(2021-11-17). American Fascism on Trial in Kenosha. scheerpost.com 
The Kenosha County Courthouse and Jail in Kenosha, Wisconsin. ( By Paul Street / Never forget the inspiring righteousnes…
(2021-11-17). Fake 'shoplifting surge' is just the latest in crime wave propaganda. mronline.org 
The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country's hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.
(2021-11-17). Republican AG sues school district over CRT records. rt.com 
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued school officials in Springfield for demanding exorbitant fees to respond to his request for records on their teaching of critical race theory (CRT). | The Springfield Public Schools has…
(2021-11-17). New film on Attica uprising shows a fight for human rights. workers.org 
The Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party will be sponsoring a free zoom showing Dec. 10 of the new documentary, "Attica," directed by Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry, which premiered on Showtime. One of the surviving participants of the rebellion and a member of the Young Lords, Che . . . |
(2021-11-16). The Criminal 'Justice' System Protects Kyle Rittenhouse. popularresistance.org On August 25, 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse drove across state lines with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and killed two people. He then, carrying the murder weapon, walked past a police line as witnesses screamed that he was getting away, got back in his car, and drove home. All in a day's work for the young Rittenhouse, a vocal member of the Blue Lives Matter "movement" who came to Kenosha, Wisconsin (a town and a state that he didn't live in) with the express intention of using violence against Black Lives Matter protesters — framed, of course, as a "defense" of property. | Rittenhouse's trial began on November 1…
(2021-11-16). Syria Massacre Coverup Shows Danger Of Assange Precedent. popularresistance.org Julian Assange currently sits in Belmarsh Prison waiting to find out if British judges will overturn a lower court's ruling against his extradition to the United States to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for journalistic activity which exposed U.S. war crimes. War crimes not unlike those that were just exposed by The New York Times in its reporting on the Baghuz massacre. The precedent the U.S. government is trying to set with its persecution of Assange will, if successful, cast a chilling effect over journalism which scrutinizes the U.S. war machine, not just in the United States but around the world.
(2021-11-16). Autumn strike wave pits workers against the corporatist trade unions. wsws.org The resurgence of the class struggle has clearly exposed the real character of the "unions," which are better described as labor syndicates—corporatist instruments of management and the state dedicated to the suppression of working-class opposition.
(2021-11-16). Guatemala: Ex-President Perez Might Face House Arrest. telesurenglish.net Guatemala's Higher Risk Court B ruled on Monday that former President Otto Perez (2012-2015) —a general who has remained six years under preventive detention for corruption accusations— might go under house arrest if he pays a US$1,7 million bail. | RELATED: | "I cannot pay this money," Perez alleged and criticized the Guatemalan justice system for trying to resolve the excess of prisoners in jails with…
(2021-11-16). Alabama's New Electoral Lines are Racially Gerrymandered — Here's Why. aclu.org The state of Alabama recently adopted new congressional and state legislative districts as the result of its once-in-a-decade redistricting process. These new maps are unconstitutional and grossly gerrymandered in a way that harms Black Alabamians, communities of color, and all Alabamians who care about fair representation. That's why the ACLU and our partners filed two federal lawsuits today challenging Alabama's newly drawn state legislative and congressional districts. | Racial gerrymandering occurs when a state uses race as the primary factor in drawing district lines in a way not closely tied to complying…
(2021-11-16). Ted Cruz clashes with Homeland Security chief over 'Biden cages'. rt.com 
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the nation's border crisis, including detention of migrant children in what he described as "Biden cages." | "How many children have been in the Biden cages in calendar year 2021?" Cruz asked Mayorkas on Tuesday in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Mayorkas rejected the term "cages," but Cruz continued: "Fine, you can disagree with it. How many children have been in the Biden cages? I've been to the Biden cages. I've seen the Biden cages. How many children have you detained at the Donna (Texas) tent facility in the…
(2021-11-16). Alex Jones loses final lawsuit on Sandy Hook massacre. rt.com 
Conspiracy pundit Alex Jones was ruled liable by default in a civil lawsuit filed in Connecticut by families of Sandy Hook massacre victims. Jones failed to provide documents related to his business. | The Monday ruling builds up on a previous decision by a Texas court, which last month likewise found Jones liable by default. In both matters, Jones stonewalled court discovery, defying court orders to provide relevant materials. | Families of 10 victims, two in Texas and eight in Connecticut, seek damages from the popular conservative host, who claimed that the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was sta…
(2021-11-16). More states sue Biden's White House over Covid-19 vaccine mandate. rt.com 
A dozen states have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden's Covid-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, arguing the administration is trying to "federalize public health policy." | Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed this week, include attorney generals for the states of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia. | The lawsuit blasts the Biden administration for "playing statutory shell games with the courts" and "straining to justify an unjustifiable and unprecedented attempt to federalize public health policy and diminish the sovereign States' const…
(2021-11-16). Video: No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP! wsws.org The deputy chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the importance of the lawsuit against the surveillance of the party by the German secret service.
(2021-11-16). Mayor charged with multiple counts of posting revenge porn. rt.com 
The mayor of a city in Maryland has been charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted intimate photos of a previous romantic partner with humiliating captions on Reddit. | Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw, 32, was arrested on Monday and charged with distributing the photos on multiple pornographic Reddit forums, or 'subreddits', without consent. If found guilty, Bradshaw could receive two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. | According to the
(2021-11-16). Elizabeth Warren Urges Biden to Free People Imprisoned on Marijuana Charges. truthout.org 
Citing "over a century of failed and racist cannabis policies," Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two other leading Democrats have joined a growing chorus of Warren joined fellow Massachusetts Sen. Ed…