Politics & environs articles - May 18, 2018

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“We Are Facing an Existential Crisis”: Gov. Inslee Slams DNC for Refusing to Hold Climate Debate

 

June 11, 2019

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/11/we_are_facing_an_existential_crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gov. Jay Inslee on Climate Refugees, Tax Breaks for Boeing & Why He Feels Trump Is a Racist

 

June 11, 2019

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/11/gov_jay_inslee_on_running_for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press Freedom Under Attack: Australian Police Raid Network for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan

 

June 11, 2019

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/11/press_freedom_australia_police_raid_journalists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tariff Temper Tantrum: Trump “Created a Fake Crisis & Has Announced a Fake Solution” with Mexico

 

June 10, 2019

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/10/tariff_temper_tantrum_trump_created_a

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Bolsonaro tight-lipped as minister faces calls to resign over Lula scandal

• Sérgio Moro had ‘totally inappropriate’ links with prosecutors
• Moro jailed Bolsonaro’s top rival, Lula, before Brazil election
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Tue 11 Jun 2019 20.13 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/sergio-moro-jair-bolsonaro-justice-minister-resign

 

 

 

 

Nicaragua frees more than 100 political prisoners under new amnesty law

 

Prisoners jailed for their role in anti-government protests were released Monday and Tuesday, including journalists and activists

 

Guardian staff and agencies in Managua

Tue 11 Jun 2019 21.31 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/nicaragua-political-prisoners-released-new-law

 

 

 

 

House votes to hold Barr and McGahn in contempt – live

• Trump’s eldest son to testify in closed session Wednesday
• Jon Stewart rebukes Congress for failing 9/11 victims

 

Vivian Ho in San Francisco (now) and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington (earlier)

Tue 11 Jun 2019 22.15 BST

 

Key events

 

• 25m ago Joe Biden mentions Trump 44 times in Iowa speech
• 1h ago House Democrats vote to hold Barr, McGahn in contempt
• 1h ago Trump and Kushner broke law in meetings with foreign officials, group alleges in lawsuit
• 2h ago House panel holds antitrust hearing to examine big tech's impact on news media
• 3h ago Donald Trump Jr to testify before Senate intelligence committee
• 3h ago White House to review Mueller documents before Democrats: Report
• 5h ago Jon Stewart: Congress' treatment of 9/11 victims is 'shameful'

 

 

Live feed

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/jun/11/trump-news-today-live-biden-mueller-democrats-2020-mexico-latest-updates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New York may become first US state to largely decriminalize sex work

 

Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act would change present law so that consenting adults who trade sex will not be criminalized

 

 

Victoria Bekiempis in New York

Tue 11 Jun 2019 20.05 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/11/new-york-sex-work-decriminalization-law-first-us-state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russian officials tried to frame Ivan Golunov. Instead they made him a hero

 

As the investigative journalist’s editor, I know how incredible his release was. Now there’s a chance the truth will be exposed

 

Tue 11 Jun 2019 14.58 BST Last modified on Tue 11 Jun 2019 20.46 BST

Alexey Kovalev

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/11/russian-officials-ivan-golunov-investigative-journalist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Urgency is what's demanded by young activists. But they're met with crumbling complacency

 

There’s a generational divide between an establishment desperate for gradual change and a youth fired up for overhaul

 

Tue 11 Jun 2019 14.04 BST Last modified on Tue 11 Jun 2019 15.20 BST

Eve Livingston

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/11/youth-activists-demand-urgent-action-political-establishment-failing-them

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French medics warn health service is on brink of collapse

 

Doctors and nurses protest outside the French health ministry amid strikes at dozens of hospitals

 

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Tue 11 Jun 2019 17.11 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/french-medics-health-service-collapse-doctors-nurses-protest-outside-french-health-ministry-strikes

 

 

 

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Right wing assaults First Amendment, latest target in class struggle

 

June 11, 2019 3:18 PM CDT By Tim Libretti

 

 

 

In the Janus decision Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court uses the first amendment in twisted fashion to actually harm freedom of speech at the workplace. | Charles Dharapak/AP

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/right-wing-assaults-first-amendment-latest-target-in-class-struggle/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Climate change could spread dengue fever through southeast U.S.

 

June 11, 2019 3:29 PM CDT By Olivia Rosane

 

 

 

An Ae. aegypti mosquito, one of the primary vectors for the transmission of dengue fever around the world. | James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/climate-change-could-spread-dengue-fever-through-southeast-u-s/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hong Kong's identity as a city of rights and freedom is under threat – so we protest

 

The proposed law has provoked a response like no other in recent years. Here’s why

 

 

Wed 12 Jun 2019 06.05 BST Last modified on Wed 12 Jun 2019 09.19 BST

Antony Dapiran

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/hong-kongs-identity-as-a-city-of-rights-and-freedom-is-under-threat-so-we-protest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The New York Times political cartoon ban is a sinister and dangerous over-reaction

 

In turning a satirical mirror on the news, we are used to facing attack, but this was a pompous and hypocritical decision

 

 

Wed 12 Jun 2019 14.53 BST Last modified on Wed 12 Jun 2019 17.33 BST

By  Martin Rowson

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/new-york-times-cartoonists-ban-antisemitism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sara Netanyahu in plea deal over claims of lavish overspending

 

Israeli PM’s wife to pay $15,000 to close case accusing her of running up large bills at luxury restaurants

 

Associated Press

Wed 12 Jun 2019 18.49 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/12/sara-netanyahu-in-plea-deal-over-claims-of-lavish-overspending

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chemical companies at centre of Guardian's Cancer Town series face state legal action

 

Exclusive: Louisiana agency moves to sue companies associated with neoprene plant over alleged Clean Air Act violations

 

Oliver Laughland in New York and Jamiles Lartey in New Orleans

Wed 12 Jun 2019 19.47 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/louisiana-chemical-companies-sued-cancer-town-reserve-clean-air-act

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Trump shows off 'secret' Mexico document but photos reveal contents

 

Press photographs allow reporters to read parts of agreement, much of which has already been revealed by Mexican officials

 

 

Reuters

Wed 12 Jun 2019 07.45 BST First published on Wed 12 Jun 2019 03.46 BST

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/11/trump-shows-off-secret-mexico-document-but-photos-reveal-contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump lashes out at polls that show 2020 re-election bid in trouble

 

President revived attacks on the media and denied a report his campaign’s polling found him in a weak position across 17 states

 

 

Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington

Wed 12 Jun 2019 17.32 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/trump-2020-presidential-election-polling-results

 

 

 

 

 

Venezuela: hyperinflation leads to new banknotes for second time in a year

 

Banknotes of 10,000, 20,000 and 50,000 bolívar denominations will begin circulating on Thursday, the central bank said

 

Reuters in Caracas

Wed 12 Jun 2019 20.31 BST Last modified on Wed 12 Jun 2019 21.17 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/12/venezuela-releases-new-bank-notes-bolivars-hyperinflation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bernie Sanders to defend his brand of socialism in speech

 

Presidential contender will outline his political philosophy and accuse Trump of profiting from ‘corporate socialism’

 

Lauren Gambino in Washington

Wed 12 Jun 2019 12.30 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/11/bernie-sanders-2020-socialism-speech-trump

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Sajid Javid signs US extradition order for Julian Assange

 

British home secretary says final decision on WikiLeaks founder is ‘now with the courts’

 

Matthew Weaver

Thu 13 Jun 2019 09.21 BST Last modified on Thu 13 Jun 2019 11.18 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/julian-assange-sajid-javid-signs-us-extradition-order

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hungary eyes science research as latest target for state control

 

Academy will be managed by nationalist government in unprecedented move

 

Shaun Walker in Budapest

Thu 13 Jun 2019 05.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/13/hungary-eyes-science-research-as-latest-target-for-state-control

 

 

Not surprising

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Mini-Trump across the Channel': EU media on Boris Johnson as British PM

 

European newspapers in chorus of disapproval after Tory leadership hopeful’s campaign launch

 

Jon Henley

Thu 13 Jun 2019 09.58 BST Last modified on Thu 13 Jun 2019 11.04 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/mini-trump-across-the-channel-european-media-on-boris-johnson-as-british-pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the right turns to religion

 

Rightwing populists have always formed alliances with hierarchical religions, says Nick Moss, and liberal Christians sometimes struggle to get their views heard, says Rosalind Lund. Plus Rev John Longuet-Higgins on Angela Merkel using religious language to attack Trump

 

Letters

Wed 12 Jun 2019 17.42 BST Last modified on Wed 12 Jun 2019 17.45 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/12/when-the-right-turns-to-religion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump: If foreign power offered dirt on 2020 opponent, 'I'd want to hear it'

 

President claims he would have no obligation to call the FBI, contradicting bureau director he appointed

 

Associated Press

Thu 13 Jun 2019 08.24 BST First published on Thu 13 Jun 2019 02.52 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/trump-2020-elections-foreign-power-dirt-fbi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where do the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on the key issues?

 

Almost two dozen Democratic candidates are vying for the party's nomination to be the one to take on Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, setting the stage for the most crowded and fiercely competitive Democratic primaries in decades.

 

Insurgent progressives, established moderates and everyone in between will be presenting their visions for America's post-Trump future. Here's where they stand on some of the most pressing issues of the era

 

Sam Morris, Enjoli Liston and Hubert Adjei-Kontoh

Mon 01 Jan 2019 08.00 EST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/jun/13/2020-election-issues-democrats-policies-climate-change-abortion-immigration-healthcare-where-candidates-stand

 

 

 

 

 

US elections 2020: a simple guide to the race for the White House

 

From the conventions to the electoral college, here’s everything you need to know

 

Lauren Aratani in New York

Thu 13 Jun 2019 06.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/us-election-2020-simple-guide-electoral-college-primaries

 

 

 

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Reparations for slavery to get a hearing in Congress

 

• Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and Actor Danny Glover to testify
• House subcommittee will discuss issue on 19 June – ‘Juneteenth’

 

Guardian staff and agency

Thu 13 Jun 2019 13.24 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/13/reparations-slavery-congress-hearing-ta-nehisi-coates-danny-glover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump hopes lightning strikes twice as 2020 campaign set to launch

 

When Trump kicks off his re-election bid in Florida next week, the insurgent is now the incumbent – and it appears the presidency hasn’t changed his strategy

 

David Smith in Washington

Thu 13 Jun 2019 06.00 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/13/trump-2020-re-election-campaign-plan-strategy

 

 

 

 

 

Sanders lays out his vision for America: finish what Franklin Roosevelt started

 

The 2020 presidential candidate, who has consistently ranked second in national polls, defended democratic socialism

 

Lauren Gambino in Washington

Thu 13 Jun 2019 00.29 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/bernie-sanders-2020-vision-fdr-democratic-socialism

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No More Deaths: Mistrial Declared After Jury Refuses to Convict Scott Warren for Aiding Migrants

 

June 13, 2019

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/no_more_deaths_mistrial_declared_after

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secret Files Show How Brazil’s Elites Jailed Former President Lula and Cleared the Way for Bolsonaro

 

June 12, 2019

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/12/secret_files_show_how_brazils_elites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invoking FDR, Sanders lays out his agenda for “democratic socialism”

 

June 13, 2019 11:44 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/invoking-fdr-sanders-lays-out-his-agenda-for-democratic-socialism/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With nurses watching, lawmakers push OSHA on anti-workplace violence

 

June 13, 2019 1:52 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/with-nurses-watching-lawmakers-push-osha-on-anti-workplace-violence/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawmakers take another crack at solving multi-employer pension plan problems

 

June 12, 2019 11:58 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/lawmakers-take-another-crack-at-solving-multi-employer-pension-plan-problems/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Communist leader: Extreme right danger looms over fall election

 

June 12, 2019 1:07 PM CDT By Elizabeth Rowley

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/canadian-communist-leader-extreme-right-danger-looms-over-fall-election/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communist Party USA to hold 100th anniversary convention in Chicago

 

June 11, 2019 1:28 PM CDT By Special to People’s World

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/communist-party-usa-to-hold-100th-anniversary-convention-in-chicago/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prosecutorial misconduct: Brazil’s justice minister implicated in election plot against Lula

 

June 12, 2019 9:21 AM CDT By Steve Sweeney

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/prosecutorial-misconduct-brazils-justice-minister-implicated-in-election-plot-against-lula/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brazil: Bolsonaro fires key moderate who warned of dangers of 'extremism'

 

• Government secretary Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz forced out
• News comes as scandal swirls around justice minister Moro

 

Tom Phillips in Mexico City and Anna Jean Kaiser in Rio de Janeiro

Fri 14 Jun 2019 00.50 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/13/brazil-president-bolsonaro-santos-cruz-fired

 

He'd want to take Country back to fascism  after 30 plus years of Democracy (which followed the 20 year long military dictatorship)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_in_Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit police chief faces backlash over neo-Nazi protest at Pride event

 

James Craig was criticized after officers escorted National Socialist Movement members who carried weapons at Motor City Pride

 

Tom Perkins in Detroit

Fri 14 Jun 2019 07.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/14/detroit-pride-festival-neo-nazi-police-protection-backlash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Beijing's puppet': Carrie Lam faces reckoning in Hong Kong

 

The territory’s chief executive has become a lightning rod for anger over the China extradition bill

 

Emma Graham-Harrison in Hong Kong

Fri 14 Jun 2019 09.28 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/14/carrie-lam-hong-kong-chief-executive-china-beijing-puppet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narco-trafficking and petrol: a quarter of Colombia's fuel goes to make cocaine

 

The country’s drug industry thrives despite a 2016 Farc deal which helped farmers substitute coca crops for legal alternatives

 

Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá

Fri 14 Jun 2019 09.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/14/quarter-of-colombias-fuel-cocaine-industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

US says video shows Iranian military removing mine from tanker

 

• US secretary of state accuses Tehran of ‘lashing out’
• Iran denies responsibility for early morning attack
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Julian Borger in Washington and Patrick Wintour in London

Fri 14 Jun 2019 09.07 BST

 

Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/13/mike-pompeo-iran-gulf-oil-tanker-attacks

 

 

 

 

 

The Trump administration is waging a quiet war on education

 

The Trump/DeVos vision of American education? Unshackle the rich and let them turn a profit at the expense of working-class students

 

Fri 14 Jun 2019 07.00 BST Last modified on Fri 14 Jun 2019 10.12 BST

Ross Barkan

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/14/trump-betsy-devos-education-quiet-war

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“Stop killing us”: increased police violence motivates protest in Rio de Janeiro; 75% of homicide victims in Brazil are black

 

June 10, 2019

Marques Travae

 

 

 

https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/stop-killing-us-increased-police-violence-motivates-protest-in-rio-de-janeiro-75-of-homicide-victims-in-brazil-are-black/

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“Advocate”: Israeli Attorney Lea Tsemel Reflects on Defending Palestinians Who Resist Occupation

 

June 14, 2019

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/14/lea_tsemel_advocate_documentary_israel_palestine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump’s latest Iran war threat ignites firestorm of opposition

 

June 14, 2019 12:38 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

 

Iranians rescued the sailors and put out the fire, giving the lie to the claim that they had attacked the ships. | AP

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trumps-latest-iran-war-threat-ignites-firestorm-of-opposition/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanders, socialism, social democracy—What does it all mean?

 

June 14, 2019 1:13 PM CDT By C.J. Atkins

 

 

 

In defining his idea of "democratic socialism," Sen. Bernie Sanders recalled the President Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s. | Photos: AP / Illustration: PW

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/sanders-socialism-social-democracy-what-does-it-all-mean/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Palestinians plan “popular uprising” against Trump’s “deal of the century”

 

June 14, 2019 2:49 PM CDT By Steve Sweeney

 

 

 

Palestinians protest Israeli government policy. | Bilal Hussein/AP

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/palestinians-plan-popular-uprising-against-trumps-deal-of-the-century/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justice delayed: Prosecutors throw out charges in Flint water crisis case

 

June 14, 2019 3:01 PM CDT By Chauncey K. Robinson

 

 

 

AP

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/justice-delayed-prosecutors-throw-out-charges-in-flint-water-crisis-case/

 

Flint, MI. is Grand Funk Railroad (band)  and Michael Moore (movie / doc director) hometown