Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet

Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet       MICHAEL T. KLARE

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From New Orleans to Ferguson, a Decade of Asserting Black Lives Matter We’ve learned that the moment black people stop saying our lives matter, our lives will cease to matter. MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY, JAMES PERRY

What Roger Ailes Really Thinks of Donald Trump Fox News set Trump up to fail at the first GOP debate. So why is he still on top? ERIC ALTERMAN

The Rebirth of Black Rage From Kanye to Obama, and back again. MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH

Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet Could we be witnessing a fundamental shift in the energy industry? MICHAEL T. KLARE

Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’? Not according to a new ruling against students at the New School. MICHELLE CHEN

Why the Lower Ninth Ward Looks Like the Hurricane Just Hit The neighborhood’s stalled recovery is the self-fulfilling prophecy of political leaders who wrote it off from the start. GARY RIVLIN

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President Obama Wants to Continue Imprisoning Immigrant Families

President Obama Wants to Continue Imprisoning Immigrant Families

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:56 AM PDT

By Michael Tan / American Civil Liberties Union 

The Obama administration doubled down on one of its worst immigration legacies: the return and expansion of family detention. Responding to a court order holding that its family detention camps violated the 1997 Flores settlement agreement, the Obama administration Fridayagain defended family detention as necessary to send a message to Central American families that they are not welcome here—even though it concedes that most of them are fleeing persecution.   [Read more...]

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DeMaio’s Latest Pension Scam Fails Sacramento Sniff Test Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:31 AM PDT By Doug Porter Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio and proponents of  a California ballot initiative requiring pension changes to go through a public vote are screaming foul about the California Attorney General’s official description of that measure. The language, starting out with “eliminates constitutional protections”  will appear on petitions backers use to get signatures. The backers of the “Public Employees. Pension and  Retiree Healthcare Benefits Initiative/Constitutional Amendment,” issued a statement blasting ‘union bosses’ and ‘politicians’ in response to Kamala Harris’ wording. Likely most upsetting to the measure’s backers was the omission of the word “empowering.”  This squashed the idea of tapping into the politics of resentment and was a hoped for main selling point by proponents.   [Read more...]

President Obama Wants to Continue Imprisoning Immigrant Families Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:56 AM PDT By Michael Tan / American Civil Liberties Union The Obama administration doubled down on one of its worst immigration legacies: the return and expansion of family detention. Responding to a court order holding that its family detention camps violated the 1997 Flores settlement agreement, the Obama administration Fridayagain defended family detention as necessary to send a message to Central American families that they are not welcome here—even though it concedes that most of them are fleeing persecution.   [Read more...]

Planned Parenthood is Evil. Pass It On. Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:14 AM PDT

Cutting Women’s Health Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:11 AM PDT

Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:08 AM PDT War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today) By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I’m not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed. My best guess: it was the summer of 1969. I had dropped out of graduate school where I had been studying to become a China scholar and was then working as a “movement” printer -- that is, in a print shop that produced radical literature, strike posters, and other materials for activists. It was, of course, “the Sixties,” though I didn’t know it then. Still, I had somehow been swept into a new world remarkably unrelated to my expected life trajectory -- and a large part of the reason for that was the Vietnam War.   [Read more...]

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Saudi Arabia: Prominent Writer Detained

Saudi Arabia: Prominent Writer Detained Saudi authorities detained Zuhair Kutbi, a prominent writer and commentator, on July 15, 2015, following a TV interview in which he discussed his ideas for peaceful reform. Authorities apparently questioned him about his television appearance, which had attracted considerable attention on social media.  See the Latest News in the Middle East/North Africa » shared from THE WEEK IN RIGHTS August 13, 2015 Follow us on: Rights Activists Honored Photo © Jahangir Yusif, Francesca Leonardi (Internazionale), 2014 Human Rights Watch, 2015 Rebecca Vassie, 2015 Nisha Ayub, Paramount Color Lab, Ulloor, Trivandrum Four courageous and tireless advocates for human rights are the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. The winners, leading voices for justice in their countries, are Nisha Ayub, a leading human rights defender on transgender rights in Malaysia; Yara Bader, a journalist and human rights activist who works to expose the detention and torture of journalists in war-torn Syria; Khadija Ismayilova, a prominent investigative journalist who has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan; and Nicholas Opiyo, a leading human rights lawyer and founder of the human rights organization Chapter Four Uganda, who has worked tirelessly to defend civil liberties in Uganda. Ismayilova is currently behind bars and on trial on bogus tax and other charges brought in retribution for her reporting. The four 2015 honorees and two 2014 recipients of the award, Father Bernard Kinvi from the Central African Republic and Dr. M.R. Rajagopal from India, will be honored at the Voices for Justice Human Rights Watch Annual Dinners held in more than 20 cities worldwide. Read more » share on:   Burundi: Spate of Arbitrary Arrests, Torture The widespread killing and displacement of civilians by ethnic militia in northern Katanga, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, shows the urgent need for the government to protect civilians. The government should act to address the sources of violence in the region.  See the Latest News in Africa » share on:   Dispatches: Nepal’s Transgender Passport Progress By Kyle Knight Monica Shahi made history today as Nepal’s first citizen to carry a passport that allows its bearer to select a gender other than male or female. This acknowledgement of her gender identity follows years of activism that pushed the legal system to recognize gender on the basis of self-identification.  See the Latest News in Asia » share on:   Saudi Arabia: Prominent Writer Detained  Saudi authorities detained Zuhair Kutbi, a prominent writer and commentator, on July 15, 2015, following a TV interview in which he discussed his ideas for peaceful reform. Authorities apparently questioned him about his television appearance, which had attracted considerable attention on social media.  See the Latest News in the Middle East/North Africa » share on:   VIDEO Militias Kill, Kidnap Civilians in the Congo Watch Now » SOCIAL MEDIA Stay on top of the world’s human rights news. Follow Human Rights Watch on twitter» TWEET of the WEEK Australia can learn from Dutch courage on marriage equality. @hrw's Boris Dittrich in @smhhttp://www.smh.com.au/comment/head-20150812-gixbma.html …Follow Elaine Pearson Now, click here» Thank you for supporting Human Rights Watch Follow us on: Home | Take Action | Privacy Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118 USA Tel: 1 (212) 290-4700 | news@hrw.org

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China is building another great wall — of trees. To hold back the desert.

China is building another great wall — of trees. To hold back the desert.

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A tabloid tried to publicly shame David Beckham's 4-year-old for her pacifier. He did what you'd do.

Why back-to-school lists are so long and specific. And what's up with the 3 dozen glue sticks?

China is building another great wall — of trees. To hold back the desert.

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