gregory PrattChicago police have for years compiled profiles on every citizen who spoke at public meetings of the city’s police disciplinary panel, a process that included running criminal background checks and internet
Liberal View An American Tragedy: Empire at Home and Abroadtruthdig.com - Maj. Danny Sjursen Empires in decline tend to behave badly. Indeed, whether British, French or Russian, the twilight years of imperialism often brought brutal …
GOP lawmaker: Chant at Trump rally 'would send chills down the spines of our Founding Fathers'CNN - By Clare Foran, CNNWashington (CNN) — Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois on Thursday morning called a chant that broke out at President Donald Trump's rally the previous night -- when the crowd yelled "send her as
Media react to 'send her back' chant at Trump rallyCNN - By Oliver Darcy, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The fact that it was not surprising did not make it any less
Fighting deepfakes with a digital breadcrumb trailAxios - Kaveh Waddell There is a pitched struggle underway between the makers of fake AI-generated videos and images and forensics experts trying desperately to uncover …
Progressive Candidates Are Rising. Establishment Media Are...truthout.org - William Rivers Pitt Some things in life are inevitable, it seems. When the sun rises, it does so in the east. When it rains, things get wet. When you drop your …
How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration...truthout.org - William Rivers Pitt I really don’t know what the hell we think we’re celebrating today. With children locked up in cages and concentration camps for the crime of being …
Wall Street Beware: The Public Banking Movement Is Coming for...truthout.org - Robert R. Raymond It may not come as a surprise to hear that the majority of Americans don’t trust the banking system in this country. Only 27 percent of those …
Mad Magazine will effectively cease publication after 67 yearsCNN - By Rob McLean and Michelle Lou, CNN(CNN) — Once a cultural touchstone, Mad Magazine is halting the publication of new content and vanishing from newsstands. The seminal humor publication will no longer be available on newsstands after August
The complete list of alternatives to all Google productsTechSpot - Sven Taylor With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products. After …
Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligencePOLITICO - By NATASHA BERTRAND and DANIEL LIPPMANInsiders say a multimillion dollar McKinsey-fueled overhaul of the country’s intelligence community has left it less effective. America’s vast spying apparatus was built around a Cold War world of dead
Amnesty International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights DefendersThe Intercept - Ryan Devereaux The shape of the Trump administration’s approach to policing immigration is at this point familiar. Since January 2017, federal agents and officers …
International Human Rights Organization Demands Immediate End to Controversial Border Surveillance Tactics by Trump Administrationnbcsandiego.com - Tom Jones, Mari Payton, Bill Feather, Paul Krueger What started as a cordial conversation with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent quickly dissolved when an agent scanned Pastor Kaji …
Conditions at Detention Centers Have Reached a Tipping Pointtruthdig.com - Ilana Novick “I’m so hungry that I have woken up in the middle of the night with hunger,” a 12-year-old told attorneys of his experience at an immigration …
After Trump's Former FDA Chief Quietly Joins Pfizer Board, Warrencommondreams.org Maybe Scott Gottleib thought he could avoid scrutiny by making the move to the board of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer just over two months after …
Existing energy infrastructure could send global temperatures 1.5°C above preindustrial levelsAxios - Ben Geman A new study finds that existing energy infrastructure — notably via power plants — is slated to produce enough carbon emissions over its lifetime to …
