2019-06-18: Social Media Postees

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Democratic hopefuls roll out anti-poverty plans at Poor People's Campaign
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
WASHINGTON–Hoping to gain activists and energize a large voting bloc, nine 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls — including one nobody's ever heard of — tackled the problems of the poor and voter suppression of black and brown people, among other topics, at a candidate forum here June 17. The eight-hour-long session, minus a dinner break, marked …
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The Florida GOP's Assault on Democracy
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2019-06-18
The Florida GOP's Assault on Democracy…
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Online fundraiser launched to help cover Farage milkshake attacker's costs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-18
An online fundraiser has been set up to help the man who threw a milkshake over Nigel Farage cover his compensation and court costs. | The GoFundMe page was set up to raise the £520 Paul Crowther has been ordered to pay, and within three hours had almost reached its target. | Should it exceed its target, the organiser said he and the 32-year-old defendant will put the surplus towards an anti-racism cause. | Organiser Graeme Rayner wrote: I set up this page for Paul Cr…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/06/18/online-fundraiser-launched-to-help-cover-farage-milkshake-attackers-costs/

US and Canada Are Backing an Elite White Supremacist Minority in Venezuela
David William Pear | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
"Racism is one of the main engines and expressions of the current counter-revolution. In Venezuela the revolutionary struggle to end white supremacy and for self-determination is slow, and complicated by white elites, backed by US imperialism, and by the denial …
globalresearch.ca/us-canada-backing-elite-white-supremacist-minority-venezuela/5681004

Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv's 'racist posts' are 'those of a shooter' — Former Republican
rt.com | 2019-06-18
Former GOP congressman David Jolly praised Harvard's decision to reverse Parkland survivor and gun rights advocate Kyle Kashuv's admission over years-old racist messages, saying they were exactly like those of a school shooter. | …
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Legal Victory Strengthens LGBT Activists as Threat From Bolsonaro Looms
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-18
On Thursday, June 13, after months of postponement, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court officially made homophobia and transphobia —- locally known as "LGBTphobia" —- a crime and outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In an eight to three ruling, the remaining judges of the Supreme Federal Court voted to criminalize LGBTphobia under existing anti-discrimination law…
truthout.org/articles/legal-victory-strengthens-lgbt-activists-as-threat-from-bolsonaro-looms/

WikiLeaks' Vault7 CIA leaker tried to start 'information war' against govt — prosecutors
rt.com | 2019-06-18
The ex-CIA leaker who gave WikiLeaks the 'Vault7' documents smuggled phones into a Manhattan jail with the intention of waging an "information war" against the US government and "finally revers[ing] US jingoism" from behind bars. | …
rt.com/usa/462105-schulte-cia-information-war-wikileaks/

Six Years After Coup, Egypt's First Democratically Elected President Dies
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-18
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, 67, died Monday after collapsing while in a glass cage inside a Cairo courtroom. The Muslim Brotherhood leader was elected in 2012 in Egypt's first, and still only, democratic election. He was overthrown a year later in a military coup led by Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Morsi's death comes as el-Sisi continues to jail tens of thousands of people in what the Associated Press has described as the heaviest crackdown on dissent in Egypt's modern history. In his final comments, Morsi insisted he was still Egypt's legitimate president. Morsi spent the la…
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Mohamed Morsi: Six Years After Coup, Egypt's First Democratically Elected President Dies in Court
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-18
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, 67, died Monday after collapsing while in a glass cage inside a Cairo courtroom. The Muslim Brotherhood leader was elected in 2012 in Egypt's first, and still only, democratic election. He was overthrown a year later in a military coup led by Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Morsi's death comes as el-Sisi continues to jail tens of thousands of people in what the Associated Press has described as the heaviest crackdown on dissent in Egypt's modern history. In his final comments, Morsi insisted he was still Egypt's legitimate president. Morsi spent the last…
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Brazil: Odebrecht to Avoid Bankruptcy Through A Recovery Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The Brazilian construction conglomerate, Odebrecht (ODB), which has admitted to paying out about US$7.88 billion in bribes over the past 20 years to win public contracts in Latin American countries, requested to file for bankruptcy Monday before a Sao Paulo court. The measure would allow the corporation to negotiate "recovery plan" with its creditors with the hope to avoid a shutting its doors. | RELATED: | Another Senior Peruvian Politician Gets Jail For Corruption | Given the "e…
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Brazil: Odebrecht to Avoid Bankruptcy Through Recovery Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The Brazilian construction conglomerate, Odebrecht (ODB), which has admitted to paying out about US$7.88 billion in bribes over the past 20 years to win public contracts in Latin American countries, requested to file for bankruptcy protection Monday before a Sao Paulo court. The measure would allow the corporation to negotiate "recovery plan" with its creditors with the hope to avoid a shutting its doors. | RELATED: | Another Senior Peruvian Politician Gets Jail For Corruption | G…
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Behind the Syrian network for human rights: how an opposition front group became Western media's go-to monitor
Max Blumenthal | mronline.org | 2019-06-18
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group's seamless connection to Syria's opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or its open lobbying for US military intervention. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/18/behind-the-syrian-network-for-human-rights-how-an-opposition-front-group-became-western-medias-go-to-monitor/

AOC says 'fascist' Trump running 'concentration camps' on border
rt.com | 2019-06-18
Firebrand Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised some eyebrows when she said that immigrant detention centers on the southern US border are "concentration camps," while calling President Donald Trump a "fascist." | …
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Shrewsbury 24 flying picket Terry Renshaw: "Only the power of the working class, not the official courts, is going to provide any perspective for freeing Julian Assange."
wsws.org | 2019-06-18
The former building worker explains, "To defend class war prisoners like Julian Assange, the perspective has got to be to raise the awareness and mobilise the masses."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/18/inte-j18.html

Morsi, Egypt's freely elected and imprisoned president, killed by regime
Aboulfotouh Kandil | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
After six years of solitary confinement at a secret prison, Egypt's legitimate president, Mohamed Morsi, died yesterday after the latest in a string of judges ignored pleas to deal with his failing health. He has suffered from numerous medical conditions including heart failure and diabetes for years and has had not received necessary medical attention …
peoplesworld.org/article/morsi-egypts-freely-elected-and-imprisoned-president-killed-by-regime/

Charles E. Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA
CERTFLCPU | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as "one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers" in the history of the American labor movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg. When he passed away suddenly at the age of 44, he cheated a Michigan prison of its next …
peoplesworld.org/article/charles-e-ruthenberg-the-first-leader-of-the-communist-party-usa/

Julian Assange Indictment "Criminalizes the News Gathering Process," Says Pentagon Papers Lawyer
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-18
A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appear before a court in February 2020 to face a full extradition hearing. Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted Assange on 18 counts, including 17 violations of the Espionage Act. This is the first-ever case of a journalist or publisher being indicted under the World War I-era law. Assange said that his life was "effectively at stake" if the U.K. honors a U.S. request for his extradition. Assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh Prison for skipping bail in 2012. We speak with James Goodale, former general counsel of The Ne…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/18/pentagon_papers_lawyer_julian_assange_case

Egypt's former president Morsi buried in Cairo
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-18
Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi was buried early Tuesday morning under heavy security a day after his dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom. | Deposed President Mohamed Mursi greets his lawyers and people from behind bars at a court wearing the red uniform of a prisoner sentenced to death, during his court appearance with Muslim Brotherhood members on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, June 21, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh /File Photo | Abdul-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud a member of Morsi's defense team said he was buried at a cemetery in the Cairo's eastern district of Nasr City. | This was despit…
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Julian Assange Indictment "Criminalizes the News Gathering Process"
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-18
A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appear before a court in February 2020 to face a full extradition hearing. Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted Assange on 18 counts, including 17 violations of the Espionage Act. This is the first-ever case of a journalist or publisher being indicted under the World War I-era law. Assange said that his life was "effectively at stake" if the U.K. honors a U.S. request for his extradition. Assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in London's Belmarsh Prison for skipping bail in 2012. We speak with James Goodale, former general counsel of The…
truthout.org/video/julian-assange-indictment-criminalizes-the-news-gathering-process/

Lawsuit Seeks Info on Trump Administration Eliminating Environmental Grades
commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
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Instead of Death and Destruction, Poor People's Moral Budget Shows What It Looks Like to 'Invest in Life'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
A new report released Monday by the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies declares that "the United States has abundant resources for an economic revival that will move towards establishing a moral economy" and details policies the country can pursue to combat systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy, and "the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ppc.jpg…
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The Dark Side of Brexit: Britain's Ethnic Minorities Are Facing More and More Violence
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-17
Pictures of Daniel Ezzedine show him to be a fresh-faced 17-year-old with a warm cheerful smile. His parents are Lebanese but he was brought up in Germany where he had just left school. His teachers brought him to celebrate his graduation on a trip to Canterbury, where he was assaulted and beaten half to death by a gang of youths in what local people are convinced was a racist attack.
counterpunch.org/2019/06/17/the-dark-side-of-brexit-britains-ethnic-minorities-are-facing-more-and-more-violence/

A 'Poor People's Moral Budget' because 'everybody has the right to live'
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-17
This week another new budget proposal was released. This time it didn't come from campaigning politicians or corrupt administrations but rather from two groups — the Poor People's Campaign and the Institute for Policy Studies — in an effort to show the people of the United States how to "invest in life." | The 'Poor People's Moral Budget' demands a "comprehensive response to the systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and war economy plaguing our country today." It includes seven sections that detail…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/17/a-poor-peoples-moral-budget-because-everybody-has-the-right-to-live/

Climate crisis and the 2020 elections
John Scales Avery | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-17
Trump and his party must be defeated | : | There are so many things wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to begin. He is a racist, habitual liar, tax evader, cruel cager of infants, misogynist, narcissist, bully, violator of numerous laws, both national and international, a friend of rich oligarchs and enemy of the poor, to mention only a few of his faults. He has made the United States resemble Germany, Italy or Spain in the 1930's, when fascism was on the rise. | However, most importantly for the future of human civilization and the biosphere, Trump has denied the reality of the climat…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/17/climate-crisis-and-the-2020-elections/

Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an Opposition Front Group Became Western Media's Go-To Monitor
Max Blumenthal | mintpressnews.com | 2019-06-17
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group's seamless connection to Syria's opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or its open lobbying for US military intervention.
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Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi dead aged 67
Jerry Omondi | cgtn.com | 2019-06-17
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has died in a courtroom aged 67. | Morsi served as the fifth president of Egypt from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013, when he was deposed following mass protests and a military coup. | He reportedly collapsed after a court session on Monday, where he was facing espionage charges and subsequently died. | "He was speaking before the judge for 20 minutes then became very animated and fainted. He was quickly rushed to the hospital where he later died", AFP quotes a source from the court session. | Morsi has been in prison since he was removed from office, and an organization tha…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/17/former-egyptian-president-mohamed-morsi-dead-aged-67/

The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2019-06-17
LONDON–On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed, slipped on heavy, dark-frame glasses at the start of the proceedings. He listened intently as Ben Brandon, the prosecutor, seated at a narrow wooden table, listed the crimes he allegedly had committed and called for his extradition to the United States to face charges that could result in a sentence of 175 years. The charges include…
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"16 Shots": Chicago Police Killing of Laquan McDonald Exposed a System Built on Lies
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-17
The documentary "16 Shots" examines the 2014 murder of African-American teenager Laquan McDonald in Chicago and the attempt by the city's police department to cover up the events. McDonald, who was 17, was shot 16 times by former police officer Jason Van Dyke. Van Dyke was found guilty in 2018 of second-degree murder and sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for McDonald's murder. He was also found guilty on 16 counts of aggravated battery–one count for each of the 16 bullets he fired at McDonald. The film is screening on Showtime. We speak with Rick Rowley, director of "16 Shots."
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/17/16_shots_rick_rowley_showtime_documentary

Trump Offered to Suspend Sanctions While Negotiating with Iran, Khamenei Rejected the Offer: More Attacks Expected
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-17
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo conveyed a message from US President Donald Trump to the Iranian leadership, asking the release of 5 US prisoners and inviting Iran to sit around a negotiation table, adding "he [Donald Trump] would be ready …
globalresearch.ca/trump-offered-suspend-sanctions-while-negotiating-iran-khamenei-rejected-offer-more-attacks-expected/5680867

Drugs deaths linked to people facing considerable adversity, study finds
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-17
The majority of drugs deaths occur among people who have experienced considerable adversity in their lives, often from a young age, research has found. | In a report focused on drug deaths in Tayside last year, published by the local health board, 62 out of 78 people (79.5%) who died as a result of using drugs were recorded as having experienced at least one adverse event during their lifetime. | The study also found that just under half (46.1%) of the total number of drug death casualties had been in prison or had been on remand at least once in adulthood. | A majority of those who died from drug consumption wer…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/06/17/drugs-deaths-linked-to-people-facing-considerable-adversity-study-finds/

Chicago Police Killing of Laquan McDonald Exposed a System Built on Lies
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-17
The documentary 16 Shots examines the 2014 murder of African-American teenager Laquan McDonald in Chicago and the attempt by the city's police department to cover up the events. McDonald, who was 17, was shot 16 times by former police officer Jason Van Dyke. Van Dyke was found guilty in 2018 of second-degree murder and sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for McDonald's murder. He was also found guilty on 16 counts of aggravated battery — one count for each of the 16 bullets he fired at McDonald. The film is screening on Showtime. We speak with Rick Rowley, director of 16 Shots. | TRANSCR…
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Patrick Gaspard to Receive Prestigious NAACP Spingarn Medal
Austyn Ross | naacp.org | 2019-06-17
BALTIMORE — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization, has announced that Ambassador Patrick Gaspard will be awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal on July 24, 2019, during the 110th NAACP Annual Convention, taking place in Detroit, Michigan. The award recognizes Gaspard's lifelong commitment to equality and …
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Selected Articles: Trump and the Taiwan Gambit
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-17
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-trump-taiwan-gambit/5680892

What's Trending: Black News Weekly
Vanessa Mbonu | naacp.org | 2019-06-17
The New York Times: This Empty Lot Is Worth Millions. It's Also an African-American Burial Ground. The owner of a plot of land in Queens wants to sell it or develop it. Others want to memorialize one of the city's first communities for former and freed slaves. Blackpress USA: Rep. Waters Works …
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Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-16
Flint Taylor's new book, The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, is one of those remarkable works that won't fit under any one category. It's at once a history of civil and human rights battles in Chicago with national and global reach, a text of modern urban sociology, an example of critical legal theory, a long polemic against white and class privilege, a literature of political exposure, a manual of strategy and tactics, and last but not least, for Flint himself, an autobiography. In its pages, Chicago's top lawyer of the left also shares with us the intense and determined commitment, wi…
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Sorry Means Sometimes Having to Admit You're Racist
Tony Norman | commondreams.org | 2019-06-16
WHEN THEY SEE US: The cast onstage with Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay at the Netflix "When They See Us" FYSEE Event at Raleigh Studios on June 09, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/when-they-see-us-955px.jpg…
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Rasmea Odeh speaks on Palestine and political repression
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-06-16
New York, NY – A crowd gathered at The People's Forum on June 9 to hear Rasmea Odeh and Suzanne Adely speak on the repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement by the United States and Israel. Rasmea Odeh is a famous Palestinian woman leader who has dedicated her life to the Palestinian struggle and liberation of her people. She was a former political prisoner of Israel, and had her human rights violated. Odeh later became the target of political repression in the United States in 2013, after FBI raids and grand jury subpoenas targeting the Antiwar 23 were defeated. | Leading up to the event, pro-Israel righ…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/6/15/rasmea-odeh-speaks-palestine-and-political-repression

Sanders, Cummings call on DOJ to investigation generic drug manufacturers' 'multi-year conspiracy' of drug price increase
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-15
After generic drug manufacturers were accused of a "multi-year conspiracy" of raising prices on medicines by upwards of 1,000 percent, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep Elijah Cummings have called on the Department of Justice to launch an investigation. | "The Department of Justice must hold these bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law," Sanders said. | Forty-four state attorneys general have already filed a lawsuit against several of the generic drug manufacturers and now Sanders and Cummings have followed that up with a letter to the DOJ on Thursday. | While the state attorneys generals are claimi…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/15/sanders-cummings-call-on-doj-to-investigation-generic-drug-manufacturers-multi-year-conspiracy-of-drug-price-increase/

Swiss Women Rally Against Labor Discrimination, Wage Gaps
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-15
Thousands of Swiss women Friday took to the streets at 3: 24 pm to symbolize the moment at which they "stop being paid" due to the wage discrimination they suffer. | RELATED: | 20,000 People Rally For Wage Equality in Switzerland | "There are still many inequalities that we must change. Women have been fighting for equality and things are moving but too slowly," Stephanie, a 25-year teacher, said and explained that the Swiss culture still preserves many features of "sexism and prejudice ag…
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AG James Urges Dismissal Of Proposed Housing Rule That Would Leave Consumers Vulnerable To Discrimination
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-15
AG Letitia James says new proposed housing rule could lead to discrimination and unfair lending… | New York Attorney General Letitia James urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) not to adopt its recently-proposed rule that would undermine the ability to enforce fair lending laws and prevent discrimination in the mortgage lending market. | On May 13, 2019, the CFPB announced that it intended to raise the reporting threshold for mortgage lenders under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). This 1975 law requires mortgage lenders to make certain mortgage data publicly available as a check to ensur…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/policy/ag-james-urges-dismissal-of-proposed-housing-rule-that-would-leave

Swiss Women Rallied Against Labor Discrimination, Wage Gaps
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-15
Thousands of Swiss women Friday took to the streets at 3: 24 pm to symbolize the moment at which they "stop being paid" due to the wage discrimination they suffer. | RELATED: | 20,000 People Rally For Wage Equality in Switzerland | "There are still many inequalities that we must change. Women have been fighting for equality and things are moving but too slowly," Stephanie, a 25-year teacher, said and explained that the Swiss culture still preserves many features of "sexism and prejudice ag…
telesurenglish.net/news/Swiss-Women-Rallied-Against-Labor-Discrimination-Wage-Gaps-20190615-0006.html

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begins new hunger strike in Iran jail
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-15
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe — the British-Iranian mother jailed in Iran on spying charges — has begun a new hunger strike, her husband has said.Richard Ratcliffe said he had received a phone call from his wife to tell him she had informed the Iranian judiciary she had stopped taking food in protest at her "unfair imprisonment".Mr Ratcliffe said he would also not eat for the duration of her protest.He said his wife's decision followed the fifth birthday of their daughter, Gabriella, who has not been allowed to leave Iran following her mother's arrest in 2016 and is living with her grandparents.Richard Ratc…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/06/15/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-begins-new-hunger-strike-in-iran-jail/

Why haven't presidential candidates proposed to end the criminalization of poverty?
Wanda Bertram | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-15
Multiple Democratic presidential candidates have staked their campaigns on promises to fight for economic justice and protect low-income people from ruin. So it's mysterious and frustrating that none of these candidates have proposed to end our justice system's criminalization of poverty — at least beyond the occasional nod to ending money bail. | These candidates are missing an opportunity. The incomes of people in U.S. prisons and local jails are overwhelmingly low, and one…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/15/why-havent-presidential-candidates-proposed-to-end-the-criminalization-of-poverty/

WikiLeaks publisher Assange faces US extradition trial next February
wsws.org | 2019-06-15
The UK government has made clear that it will do everything possible to expedite Washington's vindictive attempt to render the courageous journalist to face imprisonment, torture, and execution in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/15/assa-j15.html

US Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantanamo detainee's habeas corpus appeal
wsws.org | 2019-06-14
The court's refusal to hear the case of a man who has been imprisoned and tortured for nearly two decades without ever being convicted of a crime corresponds to the inexorable lurch by the entire political establishment towards dictatorship and barbarism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/14/cour-j14.html

Fighting the far right in Germany
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-14
Sibylle Kaczorek, a member of Germany's main left party Die Linke and an activist with Aufstehengegen Rassismus! (Stand Up Against Racism!) was interviewed in May by Dick Nichols, Green Left Weekly's European correspondent. | *** | Polls are showing that the racist, xenophobic and anti-Islamic Alternative for Germany (Alternative fàºr Deutschland, AfD) could be the leading party in elections later this year in the East German states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. How did things get this bad? | The trigger for their ascendency was the 2015–…
greenleft.org.au/content/fighting-far-right-germany

Get woke, go broke: Oberlin College hit with $44 MILLION penalty for accusing local bakery of racism
Staff | rt.com | 2019-06-14
An Ohio jury awarded a local bakery $33 million in punitive damages, on top of $11 million in compensation, because college officials were involved in student protests that accused the store of racism in a shoplifting incident. | …
rt.com/usa/461913-oberlin-bakery-racism-fine/

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