(2021-09-27). If even the Democratic Party can't raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More? juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — The struggle over efforts to revise and reform the tax code offers left and labor activists as well as the "democratic wing" of the Democratic Party an opportunity to test its strength and to clear up some widely circulated but misleading facts about the distribution of wealth …
(2021-09-27). Final Straw: Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline. itsgoingdown.org Long time anarchist radio and podcast show The Final Straw speaks with two longtime activists resisting the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP is planned to be a 300 + mile pipeline 42 inches in diameter being built to transport compressed so-called Natural Gas from the Marcellus formation…
(2021-09-27). SF Solidarity With Haitians On US Border & US Out of Haiti Now! indybay.org Community activists rallied against the attacks by US ICE agents on Hatians in Texas.
(2021-09-27). Headlines for September 27, 2021. democracynow.org Haitians Condemn Mass Deportations and Inhumane Treatment by the U.S., Social Democrats to Form Coalition Gov't in Germany After Edging Out Merkel's Long-Standing Bloc, Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank; Political Leader Khalida Jarrar Released from Prison, Mahmoud Abbas Gives Israel One Year to End Occupation, Vanuatu to Ask for ICJ Opinion on Climate Crisis, Activists Take to Streets for Global Climate Strike, PG&E Charged with Manslaughter over 2020 Zogg Fire as Wildfires Rage in California, Al-Shabab Suicide Attack Kills at Least 8 People in Mogadishu, Canada's Catholic Bishops Apologize for Abu…
(2021-09-26). Mexico Marks Seven Years of Ayotzinapa Students' Dissapereance. telesurenglish.net Students from rural teacher colleges and relatives demanded justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa young students on the seventh anniversary of their disappearance in Iguala in the Mexican State of Guerrero. | RELATED: | "As long as they do not hand over our comrades safe and sound, we will not be silent, and we will continue to be here in a state of struggle supporting the parents who have not given up," activists said. | The invest…
(2021-09-26). Biden's DOJ Sleight of Hand on Police Reform. popularresistance.org The radically spontaneous uprisings in response to the murder-by-cop of George Floyd in Minneapolis that rocked the entire country during the spring and summer of 2020, compelled a response from the feds. Any response by the feds, however, can't address the root causes of the problem. So Biden's DOJ is doing it's part to dress up the empire in a costume of genuine responsiveness to police reform.
(2021-09-26). Will Germany Succeed in Detaching Itself From the Death Grip of the Anglo-American Empire? strategic-culture.org As Germany moves ever closer to the Russian-Chinese's multipolarism, will it succeed in avoiding the last squeeze from the Anglo-American Empire's death grip? | As Pepe Escobar eloquently put it in his essay "