The Curse of Moral Purity
Chris Hedges | commondreams.org | 2019-08-26
The rupture of social bonds, caused by the breakdown of society, income inequality, social stagnation and the disempowerment of the working class, is expressed in innumerable dark pathologies.(Photo: Mr.Fish) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/hedges_0.jpg …
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Foreign Correspondent: What is the U.S. Role in the Hong Kong Protests?
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-08-26
Despite legitimate concern over economic inequality there, the movement has pro-Western elements and has been encouraged by Washington in familiar, odious ways.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-us-role-hong-kong-protests-erlich-190826/

America's Anti-Establishment Fury Isn't Going Away
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-26
A new poll finds that as much as 70 percent are "angry"our political system only seems to be working for insiders with wealth and power.
truthdig.com/articles/americas-anti-establishment-fury-isnt-going-away/

G7 Leaders Promises US$20 million to Battle Amazon Fire
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-26
Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations will release more than US$20 million of emergency aid to help countries battle wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday. | RELATED: | G7 Summit Starts Amid Discontent with Amazon Fires, Trade Wars | However, it was not immediately clear if the country at the epicenter of the Ama…
telesurenglish.net/news/G7-Leaders-Promises-US20-million-to-Battle-Amazon-Fire-20190826-0006.html

Norvergence: Climate change fueled Syria's civil war
George Stacey | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-26
"Until now the main cause of civil war is a wealth of the nation in few men hands but Syria showed us another reason; Climate Change" With this blog post, environmentalists at Norvergence have taken their research and study to a whole new level. The purpose of this content is to make people aware of …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/26/norvergence-climate-change-fueled-syrias-civil-war/

U of MN Teamsters demand year-round work
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-23
Minneapolis, MN — While the University of Minnesota top officials gathered for the opening of newly renovated Pioneer Hall, August 21, about 50 members of Teamsters Local 320 and other campus unions held an informational picket line to demand the year-round, full-time employment for workers in M Dining. The U of M has curtailed summer work opportunities for Teamsters and is trampling on seniority rights. | Mick Kelly, a member of the negotiating committee for U of M Teamsters told the crowd, "The university is plunging us into poverty, and this is something that we will never put up with. It is unacceptabl…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/22/u-mn-teamsters-demand-year-round-work

Is Genetic Medicine Making the World Less Fair?
Laura Hercher | thenation.com | 2019-08-23
Is Genetic Medicine Making the World Less Fair?
thenation.com/article/genetic-disease-ivf-pgt-inequality/

Mr. Trump Goes to Kensington
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The election of Donald Trump should have forced broad reconsideration of the American project. Whatever the factors one chooses to explain his political ascension, he comes from outside the realm or ordinary expectations. However, in Mr. Trump's case, it is the expectations that are skewed. In a world run by and for the rich, less probable explanations of how wealth and power are achieved predominate.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/mr-trump-goes-to-kensington/

The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-16
Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two decades, from 1950 to 1969, a period largely associated with the civil rights struggle. This mass land dispossession, which affected 98% of black agricultural land owners, is part of the pattern of institutional racism and discrimination that has contributed to the racial wealth gap in the United States. Many of the driving forces behind this land theft were legal and originated in federal policies, as documented by Vann Newkirk, staff writer at Th…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/16/vann_newkirk_great_land_robbery

SPLC publishes Opportunity Costs: Unequal Justice in Alabama's Community Corrections Programs
splcenter.org | 2019-08-15
A new investigative report published today by the Southern Poverty Law Center reveals serious flaws in Alabama's community corrections programs, an otherwise promising system for diverting people from the state's prisons.
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/15/splc-publishes-opportunity-costs-unequal-justice-alabamas-community-corrections-programs

SPLC statement on Mississippi immigration raids
splcenter.org | 2019-08-08
Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Julia Solórzano, with the SPLC's Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on today's workplace raids in Mississippi:…
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/07/splc-statement-mississippi-immigration-raids