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The Key Thing about the Latest Police Killing in Charlotte, NC is that It Was Totally Gratuitous
By Dave Lindorff
Standing firm at Standing Rock: Discussing the Largest Political Action by Indigenous Americans since Wounded Knee in ‘73
Forget fast, we need accurate elections: Time to Mandate a Return to Paper Ballots Nationwide
By Dave Lindorff
Security Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Also Used Psychological Warfare Tactics for BP
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
G4S, a company hiring security staff to guard the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), also works to guard oil and gas industry assets in war-torn Iraq, and has come under fire by the United Nations for human rights abuses allegedly committed while overseeing a BP pipeline in Colombia and elsewhere while on other assignments.
Documents: How Big Oil Pushed to Make Dakota Access-Style Permitting a New Normal
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
In the two months leading up to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to issue to the Dakota Access pipeline project an allotment of Nationwide 12 permits (NWP) — a de facto fast-track federal authorization of the project — an army of oil industry players submitted comments to the Corps to ensure that fast-track authority remains in place going forward.
This fast-track permitting process is used to bypass more rigorous environmental and public review for major pipeline infrastructure projects by treating them as smaller projects.
A win and a loss, at least for now: Federal Judge finds 8th Amendment Violation in Pennslvania’s Refusal to Treat Mumia's Hep-C
By Dave Lindorff
Depending on how you look at it, lawyers for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia journalist and political prisoner serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison after a controversial 1982 conviction for killing a white Philadelphia police officer, won a huge victory, lost big or maybe won and will win again soon.
Company Led by Donald Trump's Energy Aide Says Its Oil Will Flow Through Dakota Access Pipeline
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Obama Admin Moves Oil, Gas Lease Bids Online To Quell Protests
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
On August 30, the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it would utilize Congress' blessing, given to it in the form of passed legislation, to proceed with online bidding for oil and gas located on U.S. public lands.
As Native Americans Protest Pipeline, Senator Invests in Oil Wells Named After Them
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Dakota Access Pipeline Tribal Liaison Formerly Worked For Agency Issuing Permit To Cross Tribal Land
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
The Standing Rock tribe has filed a lawsuit against the U.S Army Corps of Engineers for using the controversial Nationwide Permit 12 to fast-track authorization of the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline.
New York Times shames itself: Attacking Wikileaks’ Assange for Doing What Journalists are Supposed to Do
By Dave Lindorff
While I periodically have written commentaries dissecting and pillorying news articles in the New York Times to expose their bias, hypocrisy half-truths and lies, I generally ignore their editorials since these are overtly opinions of the management, and one expects them to display the elitist and neo-liberal perspective of the paper’s publisher and senior editors.
750 Sanders Delegates in Convention Walk-Out as Green Party’s Jill Stein Joins Anti-Hillary Protests Outside
By Dave Lindorff
‘Clintonville’ reflects true horror of poverty in US: Green Party’s Stein Walks with Poor While Democrats Party in Philly
By Linn Washington, Jr.
Turkey News - July 20, 2016
Turkey's post-coup crackdown by numbers - About Croatia
President Erdogan refuses to rule out execution of Turkey coup plotters - Daily Mail Online
VIDEO: Interview with President Erdogan - CNN.com
Turkish cleric gulen urges U.S. to refuse extradition request - WSJ
VIDEO: Interview with Fethullah Gulen - BBC News
An interview with Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs - The Washington Post
Turkish ambassador urges Greece to return coup plotters - Middle East Online
The Turkish military: In numbers - Forces TV
It’s time for 'Erdogan’s coup': Threatened journalist expects widespread backlash in Turkey - huffingtonpost.com
Turkish lira, stocks plummet as Erdogan widens purge - MarketWatch
Turkish cenbank says to stick to tight policy after cutting rates again - Reuters
How the military coup attempt may change Turkey, The violent bid to oust President Erdoğan has exposed weaknesses in his divisive rule (VIDEO) - CSMonitor.com
Insight: Turkey's Erdogan beats foes for now, but at high cost to stability - Reuters
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Kerry urges Turkey to maintain democratic principles after coup attempt - The Washington Post
VIDEO: John Kerry urges Turkey to 'respect rule of law' - YouTube
'No excuse' for Turkey to abandon rule of law: EU's Mogherini - Reuters
Turkey won’t get visa-free travel this year: EU - The Journal of Turkish Weekly
Turkish air base stationed by US troops used by coup plotters - Worldbulletin News
Turkish police search air base used by US military storing NATO nuclear weapons - Daily Mail Online
America’s nukes aren’t safe in Turkey anymore - Foreign Policy
Expert: Turkey too dangerous for nuke storage - newsmax.com
Turkey and NATO: What comes next is messy - Foreign Policy
WikiLeaks releases 300k Turkey govt emails in response to Erdogan’s post-coup purges - RT News
WikiLeaks: Search the AKP email database - WikiLeaks
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The ultimate attribution error fuels war: The Post-Dallas Kumbaya Window Begins to Close
By John Grant
Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya
- From the Gullah song meaning, Lord, come by here and help us
Initiative-873 gives small flicker of hope: Seattle’s ‘Liberals’ Get Chance to Finally Start Addressing Police Brutality
By Jess Guh, MD
Seattle, WA -- Ever since moving to Seattle it’s become clear to me that though most of its inhabitants identify as liberals, the dominant white culture enables a culture of armchair liberals. When it comes to LGBT rights, Seattle will stand up, but when it comes to addressing issues that actually threaten the comfortable, largely white and privileged population of the Seattle, it’s another story.
Internet divide issues persist: An Emancipation Proclamation for the Digital Age
By Alfredo Lopez and Jackie Smith
We just celebrated "Juneteenth" (the start of the end of slavery in the U.S.) amid tumultuous and sometimes confusing politics and what appears to be an increase in racist mobilization. For internet activists the situation begs the question: what, at this moment in our history, is the relationship between technology and black people?
Total Recall: New poem by ThisCantBeHappening! resident poet Gary Lindorff
(Prefacing remarks: My dealer writes to thank me
for letting them fix the airbag on my Suby Outback.
Apparently I was driving my car for many years with
a defective airbag that was a potentially lethal weapon.
Supreme Hypocrisy in Pennsylvania: US High Court Opens Door to New Appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal of His 1982 Conviction
By Linn Washington, Jr.
One unintended consequence of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a death penalty case that rebuked actions of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice and prosecutors in Philadelphia for conflict of interest was to open a new avenue for activist-journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal to appeal his own 1982 murder conviction in a trial that was tainted by the same exact type of conflict of interest.
TransMexico: Keystone XL Owner Wins Bid For Underwater Gulf Gas Pipeline
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Republican presidential candidate’s true colors: Trump’s Bashing of Hispanic Judge Defines Bigotry
By Linn Washington, Jr.
When Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in June 2015 he unleashed a tirade against illegal immigrants from Mexico, libeling most of those immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
America’s party-line corporate media: The Democratic Primary Race Has Been Called Before 15% of the Country Votes
By Dave Lindorff
Reading the papers and listening to the radio about the Democratic primary race, which is reaching its climax tomorrow in California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota, I’m having a powerful sense of deja vu harking back to my years living and working as a journalist in China in the 1990s.
It’s happening right under our noses!: Let’s Stop Google from Gobbling Up Our Schools
By Jackie Smith and Alfredo Lopez
(The following article was co-written by Dr. Jackie Smith -- of the International Network of Scholar Activsts -- and TCBH member Alfredo Lopez. It is being published here and in other places.)
Documents: IOGCC-Spawned Loophole Creating Frackquake Crisis Faces Federal Lawsuit
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
On May 4, several environmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling for an end to the regulatory exemption it carved out in the late 1980s for the oil and gas industry with regards to how it handles industrial waste.
Photo Credit: United States Geological Survey
Fanning fears during London’s mayoral election: Islamophobia on the Rise in England
By Linn Washington, Jr.
During a casual conversation inside a store on a swanky shopping street located a short distance from London’s fabled Kensington Palace a twenty-something retail clerk said she feels a strange sense of discomfort that she’s never felt before in London, the city where this native of Algeria has lived most of her life.
