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August 17, 2018

Environment & Health

Legal Advocates Widen Efforts to Stop Trump’s War on Medicaid

Trump is trying to unilaterally change Medicaid using executive power he does not have, say advocates.

by Michael Corcoran, Truthout

August 17, 2018

Environment & Health

Water Protectors Charged With Felonies Under Louisiana’s Anti-Protest Law

Big Oil is working directly with the police state to intimidate protesters and quash dissent.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

August 17, 2018

Politics & Elections

“Unite the Right 2” Showed Growth of Anti-Fascism and Police Response

The state's response to the upsurge in resistance to the far right has been brutal aggression toward anti-fascists.

by Shane Burley, Truthout

August 17, 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

Legal Advocates Widen Efforts to Stop Trump’s War on Medicaid

Water Protectors Charged With Felonies Under Louisiana’s Anti-Protest Law

Particpants at the Rally and March Against the Fascists in Washington, DS, on August 12, 2018. — “Unite the Right 2” Showed Growth of Anti-Fascism and Police Response

Photo of Woody Guthrie, circa 1940. — Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie

Featured

We Will Resist Trump’s Authoritarian War on the Media

by: Mike Ludwig

On August 4, about 800 people gathered at a beach near Lisbon, Portugal, to form a giant message saying, "Stop the oil drilling" and "Water is life."

“Aerial Art Action” Demands End to Planned Oil Drilling in Portugal

by: Martin Winiecki

“Unite the Right 2” Was a Dud, but Threat of White Nationalism Is Alive and Well

by: William Rivers Pitt

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

Politics & Elections

Aretha Franklin Was an Icon of the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements

by: Amy Goodman

Donald Trump Thinks He Can Save GOP in the Midterms

by: Heather Digby Parton

Senate Democrats Threaten Suit to Get Kavanaugh Records

by: Jessica Corbett

“I’m Bringing My Bullhorn to Congress”: Rashida Tlaib, Muslim Dem. Socialist, Appears Headed to D.C.

Rashida Tlaib, Muslim Democratic Socialist, Appears Headed to Washington

by: Amy Goodman; Nermeen Shaikh

Human Rights

Parishioners worship during a mass to celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at St Paul Cathedral, the mother church of the Pittsburgh Diocese on August 15, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Diocese was rocked by revelations of abuse by priests the day before on August 14, 2018.

Child Abuse, the Catholic Church and the Justice of Real Consequences

by: William Rivers Pitt

Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin Offered to Post Bail for Me

by: Amy Goodman

Dutch Memorial Day: Erasing People After Death

by: Annemarie Toebosch

Housing Department’s Unwarranted Rollback on Fair Housing Misreads Study

by: Alison Bell

Exclusives

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

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

Trump Signs Legislation Pumping Billions More Into War Machine

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

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

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

The state is using carceral techniques to fill revenue gaps created by shrinking tax bases.

by: James Kilgore

Environment & Health

Trusted Health Sites Spread Myths About a Deadly Pregnancy Complication

by: Nina Martin

Trump Keeps Trying to Kill Agency That Investigates Chemical Plant Disasters

by: William G. Schulz

Water Protectors Charged With Felonies Under Louisiana’s Anti-Protest Law

by: Mike Ludwig

Legal Advocates Widen Efforts to Stop Trump’s War on Medicaid

by: Michael Corcoran

Economy & Labor

Senator Elizabeth Warren hosts a town hall meeting at Belkin Family Lookout Farm in Natick, Massachusetts, on July 8, 2018.

Warren Unveils Plan to Give Workers More Control Over Corporate Decisions

by: Jake Johnson

Nursing home caregivers and senior advocates with the SEIU labor union protest outside of the Carlyle Group headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. on October 22, 2007.

Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues

by: Shefali Luthra

West Virginia Teachers’ Fight Is Still Ongoing: Will They Strike Again?

by: Sarah Jaffe

ALEC Is Pushing a New Slate of Viciously Anti-Worker, Pro-Corporate Laws

by: Mary Bottari

Art & Cartoons

Unimpeachable Logic

by: Khalil Bendib

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F.L.N. (National Liberation Front) soldiers, 1954-1962, in France during the Algerian War of Independence.

War & Peace

When Algeria Became the Liberation Capital of the “Third World”

Elaine Mokhtefi reflects upon the Algerian war of independence.

by: Elaine Mokhtefi

Book

Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers

A dizzying era of passion and promise that took place in the then revolutionary government of Algeria. A riveting memoir of international radical activism.

War & Peace

A US Marine conducts a rifle test at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan, February 8, 2018.

The US War of Abysmal Repetition in Afghanistan

by: Tom Engelhardt

F.L.N. (National Liberation Front) soldiers, 1954-1962, in France during the Algerian War of Independence.

When Algeria Became the Liberation Capital of the “Third World”

by: Elaine Mokhtefi

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

Prison & Policing

Photo of Woody Guthrie, circa 1940.

Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie

by: Aaron J. Leonard

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

by: James Kilgore

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

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

Standing Against Privatization: Puerto Rico’s Teachers Strike

by: Monique Dols

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

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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Quarterback Activist: Two Years in the Life of Colin Kaepernick

Commentary

Quarterback Activist: Two Years in the Life of Colin Kaepernick

by: Bill Berkowitz, BuzzFlash

The Mainstream News Media Cannot Resist Lionizing National Security Ghouls

by: Libby Watson, Splinter News

Fracking Is Destroying the US's Water Supply, Warns Shocking New Study

by: Joe Romm, ThinkProgress

Trump Exploited the Authoritarianism of White Evangelicals

by: Nancy LeTourneau, Washington Monthly