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October 9, 2018

Environment & Health

Earth’s Ice Loss “Is a Nuclear Explosion of Geologic Change”

A study shows that 3 trillion tons of ice have disappeared into the oceans since 1992.

by Dahr Jamail, Truthout

October 9, 2018

Cruel Immigration Policies Tear Apart Southeast Asian American Families

More than 14,000 Southeast Asian Americans are unsure if — or when — they will be deported.

by Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Quyen Dinh, Truthout

October 9, 2018

Civilian Deaths in Yemen Increased by 164 Percent. Will Congress Act?

A new bipartisan bill urges Congress to exercise its authority and end critical US support for an illegal war.

by Gabe Murphy, Truthout

October 9, 2018

Politics & Elections

GOP’s Brian Kemp Purged 1 in 10 Georgia Voters: I’ve Got the Names

Stacey Abrams’ GOP opponent used his power as Secretary of State to purge 1 in 10 Georgia voters. Here's his hit list.

by Greg Palast, Truthout

A study shows that 3 trillion tons of ice have disappeared into the oceans since 1992. — Earth’s Ice Loss “Is a Nuclear Explosion of Geologic Change”

More than 14,000 Southeast Asian Americans are unsure if — or when — they will be deported. — Cruel Immigration Policies Tear Apart Southeast Asian American Families

A boy looks at a banner of the Al Kubra hall after it was hit by airstrikes on October 8, 2018, in Sana'a, Yemen. — Civilian Deaths in Yemen Increased by 164 Percent. Will Congress Act?

Journalist Greg Palast confronts GOP candidate for Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp outside the Sprayberry Barbecue in Newman, Georgia, asking, “Mr. Kemp are you removing Black voters from the voter rolls just so you can win this election?” — GOP’s Brian Kemp Purged 1 in 10 Georgia Voters: I’ve Got the Names

Featured

Rene Roman Nose addresses the crowd during a celebration marking Indigenous Peoples' Day at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center on October 13, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. Earlier that afternoon, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray signed a resolution designating the second Monday in October to be Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Beyond Columbus Day: Changing the Name Is Just the First Step

by: Jacqueline Keeler

Protestors march through midtown Manhattan as they rally against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, October 1, 2018, in New York City.

Kavanaugh Is Confirmed. Only Mass Organizing Will Save Us Now.

by: William Rivers Pitt

Demonstrators carry Confederate and Nazi flags during the "Unite the Right" rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.

Friendship Alone Cannot Deradicalize Fascists

by: Elizabeth King

Keeping the fight for health care as a human right front and center in the general election is an uphill battle.

With Primaries Over, Advocates Fight to Keep Single-Payer in Spotlight

by: Michael Corcoran

Politics & Elections

Rise of Far-Right Demagogue Follows Dilma's Ouster and Lula's Jailing in Brazil

Far-Right Demagogue Follows Rousseff’s Ouster and Lula’s Jailing in Brazil

by: Amy Goodman

The Trump administration has made Muslims an enemy of the first order.

Islamophobia Under Trump: The New McCarthyism

by: Juan Cole

President Trump speaks as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy look on during Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing in at the east room of the White House on October 8, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Post-Kavanaugh, Republicans Throw Salt in Women’s Wounds

by: Sophia Tesfaye

Justice Brett Kavanaugh on October 6, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Organizers Say Kavanaugh Isn’t “Above the Law” as Petitions to Impeach Him Surge

by: Jon Queally

Human Rights

More than 14,000 Southeast Asian Americans are unsure if — or when — they will be deported.

Cruel Immigration Policies Tear Apart Southeast Asian American Families

by: Sung Yeon Choimorrow; Quyen Dinh

Viale delle Province.

These Women Are Demanding Their Rights From Inside Rome’s Occupied Buildings

by: Claudia Torrisi

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on October 5, 2018, for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world.

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Campaigners Against Sexual Violence as a Weapon

by: Julia Conley

Demonstrators protesting against Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination as an associate justice on the Supreme Court chant slogans as they enter the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, September 28, 2018.

GOP Senators Are Running Away From Women Sharing Their Sexual Assault Stories

by: Shira Tarlo

Exclusives

Officials Literally “Blow Hot Air” to Mitigate Heat in Texas Prisons

Officials Literally “Blow Hot Air” to Mitigate Heat in Texas Prisons

Several Texas prisoners told Truthout they were threatened after asking for respite from extreme heat.

by: Candice Bernd

The Dubious Fiction of Donald Trump’s Fortune Has Been Exposed

The Dubious Fiction of Donald Trump’s Fortune Has Been Exposed

The mythology of the “self-made man” has absorbed a mighty blow.

by: William Rivers Pitt

In Destroying Social Security, GOP Has No Plans for Elderly Americans

In Destroying Social Security, GOP Has No Plans for Elderly Americans

Dismantling Social Security will be a top priority for Republicans if they retain a majority in Congress.

by: Barbara G. Ellis

Environment & Health

Climate Scientist: We Need a "Marshall Plan" for Climate Change

We Need a “Marshall Plan” for Climate Change, Says Climate Expert

by: Amy Goodman

A study shows that 3 trillion tons of ice have disappeared into the oceans since 1992.

Earth’s Ice Loss “Is a Nuclear Explosion of Geologic Change”

by: Dahr Jamail

Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline, near the encampment where hundreds of people gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest, September 4, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

Connection to Mother Earth Compels Indigenous Women to Protect It

by: Kandi White

Scientist looking at microfibers in microscrope

Humans, Fish and Other Animals Are Consuming Microfibers in Our Food and Water

by: Mary Catherine O’Connor

Economy & Labor

While Amazon's wage increase shows the power of progressive organizing, the context of the tightest labor market in almost two decades should not be overlooked.

Amazon’s $15 an Hour Minimum Wage and the Federal Reserve Board

by: Dean Baker

USPS truck in snow

It’s Your Postal Service. Don’t Let Trump and Congress Sell It Off.

by: Julie Bates

Johnny Waller became a leader in the fight to lift Missouri's lifetime ban from food stamps for those with felony drug convictions, after he was denied access while caring for his ailing son.

The Fight to Reverse the Food Stamp Ban for People With Felony Drug Convictions

by: Paul Nyhan

Art & Cartoons

Supreme Court Silver Lining

Supreme Court Silver Lining

by: Jen Sorensen

Cartoons

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A USA flag hangs in the window of a vacant building in downtown Keyser, West Virginia.

Politics & Elections

What Liberals Have Gotten Wrong About Main Street USA

Democrats should take voters’ concerns seriously rather than blowing them off, says Thomas Frank.

by: Mark Karlin

Book

Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society

With one major political party ruthless and hypocritical, and the other major political party feckless and ineffective, the United States is headed for a rendezvous with oblivion.

War & Peace

A boy looks at a banner of the Al Kubra hall after it was hit by airstrikes on October 8, 2018, in Sana'a, Yemen.

Civilian Deaths in Yemen Increased by 164 Percent. Will Congress Act?

by: Gabe Murphy

A boy walks by a house destroyed in an airstrike carried out by a Saudi-led coalition warplane in 2018 in Sana'a, Yemen.

How Saudi Money Keeps Washington at War in Yemen

by: Ben Freeman

Insider Attacks: Blowback From US Policy in Afghanistan and Beyond

by: Danny Sjursen

Why Is the Trump Administration Threatening the International Criminal Court?

by: Janine Jackson

Prison & Policing

Prisoner trapped in increasing heat

Officials Literally “Blow Hot Air” to Mitigate Heat in Texas Prisons

by: Candice Bernd

Demonstrators protest as they celebrate the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

Jury Finds Chicago Cop Guilty of Second-Degree Murder in Shooting of Black Teen

by: Jessica Corbett

Keeping the Spirit of the Prison Labor Strike Alive

by: James Kilgore

Silhouette of woman in prison and razor wire

For People Behind Bars, Reporting Sexual Assault Leads to More Punishment

by: Victoria Law

Series

After the Raid

After the Raid

Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.

Visions of 2018

Visions of 2018

Activist leaders address what they would like to see created, built or begun this year.

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Marjorie Cohn analyzes human rights and executive branch lawbreaking.

Planet or Profit

Planet or Profit

Investigating systemic threats to the ecosystem from transglobal corporate profit-seeking.

Progressive Picks

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The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

The cost of going to college is consuming a larger portion of household income, particularly for students and families of color who already face structural barriers to education and employment.

Students Are Paying More at Public Colleges and Getting Less in Return

by: Mike Ludwig

The Activists on the Front Lines of the Battle for Educational Justice in the US

by: Amy Goodman

Students at the University of Colorado Boulder join a divestment rally on April 14, 2014, in Boulder, Colorado.

Colleges Have a Responsibility to Divest From Fossil Fuels

by: Jennie C. Stephens

Freshman Maya McCollum talks to reporters outside Howard University's administration building in Washington, DC, where she and fellow students are sitting-in to protest the university policies, tuition hikes and neglect of student affairs on March 31, 2018.

How Students at Black Colleges Are Addressing Sexual Assault on Campus

by: Eryn Mathewson

Media Justice

Colonizing Histories and Rebranding Pocahontas

by: Maile Arvin

Tangled in the Garden of Good and Evil

by: Norman Solomon

US President Donald Trump speaks during a 'Make America Great Again' rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 20, 2018.

Challenging Trump’s Propaganda Means Creating a Counter-Narrative

by: Thomas J. Scott

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies on the third day of his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill September 6, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Kavanaugh’s Hearings Have an Unprecedented Level of Secrecy

by: Janine Jackson

Buzzflash

Buzzflash.com provides original commentary and progressive news aggregation.

Long Hours, Unhealthy Conditions and Sexual Harassment: Hotel Workers Strike Marriott

Commentary

Long Hours, Unhealthy Conditions and Sexual Harassment: Hotel Workers Strike Marriott

by: Bill Berkowitz, BuzzFlash

Plastic on Remote South Atlantic Beaches Up Ten-Fold in 10 Years

by: Olivia Rosane, BuzzFlash

Heidi Heitkamp Powerfully Rebukes GOP Senate Rival After He Slanders #MeToo

by: Katherine Krueger, Splinter News

Donald Trump Thinks Racial Profiling Will Solve Gun Violence in Chicago

by: Monique Judge, The Root