So That Everyone Knows: From Jim Crow To Josef Mengele Common Dreams
The fallout continues from the gruesome revelations of Black nurse and whistleblower Dawn Wooten on forced sterilizations and “jarring medical neglect” of women held in a Georgia ICE detention center – where “only God is taking care of us here” – and other for-profit, LaSalle-owned “experimental concentration camps.”
Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes Health Affairs
CDC director suggests face masks offer more COVID-19 protection than vaccine would Axios
Leaked FEMA Memo Reveals 17 Percent Jump in U.S. COVID Deaths Last Week Daily Beast
Up Is Down — Pharmaceutical Industry Caution vs. Federal Acceleration of Covid-19 Vaccine Approval New England Journal of Medicine
Wildfires
How Climate Migration Will Reshape America. Millions will be displaced. Where will they go? ProPublica – also at NY Times Magazine
The True Facts About the Oregon Fires, With a Video Proving It Counterpunch
A Wall of Smoke on the U.S. West Coast NOAA Earth Observatory
Black Lives Matter
Defund the Louisville Police by $12 Million Slate
The police won’t have to pay a dime of the historic settlement to Breonna Taylor’s family.
Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence NYTimes
Attorney General William P. Barr was also said to have asked prosecutors to explore whether to bring charges against the mayor of Seattle for allowing a police-free protest zone.
Military Police Leaders Weighed Deploying ‘Heat Ray’ Against D.C. Protesters NPR
The Active Denial System acts like a giant microwave targeted against human beings, heating up skin to a blistering degree.
Federal officials stockpiled munitions, sought ‘heat ray’ device before clearing Lafayette Square, whistleblower says Washington Post
Report: In Wake of George Floyd’s Killing, 115 Protesters Shot in the Head
Lancaster Is Latest City to Protest a Police Shooting Death ColorLines
A Doctor Went Viral For Saying His Daughter Was Attacked By BLM. She Wasn’t. Buzzfeed
Apple gave the FBI access to the iCloud account of a protester accused of setting police cars on fire Business Insider
Former Model Amy Dorris Says Donald Trump ‘Shoved Tongue Down Her Throat’ at 1997 U.S. Open Daily Beast
Julian Assange
Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11 Craig Murray
DeJoy’s Postal Service policies delayed 7% of nation’s first-class mail, Senate report says Seattle Times
Capitalist crisis
Trump hails ‘manufacturing miracle’ as factories bleed jobs Politico
Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows NBC
America’s Eviction Epidemic NYRB
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure Nick Hanauer and David M. Rolf, Time
How Were 46 Million People Trapped by Student Debt? The History of an Unfulfilled Promise Counterpunch
Germany Offered U.S. $1.2B To Save Nord Stream 2 OilPrice.com
Burial blues for ‘Radical Jack’ Lieberman Tallahassee Democrat
Iran, Venezuela
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/09/15/burial-blues-radical-jack-lieberman-who-left-big-footprint-fsu/5791148002/
Colombia, Venezuela
Pompeo’s Visit to Colombia to Coincide with Joint Military Exercises Resumen
Workers Call Rallies Against Police Brutality in Colombia teleSUR
Lebanon
THE ANGRY ARAB: The Franco-American Designs on Lebanon Consortium News
JK Rowling’s Toxic New Novel Perpetuates the Transphobia of Slasher Films Observer
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