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August 15, 2018

Prisons & Policing

Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie

FBI records show the folk singer's surveillance continued even after he stopped performing due to Huntington's disease.

by Aaron J. Leonard, Truthout

August 15, 2018

Politics & Elections

Is There a Cult of Trump?

Trump as a leader and his loyal followers exhibit "culting" behaviors, says cult expert Dr. Milton J. Bennett.

by Dahr Jamail, Truthout

August 15, 2018

Trump Signs Legislation Pumping Billions More Into War Machine

Some progressives in Congress are questioning the increased Pentagon funding at the cost of social programs.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

August 15, 2018

Politics & Elections

Will Trump Be Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Law?

Evidence is mounting of Trump's participation. Could a grand jury name him an unindicted co-conspirator?

by Marjorie Cohn, Truthout

Photo of Woody Guthrie, circa 1970. — Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie

President Donald Trump speaks on August 2, 2018, at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. — Is There a Cult of Trump?

US Marines run to firing positions during live-fire training in Jordan, April 21, 2018. — Trump Signs Legislation Pumping Billions More Into War Machine

Will Trump Be Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Law?

Featured

Repression Intensifies in Argentina After President Empowers Military

by: Liz Mason-Deese

Anti-Union Measure in Missouri Loses by Massive Margin

by: Dean Baker

“Exhaling a Low Freedom Song”: Jackie Wang on Carceral Capitalism

by: James Kilgore

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse for a hearing on June 15, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Holding the Bag: Manafort, Trump and All That Dirty Money

by: William Rivers Pitt

Politics & Elections

Globe and money

Foreign Interests Have Spent Over $530 Million Influencing US Policy Since 2017

by: Anna Massoglia; Geoff West

President Donald Trump holds a defence sales chart with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on March 20, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump, Gunrunner for Hire

by: William D. Hartung

President Donald Trump speaks on August 2, 2018, at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Is There a Cult of Trump?

by: Dahr Jamail

Will Trump Be Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Law?

by: Marjorie Cohn

Human Rights

Cops Deadnaming Murdered Transgender Women Adds Insult to Injury

by: Lucas Waldron; Ken Schwencke

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 19, 2018, in Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration is using the Tornillo tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the US under the administration's zero tolerance policy.

Trump Administration Delays Texas “Tent City” for Migrant Children Closure Again

by: Jessica Corbett

Immigration activists chain themselves up as they stage a civil disobedience to shut down Independence Avenue, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Psychological Resources in Latinx Struggle Against Systemic Oppression

by: Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas and Hector Y. Adames

The "Early Days" pier at the base of the Pioneer Monument stands in the Civic Center of San Francisco, CA.

Think Confederate Monuments Are Racist? Consider Pioneer Monuments

by: Cynthia Prescott

Exclusives

Why the Latest Attack on Single-Payer Backfired

Why the Latest Attack on Single-Payer Backfired

While the moral argument for universal health care is paramount, the economic one is vital to winning the reform.

by: Michael Corcoran

Chicago’s Violence Is Fueled by Neoliberalism

Chicago’s Violence Is Fueled by Neoliberalism

Rahm Emanuel's neoliberal policies have left Chicago neighborhoods devastated.

by: Kelly Hayes

Mexico’s Ban Advances Broader Fight to End Fracking in North America

Mexico’s Ban Advances Broader Fight to End Fracking in North America

US anti-fracking activists hope to build on the momentum created by the announcement of Mexico's ban.

by: José Luis Granados Ceja

Environment & Health

How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science and Silences Dissent

How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science and Silences Dissent

by: Amy Goodman

One of many hand painted signs along the roads near Bent Mountain, Virginia, to protest against the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project.

What Happens When a Pipeline Runs Afoul of Government Rules?

by: Kate Mishkin; Ken Ward Jr.; Beena Raghavendran

Pablo Fajardo, lawyer for the victims of environmental damage caused during Texaco's oil operations in the Ecuadoran Amazon (1964 to 1990), acquired by Chevron in 2001, celebrates with his clients, during a press conference in Quito, on July 11, 2018.

Chevron Must Pay for Environmental Damage in Ecuador, Court Rules

by: Staff

Zinke Blames “Radical Environmentalists,” Not Climate Change, as Wildfires Rage

by: Amy Goodman

Economy & Labor

Dewayne Johnson (C) hugs one of his attorneys, next to lawyer and member of his legal team Robert F Kennedy Jr (R), after the verdict was read in the case against Monsanto at the Superior Court Of California in San Francisco, California, on August 10, 2018.

As Monsanto Pays $289 Million to Cancer Victim, Bayer Shares Plunge

by: Andrea Germanos

Energy workers on wind farm

Want to Create More Jobs? Reduce Fossil Fuel Use.

by: Basav Sen

Rep. Chris Collins walks out of a New York court house after being charged with insider trading on August 8, 2018, in New York City.

What Is Insider Trading, the Crime Rep. Chris Collins Was Charged With?

by: Jena Martin; Karen Kunz

Tech workers rally against Saleforce's contract with US Customs and Border Protection on July 9, 2018, outside the company's San Francisco headquarters.

Tech Workers and Flight Attendants Resist Immigrant Family Separation

by: Chris Brooks

Art & Cartoons

Summer Refreshment Gentrification

Summer Refreshment Gentrification

by: Jen Sorensen

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Black lives matter protesters chant in the middle of the student quad during a protest against education cuts at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois, on April 1, 2016.

Education & Youth

Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy

"Teaching for Black Lives" offers educators insights into intersectional Black identities and overlapping oppressions.

by: Mark Karlin

Book

Teaching for Black Lives

A revolutionary transformation in teaching subjects relevant to Black history in the United States. Much needed in all school districts, and a vital book for Black and white American adults too.

War & Peace

Outrage Mounts Over US Role in Airstrike on Yemeni School Bus Carrying Children

Outrage Mounts Over US Role in Airstrike on Yemeni School Bus Carrying Children

by: Amy Goodman

US Marines run to firing positions during live-fire training in Jordan, April 21, 2018.

Trump Signs Legislation Pumping Billions More Into War Machine

by: Mike Ludwig

Trump’s Reimposed Sanctions Against Iran Are an Act of Warfare

by: Amy Goodman

Secret Report Details How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Gazan Children

by: Jessica Corbett

Prison & Policing

Photo of Woody Guthrie, circa 1970.

Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie

by: Aaron J. Leonard

Prison Firefighting Program Pays a Dollar an Hour to Fight California Wildfires

Prison Firefighting Program Pays a Dollar an Hour to Fight California Wildfires

by: Amy Goodman; Nermeen Shaikh

Mourners attend a candlelight vigil in memory of 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. on October 9, 2014, in St. Louis, Missouri. Meyers was shot and killed by an off-duty St. Louis police officer.

Research Shows Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings

by: Tasha Williams

An immigrant detainee looks from his segregation cell at the GEO Group Adelanto detention jail on November 15, 2013, in Adelanto, California.

Lancaster Shows How to Say No to For-Profit Prison Company

by: Negin Owliaei

Series

After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement

After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement

Visions of 2018

Visions of 2018

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Planet or Profit

Planet or Profit

Progressive Picks

Progressive Picks

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Education & Youth

Black lives matter protesters chant in the middle of the student quad during a protest against education cuts at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois, on April 1, 2016.

Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy

by: Mark Karlin

Black students in class

Teaching for Black Lives and Bearing Witness Through Poetry

by: Renée Watson

Colleges protect perpetrators of assault

“Anything to Avoid a Scandal”: How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse

by: Eleanor J. Bader

This Ohio Bill Will Make Transgender Youth Suffer

by: Katherine King; Paul Eselgroth

Media Justice

Danny Glover and Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You.

Danny Glover on New Film “Sorry to Bother You” and the Myth of a Postracial US

by: Zenobia Jeffries

California Lawmakers Warned to Back Net Neutrality or “Feel Constituents’ Wrath”

by: Julia Conley

The headquarters of the Sinclair Broadcast Group is shown April 3, 2018, in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

“Big Win for the Public”: The Awful Tribune-Sinclair Merger Is Dead

by: Jake Johnson

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Trump Allows for Expanded Use of Toxic and Carcinogenic Asbestos

Commentary

Trump Allows for Expanded Use of Toxic and Carcinogenic Asbestos

by: Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash

DNC Will Take Fossil Fuel Money After All

by: Lorraine Chow, BuzzFlash

Manafort's Defense Rests After Calling No Witnesses

by: Chad Day, Matthew Baracat and Mary Clare Jalonick, AP News

TransCanada Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia

by: Lorraine Chow, BuzzFlash