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items: Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
items: Ukrainian President Vows Retaliation After Double-Tap Strike On Hometown
items: Lashed for Singing: The Uncensored Iranian Film Defying the Mandatory Hijab
items: Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged by ‘terrorist’ Israeli settlers
items: ‘Only Hindus will live in Bengal and enjoy their rights’: Avijit Das and the campaign for ‘Hindu Banga’
items: Is grabbing an Israeli flag racial discrimination? A US judge says it is.
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
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creator: Gabrielle Canon
date: 2026-08-22T13:00:00Z
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description: Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.
encoded: The U.S. has faced a critical shortage of firefighters at the Forest Service, or USFS, this summer as thousands of fires erupted across the country. Despite officials’ claims that the firefighting workforce was stronger than ever, the agency has failed to keep pace with escalating conditions and the catastrophic fires fueled by them, according to nine firefighters who spoke to the Guardian anonymously, because they are barred from disclosing the information to the public. Several people familiar with internal hiring data at the agency said there were also large gaps in important leadership roles, which had caused bottlenecks and operational challenges during a busy and dangerous year. They described a response system that’s been pushed to the brink, as unsustainable pressure is put on skeleton crews with months to go before the highest fire risks subside. Last year, many firefighters had to work more than 1,000 hours of overtime — the equivalent of cramming an extra five months of work into an already busy season. This year is expected to be even worse. “We just do not have enough people,” said a federal fire captain who works in the Pacific Northwest, where wildfires recently devastated neighborhoods in Washington state’s second largest city, Spokane. “Every firefighter is engaged at the highest priority we can possibly engage them, but houses are burning. When it’s not Spokane, it’s going to be the next town, and the next town.” Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kaiser_Canyon_Wildfires_DNR_.jpg" alt="" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kaiser_Canyon_Wildfires_DNR_.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kaiser_Canyon_Wildfires_DNR_.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kaiser_Canyon_Wildfires_DNR_.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/K…

Ukrainian President Vows Retaliation After Double-Tap Strike On Hometown
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Lashed for Singing: The Uncensored Iranian Film Defying the Mandatory Hijab
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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged by ‘terrorist’ Israeli settlers
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date: 2026-08-22T06:42:01Z
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description: Democracy Now! ANJALI KAMAT: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Anjali Kamat. We turn to the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers are continuing to lay siege on homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. The siege has attracted international attention, in part because one of the homes is owned by a Palestinian American.
encoded: Democracy Now! ANJALI KAMAT: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Anjali Kamat. We turn to the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers are continuing to lay siege on homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. The siege has attracted international attention, in part because one of the homes is owned by a Palestinian American. The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, surprised many when he recently described the siege as a, “horrific act of terror” being committed by, “Israeli terrorists”. Loui Ridi, who lives in Ohio, spoke to Reuters before he flew from the United States to the West Bank to protect his home there. READ MORE: Qusra is where Israel’s lies about settler violence hit a wall Palestinian victims of Israeli settler attacks face battle for justice Qusra siege by Israeli settler ‘terrorists’ in West Bank persists despite global outcry Other occupied West Bank reports LOUI RIDI: I have a lot of emotion in Qusra. I was born and raised in Qusra. My mother, 83 years old, still in Qusra, my sisters, my brothers, my nieces, my nephews, my cousins, my friends. ANJALI KAMAT: Shortly after Loui Ridi landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, he received a video showing Israeli soldiers shaking the hands of the Israeli settlers laying siege to his home. LOUI RIDI: When I landed, my brother sent me this video. That’s terrifying. That just happened like an hour ago. And they’re near the soldierS. They’re shaking hands with the soldiers. That’s just happening today. I’m going to stay in this house tonight. So, I’m terrified. I’m asking the US officials, the embassy, to provide me protection and to remove the settlers permanently from our village and my area. ANJALI KAMAT: Then, after Loui Ridi arrived back in the village of Qusra and reunited with his brother and other relatives, he raised an American flag on the roof of his home. LOUI RIDI: I came here to be present with him. I left my luxury home in America. I left my luxury vehicles in America. I left my wife, my two d…

‘Only Hindus will live in Bengal and enjoy their rights’: Avijit Das and the campaign for ‘Hindu Banga’
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date: 2026-08-22T05:28:10Z
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description: Avijit Chandra Das, chairperson of the Right-wing outfit Hindu Suraksha Samiti (HSS), shot to prominence as a ‘Hindutva leader’ in West Bengal following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s win this year in the state. Proclaiming that ‘retribution‘ as his primary objective, Das organised a ‘Direct Action Day’ under the aegis of the HSS at Jadavpur in […]
encoded: Avijit Chandra Das, chairperson of the Right-wing outfit Hindu Suraksha Samiti (HSS), shot to prominence as a ‘Hindutva leader’ in West Bengal following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s win this year in the state. Proclaiming that ‘retribution‘ as his primary objective, Das organised a ‘Direct Action Day’ under the aegis of the HSS at Jadavpur in Kolkata on August 16. The event called for a ‘Jihad-mukt’ Bengal. A promotional message for the event, posted by Das on his Facebook page on July 30, featured a song in Bengali, whose lyrics, when translated to English, read: “Razakars of ’46, leave this country/Your place lies across the river/This land belongs to our fathers and grandfathers.” According to Das’s ideology, because the partition of Bengal at the time of India’s independence was carried out along religious lines, and because both Bangladesh and Pakistan are Muslim-majority countries, Hindus are entitled to an exclusive claim over the land of India — and, by extension, Bengal. This communal messaging, along with outright calls for violence against the Muslim community, was prevalent throughout his speech at the event at Jadavpur. “They will live in our country, eat our food, wear our clothes, engage in ‘Love Jihad’ with our women, occupy our lands. We won’t tolerate this anymore. Anywhere we spot any green flags, we’ll beat them bloody,” he said. “We won’t let a single ‘Jihadi’ live. Our ancestors bought this country in exchange of their blood, and with power. We won’t let them [Muslims] have their rights in this country — only Hindus will live here, only Hindus will get employment, and engage in business. Only Hindus will enjoy their rights,” Das declared to an audience that responded with loud applause and chants of ‘Jai Sri Ram’. Further, Das attempted to incite the crowd to destroy a statue of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin close to where the gathering was being held, arbitrarily blaming him as one of the many figures responsible for the Partition o…

Is grabbing an Israeli flag racial discrimination? A US judge says it is.
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-08-21T21:43:56Z
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Max Blumenthal, ADC sue the US gov’t for seizing journalist’s phones
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creator: The Grayzone
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How to Break the “Cycle” of Police Killing? Listen to Survivors [EXCERPT]
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-08-21T21:01:52Z
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DOJ whistleblower decries "antisemitism" probes into universities
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-21T21:01:16Z
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Can China get the Pacific countries to align with its five-year plan? w/TAFI’s Jonah Bock
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creator: Radio Free Asia
date: 2026-08-21T20:13:33Z
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The Long Con of John Roberts
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creator: Bill Blum
date: 2026-08-21T20:03:32Z
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description: As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.
encoded: As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Bill Blum.

The Actual Conditions In Gaza Are Horrifying
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-08-21T19:43:15Z
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The Moment Corporate Media Gave Israel The Greenlight to Commit Genocide in Gaza
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creator: The Real News Network
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Israel to "investigate" two Gaza massacres
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-21T18:51:59Z
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 21, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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‘MAGA’s man in Latin America’ arrested for murder-for-hire plot
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UN News Today 21 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-08-21T17:32:53Z
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description: DRC Ebola outbreak spreading ‘exponentially’ OCHA Somalia’s children are first to suffer in latest round of funding cuts: UNICEFColombia earthquake: 1.2 million need aid as some communities remain out of reach
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Trump’s Plans to Steal the Elections Underway
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-08-21T17:12:47Z
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description: By Ralph Nader August 21, 2026 You’d never know it by the title “Dancing in the Dark,” but the Washington Spectator’s recent investigation is about the various steps (mostly illegal) Trump is taking, including the use of enforcement tools and violence,...
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What happens when a government minder watches your every move and nobody answers your questions?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-08-21T17:00:15Z
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Palestinian American returns to West Bank home besieged by Israeli settlers
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-21T16:25:26Z
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FTC Must Investigate AI Book Burning
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-21T16:13:47Z
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description: On Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk, scanning them and then destroying the original work—including rare books...
encoded: On Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk, scanning them and then destroying the original work—including rare books. In a letter sent to the FTC, the organizations urge the agency to use its authority, including Section 6(b) of the FTC Act, to investigate whether this mass book-destroying practice unfairly prevents competing AI developers and the public from using these resources. Read the Letter Convened by Demand Progress Education Fund, the letter was also signed by the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for Media & Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and 14 other organizations. “The secretive and reckless way that major AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon are acting shows that there is real smoke here that the FTC needs to investigate,” said Demand Progress Education Fund Special Advisor Kate Oh. “There is credible reporting that the AI industry is acquiring books on vast commercial scales to scan and destroy, all to keep that scanned text in a private database walled off from the world and subject to corporate censorship and manipulation.” “When a small number of dominant tech companies become the sole custodians of millions of human-authored works in digital form, locked away inside proprietary corporate databases—including works they have caused to exist nowhere else—they convert a shared public resource into a private chokepoint,” stated the letter. “They make themselves the unaccountable gatekeepers of our shared historical and cultural record, with the ability to censor as they see fit. That outcome should concern the FTC because the antimonopoly laws exist not only to protect competition but to prevent any private actor from amassing control incompatible with a free and self-governing society.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by …

2 French journalists, Togolese fixer detained 26 days following arrest while documentary filming in northern Togo
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-08-21T16:10:37Z
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description: Dakar, August 21, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on Togolese authorities to drop the charges against French journalists Sebastian Perez Pezzani and Gaël Mocaër, and their Togolese fixer, Komi Mawufemo Vedomey, and to release Mocaër and Vedomey who have spent 26 days in detention since they were arrested July 27 while filming a documentary in northern Togo. On August 20, 2026,...
encoded: Dakar, August 21, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on Togolese authorities to drop the charges against French journalists Sebastian Perez Pezzani and Gaël Mocaër, and their Togolese fixer, Komi Mawufemo Vedomey, and to release Mocaër and Vedomey who have spent 26 days in detention since they were arrested July 27 while filming a documentary in northern Togo. On August 20, 2026, an investigative judge in Lomé, the Togolese capital, provisionally released Pezzani for medical reasons but ordered his passport to be confiscated pending the next appearance of the three journalists to be questioned on the case, their lawyer, Martial Akakpo, told CPJ. Mocaër and Vedomey are detained in a police facility in Lomé. “Sebastian Perez Pezzani, Gaël Mocaër, and Komi Mawufemo Vedomey have been deprived of their freedom and prevented from carrying out their journalistic work for 26 days through an excessive and prolonged legal process, once again highlighting the Togolese authorities’ reluctance to allow journalists to practice their profession freely in the country,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Togolese authorities should lift Pezzani’s house-arrest, immediately release Mocaër and Vedomey, and drop the charges against them.” Tony Comiti, the founder of the production company Tony Comiti Productions, told CPJ that the journalists were on assignment to produce “a travel and adventure documentary for the ‘Les Routes de l’impossible’ series, broadcast on France Télévisions.” He told French broadcaster France Inter that the journalists and the fixer were placed under house arrest at a local hotel upon their arrest, had their footage confiscated, and were accused of espionage. The journalists were released after Togolese judicial authorities reviewed their footage, but they were arrested again two hours later. The lawyer told CPJ that Pezzani and Mocaër were charged on Monday, 13 days after their transfer to Lomé, over allegations of h…

Hong Kong’s High Court silences truth
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“A manufactured conspiracy”: Minnesota’s labor movement denounces federal surveillance operation
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description: This story originally appeared in Workday Magazine on Aug. 21, 2026. It is shared here with permission. On Tuesday morning, a coalition of leaders and members from labor, community, and faith organizations in Minnesota denounced Operation Puppet ...
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How Trump Profits Off Crypto
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DOJ Whistleblower Confirms "Antisemitism" Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations
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Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers
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As International Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of Hind Rajab in Gaza
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 21, 2026
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Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’
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description: The “insidious fallout” of Australia’s Bondi Royal Commission is upon us. Before the Commission has even reported, the “slippery slope to eroding our freedoms has begun”, writes Jeffrey Loewenstein for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Jeffrey Loewenstein As Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism grinds through its 9th and final “Hearing Block”, one is now able
encoded: The “insidious fallout” of Australia’s Bondi Royal Commission is upon us. Before the Commission has even reported, the “slippery slope to eroding our freedoms has begun”, writes Jeffrey Loewenstein for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Jeffrey Loewenstein As Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism grinds through its 9th and final “Hearing Block”, one is now able to make some assessments and judgments about the Commission, the Commissioner and the evidence presented to the Commission. The Commission has being accused of being influenced by the usual suspects in the Jewish community and in turn the Executive Council of Australia (ECAJ) has accused the Commission as having been “hijacked” by Palestinian/Arab community interests. The Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell was quick to stamp on that assertion. While not being revealed here for the first time, there are certainly troubling aspects relating the Commission when one looks at the whole “picture”. For starters, the firm of solicitors retained by the Commission to act as its lawyers are Gilbert+Tobin — the very firm selected by Federal Attorney-General Michelle Rowland (who, surprise, was a partner at the firm) without any open tenders being called. The same firm acts for interests closely aligned with Israel such as the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC). The firm is even a sponsor of the organisation. Then there is Mark Leibler, the chairman of the unelected AIJAC (Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council) and senior partner of his firm Arnold Bloch Leibler. Leibler is impeccably connected to senior politicians, acts for many of them and is closely identified with Israel, including a close relationship with Mossad. Enter the Royal Commission and the Commission through the Attorney-General’s Department inviting persons wanting to make submissions but seeking assistance from a lawyer to do so. Here the Department partnered with a previously unknown, murky, and new, pro-Zionist legal body to assist peo…

Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’
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description: The “insidious fallout” of Australia’s Bondi Royal Commission is upon us. Before the Commission has even reported, the “slippery slope to eroding our freedoms has begun”, writes Jeffrey Loewenstein for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Jeffrey Loewenstein As Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism grinds through its 9th and final “Hearing Block”, one is now able
encoded: The “insidious fallout” of Australia’s Bondi Royal Commission is upon us. Before the Commission has even reported, the “slippery slope to eroding our freedoms has begun”, writes Jeffrey Loewenstein for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Jeffrey Loewenstein As Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism grinds through its 9th and final “Hearing Block”, one is now able to make some assessments and judgments about the Commission, the Commissioner and the evidence presented to the Commission. The Commission has being accused of being influenced by the usual suspects in the Jewish community and in turn the Executive Council of Australia (ECAJ) has accused the Commission as having been “hijacked” by Palestinian/Arab community interests. The Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell was quick to stamp on that assertion. While not being revealed here for the first time, there are certainly troubling aspects relating the Commission when one looks at the whole “picture”. For starters, the firm of solicitors retained by the Commission to act as its lawyers are Gilbert+Tobin — the very firm selected by Federal Attorney-General Michelle Rowland (who, surprise, was a partner at the firm) without any open tenders being called. The same firm acts for interests closely aligned with Israel such as the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC). The firm is even a sponsor of the organisation. Then there is Mark Leibler, the chairman of the unelected AIJAC (Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council) and senior partner of his firm Arnold Bloch Leibler. Leibler is impeccably connected to senior politicians, acts for many of them and is closely identified with Israel, including a close relationship with Mossad. Enter the Royal Commission and the Commission through the Attorney-General’s Department inviting persons wanting to make submissions but seeking assistance from a lawyer to do so. Here the Department partnered with a previously unknown, murky, and new, pro-Zionist legal body to assist peo…

DOJ Whistleblower Confirms “Antisemitism” Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations
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description: Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has filed a complaint claiming the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settl...
encoded: Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has filed a complaint claiming the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of anti-Jewish discrimination on campus. Van Erem said in her complaint that the government’s probes into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were “an unlawful process designed to achieve predetermined political goals.” “Columbia affiliates, from the Board of Trustees down, have actually collaborated with the federal government in these sham investigations,” says Marianna Hirsch, professor emerita at Columbia University. “These were not probes into antisemitism accusations, but they were efforts to dismantle higher education brick by brick.” Columbia and Brown settled with the administration for $200 million and $50 million, respectively. Harvard refused to settle, and a judge threw out the case against the university. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers
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description: Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. Israeli settlers have surrounded the home, which Ridi ow...
encoded: Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. Israeli settlers have surrounded the home, which Ridi owns, for more than a week. Settlers have besieged several Palestinian houses in the village, trapping people inside and cutting off water and electricity in some cases. “I’m not getting no protection here. I still fear for my life. I still fear for my family’s life here,” says Ridi, who joins Democracy Now! from the occupied West Bank. Ridi has raised an American flag on his home and reached out to the U.S. Embassy for help. “The IDF is not even making it better here. They’re not allowing us to leave the house. They’re not allowing anyone to come to my house freely,” says Ridi, explaining that getting food to the house takes “hours, if not days.” The settlers “can act like this because of the active support from the Israeli government that gives them weapons, gives them ATVs,” says Israeli reporter Oren Ziv, who has traveled to Qusra twice in recent days. Ziv says the Israeli government also supports “the establishment of more and more [settler] outposts that are kind of front bases for these terror attacks.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

As Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab in Gaza
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description: Israel’s military on Wednesday admitted that its soldiers opened fire in January 2024 on a car trying to flee Gaza City following Israel’s evacuation orders. The car was carrying 5-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab and six of her rel...
encoded: Israel’s military on Wednesday admitted that its soldiers opened fire in January 2024 on a car trying to flee Gaza City following Israel’s evacuation orders. The car was carrying 5-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab and six of her relatives. They were all killed, as were Palestine Red Crescent Society medics dispatched to rescue them. The Israeli military said it would also investigate the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics whose bodies and crushed emergency vehicles were recovered from a mass grave in Rafah in March 2025. It made no mention of thousands of other incidents where Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli forces. “This seems to be nothing more than political theater,” says Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the Middle East and North Africa editor at Drop Site News. He was a correspondent on the Al Jazeera Fault Lines documentary The Night Won’t End that investigated the killings of civilians in Gaza by the Israeli military, including Hind Rajab. “Israel’s internal investigations into the criminal conduct of its own soldiers … can’t be regarded as credible mechanisms for accountability,” says Abdel Kouddous. “They instead function primarily to shield Israel from international tribunals or prosecution abroad.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Can Ukraine Hold Elections During The War, As Ex-Minister Fedorov Wants? #shorts
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Headlines for August 21, 2026
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description: U.S. Treasury to Sanction Iran and Its Trading Partners: “You Are Either With Us or Against Us”, USS Abraham Lincoln Heads for San Diego After Record Wartime Deployment, Houthis Clash with Yemeni Forces in Largest-Scale Fighting Since 2022 Truce, Sudan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe Grows as 200,000 Are Displaced by Fighting and Flooding, “The People Want the Fall of the Regime”: Tunisian Protesters Demand Ouster of Kais Saied, Human Rights Watch: Russian Mercenaries Led Massacre of Civilians in Mali Village Raid, Armed Israeli Settlers Kill and Wound Palestinians During Raid on Village Near Hebron, Aisha Wahab Wins Special Election, Becoming First Afghan American U.S. Congressmember, FBI Searches Eric Swalwell’s Home and Seizes Devices Amid Sexual Assault Investigations, Crypto, Gambling and AI Companies Drive Record Spending on U.S. Congressional Races, Trump Travels to South Carolina to Back Sen. Darline Graham Despite Disastrous Debate Performance, “Third Country” Deportees from U.S. Arrive in Liberia, ICE Detains San Diego Padres Minor League Coach Despite Pending Asylum Claim, Rochester Resident’s First Amendment Lawsuit Accuses ICE Agents of Unlawful Intimidation, NYT: U.S. Importing Dominican Sugar from Trump Ally Despite Evidence of Forced Labor
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Democracy Now! 2026-08-21 Friday
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What American Doctors Saw in Gaza ⏐ The Intercept Briefing
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Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
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description: The post Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Demonstrators filled the Missouri state Capitol building in January to protest legislative efforts to alter or overturn citizen-led measures passed at the ballot box, including an amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion. Lilley Halloran/St. Louis Public Radio Two years ago, abortion opponents in Missouri tried to defeat Amendment 3, a ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution, by falsely telling voters that it would allow gender transition surgeries for minors — even though it wouldn’t. Voters approved Amendment 3 anyway, overturning the near-total abortion ban enacted by Missouri’s GOP-dominated legislature that had taken effect after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022. Now Republican leaders in the state are trying to repeal those rights again, using the same issue. They placed a new amendment on the November ballot, also called Amendment 3, that would restore Missouri’s abortion ban while allowing limited exceptions but also constitutionally prohibit gender transition care for minors — though the state has banned surgeries and new prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormones by law since August 2023. For the Missouri GOP, Election Day can often seem like Groundhog Day. The party holds a supermajority in the legislature and controls every statewide office, yet voters have repeatedly used the initiative petition process to enact policies Republican leaders oppose. By gathering enough signatures, citizens have placed proposals directly on the ballot, then persuaded voters to expand Medicaid, legalize marijuana, raise the minimum wage and restore abortion rights. This month, that disconnect became an electoral humiliation for Republican leaders. More than 80% of voters rejected their attempt to make it nearly impossible for citizens to amend the state constitution. It was even worse for Gov. Mike Kehoe’s plan to phase out the state income tax: More than 83% voted no. Missouri Republicans have become “drunk …

DN! Friday, August 21, 2026
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CPJ joins call to extend UN fact-finding mission on Sudan
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description: New York, August 21, 2026 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined 67 other civil society organizations in calling on the UN Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan (FFM) for two years and provide it with adequate resources to investigate grave violations and support...
encoded: New York, August 21, 2026 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined 67 other civil society organizations in calling on the UN Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan (FFM) for two years and provide it with adequate resources to investigate grave violations and support accountability. Ahead of the Council’s 63rd session, the groups urged states to strengthen the FFM’s ability to investigate abuses, identify perpetrators, and preserve evidence. Its continued work is critical to ensuring that attacks on journalists in Sudan are documented and those responsible can be held accountable. For journalists in Sudan, the FFM is one of the few international mechanisms capable of independently documenting attacks and preserving evidence that could help hold authorities and non-state perpetrators accountable. This is particularly critical as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and other parties to the conflict continue to target journalists through killings, detention, abduction, threats, and other abuses, often with complete impunity. The joint-statement is available in English here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
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description: The post Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: records obtained by ProPublica, Don Ryan/AP. Oregon’s spending on low-income housing has exploded in the past five years. The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each apartment has nearly doubled, to $540,000. Dozens of projects are lined up for an additional $850 million in future state funding. Federal tax credits, which the state oversees, will bring even more money to bear. Yet one thing has remained constant: The public isn’t allowed to see the details of how all these dollars are being spent. Oregon is one of the only states in the country with a carve-out in its public records law that prevents disclosing the financial details of subsidized housing projects, thwarting researchers and journalists who have tried to examine their costs. The issue is especially pressing in the Pacific Northwest, where leaders have tied the lack of affordable housing to the region’s dire homelessness crisis. Understanding and controlling the cost of construction could make it possible, with the same amount of money, to either build more rent-restricted apartments or to discount rents more steeply. Margaret Van Vliet, a former director of Oregon’s state housing agency, told ProPublica that lawmakers should revisit the exemption. Despite all the state’s spending on housing, Oregon’s homeless population continues to grow. “For all the public money, we seem to be digging a deeper hole,” Van Vliet said. In other states, researchers and journalists have used developers’ financial records to investigate spiraling costs of subsidized housing. Los Angeles Times reporters in 2020 revealed that the cost of some low-income housing units in California had grown to more than $1 million each, driven in part by government rules that pushed construction prices higher. The Times found that 12,000 more low-income families could have received homes between 2011 and 2015 had costs been as low as…

Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer
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description: The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems.
encoded: Repeated record-breaking heat waves cooked the European continent this summer, delivering the region’s hottest June on record. A simultaneous, though possibly related, drought shriveled rivers to record lows. In addition to their impact on public health, the dual crises put pressure on Europe’s energy system: Wind power struggled under stagnant conditions created by heat waves, and “thermal” power plants — nuclear, gas, and coal plants — had to reduce their output as European waterways warmed and dried, taking away water used for their cooling systems. Solar power proved the only major energy source that performed better than normal during Europe’s summer of extremes, experts found. When paired with batteries, it helped supply thousands of AC units during historic hot conditions. Scientists are still trying to understand why so many recurring heat waves materialized this summer, but studies have found that individual heat events are more likely and more intense because of climate change. The intensity of the June heat wave that scorched Western Europe was roughly 200 times more likely in today’s fossil fuel-warmed climate than it would have been two decades ago, one study found. As the continent continues to warm and Europeans install more cooling systems to cope — just 23 percent of households currently have access to or use air conditioning — experts say this summer provides lessons for the future. Extreme temperatures in late June bumped up Italy’s power demand by 28 percent compared to the previous week, according to the energy think tank Ember. In France, that number was 14 percent. Electricity and natural gas prices spiked in evening hours as demand grew highest and solar generation ended, with some prices hitting their highest levels since the 2022/2023 winter gas crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As demand and prices were climbing, power generation in some areas was falling. In the United Kingdom, five gas plants reduced their output by a combin…

In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving
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description: Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works.
encoded: The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than ever before in recorded history. Just this summer, as some U.S. states battle over rights to the Colorado River, major reservoirs are at historically-low levels. In Puerto Rico, extended drought has exacerbated an infrastructure crisis, leaving residents to suffer weeks-long stretches without water. In Europe, the Danube and Rhine rivers reached record lows, causing nuclear plants to shut down, devastating crops, and revealing long-lost relics from WWII. More than 60 percent of farmland in Italy is affected by critical drought. Emerging research shows that a drier world is often a sicker one, too. A new paper, published last week in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, takes stock of nearly 100 scientific studies of diseases found throughout the animal kingdom — from humans to large mammals, fish, amphibians, and insects — to reveal how drought can help deadly infections and parasites spread. The majority of human parasites and many pathogens need water to thrive. And while cases of some infectious diseases — like schistosomiasis, a dangerous flatworm infection also known as snail fever, and malaria — sometimes fall dramatically when ponds and lakes dry up, others — like cholera, West Nile virus, and dengue — end up booming. This is called the “drought-disease paradox,” said Tara Stewart Merrill, an aquatic disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and coauthor of the paper. “It’s so counterintuitive,” she said. “We think a water-borne disease should thrive only when there’s plenty of water, but in some cases they thrive when there’s less water.” She and her collaborator and coauthor, Pieter Johnson, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, became interested in how drought would affect these pathogens several years ago while studying parasites in pond ecosystems in California. Suddenly, Stewart Merrill said, more than half of their study sites dried up. “Beyond drought s…

Spain: Humanitarian and Rights Crisis in Ceuta
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‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for Palestinians
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description: COMMENTARY: By Brett Wilkins Still drawing international censure for his genocidal call to kill dozens of Gazans daily, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has faced fresh condemnation after visiting the construction site of a gallows where Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis are set to be hanged to death, with select Israelis gathering as spectators.
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Brett Wilkins Still drawing international censure for his genocidal call to kill dozens of Gazans daily, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has faced fresh condemnation after visiting the construction site of a gallows where Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis are set to be hanged to death, with select Israelis gathering as spectators. Ben-Gvir, leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, posted a video to social media in which he gloats about the construction of gallows, which is being built in an undisclosed location in central Israel. “I promised to worsen the conditions of terrorists in prisons — we kept it,” Ben-Gvir says in the video. “I promised to pass the Death Penalty for Terrorists law — we did. READ MORE: Israel builds execution chamber for Palestinians convicted of murder Other Israeli execution reports “And now the death row and hanging facility are also starting to take shape.” The law to which Ben-Gvir referred was passed in March by the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and took effect the following month. The legislation changes the rules governing Israeli military courts in the illegally occupied West Bank so that the death penalty effectively applies only to Palestinians who kill Israelis. Far-right Knesset members, including Ben-Gvir, wore noose-shaped lapel pins to show their support for the legislation. Ben-Gvir also handed out sweets to Knesset colleagues after the bill passed its first reading. WATCH: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announce expansion of newly approved death row facilities, including observation booths. ‘Terrorists deserve only one thing – death by hanging’ pic.twitter.com/MRKJoSVD9q — i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 18, 2026 Viewing booths Ben-Gvir said the execution site would include viewing booths where victims’ families could watch executions, describing this as something customary in various countries and specifically citing the United States as an example. “Terrorists …

Stability key driver in Cook Islands Party’s election performance, says analyst
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description: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News The 2026 general election was a vote for stability, says political analyst William Numanga, as preliminary results placed the governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) on track to secure a fifth consecutive term. The Mark Brown-led CIP has secured 12 seats following the preliminary count, while independent
encoded: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News The 2026 general election was a vote for stability, says political analyst William Numanga, as preliminary results placed the governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) on track to secure a fifth consecutive term. The Mark Brown-led CIP has secured 12 seats following the preliminary count, while independent candidates hold eight seats — including two from Atiu (Independent-Enuamanu) and one from Mauke (Independent Party). The Cook Islands United Party has secured four seats. At least six independent candidates have confirmed their allegiance to the CIP. READ MORE: Democratic Party pledges ‘honest review’ after preliminary election wipeout in Cook Islands Other Cook Islands elections reports Numanga said the preliminary results broadly reflect what he expected — “a very competitive election, particularly in Rarotonga, but with CIP remaining the strongest national political organisation”. However, he said the final composition of Parliament was still not settled. Given the very close results in Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, and Ngatangiia, “petitions or challenges could still affect the overall picture”. There are over 1000 votes by declaration yet to be counted, while additional postal ballots are still arriving. The final count is expected either late this week or early next week. “My initial assessment was that several Rarotonga constituencies would be highly competitive between CIP and United,” Numanga said. “That was certainly evident in Ngatangiia, while Matavera’s shift to United demonstrates that voters were prepared to change representation.” “I expected RAPPA, Nikao and Ruaau to be particularly competitive, although ultimately Ruaau was the closest of those contests.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132471" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/William-Numanga-CIN-680wide.png" alt="Cook Islands political analyst William Numanga" width="680" height="498" sr…

Be Quiet, Be Quiet: We Are All On the Decoy Plane Now
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description: Not to alarm, but everything in America - our economy, military, education, environment, health, moral fiber - is being decimated by a petty, fragile, flailing child in a fact-free bubble who just turned our foreign policy over to North Korea because ...
encoded: Not to alarm, but everything in America - our economy, military, education, environment, health, moral fiber - is being decimated by a petty, fragile, flailing child in a fact-free bubble who just turned our foreign policy over to North Korea because its dictator "has always been nice to me." Otherwise, he's grifting, lying, babbling, losing wars, slathering gold, raving about his vanity projects - "If you're grass, you're very happy" - and posting AI slop with George Washington, who's spinning in his grave. This week, the war in Iran sank deeper into the quagmire it was always doomed to be when the 60-day negotiating period expired with little public comment. Trump shrugged off the lack of new talks because "the situation is so good," then threatened the "MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN" against Iran, which said it's working with Oman to monitor shipping through Hormuz Strait, which prompted Trump to threaten to "bomb the shit out of Oman," even though it's supposedly mediating on Iran. Having announced that after "we finish defeating Iran" he wanted to declare the Strait "a territory of the U.S," Trump went online and did just that with his magic Sharpie; Iran, in turn, vowed to "correct the delusions of this delusional individual," and who could blame them. Whiplash City. At home, alas, America will likely continue getting dumber thanks to the moronic regime deleting or altering nearly 400 federal datasets - tracking police misconduct, violence against children, pollution - to wipe out facts they don't like. Of online data released last week from over 60 agencies - environment, education, labor, law enforcement - by far the largest slice is health information, much on substance abuse, mental health, infectious disease, queer and trans people in keeping with the surreal executive order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government." Entirely logically, experts decry the destruction - Facts: who…

Who is Natalie Harp? Controversial Trump aide raises alarm
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Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the time
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date: 2026-08-20T23:48:09Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Adla Alnazer The IDF’s decision not to open a criminal investigation into the deaths of seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, including an Australian citizen, drew strong condemnation. But for Palestinians, this has simply become the norm. Four years ago, when I arrived from Palestine to study for my Master’s degree in
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Adla Alnazer The IDF’s decision not to open a criminal investigation into the deaths of seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, including an Australian citizen, drew strong condemnation. But for Palestinians, this has simply become the norm. Four years ago, when I arrived from Palestine to study for my Master’s degree in Melbourne, Australia, I had a hard time finalising some paperwork related to government services, simply because I could not create an account. The problem was that my country, at the time, wasn’t listed within the governmental system. READ MORE: Palestinian theologian warns against trusting Israel over Hind, medics killings probe What did Al Jazeera’s investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza reveal? Who was Hind Rajab and why is Israel investigating her killing? Israeli military launches criminal probes into killings of 5-year-old and paramedics Other Gaza genocide reports There was no “Palestine” or “West Bank” and not even a slot for “Occupied Palestinian Territories”. At another interaction with local bureaucracy, the worker who received my passport commented that it was the first time he had seen a Palestinian one. “I am sorry,” he said politely, “but I can’t even see it on the map.” By the time we left Melbourne in 2024 and returned to our home in Ramallah, a lot had changed. For many months, hundreds of thousands of people gathered every Sunday in the city centre, raising Palestinian flags and calling to end Israel’s war in Gaza. Watching these protests develop and gather steam, I came to realise that they were taking place not because Australia had become as “pro-Palestinian” as some of the media coverage had suggested, but rather because Israel’s image had badly deteriorated. Australian opinion shifted In September of 2025, the shifts in Australian public opinion regarding Israel and the occupation found their way into the country’s official policies, when the government in Canberra recognised Palestine. Australia …

Trump Can’t Hide in a Bunker from Us [TEASER]
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description: Donald Trump and Eva Braun Natalie Harp are trying to escape us in his ballroom bunker while Kremlin operative Paul Manafort's former lawyer, Todd Blanche, destroys lives. Blanche's DOJ illegally persecuted the Prairie Land defendants Soviet-style, condemning them to sweltering Texas prisons for protesting ICE, which is their Constitutionally protected right. In this week's bonus show Gaslit Nation provides a step-by-step guide on how to write letters of solidarity to the Prairieland Defendants. Longtime Gaslit Nation listener Bethany McKee provided a handy presentation here and in the show notes on how to do so that you can write letters whenever is convenient for you. The conversation also includes a discussion with Finale Norton and Katherine White of the grassroots powerhouse Network NoVA and their 10th Women's Summit happening this weekend in Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. Andrea will be there Saturday night, speaking about her new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire. Come join Andrea and Gaslit Nation listeners, and an exciting program of changemakers. Get your ticket to the summit here. Show Notes: Write letters to the Prairieland Defendants: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XojoEjzPYPVY1D_51ER1Zr210XzXGSt_uhu0mmdvRLI/edit?usp=sharing Join Razom for Ukraine for an evening of LGBTQ solidarity with Ukraine: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-art-as-resistance-pop-up-tickets-1998070757422?aff=oddtdtcreator
encoded: Donald Trump and Eva Braun Natalie Harp are trying to escape us in his ballroom bunker while Kremlin operative Paul Manafort's former lawyer, Todd Blanche, destroys lives. Blanche's DOJ illegally persecuted the Prairie Land defendants Soviet-style, condemning them to sweltering Texas prisons for protesting ICE, which is their Constitutionally protected right. In this week's bonus show Gaslit Nation provides a step-by-step guide on how to write letters of solidarity to the Prairieland Defendants. Longtime Gaslit Nation listener Bethany McKee provided a handy presentation here and in the show notes on how to do so that you can write letters whenever is convenient for you. The conversation also includes a discussion with Finale Norton and Katherine White of the grassroots powerhouse Network NoVA and their 10th Women's Summit happening this weekend in Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. Andrea will be there Saturday night, speaking about her new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire. Come join Andrea and Gaslit Nation listeners, and an exciting program of changemakers. Get your ticket to the summit here. Show Notes: Write letters to the Prairieland Defendants: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XojoEjzPYPVY1D_51ER1Zr210XzXGSt_uhu0mmdvRLI/edit?usp=sharing Join Razom for Ukraine for an evening of LGBTQ solidarity with Ukraine: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-art-as-resistance-pop-up-tickets-1998070757422?aff=oddtdtcreator This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Fiji’s HIV epidemic has yet to reach a ‘turning point’, warns minister
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji is now in a generalised HIV epidemic, which means the virus is firmly established and spreading within the general population. The number of people living with HIV in Fiji has risen sharply over the past decade. Fiji’s Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu declared an HIV outbreak in January 2025. READ
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji is now in a generalised HIV epidemic, which means the virus is firmly established and spreading within the general population. The number of people living with HIV in Fiji has risen sharply over the past decade. Fiji’s Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu declared an HIV outbreak in January 2025. READ MORE: ‘We’re doing something about it’ – Fiji’s health minister defends HIV response Other HIV in Fiji reports The number of Fijians living with HIV had risen to at least 9000, or nearly 1 percent of the population, as of March, according to the head of Fiji’s HIV response. The figures indicate that Fiji has a higher HIV prevalence rate than Australia and New Zealand, where the rate is estimated at 0.1 percent. In Parliament this week, the Health Minister revealed that new infections continued to rise, with an estimated 1700 in 2025, roughly three times the level in 2018. “2026 UNAIDS estimates indicate that about 9100 people were living with HIV in 2025, and possibly as many as 12,000, up from fewer than 700 in 2010,” he said. “[For] adults from 15 to 49 years, prevalence has reached 1.6 percent, crossing the threshold that defines a generalised epidemic.” Dr Lalabalavu said his ministry had increased testing and treatment, but Fiji had not yet reached the point where new infections were declining. He said the government was expanding HIV testing, treatment and prevention, including PrEP, a daily medicine that helps prevent HIV. The minister noted that high-risk drug use, in particular sharing of needles and syringes, was playing a significant role in the rapid rise of new HIV infections in Fiji. “We have not yet reached the turning point,” he said. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

China ‘likely’ ran targeted campaign to align Pacific with its latest five-year plan
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creator: Eugene Whong for RFA
date: 2026-08-20T22:45:31Z
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description: Report by the Alliance Futures Initiative documents how Beijing promoted the 15th FYP in the region
encoded: China “very likely” coordinated a targeted campaign across the Pacific to demonstrate that local development strategies should align with Beijing’s latest five-year-plan, a recent report by The Alliance Futures Initiative says. In the report, titled “China’s Model on the Offensive: Why China’s Five-Year Plan Promotion in the Pacific Matters,” the Washington-based think tank documented how in eight of the nine Pacific island countries where Beijing has an embassy, the heads of mission published op-eds in the local media touting the merits of China’s latest sweeping national policy framework proposed late last year and formally adopted in March. “To international audiences, the PRC deliberately reframes the FYP from a domestic planning document into a predictable, scientific blueprint for global growth and cooperation,” the report said. The campaign was not limited to media placement. Chinese diplomats also engaged in direct bilateral governance outreach, hosted diplomatic briefings – either open to the media or closed – with influential figures in business and government. The ultimate goal was to make the case that local development strategies were in line with the five-year plan, or that China was a more stable and reliable partner than its main rival with interests in the region, the United States. The Alliance Futures Initiative, or TAFI, tracked the activities of Chinese Embassies since October 2025, finding more than 30 cases where ambassadors promoted the five-year plan. “The frequency, similarity, and timing of output strongly imply MFA guidance,” the report said, referring to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Variance in message intensity, ideological depth, and host-country alignment claims tracks local conditions and individual ambassador style.” The power of persuasion A key aspect of the campaign is how China is using persuasion rather than coercion to influence the Pacific countries to fall in line, Jonah Bock, TAFI’s assistant director for research,…

End the Use of AI in Warfare
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creator: Granate Kim
date: 2026-08-20T21:55:11Z
subject: Sources
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description: It's foolhardy to believe that humans can adequately review AI targeting without making tragic errors.
encoded: It's foolhardy to believe that humans can adequately review AI targeting without making tragic errors. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Granate Kim.

Overriding the Will of the People
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creator: Sarah Jaffe
date: 2026-08-20T21:40:57Z
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description: Local democracy isn’t dead yet, despite all of the threats to it.
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The SNAP Ripple Effect
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description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was a cost-effective lifeline for low-income people and families—until the Trump Administration gutted it.
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[Chalmers Johnson] Militarism, Empire & the Decline of Democracy
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description: In ruling circles and in the media, it’s all fine and dandy to talk about Rome and British, French and Soviet empires, but it’s impolite to talk about the United States as an empire. If you do, you’ll be ridiculed and labeled a loony Marxist. But it’s ...
encoded: In ruling circles and in the media, it’s all fine and dandy to talk about Rome and British, French and Soviet empires, but it’s impolite to talk about the United States as an empire. If you do, you’ll be ridiculed and labeled a loony Marxist. But it’s there with its hubris and arrogance and colossal military bases straddling the globe, and its wars and interventions. Simply stated, imperialism erodes democracy. The signs of U.S. decline are everywhere to be seen and felt. Why? Because the Pentagon’s military-industrial complex and its vast sums of money have greatly weakened the proverbial guardrails that protect democracy. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

The hidden human labor costs of AI
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 20, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Ben McKenzie Exposes Crypto’s Biggest Lies | Shane Smith Has Questions
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The Next Dark Pattern
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description: Lily Minh Wass There’s a saying that goes, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” The digital platforms we rely on daily have built brand identities of convenience: Google for search, Meta for social connection—each touted as a “f...
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Trump says better industry propaganda needed to make Americans embrace widely unpopular data centers
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 20, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. President Donald Trump on Wednesday insisted that Americans should welcome artificial intelligence data center...
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What happened when VICE got exclusive access to a downed Iranian drone?
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Afghanistan Five Years After the Taliban Takeover: Lessons and What’s Next
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Federal judge blocks Trump and RFK effort to get more teens pregnant
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UN News Today 20 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: DRC receives 70,000 Ebola vaccine doses as Bundibugyo outbreak spreadsAtrocity crime risks are converging in South Sudan, warns Human Rights Council panel Children account for half of mpox infections in Guinea-Bissau's first outbreak
encoded: DRC receives 70,000 Ebola vaccine doses as Bundibugyo outbreak spreadsAtrocity crime risks are converging in South Sudan, warns Human Rights Council panel Children account for half of mpox infections in Guinea-Bissau's first outbreak This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

"Love Machines": James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI
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date: 2026-08-20T14:17:44Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI’s Connor Leahy
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date: 2026-08-20T14:14:12Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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From prosecutions to bans and spurious copyright claims: how Kazakhstan’s journalists are being silenced
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creator: Nick Lewis
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subject: Dinara Yegeubayeva
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subject: Oleg Gusev
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description: Ahead of this month’s parliamentary election, independent journalists in Kazakhstan have faced “unprecedented” pressure, ranging from criminal prosecutions to professional bans, and this crackdown warrants heightened international scrutiny to ensure the country upholds its obligations on media freedom. Voters go to the polls on August 23 to elect a unicameral parliament established under a new...
encoded: Ahead of this month’s parliamentary election, independent journalists in Kazakhstan have faced “unprecedented” pressure, ranging from criminal prosecutions to professional bans, and this crackdown warrants heightened international scrutiny to ensure the country upholds its obligations on media freedom. Voters go to the polls on August 23 to elect a unicameral parliament established under a new constitution passed in a March referendum. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says the constitution allows a fundamental reshaping of the Central Asian nation but critics say it represents an attempt to extend Tokayev’s power. Just as the March referendum was accompanied by a series of arrests – which CPJ and partners raised with Kazakh authorities – the upcoming vote has been preceded by fresh intimidation of some of Kazakhstan’s foremost independent journalists. Since mid-July, five prominent journalists have been jailed or convicted on major criminal charges and cases have been opened against two more. Courts have also imposed draconian restrictions on convicted journalists’ participation in public life and activity online. The Legal Media Center, a local advocacy group, has warned of an “unprecedented increase in pressure” on journalists. On August 14, CPJ and eight local and international press freedom and human rights groups expressed deep concern over the escalating pressure, noting that these recent high profile cases formed part of a “broader, longer-term pattern,” which included the use of politically motivated charges, online restrictions on access to information, and other forms of harassment and intimidation against those who criticize the authorities. Diana Okremova, head of the Legal Media Center, said the crackdown is an effort to “purge the media sphere” and ensure the absence of “negative information online.” Criminal Prosecutions The primary tool used by Kazakh authorities to silence the press consists of criminal prosecutions, with journalists frequently charg…

5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life
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date: 2026-08-20T14:08:16Z
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subject: Democracy
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 20, 2026
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“Love Machines”: James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-20T12:47:17Z
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description: James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships investigates how people form emotional attachments with large l...
encoded: James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships investigates how people form emotional attachments with large language models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I., co-written by fellow researchers Mark Graham and Callum Cant and based on more than a decade of fieldwork, follows Global South workers whose knowledge and labor are the basis of AI tools and assistants. “A lot of people see artificial intelligence as something that is largely automated, frictionless, and just appears as a useful tool for us. But most of the human hours that go into making artificial intelligence possible are not done in labs in Google or OpenAI. The majority of the work is actually very piecemeal 'data annotation' work, which is outsourced to various locations in the Global South, everywhere from India to East Africa to the Philippines,” explains Muldoon. Meanwhile, on the other side of the production process, consumers are increasingly turning to artificial chatbots to fulfill social needs, incentivizing tech companies to amplify the “addictive and manipulative, controlling behaviors” embedded into their systems to keep users increasingly dependent on their products. “We need much stricter regulation to stop these companies … that can get people hooked and give people harmful and dangerous advice,” says Muldoon. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI’s Connor Leahy
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-20T12:32:55Z
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description: Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and other members of the group StopAI were arrest...
encoded: Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and other members of the group StopAI were arrested during a sit-in protest at the headquarters of OpenAI. Democracy Now! reached Kaufmyn at the San Francisco County Jail, where she is now serving a two-week sentence for charges including “interfering with a business.” Kaufmyn says she participated in the protest because “This technology is fueling a dystopian level of surveillance. It’s fueling a fascist state. It’s going to take all of our jobs. It’s already taken many of them. It’s causing suicides, homicides and mass shootings. This needs to stop.” Another group, named ControlAI, has made it a mission to brief lawmakers on “adversarial” threats from unchecked emergent technologies. We speak to ControlAI’s executive director, Connor Leahy, who first came to national prominence for reverse-engineering OpenAI’s GPT-2 model in his college dorm room in 2019. “Even though I was able to build such an AI system, I was not able to understand it,” says Leahy, who warns against the development of autonomous so-called superintelligence and calls for governments to “criminalize the creation of superintelligence the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life
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date: 2026-08-20T12:14:22Z
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description: Restrictions on women’s rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the process. Afghan women are banned from attending schools and gyms, books written ...
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Headlines for August 20, 2026
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description: U.S. National Debt Tops $40 Trillion as Trump’s Tariffs and Wars Drive Deficit Spending, Trump Announces “Most Crushing Economic Operation Ever” Against Iran and Its Partners, Israeli Strikes Kill 10 More Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s Military Admits to Attacks That Killed 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab, Her Family and Paramedics, Israel Advances Construction of New Homes in Massive Illegal Settlement, U.K. Jury Refuses to Convict Palestine Action Members Who Sabotaged Israeli Arms Factory, Former DOJ Attorney Files Complaint Against Antisemitism Task Force, Russian Assault on Kyiv Overnight Kills at Least 13 People, Ukraine’s Former Defense Minister Calls for Presidential Elections in Challenge to Zelensky, Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty to Concealing Documents Related to COVID-19 Pandemic, New mRNA Treatment Shows Promising Signs of Preventing Skin Cancer, Trump Nominates Anti-Abortion Activist to Lead FDA, Minnesota Sues Texas Gov. Abbott to Force Extradition of ICE Agent on Felony Assault Charges, Trump Leads Press Corps on Bizarre 40-Minute Tour of the White House, Touting Plans for New Helipad, CPJ Calls on the Mexican Government to Protect Media Workers
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Palestinian theologian warns against trusting Israel over Hind, medics killings probe
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description: Asia Pacific Report Palestinian Christian theologian Reverend Munther Isaac, the director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, has questioned the Israeli military’s announcement that it will investigate the killing of Hind Rajab and other Palestinians in the Gaza genocide. After two years of denial, Israel has officially admitted firing on the 5-year-old’s car
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Palestinian Christian theologian Reverend Munther Isaac, the director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, has questioned the Israeli military’s announcement that it will investigate the killing of Hind Rajab and other Palestinians in the Gaza genocide. After two years of denial, Israel has officially admitted firing on the 5-year-old’s car on on 29 January 2024. But her family and others don’t expect justice. Reverend Munther asked in a post on X: “Can we, in any seriousness, trust the Israeli military to investigate itself?” READ MORE: Who was Hind Rajab and why is Israel investigating her killing? Israeli military launches criminal probes into killings of 5-year-old and paramedics Other Gaza genocide reports “And let us not forget: There are thousands of Hinds in Gaza — thousands of children killed, each with a name, a family, a story, and a future stolen from them,” he said. “Justice must prevail. Justice will prevail.” Can we, in any seriousness, trust the Israeli military to investigate itself? And let us not forget: There are thousands of Hinds in Gaza—thousands of children killed, each with a name, a family, a story, and a future stolen from them. Justice must prevail. Justice will… pic.twitter.com/f2eecJejXJ — Munther Isaac منذر اسحق (@MuntherIsaac) August 19, 2026 Rajab’s mother, Wissam Hamada, continues to travel to several cities globally to speak out about the unimaginable impact of Israel’s war on children, even though she is unable to watch the critically acclaimed Oscar-nominated docudrama, The Voice of Hind Rajab, about her daughter’s death because hearing Rajab’s voice remains too painful. More than 20,000 children have been killed by the Israeli military in the war on Gaza with a total death toll of more than 73,000 Palestinians. In the killing of the paramedics that is also being investigated, Israeli troops fired on an ambulance driving to retrieve casualties from an Israeli offensive in the southern city of Rafa…

West Papua issue likely to be on agenda in Palau, says PNG foreign minister
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister says he expects the issue of West Papua will be discussed at the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Palau. This comes as the issue of human rights abuses and conflict in Indonesian-ruled Papua region, often known internationally as West Papua, appeared
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister says he expects the issue of West Papua will be discussed at the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Palau. This comes as the issue of human rights abuses and conflict in Indonesian-ruled Papua region, often known internationally as West Papua, appeared to have slipped off the regional agenda. After the PIF foreign ministers met in Suva earlier this month, there was no mention of West Papua in the meeting’s outcome statement. READ MORE: Other West Papua reports Most of the talk was about regional security arrangements and the region’s response, or lack thereof, to a recent Chinese nuclear-capable interballistic missile test into Pacific waters. West Papua is a standing item on the Forum’s agenda, but has generated a decreasing amount of discussion in the past several years as Indonesia strengthened ties with Pacific Island countries. However, PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko has indicated to RNZ Pacific that the West Papua issue will be discussed by Pacific leaders in Koror next month. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132401" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Justin-Tkatchenko-RNZ-680wide.jpg" alt=" PNG Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Justin-Tkatchenko-RNZ-680wide.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Justin-Tkatchenko-RNZ-680wide-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Justin-Tkatchenko-RNZ-680wide-630x420.jpg 630w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> PNG Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko . . . “Nothing was mentioned at the Pacific Island Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting” about the recent clashes between Indonesian military and West Papuan independence fighters. Image: RNZ Pacific/Koroi Hawkins There has been little to no apparent progress after Foru…

Deadly Russian Missile Barrage Hits Kyiv, More Than 12 Killed #shorts
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Snowfall in West Papua, while severe drought hits other parts of New Guinea
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Extreme weather patterns continue to hit the Pacific region with some of the highest parts of New Guinea experiencing snow this week. Reports from West Papua say parts of the highlands region have been blanketed by snow and ice in recent days. This includes parts of Lanny Jaya regency
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Extreme weather patterns continue to hit the Pacific region with some of the highest parts of New Guinea experiencing snow this week. Reports from West Papua say parts of the highlands region have been blanketed by snow and ice in recent days. This includes parts of Lanny Jaya regency — Go, Balum Kuyawage, and West Wano districts. In the case of Kuyawage, the snowfall follows a pattern of drought and frost over recent weeks. READ MORE: Indonesian wildfires — poor air quality detected in six provinces in 2019 — David Robie talks to TRT World News Other West Papua reports Snow is not unusual for West Papua’s Jayawijaya mountains, where the world’s only glacier in a tropical region exists. However, snowfall is rare in other parts of this region and usually means crop failure and food insecurity for local communities. At the same time, other parts of New Guinea, including Papua New Guinea, are experiencing severe drought as a result of the El Niño weather phase. In South Papua province on the Indonesian side of the giant island, rampant clearance of lowland forest and wetlands for agriculture projects has created dangerous fire hotspots, exacerbated by El Niño. A new satellite fire-monitoring platform, Firewatch, had detected more than 96,000 hotspots across Indonesia as of late last month. All up, an estimated approximately 103,000 ha of land burned nationwide during the first half of 2026. And as El Niño tightens its grip, forecasters warn the fire risk could increase more. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

DN! Thursday, August 20, 2026
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This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?
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description: The post This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching? appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In an altered image from a video montage Ryan Richardson posted to Instagram in June, the coach works with a young athlete. Collage by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Left: via Instagram. Right: Sarah Blesener for ProPublica. The first time Ryan Richardson was suspended from coaching volleyball, in early 2024, he gathered the parents of his teenage players in the back room of his gym in the border city of Pharr, Texas. It was a dark, cool space, one wall lined with shelves of trophies and dangling medals. The tinted windows looked out onto the courts where Richardson trained some of the best young female players in the Rio Grande Valley, but the glass was one-way, and from outside, nothing that happened in the room was visible. For years, the room had also contained a twin-sized mattress that sat in the corner on a box spring, covered with dark sheets. By the 2024 season, though, the bed had disappeared. On that winter day, the parents of Richardson’s club, Texas Fierce Elite, were worried. Their 14- and 15-year-old daughters were bound for the Girls Junior National Championship that summer in Las Vegas, but now Richardson was barred from attending. The organization overseeing volleyball in the state, Lone Star Region Volleyball, had suspended him after complaints about Richardson’s Instagram posts, including a mirror selfie in which he posed in skin-tight orange boxer briefs. The case had quickly been escalated to USA Volleyball, the sport’s governing body and the host of the upcoming national championship. There was much more at stake than a single tournament. For more than 15 years at the helm of Texas Fierce Elite, Richardson had been trading on a dream: girls who wanted to play college sports, and parents who wanted to get them there. In Pharr and the cities surrounding it, which are more than 90% Latino and have poverty rates more than double the national average, opportunities to go to college were rare, and paying for it was even harder. Richardson’s players …

What Parents Need to Know About Sexual Abuse in Youth Sports
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description: The post What Parents Need to Know About Sexual Abuse in Youth Sports appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Collage by ProPublica. Photo by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica. As a reporter for The Washington Post and now ProPublica, I’ve investigated how youth sports organizations have failed to protect kids from sexual predators. I’ve spoken to dozens of parents. Some had children who were victimized by coaches. Others wanted to know how to keep their children safe. Nearly every parent I’ve met said they didn’t have the information they needed to understand the system set up to protect their kids. Here’s what you need to know (and how to get in touch with tips): How is the system supposed to work? The system revolves around one organization: the U.S. Center for SafeSport. SafeSport, as it’s known, is charged with investigating allegations of abuse at all levels of sport, from elite Olympic athletes to young recreational players. Its focus is sexual abuse, but it can also look into allegations of emotional and physical abuse. The center has the power to suspend coaches as it investigates them, recording their names in a public database known as the SafeSport list. It can ultimately ban abusive coaches for life, declaring them “permanently ineligible.” It can also ban coaches based on certain types of criminal convictions, like those involving abuse of minors. SafeSport was set up by Congress in 2018, in the wake of revelations about abuse by USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar and other prominent sports figures. How do coaches get on the SafeSport list? Coaches and club administrators are required to report misconduct to SafeSport, but anyone can make a report online or by phone. SafeSport then decides whether to investigate; it doesn’t take every case. Usually coaches can keep working with kids while SafeSport looks into an allegation, but if the allegations are recent or serious, SafeSport can issue a suspension — temporarily placing a coach on the list — while it investigates. If the coach is found not to have engaged in misconduct, they’ll be removed from the list. If Safe…

Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.
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description: An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.
encoded: Earlier this summer, when the news broke about an outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection that results in abdominal distress and is passed on via food or water that has been contaminated by human fecal matter — spreading across the country, one question came up again and again: How did human poop end up in our food system? On the internet, speculation abounded. Could farmworkers be sick themselves? Were they relieving themselves in the field because their working conditions didn’t ensure proper access to bathrooms? Or did this have something to do with farmworkers, often migrant men and women, being deported? Perhaps, all along, they were the ones protecting consumers from foodborne illnesses. Posts about the outbreak, centering farm labor as either the potential source of disease or as stewards of the food supply, began to crop up. But these theories are all either incomplete or misguided, say food safety experts. The scale of this summer’s outbreak — the biggest known in U.S. history — suggests widespread contamination of the food supply. For that, they say, we should look closely at irrigation water and other water that’s used in our highly industrialized, global food supply chain. For example, in some agricultural regions, sewage water is treated and then reused to irrigate crops. This practice is common in areas experiencing drought or water stress, and it is legal in nearly half of U.S. states. When water in such a system is not treated to the highest standards, complications can occur. Whether contaminated water contributed to the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak this year is unknown. Public health authorities are still investigating to understand the source of the current outbreak; so far, one company, Taylor Farms, has been associated with the outbreak in multiple states. Last week, the FDA announced it had begun an on-site inspection at a Taylor Farms facility in central Mexico. Meanwhile, the increase in scrutiny on farmworkers only compounds th…

How Florida quietly removed climate change content from textbooks
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description: Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards.
encoded: Had Florida’s high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per year, and another 1 degree Celsius of warming would double that. Instead, they learned that “human health will also be affected by the increase in CO2 and another 1 degree Celsius will further increase the impact.” In another spot in McGraw Hill’s Marine Science book, “climate change” was altered to “changes in the environment.” An environmental science textbook by publisher Cengage removed the word “polluting” in front of “coal burning power plants.” And it cut a reference to students at the University of Washington in Seattle voting to pay higher fees to help the school buy electricity from renewable energy sources. These count among the changes that Florida education officials asked science textbook publishers to make in the summer of 2024 that either watered down or eliminated content about the climate crisis, an investigation by WUSF and The Hechinger Report has found. “These are not changes that were required to bring the textbooks in line with the state science standards,” said Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that tracks how climate is taught in classrooms across the country. “Demanding that the treatment of climate change be weakened in these textbooks is very unusual.” <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/k12-florida-climate-textbook-cengage.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/k12-florida-climate-textbook-cengage.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/k12-florida-climate-textbook-cengage.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/k12-florida-climate-textbook-cengage.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/w…

West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement
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Filmmaker and photographer Isabel Castro on the role of perception in the creative process
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description: Your background spans from photojournalism to documentary, and you often write, shoot, and direct your own work. How has working across so many media shaped you as a storyteller?
encoded: Your background spans from photojournalism to documentary, and you often write, shoot, and direct your own work. How has working across so many media shaped you as a storyteller? I think of myself as a curious storyteller before any other kind of label. I loved painting and drawing when I was younger, and as I neared college, I thought photojournalism would be a practical application of my desire to do visual storytelling. It was in college that I found a story I thought would be better told through film, and I started my first documentary. Every story has a medium that’s best suited to tell it. For over a decade, I’ve been honing my documentary skills—getting stronger in production and collaborating with editors and producers—whereas photography, writing, and painting are more solitary pursuits. Practicing each of these media has made me stronger as a storyteller overall and inadvertently taught me a lot about the others. You are Mexican-American, and while you were growing up, your family moved to Argentina, Brazil, and ended up in Connecticut. You have mentioned that assimilation in high school was challenging because there was a tension between fitting in and embracing your heritage. How does this tension impact your creative work? That shows up in my work and motivates what I do. I gravitate toward storytelling because it lets me explore the world, which fundamentally excites me, but it also lets me better understand myself. Growing up between all these cultures was confusing, and as I explored the world, I started holding onto the universal themes within those different cultural experiences. Throughout my twenties, I told stories by finding the most universal theme and then speaking to it through the specificity of each story. That both motivates and defines my work. How do you find the stories worth telling? Does an idea arrive, and you chase it, or does something else spark it? You can have rituals to facilitate finding good stories, but you have to practice…

Playing a Rigged Game
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description: When the gears of the ballot box have been tampered with, it’s time for voters to write their own rules.
encoded: When the gears of the ballot box have been tampered with, it’s time for voters to write their own rules. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Terrance Sullivan.

Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development
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description: The proposal would repeal the Roadless Rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public.
encoded: The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday. In a press release, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the rule has led to overgrown and diseased forests ripe for deadly wildfires by limiting where the U.S. Forest Service can build roads and manage timber. Rescinding the Roadless Rule, the government said, will prioritize local decision-making over national-scale regulations. “Today’s long overdue decision will empower states like Montana to pursue proper forest management on federal lands with local communities in mind,” Montana Governor Greg Gianforte said in the release. In a letter published last fall, more than 30 leading forest science researchers from across the country refuted the administration’s claims. The researchers found that over the last three decades across all Forest Service lands, the density of wildfire ignitions was lowest in wilderness and roadless areas. Their analyses also showed that the highest number of wildfire ignitions came from land in close proximity to roads. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, nearly 85 percent of wildfires are human-caused. The vast majority of areas subjected to the Roadless Rule exist across national forests in the West and Alaska. In Montana, the rule protects nearly 6 million acres of federal public land, and it encompasses nearly 10 million acres across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. “Roadless areas are vital habitat for elk, mule deer, trout, and, importantly, grizzly bears,” said Scott Christensen, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. “At the same time the federal government is proposing to shift management authority of grizzlies to the states, it’s removing the very land protections that have allowed grizzly bears to recover from near-extinction.” Read Next <…

Philippines bets on classrooms to strengthen South China Sea claims
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-08-19T21:08:37Z
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description: Experts say education can build lasting public support, but could also narrow future diplomatic options.
encoded: A bill that would integrate the Philippines’ South China Sea territorial claims into school curriculums could further integrate the issue into national identity and strengthen public support, experts told Radio Free Asia. Philippine lawmakers this month filed a measure seeking to institutionalize education about what Manila calls the West Philippine Sea – the parts of the South China Sea that fall within its exclusive economic zone. The sea is a major flashpoint in regional geopolitics. China uses a nine-dash line drawn on the map to delineate the entirety of the sea as its own territory, but parts of it are also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia. The proposed West Philippine Sea Education Act would establish an education and awareness program covering basic and higher education. Lessons would use examples from international law to support Manila’s claims, including a section on the 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, which said that China’s nine-dash line had no legal basis. Popular support is critical for Manila to pursue its claims, Jason Ng Sze Chieh, a lecturer at INTI International College Subang in Malaysia, told RFA. The claims “must be grounded in tangible, convincing, and easily digestible arguments formed around reasonings … that excite the public imagination,” he said. “Once it catches the public’s imagination, it is very difficult to redirect or scrub it from the collective mind.” The overlapping claims of China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. (AFP) The proposal comes as Philippine authorities increasingly describe their confrontation with Beijing not only as a contest over ships and maritime access, but also over information and public perceptions. Lawmakers behind the House measure said students should be equipped against misinformation and propaganda about the country’s maritime rights. From public awareness to strategy If signed into law, the bill would formalize a campaign that has alre…

Activists occupy 200-year-old tree to stop border wall
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date: 2026-08-19T21:02:07Z
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subject: occupy
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subject: stop
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[episode cut] Joy Reid & Dean Obeidallah: Fascism Tests Journalistic Integrity In Modern Media
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-08-19T19:54:27Z
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subject: integrity
subject: journalistic
subject: joy
subject: Media
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subject: tests,
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Bipartisan backlash to border wall in Big Bend National Park
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-19T18:33:40Z
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subject: big
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subject: now
subject: park
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subject: wall
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You pay for internet in these empty buildings
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-08-19T18:15:24Z
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subject: for
subject: Internet
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subject: these
subject: you
description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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Reproductive Freedom for All Slams Trump Tapping Heidi Overton as FDA Commissioner Nominee
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-19T18:00:51Z
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subject: commissioner
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subject: fda
subject: for
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subject: nominee.
subject: overton
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description: Today, news outlets reported that Donald Trump plans to nominate White House Domestic Policy Deputy Director Dr. Heidi Overton — an anti-abortion extremist who celebrated the Supreme Court overturning the right to abortion — to serve as his Food and D...
encoded: Today, news outlets reported that Donald Trump plans to nominate White House Domestic Policy Deputy Director Dr. Heidi Overton — an anti-abortion extremist who celebrated the Supreme Court overturning the right to abortion — to serve as his Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. The FDA plays a critical role in safeguarding the health of people across the country, including by making science-based decisions about medication abortion, birth control, and other essential reproductive healthcare. Overton has an extensive anti-abortion record. She celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade as a “huge victory,” and has advocated for the politicization of government agencies to help advance a nationwide anti-abortion agenda. She previously worked at America First Policy Institute, an extreme conservative think tank made up of former Trump administration officials, where she authored a brief pushing disinformation about the safety of medication abortion and calling for additional, medically unnecessary restrictions on access to mifepristone. Overton’s nomination comes as the FDA rushes to advance a politically motivated, sham “study” of mifepristone, and remains under close scrutiny from anti-abortion groups and leaders who relentlessly demand that the agency takes decisive action to restrict access to medication abortion care. Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement: “Donald Trump is trying to put an anti-abortion extremist in charge of any agency that could seriously undermine reproductive healthcare—including the agency that could roll back access to mifepristone nationwide. Heidi Overton celebrated the fall of Roe, spread junk science about medication abortion, and openly called for remaking the FDA to serve a political agenda instead of the health of the country. Her nomination is another alarming step in Trump’s plan to weaponize every part of the federal government to restrict abortion nationwide.” If co…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 19, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 19, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Why were Revolutionary Guards throwing VICE out of their hotel rooms at night?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-08-19T17:00:27Z
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Neoliberal policy hollowed out universities. now they are collapsing.
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creator: Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
date: 2026-08-19T16:32:49Z
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subject: Education
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CPJ, partners call for Congressional action on visa changes for international journalists working in the US
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations issued a joint letter on Wednesday urging members of the United States Congress to act on new visa restrictions for international correspondents. Under a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) final rule that will take effect on September 15, I visas for foreign media representatives will be limited...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations issued a joint letter on Wednesday urging members of the United States Congress to act on new visa restrictions for international correspondents. Under a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) final rule that will take effect on September 15, I visas for foreign media representatives will be limited to up to 240 days, or 90 days for Chinese nationals. This replaces the open-ended “duration of status” framework that has governed the I visa since 1985. CPJ previously condemned the adoption of the rule. The letter outlines how the rule will reduce the quality and quantity of global coverage on the United States. In order to secure extensions every 240 days, journalists and their families will face financial and bureaucratic challenges. The rule also creates opportunities for government censorship by denying or delaying applications and extensions on the basis of a journalist’s coverage. Congress can block or limit the rule through reviews, oversight, and appropriations. The letter also calls on DHS to publish plain-language guidance for applicants, and for the government to insulate visa issuance decisions from politics and from delay. The letter was signed by 31 organizations, led by CPJ, Society of Professional Journalists, The Foreign Press Association, and the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Palestinian American travels to the West Bank to help defend his family home from Israeli settlers
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-19T16:25:40Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: home
subject: israeli
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subject: travels
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The Sears Home Reimagined: A Plan to Deliver 500,000 Affordable, Move-In Ready Starter Homes to Working Families
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date: 2026-08-19T16:15:18Z
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subject: home
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description: More than a century ago, American families could flip through a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, pick out a house, and have nearly everything they needed to build it delivered to them at an affordable price. Tens of thousands of Sears homes are still s...
encoded: More than a century ago, American families could flip through a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, pick out a house, and have nearly everything they needed to build it delivered to them at an affordable price. Tens of thousands of Sears homes are still standing today – a testament to an era when a starter home could be both attainable and built to last. Today, as more Americans are priced out of the housing market, Groundwork Collaborative <a href="https://u109330751.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.yK-2BGBL7CX4z-2B5m0mj4mEzeRcbIQoFuBMpPuwhbC97HN38tq4K8q0OL9x10TYo-2BoVIE9iPZZLRYxfXXNMB561Ca7egjqpm7w-2BCvXrE-2BKJRN0-3Dzomo_s0lTyPdoyuzn-2FJTE9fjR8nSlryGpLl-2B7mxK4it06DfIPbN1fwPbo6gfcFcFLl-2B43zhqdeOxcsLHiM2oAMn3GswMh8jDbf98Rs7y4HsAzCm4vGFOx-2BwLPCS8w-2FmMxSv1yuyicj09F-2FddOspYRsVa9iEX-2BgKM09itDg0rj9oCOImqtsm-2FIp2yS4cav5-2FHpFXexkowIDj0td5gG6LxK-2FEMhxpcA4hB3k15fC665fAAZDhUtiO6amDJx-2Fh8Eie7nZKxOcuVk6HSyjC0COm2bll-2F6PYkgvosT0c1Q-2BEDD8jdB86o8Tq3wAHJ5Nvrs7-2BJm1WRLatSE5Pum0Mjsa7jj-2BvWj0DqifImSn6psDn6CeN7ysiPFP09ypafUZ029zmFFcj9X" rel="noopener noreferrer" >released a new proposal to revive the Sears home model for the 21st century. The Modern Sears Home: Resurrecting the Affordable American Starter Home for a New Generation, authored by Groundwork’s Noah Ball-Burack, Emily DiVito, and Alex Jacquez, outlines a federal initiative to deliver, over eight years, 500,000 high-quality factory-built homes directly to American families across the country for under $215,000. Today, the national median home price hovers <a href="https://u109330751.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.yK-2BGBL7CX4z-2B5m0mj4mEzXwmRognXjDgScaz8wclpG9zQ8BcX2LI4eQcULFxaCX9AbyLxteFsb8AV6bqOvPshbabghyYneyHZ3mYh8dnrSbA2JNLMCLysl5LeKHmhZqAViItjb2W5tsvsuoNLUG5zQ-3D-3DsmXg_s0lTyPdoyuzn-2FJTE9fjR8nSlryGpLl-2B7mxK4it06DfIPbN1fwPbo6gfcFcFLl-2B43zhqdeOxcsLHiM2oAMn3GswMh8jDbf98Rs7y4HsAzCm4vGFOx-2BwLPCS8w-2FmMxSv1yuyicj09F-2FddOspYRsVa9iEX-2BgKM09itDg0rj9oCOImqtsm-2FIp2yS4cav5-2FHpFXexA4h-2FpxDIC-2FNxFOh1GCRX3cNsf3…

There’s no such thing as ‘unskilled work’: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Nickel and Dimed’ 25 years later
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez
date: 2026-08-19T16:05:25Z
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subject: Working People
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subject: barbara
subject: dimed,”
subject: economy
subject: ehrenreich’s
subject: inequality
subject: Labor
subject: later,
subject: movements
subject: nickel
subject: People
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subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: such
subject: there’s
subject: thing?
subject: unskilled
subject: work
subject: working?
subject: years
description: <img width="1024" height="804" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-564065141.jpg?fit=1024%2C804&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Monica Garcia,44 of Merry Maids, cleans the home of Rubi Courtland in Burbank Friday just one of dozen of homes she and the rest of the crew will clean in a week. Photo by Carlos Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images" data-attachment-id="345979" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/barbara-ehrenreich-nickel-and-dimed/gettyimages-564065141" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-564065141.jpg?fit=2293%2C1800&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2293,1800" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="GettyImages-564065141" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Monica Garcia,44 of Merry Maids, cleans the home of Rubi Courtland in Burbank Friday just one of dozen of homes she and the rest of the crew will clean in a week. Photo by Carlos Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-564065141.jpg?fit=780%2C612&ssl=1"> 25 years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich saw the inhumane brutality of capitalism and the invisible realities of working-class life that so many Americans ignored then but can’t ignore now.
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UN News Today 19 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-08-19T15:57:05Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: august
subject: News
subject: podcastsun
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Sudan war: 200,000 newly displaced as fighting and floods intensifyZambia elections: UN human rights chief’s concern over opposition arrestsChad: mass vaccination boost to confront cholera outbreak –UNICEF
encoded: Sudan war: 200,000 newly displaced as fighting and floods intensifyZambia elections: UN human rights chief’s concern over opposition arrestsChad: mass vaccination boost to confront cholera outbreak –UNICEF This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-19T15:28:07Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: activist:
subject: against
subject: ancient
subject: arizona
subject: border
subject: construction
subject: continues
subject: cottonwood
subject: Democracy
subject: now
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subject: treesit
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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1967 photo of Australian go-go dancers falsely shared to attack Sonia Gandhi
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creator: Anindya Hazra
date: 2026-08-19T15:26:22Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
subject: 1967
subject: alt
subject: attack
subject: australian
subject: dancers
subject: falsely
subject: gandhi
subject: gogo
subject: News
subject: photo
subject: Politics
subject: shared
subject: sonia
subject: sources
description: A post by an X user named Sonali (@Sonalimumbai1), who describes herself as a BJP leader and is followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the platform, went viral last week. The post carries a somewhat blurred black and white image of a group of women dancing atop a table in what seems to be […]
encoded: A post by an X user named Sonali (@Sonalimumbai1), who describes herself as a BJP leader and is followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the platform, went viral last week. The post carries a somewhat blurred black and white image of a group of women dancing atop a table in what seems to be hotel. Sonali implied that one of these women is Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. The image, posted on August 14, has more than 353,800 views till date. (Archive) बारबाले चे मूत्र पिणारे असंच बोलणार. pic.twitter.com/C0jpHXHXMa — सोनाली (@Sonalimumbai1) August 14, 2026 The post came shortly after Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on August 14 mocked at the BJP government’s foreign policy and took a jibe at PM Modi’s customary hugs with international leaders. The remarks triggered immediate backlash from the BJP and its supporters. As a part of that, X user Sonali, posted a video of Indira Gandhi hugging former President of Cuba Fidel Castro. The caption read, (translated from Marathi), “Whenever Rahul talks nonsense, all the misdeeds of his family come out in the open. Now watch this video. In this, Indira Gandhi is hugging Fidel Castro of Cuba. I don’t think anything there is wrong with it. What will the son of a bar dancer say about this? Now what do the sycophants of Congress have to say about this?” राहुल्या जेव्हा कधी तोंडाने हागतो त्याच्या खानदानाची सगळी कर्म रस्त्यावर येतात. आता हा व्हिडिओ बघा. याच्यामध्ये इंदिरा गांधी Cuba च्या Fidel Castro यांच्याशी गळाभेट घेत आहेत. I don’t think anything wrong with it. बारबालेचा पुत्र याच्यावर काय बोलणार…?? आता यावर… pic.twitter.com/FVz3c1USL6 — सोनाली (@Sonalimumbai1) August 14, 2026 After an X user responded to Sonali’s post with derogatory comments, she countered it with the aforementioned image with the caption: “That’s what people who drink bar dancer’s urine would say.” Fact Check To verify the authenticity of the image, which was bearing the watermark of Getty Images, we ran a reverse image search on Google…

"Profoundly Corrupt": Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-19T15:25:30Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 100kmonth
subject: access
subject: corrupt
subject: Democracy
subject: early
subject: for
subject: his
subject: now
subject: posts
subject: profoundly
subject: selling
subject: social
subject: sources
subject: sued
subject: trump
subject: Truth
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-19T15:21:06Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: bend
subject: big
subject: bipartisan
subject: border
subject: Democracy
subject: forces
subject: national
subject: now
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Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
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Trump’s "Authoritarian Takeover" of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Jessica González
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 19, 2026
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Kazakhstan sentences journalist Gulnara Bazhkenova to eight years in prison as pre-election press crackdown intensifies
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description: New York, August 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is shocked by the eight-year prison sentence handed down to Gulnara Bazhkenova, former editor-in-chief of independent outlet Orda, in Kazakhstan on August 18, and warns that this latest prosecution appears to be part of an escalating crackdown on the media ahead of elections this month. An Almaty...
encoded: New York, August 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is shocked by the eight-year prison sentence handed down to Gulnara Bazhkenova, former editor-in-chief of independent outlet Orda, in Kazakhstan on August 18, and warns that this latest prosecution appears to be part of an escalating crackdown on the media ahead of elections this month. An Almaty court convicted Bazhkenova, who has been under house arrest since December last year, on charges of criminal dissemination of false information, embezzlement, and illegal entrepreneurship. She denies the charges and plans to appeal. The court deferred Bazhkenova’s jail term by two years on the grounds that she has a child who is a minor, but applied an additional five-year ban on “engaging in activities related to media, journalism, blogging, public events, and other forms of public engagement, as well as on holding managerial or financially responsible positions in media-related organizations,” it said. “The draconian eight-year prison sentence handed down to Gulnara Bazhkenova is part of an alarming pattern of arrests and convictions that reveal the authorities’ determination to silence the press ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan on August 23,” said Carlos Martínez de la Serna, CPJ’s program director in New York. “Kazakh authorities must end their escalating crackdown on the press and allow Bazhkenova and other targeted journalists to work freely.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="168" width="300" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bazhkenova.png?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-609054" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bazhkenova.png 602w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bazhkenova.png?resize=300,168 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bazhkenova.png?resize=570,320 570w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bazhkenova.png?resize=367,206 367w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Gulnara Bazhkenova presents t…

Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona
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description: A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cotton...
encoded: A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a “grandmother” tree, with activists sitting in the tree to physically stop its destruction. “People are successfully forcing the government to stop, to slow down, or at least change course on border wall construction,” says journalist John Washington, a staff writer for the queer news outlet Lookout and author of multiple books about immigration. “They’ve been very clear that this is both an environmental and a political fight.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Why Vietnam’s Gen Z is angry: The Hanoi crash case no one was charged for
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Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas
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description: The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, s...
encoded: The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback. The construction is part of a larger plan for the Big Bend region to build hundreds of miles of walls, vehicle barriers and other border infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security waived requirements that federal contractors comply with a broad slate of environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, to proceed with construction in the national park. “I think the administration made such a massive miscalculation when they sicced their bulldozers on this great American national park,” says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. Laiken says the movement to protect Big Bend cuts across partisan and ideological lines and is “a force to be reckoned with.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Profoundly Corrupt”: Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month
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description: We speak with Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project, which is part of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his plan to monetize access to his social media platform Truth Social, where he routinely makes market-moving ann...
encoded: We speak with Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project, which is part of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his plan to monetize access to his social media platform Truth Social, where he routinely makes market-moving announcements. Truth API went live on August 1 and already has subscribers. Truth Social is charging up to $100,000 per month for early access to the president’s posts, giving investors an edge on major news events. “It’s profoundly corrupt,” says Ballou. “The government can’t discriminate who it gives information to based on who they are, what they believe, what they’re willing to pay the president.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump’s “Authoritarian Takeover” of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press’s Jessica González
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description: We look at major media news with Jessica González, co-CEO of the advocacy organization Free Press. She discusses the landmark lawsuit against Meta for making its social media platforms addictive for young people, efforts to halt the Paramount-...
encoded: We look at major media news with Jessica González, co-CEO of the advocacy organization Free Press. She discusses the landmark lawsuit against Meta for making its social media platforms addictive for young people, efforts to halt the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, and Disney’s lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over what it calls the Trump administration’s “retaliatory campaign” against the ABC television network. González says President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian takeover attempt of our media system” must be opposed. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

‘Teeming with life’: Cook Islands officials enthuse over NOAA deep dive
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description: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific A 26-day deep sea expedition in the Cook Islands by a United States scientific agency has uncovered new information about marine life and seabed minerals within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Okeanos Explorer returned to Rarotonga this week after carrying
encoded: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific A 26-day deep sea expedition in the Cook Islands by a United States scientific agency has uncovered new information about marine life and seabed minerals within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Okeanos Explorer returned to Rarotonga this week after carrying out research in the western Cook Islands where little to no prior data exists. The expedition conducted 14 remotely operated vehicle dives, collecting more than 400 samples and sub-samples, exploring seamounts, abyssal plains and areas of the Manihiki Plateau. READ MORE: Other NOAA exploration reports Researchers aboard collected more than 23 biological specimens, some of which are believed to be new to science. The information is being gathered at a time when the US administration has made no secret of its desire to explore the potential of minerals on the Cook Islands’ deep seabed. Evaluating potential US Geological Survey scientist Amanda Demopoulos said building an understanding of underwater life will help form a baseline that the local community can reference when making decisions about resources in their oceans. But the ecologist pointed out the information can also impact on the wider region, as the wider Pacific Islands grapples with whether to allow deep sea mining for valiuavble polymetallic nodules on the deep seabed. “Countries have borders, but our ecosystems do not. By working together across international borders and boundaries, we can better understand how the full deep-sea ecosystem functions,” Demopoulos said. The expedition also confirmed the presence of extensive polymetallic nodule fields in parts of the Cook Islands ocean territory that scientists did not expect. NOAA’s deputy assistant secretary Erik Noble said the findings provided important baseline data for future decisions about seabed resources. “High-quality data is the essential first step towards evaluating resource potential.…

Headlines for August 19, 2026
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description: Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Seven Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinian American Travels to Occupied West Bank to Defend Home Against Settlers, Iran Claims U.S. Begging to Talk, as Trump Posts Map of Strait of Hormuz Labeled “New U.S. Territory”, Syrians Protest Death of Man in Police Custody, Trump Admin Imposes Sanctions on ICC President and Senior Prosecutor, Federal Judge Revokes TPS for 5,000 Ethiopian Immigrants, CBS News: Trump Deporting Mexican Immigrants to Other Central American Countries, DOJ Pushes Federal Appeals Court to Reinstate Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Ábrego García, Immigrant Hospitalized After He Was Brutally Beaten and Arrested by ICE, South Korean President Pushes for Military Control Independent from the U.S., ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC, Trump Admin Plans to Open Nearly 45 Million Acres of Forest to Road Construction and Logging, Democratic Socialist Pulls Off Stunning Victory in Florida’s Democratic Senate Primary, Alaska’s Incumbent Republican Senator Sullivan and Congressmember Peltola Advance to General Election for Senate, Pakistan’s Supreme Court Rules Authorities Must Transfer Jailed Ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan to a Private Hospital
encoded: Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Seven Palestinians in Gaza Palestinian American Travels to Occupied West Bank to Defend Home Against Settlers Iran Claims U.S. Begging to Talk, as Trump Posts Map of Strait of Hormuz Labeled "New U.S. Territory" Syrians Protest Death of Man in Police Custody Trump Admin Imposes Sanctions on ICC President and Senior Prosecutor Federal Judge Revokes TPS for 5,000 Ethiopian Immigrants CBS News: Trump Deporting Mexican Immigrants to Other Central American Countries DOJ Pushes Federal Appeals Court to Reinstate Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Ábrego García Immigrant Hospitalized After He Was Brutally Beaten and Arrested by ICE South Korean President Pushes for Military Control Independent from the U.S. ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC Trump Admin Plans to Open Nearly 45 Million Acres of Forest to Road Construction and Logging Democratic Socialist Pulls Off Stunning Victory in Florida's Democratic Senate Primary Alaska's Incumbent Republican Senator Sullivan and Congressmember Peltola Advance to General Election for Senate Pakistan's Supreme Court Rules Authorities Must Transfer Jailed Ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan to a Private Hospital This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-19 Wednesday
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‘Deranged behaviour’ – Marco Rubio slammed for US sanctions on ICC president
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description: By Brad Reed of Common Dreams US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has drawn an outraged reaction from critics after he unveiled sanctions against Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court. In announcing the sanctions, Rubio described the ICC as “a corrupt and fatally politicised” institution that has allegedly “abused its authority and exceeded
encoded: By Brad Reed of Common Dreams US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has drawn an outraged reaction from critics after he unveiled sanctions against Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court. In announcing the sanctions, Rubio described the ICC as “a corrupt and fatally politicised” institution that has allegedly “abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”. Rubio said the ICC “has repeatedly attempted to assert authority over… the United States and other countries that have not consented to its jurisdiction,” which he said “sets a dangerous precedent for all nations”. READ MORE: It won’t be Trump who kills the ICC — it would be the court’s alleged supporters who refuse to take action to defend it US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor Other ICC reports In addition to sanctioning Akane, Rubio said the US would also be sanctioning ICC senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Saye. While Rubio did not mention what specific actions the ICC had taken to warrant such sanctions, a report in The Guardian noted that Saye was charged with investigating war crimes allegedly committed by Israel during its years-long assault on Gaza. The Trump administration had previously sanctioned then-ICC prosecutor Karim Khan — who obtained arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant — and an additional eight ICC officials. Israeli officials warned local media in May that the ICC may seek five more arrest warrants for ministers and senior military officials involved in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. US protecting Netanyahu The social media account of Drop Site News accused Rubio of attacking the court solely to protect Netanyahu from war crimes prosecution, pointing out that “there is currently not a single American citizen under indictment, investigation, or facing an arrest warrant” from the ICC. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" role="img" …

Russian Drivers Stalled By Another Wave Of Fuel Shortages #shorts #russia
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Instagram censorship puzzle: Alt News post survives only after ‘Burhan Wani’ is removed
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description: In July, an Alt News post about the upcoming Bollywood film ‘Chauhaan’ was removed twice by Instagram. The post survived when we shared it the third time, but only after two references to Burhan Wani were removed. The episode offers a glimpse into the opaque manner in which content restrictions are being enforced on Instagram […]
encoded: In July, an Alt News post about the upcoming Bollywood film ‘Chauhaan’ was removed twice by Instagram. The post survived when we shared it the third time, but only after two references to Burhan Wani were removed. The episode offers a glimpse into the opaque manner in which content restrictions are being enforced on Instagram in India, and raises key questions amid growing concerns over censorship on the platform. The original post was a carousel based on an Alt News analysis of the teaser of ‘Chauhaan’ starring Ajay Devgn. The 2.24-minute video shows its protagonist dismissing pellet guns as an ineffective crowd-control measure causing only “limited damage”. This stands in stark contrast to the documented reality in Kashmir, where pellet guns have killed scores, and blinded or permanently disabled thousands. The teaser sparked an online backlash for trivialising violence as entertainment, pairing it with upbeat music. The story can be read here. Alt News first uploaded the carousel on July 1. Instagram restricted the post within minutes. Since the carousel contained visuals of pellet injuries, Alt News initially suspected that these images might have triggered the removal. The carousel was therefore modified, with some of the visuals changed, and uploaded again. Instagram removed the second version as well. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="720" height="1389" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/notice2-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/notice2-1.jpeg 720w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/notice2-1-156x300.jpeg 156w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/notice2-1-531x1024.jpeg 531w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> <img decoding="async" width="720" height="1203" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Instaburhan-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/up…

Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid
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encoded: Roberto “Bear” Guerra/ProPublica. Source image: Getty Images What Happened: Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the senators, including minority leader Chuck Schumer, said the U.S. demands were “unprecedented and at odds with U.S. policy concerning the data of American citizens.” Read More <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="459" height="306" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?w=459&h=306&crop=1" class="attachment-propublica-story-promo size-propublica-story-promo wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg 4860w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=863,575 863w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=422,281 422w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=552,368 552w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=558,372 558w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=527,351 527w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Africa-Data-Deals-002.jpg?resize=752,501 752w, http…

DN! Wednesday, August 19, 2026
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
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description: The post The $1 Trillion Black Box appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-18-at-2.07.15-PM.png?w=1149" alt="A bar chart showing appropriations for select government agencies and departments in 2026. Appropriations for the Department of Defense were over $1 trillion, resulting in one long bar that dwarfs the bars representing appropriations for every other major agency and department. The proposed increase for the Department of Defense in 2027 would bring that number to nearly 1.5 trillion."> The sums are vast, but the explanations for the spending range from vague to inscrutable. Consider these items in the law that funded the Department of Defense this year: For “Other Procurement, Air Force”: $32.6 billion. For “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide”: $35.2 billion. And for “supplies and associated support services” related to U.S. Code Title 10 Section 3601 subsection(c)(3)(B) clauses (i) through (iv): a mere $650 million. Determining what, exactly, all this public money is paying for requires cross-referencing thousands of pages of financial tables, accounting records and congressional committee documents that will leave all but the most determined budgeting sleuth at a loss. Yet this is how the U.S. government explains its funding decisions for the most expensive military in the world. And the cost is growing. “There’s no way that you can follow the money, because it keeps getting twisted like a Rubik’s Cube,” said John Ferrari, a retired Army major general and now a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “None of it is set up to be transparent.” ProPublica is setting out to untwist this Rubik’s Cube in a series of investigative articles, and we’re asking for your help. In the months to come, we will grapple with how President Donald Trump is spending taxpayer money at the Department of Defense (or the Department of War, as his administration calls it). With your assistance, we hope to emerge with vital, prev…

Do You Know About U.S. Military Spending? Help ProPublica Understand Where the Money Goes.
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encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Francine D. Martin, Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Nelson, Stuart Lutz/Gado/Getty Images, Jake Warga/Corbis via Getty Images, Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images, Getty, U.S. Treasury via Wikimedia Commons. ProPublica is examining U.S. military budgeting, spending and contracting, and we’re asking for your help. We’ve spent years talking to people who’ve worked in the defense industry, the Pentagon and the armed services, so we know that these topics are critically important. Every day, Pentagon contracting officers, defense industry workers, congressional staffers and others make decisions that affect the most expensive military in the world, with great consequences for the safety of soldiers and for the country at large. Yet it’s well documented that, even when those involved have good intentions, many Pentagon projects end up mired in delays, cost overruns and performance issues. The causes of these problems are often opaque to the taxpayers who foot the bill. “There’s no way that you can follow the money, because it keeps getting twisted like a Rubik’s Cube,” said John Ferrari, a retired Army major general and now a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “None of it is set up to be transparent.” What Is ProPublica? ProPublica is a nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom that publishes investigative reporting in the public interest. Since 2008 we’ve produced in-depth reporting on the military, including our investigation into billions of dollars that the Navy spent on warships with rampant and serious flaws and our series on fatal Navy accidents, which won the Pulitzer Prize. What Happens if I Reach Out to You? Our reporters speak to people every day who want to share information but fear retribution. Our reputation is built on protecting sources, and we take that responsibility seriously. You can request to speak on background, wh…

All aboard Amtrak’s sleeker, cleaner new trains
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description: The $8B Airo fleet promises cleaner, more reliable service as passenger rail enjoys record ridership — and faces an uncertain future in Washington.
encoded: On Charlie Hamilton’s regular Amtrak rides from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, he passes some of the country’s most spectacular vistas: the Puget Sound coast and the Skagit Valley. On clear days, he can even see Mount Rainier. But perhaps the most beautiful sight is not the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest. It’s the cars and trucks inching along the highway. “It’s nice to be able to be going along there and going faster than what people on Interstate Five are doing. We kind of like that bit,” said Hamilton, who leads the train advocacy organization All Aboard Washington. Indeed, riding the train in the Pacific Northwest can take about as long as driving. The trip between Seattle and Portland takes about 3 hours and 30 minutes by either mode, even though the train makes six stops along the way. Amtrak plans to begin rolling out 83 new trainsets, dubbed Airo, this fall, starting with eight on the Pacific Northwest’s Cascades route. The trains will eventually serve more than a dozen routes in places like New England, Pennsylvania, and much of the mid-Atlantic region. The $8 billion investment is expected to reduce trip times on multiple routes, though Amtrak did not say by how much, and the trains can reach speeds of up to 125 mph. The Cascades trains will also carry 317 passengers — significantly more than the current Cascades rolling stock — and will boost reliability and comfort, according to an Amtrak spokesperson. Improved hardware could also help advance All Aboard Washington’s vision of more frequent rail service in the region. “Having trains once an hour would be very helpful, and the Airo trainsets would make it possible to do that,” Hamilton said. The Airo trains also represent a significant and long overdue refresh for Amtrak, which still has trains that date to the 1970s. The carrier has said the new hardware will provide “significant environmental benefits” while making the rider experience more pleasant. The rollout …

US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands
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creator: Vivian La
date: 2026-08-19T08:30:00Z
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description: The proposal to replace an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes still needs state approval. Tribal nations say the federal review violates treaty rights.
encoded: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a key permit for a plan to update an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline crossing the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, the waterways that tribal nations say are central to their ways of life. It’s a procedural win for Line 5 owner Enbridge Energy, but comes amid ongoing legal and regulatory hurdles at the state level that prevent the start of construction. The pipeline carries oil and natural gas liquids 645 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, through Michigan to Sarnia, Ontario, and Enbridge wants to replace a 4-mile segment that lays on the bottom of the ecologically sensitive straits with a new one, buried in a tunnel under the lakebed. In a statement issued with the decision, the Army Corps said the project wasn’t contrary to the public interest, complied with Clean Water Act guidelines, and “would not abrogate or impermissibly impair tribal treaty rights.” Review of the permit was fast-tracked under President Donald Trump’s executive order last year declaring a “national energy emergency.” For Michigan tribes that have fought for years to shut down the pipeline, the federal permit approval was “disrespectful and ludicrous,” said Austin Lowes, chairman of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. “They’re acutely aware of the impact that this project will have on Indian Country, and they just flat-out ignored it,” Lowes said. “It’s one of the most disgusting things that I’ve ever been confronted with as a tribal leader.” According to the Army Corps itself, tunnel construction would have permanent adverse impacts on wetlands, vegetation, land use, and cultural resources. The straits are sacred to Anishaabe peoples — the waters feature prominently in their creation story and serve as burial grounds for ancestors. Five tribal nations also hold treaty rights to fish and hunt in these waters, rights that predate Michigan’s statehood and are protected by federal law under the 1836 Treaty of Washington. “Us surrendering and ce…

Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels
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creator: Matt Simon
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description: The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.
encoded: Ancient Egyptian civilization blossomed in the scorching desert thanks to the Nile River, which delivered fresh water and annual dumps of nutrient-rich sediment. Clever engineering moved H2O so efficiently that farmers were able to churn out huge surpluses of staple crops like wheat, which fed the Roman Empire. Thousands of years later, the African nation’s farmers — like so many others around the world — are grappling with water shortages and ever-fiercer temperatures, which threaten to wilt their crops. So like their ancestors before them, they’re innovating, this time with a burgeoning technique known as agrivoltaics: By covering fields with solar panels, farmers generate clean electricity and shade crops, reducing evaporation and mitigating heat stress. Two pilot projects in Egypt — from a variety of funders and partnering organizations — are testing how the technology might fare in small farming communities and on a larger scale in the country. “There is no perfect guideline on how to get there, so I imagine many projects like ours will be trying out different things,” said Gofran Chowdhury, head of innovation at the renewable energy company 3E, one of the partners in the campaign. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1152 1152w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/egypt-heat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all…

Writer and podcaster Avery Trufelman on knowing when to put yourself in the story
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description: What does an average day look like for you when you’re working on the podcast?
encoded: What does an average day look like for you when you’re working on the podcast? Because I make the whole show by myself every day is super different. It could be an interview day, it could be a prep day, it could be an editing day, it could be a day making advertisements, which is something I did today. It really could be anything because the podcast has so many different parts to it and I get to do them all. But it’s fun. I really enjoy each part. If I’m doing my job right, I’m having a random day where I have no idea why I’m doing what I’m doing. I feel like maybe 30 percent of the time I’m just off with my microphone going somewhere and I’m like, “Why am I recording this? What am I going to do with it?” And it bears fruit eventually. It turns into an episode at some point or another, but it’s really unpredictable. It’s not a steady schedule. Okay, well, let’s dig into what each of those components look like then. How do you break down a research day versus a recording day versus doing ads and promoting? A research day is basically when I interview someone for the podcast. If they’ve written a book, I will read the shit out of that book. I read it once and I underline all the parts that I think are interesting. Then I essentially read it again and I write down the parts that I’ve underlined in a Google Doc and then I rearrange them in order thematically in the parts of the conversation I want to hit. So it could be a day where I’m just really reading a book or it could be a day where I’m doing the interview, although that’s usually not an entire day. Preparing for the interview takes so much longer than the interview. Writing is something that I enjoy doing but it takes all day, or leveling something in Pro Tools [which] takes so long. Doing the engineering stuff takes so long. One thing that really interests me about narrative podcasts like yours is that you’re not just sitting down and shooting the shit. It’s like a feature article, where you’re writing the scrip…

Correcting the Trump delusions about the Strait of Hormuz
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description: COMMENTARY: Special correspondent American President Donald Trump posted an image on his Truth Social today. An AI-generated image. It has the Strait of Hormuz circled, and above it, in large letters: NEW U.S. TERRITORY I wrote that line in capitals on purpose. Because this is not something said in a speech. This is a picture.
encoded: COMMENTARY: Special correspondent American President Donald Trump posted an image on his Truth Social today. An AI-generated image. It has the Strait of Hormuz circled, and above it, in large letters: NEW U.S. TERRITORY I wrote that line in capitals on purpose. Because this is not something said in a speech. This is a picture. One state is drawing an image and declaring another country’s sea lane its own territory. Now the question is: does the Strait of Hormuz belong to America? READ MORE: Trump denies talks with Iran; Tehran claims US begging for negotiation Other War on Iran reports No. To the north of the strait is Iran. To the south is Oman. America is an outsider sitting several thousand kilometres away. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi answered this on X today: “We will correct the delusions of this delusional man.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132344" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NEW-US-territory-Trump-680wide.png" alt="The Trump Truth Social post claiming the Strait" width="680" height="596" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NEW-US-territory-Trump-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NEW-US-territory-Trump-680wide-300x263.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NEW-US-territory-Trump-680wide-479x420.png 479w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> The Trump Truth Social post claiming the Strait as “US Territory”. Image: Screenshot Last night, Trump told Fox News journalist Trey Yingst: “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them.” Meaning he does not want Oman reaching any agreement with Iran in any way at all. And yet Oman is an American ally. There are American troops in Oman. Oman lets America use its bases. That same Oman, simply for talking to Iran, is today having its existence discussed. The threat was made once before as well, this past May. The Strait s…

‘On another scale’ – PNG province unprepared for El Niño impacts, warns governor
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description: RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea’s Western Highlands Province says his province is unprepared to deal with the severe impacts of the El Niño weather event being experienced across the country. During an El Niño event, warmer ocean waters affect rainfall and wind patterns, often bringing drier-than-usual conditions and a higher risk of
encoded: RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea’s Western Highlands Province says his province is unprepared to deal with the severe impacts of the El Niño weather event being experienced across the country. During an El Niño event, warmer ocean waters affect rainfall and wind patterns, often bringing drier-than-usual conditions and a higher risk of drought to the western Pacific. Western Highlands Governor Wai Rapa is warning that the PNG government does not have the finances or the resources to manage the situation. READ MORE: Other El Niño reports Rapa told the PNG Post-Courier there had been no communication from the national government. He said the current dry season was “on another scale” and compared to previous dry seasons. Rapa told the newspaper that the river from which the province’s capital city got its water supply had also dried up. “We haven’t got the resource to put up with the dry season,” Rapa was quoted as saying by the Post-Courier. “We Highlanders look after animals especially pigs and this dry season will greatly affect our animals. When we go deep into the dry season, we will face a lot of challenges,” he added. The concerns raised by Rapa come despite the national government saying preparations for the dry season are underway. In late-June, PNG Prime Minister James Marape instructed all provinces and districts to prepare for the possibility of a severe dry season linked to El Niño. A statement from Marape’s office on June 22 said: “The Prime Minister said Cabinet was examining appropriate Financial and Administrative arrangements to support Provincial and District Governments to prepare for, mitigate and respond to Disaster situations arising from prolonged dry conditions.” Marape also urged Papua New Guineans to remain calm, saying: “This is a time for preparedness, not panic.” This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Nerd Reich: Why JD Vance is Scarier Than Trump
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
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description: Who's scarier than Donald Trump? J.D. Vance, a true believer in America's tech-dystopian future, and he's one heartbeat away from the presidency. This week, independent journalist Gil Durán joins us to discuss his explosive new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy–the book Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read. (Duran has been blocked and blacklisted from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) Duran exposes how billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are weaponizing crypto, mass surveillance tools like Palantir and Flock cameras, and extreme wealth to overthrow our democracy. Their most dangerous trojan horse is JD Vance. Vance is the kind of opportunist who made the Third Reich possible. In our chilling interview, Durán discusses how Vance is a true believer in tech-fascism and entirely a "creation of Peter Thiel." From fantasizing about purging the civil service to openly defying the courts, Vance is prepared to go much further than wrecking ball Trump could manage. We cannot let billionaires buy our government. Support fearless independent journalism by pre-ordering The Nerd Reich today and supporting shows like Gaslit Nation, and tune in to the full episode to learn how we can fight back! And thank you to everyone who preorders Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire -- for concrete ways to build a better world from the MAGA dumpster fire ashes. EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Join Andrea and actor Steven Pasquale for an Instagram Live this Thursday August 20 at 4:30pm ET to discuss our authoritarian crisis and ways artists and culture can help us rethink and rebuild our democracy. Join Gaslit Nation at the Network NoVA Women's Summit this weekend at Tysons Corner, Virginia. Andrea will be speaking Saturday night after the drum circle and before the pajama party (yes, we're serious!) Details here: https://networknova.org/ws2026/ Gaslit Nation Sal…
encoded: Who's scarier than Donald Trump? J.D. Vance, a true believer in America's tech-dystopian future, and he's one heartbeat away from the presidency. This week, independent journalist Gil Durán joins us to discuss his explosive new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy–the book Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read. (Duran has been blocked and blacklisted from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) Duran exposes how billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are weaponizing crypto, mass surveillance tools like Palantir and Flock cameras, and extreme wealth to overthrow our democracy. Their most dangerous trojan horse is JD Vance. Vance is the kind of opportunist who made the Third Reich possible. In our chilling interview, Durán discusses how Vance is a true believer in tech-fascism and entirely a "creation of Peter Thiel." From fantasizing about purging the civil service to openly defying the courts, Vance is prepared to go much further than wrecking ball Trump could manage. We cannot let billionaires buy our government. Support fearless independent journalism by pre-ordering The Nerd Reich today and supporting shows like Gaslit Nation, and tune in to the full episode to learn how we can fight back! And thank you to everyone who preorders Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire -- for concrete ways to build a better world from the MAGA dumpster fire ashes. EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Join Andrea and actor Steven Pasquale for an Instagram Live this Thursday August 20 at 4:30pm ET to discuss our authoritarian crisis and ways artists and culture can help us rethink and rebuild our democracy. Join Gaslit Nation at the Network NoVA Women's Summit this weekend at Tysons Corner, Virginia. Andrea will be speaking Saturday night after the drum circle and before the pajama party (yes, we're serious!) Details here: https://networknova.org/ws2026/ Gaslit Nation Sal…

Beijing resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy, satellite imagery shows
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creator: Noh Jung Min for RFA, and Dickey Kundol, Tawang, and RFA Staff for RFA Tibetan
date: 2026-08-19T03:01:35Z
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description: Advocates say China razes monks’ homes to restrict religious freedom and further ethnic unity law’s reach in Tibet.
encoded: Chinese authorities in Tibet have over the past month continued and expanded demolition of the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows. It is the latest in a series of moves by Beijing to downsize the major center of Tibetan Buddhist learning which at its peak in the early 2000s was home to 40,000 Buddhist monastics. Last year, Chinese authorities expelled thousands of Tibetan monks and nuns from Larung Gar, which is in Serthar county (Seda in Chinese) within the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province. Sources at the time said that thousands of homes had been marked for demolition. The demolitions have been carried out in separate phases since 2001, according to the Central Tibetan Administration, or CTA, the official government-in-exile located in Dharamsala, India. This time, at least 1,060 residences belonging to monks and nuns are targeted for demolition, which appears to have begun around July 13, Tenzin Pema, director of strategic communication at the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet, or ICT, and formerly RFA Tibetan director, told RFA. “RFA’s August 14 imagery appears to show clearance spreading around the academy’s central area, supporting our July 17 report that a new demolition campaign began around July 13,” she said. “The current campaign raises fears of another major assault on Tibetan Buddhist religious, cultural, and educational life.” ICT is concerned that this latest round of demolitions at one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist centers in the world represents a further tightening of restrictions on religious practice, Pema said. Cultural nexus Established in 1980 to revive Buddhist scholarship, Larung Gar has grown into one of the world’s largest centers for Tibetan Buddhist learning. Over the decades, it became one of the most influential centers for the study of Tibetan language, culture, and religion, attracting thousands of Chinese Buddhist practitioners, in additi…

Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World Vision
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Access remains the biggest challenge for humanitarian workers in the Pacific Islands region, but humanitarians are not targeted as they are in other parts of the world, according to World Vision. To mark World Humanitarian Day, World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian and development organisation, is highlighting the unprecedented risks faced by
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Access remains the biggest challenge for humanitarian workers in the Pacific Islands region, but humanitarians are not targeted as they are in other parts of the world, according to World Vision. To mark World Humanitarian Day, World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian and development organisation, is highlighting the unprecedented risks faced by global humanitarian workers in recent times. There has been a threefold increase in deaths of humanitarian workers over the past three years, with over 1000 deaths — mainly in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan. READ MORE: Other Pacific humanitarian aid reports World Vision said in such parts of the world, humanitarians and medical personnel were targeted by states they were trying to assist. World Vision’s Hanna Taylor-Moller told RNZ Pacific that in the Pacific, humanitarian agencies were not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law that they were experiencing in other parts of the world. The logistics in the Pacific can be daunting, as humanitarian agencies set out to get clear information immediately following a natural disaster. Image: World Vision Different challenges Taylor-Moller said that there was a different suite of challenges facing humanitarian workers in the Pacific, a region of often remote islands spread across a wide region. “When we are responding to things like climate-induced or climate-driven cyclones, it’s making them worse,” she said. “But because we are responding to a lot of these areas by boat, small planes in the case of Papua New Guinea, access is the biggest challenge we are facing in the Pacific to reach the communities who really need it, who will often be a very small number of people in very very remote locations. Climate-induced crises in the Pacific, particularly the impact of the El Niño cycle on cyclones and storms, present particular challenges for humanitarian agencies in their efforts to get help to communities. “When you try and…

Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, says World Vision
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Access remains the biggest challenge for humanitarian workers in the Pacific Islands region, but humanitarians are not targeted as they are in other parts of the world, according to World Vision. To mark World Humanitarian Day, World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian and development organisation, is highlighting the unprecedented risks faced by
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Access remains the biggest challenge for humanitarian workers in the Pacific Islands region, but humanitarians are not targeted as they are in other parts of the world, according to World Vision. To mark World Humanitarian Day, World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian and development organisation, is highlighting the unprecedented risks faced by global humanitarian workers in recent times. There has been a threefold increase in deaths of humanitarian workers over the past three years, with over 1000 deaths — mainly in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan. READ MORE: Other Pacific humanitarian aid reports World Vision said in such parts of the world, humanitarians and medical personnel were targeted by states they were trying to assist. World Vision’s Hanna Taylor-Moller told RNZ Pacific that in the Pacific, humanitarian agencies were not seeing the lawlessness and disregard for international humanitarian law that they were experiencing in other parts of the world. The logistics in the Pacific can be daunting, as humanitarian agencies set out to get clear information immediately following a natural disaster. Image: World Vision Different challenges Taylor-Moller said that there was a different suite of challenges facing humanitarian workers in the Pacific, a region of often remote islands spread across a wide region. “When we are responding to things like climate-induced or climate-driven cyclones, it’s making them worse,” she said. “But because we are responding to a lot of these areas by boat, small planes in the case of Papua New Guinea, access is the biggest challenge we are facing in the Pacific to reach the communities who really need it, who will often be a very small number of people in very very remote locations. Climate-induced crises in the Pacific, particularly the impact of the El Niño cycle on cyclones and storms, present particular challenges for humanitarian agencies in their efforts to get help to communities. “When you try and…

Sarah Wayne Callies: How the IRC helps survivors of trafficking
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Mexican journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias shot by US immigration authorities, without medical care after 300 days in detention
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description: Miami, August 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to ensure that Mexican journalist and TikTok streamer Carlitos Ricardo Parias receives adequate medical care after spending 300 days in immigration detention at California’s Adelanto Detention Facility. Parias, 45, who reports independently under TikTok handle Richard Noticias LA, was shot in the left...
encoded: Miami, August 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to ensure that Mexican journalist and TikTok streamer Carlitos Ricardo Parias receives adequate medical care after spending 300 days in immigration detention at California’s Adelanto Detention Facility. Parias, 45, who reports independently under TikTok handle Richard Noticias LA, was shot in the left arm by federal agents during an immigration enforcement arrest in Los Angeles in October 2025. After initially receiving treatment at a local hospital, his attorneys told outlets that he has been denied adequate medical treatment, including pain medication and physical therapy, while in detention. They are seeking his release as his immigration case proceeds. “Each moment more journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias spends in detention jeopardizes his health. U.S. immigration authorities must ensure that Parias receives the medical care he needs after he was injured at their hands,” said CPJ Americas Regional Director José Zamora. “Journalists, regardless of their immigration status, must not be denied basic medical treatment.” Parias built a large TikTok following covering crime and immigration issues in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods in Los Angeles. He has continued to report from detention via video clips recorded by his visitors, documenting alleged unsanitary conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, California. In 2025, the Los Angeles City Council honored his community reporting with a proclamation. CPJ’s email requesting an update on Parias’ care to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities did not receive an immediate reply. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Who makes decisions in the White House?
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 18, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 18, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Netanyahu Throws “Poison Pill” into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel
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“Regime Change” Author Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Imperial Presidency, Epstein Files & War on Iran
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What happens when the Harlem Globetrotters play basketball with Kim Jong Un watching?
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 18, 2026
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UN News Today 18 August 2026
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description: Ebola outbreak responders highlight key role of motorbike riders - WHOLebanon: 860,000 return home to ruined homes and without basic services - UNHCRGaza: Just three per cent of cropland is fit for farming – FAO, UNOSAT
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Capitalism is killing summer
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Trump Continues Quid Pro Quo Shakedown to Force Constitution of Gas Pipeline, Public Citizen Argues in Filing
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description: In an update to its formal filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Public Citizen today blasted the Trump administration’s arbitrary, capricious and exploitative campaign to build the Constitution Pipeline, calling the project con...
encoded: In an update to its formal filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Public Citizen today blasted the Trump administration’s arbitrary, capricious and exploitative campaign to build the Constitution Pipeline, calling the project contrary to the public interest. The filing comes days after the Trump administration enforced the annulment of a fourth New York offshore wind project, which included a payment of $1.2 billion of taxpayer money to the company to terminate the project. RWE U.S. Offshore, the company that had previously been set to develop the New York Bight offshore wind project, agreed to end the project because the company stated that it “determined there is no path forward to permit these projects in the U.S. for the foreseeable future,” according to a release from the company. “Based upon President Donald J. Trump’s unambiguous statements, his administration is forcing an end to New York offshore wind energy projects in an effort to coerce the state’s Governor to support the Constitution pipeline,” said Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program. “Trump’s coercive quid pro quo campaign is an arbitrary, capricious and exploitative attempt to strongarm unnecessary fossil fuel infrastructure by using taxpayers money to pay off the wind industry. Trump’s entire endeavor to build this pipeline is a massive and unnecessary waste of money.” The filing today is an update to FERC, expounding on Public Citizen’s initial filing in June, challenging a petition by Oklahoma-based Williams Companies for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct and operate Constitution Pipeline. On June 9, on a trip to New York to attend the NBA finals, Trump said that because New York’s governor “broke” a deal to support the Constitution gas pipeline, he would move forward with canceling the wind projects, saying: “so I guess we’re withdrawing those windmills.” The Trump administration has now stopped two New York offshore wind pr…

Online Crime Network Classified as Tier 1 Terrorist Threat
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New Poll: Voters Oppose Integrating Israeli Military into Pentagon
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description: On Tuesday, Demand Progress and IMEU Policy Project released a poll, first reported in Zeteo, showing that a clear majority of voters oppose a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, known as Section 219, that would further integrate the ...
encoded: On Tuesday, Demand Progress and IMEU Policy Project released a poll, first reported in Zeteo, showing that a clear majority of voters oppose a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, known as Section 219, that would further integrate the Israeli military and Israeli military companies into the Pentagon—giving them special access to U.S. military systems, sensitive technologies and defense supply chains. The military authorization bill, which includes Section 219, was passed by the House in July and awaits a vote in the Senate. Read the Full Poll Results The online poll of 1,217 U.S. likely voters nationwide was conducted by Data for Progress from August 3 to 7, 2026. The poll found that: 61 percent of voters oppose a military authorization bill that would deepen the integration of Israeli weapons companies into the Pentagon at a level higher than any other country—this includes 78 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of independents 52 percent of voters agreed with members of Congress who voted in July to cut $3.3 billion in taxpayer funding for weapons to the Israeli military—this includes 60 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents 51 percent of voters believe that Israel benefits more from the relationship between the U.S. and Israel—this includes 58 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents A plurality of voters, 49 percent, believe President Donald Trump is providing too much support to the Israeli government, compared to only 33 percent who said the president is giving Israel the right amount of support and just eight percent who say he’s giving Israel too little support “This poll is a flashing red warning sign for any member of Congress who supports the defense authorization bill. A clear majority of voters do not support further integrating the Israeli military and Israeli military companies into the Pentagon, which the NDAA is set to do,” said Demand Progress Senior Policy Advisor Cavan Kharrazian. “It’s time for Congress t…

Why plugging in all those EVs could actually save the power grid
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description: As utilities switch to renewables, you'll get paid to send battery power back into the system, making it stronger and cheaper for everyone.
encoded: California has a good problem. As it scrambles to deploy more solar panels and wind turbines, it is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality while hitting the challenge of intermittency: When the sun doesn’t shine and wind doesn’t blow, you’re not generating electricity. So the state is building battery farms to store that energy — its storage capacity skyrocketed 2,100 percent between 2019 and 2025 — so it can keep the lights on when it’s dark or calm. But the Golden State is also sitting on a vast, untapped storage resource — or, more accurately, the capacity parked in driveways and garages. Many EV models are equipped with vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, technology that allows them to send power back into the system during times of high demand. A new report notes that if just one-tenth of EV owners enrolled in V2G programs in California by 2036, they would provide one-third of the state’s targeted amount of long-duration energy storage. “It won’t take a huge amount of participation to make a meaningful dent in what would otherwise be very expensive grid-scale storage purchases,” said Pete Skala, vice president of professional and advisory services at the grid software company Kevala, which coauthored the report with the nonprofit GridLab and E3, an energy consulting firm. Ideally, V2G would be combined with other “flexible load” devices that can discharge to the grid or shift their electricity use, thus spreading out demand more through the day. Taken together, the report notes, the state has a huge opportunity to accelerate the transition to renewables, bolster the electrical system, and cut costs for everyone, not just EV owners who get paid to provide their extra power. It’s just a matter of making the grid much more flexible. Several challenges are converging for grids nationwide, not just in California. For one, demand is growing, due to the switch from fossil fuels to electric versions of stoves, heaters, and cars, and because sprawling data…

Netanyahu Throws “Poison Pill” into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel: Mouin Rabbani
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description: President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.&#822...
encoded: President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.” The proposal would have seen Hamas gradually disarm and turn over governance of Gaza to an international force in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the besieged territory. Israel, supported by Kushner, is pushing for a deal whereby it “would not be obliged to conduct any of its obligations unless and until Hamas was fully disarmed,” says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani. “This is essentially Israel throwing a poison pill into an agreement by including conditions that can never be met.” Rabbani argues that Jared Kushner is not a suitable negotiator because there is a “very intimate ideological, political connection between the Kushners and Israel.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Regime Change” Author Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Imperial Presidency, Epstein Files & War on Iran
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description: President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.&#822...
encoded: President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.” The proposal would have seen Hamas gradually disarm and turn over governance of Gaza to an international force in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the besieged territory. Israel, supported by Kushner, is pushing for a deal whereby it “would not be obliged to conduct any of its obligations unless and until Hamas was fully disarmed,” says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani. “This is essentially Israel throwing a poison pill into an agreement by including conditions that can never be met.” Rabbani argues that Jared Kushner is not a suitable negotiator because there is a “very intimate ideological, political connection between the Kushners and Israel.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Who Is Natalie Harp? NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Aide & His Attacks on Women Reporters
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description: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Maggie Haberman is the co-author of the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. In the book, Haberman and her fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan provide an inside look...
encoded: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Maggie Haberman is the co-author of the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. In the book, Haberman and her fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan provide an inside look at how the administration has handled many of the biggest crises of Trump’s second term. Haberman, who has been reporting on Trump since the 1990s, details his frequent attacks on the press over critical reporting, particularly against female reporters. She also discusses the renewed controversy over his close aide Natalie Harp, whom Haberman describes as “something like a human binky” for Trump. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 18, 2026
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description: Iran Threatens New Offensive as Memorandum of Understanding with U.S. Expires, Yemen’s Houthis Claim Another Attack on Saudi Ship in Red Sea, Russian Oil Spills from Grounded Tanker, Fouling Beaches in Oman, Trump Denies Reports of Deteriorating Conditions Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln as “Fake News”, U.N. Warns of “Alarming” Surge of Violence as Israel Ramps Up Attacks on Lebanon, Kushner and Netanyahu Hold Talks on U.S.-Backed 15-Point Gaza Plan, Israel’s Far-Right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Demands Kill Quota in Gaza, Netanyahu Posts Image Comparing NYC Mayor Mamdani to Middle East’s Authoritarian Leaders, Voters Head to the Polls for Primary Elections in Florida, CBP Temporarily Pauses Border Wall Construction in Big Bend National Park, SCOTUS Rejects Trump’s Bid to Undo Verdict Finding Him Liable for Sexually Abusing E. Jean Carroll, New York Judge Pushes Back Luigi Mangione’s Murder Trial, Opening Statements Begin in Murder Trial of Tupac Shakur
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Democracy Now! 2026-08-18 Tuesday
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New BJP social media team members delete or hide X posts, deactivate handles
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date: 2026-08-18T11:34:41Z
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description: Within minutes of the BJP announcing its new social media team on Monday, August 17, a search on X revealed that the accounts of the four newly appointed social media co-convenors had either vanished or their posts had become inaccessible. Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav were appointed as social media co-convenors […]
encoded: Within minutes of the BJP announcing its new social media team on Monday, August 17, a search on X revealed that the accounts of the four newly appointed social media co-convenors had either vanished or their posts had become inaccessible. Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav were appointed as social media co-convenors by BJP national president Nitin Nabin. Gandhi’s profile initially remained accessible but her timeline showed no recent posts, suggesting that her tweets had been deleted. Soon after, her profile disappeared altogether, displaying X’s “account doesn’t exist” notice. The X profiles of the other three appointees are also currently inaccessible. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="720" height="1600" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-17.18.39.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-17.18.39.jpeg 720w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-17.18.39-135x300.jpeg 135w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-17.18.39-461x1024.jpeg 461w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-17.18.39-691x1536.jpeg 691w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> <img decoding="async" width="1727" height="1367" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_1UhqCAIagg.png" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_1UhqCAIagg.png 1727w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_1UhqCAIagg-300x237.png 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_1UhqCAIagg-1024x811.png 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_1UhqCAIagg-768x608.png 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_1UhqCAIagg-1536x1216.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1727px)…

Qusra siege by Israeli settler ‘terrorists’ in West Bank persists despite global outcry
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description: Special correspondent For more than a week, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian families in their homes in Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, cutting them off from basic supplies and emergency services. Settlers used the same tactic just last month to force the al-Tubassi family from their home in Jalud. This
encoded: Special correspondent For more than a week, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian families in their homes in Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, cutting them off from basic supplies and emergency services. Settlers used the same tactic just last month to force the al-Tubassi family from their home in Jalud. This time, however, with one of the besieged Qusra homes belonging to a Palestinian-American, the siege has become front-page news. The United Nations, France, Spain and the United Kingdom have issued condemnations, and the White House was reported to be pressing Netanyahu to publicly denounce settler violence. READ MORE: Qusra mayor: Besieged families face imminent food, medicine shortages Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media Other Gaza, West Bank reports US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a staunch settlement supporter, broke publicly with the Israeli government to call the besieging settlers “Israeli terrorists”. On August 13, Israeli forces ordered the families to evacuate, saying the homes would be seized “to protect” them, and converted 16 homes in the town into military barracks. Soldiers entered Qusra that day. Israeli forces briefly detained one Israeli suspect during a later overnight operation dismantling nearby outpost structures, but no other arrests of settlers have been reported. Amnesty International’s Erika Guevara Rosas said the siege reflected “an accelerating and well-documented pattern of coordinated and strategic settler terror, enabled, backed and funded by the State of Israel”. 15 Palestinians trapped For a second week, 15 Palestinians, including two children, remain trapped in their homes. Soldiers spent two days dismantling the settlers’ tent, only to put up their own in the same spot, effectively continuing the closure. Municipal crews eventually restored electricity and water, but the families say they have been told they cannot leave their homes. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim rep…

Chinese language to be taught in Fiji schools to strengthen educational ties
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-18T11:00:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: China
subject: Chinese
subject: chinese-language
subject: Culture
subject: Education
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subject: Fiji
subject: Fiji education
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description: By Rosalia Tui in Suva Fiji’s Ministry of Education is set to introduce a Chinese language pilot programme in 12 schools in the Central Division, as the Pacific country strengthens educational cooperation with China. The programme will involve six primary and six secondary schools and will introduce students to the Chinese language and culture while
encoded: By Rosalia Tui in Suva Fiji’s Ministry of Education is set to introduce a Chinese language pilot programme in 12 schools in the Central Division, as the Pacific country strengthens educational cooperation with China. The programme will involve six primary and six secondary schools and will introduce students to the Chinese language and culture while creating opportunities for greater cultural exchange and international learning. The initiative was discussed last week during a meeting between Education Minister Aseri Radrodro, the Director of the Chinese Language Education Centre and representatives of the Chinese Embassy. The discussions also covered the development of learning materials, teacher training, and opportunities for students to access scholarships and other Chinese language programmes. Representatives of the Chinese Embassy expressed their willingness to support the initiative through teacher training, learning resources and other areas of co-operation. Radrodro welcomed the proposed programme, saying additional language skills would help broaden educational opportunities for students and strengthen people-to-people links between Fiji and China. Republished from The Fiji Times with permission. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Chinese language to be taught in Fiji schools to strengthen educational ties
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-18T11:00:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: Asia Report
subject: China
subject: Chinese
subject: chinese-language
subject: Culture
subject: Education
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subject: Fiji
subject: Fiji education
subject: Global
subject: Innovation
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subject: ties
description: By Rosalia Tui in Suva Fiji’s Ministry of Education is set to introduce a Chinese language pilot programme in 12 schools in the Central Division, as the Pacific country strengthens educational cooperation with China. The programme will involve six primary and six secondary schools and will introduce students to the Chinese language and culture while
encoded: By Rosalia Tui in Suva Fiji’s Ministry of Education is set to introduce a Chinese language pilot programme in 12 schools in the Central Division, as the Pacific country strengthens educational cooperation with China. The programme will involve six primary and six secondary schools and will introduce students to the Chinese language and culture while creating opportunities for greater cultural exchange and international learning. The initiative was discussed last week during a meeting between Education Minister Aseri Radrodro, the Director of the Chinese Language Education Centre and representatives of the Chinese Embassy. The discussions also covered the development of learning materials, teacher training, and opportunities for students to access scholarships and other Chinese language programmes. Representatives of the Chinese Embassy expressed their willingness to support the initiative through teacher training, learning resources and other areas of co-operation. Radrodro welcomed the proposed programme, saying additional language skills would help broaden educational opportunities for students and strengthen people-to-people links between Fiji and China. Republished from The Fiji Times with permission. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

DN! Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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date: 2026-08-18T09:46:04Z
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encoded: Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4.

Secret Videos Allege Abuse At High-Security Psychiatric Hospital In Kazakhstan
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-08-18T09:34:32Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
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creator: Patricia Callahan
date: 2026-08-18T09:00:00Z
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description: The post Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Hospitals set up special testing sites to prevent measles patients from spreading the disease in waiting rooms. The virus can linger in the air for up to two hours after an infected person leaves. Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images The U.S. recently reached a grim milestone: As of July 23, more measles cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention than in any year since 1991. It took less than seven months to blow past the three-decade high recorded last year. This potentially deadly disease is easily prevented. Shots are widely available and, in many cases, free. Still, since the beginning of last year, more than 4,850 people here have been infected, and three have died. Among them were two unvaccinated girls in West Texas whose deaths made national headlines. It may feel like the continuous stream of cases is just the way things are now. But it is dangerous to shrug off the resurgence of measles. In a story I reported earlier this year, I showed what’s happened in parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases. My reporting found that long-forgotten scourges roared back, killing and disabling children. Even countries that made what seemed like subtle changes to immunization policies suffered disastrous consequences years later. Babies were born blind, deaf and with intellectual disabilities because their mothers caught rubella in the early weeks of pregnancy. Parents saw why diphtheria used to be known as “the strangling angel of children.” Doctors told me they couldn’t undo the damage when these horrors returned. Modern medicine can do a lot of things, but it can’t reverse paralysis from polio. The story also showed how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, and President Donald Trump have been transforming a government that for decades promoted the lifesaving benefits of shots into one that sows doubts about their safety. Last week, the president issued another executive order that’s sure…

How this Georgia factory is surviving America’s solar policy whiplash
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creator: Emily Jones
date: 2026-08-18T08:30:00Z
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description: Biden’s incentives gave Qcells a leg up. Now Trump’s tariffs may help it thrive.
encoded: Inside the vast Qcells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultra-thin slices of polysilicon through a lengthy series of machines and chemical baths to get what are known as cells. “The $2.5 billion, the 3.5 million gallons of water, the 90 megawatts of power, the 60 tons of chemicals on site, and all of the football fields worth of infrastructure you’ve seen is to arrive at this,” said Scott Bell of Qcells, holding up one of the paper-thin blue cells. It’s the basic building block of a solar panel. In June, the plant, about an hour northwest of Atlanta, began its expansion from assembling the major components of solar panels to bringing the whole production process under one roof. It’s a major milestone for the U.S. solar industry. China has dominated solar panel manufacturing since the 2010s, flooding the global market with far cheaper panels than anyone else could make. For a host of reasons — national security, labor practices, job creation — the U.S. is trying to bring back domestic production. In its latest move, the Trump administration plans to levy new tariffs and impose minimum import prices on polysilicon, the key ingredient for solar cells. The new measures go into effect in December. “Having the full supply chain is critical,” said solar manufacturing expert Ben Damiani, chief technology officer at Atlanta-based solar developer Cherry Street Energy. Moving that supply chain to the U.S., he said, hasn’t been a smooth road. “Probably the biggest hindrance has been the constant change of our own policies.” The Biden administration took a carrot approach to attracting solar panel makers: the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act included tax credit bonuses for solar projects that used U.S.-made panels. Qcells, a South Korean firm, has said those incentives were a major reason they built their Cartersville plant. The Trump administration, by contrast, is taking a stick approach. While last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA…

Extreme weather is changing how Americans see the world
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creator: Jake Bittle
date: 2026-08-18T08:00:00Z
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description: A Gallup survey finds that disaster victims are more likely to feel that the future is out of their hands.
encoded: We tend to imagine that experiencing the effects of global warming will wake people up to the problem. The thinking goes that when people see their homes flood or the skies turn orange from wildfire smoke, they may change their views on climate science and even be inspired to act. A number of studies have found such a correlation in the United States and Europe, and our popular narratives confirm it. For instance, Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative climate novel Ministry for the Future begins with the world embracing climate action after a deadly heat wave in India. New research complicates that picture. A nationwide survey from the polling firm Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation has found that almost four in ten Americans say they have experienced damage from extreme weather in recent years. It also found that those who say they have experienced extreme weather are more likely to feel that they are at the mercy of forces outside their control. The gap is significant. The Gallup poll found that 38 percent of people who say they’ve experienced extreme weather also say they “mostly feel pushed by circumstances beyond [their] control,” a full 9 percentage points more than the share among people who said they haven’t experienced a disaster. There was a corresponding drop in the disaster-affected group among people who said they “mostly feel able to shape [their own path], even when things are difficult.” In an interesting twist, this doesn’t seem to have affected their answers to other questions about opportunity and economic mobility. For instance, people who experienced extreme weather were no more likely than those who didn’t to say that they wanted to move somewhere else. “If I can’t control my life and it’s partly due to this extreme weather experience, then you would think I would want to move,” said Megan Brenan, a senior editor and survey designer at Gallup. “It really comes down more to their community ties.” They were also no more or less likely to say th…

Bangladesh war crimes tribunal issues fresh warrants for 3 journalists over press conference questions
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date: 2026-08-18T07:27:06Z
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description: New Delhi, August 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Bangladeshi authorities to drop their new crimes against humanity case against journalists Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu, and Farzana Rupa, and stop criminalizing news reporting. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday ordered prison authorities to produce the journalists, who have been detained since 2024...
encoded: New Delhi, August 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Bangladeshi authorities to drop their new crimes against humanity case against journalists Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu, and Farzana Rupa, and stop criminalizing news reporting. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday ordered prison authorities to produce the journalists, who have been detained since 2024 on separate charges, before the domestic war crimes court on August 24, according to news reports. Prosecutors allege the journalists incited the suppression of student demonstrators during a July 2024 uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They say that the journalists asked Hasina provocative questions at a press conference on July 14, 2024 that led her to make disparaging remarks about the demonstrators before launching a bloody crackdown, the reports said. “Launching a crimes-against-humanity case against journalists Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu, and Farzana Rupa for simply asking questions at a press conference is outrageous and deeply troubling,” said Kunal Majumder, CPJ’s Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator. “Editorial decisions may be partisan or ethically questionable, but they cannot be criminalized. Criminalizing editorial judgment sets a dangerous precedent and undermines Bangladesh’s reputation as a democracy. Authorities must immediately release the three journalists and drop the charges.” Babu, founder and former editor-in-chief of the privately owned Ekattor TV, and Rupa, the channel’s former principal correspondent, were arrested in May this year in a separate ICT case over the 2013 security crackdown on Hefajat-e-Islam activists at Shapla Chatta. They were named in a formal charge sheet on July 27 alongside Hasina and 39 others. Dutta, editor of the privately owned Bhorer Kagoj and a former general secretary of the Jatiya Press Club, has been detained since September 2024 and faces multiple murder cases in retaliation for his journalism. If …

Writer Katie Yee on preserving your sense of play
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creator: Jun Chou
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description: Happy paperback release day! How’s it feel?
encoded: Happy paperback release day! How’s it feel? It feels good. I can’t believe it’s already been a year since the hardcover came out. A year tomorrow, right? Wow, you’ve done your research. Yeah, a year tomorrow, which is wild. I feel like a lot’s happened this year. Also I can’t believe it’s already been 365 days. Honestly, I feel mostly an outpouring of gratitude. I’ve had the best debuting experience. I feel really lucky I got to meet all these readers across the country. The whole thing has made me feel: A. Very lucky, B. Very grateful, and C. Very hopeful and heartened. There are so many articles that are like, “People don’t read. Books are a dying industry. No one cares about this form of entertainment.” And this year, I felt like that wasn’t true. Being in Ohio and meeting readers who were so excited to talk about craft and to talk about books was so soul filling. I don’t know if you feel this way too but as much as I love being surrounded by culture all the time and having book events to go to every night and supporting friends at their shows, I think we have this thing in New York where we’re almost oversaturated in the culture. We’re spoiled for choice. There was part of me that was starting to feel a little jaded about it. I also used to work in publishing so it’s easy to get cynical about it. And then this year going out and meeting readers who are just so earnest and enthusiastic has really reinvigorated the love of the whole thing for me. I went to AWP in Baltimore for the first time in March and I felt the same way. I met writers from all over the country who were so jazzed to be going to readings every night and being a jaded Brooklynite, I was like “Oh, another reading, whatever.” But it was heartening to see people so excited. And then I was like, “Damn, I really take this for granted when I’m in the city because it’s not as accessible for a lot of folks.” It helped me reconnect with what I love about it. It’s a good reminder to see it in person. I’m c…

‘Bharpet kha lena hi jeevan nahi hai’: Mohammad Irfan asks India to listen
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description: Rajat Pandey, a journalist with The Lallantop, had arrived at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on July 20 to cover the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest when a young man in a blue T-shirt stepped in front of his camera. He was neither a student leader nor a representative of the organisers. He was Mohammad Irfan, a […]
encoded: Rajat Pandey, a journalist with The Lallantop, had arrived at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on July 20 to cover the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest when a young man in a blue T-shirt stepped in front of his camera. He was neither a student leader nor a representative of the organisers. He was Mohammad Irfan, a 35-year-old daily wage labourer who had come to speak about the struggles of workers like himself. What followed was an impromptu conversation that quickly went viral across the country. Irfan spoke with striking clarity and emotion about poverty, education, minimum wages and the indignities of everyday life, drawing on his own lived experiences of growing up in a slum and the insurmountable struggle of supporting his family as a labourer. Within days, his face, words, and story became familiar to the entire nation. In a follow-up video report, Pandey spoke at length about how he met 35-year-old Irfan at the protest who wanted to raise the issues faced by labourers in India. He highlighted how moved he was by Irfan’s ability to express, on the spot, his own and every labourer’s predicament in the country. Irfan’s reality The Jhuggi-Jhopri (JJ) resettlement colony in Savda Ghevra where Irfan lives with his parents and two sisters is around 35 kilometres away from the bustling nerve centre of the capital city. Speaking to Alt News, he said his childhood was spent in a slum-area near Laxmi Nagar, from where they were relocated to the JJ colony some 15 years ago. He supports his family by selling blocks of ice by the roadside, earning a daily wage. Irfan, whose formal education was limited to an Anganwadi and can neither read nor write, recited the Preamble to the Constitution in several media interviews and also spoke with great insight on topics ranging from Hindi-Urdu poetry to minimum wage and democratic accountability. When asked how he memorised the Preamble without ever going to school, Irfan explains that he learns through the internet — uses the voice search…

Jeremy Rose: Why AI is good ‘news’ for modern man
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date: 2026-08-18T06:10:29Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose A few months back, the story of the Victoria University of Wellington economist Dr Eleanor Vance and her 1978 paper “The Market Autocrat: Anticipating the Neoliberal Siege on Welfare States” was shared numerous times on my Facebook feed. Soon after, the heartwarming story of former prime minister Jacinda Ardern donating hundreds
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose A few months back, the story of the Victoria University of Wellington economist Dr Eleanor Vance and her 1978 paper “The Market Autocrat: Anticipating the Neoliberal Siege on Welfare States” was shared numerous times on my Facebook feed. Soon after, the heartwarming story of former prime minister Jacinda Ardern donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from speaking fees to building shelters for the homeless was all over social media. And yesterday, I read about a meeting between the radical leftist former president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica, and Princess Diana sharing their “deepest reflections on life”. READ MORE: Who’s behind the flood of AI slop online? — The Listening Post <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132289 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide.jpg" alt="Image: Social media feed screenshot" width="1332" height="1498" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide.jpg 1332w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-267x300.jpg 267w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-911x1024.jpg 911w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-768x864.jpg 768w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-696x783.jpg 696w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-1068x1201.jpg 1068w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-373x420.jpg 373w" sizes="(max-width: 1332px) 100vw, 1332px" /> Image: Social media feed screenshot The three stories have two things in common: they’re positive stories aimed squarely at political progressives, and they’re complete bullshit: AI slop. Worryingly, they were shared on my social media feeds by a former board …

Jeremy Rose: Why AI is good ‘news’ for modern man
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-18T06:10:29Z
subject: AI slop
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subject: asia
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subject: Development
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description: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose A few months back, the story of the Victoria University of Wellington economist Dr Eleanor Vance and her 1978 paper “The Market Autocrat: Anticipating the Neoliberal Siege on Welfare States” was shared numerous times on my Facebook feed. Soon after, the heartwarming story of former prime minister Jacinda Ardern donating hundreds
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose A few months back, the story of the Victoria University of Wellington economist Dr Eleanor Vance and her 1978 paper “The Market Autocrat: Anticipating the Neoliberal Siege on Welfare States” was shared numerous times on my Facebook feed. Soon after, the heartwarming story of former prime minister Jacinda Ardern donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from speaking fees to building shelters for the homeless was all over social media. And yesterday, I read about a meeting between the radical leftist former president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica, and Princess Diana sharing their “deepest reflections on life”. READ MORE: Who’s behind the flood of AI slop online? — The Listening Post <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132289 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide.jpg" alt="Image: Social media feed screenshot" width="1332" height="1498" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide.jpg 1332w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-267x300.jpg 267w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-911x1024.jpg 911w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-768x864.jpg 768w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-696x783.jpg 696w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-1068x1201.jpg 1068w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/JR2-Kindness-in-power-1332wide-373x420.jpg 373w" sizes="(max-width: 1332px) 100vw, 1332px" /> Image: Social media feed screenshot The three stories have two things in common: they’re positive stories aimed squarely at political progressives, and they’re complete bullshit: AI slop. Worryingly, they were shared on my social media feeds by a former board …

Four months on, still no charges in death of man in Fiji military custody
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters The Fiji Police Force has yet to charge any suspects four months after the alleged murder of the reportedly infamous Jone Vakarisi while he was in military custody. Vakarisi, 37, who was widely known for being on the wrong side of the law and reportedly linked to criminal networks, died on April
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters The Fiji Police Force has yet to charge any suspects four months after the alleged murder of the reportedly infamous Jone Vakarisi while he was in military custody. Vakarisi, 37, who was widely known for being on the wrong side of the law and reportedly linked to criminal networks, died on April 17 after being taken for questioning by soldiers to the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) headquarters in Suva. His death was initially attributed to pre-existing conditions by the RFMF commander Ro Jone Kalouniwai, who was later forced to issue a “correction” when police classified Vakarisi’s death as murder after a copy of Vakarisi’s death certificate was leaked online, exposing massive blunt force trauma to his head and chest. READ MORE: Fiji police confirm murder probe launched into death of man in military custody Other Fiji police reports Vakarisi’s sister Melehola Tagaga told RNZ Pacific Waves at the time that he begged for his life at the military barracks in Suva before allegedly being “bruatlised to death”. Several weeks later in May, Kalouniwai admitted that the RFMF was “at fault” for Vakarisi’s death, describing it as an “unintentional” and “regrettable” incident. However, more than 120 days after Vakarisi’s death, an active murder investigation remains open, while no one has been charged or presented in court. In late July, the Fiji Sun reported that the case file on Vakarisi’s death was expected to be forwarded to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. investigators ‘completing interviews’ “Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu confirmed yesterday that investigators were completing interviews with those involved before finalising the file,” the newspaper reported on July 21. “I can state that people need to trust the process that we are following. Investigation has been done,” Tudravu was quoted as saying. Earlier this month, the police commissioner told local reporters that investigators continue to carry out house-to-hou…

Choreographer, director, and producer Austin McCormick on constantly starting again
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creator: Angelica Frey
date: 2026-08-18T04:00:00Z
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description: You are a choreographer, director, and producer with a strongly defined aesthetic. What is your primal memory of a production you saw as a teen or as a kid that made you say, “Okay, this is the world I want to create when I have the funds, the ability, and the performers to do so”?
encoded: You are a choreographer, director, and producer with a strongly defined aesthetic. What is your primal memory of a production you saw as a teen or as a kid that made you say, “Okay, this is the world I want to create when I have the funds, the ability, and the performers to do so”? I’ve always been enamored of opera, mostly because the scale is just usually so enormous, and the things that you can do on those stages are so surprising. So that was a formative thing, seeing opera as a young person. But honestly, the thing I think I have to give credit to is Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrmann. It’s such a mashup of different genres, and the way that he used, like, pop music to convey narrative and to convey emotion… II think that was something that really expanded my idea of how you could be a cross-genre artist, so that really shaped me. Was there a particular libretto, perhaps, that struck you when you were young? I grew up in Santa Barbara, so my parents would take me to LA to see anything that was touring there. I think we saw a production of La Bohème that I really loved. However, my background is in Baroque court dance. I started studying Baroque when I was 8 years old. How does that happen? It feels so specific… I started studying ballet at 5, and then I wanted to get more into acting. In my hometown, there was a French dance historian. There was an ad in the paper for mask work, in a context similar to the Commedia dell’Arte, and my parents signed me up for a workshop with this woman. It turned into basically private study with her. She taught me to read the notation, and we’d reconstruct the dances. So my very formative training was in Baroque court dance, which is obviously super specific and bizarre, and it kind of happened in an accidental way. When you started Company XIV, in 2006, what was the first iteration like? We had a small dance studio space in Gowanus where we would do performances. It’s interesting because I basically started the company, and my first…

Democratic Party pledges ‘honest review’ after preliminary election wipeout in Cook Islands
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date: 2026-08-18T01:45:49Z
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description: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News Cook Islands’ Democratic Party leader Tina Pupuke-Browne has pledged an “honest campaign review” after preliminary results showed the party losing all its seats. Pupuke-Browne said the party will learn from its dismal 2026 general election performance, but added that it is “premature” to declare their final
encoded: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News Cook Islands’ Democratic Party leader Tina Pupuke-Browne has pledged an “honest campaign review” after preliminary results showed the party losing all its seats. Pupuke-Browne said the party will learn from its dismal 2026 general election performance, but added that it is “premature” to declare their final standing while official counts remain pending. According to preliminary results released last week, the Democratic Party — which governed the country before the Cook Islands Party was voted into power in 2010 — failed to win a single seat. READ MORE: Mangaia trio backs CIP, bringing ‘supermajority’ within reach Other Cook Islands elections reports However, two of its candidates remain locked in close contests, with a significant number of declaration votes yet to be counted. In Rakahanga, incumbent and party leader Pupuke-Browne trails the Cook Islands Party’s Levi Teinaki by just three votes, with 14 declaration votes remaining. In Matavera, incumbent MP and party deputy leader Vaitoti Tupa trails the Cook Islands United Party’s Taneao Ngamata by 18 votes, with 60 declaration votes left to verify. “The preliminary results are deeply disappointing for the Democratic Party, and we must accept that the voters have spoken,” Pupuke-Browne told Cook Islands News. “We will take responsibility, listen carefully, and conduct an honest review of our campaign and the party’s direction.” Two disappointing campaigns Asked whether she would reconsider her position as party leader after two disappointing election campaigns, Pupuke-Browne emphasised that the electoral process was not yet complete. “Pukapuka is showing a closely fought seat,” she said. “In Rakahanga, declaration votes remain to be finalised, as they do in several other constituencies. Any election petitions must also be heard and determined by the Court.” “Until then, it would be premature to declare the party’s final position or any individual candidate’s posit…

Proposed US-led tech hub in the Philippines will secure supply chains, create jobs
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creator: Jason Gutierrez for RFA
date: 2026-08-18T01:40:52Z
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description: The hub signals Washington’s symbolic return to the site of its largest overseas bases, analysts said.
encoded: MANILA, Philippines – A U.S. plan to build a critical technology hub in the Philippines is a symbolic return to the site of one of its largest overseas former bases, experts in the country told Radio Free Asia. The hub will be part of the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, aimed at shoring up supply chains for semiconductors, AI and rare earth elements. It will be built in New Clark City, north of Manila, on land that was part of a U.S. military reservation complex that included Clark Air Base, until the Philippines voted to take control of it in 1991. “I see the symbolic value of the U.S. returning to Clark,” Chester Cabalza, founder of the Manila-based think tank International Development and Security Cooperation, told RFA. “It centers on an historic reversal of geopolitical fortunes, transforming a symbol of post-Cold War retreat into a modern monument of the ironclad U.S.-Philippine alliance.” <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/W63KDJIA5BEALMFMOY6HVTH7KU.JPG?auth=144ceaf29ba20d49dda421246cebbe9e5b0ec722735160f08eca5239d38509e7&smart=true&width=1500" alt="Passengers queue to enter the Diosdado Macapagal International airport, formerly Clark Air Base in Pampanga province north of Manila, March 26, 2008. Other parts of the former U.S. Air Base and the associated military reserve are today part of New Clark City, a planned community that will feature a new technology hub." height="2273" width="1500"/> Passengers queue to enter the Diosdado Macapagal International airport, formerly Clark Air Base in Pampanga province north of Manila, March 26, 2008. Other parts of the former U.S. Air Base and the associated military reserve are today part of New Clark City, a planned community that will feature a new technology hub. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters) The battlefield has evolved since the Cold War era, but just as Clark Air Base was a key cog in the U.S.’ Asian containment strategy of that era, the Pax Silica hub is intended to secure technology supply chains for Washington an…

Caught twice escaping North Korea. She tried again.
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creator: Radio Free Asia
date: 2026-08-18T01:14:09Z
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California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
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creator: Tik Root
date: 2026-08-17T23:19:53Z
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description: The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.
encoded: California just became the first state to address a problem most people don’t know they have: inefficient tires. When automakers design a new vehicle, low rolling resistance tires are one of the least expensive ways to improve fuel economy. But they must eventually be replaced, and experts say replacements are often less efficient. This can result in internal combustion vehicles burning more gasoline and EVs needing more electricity. “It’s very difficult or impossible for consumers to know how energy efficient their tires are going to be,” said Brian Fadie, senior manager for state policy at the Appliance Standards Awareness Project. “As a result, many people unknowingly buy tires that cost them more money than necessary.” On Monday, the California Energy Commission unanimously approved a rule that would phase in the nation’s first standards for tire efficiency. The rule is “designed to ensure that replacement tires sold in the state are at least as energy efficient, on average, as tires sold in the state as original equipment.” It would also establish a labeling system that gives tires a “leaf” rating, to make it easier for consumers to find the best options. In addition to saving drivers money, the state projects that the changes could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2 million tons annually, which it says is equivalent to taking around 400,000 cars off the road. “We are proud to approve the nation’s first replacement tire efficiency standards,” said commission chair David Hochschild, in a press release. “This action will help Californians save approximately $1 billion a year on refueling while reducing pollution and extending the range of vehicles on the road.” California’s regulations will take effect in two phases, with the first targeting the most inefficient tires starting in 2029 and the second, stricter standard beginning in 2033. The timeline is longer than initially proposed, to address the concerns of some manufacturers who wanted more time to adapt. T…

How Peter Thiel “created” JD Vance
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-17T21:00:00Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"We’re Not Prepared For This."
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creator: Just Stop Oil
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description: This content originally appeared on Just Stop Oil and was authored by Just Stop Oil.
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DRC shutdown of internet, mobile networks in east extends for over a month amid war
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creator: CPJ Africa Program Staff
date: 2026-08-17T20:34:32Z
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description: Kinshasa, August 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to restore mobile telecommunications and internet services that have been cut off for more than a month in the Fizi Territory, which includes the city of Baraka, in the eastern province of South Kivu. “The intensification of...
encoded: Kinshasa, August 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to restore mobile telecommunications and internet services that have been cut off for more than a month in the Fizi Territory, which includes the city of Baraka, in the eastern province of South Kivu. “The intensification of the war in South Kivu province must under no circumstances serve as a pretext for blocking mobile and internet access, depriving local populations of their right to be informed about the conflict and other issues while disrupting their social and economic activities. DRC authorities must lift the measures to foster the free flow of information, rather than fuel rumors in Fizi and Baraka,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “Cutting off internet access, SMS, and phone calls infringes upon the rights to information and communication freedoms guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as by Article 24 of the DRC constitution.” Mobile telecommunications networks and internet access have been cut in Fizi Territory since July 3, impacting people’s ability to make calls, send SMS messages, and communicate using online applications, according to three local journalists, who spoke to the CPJ after fleeing to Uganda and Burundi due to the escalating armed conflict. Without internet access, journalists are unable to research, publish online, or communicate securely with sources. Local press have reported that the shutdown may relate to security concerns in the region. The shutdowns came as clashes intensified in the Minembwe highlands, particularly in the Kalingi, Mikenge, and Point Zéro sectors, where fierce fighting is taking place between the government army and Twirwaneho rebels, which is allied with the M23 and the Congo River Alliance (AFC). Individuals and media outlets possessing private connections through satellite internet provider Starlink had their equipment seized by government soldiers wheneve…

Up Against the Theocracy
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creator: Bill Lueders
date: 2026-08-17T20:29:55Z
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description: In his new book, Representative Jared Huffman chronicles the rise of rightwing Christian nationalism as a threat to American democracy.
encoded: In his new book, Representative Jared Huffman chronicles the rise of rightwing Christian nationalism as a threat to American democracy. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Bill Lueders.

Empathy Is the Worst Enemy of Rightwing Ideology
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creator: Mike Ervin
date: 2026-08-17T20:06:10Z
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description: Until enemies can civilly engage with each other, hostilities fester and the spiral goes on and on ad nauseam.
encoded: Until enemies can civilly engage with each other, hostilities fester and the spiral goes on and on ad nauseam. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

The market for used EVs ‘is so hot’ right now
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creator: Tik Root
date: 2026-08-17T19:29:33Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
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subject: Transportation
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description: Sales of used EV sales continued their surge in July, according to the latest data.
encoded: Sales of used electric vehicles continued their surge in July, jumping 7.7 percent from June and 10.1 percent compared to last year, according to data Cox Automotive released today. New EVs, in contrast, saw only modest 3.2 percent month-over-month growth and were down 41.5 percent from 2025. “The used market is so hot,” Scott Case, CEO of Recurrent, a company that provides data about EVs, told Grist. Dealers he talks to say fuel costs are a key reason people are going electric, and gas prices climbed again in July due to the ongoing war with Iran. “The used EV market is pretty much uniquely the beneficiary of the war.” Driving an EV saves money on gas and maintenance, such as oil changes. Recent research has shown the switch also brings significant emissions savings, even when trading in a relatively new internal combustion car. But EVs often come with a higher sticker price. On average, new EVs cost $6,477 more than their internal combustion counterparts. “In today’s economy, with high interest and wavering affordability, that’s a very material difference,” said Jimmy Douglas, the founder and CEO of Plug, a wholesale marketplace focused on EVs. “A lot of it comes down to affordability.” The gap between used electric and gas cars is much narrower, at $2,967, making them an attractive option. “There are so many used EVs available at a good price point,” Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of industry insights at Cox Automotive, told Grist. With a glut of these cars expected to come off lease in the next few years, the secondary market should remain abundant and teeming with deals. Tesla’s Model Y remains the best-selling new electric, even as a number of other American automakers have retreated from electric options. “The party has completely stopped,” said Case, noting that Stellantis, which produces brands such as Dodge and Jeep, has taken an especially dramatic step away from the technology. “The Japanese models have been coming in like a freight train.” This late…

Immigrants protest in Ceuta
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-17T19:01:17Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Texas Families Urge U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Challenge to Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-17T18:17:54Z
subject: Common Dreams
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subject: classrooms
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description: More than two dozen Texas families are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a state law that requires public schools to post a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The request, filed today, urges the court...
encoded: More than two dozen Texas families are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a state law that requires public schools to post a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The request, filed today, urges the court to protect students’ and parents’ religious freedom by blocking Texas Senate Bill 10, ensuring that families — not politicians — have the right to decide what role religion plays in their lives. The Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Baha'i, Unitarian Universalist, and nonreligious families challenging the Texas law attend 22 school districts across the state and are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP serving as pro bono counsel. Today’s petition seeks review of lower court rulings in two separate but similar cases: Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District and Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District. Under S.B. 10, Texas public schools must permanently display a state-mandated version of the Ten Commandments, drawn from the Protestant King James Bible, in a “conspicuous” place in each classroom, from kindergarten through 12th grade. The families challenging S.B. 10 object to the law because the displays will pressure children to conform to the state’s favored religious beliefs and interfere with parents’ right to guide their children’s religious instruction. Today’s Supreme Court filing, a joint petition for a writ of certiorari in both cases, follows an April decision by the en banc U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit allowing the state-selected version of the Ten Commandments to go up in the plaintiffs’ classrooms. By a narrowly decided vote, the 5th Circuit ruled that S.B. 10 does not violate either the Establishment or Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment — despite a 1980 Supreme Court case striking down a nearly iden…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 17, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-08-17T18:00:00Z
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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From Black Power to hip hop: The evolution of Mopreme Shakur
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2026-08-17T17:43:17Z
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Did America really give Iran its first nuclear reactor?
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President Trump’s Billionaire Boy’s Club
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description: A new investigation by Public Citizen reveals that 57 individuals within the Trump administration, excluding President Trump, are individually worth as much as $100 million, eight of whom are billionaires. The analysis underscores the growing economic...
encoded: A new investigation by Public Citizen reveals that 57 individuals within the Trump administration, excluding President Trump, are individually worth as much as $100 million, eight of whom are billionaires. The analysis underscores the growing economic divide between the average American worker, who earns $65,000 a year, and the politically-connected individuals who hold the power to address the economic strain facing the general populace. Of the 57 ultra-wealthy individuals identified, 31 have personal assets exceeding $100 million, while the remainder have assets reaching $100 million. Forty of them are running federal agencies and institutions, including the Department of Commerce, Treasure and Education, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission, NASA, Social Security Administration and Office of Personnel Management. The other 17 are serving as U.S. ambassadors. The concentration of wealth is striking compared with previous administrations: Donald Trump: 57 individuals with assets of $100 million or more, including eight billionaires, excluding Trump. Joe Biden: Five individuals with assets of $100 million or more, including two individuals whose assets reached $1 billion or more. George W. Bush: Five individuals with assets of $100 million or more, including one billionaire. Barack Obama: Three individuals with assets of $100 million or more, including one billionaire. “It is deeply concerning to see people with extraordinary wealth controlling the levers of power in our government,” said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen. “The Trump administration is putting an unprecedented number of multi-millionaires and billionaires in charge of institutions that are supposed to serve all Americans. When the people holding the reins of government are drawn overwhelmingly from the ranks of the ultra-rich, it leads to misplaced incentives and corruption, and begs the question whose interests they are truly serving.” “The breadth and depth of the economic d…

UN News Today 17 August 2026
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description: Yemen: alarm at escalating clashes: OHCHR Ebola outbreak is largest DR Congo has ever faced: WHOBiological Weapons Convention talks mull verification measures
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From Black Power to Hip Hop: Mopreme Shakur’s "This Thug’s Life"
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Rajiv Menon
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Exclusive: Palestine Action Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Facing Contempt Charges in U.K.
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"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
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"Operation Puppet Master": Trump Admin Spied on Minnesota Activists & Unions After ICE Killings
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 17, 2026
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Revolving Door Project Condemns Trump’s Corrupt Crypto and Prediction Market Roundtable
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description: Ahead of the White House’s planned cryptocurrency and prediction markets roundtable on Wednesday, The Revolving Door Project released the following statement: “Donald Trump is not content with the billions of dollars in corrupt crypto wealth he has am...
encoded: Ahead of the White House’s planned cryptocurrency and prediction markets roundtable on Wednesday, The Revolving Door Project released the following statement: “Donald Trump is not content with the billions of dollars in corrupt crypto wealth he has amassed since winning the 2024 election. On Wednesday, he’ll turn the White House into a hub for his crypto and prediction markets cronies to lean on independent agencies and a gridlocked Congress for a more permissive regulatory environment for these predatory corporations. The event will serve as a reminder to Congress of crypto’s deep ties to the president, and of their willingness to spend unprecedented sums in campaign efforts. But the fusion of Trump and crypto’s interests should not dictate federal law, especially when voters are broadly disgusted by the corrupting influence of these industries.” said RDP senior researcher Henry Burke. RDP assistant director Timi Iwayemi added, “The cryptocurrency industry is eager to establish a financial system where scams and money laundering flourish. Their prediction market partners envision a society where gambling is venerated as a legitimate investment strategy. Their well-heeled political operation might have brought them significant influence in Washington, but it has come at a cost. Trump’s blatant corruption has eroded public trust, and prediction markets have jeopardized the legitimacy of our markets. This should be a tough pill for lawmakers to swallow. Wednesday’s meeting is a last-ditch effort to bring Congress onside and hand a victory to two of the most brazenly corrupt entities in the country: Trump and the crypto industry. But regulators and legislators should not be cowed. As recent election results have shown, crypto’s millions can only go so far, and voters are tired of their attempts to buy our democracy.” The Revolving Door Project has been tracking Trump’s corruption closely, as well as the efforts by the crypto and prediction market industries to purchase…

No, PM Modi was not walking around as national anthem played; viral video doctored
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description: A video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi moving around a stage greeting people while the national anthem plays in the background is viral on social media, with users claiming that the Prime Minister was being disrespectful to the anthem. An user on Facebook, Kumar Raj, shared the purported video on August 15, Independance Day, with […]
encoded: A video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi moving around a stage greeting people while the national anthem plays in the background is viral on social media, with users claiming that the Prime Minister was being disrespectful to the anthem. An user on Facebook, Kumar Raj, shared the purported video on August 15, Independance Day, with Modi circled out. The post has garnered 2.3 million views. It was shared around 14,000 times and has received 30,500 reactions. Activist Piyush Manush shared the same video on Facebook, which was viewed over 76,000 times. Several X users also amplified the viral video, amplifying the same claim. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check A keyframe in the viral video showed a screen placed on the podium which mentioned the location of the event as Jasauli Kharag, located in Bihar’s Siwan city. The date mentioned was June 20, 2025. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-318644 size-full aligncenter" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_9QA9WKDVdW.png" alt="" width="419" height="484" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_9QA9WKDVdW.png 419w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/chrome_9QA9WKDVdW-260x300.png 260w" sizes="(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px" /> A relevant keyword search led us to the original video uploaded from the Prime Minister’s official YouTube channel. In this video dated June 21, 2025, Modi, seen in the same attire as the viral video, walked onto a stage while he was being introduced by the speaker. Amid cheers from the audience, he waved to them and shook hands with other dignitaries present on the stage. At no point can the national anthem be heard playing in the clip. Thus, the claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi disrespected the national anthem by walking around the stage while it played is misleading. The original video shows Modi being introduced by the speaker and waving to a cheering audience, with no national anthem playing in the cli…

“The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
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date: 2026-08-17T12:44:07Z
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description: A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows the rise of Vice President JD Van...
encoded: A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows the rise of Vice President JD Vance, the former venture capitalist whose “outsider” campaign for Senate was bankrolled by the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Peter Thiel. Durán traces the ideological lineage of the current Trump administration back from Vance to Thiel and the far-right-wing monarchist Curtis Yarvin, whose “right-libertarian” political theory has long made the rounds among Silicon Valley elite. “These guys were never libertarians,” says Durán. “Now that they are the government, we see their true face: They’re fascists, and they’re authoritarians.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Exclusive: Palestine Action Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Facing Contempt Charges in U.K.
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date: 2026-08-17T12:26:54Z
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description: A prominent human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom has been charged with criminal contempt for his closing speech in the trial of his client, Charlotte “Lottie” Head, one of four Palestine Action activists who were sentenced as ...
encoded: A prominent human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom has been charged with criminal contempt for his closing speech in the trial of his client, Charlotte “Lottie” Head, one of four Palestine Action activists who were sentenced as terrorists over their involvement in a 2024 protest and raid on an Israeli weapons factory. Their sentencing marked the first time a British judge issued terrorism sentencing enhancements on people who were not actually convicted of terrorism. An additional 21 currently jailed Palestine Action protesters could face similar sentences, which carry multiyear prison terms. The charges against Rajiv Menon are similarly unprecedented in British legal history. He is accused of encouraging a jury to acquit Head according to their conscience. Menon denies this accusation and says he was simply informing the jury of a prior legal case. He adds that, along with the U.K. government’s ban on Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, the case against him is intended to have a “chilling effect” against pro-Palestine protest, and carries “serious constitutional implications.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Operation Puppet Master”: Trump Admin Spied on Minnesota Activists & Unions After ICE Killings
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description: Newly released federal documents have revealed the existence of an expansive surveillance program launched by the federal government against activists, labor unions, community groups, and even a bicycle repair collective, in Minnesota last win...
encoded: Newly released federal documents have revealed the existence of an expansive surveillance program launched by the federal government against activists, labor unions, community groups, and even a bicycle repair collective, in Minnesota last winter. “Operation Puppet Master” was launched in response to statewide protests against the ICE killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. The program has come to light in the course of a federal case against 15 Minnesotans who have been accused of “conspiracy” to impede ICE’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Isaac Sant, one of the defendants in the case, says the charges levied against him are “politically motivated” and “intended to quell dissent.” As part of its spying operation, DHS sent undercover agents to meetings in churches, parks, libraries, schools and union halls and secretly obtained the financial records of left-leaning national organizations such as the Communications Workers of America and Sunrise Movement. “We were sick to hear that we were also in this list of people that were organizing using their First Amendment rights and the right to petition to their government, but also not surprised,” says Emilia González Avalos, the executive director of Unidos MN, a local organization that was one of the groups surveilled by DHS. “This is one of the tactics they have used across the world to repress and scare and disrupt movements that are organizing with other people against racism, that are organizing for justice, and that are organizing for a multiracial, high-functioning democracy.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“They’re Fascists”: Silicon Valley Journalist Gil Durán on “The Nerd Reich” Takeover of U.S. Politics
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description: Pt. 2 of our interview with Gil Durán, author of the new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.
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Headlines for August 17, 2026
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description: Trump Threatens to “Bomb the S— Out of Oman,” Downplays Concerns About USS Abraham Lincoln, Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 11 People in Lebanon, Jared Kushner Meets with Hamas’s Political Chief in Cairo, Israel Announces Plans to Hand Over Policing of Settlers to an Israeli Civilian Police Force, Ukrainian Drones Kill at Least Nine People in Russia, Taliban Marks Five Years in Power Since U.S. Withdrawal, Migrants Protest in Spain’s North African Enclave of Ceuta, Survivors Go Hungry After Earthquakes Kill Dozens in Indonesia, Mass Shooting Erupts at Virginia State University Hours After Freshmen Orientation Events, Attorney General Todd Blanche Won’t Pledge to Operate Independently from White House, Federal Judge Blocks Idaho from Prosecuting Doctors Who Provide Health-Saving Abortions, South Carolina to Vote First in Democrats’ Revamped 2028 Presidential Primary Calendar
encoded: Trump Threatens to "Bomb the S— Out of Oman," Downplays Concerns About USS Abraham Lincoln Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 11 People in Lebanon Jared Kushner Meets with Hamas's Political Chief in Cairo Israel Announces Plans to Hand Over Policing of Settlers to an Israeli Civilian Police Force Ukrainian Drones Kill at Least Nine People in Russia Taliban Marks Five Years in Power Since U.S. Withdrawal Migrants Protest in Spain's North African Enclave of Ceuta Survivors Go Hungry After Earthquakes Kill Dozens in Indonesia Mass Shooting Erupts at Virginia State University Hours After Freshmen Orientation Events Attorney General Todd Blanche Won't Pledge to Operate Independently from White House Federal Judge Blocks Idaho from Prosecuting Doctors Who Provide Health-Saving Abortions South Carolina to Vote First in Democrats' Revamped 2028 Presidential Primary Calendar This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-17 Monday
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[uncut conversation] Joy Reid & Dean Obeidallah: Fascism Tests Journalistic Integrity In Modern M…
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DN! Monday, August 17, 2026
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Bengal minister Arjun Singh hoisted BJP flag on Independence day? No, old & clipped video falsely viral
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description: A video is viral on social media, showing West Bengal labour and transport minister Arjun Singh hoisting the BJP flag to the chants of Vande Mataram. It is being claimed that on Independence Day, the BJP minister unfurled his party’s flag, instead of the Indian tricolour. The clip carries a Hindi text, which, when translated […]
encoded: A video is viral on social media, showing West Bengal labour and transport minister Arjun Singh hoisting the BJP flag to the chants of Vande Mataram. It is being claimed that on Independence Day, the BJP minister unfurled his party’s flag, instead of the Indian tricolour. The clip carries a Hindi text, which, when translated to English, reads: “BJP flag hoisted instead of the tricolor! BJP minister Arjun Singh in West Bengal committed a shameful, anti-national act!” A Facebook user named Shaqib Ansari uploaded an interview snippet where an unknown man can be seen lambasting the BJP for prioritising their party flag instead of honouring the Indian tricolour, on the occasion of Independence Day. He points out that the date: August 15, then highlights that the minister was seen honouring the flag of his political party, and not that of the country. He says in Hindi, “It is a matter of concern that if the BJP hoists its own flag at its headquarters on August 15. Is this part of the BJP’s agenda?” The national spokesperson for Congress, Supriya Shrinate, posted the viral clip on her X handle on August 15. In the caption, she calls out Arjun Singh as a “wretched traitor.” (Archive) यह बंगाल में BJP के श्रम एवं परिवहन मंत्री अर्जुन सिंह हैं इन्होंने तिरंगे की जगह भाजपाई झंडा फहरा दिया गलीच देशद्रोही pic.twitter.com/vA185ykvZC — Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) August 15, 2026 The video was also shared by the official Facebook handle of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RDJ). The party claimed that a BJP flag was hoisted instead of the national flag on Independence Day. (Archive) Users Neha Singh Rathore (@nehafolksinger) and Hansraj Meena (@HansrajMeena) also posted the same clip, deriding the BJP minister for not hoisting the national flag. The archived versions of these two posts, which have since been deleted, can be accessed here, and here. Click to view slideshow. Several other users on X, including (@vizhpuneet), (@abhinavmaddy), and (@TrikaTriggered) posted the clip with sim…

At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
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encoded: Atlas Preparatory Academy, a private school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Every student relies on taxpayer dollars from one of the state’s four voucher programs to pay all or part of their tuition. Caleb Alvarado for ProPublica At some point, my reporting colleagues and I began referring to them as the “100% schools.” We were following the money that flows from states’ public coffers into private schools through vouchers when we noticed a subset of educational facilities where tax dollars cover all or a big part of the tuition for every student. In essence, these were schools that were funded like public schools but didn’t operate with the same oversight or transparency. Our reporting found that these types of private schools exist throughout the country and that in Wisconsin — where I’m based — there were 39 that fell into that category during the most recent school year. Together, they were educating 7,923 children and taking in roughly $87 million from vouchers offered by the state. Atlas Preparatory Academy in Milwaukee was a 100% school in my city that had low test scores and declining enrollment while also receiving more than $4.3 million in voucher money for 357 students in grades K-12. It was one of the first schools I dug into, and immediately some of the facts I unearthed in public documents made me curious. There was, for instance, the money being made by its board chair, who also appeared to serve as a school administrator. His compensation was more than $150,000 in 2024. This dual role would be prohibited at a traditional public school in Wisconsin, though there are no such rules for private schools. In another transaction that would raise alarm in a public school setting, the same board chair’s accounting firm received tens of thousands of dollars from the school for accounting and consulting. During my reporting, it became clear that the school’s operations were not only discordant with public school policies but with basic governing standards for nonprofi…

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears
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description: House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.
encoded: Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation into the mining company Energy Fuels after its CEO and chairman bought thousands of shares of the company’s stock just days before President Donald Trump downsized the neighboring Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. The Denver-based company operates White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium processing site in the nation, which sat about a mile from the Bears Ears boundary before Trump slashed the monument by 90 percent last month. On July 7, 2026, CEO Ross Bhappu bought 74,000 shares of Energy Fuels, the largest insider purchase of stock in the company’s history, according to a news release issued by Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee. The trade bumped Bhappu’s ownership to 41 percent. Board chair Bruce Hansen acquired 4,000 shares the following day. Less than a week later, Trump removed 1.24 million acres from Bears Ears National Monuments — making the land available again for mining. The day after Trump’s move, the Bears Ears Commission, a coalition of five Tribal Nations, issued a statement saying, “The decision weakens protections for a living cultural landscape and sacred ancestral homeland that has been cared for by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial and is a major setback to one of the nation’s most extraordinary models of collaborative management of public lands between Tribal Nations and federal agencies.” Jared Huffman, Democrat from California and the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Maxine Dexter, the ranking Democrat from Oregon on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee announced Monday that they had opened an investigation into the company. “We understand that monument boundaries were redrawn in a way that could benefit Energy Fuels,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Bhappu. A spokesperson for Energy Fuels said company leadership was aware of the letter and takes it seriously. “The Company is unaware of any evidence suppor…

Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media
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description: ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing of three atrocities committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian children. Sanders tells of an infant who was shot in the head while breastfeeding in his mother’s arms, a 16-year-old
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing of three atrocities committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian children. Sanders tells of an infant who was shot in the head while breastfeeding in his mother’s arms, a 16-year-old boy whose body was mutilated by an Israeli tank, and teenage boys deliberately shot by Israeli soldiers in a game of “target practice”. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry released the report on June 23. READ MORE: Western media coverage of Gaza erases Palestinians from the story How Netanyahu govt media reforms risk deepening Israeli press bias Other Gaza media reports Titled “The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed,” it was the first to focus on crimes and violations against Palestinian children in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Vijay Prashad at CounterPunch called it an “accusation of extraordinary gravity.” In 100-pages, the investigation documents Israeli security forces’ direct killing, degrading, and inhumane treatment of Palestinian children, including sexual and gender-based violence and torture. The report also documents the destruction of schools and civilian infrastructure and amounts to a gruesome compendium of how Israel is destroying Palestinian childhood and denying the Palestinian people a future and self-determination. As the human rights lawyer Srinivasan Muralidhar, who chaired the UN commission and led the press conference that announced its findings, bluntly summarised, “By targeting children, Israel is attacking the very capacity of the Palestinian people to exist.” This is genocide. Trump’s Board of Peace claims contradicted The UN report flatly contradicted the claims made by President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace that conditions in Gaza were improving. The UN report stated that the amount of available aid is woefully inadequate to meet the ne…

Digitally altered video of Sara Tendulkar goes viral
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description: A 13-second video featuring Sara Tendulkar walking towards her car wearing what appears to be gymwear — a black sports bra and grey high-waisted short leggings — has gone viral on social media. An X user, Marcus, shared the video stating that Sara Tendulkar was spotted outside a gym and that she was looking “stunning”. (Archive) […]
encoded: A 13-second video featuring Sara Tendulkar walking towards her car wearing what appears to be gymwear — a black sports bra and grey high-waisted short leggings — has gone viral on social media. An X user, Marcus, shared the video stating that Sara Tendulkar was spotted outside a gym and that she was looking “stunning”. (Archive) Sara Tendulkar spotted outside the gym looking stunning. pic.twitter.com/cnQdjkErMf — MARCUS (@MARCUS907935) August 2, 2026 The video garnered over 20o,000 views. Instagram account Bollywindow, which has around 4.3million followers, shared the purported video. The post was later deleted. Several social media users shared the video, suggesting it was real footage of Sara Tendulkar. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check A close examination of multiple versions of the viral videos revealed a recurring watermark reading “Just Bollywood.” When we searched for this on Instagram, we found an account named justbollywood.in, which has approximately 1.3 million followers. While browsing this account, we found the original video of Sara Tendulkar posted on July 30, 2026, with the caption, “Sara Tendulkar spotted in Bandra.” The setting, people, and sequence closely match those seen in the viral clip. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-318130 aligncenter" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-164304.jpg" alt="" width="1096" height="945" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-164304.jpg 1096w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-164304-300x259.jpg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-164304-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-164304-768x662.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1096px) 100vw, 1096px" /> In this video, Sara Tendulkar can be seen wearing a black bodycon top with taupe-coloured trousers, and not gym wear. A c…

Costume designer Sarah Gregg Millman on intuiting vulnerability
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description: How did you get into costume design?
encoded: How did you get into costume design? It was never really my intention to work in film or in costume design. I didn’t study it. I will say that I had worked in retail and had an obsession with film, particularly New Wave. I was living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is really big on thrifting and vintage, so I had a crash course. My boyfriend at the time was a musician, and he had a friend who wrote a screenplay about a fictional ’70s country star, and they were going to be shooting here in Toronto. I volunteered on the costume truck even though I had no experience. Luckily, the costume designer was incredible, and she put me to work helping out dressing the background characters. By the end of the shoot, she was like, if you ever move here, call me. And I did. There was a show she wasn’t able to return to, but she had already preset the looks, so I just had to go in and maintain everything. I met a hair stylist on that set who asked me to work on an indie with her starring Don McKellar and Reginald Harkema. There was no budget, and I had to shop their closets. Once I got in with that crew, they just brought me along for all of their indie films. All of a sudden, I was a costume designer. Would you say you developed a lot of these skills working in retail? Being in the change room with someone is valuable because trying clothing on is such a vulnerable thing. It’s about intuiting that vulnerability, picking up on cues, backing off, gently suggesting, and trying to make people feel comfortable. You’re also around clothes all day—studying cuts, fabrics, draping, and fit. There was even this vintage store [that I didn’t work at] called Junk & Foibles, and the manager [artist Rebecca Kratz] was so cool and had such an extensive knowledge of vintage. She’d write whimsical descriptions and make funny little drawings on the hangtags of each piece. I would just go in and be like, “What does Rebecca think of this 1940s piece?” I would look at these fabrics and geek out over qu…

Renewed Airstrikes and Evacuation Orders Despite the Ceasefire
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description: Nine months after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, my family still has not returned home and fears for our safety.
encoded: Nine months after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, my family still has not returned home and fears for our safety. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Alaa Ahmed Dmeida.

Protect All Kids—Not Just Athletes—From the Heat
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creator: Michelle A. Kirwan Bythwood
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description: Schools must protect students from extreme heat, indoors and out.
encoded: Schools must protect students from extreme heat, indoors and out. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Michelle A. Kirwan Bythwood.

Say it in Sign Language: Hell, No
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description: Appeal seeks to make it harder for disabled people to sue over federal discrimination.
encoded: Appeal seeks to make it harder for disabled people to sue over federal discrimination. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

Say it in Sign Language: Hell, No
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description: Appeal seeks to make it harder for disabled people to sue over federal discrimination.
encoded: Appeal seeks to make it harder for disabled people to sue over federal discrimination. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

CJP activist’s father dies after alleged assault by BJP men in Bengal’s Bankura; 8 arrested
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description: A 51-year-old man who was allegedly assaulted in West Bengal while trying to protect his son, a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activist, died of his injuries on August 15. His son, Sekh Abdul Hafeez, had returned to their village in Bankura after participating in the CJP protest in Delhi and had begun documenting the dilapidated […]
encoded: A 51-year-old man who was allegedly assaulted in West Bengal while trying to protect his son, a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activist, died of his injuries on August 15. His son, Sekh Abdul Hafeez, had returned to their village in Bankura after participating in the CJP protest in Delhi and had begun documenting the dilapidated condition of the local government primary school. According to the family, his activism and social media posts angered local BJP supporters, who subsequently targeted him and his family. The victim, Sekh Mohammad Mafik, was assaulted at his home in Karisunda village in Indas block of Bankura district on August 13. He suffered a head injury after he had been allegedly attacked with a tangi, a type of scythe, while intervening to protect his son. Hafeez, also known as Rik, had participated in the CJP protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. His Facebook timeline has several videos from the protest, including one of his meeting with CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke. After returning to his village, he took part in the “School Thik Karo” campaign launched by Dipke. The campaign seeks to highlight shortcomings in India’s government schools and push for improvements. In a video that subsequently went viral, Hafeez documented his account of the August 13 assault. He said he had gone to Karisunda Paschimpara Primary School to document its poor condition, including the state of its bathroom and classroom ceilings. The headmaster, Kashinath Dey, asked him to return the following day. However, according to Hafeez, a group of BJP supporters instead went to his home and attacked him that evening. Hafeez showed marks of assault on his neck and arm in the video and said his father was attacked with a tangi, suffering a head injury. The video has since been removed from Hafeez’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. Speaking to Alt News minutes before performing his father’s last rites on August 16, he said the BJP workers and supporters who attacked him had taken away his mobil…

Fiji High Court orders release of seven devices seized from journalist Charlie Charters
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description: By Andrew Naidu in Suva Fiji’s High Court has granted an application seeking the release of seven electronic devices seized by police from British-Fiji journalist and sports marketing official Charlie Charters. The application was heard before Justice Pita Bulamainaivalu after preliminary issues were raised concerning the proper parties to the proceedings and the transfer of
encoded: By Andrew Naidu in Suva Fiji’s High Court has granted an application seeking the release of seven electronic devices seized by police from British-Fiji journalist and sports marketing official Charlie Charters. The application was heard before Justice Pita Bulamainaivalu after preliminary issues were raised concerning the proper parties to the proceedings and the transfer of the matter between the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC), the Fiji Police Force and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Acting DPP Nancy Tikoisuva, appearing as a interested party, told the court that, following the stay of proceedings, the matter should have come to an end and the devices and other property belonging to Charters should have been released. READ MORE: Fiji judge orders motion seeking return of journalists’ e-devices seized by police Other Charlie Charters reports Tikoisuva said the office had discussed the matter with police and agreed with the application seeking the release of the devices. She also acknowledged that the continued retention of the devices should not have occurred after the stay was granted. She further submitted that any consequential orders following the stay should have included the release of the exhibits and property belonging to Charters. Lawyer Juleen Fatiaki for Charters welcomed the DPP’s position and thanked the office for its assistance to the court. The court subsequently granted the application and ordered the release of Charter’s seven electronic devices. Republished from The Fiji Times with permission. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by Pacific Media Watch.

Satellite images show Laos’ new Mekong River dam
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Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Dozens of large demonstrations by West Papuans to mark a key anniversary of their homeland’s incorporation into Indonesia have been met with mixed and sometimes violent responses by police. Saturday was the anniversary of the infamous 1962 US-brokered New York Agreement under which Papua’s former colonial power, the Netherlands, agreed to transfer
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Dozens of large demonstrations by West Papuans to mark a key anniversary of their homeland’s incorporation into Indonesia have been met with mixed and sometimes violent responses by police. Saturday was the anniversary of the infamous 1962 US-brokered New York Agreement under which Papua’s former colonial power, the Netherlands, agreed to transfer power over the territory to Indonesia. The agreement lacked any genuine consultation with West Papuans. READ MORE: West Papua protesters face Indonesian police crackdown over independence calls Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s future? Other West Papua reports Peaceful demonstrations on Saturday in Sentani and Jayapura in particular were met with forced dispersal by police as well as alleged beatings, the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, leaving a number of demonstrators injured. The demonstrations were organised by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) and took place in several cities across Indonesian-ruled Papua region as well as other parts of the republic, including Jakarta and Makassar. Human rights defenders report that while all of the demonstrations were closely monitored by police forces, in most cases they went without incident. But they say forced dispersal and violence reported in several locations were a serious concern because they involved violation of the participants’ rights to express their opinions peacefully. Sustained injuries Seven members of the KNPB were reported to have sustained injuries as a result of police actions to disrupt the demonstration in Sentani. In Jayapura, several students from Cenderawasih University were injured as police forcibly dispersed their demonstration. In Makassar, a KNPB member was reportedly struck by a wire arrow fired by a member of an alleged community-based militia group. In several areas, demonstrations were reported to have proceeded well, with no initial reports of forced dispersal, including in main centres…

Large demos across West Papua meet with mixed responses by police
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Dozens of large demonstrations by West Papuans to mark a key anniversary of their homeland’s incorporation into Indonesia have been met with mixed and sometimes violent responses by police. Saturday was the anniversary of the infamous 1962 US-brokered New York Agreement under which Papua’s former colonial power, the Netherlands, agreed to transfer
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Dozens of large demonstrations by West Papuans to mark a key anniversary of their homeland’s incorporation into Indonesia have been met with mixed and sometimes violent responses by police. Saturday was the anniversary of the infamous 1962 US-brokered New York Agreement under which Papua’s former colonial power, the Netherlands, agreed to transfer power over the territory to Indonesia. The agreement lacked any genuine consultation with West Papuans. READ MORE: West Papua protesters face Indonesian police crackdown over independence calls Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s future? Other West Papua reports Peaceful demonstrations on Saturday in Sentani and Jayapura in particular were met with forced dispersal by police as well as alleged beatings, the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, leaving a number of demonstrators injured. The demonstrations were organised by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) and took place in several cities across Indonesian-ruled Papua region as well as other parts of the republic, including Jakarta and Makassar. Human rights defenders report that while all of the demonstrations were closely monitored by police forces, in most cases they went without incident. But they say forced dispersal and violence reported in several locations were a serious concern because they involved violation of the participants’ rights to express their opinions peacefully. Sustained injuries Seven members of the KNPB were reported to have sustained injuries as a result of police actions to disrupt the demonstration in Sentani. In Jayapura, several students from Cenderawasih University were injured as police forcibly dispersed their demonstration. In Makassar, a KNPB member was reportedly struck by a wire arrow fired by a member of an alleged community-based militia group. In several areas, demonstrations were reported to have proceeded well, with no initial reports of forced dispersal, including in main centres…

David Sirota On The State of the Democratic Primary
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Mangaia trio backs CIP, bringing ‘supermajority’ within reach
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description: By Teitimoana Tairi of the Cook Islands News The Cook Islands Party (CIP) could secure a supermajority for its fifth consecutive term in government after three independent female candidates who won seats in Mangaia agreed to join the party. CIP leads following the preliminary count of the 2026 general election with 12 seats, leaving them
encoded: By Teitimoana Tairi of the Cook Islands News The Cook Islands Party (CIP) could secure a supermajority for its fifth consecutive term in government after three independent female candidates who won seats in Mangaia agreed to join the party. CIP leads following the preliminary count of the 2026 general election with 12 seats, leaving them just one seat short of forming a government. The party had hoped to secure that decisive seat in Pukapuka-Nassau, where incumbent CIP MP Tingika Elikana trails independent candidate Dr Kirianu Nio by three votes (134-131), with six declaration votes remaining to be counted. READ MORE: Cook Islands election: preliminary results starting to come in Other Cook Islands elections reports Altogether, independent candidates hold eight seats — including two from Atiu (Independent-Enuamanu) and one from Mauke (Independent Party) — while the Cook Islands United Party holds four seats. CIP has an existing partnership agreement with Atiu and Mauke MPs, who were part of the government during the last term and have reportedly pledged their continued support. With the addition of Mangaia’s three incoming MPs — Agnes Armstrong, Tetangi Matapo and Rimmel Poila-Mokoroa — the CIP could reach 18 seats, commanding a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Armstrong retained her Ivirua seat unopposed, newcomer Poila-Mokoroa won in Oneroa and Matapo held her Tamarua seat in the August 12 general election. The three reached an agreement to join the CIP following a virtual meeting with party leaders this week. ‘All agreed to join’ Senior CIP member and caretaker minister Vaine “Mac” Mokoroa, who retained his Nikao-Panama seat for a third consecutive term, told Cook Islands News that the independent Mangaia members held a zoom meeting with CIP president Henry Puna and caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown on Thursday. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132218" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Poila-Mokor…

Howard Zinn on teaching the real history of the United States
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 16, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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A Basketball Game, A Tie, And A Bus Ride To Meet North Korea’s Leader.
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U.K. sentences pro-Palestine protesters as terrorists
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Trump administration pulls support for annual Arctic environmental report
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description: The move by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest government rollback of climate science activity.
encoded: The Trump administration has pulled its support for an annual report on the environmental changes across the Arctic, a region that is already heating up four times faster than the global average due to the climate crisis. On Tuesday, Kim Doster, the communications director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the federal agency was withdrawing its support for the Arctic Report Card, which has provided environmental updates on the region to scientists and the public since 2006. Without explaining why the government stopped its support, Doster told The New York Times: “Coordination of the 2026 Arctic Report Card will not be facilitated through NOAA. … All data historically contributed by NOAA to the product will continue to be collected and will remain publicly available.” Doster told the outlet that other NOAA programs would continue to support research in the region that contributes to “national security, weather prediction, safety of navigation and the economic vitality of coastal communities.” The Guardian has approached NOAA for additional comment. Over the last 20 years, the peer-reviewed report has tracked crucial changes across the Arctic’s atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere and tundra. The climate crisis has made the Arctic the world’s fastest-warming region. In recent years, the region has experienced severe sea ice decline, carbon sink reversals and ecosystem upheavals. In the 2025 Arctic Report Card, scientists found that surface temperatures across the Arctic from October 2024 through September 2025 were the warmest recorded since 1900. It also found that in March 2025, Arctic winter sea ice reached the lowest annual maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record. Meanwhile, on land, the report noted that ongoing glacier loss contributes to steadily rising global sea levels, threatening Arctic communities’ water supplies, driving destructive floods, and increasing landslide and tsunami hazards. It also found that in more than 200 Arcti…

Fiji’s Palestine solidarity group queries ‘unprecedented’ security for Israeli embassy
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description: By Jake Wise in Suva The Palestinian solidarity movement in Fiji is calling for greater transparency over the security arrangements surrounding the Israeli Embassy. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali, representing the movement, questioned what specific threat had prompted the heightened police presence around the embassy after police confirmed the additional security was
encoded: By Jake Wise in Suva The Palestinian solidarity movement in Fiji is calling for greater transparency over the security arrangements surrounding the Israeli Embassy. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali, representing the movement, questioned what specific threat had prompted the heightened police presence around the embassy after police confirmed the additional security was provided at the request of the embassy. Ali said the public had a right to know why additional security measures had been put in place. READ MORE: Palestine supporters stage pickets in 3 cities in Fiji, NZ protesting against new Israeli embassy Other Israeli embassy in Fiji reports “The security arrangements currently in place are unprecedented,” Ali said. “We believe these resources would be better directed toward serving the needs of Fijians, particularly at a time when many communities continue to express concerns about delays and inadequate responses from the police. “We call on the Police Commissioner and the government to explain the necessity of these extraordinary measures.” She said the Palestinian solidarity movement had also encountered heightened police monitoring during its peaceful gatherings and demonstrations. ‘Stop chanting’ call at vigils Ali claimed participants at vigil gatherings had on some occasions been instructed to stop chanting or remove banners supporting Palestine on “security” and “safety grounds”. However, she said police had never explained to the movement what specific threat the security measures were intended to address. “We also strongly reject any suggestion that members of the Palestinian solidarity movement pose a threat to public safety. “As Fijians, we also have a right to know what specific threat has been identified against the embassy.” Ali said the movement was not aware of any specific threat against the embassy and questioned why it appeared to have greater security than other embassies that had also been the subject of public pro…

Fiji’s Palestine solidarity group queries ‘unprecedented’ security for Israeli embassy
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description: By Jake Wise in Suva The Palestinian solidarity movement in Fiji is calling for greater transparency over the security arrangements surrounding the Israeli Embassy. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali, representing the movement, questioned what specific threat had prompted the heightened police presence around the embassy after police confirmed the additional security was
encoded: By Jake Wise in Suva The Palestinian solidarity movement in Fiji is calling for greater transparency over the security arrangements surrounding the Israeli Embassy. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali, representing the movement, questioned what specific threat had prompted the heightened police presence around the embassy after police confirmed the additional security was provided at the request of the embassy. Ali said the public had a right to know why additional security measures had been put in place. READ MORE: Palestine supporters stage pickets in 3 cities in Fiji, NZ protesting against new Israeli embassy Other Israeli embassy in Fiji reports “The security arrangements currently in place are unprecedented,” Ali said. “We believe these resources would be better directed toward serving the needs of Fijians, particularly at a time when many communities continue to express concerns about delays and inadequate responses from the police. “We call on the Police Commissioner and the government to explain the necessity of these extraordinary measures.” She said the Palestinian solidarity movement had also encountered heightened police monitoring during its peaceful gatherings and demonstrations. ‘Stop chanting’ call at vigils Ali claimed participants at vigil gatherings had on some occasions been instructed to stop chanting or remove banners supporting Palestine on “security” and “safety grounds”. However, she said police had never explained to the movement what specific threat the security measures were intended to address. “We also strongly reject any suggestion that members of the Palestinian solidarity movement pose a threat to public safety. “As Fijians, we also have a right to know what specific threat has been identified against the embassy.” Ali said the movement was not aware of any specific threat against the embassy and questioned why it appeared to have greater security than other embassies that had also been the subject of public pro…

Ukraine Launches Hundreds Of Drones At Another Wildberries Warehouse, Moscow #shorts
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Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s future?
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description: ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta As Indonesia marks the 81st anniversary of its independence today — August 17 — the republic has much to celebrate. Over eight decades, Indonesia has transformed itself from a newly independent archipelago into one of the world’s largest democracies and economies, holding together an extraordinarily diverse nation across thousands
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta As Indonesia marks the 81st anniversary of its independence today — August 17 — the republic has much to celebrate. Over eight decades, Indonesia has transformed itself from a newly independent archipelago into one of the world’s largest democracies and economies, holding together an extraordinarily diverse nation across thousands of islands. But anniversaries are not only moments for celebration. They are also moments for reflection. READ MORE: Indonesia at 81: Whose sovereignty are we celebrating? Indonesia’s magnitude 7.7 quake kills at least 51, displaces thousands Other Laurens Ikinia articles From Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost region, one question deserves particular attention: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132176 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Laurens-in-Papuan-traditional-farm-300wide.jpg" alt="The author and researcher Laurens Ikinia" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Laurens-in-Papuan-traditional-farm-300wide.jpg 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Laurens-in-Papuan-traditional-farm-300wide-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> The author and researcher Laurens Ikinia . . . “Protecting Papua’s diversity should not be seen as an obstacle to Indonesian nation-building.” Image: Laurens Ikinia After 81 years of independence, what do development, equality and “Merdeka” (“freedom”) really mean for Indigenous Papuans? Recent demographic figures make that question increasingly urgent. Population data from May–June 2026 puts the population across the land of Papua — Indonesia’s six Papuan provinces — at 5,797,499 people. Of these, 2,283,703 are recorded as Orang Asli Papua (OAP), or Indigenous Papuans, in Indonesia’s centralised Population Administration Information System. That is roughly 39.4 percent of the total population. This could mean everyone out…

Indonesia at 81 – who owns the land of Papua’s future?
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description: ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta As Indonesia marks the 81st anniversary of its independence on Monday — August 17 — the republic has much to celebrate. Over eight decades, Indonesia has transformed itself from a newly independent archipelago into one of the world’s largest democracies and economies, holding together an extraordinarily diverse nation across
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta As Indonesia marks the 81st anniversary of its independence on Monday — August 17 — the republic has much to celebrate. Over eight decades, Indonesia has transformed itself from a newly independent archipelago into one of the world’s largest democracies and economies, holding together an extraordinarily diverse nation across thousands of islands. But anniversaries are not only moments for celebration. They are also moments for reflection. READ MORE: Indonesia at 81: Whose sovereignty are we celebrating? Indonesia’s magnitude 7.7 quake kills at least 51, displaces thousands Other Laurens Ikinia articles From Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost region, one question deserves particular attention: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132176 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Laurens-in-Papuan-traditional-farm-300wide.jpg" alt="The author and researcher Laurens Ikinia" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Laurens-in-Papuan-traditional-farm-300wide.jpg 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Laurens-in-Papuan-traditional-farm-300wide-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> The author and researcher Laurens Ikinia . . . “Protecting Papua’s diversity should not be seen as an obstacle to Indonesian nation-building.” Image: Laurens Ikinia After 81 years of independence, what do development, equality and “Merdeka” (“freedom”) really mean for Indigenous Papuans? Recent demographic figures make that question increasingly urgent. Population data from May–June 2026 puts the population across the land of Papua — Indonesia’s six Papuan provinces — at 5,797,499 people. Of these, 2,283,703 are recorded as Orang Asli Papua (OAP), or Indigenous Papuans, in Indonesia’s centralised Population Administration Information System. That is roughly 39.4 percent of the total population. This could mean everyone…

‘Menace to the world’: With Iran talks stalled, Trump vows to declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory
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description: By Jessica Corbett of Common Dreams In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump has said that he planned to declare the Strait of Hormuz — which Iran has blockaded for much of the past five months over his and Israel’s illegal war — a US territory. Just two days
encoded: By Jessica Corbett of Common Dreams In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump has said that he planned to declare the Strait of Hormuz — which Iran has blockaded for much of the past five months over his and Israel’s illegal war — a US territory. Just two days after the latest inflation figures demonstrated, in the words of one expert, “Trump’s catastrophic mismanagement of our economy,” the President ignored the economic fallout from his war, which led Iran to restrict ship traffic through the strait, driving up fuel prices worldwide. “We’re bringing the prices way down,” he told a Long Island crowd. Trump also said that “after we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon, I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” That’s not a thing. He has not defeated Iran. This is literally the definition of forever war. It won’t be his kids sailing thousands of miles from home to secure his new territory. https://t.co/xoNg4ODNpq — Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 14, 2026 Some critics have responded to clips of the comments on X by mocking Trump — an infamous liar. Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) quipped, “Awesome! And the Easter Bunny is real.” Ryan Costello, policy director at the National Iranian American Council, said that “this jingoism rings a bit hollow when most of the US bases near the strait have been essentially abandoned due to danger from Iranian missiles and drones.” Progressive political commentator Kyle Kulinski declared that “he absolutely needs to be impeached, removed, and locked up. He’s a completely unhinged lunatic, and he’s a sadistic violent menace to the world.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132168" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Donald-Trump-ComD-680wide.png" alt="US President Donald Trump" width="680" height="434" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Donald-T…

Foreign espionage increasing in Pacific, says NZ’s spy agency
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-16T05:07:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Consensus
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description: RNZ News New Zealand’s spy agency says it is increasingly coming across espionage activity in the Pacific — and has identified individuals connected to an unnamed foreign intelligence service. The NZSIS reports that individually, Pacific states remain vulnerable to attempts at subversion, both in politically, and in the community. Security specialist Professor Al Gillespie told
encoded: RNZ News New Zealand’s spy agency says it is increasingly coming across espionage activity in the Pacific — and has identified individuals connected to an unnamed foreign intelligence service. The NZSIS reports that individually, Pacific states remain vulnerable to attempts at subversion, both in politically, and in the community. Security specialist Professor Al Gillespie told RNZ’s Midday Report on Friday that China had been singled out as a regional threat like never before. READ MORE: NZSIS singles out China for spying in New Zealand ‘at scale’ China denies espionage, foreign interference in New Zealand New Zealand’s Security Threat Environment 2026 Other Pacific espionage reports “In previous reports you’ve seen it also making that point about Russia, or about Iran. But they’re not mentioned this time. But China is,” he said “And it’s mentioned not just with regards to domestic interference but also with influence in the Pacific. And so they’re trying to shine a light on what may be going on.” The NZSIS said in its Security Threat Environment 2026 report that regionalism and consensus were the best safeguards, which is why foreign actors sought to sow division. Diaspora groups targeted Meanwhile, the SIS also said diaspora community groups in New Zealand were being unfairly targeted by foreign states and their proxies seeking to limit their democratic rights and freedoms. Gillespie said China was unfortunately not the only country that undertook this activity. He said SIS staff spent a lot of time talking to different communities about how the agency functioned and how it would handle threats so people could feel confident about coming to them with their concerns. The Chinese Embassy rejected the new NZSIS report, saying that it includes what it says are multiple “false allegations against China”. In a statement on Friday, the Chinese Embassy in Wellington said the NZSIS report included baseless and fabricated accusations. This story was first published on This…

Foreign espionage increasing in Pacific, says NZ’s spy agency
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description: RNZ News New Zealand’s spy agency says it is increasingly coming across espionage activity in the Pacific — and has identified individuals connected to an unnamed foreign intelligence service. The NZSIS reports that individually, Pacific states remain vulnerable to attempts at subversion, both in politically, and in the community. Security specialist Professor Al Gillespie told
encoded: RNZ News New Zealand’s spy agency says it is increasingly coming across espionage activity in the Pacific — and has identified individuals connected to an unnamed foreign intelligence service. The NZSIS reports that individually, Pacific states remain vulnerable to attempts at subversion, both in politically, and in the community. Security specialist Professor Al Gillespie told RNZ’s Midday Report on Friday that China had been singled out as a regional threat like never before. READ MORE: NZSIS singles out China for spying in New Zealand ‘at scale’ China denies espionage, foreign interference in New Zealand New Zealand’s Security Threat Environment 2026 Other Pacific espionage reports “In previous reports you’ve seen it also making that point about Russia, or about Iran. But they’re not mentioned this time. But China is,” he said “And it’s mentioned not just with regards to domestic interference but also with influence in the Pacific. And so they’re trying to shine a light on what may be going on.” The NZSIS said in its Security Threat Environment 2026 report that regionalism and consensus were the best safeguards, which is why foreign actors sought to sow division. Diaspora groups targeted Meanwhile, the SIS also said diaspora community groups in New Zealand were being unfairly targeted by foreign states and their proxies seeking to limit their democratic rights and freedoms. Gillespie said China was unfortunately not the only country that undertook this activity. He said SIS staff spent a lot of time talking to different communities about how the agency functioned and how it would handle threats so people could feel confident about coming to them with their concerns. The Chinese Embassy rejected the new NZSIS report, saying that it includes what it says are multiple “false allegations against China”. In a statement on Friday, the Chinese Embassy in Wellington said the NZSIS report included baseless and fabricated accusations. This story was first published on This…

‘Zombie drugs’ video shared by Harbhajan Singh is not from Punjab
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creator: Anindya Hazra
date: 2026-08-16T04:43:38Z
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description: BJP Rajya Sabha member and former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh recently re-shared a video on his official X account. Originally posted by an X user, Arshdeep Singh Saini, the clip shows two young men standing by the roadside in a seemingly disoriented state with their bodies appearing limp and their movements unusual. Sharing the video […]
encoded: BJP Rajya Sabha member and former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh recently re-shared a video on his official X account. Originally posted by an X user, Arshdeep Singh Saini, the clip shows two young men standing by the roadside in a seemingly disoriented state with their bodies appearing limp and their movements unusual. Sharing the video in the context of Punjab’s drug abuse problem, Singh expressed anguish, and wrote, “Very sad to see the situation of Punjab…” Very sad to see the situation of Punjab . Punjab and its youth deserve better. This issue needs honesty, accountability, and urgent action—not denial. https://t.co/Vb6si8eAaj — Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) August 10, 2026 The post, published on August 10, has been viewed over 100,000 times, and shared more than a 1,000 times. (Archive) Drug abuse remains a major issue in Punjab, which is slated to go to assembly polls in 2027. Harbhajan Singh, who switched from the AAP to the BJP in April 2026, shared the video while raising questions about accountability and the incumbent AAP government’s handling of the crisis. Several other social media users also posted the same video with similar captions, pointing to the growing drug abuse problem in Punjab. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check To begin with, we noticed that Punjab Police had reshared Singh’s post mentioning that the viral video was from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, and not from Punjab. The post from Punjab Police’s official handle urged users to verify facts before posting things online. (Archive) The video being circulated is from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan—not Punjab—and has no connection with Punjab Police. A Punjabi audio track does not make an incident a Punjab incident. We urge users and social media accounts to verify the facts and location before posting… https://t.co/bNHwjXVXsC — Punjab Police India (@PunjabPoliceInd) August 10, 2026 Mainstream news media outlets such as Times of India and India Today also fact-checked Singh’s viral c…

Republic, Gujarat Samachar write reports based on fake Italian Embassy statement
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description: After Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s customary hugs with foreign leaders and his public camaraderie with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday, August 13, a statement purportedly issued by the Italian Embassy in New Delhi began circulating on social media. […]
encoded: After Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s customary hugs with foreign leaders and his public camaraderie with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday, August 13, a statement purportedly issued by the Italian Embassy in New Delhi began circulating on social media. Speaking at the Rachnatmak Congress national convention, Gandhi gave Dikshit a big hug. Dikshit quipped, “You weren’t hugging me thinking I was Meloni?” Gandhi replied, “I haven’t reached that stage yet,” drawing laughter from the gathering. The exchange triggered outrage among Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and its supporters. The purported statement was posted on X by an account named ‘Italy in India’ (@AINga5f). It claimed that the embassy had expressed “deep concern and strong disapproval” over the “derogatory remarks” attributed to Gandhi. “We respect India’s democratic institutions and political discourse, and we expect the same respect for Italy and its democratically elected leadership,” the purported statement read. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-318556 size-full" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-14-at-15.03.53-1.jpeg" alt="" width="688" height="777" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-14-at-15.03.53-1.jpeg 688w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-14-at-15.03.53-1-266x300.jpeg 266w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px" /> Media outlets Republic and Gujarat Samachar published reports based on the purported letter. Click to view slideshow. Several other influential and verified X handles, including Right-wing influencer Ajeet Bharti, K S Radhakrishnan, International Business Times, CNN News 18 journalist Vaibhav Singh, Saravanaprasad Balasubramanian (Modi ka Pariwar) and Damodar Singh amplified the purported letter on X. Click to view slidesh…

If China got everything it wanted in the Pacific, what would that look like? w/ Jonah Bock, TAFI
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Tracy-Moana Campbell: Genocide training for NZ teachers by Israel a ludicrous idea
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description: COMMENTARY: By Tracy-Moana Campbell A country currently indicted for genocide has no business training our teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand on the topic of genocide. The notion is ludicrous. Under this National policy Kiwi teachers are going to be trained about genocide by Israelis. It is intended that some Kiwi teachers will be sent to
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Tracy-Moana Campbell A country currently indicted for genocide has no business training our teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand on the topic of genocide. The notion is ludicrous. Under this National policy Kiwi teachers are going to be trained about genocide by Israelis. It is intended that some Kiwi teachers will be sent to Israel for indoctrination tours. READ MORE: Holocaust education now part of the NZ curriculum Israel has no business teaching anyone’s children about the systematic dehumanisation of others — Marilyn Garson When truth in protest is under attack, don’t give disinformation a platform Kiwi teachers will be able to meet happy Palestinians in Israel. That is what South Africa’s apartheid government used to do — come meet the happy Blacks in Johannesburg. Soweto? Where’s that? Israel is currently indicted for genocide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has an arrest warrant out for him issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) — for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory to be unlawful on 19 July 2024. Any and all Israeli presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful. Notwithstanding that, Israel carries on its slaughter as though the law itself does not exist. It is beyond belief that a New Zealand government could have come up with a policy so ludicrous and so deeply offensive. Tracy-Moana Campbell is an employment relations advocate based in Masterton and an activist on Palestinian human rights. She had a commercial orange grove in Lebanon 10km from the Israeli border in 2005-2011. Israel bombed her oranges in 2006. It is a war crime to destroy civilian food sources. This commentary was originally a social media post but has been republished with the author’s permission. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Tracy-Moana Campbell: Genocide training for NZ teachers by Israel a ludicrous idea
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description: COMMENTARY: By Tracy-Moana Campbell A country currently indicted for genocide has no business training our teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand on the topic of genocide. The notion is ludicrous. Under this National policy Kiwi teachers are going to be trained about genocide by Israelis. It is intended that some Kiwi teachers will be sent to
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Tracy-Moana Campbell A country currently indicted for genocide has no business training our teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand on the topic of genocide. The notion is ludicrous. Under this National policy Kiwi teachers are going to be trained about genocide by Israelis. It is intended that some Kiwi teachers will be sent to Israel for indoctrination tours. READ MORE: Holocaust education now part of the NZ curriculum Israel has no business teaching anyone’s children about the systematic dehumanisation of others — Marilyn Garson When truth in protest is under attack, don’t give disinformation a platform Kiwi teachers will be able to meet happy Palestinians in Israel. That is what South Africa’s apartheid government used to do — come meet the happy Blacks in Johannesburg. Soweto? Where’s that? Israel is currently indicted for genocide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has an arrest warrant out for him issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) — for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory to be unlawful on 19 July 2024. Any and all Israeli presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful. Notwithstanding that, Israel carries on its slaughter as though the law itself does not exist. It is beyond belief that a New Zealand government could have come up with a policy so ludicrous and so deeply offensive. Tracy-Moana Campbell is an employment relations advocate based in Masterton and an activist on Palestinian human rights. She had a commercial orange grove in Lebanon 10km from the Israeli border in 2005-2011. Israel bombed her oranges in 2006. It is a war crime to destroy civilian food sources. This commentary was originally a social media post but has been republished with the author’s permission. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Big Tech Using Your Children
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description: Ralph speaks to Baroness Beeban Kidron, a member of the UK House of Lords and a leading voice on children’s rights in the digital environment, whose book is “Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back.” Then we welcome back whistleblower Be...
encoded: Ralph speaks to Baroness Beeban Kidron, a member of the UK House of Lords and a leading voice on children’s rights in the digital environment, whose book is “Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back.” Then we welcome back whistleblower Becky McClain a biotech scientist injured in an unsafe lab and author of “Exposed: A Pfizer Scientist Battles Corruption, Lies, and Betrayal, and Becomes a Biohazard Whistleblower.” Baroness Beeban Kidron is a member of the UK’s House of Lords and a former film director. She is a leading voice on children’s rights in the digital environment and a global authority on digital regulation. She has played a central role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world. She is the author of Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back. The things that children experience online are deliberately designed to distract them. Now, they are there to distract them because those companies want the attention so they can advertise. They want their data so that they can perfect their commercial terms,their product. And they even want their attention to compete against the other people who are competing for their attention. So here we have an absolute arms race for a child’s attention. Baroness Beeban Kidron I do want to say very clearly to anyone listening: This is a battle you shouldn’t be fighting on your own. And there is a responsibility for politicians—for both local politicians and federal politicians (national in our case, here in the UK) —to actually put these companies under the same sort of strictures that all other corporate companies do… One of the things I’m looking at is whether we can recategorize apps as products. And then they’ll have all the product liability, the product safety, consumer rights—all the things that we expect of everything else in our life from our food to our cars to our toys. That they would actually have to think before they roll them out: Are they safe? And when they…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 15, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Five years of Taliban rule
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What happens when a country with the highest murder rate in the world explodes into riots?
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(scenes from) SUBATOS VAKARĖLY – a Lithuanian Folk Festival
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Ukraine Strikes Key Russian Rocket Facility, Zelenskyy Says #shorts
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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AI could help fossil fuel companies create more emissions
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creator: Molly Taft, WIRED
date: 2026-08-15T13:00:00Z
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description: New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent — vastly outpacing the impact of data centers.
encoded: The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention. But new research from former Microsoft sustainability workers cautions that the way artificial intelligence enhances productivity in the oil and gas industry could be much more damaging to the planet. Published last week in the journal npj Climate Action, the research finds that AI use could significantly increase global energy emissions simply by enabling the fossil fuel industry to produce more oil and gas. At the low end, the research finds that the additional yearly emissions could be equal to Mexico’s; at the high end, AI boosting the fossil fuel industry could add as much greenhouse gas emissions as Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter. That increase in emissions, the paper finds, outweighs the benefits AI provides to developing solar, wind, and other clean technologies. It also significantly outpaces projections of emissions from the global data center buildout. The relationship between technology companies and fossil fuels is “a self-reinforcing effect between supply and demand,” says Will Alpine, one of the authors of the research. “One of the key insights of our paper is that you cannot treat them independently. They are two sides of the same coin.” Alpine and his wife and coauthor, Holly, are former Microsoft sustainability workers with years of experience between them at the company. They quit their jobs at the start of 2024 because of the company’s continued work with the oil and gas industry and began publicly campaigning to draw attention to the relationship between AI and fossil fuels. Oil and gas companies have been using various types of AI for decades to help find and develop underground resources more efficiently. That increases global dependence on fossil fuels and makes it harder for the world to reach its climate targets, the Alpines argue. While tech companies measure their own emissions and that of their supply chain, they don’t tend to measure just how much their…

The South lost the Civil War, but its "narrative" won: civil rights activist
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Palestine protesters told they are ‘rainbow people’ of hope after 150 weeks of Gaza protest
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Palestine protesters told they are ‘rainbow people’ of hope after 150 weeks of Gaza protest
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Jeremy Corbyn: “Protest works”
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date: 2026-08-15T11:00:34Z
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The Day Kabul Fell: 5 Years After The Taliban Takeover In Afghanistan #afghanistan
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Under Taliban Rule, Pregnancy Brings Deadly Risks To Afghan Women #shorts
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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‘Just lovely’: Karanga-a-Hape train station delights locals and visitors on open day
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description: By Lucy Xia of RNZ Thousands have toured the metro City Rail Link’s deepest station — Karanga-a-Hape Station — ahead of its opening next month, and the station and its surrounds have come alive with music, performances and queues of people lining up to order food at St Kevin’s Arcade. The event today drew in
encoded: By Lucy Xia of RNZ Thousands have toured the metro City Rail Link’s deepest station — Karanga-a-Hape Station — ahead of its opening next month, and the station and its surrounds have come alive with music, performances and queues of people lining up to order food at St Kevin’s Arcade. The event today drew in not just Aucklanders, but also visitors from other cities. Karanga-a-Hape Station has New Zealand’s longest escalator, taking passengers 33 metres beneath Pitt Street. READ MORE: Other City Rail Link reports Other artistic features include a ceiling shaped like three kauri snail shells, in homage to the kauri forests that once covered the Karangahape ridgeline before urbanisation. Thirteen-year-old Aizu Rive, who has visiting his Auckland grandparents — coming all the way from Tokyo — said he likes the architecture of the station, including the ceiling designs. The young rail enthusiast said he was excited that New Zealand now had a metro network. “Feels very nice, because New Zealand is getting bigger too, it’s getting similar with Japan so it feels very nice,” he said. Train ‘getting bigger’ “The train is getting bigger in New Zealand, and I love trains, so it’s really good for me,” he added. Mary Thompson, who’s come from Te Aroha in Waikato to visit the station, said opening of Auckland’s City Rail Link will make it easier for her to do day trips to Auckland. “Coming up to Auckland, it’s always been a pain with parking, this, we just grab one [train] from Pukekohe, come through a day out, a good journey,” she said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132103" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Station-family-RNZ-680wide.jpg" alt="Thirteen-year-old rail enthusiast Aizu Rive, with his brother and grandparents" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Station-family-RNZ-680wide.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Station-family…

Strait of Hormuz: It’s not just the numbers – it’s the ships’ vote and that’s for Iran
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description: Special Corespondent Maritime intelligence firm Kpler counted 13 vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. The number is small. But the number is not the story. The story is that nine of those 13 took the Iranian-approved route. The route American warned ships against using. READ MORE: Trump says he will declare Hormuz US
encoded: Special Corespondent Maritime intelligence firm Kpler counted 13 vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. The number is small. But the number is not the story. The story is that nine of those 13 took the Iranian-approved route. The route American warned ships against using. READ MORE: Trump says he will declare Hormuz US territory ‘pretty soon’ Other war on Iran reports Now the question is: Trump says the strait is “under our control”. So whose instructions are the ships following? The answer is in the arithmetic. Sixty-nine percent of them ignored the American warning and entered Iran’s lane. That is not a statement. Not a claim. That is a vote. And the vote was cast by people with hundreds of millions of dollars floating on that water. Plain language CNN put it in plainer language. They wrote that the figure does not reflect Trump’s repeated insistence this week that the strait is “open” and under American control. But today’s article will not only be about counting ships. Because Iran has done something on paper as well, and it has barely been discussed. In May, Iran created an institution — the Persian Gulf Strait Authority. According to a report by the US Congressional Research Service, Iran declared that no vessel may pass through the Strait of Hormuz without a valid passage permit issued by this authority. Notice what that is. It is not a threat. It is administration. A threat can stop a ship, but build a permit system and you never need to stop one. The ship comes to you and asks for permission. And this is where Iran’s strategy becomes visible. Early in the war, Iran attacked vessels. That was a display of strength, but it carried a cost — every attack drained away the world’s sympathy. A legal face Now Iran attacks less and sells permits instead. Same result, but the face of it is legal. There is one more line in the CRS report, and it is the foundation of this strategy. Iranian leaders claim it was the June memorandum of understanding that grant…

SEND ME (But Then Bring Me Feckin’ Home Again)
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description: Stormy times at sea, as U.S. ships endure months-long, record-setting deployments for a war nobody wanted that still has no clear objective, reason for being or end in sight and their thousands of burned-out sailors endure bad food, water, plumbing an...
encoded: Stormy times at sea, as U.S. ships endure months-long, record-setting deployments for a war nobody wanted that still has no clear objective, reason for being or end in sight and their thousands of burned-out sailors endure bad food, water, plumbing and morale so low some are leaping overboard, or trying to, to end it all. Blame Nazi messianic clown Kegseth and his fellow zealots, who lured the faithful and gullible in then abandoned them - a sordid regime hallmark. On land, of course, things aren't much better these days. In short inept order, Trump has trashed the economy, deporting or terrorizing away over a million brown-skinned workers for the latest dismal jobs report; ordered toxic, nonsensical changes to longtime vaccine policies based on debunked theories, what "some people say," and the fever dream of a lethal "vaccination thing" the size of a soda bottle poured into "a little child's body"; spent over $900 million of our money on vanity construction projects in D.C nobody authorized or asked for; and invested $20 million on gloves for already abusive ICE thugs to give painful electric shocks to "non-compliant" victims in "a recipe for harm to the public" and what could possibly go wrong. Meanwhile, the Iran debacle lurches on. The Pentagon is frantically shifting money from equipment, training and missile defense funds to pay for it, oil reserves and munitions stockpiles have shrunk to record lows, our 122% debt-to-Gross-Domestic-Product ratio means U.S. debt is now greater than the value of everything we produce in a year, "including The Odyssey," and Pete Kegsbreath shrugs it off with an inane, "It takes money to kill bad guys." He's so desperate to get his obscene $1.5 trillion, $3.18 billion a day - the biggest defense budget increase since World War II - he hijacked a ceremony renaming Joint Base Charleston to Joint Base Lindsey Graham by urging Congress give it to him 'cause there'd be "no greater tribute" to the guy who never met a war he didn't lik…

Justin Pearson: "People don’t want toxic data centers"
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Israeli siege of Palestinian homes in West Bank
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-14T23:30:14Z
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Ask Angola Prison: What Difference Can a Play Make? [EXCERPT]
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$1.1 MILLION AN HOUR!!—Trump’s Personal Profit in 2025
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description: By Ralph Nader August 14, 2026 To House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—Your responses on July 1, 2026 on the reporting of the $2.2 billion profit personally reaped by President Donald Trump, while allegedly a p...
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Journalism coalition calls on Brazilian Supreme Court to reaffirm source confidentiality protection
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a joint statement condemned the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) for its decision to violate a journalist’s constitutional right of source confidentiality. “Like any other citizen, journalists are subject to the law and may...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a joint statement condemned the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) for its decision to violate a journalist’s constitutional right of source confidentiality. “Like any other citizen, journalists are subject to the law and may be investigated for any crimes they have committed. However, it is unacceptable to reverse the investigative process and violate the constitutional right to source confidentiality in order to gather information and find evidence of illegal activities,” the statement notes. The Coalition calls on the STF to hour its history of upholding press freedom and to re-establish source confidentiality protection in accordance with the Brazilian Constitution. Read the full statement in Portuguese here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Gaza documentary "American Doctor" goes inside hospitals during genocide
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date: 2026-08-14T18:56:58Z
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The Intercept Is Suing Trump & Truth Social
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 14, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 14, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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The student movement for Palestine is not going away, but it is adapting to a new political reality
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Some in Gaza’s youngest generation may not even know what toys are
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creator: Sara Awad
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description: This article was originally published by Truthout on Aug. 13, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. While humanitarian associations’ coverage of Gaza focuses on how to provide food, medicine, and shelter, an...
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Omaha Soil Still Has Toxic Levels of Lead
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Meet The Palestinian Circus: Troupe Mixes Circus Arts & Traditional Palestinian Culture
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-14T17:38:21Z
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How A Children’s Blazer Get Us A Meeting With North Korea’s New Leader?
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Donavan McKinney on democratic socialism
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-14T16:37:21Z
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"American Doctor": New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-14T16:36:43Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"American Doctor": New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-14T16:36:43Z
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UN News Today 14 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-08-14T16:09:23Z
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description: Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone - UNFPASouth Sudan funding cuts threaten aid to more than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers Healthcare attacks scourge having an immediate and lasting impact on patient care: WHO
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Cameroon journalist held incommunicado for photo of Anglophone unrest
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-08-14T16:02:35Z
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description: Dakar, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to release George Atabong Lekeaka, who has been held incommunicado since Monday for publishing a photo of security officers on patrol during clashes with separatist fighters. “George Atabong Lekeaka should not have been arrested for attempting to provide the public with security information,...
encoded: Dakar, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to release George Atabong Lekeaka, who has been held incommunicado since Monday for publishing a photo of security officers on patrol during clashes with separatist fighters. “George Atabong Lekeaka should not have been arrested for attempting to provide the public with security information, let alone secretly detained without access to a lawyer or his family, in violation of his rights,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Cameroonian authorities should immediately disclose Lekeaka’s whereabouts, release him, and refrain from targeting journalists for covering the Anglophone crisis.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="493" height="682" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/George-Atabong-Lekeaka.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-608598" style="width:493px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/George-Atabong-Lekeaka.jpg 493w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/George-Atabong-Lekeaka.jpg?resize=217,300 217w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/George-Atabong-Lekeaka.jpg?resize=367,508 367w" sizes="(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px" /> George Atabong Lekeaka (Credit withheld) The Anglophone crisis began in 2016 with protests by lawyers and teachers over the appointment of French-speaking officials in the minority English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions, triggering a crackdown by the majority French-speaking government and a secessionist rebellion. On August 10, Lekeaka published a photo of a soldier and a police officer on patrol in the southwestern city of Buea on the Facebook page All-About-Cameroon, to which he is a contributor, the page’s administrator told CPJ, on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal. “Serious gunfire exchange between the military and the ‘boyses’ at mile 18 Buea, please stay home and stay safe,” the post said, using a nickname for the separatists. Hours …

40 Acres and a Lie (Preview)
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creator: Reveal
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CPJ, partners sound alarm over pre-election media crackdown in Kazakhstan
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-08-14T15:01:02Z
subject: Aleksandra Alyokhova
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subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Dinara Yegeubayeva
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subject: Lukpan Akhmedyarov
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined eight local and international press freedom and human rights groups on Friday in expressing deep concern over escalating pressure on independent journalists in Kazakhstan ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for August 23. The groups’ joint statement details how, in the weeks leading up to the vote – the first...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined eight local and international press freedom and human rights groups on Friday in expressing deep concern over escalating pressure on independent journalists in Kazakhstan ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for August 23. The groups’ joint statement details how, in the weeks leading up to the vote – the first to be held for a new unicameral parliament established under a new constitution passed earlier this year – the authorities have arrested political commentator Azamat Omarov, placed prominent independent journalists Lukpan Akhmedyarov and Dinara Yegeubayeva under criminal investigation and travel bans, and sentenced reporter Aleksandra Alyokhova to a multi-year prison term. Noting that these cases form part of a “broader, longer-term pattern”, the statement highlights concerns that this pressure on independent journalists has reached an “unprecedented level” and warrants enhanced attention from the international community as Kazakhstan heads to the polls. In April, CPJ led a group, including some of the same organizations featured in this joint statement, in writing to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to express concern over a wave of journalist arrests around the time the new constitution was voted on in March. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

"Stop Toxic Data Centers": Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis
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"Mop Up Michigan": Donavan McKinney on Democratic Socialism, Corporate Money & His Primary Upset
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 14, 2026
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“American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
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description: The new documentary American Doctor tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, with local medical staff risking their...
encoded: The new documentary American Doctor tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, with local medical staff risking their own lives in the process. According to Palestinian officials, Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023. The documentary follows three U.S. doctors as they volunteer in Gaza hospitals. Director Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of her “deep despair” over what was happening in Gaza, including deadly Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues. American Doctor is her attempt “to bring Palestine back to the United States,” Teng says. We also speak with two of the subjects of the film: trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and emergency physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who is Palestinian American. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Liberia to Remove School Registration Fees
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“Mop Up Michigan”: Donavan McKinney on Democratic Socialism, Corporate Money & His Primary Upset
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description: One of the biggest upsets from Democratic primary elections this month was Donavan McKinney’s defeat of two-term Congressmember Shri Thanedar in the House primary to represent parts of Detroit and Wayne County in Michigan’s 13th Di...
encoded: One of the biggest upsets from Democratic primary elections this month was Donavan McKinney’s defeat of two-term Congressmember Shri Thanedar in the House primary to represent parts of Detroit and Wayne County in Michigan’s 13th District. McKinney, a democratic socialist state lawmaker, won on a platform to get corporate money out of politics, support Medicare for All and end military aid to Israel, among other issues. Like many other insurgent Democrats running for office, he has also proposed strict limits on artificial intelligence data centers. He took no corporate PAC money, and his campaign was supported by the Justice Democrats, Working Families Party, Democratic Socialists of America and major labor unions. “We built the biggest and baddest coalition in the country,” says McKinney of his win. “People have come together and realized that our district deserves better.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis
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description: We speak with Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson, who just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state’s 9th Congressional District. Pearson’s campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelli...
encoded: We speak with Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson, who just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state’s 9th Congressional District. Pearson’s campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelligence data centers, particularly Elon Musk’s Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, which are in the Memphis area. “People don’t want toxic data centers polluting the air that they breathe,” says Pearson. “It’s not a fight of right versus left; it’s a fight of those who are at the top and the rest of us.” Pearson is a longtime environmental justice organizer and advocate who first gained national prominence three years ago, when he was expelled from Tennessee’s House of Representatives for protesting Republicans’ inaction on gun violence. He is now running in a congressional district that was recently gerrymandered to dilute Black voting power in the state following a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act. His opponent in November is Republican state Senator Brent Taylor, who is endorsed by President Donald Trump. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Meet the Palestinian Circus: Troupe Mixes Circus Arts & Traditional Palestinian Culture
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description: Amy Goodman meets with two members of the Palestinian Circus who are performing daily at the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.
encoded: Amy Goodman meets with two members of the Palestinian Circus who are performing daily at the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Special thanks to Hana Elias. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on Volunteering in Gaza & New Film “American Doctor”
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description: Pt. 2 of our conversation with Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new film American Doctor about U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza. We also speak with the film’s director, Poh Si Teng.
encoded: Pt. 2 of our conversation with Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new film American Doctor about U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza. We also speak with the film’s director, Poh Si Teng. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 14, 2026
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description: CIA Carried Out Drone Strikes, Disappearances and Torture Near Ecuador’s Coast, Rights Groups Say Israel Is Covering Up War Crimes Evidence as It Clears Gaza’s Rubble, Israeli Settlers’ Siege of Palestinian Homes Draws Rare Rebuke from U.S. Ambassador, Lebanon Condemns Home Demolitions by Israel as a “Serious Violation of International Law”, Pentagon Sends New Aircraft Carrier to Relieve USS Abraham Lincoln Following Attempted Suicides, DHS Targeted Left-Leaning Groups in Minnesota with Mass Surveillance Program, ICE Confirms Death of Third Immigrant at Privately Run ICE Jail in New Jersey, 140 Immigrants Hold Hunger Strike at For-Profit ICE Jail in Tacoma, Washington, Activists Try to Halt Border Wall Construction as Contractors Bulldoze Landmarks, Russian and Ukrainian Attacks in Black Sea Raise Fears of Skyrocketing Global Food Prices, Japan Rejects Putin Visit to Disputed Islands as Poland Says It Thwarted Russian Assassination Plot, Indiana Declares Statewide Disaster Emergency Amid Historic Flooding, Federal Judge Tosses Trump Administration’s “Antisemitism” Lawsuit Against Harvard, Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Federal Probe into Death of Nolan Wells, Kennedy Center Board Orders Trump’s Name Restored to Performing Arts Center, Flouting Court Order
encoded: CIA Carried Out Drone Strikes, Disappearances and Torture Near Ecuador's Coast Rights Groups Say Israel Is Covering Up War Crimes Evidence as It Clears Gaza's Rubble Israeli Settlers' Siege of Palestinian Homes Draws Rare Rebuke from U.S. Ambassador Lebanon Condemns Home Demolitions by Israel as a "Serious Violation of International Law" Pentagon Sends New Aircraft Carrier to Relieve USS Abraham Lincoln Following Attempted Suicides DHS Targeted Left-Leaning Groups in Minnesota with Mass Surveillance Program ICE Confirms Death of Third Immigrant at Privately Run ICE Jail in New Jersey 140 Immigrants Hold Hunger Strike at For-Profit ICE Jail in Tacoma, Washington Activists Try to Halt Border Wall Construction as Contractors Bulldoze Landmarks Russian and Ukrainian Attacks in Black Sea Raise Fears of Skyrocketing Global Food Prices Japan Rejects Putin Visit to Disputed Islands as Poland Says It Thwarted Russian Assassination Plot Indiana Declares Statewide Disaster Emergency Amid Historic Flooding Federal Judge Tosses Trump Administration's "Antisemitism" Lawsuit Against Harvard Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Federal Probe into Death of Nolan Wells Kennedy Center Board Orders Trump's Name Restored to Performing Arts Center, Flouting Court Order This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-14 Friday
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Iranians In Enormous Lines For Gas As Fuel Shortage Gets Worse #shorts
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Sudan: A refugee mother’s story
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Russian Guided Bomb Directly Hits Apartment Building #shorts
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Fiji court rules COI report into Malimali appointment was unlawful, null and void
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description: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific The Fiji High Court has ruled that the Commission of Inquiry report into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, in its entirety, is null and void. Justice Dane Tuiqereqere also found that the COI report was unlawful, and that its adverse findings were irrational and it has
encoded: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific The Fiji High Court has ruled that the Commission of Inquiry report into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, in its entirety, is null and void. Justice Dane Tuiqereqere also found that the COI report was unlawful, and that its adverse findings were irrational and it has been quashed It has also been found that President Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka failed to provide the applicants with natural justice. READ MORE: Judge rules COI report is unlawful and null and void, and President, PM and COI breached principles of natural justice Other COI reports Malimali challenged the report with former Attorney-General Graham Leung, and lawyers Wylie Clarke and Laurel Vaurasi. Local media said the judge has determined that the President, the Prime Minister and the Commission of Inquiry, breached principles of natural justice for not giving the applicants the opportunity to respond to the adverse findings against them. Fiji Village News said Justice Tuiqereqere ruled that the work of the Commission of Inquiry after 1 February 2025, including the report, is ultra vires or unlawful. He found that the extension of the Commission of Inquiry beyond 31 January 2025 was ineffective. As a result, the actions of the Commissioner after that date, including the completion of his report dated 1 May 2025, were unlawful, Fiji Village News stated. Justice Tuiqereqere has also found that adverse findings and recommendations against the applicants including Malimali, former Attorney-General Graham Leung and lawyers Wylie Clarke and Laurel Vaurasi were unlawful, including those relating to a meeting at the FICAC office on 5 September 2024. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-119408 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sitiveni-Rabuka-RNZ-680wide.png" alt="Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka" width="680" height="505" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-con…

Fiji court rules COI report into Malimali appointment was unlawful, null and void
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description: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific The Fiji High Court has ruled that the Commission of Inquiry report into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, in its entirety, is null and void. Justice Dane Tuiqereqere also found that the COI report was unlawful, and that its adverse findings were irrational and it has
encoded: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific The Fiji High Court has ruled that the Commission of Inquiry report into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, in its entirety, is null and void. Justice Dane Tuiqereqere also found that the COI report was unlawful, and that its adverse findings were irrational and it has been quashed It has also been found that President Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka failed to provide the applicants with natural justice. READ MORE: Judge rules COI report is unlawful and null and void, and President, PM and COI breached principles of natural justice Other COI reports Malimali challenged the report with former Attorney-General Graham Leung, and lawyers Wylie Clarke and Laurel Vaurasi. Local media said the judge has determined that the President, the Prime Minister and the Commission of Inquiry, breached principles of natural justice for not giving the applicants the opportunity to respond to the adverse findings against them. Fiji Village News said Justice Tuiqereqere ruled that the work of the Commission of Inquiry after 1 February 2025, including the report, is ultra vires or unlawful. He found that the extension of the Commission of Inquiry beyond 31 January 2025 was ineffective. As a result, the actions of the Commissioner after that date, including the completion of his report dated 1 May 2025, were unlawful, Fiji Village News stated. Justice Tuiqereqere has also found that adverse findings and recommendations against the applicants including Malimali, former Attorney-General Graham Leung and lawyers Wylie Clarke and Laurel Vaurasi were unlawful, including those relating to a meeting at the FICAC office on 5 September 2024. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-119408 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sitiveni-Rabuka-RNZ-680wide.png" alt="Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka" width="680" height="505" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-con…

Has the Left Really Met Its Limit? ⏐The Intercept Briefing
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How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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creator: Peter Elkind
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description: The post How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Matt Rota for ProPublica. Animation by Henrike Lendowski for ProPublica. It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington. The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases to back up President Donald Trump’s claims that illegal voting by noncitizens was tipping the scales in American elections. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a massive federal law enforcement agency, had been dispatched to work leads across the country, including hundreds in Minnesota. Teirab was already under pressure. In an earlier missive, Nick Davis, a high-ranking Justice Department appointee helping to lead the election fraud crusade, had reminded him the cases were so high priority that Teirab and his staff couldn’t decline to move forward on them without express approval from agency higher-ups. On March 24, Davis demanded a status report — within hours. Teirab, a former Marine and a Harvard Law graduate who’d run unsuccessfully for Congress as a Republican, responded with a blunt reality check. “Bottom line up front,” he replied in an email reviewed by ProPublica. After subpoenaing records on about 130 people, only one had been referred for prosecution, his staff had told him. Agents had deluged local election offices with calls and demands for voting histories, demonstrating “a complete lack of understanding” of illegal voting investigations. “The HSI task force has been disjointed and disorganized,” Teirab wrote. The entire process, he said, had been “dysfunctional.” Since Trump regained the White House, his administration has launched a series of unprecedented initiatives to find and prosecute voting by noncitizens, which he’s long claimed, without evidence, is rampant. He’s stepped up this push in recent weeks, saying in a nationally televised speech that the American election system was “so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it.” To support that asser…

DN! Friday, August 14, 2026
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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
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creator: Ellis Simani
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description: The post Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source image: U.S. Treasury via Wikimedia Commons. When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood — the flow of donor dollars. Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status. Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks. Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision, one they refused to fully explain, to prevent donors from using their platforms to give to the embattled nonprofit. Vanguard Charitable, Fidelity Charitable and Charles Schwab’s DAFgiving360 sponsor donor-advised funds, offering account holders immediate tax deductions on contributions they can later recommend be granted to charities. Once niche, donor-advised fund sponsors controlled more than $327 billion in assets as of 2024, over 10 times their footprint two decades ago. They are the conduit for about a quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. After the three sponsors cut off the SPLC, ProPublica investigated how the new gatekeepers of American philanthropy make these opaque, high-stakes decisions. In examining the treatment of dozens of nonprofits, we uncovered troubling inconsistencies in how some DAF sponsors applied their policies and found that donors and affected charities are routinely left in the dark about how decisions are made. The three sponsors are nonprofits spun off from major brokerages. Their accounts, used largely by high-income earners, charge administrative fees while sponsors retain legal control over the charitable assets. (ProPublica has received donations through each of the groups.) Donors “advise” the sponsors on where to send grants, but sponsors can deny requests for any reason. They say decisions stem from policy triggers. Vanguard Charitable pauses payments when an organization faces formal …

The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
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creator: Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
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description: For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.
encoded: Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same question. The facilities emit ethylene oxide, a potent carcinogen, and those who lived nearby wanted to know how much the emissions were increasing their cancer risk. She turned to data compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency to find out. The resulting maps, published in 2023 by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit where Minovi is a researcher, revealed that more than 14 million people lived in a 5-mile radius of ethylene oxide-emitting facilities. Crucially, the map highlighted 23 sterilization facilities that the EPA had found emit ethylene oxide at levels that definitively contribute to elevated cancer risk. The project helped raise awareness and was used to push the government to tighten limits on ethylene oxide emissions. But now, the cancer risk data that made Minovi’s analysis possible has quietly gone offline. After more than two decades of sharing this information with the public, the Environmental Protection Agency has omitted cancer risk estimates from its latest update to national air pollution data. The agency is continuing to release raw pollution figures, but it is no longer providing information on the additional cancer risk that the emissions cause. It has also not updated its searchable U.S. map of cancer risk from air pollution with the most recent data. The risk assessments are routinely used by communities to understand the effects of the pollution in their neighborhoods, as well as by journalists and nonprofits to inform the public and hold polluters accountable. Withholding this information would shift the burden of interpreting pollution data — a technically demanding task requiring specialized experience and an understanding of EPA protocols — onto the public, Minovi said, making it harder for communities to access this vital public health information. “At the end of …

Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can
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creator: Frida Garza
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description: The Biden-era heat safety rule was already languishing. Now, in a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block it entirely. What gives?
encoded: July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in place — afflicting large swaths of the country. The most recent of these contributed to an 18-day extreme heat warning in Phoenix, Arizona, the state’s second-longest stretch on record. Yet, in the face of these extreme heat events, representatives in Congress last month advanced a bill that would block the nation’s workplace regulator from finalizing a rule to protect workers from heat stress. What gives? H.R. 6213 was introduced last year by Representative Mark Messmer from Indiana, who celebrated the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s recent vote in support of the legislation. The bill seeks to undermine a proposed federal rule that has been languishing under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA. The rule — which would ensure workers have access to rest, shade, and water on the job — was drafted under the Biden administration. Messmer has described the proposed rule as “unnecessary,” saying it would present a burden to employers. In response to a request for comment, the communications director for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Audra McGeorge, did not share a timeline for a full vote on the bill. “The Committee doesn’t control the Floor schedule,” she said. But labor advocates are nevertheless alarmed by the progress H.R. 6213 has made, especially at a time of record-breaking summer temperatures. “The passage of this bill would set a terrible precedent,” said Juanita Constible, a senior advocate on environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It signals a shift away from our current deliberate, data-driven process to kind of a Wild West, where Congress decides whether workers are at risk or not. And I don’t think that’s its role.” Since OSHA first went public with its proposed rule on preventing heat illness and injury in 2024, the agency ha…

Content creators decry Instagram censorship, call restrictions a ‘digital emergency’
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creator: Ankita Mahalanobish
date: 2026-08-14T08:22:54Z
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subject: creators
subject: decry
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description: A wave of blanket and seemingly arbitrary restrictions is sweeping Instagram in India, with posts and accounts being taken down or restricted, particularly content related to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests, political satire and any kind of criticism of the ruling dispensation. The takedowns have exposed an opaque and largely unaccountable process, with users […]
encoded: A wave of blanket and seemingly arbitrary restrictions is sweeping Instagram in India, with posts and accounts being taken down or restricted, particularly content related to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests, political satire and any kind of criticism of the ruling dispensation. The takedowns have exposed an opaque and largely unaccountable process, with users given little to no meaningful avenue to appeal the removal or restriction of their posts and pages. Meta’s explanations often lead to a loop of generic messages citing “local legal requirements” or “automated systems”. While India is identified as the location of the restriction, the platform offers little clarity on what triggered the decision or why specific content was targeted, including through Meta’s Transparency Centre. The timing of this state-ordered censorship frenzy is difficult to ignore. It comes immediately atter a youth-led movement whose whose unprecedented reach and mobilisation were driven largely by social media, with Instagram playing a central role. The platform helped transform CJP from a satire page into a nationwide movement, amplifying dissent and mobilising young people at a scale that ultimately forced the government to concede to some of its core demands. For many creators affected by the takedowns, their work on Instagram is a primary source of income and professional engagement. Alt News spoke to several users, including content creators, comedians, satirists and journalists, caught up in this expanding censorship drive. ALSO READ: Government orders trigger sweeping Instagram censorship days after CJP protest Anjali Priya, an Instagram creator with more than 104,000 followers, is among those affected. Priya’s content spans politics, entertainment and other issues, typically combining personal commentary with factual references. On August 1, Priya uploaded a video featuring a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his address to young protesters, in which he “forgave th…

Singer-songwriter Morgan Nagler on the way time and money clarifies your artistic values
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creator: Jennifer Lewis
date: 2026-08-14T07:00:00Z
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description: Listening to I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, I was struck by how much wisdom is in these songs, especially “Cradle the Pain” and “Crystal Ball.” I hear a kind of hard-won realism. I’m curious whether those songs came from a place of knowing, or whether you were writing your way toward understanding something yourself.
encoded: Listening to I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, I was struck by how much wisdom is in these songs, especially “Cradle the Pain” and “Crystal Ball.” I hear a kind of hard-won realism. I’m curious whether those songs came from a place of knowing, or whether you were writing your way toward understanding something yourself. That’s interesting because those songs came from different places. “Cradle the Pain” began as a letter to a friend, but years later I realized I was really writing to myself. The gift of putting something on paper is that you can come back to it later and discover it was medicine you needed all along. Do you often start songs by talking to just one person? Sometimes. But when I’m writing for myself, I try not to think too much about who I’m talking to. My goal is to bypass the filter of my conscious mind and see what comes forward from the unconscious. Often, I only understand what a song was about years later. Looking back now, I can see that much of the record was processing a breakup I didn’t yet realize was coming. After years of helping other artists find the shape of a song, is it easier to help someone else say what they’re trying to say than it is to do that for yourself? Other people’s lives are easier to see clearly than our own. When you’re looking at someone else’s work, you don’t have all the baggage attached to it. You’re just seeing what’s there. Editing is everything. I’ve watched friends make films and seen the same movie in multiple cuts. The entire tone can change. The meaning can change. The footage is identical, but the movie becomes something completely different. You often describe those six months writing with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings as your version of music school. What did they teach you that you couldn’t have learned on your own? It wasn’t planned. I got a call asking what I was doing tomorrow and whether I wanted to come to Nashville. A plane ticket was booked that night. I ended up staying for six mont…

Singer-songwriter Morgan Nagler on the way time and money clarifies your artistic values
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description: Listening to I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, I was struck by how much wisdom is in these songs, especially “Cradle the Pain” and “Crystal Ball.” I hear a kind of hard-won realism. I’m curious whether those songs came from a place of knowing, or whether you were writing your way toward understanding something yourself.
encoded: Listening to I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, I was struck by how much wisdom is in these songs, especially “Cradle the Pain” and “Crystal Ball.” I hear a kind of hard-won realism. I’m curious whether those songs came from a place of knowing, or whether you were writing your way toward understanding something yourself. That’s interesting because those songs came from different places. “Cradle the Pain” began as a letter to a friend, but years later I realized I was really writing to myself. The gift of putting something on paper is that you can come back to it later and discover it was medicine you needed all along. Do you often start songs by talking to just one person? Sometimes. But when I’m writing for myself, I try not to think too much about who I’m talking to. My goal is to bypass the filter of my conscious mind and see what comes forward from the unconscious. Often, I only understand what a song was about years later. Looking back now, I can see that much of the record was processing a breakup I didn’t yet realize was coming. After years of helping other artists find the shape of a song, is it easier to help someone else say what they’re trying to say than it is to do that for yourself? Other people’s lives are easier to see clearly than our own. When you’re looking at someone else’s work, you don’t have all the baggage attached to it. You’re just seeing what’s there. Editing is everything. I’ve watched friends make films and seen the same movie in multiple cuts. The entire tone can change. The meaning can change. The footage is identical, but the movie becomes something completely different. You often describe those six months writing with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings as your version of music school. What did they teach you that you couldn’t have learned on your own? It wasn’t planned. I got a call asking what I was doing tomorrow and whether I wanted to come to Nashville. A plane ticket was booked that night. I ended up staying for six mont…

5 years after Taliban takeover, CPJ calls for an end to deepening repression of journalists
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date: 2026-08-14T06:52:59Z
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description: New York, August 14, 2026—Five years on from the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the group to halt its brutal repression of the press — particularly women journalists — and lift sweeping restrictions that have cut access to independent information and allowed a propaganda ecosystem to flourish. After capturing...
encoded: New York, August 14, 2026—Five years on from the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the group to halt its brutal repression of the press — particularly women journalists — and lift sweeping restrictions that have cut access to independent information and allowed a propaganda ecosystem to flourish. After capturing Kabul on August 15, 2021, Taliban authorities immediately began their attack on the media, barring female journalists from working at the public broadcaster, beating reporters while they covered protests, and, by 2022, using arbitrary detention and imprisonment as a tool to censor news outlets. Khalid Qaderi, a Radio Nawruz reporter and producer in Herat, was the first case CPJ documented of a journalist convicted and sentenced for his work after the Taliban takeover. “Since taking over Afghanistan five years ago, the Taliban have made Afghanistan one of the world’s hardest places for journalists to report,” said Waliullah Rahmani, CPJ’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Representative. “Journalists are surveilled, detained, beaten, censored, or driven into exile. Women journalists face additional discrimination, and people are increasingly terrified to speak. Internet and mobile restrictions have deepened the press freedom crisis and cemented the Taliban’s control over Afghanistan’s information space.” Women in the media face particularly severe and escalating discrimination. Taliban authorities have banned women’s voices from radio and TV in Helmand, prevented them from attending press conferences, and mandated that they cover their faces when appearing on TV. In February 2025, Taliban intelligence agents raided and suspended the women-led Radio Begum. Censorship has expanded from pressure on individual journalists to systematic control over what reporters can cover. In 2024, Taliban authorities banned live political broadcasts, prohibited criticism of the group, and restricted interviews to a list of 68 approved analysts. …

Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health
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creator: Elizabeth Jacobs
date: 2026-08-14T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: order
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subject: vaccine
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description: It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers.
encoded: It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Elizabeth Jacobs.

Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health
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creator: Elizabeth Jacobs
date: 2026-08-14T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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subject: health
subject: order
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subject: vaccine
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description: It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers.
encoded: It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Elizabeth Jacobs.

Fiji judge orders motion seeking return of journalists’ devices seized by police
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-14T04:13:57Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Charlie Charters
subject: Fiji constitution
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subject: Media devices
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description: By Rashika Kumar in Suva Counsel for Fiji-British journalist Charlie Charters has been ordered by High Court judge Justice Pita Bulamainaivalu to serve a motion seeking the return of the 7 electronic devices seized by police on the police chief today. The motion was filed after police re-seized the devices last Friday under a fresh
encoded: By Rashika Kumar in Suva Counsel for Fiji-British journalist Charlie Charters has been ordered by High Court judge Justice Pita Bulamainaivalu to serve a motion seeking the return of the 7 electronic devices seized by police on the police chief today. The motion was filed after police re-seized the devices last Friday under a fresh search warrant, despite an earlier Magistrates Court order for the devices to be returned to Charters’ solicitor, Seforan Fatiaki, by 1pm. Charters’ counsel, Juleen Fatiaki, told the High Court that Seforan Fatiaki had called to the police CID about 1pm last Friday, when the fresh search warrant was issued. READ MORE: Charters’ lawyers cite constitutional protection for journalistic sources Other Fiji media freedom reports She said when Fatiaki was served with the warrant, they put police on notice that they were invoking Section 1(3) of the Criminal Procedure Act, stating that information on the devices was confidential and privileged. Justice Bulamainaivalu, who joined the proceedings online from Labasa, questioned whether the magistrate who signed the warrant was aware of the High Court’s stay order on the FICAC proceedings. Juleen Fatiaki said she was not aware and confirmed that Magistrate Sufia Hamza signed the warrant. She also said that they had only been able to serve the motion to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions after receiving the files back from court this morning and had not been able to serve it on the Police Commissioner. A hearing on the return of the devices will be held on Monday. Meanwhile, DPP counsel Alisha Lal told the court they were appearing only as a friend of the court. Earlier, Fiji Times journalist Anish Chand reported that Charters’ lawyers would tell the High Court that the confidentiality of journalistic sources was protected by Fiji’s Constitution and common law in their challenge over the re-seizure of his electronic devices. Charters said the devices contained confidential journalistic …

Brazilian Supreme Court breaks source confidentiality over judge’s ‘stalking’ claims against journalist
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-08-13T23:23:18Z
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description: São Paulo, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court has decided personal allegations are a reason to break source confidentiality, a right guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution, in journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida’s reporting. Brazilian Supreme Federal (STF) Judge Flávio Dino accused Luís Pablo of “stalking”...
encoded: São Paulo, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court has decided personal allegations are a reason to break source confidentiality, a right guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution, in journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida’s reporting. Brazilian Supreme Federal (STF) Judge Flávio Dino accused Luís Pablo of “stalking” him last year after the journalist published three blog posts reporting that Dino’s family regularly used a state vehicle. As part of an investigation ordered by STF Judge Alexandre de Moraes into Dino’s claims, Federal Police raided the former secretary of Maranhão state government Raimundo Cutrim’s home on Tuesday in connection with Luís Pablo’s reporting. In March, Luís Pablo’s home was raided. The same day, Federal Police also conducted a raid on a local lawyer’s home for a $19,000 bank transfer receipt as part of the same investigation into Luís Pablo’s alleged attempt to purchase a property. In a statement sent to CPJ via WhatsApp message, Luís Pablo said “it was troubling that facts and relationships of a strictly private nature, with no connection whatsoever to the production or publication of journalistic content, are being used in an attempt to attribute to me a criminal conduct.” “All this was only possible due to the breach of Luís Pablo’s source confidentiality, a right guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator. “When the government violates source confidentiality, it sends a message that speaking to the press carries a risk of legal harassment and erodes trust between journalists and their sources. This is a very dangerous precedent for press freedom in Brazil.” Luís Pablo’s defense confirmed to CPJ that the bank transfer was meant to pay for a rural property. It also said that it didn’t have access to the investigation, which is under judicial secrecy, to plan the next steps of the journalist’s defense. T…

Samoa opposition leader arrested over comments about PM
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-13T22:56:24Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Media conferences
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subject: asia
subject: comments
subject: conferences
subject: defamation
subject: Featured
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subject: Police
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subject: Security
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subject: Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi
description: RNZ Pacific reporters Samoa’s opposition leader, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has been arrested and charged with defamation towards Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt. Local media is reporting that the charges relate to allegations made by Tuilaepa during a media conference last week. During the conference he called the prime minister a liar and also alleged he
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Samoa’s opposition leader, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has been arrested and charged with defamation towards Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt. Local media is reporting that the charges relate to allegations made by Tuilaepa during a media conference last week. During the conference he called the prime minister a liar and also alleged he and his government were misusing public funds. READ MORE: Tuilaepa charged over press conference The Court Registrar confirmed Tuilaepa faced four charges of defamation and one charge of harassment using means of electronic communication. He has been released on bail this morning. A leader of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) and an economist, he served as the sixth prime minister of Samoa from 1998 to 2021. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

[Ilan Pappé] International Law & the Case of Gaza
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date: 2026-08-13T21:00:50Z
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description: The International Criminal Court is an independent judicial body that hears cases on individuals charged with crimes against humanity, starvation, war crimes and genocide. The Genocide Convention, which the U.S. has ratified, defines genocide as “acts ...
encoded: The International Criminal Court is an independent judicial body that hears cases on individuals charged with crimes against humanity, starvation, war crimes and genocide. The Genocide Convention, which the U.S. has ratified, defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” In November 2024, after court deliberations on Gaza, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant as well as for a Hamas commander who was later confirmed dead. Israel denounced the ICC ruling as “absurd” and “anti-Semitic.” The U.S. response? It not only ignored the ruling but also leveled sanctions against ICC judges and lawyers. For International law to have any credibility, it must be applied equally without fear or favor. Recorded at the University of Brighton. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Photographer’s camera swatted by pedestrian during live shot in LA
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-08-13T20:22:33Z
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description: Videographer Kip Ebanks had his camera shoved by a passerby, jamming it into his face while he was filming a Newsmax report in Los Angeles, California, on July 30, 2026.Newsmax correspondent Joe Moeller recounted the incident in a news segment, saying ...
encoded: Videographer Kip Ebanks had his camera shoved by a passerby, jamming it into his face while he was filming a Newsmax report in Los Angeles, California, on July 30, 2026. Newsmax correspondent Joe Moeller recounted the incident in a news segment, saying that he and a photographer went to the city’s Skid Row neighborhood to report on animal abuse and homelessness in the area. “During a live shot, a homeless person actually walked up and smashed my photographer’s face with a camera,” Moeller said. A clip of the incident shows the photographer’s camera jostling, followed by a man’s hand appearing in the frame before he walks away. Downtown LA for you. While reporting on animal abuse on Skid Row, a homeless man walked up and struck my photographer’s camera while it was against his face, smashing it during our live report. pic.twitter.com/LvTAQ9nYtU — Joe Moeller (@joemoeller44) July 31, 2026 Newsmax later confirmed the photographer was Ebanks. He did not return a request for comment for this story. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Church owning historic Carlile House talks with Auckland Council about demolishing it
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-13T19:49:44Z
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subject: Edward Costley
subject: Grey Lynn
subject: Historic Places
subject: Sources
subject: United Church of Tonga
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description: By Luka Forman of RNZ Leaders of a church that owns a historic abandoned building in central Auckland have been in talks with Auckland Council about the possibility of demolishing it. The once-grand, two-storey Carlile House in Auckland’s Grey Lynn was built in 1886 and has had many uses over its long life — including
encoded: By Luka Forman of RNZ Leaders of a church that owns a historic abandoned building in central Auckland have been in talks with Auckland Council about the possibility of demolishing it. The once-grand, two-storey Carlile House in Auckland’s Grey Lynn was built in 1886 and has had many uses over its long life — including as an Anglican children’s home, and an alternative school. But in recent decades it has fallen into ruin and the church that owns it do not have the money to restore it to its former glory. READ MORE: Auckland MP considers members bill to strengthen protections for historic buildings RNZ looks at the history and future of the building as part of our Abandoned Auckland series. Architect and Grey Lynn local Graeme Burgess looks over a barbed wire and corrugated iron fence at the historic Carlile House on Richmond road in Grey Lynn. “Right now, because of the fence running through here it actually feels so guarded, and it’s like something that nobody can actually appreciate.” The building was grand in size and stature, but Burgess said after years of neglect it was heart-breaking to see the state it had ended up in. ‘Slowly falling apart’ “[It’s] difficult to watch something so grand and so wonderful slowly falling apart. But there are reasons why it’s in the state that it’s in at present. And those reasons are incredibly complex.” The United Church of Tonga, which owned the building, did not have the money to do it up. The church did not want to be interviewed for this story, but said it was working through its options for the building, and would put forward a plan in coming months. Auckland Council said it had been approached about the possibility of demolishing the building by the church, but as it was a Category 1 Historic Place, that was prohibited. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132045 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Carlile-House-2-RNZ-680wide.jpg" alt="Carlile House, a Category 1 …

Mainstream Media LIED About the Genocide in Gaza. Here is the Data to Prove it.
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-08-13T19:28:04Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Progressives Win Pair of Victories at DNC Meeting; Committee Approves Resolutions for Abolishing ICE And Affirming Law That Could Bar Military Aid to Israel
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-13T18:51:54Z
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description: The Democratic National Committee today greenlighted resolutions that call for abolishing ICE and implementing “full and consistent enforcement” of two federal statutes known as the Leahy law. The author of the law, former Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt....
encoded: The Democratic National Committee today greenlighted resolutions that call for abolishing ICE and implementing “full and consistent enforcement” of two federal statutes known as the Leahy law. The author of the law, former Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), has stated that it applies to Israel, as critics have long asserted. Both resolutions were submitted by Michele Johnson, a DNC member from Louisiana, who spoke for them before the Thursday vote at the DNC’s Resolutions Committee meeting. Approval of the resolutions by the full DNC is expected at a closing session of the meeting in Austin on Saturday. One resolution puts the DNC on record that it “urges Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people.” The resolution also “urges Democratic members of Congress to pursue civil and criminal accountability for any federal agent, attorney, or official who lied under oath, misrepresented evidence, or gave false testimony regarding DHS conduct, and to remove qualified immunity and other protections shielding DHS and ICE personnel and subcontractors who have injured protesters or journalists, fired into moving vehicles, or caused deaths in custody, whether of detained individuals, U.S. citizens, or immigrants regardless of nationality or documentation status.” Johnson’s other resolution states that “the Democratic National Committee reaffirms its support for the full, consistent, and impartial enforcement of the Leahy Laws with respect to every recipient of United States security assistance, in every region of the world, without exception.” It adds that the DNC “calls for strengthened vetting capacity, clear remediation standards, and regular public reporting on the implementation of the Leahy Laws by the Department of State and the Department of Defense,” and that the DNC “encourages Democratic members of Congress to conduct …

Israel manipulates Trump again – Max on Judging Freedom
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-08-13T18:37:59Z
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What goes wrong when the military uses AI?
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 13, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 13, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Photojournalist pushed by federal officers at immigration protest in LA
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description: Independent photojournalist Steven Berumen was shoved by Department of Homeland Security officers during a protest against immigration raids in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 9, 2026.The protest was held outside the city’s Metropolitan Detention Cent...
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What happens when your government minder secretly hates the regime?
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Authoritarians will target effective legal organizing, Minnesota defendant warns
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In Ethiopia, 5 journalists pressured to apologize for terrorism to win release
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description: Nairobi, August 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release five journalists who have been in detention for three years awaiting trial, instead of pressuring them to admit to, and apologize for, taking part in a deadly insurgency in exchange for their freedom. Gobeze Sisay, Meskerem Abera, Genet Asmamaw, Dawit...
encoded: Nairobi, August 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release five journalists who have been in detention for three years awaiting trial, instead of pressuring them to admit to, and apologize for, taking part in a deadly insurgency in exchange for their freedom. Gobeze Sisay, Meskerem Abera, Genet Asmamaw, Dawit Begashaw, and Abay Zewdu have refused to write such apology letters, which they regard as “self-incriminating,” their lawyer, Solomon Gezahagn, told CPJ. The five were detained in 2023 on terrorism charges in connection with their reporting on unrest in the Amhara region. Solomon said prison officials had threatened his clients and separated them from other prisoners to compel them to write their own versions of a draft document shared by the government, in addition to promising to stop working as journalists. “After keeping these five journalists behind bars for years and delaying their trials, Ethiopian authorities are now trying to blackmail them into confessing to crimes that they have already denied in court,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Muthoki Mumo. “Authorities must stop humiliating and manipulating Gobeze Sisay, Meskerem Abera, Genet Asmamaw, Dawit Begashaw, and Abay Zewdu, withdraw the charges against them, release them, and ensure that they are free to continue their journalism.” Media reports said more than 300 politicians, journalists, and others facing terrorism charges related to the conflict in Amhara region had been asked to sign apology letters. The insurgency began in 2023 in response to a government decision to integrate regional militia into the federal army, which triggered protests. The Amhara Regional Special Forces refused to surrender their weapons and the Fano militia took up arms against federal forces. About 30 detainees refused to sign, saying they would not declare themselves criminals while continuing to contest the charges in court, the news reports said. Governmen…

The exploitation of AI workers in the Global South
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Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: How corporate administrators mismanaged Vermont’s flagship health network into a historic crisis
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UN News Today 13 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: Settler siege of Palestinian families marks now low, says OHCHRAfghanistan: Education ban for girls is hardest to bearMyanmar: WFP warns monsoon flooding could make hunger crisis worse
encoded: Settler siege of Palestinian families marks now low, says OHCHRAfghanistan: Education ban for girls is hardest to bearMyanmar: WFP warns monsoon flooding could make hunger crisis worse This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

"Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-13T14:59:30Z
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"Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain": Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-13T14:58:09Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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US: Federal Agencies Abandon Civil Rights Duties
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date: 2026-08-13T14:57:07Z
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Gabon’s online news outlet Info241 suspended for publishing allegations about president
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date: 2026-08-13T14:31:14Z
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description: Dakar, August 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Gabonese authorities to reinstate the privately owned news site Info241, which was suspended by the country’s media regulator for relaying comments by an influencer about President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his entourage. “Deciding to shut down a 13-year-old media outlet is more an act of...
encoded: Dakar, August 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Gabonese authorities to reinstate the privately owned news site Info241, which was suspended by the country’s media regulator for relaying comments by an influencer about President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his entourage. “Deciding to shut down a 13-year-old media outlet is more an act of censorship than of regulation and deprives the Gabonese public of a major source of information,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Gabonese authorities must lift the indefinite suspension of Info241 and allow the outlet to resume work.” On August 10, the High Authority for Communication (HAC), ordered Info241 be suspended until further notice over its August 9 article about a YouTube video by a Europe-based activist who publishes under the name Lanlaire and made allegations about the misuse of public funds and the sexual orientation of Gabon’s president. “The media Info241, pretending to recognize the unfounded nature of the activist’s malicious and unproven insinuations, has chosen to publish them in defiance of the legislative and regulatory provisions in force,” the HAC said in a statement. The regulator also cited an ordinance on the regulation of digital social networks that anyone who has participated in disseminating or sharing illegal content is also liable for damage caused. Info241’s publishing director Cédrin Mounziégou said in a statement that “informing the public about accusations circulating in the public space does not mean taking them up or accepting them as fact.” Mounziégou said the HAC did not appear to have followed legal procedures as Info241 did not receive notice or get a chance to defend itself and described the decision as illegal as the law does not provide for indefinite suspension. According to Article 183 of the communication code, the regulator can suspend a media outlet for up to 30 days for a first offense, up to 12 months for a repeat offense, and…

Trump’s Secret Plane Switch: An Israeli Tip, CIA Doubts & Reporters Put at Risk
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-13T14:16:24Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 13, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-13T14:11:59Z
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RTI reveals at least 10 pellet victims treated in Delhi govt hospitals on July 20
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creator: Pawan Kumar
date: 2026-08-13T13:57:50Z
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description: On July 20, at least 10 people received medical treatment for injuries caused by pellets, shots or projectiles during police action against protesters marching from Jantar Mantar towards Parliament in Delhi, responses to a Right to Information (RTI) application have revealed. The RTI application was filed by Saket Gokhale, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and […]
encoded: On July 20, at least 10 people received medical treatment for injuries caused by pellets, shots or projectiles during police action against protesters marching from Jantar Mantar towards Parliament in Delhi, responses to a Right to Information (RTI) application have revealed. The RTI application was filed by Saket Gokhale, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former Rajya Sabha member. According to the response from Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), nine patients were treated at the hospital on July 20 for injuries recorded as “pellet/projectile” injuries. Safdarjung Hospital reported treating another patient for a pellet injury that day. Very important Until now, there were reports of 5 people with pellet gun injuries during the Jantar Mantar protests on 20th July. However, records procured from hospitals show that the confirmed number is AT LEAST DOUBLE i.e. 10 persons. The break-up is: Lady Hardinge… pic.twitter.com/qo8MjDKKjj — Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) August 10, 2026 The records of the two hospitals therefore confirm at least 10 cases of pellet-related injuries. The figure, however, is not final. Gokhale said he is yet to receive responses from AIIMS and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, meaning the number of people injured by pellets could increase once records from other hospitals become available. The disclosures come as the Delhi Police continues to deny that pellet guns were used by them during the July 20 action against protesters. Sharing the responses from LHMC and Safdarjung Hospital on X, Gokhale wrote, “Pellet guns were used against unarmed protesters in the heart of India’s capital, yet the government and police are still concealing information about this. Why hasn’t the Modi government yet released the confirmed number of people injured by pellet guns?” What did Delhi Police Say? On July 20, 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) called for a ‘Chalo Sansad’ march to protest alleged irregularities in the NEET exam and demand the resignation of Un…

Shock And Fear: RFE/RL Afghan Journalist Remembers Taliban Takeover In Kabul 5 Years Ago #shorts
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-08-13T13:13:36Z
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‘We Are Coming to Get Our Check’
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creator: Brea Baker
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description: Black Americans have sought reparations for slavery since the Emancipation Proclamation. In the wake of Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund, could we actually make them?
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“Deep Unlearning”: Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-13T12:41:25Z
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description: We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research In...
encoded: We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, a group of academics, activists and engineers who produce research rooted in the belief that technology should benefit everyone. She also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the inclusion and visibility of Black people in the field of AI. Gebru previously served as co-lead of the ethical AI research team at Google but was fired in 2020 for writing a paper that warned about the financial and environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism. The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, “represents hegemonic views,” says Gebru. “We even know articles like Wikipedia are heavily biased. It’s overwhelmingly Western and male.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain”: Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran
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description: Militaries across the world are in an “AI arms race,” says Heidy Khlaaf, a chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, which just released a joint report with Airwars titled “Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain.” “What it...
encoded: Militaries across the world are in an “AI arms race,” says Heidy Khlaaf, a chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, which just released a joint report with Airwars titled “Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain.” “What it is is a series of different types of AI algorithms that are chained together, each with their own pitfalls, each with their own flaws,” she says. “And these systems build off of each other and feed into one another to, unfortunately, end up resulting in civilian casualties.” This can lead to faulty targeting because “humans are prone to just accepting recommendations of AI algorithms without corroborating that evidence,” adds Khlaaf. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Ukrainian Drones Strike Wildberries Hub, Russian Oil Refinery In Bashkortostan #shorts
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Trump’s Secret Plane Switch: An Israeli Tip, CIA Doubts & Reporters Put at Risk
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date: 2026-08-13T12:14:04Z
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description: The Washington Post reported Monday that due to an alleged Iranian threat to assassinate President Trump, he secretly swapped planes before departing the July NATO summit in Turkey — leaving senior administration officials, staff and members o...
encoded: The Washington Post reported Monday that due to an alleged Iranian threat to assassinate President Trump, he secretly swapped planes before departing the July NATO summit in Turkey — leaving senior administration officials, staff and members of the press corps on board. “The Israelis passed a tip, a concern, that the plane and potentially the president was under threat,” says Dan Lamothe, one of the Washington Postreporters who broke the story. But it turns out the ”CIA had low confidence” in the Israeli tip, according to a more recent Post story Lamothe co-authored on Thursday. “I think that kind of leaves the Secret Service in a tough spot of assessing: What do you do in this zero-fail mission to keep the president safe?” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Governments must tax Big Oil’s profits as UN tax treaty talks advance
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date: 2026-08-13T12:11:44Z
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description: As droughts and wildfires damage economies, 350.org called on governments to push for a global tax treaty that can make big oil and gas corporations pay for mounting climate costs.This week in New York, governments wrapped up negotiations for the UN T...
encoded: As droughts and wildfires damage economies, 350.org called on governments to push for a global tax treaty that can make big oil and gas corporations pay for mounting climate costs. This week in New York, governments wrapped up negotiations for the UN Tax Convention with some governments strongly pushing for a global tax system aligned with the Paris Agreement and other environmental treaties, which can hold big polluters accountable for climate damage. Campaigners called on governments to support a global tax on fossil fuel profits to raise critically needed funds to help communities and countries hit hardest by climate disasters and ensure a fast, fair shift to renewable energy. Revenues can also be directly channeled to households struggling to pay bills or put food on the table due to spikes in energy and food prices. While tax treaty negotiations took a step in the right direction, several rich countries tried to halt progress by sidelining positions that push for stronger environmental taxation and taxing rights for developing countries. Set to be finalized in 2027, the UN Tax Treaty talks will resume in December, with the inclusion of a “polluters pay” principle on the table. If adopted, a legally binding mechanism can be set up to collect a global tax on the profits of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, which <a href="https://email.cisionone.cision.com/c/eJwszE2SozAMxfHTmJ1Stmy-Fix6wzW6hCwSTTD0yCRcfypTvf29ev884cDJNzKFfug6RD-MzWPi3vvsB-wDj5w6XgK1cUzkc6SVJTQ6ddTnxffUJp_oOwQZBh9SGmV0yVfN8tS_UEg3sQrt-qn3A2co7bPj22dotulxnj_VxS-Hs8P5uq7b-ZD7iywr7Tc-isN5eVXdpVaH834H3U8x4lPf4nBGj53DmV53h7NPDmeTt9AmGQr9OQwO3WBVKxUKPQXGuOzwY8eqZwUqmuEiA9oz8KaFTgE2rVqbIlkJTDahKqB5-g_fv-DiV4wRsW9syqKWTVzyfJRy7NmESr0ddm_qaSLl8x7DGn2bAsR2WSBFn4CyMPQLB46RKbTSvCf8FwAA__9FGH88" rel="noopener noreferrer" >posted more than $90 billion dollars in profits in the second quarter of 2026 alone. Lisa Rose, Campaigner at 350.org, said: "Big Oil’s staggering second quarter earnings prove that t…

Headlines for August 13, 2026
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description: Declassified Pentagon Report Found U.S. Killed 153 Civilians in Yemen Last Year, Sailors on U.S. Aircraft Carrier Attempt to Jump Overboard as Lengthy Deployment Grinds On, CIA Had “Low Confidence” in Israeli Claim That Iran Sought to Shoot Down Air Force One, Firefighters Accuse Israeli Forces of Deliberately Starting Wildfires in Southern Lebanon, “A Policy of Attrition by Design”: MSF Condemns Israeli Blockade of Crucial Supplies, Israeli Settlers Besiege Palestinian Homes in Occupied West Bank Village of Qusra, Hegseth Says Colombia Will Conduct Joint Military Operations with U.S., Urges Partners to Reject ICC, NYT: Fishermen in Ecuador Report Attacks by English-Speaking Assailants, Trump Admin Announces End of Federal Funding for Arctic Report Card, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Earned Up to $2.9M from Fossil Fuel Interests, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to Step Down, Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Truth Social’s Plan to Charge $100K for Early Access to Trump’s Posts, DOJ Arrests Southern Poverty Law Center’s Former Chief Financial Officer, Daughter of Pastor Jailed by ICE Says Father Suffered “Stroke-Like Symptoms”, ICE Agent Filmed Pushing an Elderly Activist Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Battery Charge, ICE Agent Points Gun at Driver in Virginia
encoded: Declassified Pentagon Report Found U.S. Killed 153 Civilians in Yemen Last Year Sailors on U.S. Aircraft Carrier Attempt to Jump Overboard as Lengthy Deployment Grinds On CIA Had "Low Confidence" in Israeli Claim That Iran Sought to Shoot Down Air Force One Firefighters Accuse Israeli Forces of Deliberately Starting Wildfires in Southern Lebanon "A Policy of Attrition by Design": MSF Condemns Israeli Blockade of Crucial Supplies Israeli Settlers Besiege Palestinian Homes in Occupied West Bank Village of Qusra Hegseth Says Colombia Will Conduct Joint Military Operations with U.S., Urges Partners to Reject ICC NYT: Fishermen in Ecuador Report Attacks by English-Speaking Assailants Trump Admin Announces End of Federal Funding for Arctic Report Card Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Earned Up to $2.9M from Fossil Fuel Interests White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to Step Down Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Truth Social's Plan to Charge $100K for Early Access to Trump's Posts DOJ Arrests Southern Poverty Law Center's Former Chief Financial Officer Daughter of Pastor Jailed by ICE Says Father Suffered "Stroke-Like Symptoms" ICE Agent Filmed Pushing an Elderly Activist Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Battery Charge ICE Agent Points Gun at Driver in Virginia This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-13 Thursday
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Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre turns 42 – reflections on a milestone
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date: 2026-08-13T11:16:30Z
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description: Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Today, we mark an extraordinary milestone: 42 years of the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC). As we reflect on this journey, we are reminded of the countless lives that have intersected with our work since 1984. Over the past four decades, 168,145 survivors have accessed the services of FWCC and its
encoded: Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Today, we mark an extraordinary milestone: 42 years of the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC). As we reflect on this journey, we are reminded of the countless lives that have intersected with our work since 1984. Over the past four decades, 168,145 survivors have accessed the services of FWCC and its branches throughout Fiji. These include survivors of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, sexual harassment, child abuse, and other forms of violence and abuse. READ MORE: Other Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre reports Yet numbers alone can never tell the full story. Statistics cannot capture the fear of a woman escaping violence in the middle of the night. They cannot describe the courage it takes to disclose rape for the first time. They cannot measure the resilience of survivors who rebuild their lives after trauma, nor reflect the determination of women who refused to give up despite experiencing violence, discrimination, and inequality. Every individual who walked through our doors came seeking safety, support, and dignity. Many arrived carrying experiences that no one should ever have to endure. Many came believing they were alone. Our role was, and continues to be, to ensure they know they are not. Principles of feminism Throughout our history, FWCC’s work has remained firmly grounded in the principles of feminism, women’s human rights, human rights, dignity, equality, and justice. These principles have guided our response to violence against women and girls, shaped our advocacy, informed our research and training, and strengthened our commitment to building a society where all women and girls can live free from violence, discrimination, and inequality. While our primary focus has been addressing violence against women and girls, our services have always recognised the diversity of the communities we serve. Over the past 42 years, we have worked with women in all their diversity, including women from rural and urban communities, women w…

New Zealand faces lawsuit over technology use during Gaza war
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description: The New Zealand government faces legal action over allegations its space technology may have supported Israel’s military operations during the Gaza genocide, reports The New Arab. By Ibrahim Othman New Zealand’s government is facing a historic lawsuit before the High Court at Wellington, with activists and lawyers seeking to overturn judicial reviews and licences granted
encoded: The New Zealand government faces legal action over allegations its space technology may have supported Israel’s military operations during the Gaza genocide, reports The New Arab. By Ibrahim Othman New Zealand’s government is facing a historic lawsuit before the High Court at Wellington, with activists and lawyers seeking to overturn judicial reviews and licences granted by the Ministry of Space to US geospatial intelligence company BlackSky, alleging that its technologies have been used by the Israeli military during its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. The lawsuit, which was filed yesterday, has three plaintiffs: Palestinian-New Zealand engineer Yasser Abdel Aal, information technology expert Maher Nazzal, and Māori-Tongan doctor Timoti Te Moki. According to the statement of claim, a copy of which was obtained by The New Arab, the lawsuit is based on the plaintiffs’ direct harm from Israel’s genocidal war. READ MORE: Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza spy satellites Justice For Palestine welcomes legal challenge to govt approval of BlackSky spy satellite launches from NZ Other Rocket Lab reports Abdel Aal lost more than 85 members of his extended family due to Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. His two sisters and their families are currently living in tents lacking the most basic humanitarian necessities in the Al-Mawasi area of the Strip. Maher Nazzal, head of the Palestine Forum of New Zealand and one of the plaintiffs, told TNA that he was taking part in the case because he believed that “New Zealand bears a moral and legal responsibility for what is happening, and it is not acceptable to ignore the possibility that technology launched from our territory is being used to support military operations that lead to more suffering and killing of Palestinians”. “I have seen the suffering of Palestinians myself, including members of my family who were displaced during the 1967 Naksa. What is happening today in Gaza and the West Ba…

Cook Islands election: preliminary results starting to come in
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description: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific Preliminary results are starting to come in for the Cook Islands general election. As of 10pm local time, preliminary results indicated the incumbent Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown had easily won the Takuvaine-Tutakimoa seat. Brown had 269 votes, while the next best placed was Davina
encoded: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific Preliminary results are starting to come in for the Cook Islands general election. As of 10pm local time, preliminary results indicated the incumbent Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown had easily won the Takuvaine-Tutakimoa seat. Brown had 269 votes, while the next best placed was Davina Hina Te Raurea Joan Hosking-Ashford of the Democratic Party with 103. In other preliminary results for leaders of the main parties, Teariki Heather, the leader of the United Party won the Murienua seat with 320 votes, more than double that of the second placed Cook Islands Party candidate, Nooroa Baker. READ MORE: Polling booths open in Cook Islands election Other Cook Islands elections reports In an upset, the Democratic Party leader Tina Browne — the opposition leader in the past term — has lost Rakahanga by just three votes to Levi Hitarahera Teinaki of the Cook Islands Party who had 24 votes. There are 11,000 registered voters in the Cooks, and voting stations opened at 9am on Wednesday morning, Cook Islands time (11am Thursday NZT) and closed at 6pm. There are 24 constituencies in the Cooks, 10 on the main island of Rarotonga, and the other 14 spread across the Pa Enua, or outer islands. Thirteen seats are needed for a majority to form a government. A total of 63 candidates were confirmed for the 2026 general election, down from the 71 who contested the 2022 election. This year’s lineup includes 49 men and 14 women. Weather delays Northern Cooks poll With independents making up 20 per cent of candidates, should no party claim the 13 seats needed for majority, the independents could hold the power over who forms government. There has been a delay in the Northern Cooks, as bad weather meant electoral officers were unable to get ashore in Nassau. Officials have announced the island’s polling will be postponed to Thursday afternoon local time. Issues front-of-mind for voters included the cost of living, water tariffs, seabed miner…

Syria Convicts Atef Najib
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DN! Thursday, August 13, 2026
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description: Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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BJP shares Patna video as female protester roughed up by Jharkhand police
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creator: Shinjinee Majumder
date: 2026-08-13T09:12:32Z
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description: Amid mounting pressure on the JMM-led Jharkhand government over alleged recruitment irregularities at the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), several official X handles linked to the BJP shared a video, purportedly from Jharkhand, showing a woman in distress being dragged and manhandled by uniformed officials on August 11. झारखंड […]
encoded: Amid mounting pressure on the JMM-led Jharkhand government over alleged recruitment irregularities at the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), several official X handles linked to the BJP shared a video, purportedly from Jharkhand, showing a woman in distress being dragged and manhandled by uniformed officials on August 11. झारखंड में अपने अधिकारों के लिए आवाज उठा रही इस छात्रा पर पुलिस ने बेदर्दी से लाठियां बरसाईं। यह बेटी पुलिस के पैर पकड़कर गुहार लगाती रही, गिड़गिड़ाती रही… लेकिन इस संवेदनहीन प्रशासन का दिल नहीं पसीजा। राहुल गांधी-हेमंत सोरेन, न्याय मांगने पहुंची देश की बेटी के साथ यह अमानवीय… pic.twitter.com/qTKAMzk4QN — BJP Rajasthan (@BJP4Rajasthan) August 11, 2026 BJP4India, @BJP4CGState (Chhattisgarh), BJP4Delhi and BJP4Rajasthan shared the viral video and claimed that in Jharkhand, the protester was beaten with batons by the police as she tried to raise her voice for her rights. “Rahul Gandhi-Hemant Soren, this inhuman and cruel treatment of the country’s daughter who came seeking justice is utterly condemnable!”, BJP4Rajasthan’s post read. Click to view slideshow. Former BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri also shared the video on X with the same claim and said, “Rahul Gandhi ji-Hemant Soren ji, no sticks on daughters—justice is needed!” (Archive) झारखंड में अपने अधिकारों के लिए आवाज उठा रही छात्रा के साथ पुलिस का यह अमानवीय व्यवहार बेहद शर्मनाक है। राहुल गांधी जी-हेमंत सोरेन जी, बेटियों पर लाठी नहीं—न्याय चाहिए!#BJP4Delhi #RameshBidhuri pic.twitter.com/xvutMCcjob — Ramesh Bidhuri (@rameshbidhuri) August 11, 2026 Several others also amplified the viral video with the same claim. (Archives: 1, 2, 3) Click to view slideshow. Fact Check A reverse image search of keyframes from the video revealed the footage was posted on July 22 on Instagram with “#cjpprotest”. Hindi text superimposed over the video translates to: ‘This student was brutally beaten up; India’s daughter is pleading by holding the feet of the police.” Vie…

This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse
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creator: Molly Hensley-Clancy
date: 2026-08-13T09:00:00Z
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description: The post This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Ashlee Orndorff played basketball as a teen. In the competitive world of youth sports, few organizations have a reach as vast as the Amateur Athletic Union. With 760,000 athletes and coaches nationwide, the AAU hosts competitions in dozens of sports across the country. This summer alone, hundreds of thousands of children competed in AAU events for elite young athletes: a staggering 100,000 at the world’s largest volleyball championship in Orlando, Florida; 8,000 at its storied basketball championships at Disney World; more than 15,000 at the Junior Olympics in Iowa. To the hundreds of thousands of parents whose children play under the red, white and blue AAU badge, the organization offers more than a place to compete. The AAU promises their children will be safe — that its coaches are vetted, monitored and trained; that strict rules govern how adults interact with children; and that it responds effectively to allegations of abuse within its ranks. But that trust is misplaced, according to an investigation from ProPublica and The Washington Post. The AAU is failing on nearly every level to adequately protect the hundreds of thousands of children in its care from sexual abuse, the investigation found, misleading the public about its prevention measures and suppressing allegations of sexual misconduct. In doing so, the AAU is breaking many of the pledges it made in the wake of a 2011 sex abuse scandal involving its CEO and young basketball players. AAU leaders at the time said they would build a “new culture in which the overarching priority” was protecting young athletes, committing the organization to sweeping safety reforms. But they did not implement the majority of those reforms, ProPublica and The Post found, putting many children at risk. Some AAU athletes have had devastating experiences. The AAU does not offer child abuse prevention training, though it claims to the public that it does. It does not verify whether coaches take the training it does offer, though…

The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.
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creator: Tristan Ahtone
date: 2026-08-13T08:45:00Z
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description: The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
encoded: In May of 2017, Juan Mancias became an overnight sensation in France. Standing over 6 feet tall with a mane of salt-and-pepper hair, a medicine wheel-emblazoned ribbon shirt, beaded belt, and feathered medallion bearing the seal of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, he was conspicuous on the streets of Paris, and he had a message: French banks were financing the desecration of sacred Native lands and burial sites. They were, he said, aiding in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Indigenous people in Texas through their support of natural gas pipelines and export terminals. “It’s the same thing for 500 years,” Mancias told Observatoire des Multinationales. “We were occupied by the Spanish, by the Mexicans, then by the Texans, then by the Americans. And now it’s the oil industry.” Three months before Mancias arrived in France, the last camps at Standing Rock emptied. For nearly a year, thousands of Indigenous water protectors and environmental allies had gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. Oil was now flowing through DAPL, but activists and environmental organizations kept the momentum of the protests going. In South Texas, Mancias had been fighting the same battle on a different front. He and Bekah Hinojosa, a grassroots activist in the Rio Grande Valley, spent weeks organizing against the proposed Rio Grande terminal and Rio Bravo Pipeline. The $18-billion projects would carry tens of millions of tons of natural gas each year to the export terminal in Brownsville, where it would be liquefied and shipped overseas as LNG. The battle led them to collaborate with Rainforest Action Network on a study documenting what it identified as the projects’ threat to the area, which included Carrizo/Comecrudo lands. The proposed industrial corridor, Mancias said, threatened the tribe and Garcia Pasture, a village site near Brownsville with human burials, ruins, and a rare coastal ecosystem the World Monum…

5 takeaways from our investigation into the ‘ghost’ tribe that got millions in climate funding
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description: The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s rise shows how the climate movement can validate unverified claims of Indigenous identity — with consequences for Indigenous peoples and climate action.
encoded: In 2017, Juan Mancias, the chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, traveled to France to help pressure two of the country’s largest banks into divesting from oil and gas projects in South Texas. He cast the fight as a new chapter in a centuries-long struggle to protect the tribe’s sacred lands. The campaign succeeded, and helped make Mancias an international climate figure. Over the next several years, he would use that status to bring more than $5 million in philanthropic funding to the unrecognized tribe. An investigation by Grist found that the historical and genealogical evidence underpinning Mancias’ claim that he is the hereditary chief of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe cannot be verified. The foundational document he cites cannot be located or authenticated, and Mancias failed to provide it after multiple requests. Genealogical records trace his documented Indigenous ancestry to Mexico in the late 1700s on his maternal line, not the paternal line his claim rests on. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-tribe-of-Texas-headdress-art.jpg" alt="A diarama consisting of an iconic Indigenous headdress made of $2 bills hanging in front of a screen next to cut out dollar bills. Over the tableau, a video of a Texas SpaceX launch plays with the land in the forefront of the scene." class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-tribe-of-Texas-headdress-art.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 2500w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-tribe-of-Texas-headdress-art.jpg?resize=1200%2C674&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-tribe-of-Texas-headdress-art.jpg?resize=330%2C185&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-tribe-of-Texas-headdress-art.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ghost-tribe-of-Texas-headdress-art.jpg?resize=1536%2C863&quality=75&strip=all…

As Montana warms, Missoula’s first heat map reveals hidden hotspots
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creator: Ellis Juhlin
date: 2026-08-13T08:30:00Z
subject: Grist
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subject: heat
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subject: map
subject: missoulas
subject: montana
subject: reveals
subject: sources
subject: warms
description: The mapping effort is uncovering unexpected patterns, with some undeveloped and heavily forested areas holding more heat than researchers anticipated.
encoded: Researchers have found that the amount of green space and shade in a neighborhood can significantly shape temperatures. On average, neighborhoods with more trees and green space — instead of impermeable surfaces like pavement — can run anywhere from 1 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit cooler. The phenomenon, which has been well studied in major urban cities, is called the “heat island effect.” But researchers have done far less work examining how those trends play out in more rural parts of the country. Missoula, Montana, is helping fill that gap. In 2024, Climate Smart Missoula, a local nonprofit, teamed up with the city and county of Missoula and secured federal funding for a heat mapping initiative. Last summer, teams of volunteers drove countywide transects with sensors recording second-by-second measurements of temperature and humidity. Then analysts with the climate adaptation consulting firm CAPA Strategies turned the data into a now-publicly available heat map for the county. It’s the first of its kind for the state and this region of the Rockies. (Cities in Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota also do not have heat maps.) <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp" sizes="(max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=1152 1152w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/90.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=853&crop=1 640w, https:…

Visual artist Jackson Hunt on knowing when you’re on to something
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creator: Diana Ruzova
date: 2026-08-13T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: Artist
subject: creative
subject: hunt
subject: independent
subject: jackson
subject: knowing
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subject: the
subject: visual
subject: when
subject: you’re
description: I’m curious about how you arrived at your style of painting?
encoded: I’m curious about how you arrived at your style of painting? I have a background in figurative painting and photo realism. When I first learned how to paint with oils, which was an indirect process of copying old master paintings, I was really interested in that high level of realism and refinement and naturalistic rendering. This was right before I started high school. I didn’t really have any experience with painting before that. Whenever I tried to paint, I didn’t know how to use the medium, but I drew, and I felt confident as a drawer. Taking this [master painting] class really opened up my world. And so that led to 15 years of painting in this more traditional approach. I moved to New York for art school. As I was in college, and after college, I was searching for my voice as a painter, using those skills of working from a photographic reference and depicting that image as true as I could. When I finished art school in 2010, representational painting wasn’t as prevalent in the art world as it is today. I was experimenting with different ways of making an image with the photograph as my primary reference. All of the photographs that I was using were snapshots of my friends and moments from my life at that time. It was autobiographical even though I may not have thought of it that way. Eventually I started to think about my relationship to my family and our history. My mom’s side of the family is Native. I grew up around that side of the family in Portland, Oregon. We’re Klamath/Modoc and Cherokee. My mother and grandmother are enrolled in the Klamath Tribes and my brother and I are enrolled in the Cherokee Nation. Growing up in the Portland urban Indian community impacted my life and my work. I spent a lot of time with my grandma Peggy who was an artist, so I had an example of what it looked like to go to drawing classes and make paintings in a studio. Installation of ‘Bleach’ and ‘Six Eyes,’ 2026, on view at Parts of some whole, a solo exhibition at Stowaway, L…

‘Women’s Lives Have Been Shattered in Every Conceivable Way’
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creator: Joanne Pow!ers
date: 2026-08-13T05:00:00Z
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subject: the
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description: Jennifer Loewenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon.
encoded: Jennifer Loewenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Joanne Pow!ers.

‘Women’s Lives Have Been Shattered in Every Conceivable Way’
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creator: Joanne Pow!ers
date: 2026-08-13T05:00:00Z
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subject: have
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subject: progressive
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subject: the
subject: way
subject: women’s
description: Jennifer Lowenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon.
encoded: Jennifer Lowenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Joanne Pow!ers.

‘Women’s Lives Have Been Shattered in Every Conceivable Way’
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creator: Joanne Pow!ers
date: 2026-08-13T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: been
subject: conceivable
subject: every
subject: have
subject: lives’
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subject: shattered
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subject: the
subject: way
subject: women’s
description: Jennifer Lowenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon.
encoded: Jennifer Lowenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Joanne Pow!ers.

Free Speech Union board member revealed in Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury’s ‘gagging’ case
type: item
creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-13T02:43:18Z
subject: Ani O'Brien
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Free Press Union
subject: Harmful Digital Communications Act
subject: Martyn Bradbury
subject: Matthew Tukaki
subject: Online communication
subject: Political expression
subject: Radio Waatea
subject: Sources
subject: The Daily Blog
subject: ACT
subject: ani
subject: asia
subject: Blog
subject: board
subject: bradbury:
subject: bradbury’s
subject: case
subject: Communication
subject: Communications
subject: daily
subject: Democracy
subject: digital
subject: editor
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: expression
subject: Featured
subject: free
subject: freedom of speech
subject: Gagging
subject: harmful
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Justice
subject: martyn
subject: matthew
subject: Media
subject: Media Freedom
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subject: o’brien
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description: Pacific Media Watch A court struggle featuring Daily Blog editor and media freedom defender Martyn Bradbury has taken a surprise turn, with Free Speech Union (FSU) board member and political commentator Ani O’Brien being revealed as the complainant behind “secret” proceedings, reports Radia Waatea. Bradbury, who is a regular commentator on Radio Waatea covering politics
encoded: Pacific Media Watch A court struggle featuring Daily Blog editor and media freedom defender Martyn Bradbury has taken a surprise turn, with Free Speech Union (FSU) board member and political commentator Ani O’Brien being revealed as the complainant behind “secret” proceedings, reports Radia Waatea. Bradbury, who is a regular commentator on Radio Waatea covering politics and current affairs, is defending proceedings brought under the Harmful Digital Communications Act over four items published by The Daily Blog, New Zealand’s largest independent leftwing media website. O’Brien asked the Auckland District Court today to lift the order preventing her being identified to end public “speculation”. READ MORE: ‘I am now legally censored from even talking about being censored’ – Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury Other Martyn Bradbury reports However, The Post reports the FSU has condemned the actions of O’Brien, saying it did not support her case against Bradbury and was unaware of it until the media reported it last week. Radio Waatea reports that the case has “become a significant debate about where freedom of political expression ends and harmful online communication begins”. This was “made more unusual by O’Brien’s role with an organisation established to advocate for free speech”. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-131994" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radio-Waatea-comment-RW-680wide.png" alt="Radio Waatea's general manager Matthew Tukaki on the Daily Blog gag" width="680" height="392" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radio-Waatea-comment-RW-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radio-Waatea-comment-RW-680wide-300x173.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Radio Waatea’s general manager Matthew Tukaki on the Daily Blog gag . . . “Free speech, apparently – but only when the free speech club says so.” Image: Radio Waatea O’Brien had pre…

Free Speech Union board member revealed in Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury’s ‘gagging’ case
type: item
creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-13T02:43:18Z
subject: Ani O'Brien
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Free Press Union
subject: Harmful Digital Communications Act
subject: Martyn Bradbury
subject: Matthew Tukaki
subject: Online communication
subject: Political expression
subject: Radio Waatea
subject: Sources
subject: The Daily Blog
subject: ACT
subject: ani
subject: asia
subject: Blog
subject: board
subject: bradbury:
subject: bradbury’s
subject: case
subject: Communication
subject: Communications
subject: daily
subject: Democracy
subject: digital
subject: editor
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: expression
subject: Featured
subject: free
subject: freedom of speech
subject: Gagging
subject: harmful
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Justice
subject: martyn
subject: matthew
subject: Media
subject: Media Freedom
subject: member
subject: new zealand
subject: o’brien
subject: online
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: political
subject: Politics
subject: press
subject: press freedom
subject: radio
subject: report
subject: revealed:
subject: sources
subject: speech
subject: Syndicate
subject: the
subject: tukaki
subject: union
subject: waatea
description: Pacific Media Watch A court struggle featuring Daily Blog editor and media freedom defender Martyn Bradbury has taken a surprise turn, with Free Speech Union (FSU) board member and political commentator Ani O’Brien being revealed as the complainant behind “secret” proceedings, reports Radia Waatea. Bradbury, who is a regular commentator on Radio Waatea covering politics
encoded: Pacific Media Watch A court struggle featuring Daily Blog editor and media freedom defender Martyn Bradbury has taken a surprise turn, with Free Speech Union (FSU) board member and political commentator Ani O’Brien being revealed as the complainant behind “secret” proceedings, reports Radia Waatea. Bradbury, who is a regular commentator on Radio Waatea covering politics and current affairs, is defending proceedings brought under the Harmful Digital Communications Act over four items published by The Daily Blog, New Zealand’s largest independent leftwing media website. O’Brien asked the Auckland District Court today to lift the order preventing her being identified to end public “speculation”. READ MORE: ‘I am now legally censored from even talking about being censored’ – Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury Other Martyn Bradbury reports However, The Post reports the FSU has condemned the actions of O’Brien, saying it did not support her case against Bradbury and was unaware of it until the media reported it last week. Radio Waatea reports that the case has “become a significant debate about where freedom of political expression ends and harmful online communication begins”. This was “made more unusual by O’Brien’s role with an organisation established to advocate for free speech”. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-131994" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radio-Waatea-comment-RW-680wide.png" alt="Radio Waatea's general manager Matthew Tukaki on the Daily Blog gag" width="680" height="392" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radio-Waatea-comment-RW-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radio-Waatea-comment-RW-680wide-300x173.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Radio Waatea’s general manager Matthew Tukaki on the Daily Blog gag . . . “Free speech, apparently – but only when the free speech club says so.” Image: Radio Waatea O’Brien had pre…

Polling booths open in Cook Islands election
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-12T23:35:48Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Cook Islands elections
subject: Cook Islands politics
subject: Polling booths
subject: Polling day
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: booths
subject: cook
subject: Cook Islands
subject: day
subject: election
subject: Elections
subject: Featured
subject: islands
subject: new zealand
subject: open
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Politics
subject: polling
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
description: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific Polling is open in the Cook Islands where 11,000 registered voters will elect their leaders for the next four years. Voting stations opened at 9am on Wednesday morning, Cook Islands time (7am Thursday NZT) and will close at 6pm. There are 24 constituencies, 10 on the main island of
encoded: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific Polling is open in the Cook Islands where 11,000 registered voters will elect their leaders for the next four years. Voting stations opened at 9am on Wednesday morning, Cook Islands time (7am Thursday NZT) and will close at 6pm. There are 24 constituencies, 10 on the main island of Rarotonga, and the other 14 spread across the Pa Enua, or outer islands. READ MORE: Cost of living, water tariffs, mining on Cook Islanders’ minds ahead of election Other Cook Islands elections reports Thirteen seats are needed for a majority to form a government. A total of 63 candidates were confirmed for the 2026 general election, down from the 71 who contested the 2022 election. This year’s lineup includes 49 men and 14 women. With independents making up 20 percent of candidates, should no party claim the 13 seats needed for majority, the independents could hold the power over who forms government. One seat has already been won this election, with Mangaia’s Ivirua candidate Agnes Helen Armstrong running uncontested as an independent. There has been a delay in the Northern Cooks, as bad weather meant electoral officers were unable to get ashore in Nassau. Officials have announced the island’s polling will be postponed to Thursday afternoon local time. The issues for voters The local newspaper, Cook Islands News, ran a poll which found a majority (50.5 percent) of respondents across the Pa Enua and Rarotonga identified the cost of living and inflation — including fuel prices, water and power bills, housing, transportation and consumer goods — as their primary concern. Editor Rashneel Kumar told RNZ Pacific Waves last week that global conflicts, contributing to resource restraints and costs, have a flow-on effect on local customers. “With the Middle East conflict, obviously, we have seen a impact on small island nations, and Cook Islands is not spared as well,” he said. “We end up the supply chain, so we do absorb a lot of additional cost — and by the time …

Syria Convicts Atef Najib
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-08-12T22:36:06Z
subject: Human Rights Watch
subject: Sources
subject: atef
subject: convicts
subject: human
subject: najib
subject: rights
subject: sources
subject: Syria
subject: watch
description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.

Black Liberation Requires Investment
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creator: Reginald Thomas Brown
date: 2026-08-12T22:17:16Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: black
subject: investment
subject: liberation
subject: progressive
subject: requires
subject: sources
subject: the
description: This month, and always, let's direct our dollars toward organizations that reflect our values.
encoded: This month, and always, let's direct our dollars toward organizations that reflect our values. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Reginald Thomas Brown.

Zhu Rongji used economics to exert greater control over Tibet
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creator: RFA Staff
date: 2026-08-12T21:48:20Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: control
subject: economics
subject: exert
subject: free
subject: greater
subject: over
subject: radio
subject: rongji
subject: sources
subject: Tibet
subject: used
subject: zhu
description: The Zhu-led Western Development Strategy was able to “bring Tibetans in line with Chinese government policies.”
encoded: The late former premier of China Zhu Rongji wielded the economic hammer during China’s rapid economic rise in the 1990s and 2000s to increase Beijing’s influence over Tibet, an expert told Radio Free Asia shortly after Zhu’s death on Wednesday. Zhu, 98, died at 11:06 a.m. in Beijing of an unspecified illness, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. As premier alongside President Jiang Zemin from 1998 to 2003, Zhu had spearheaded China’s accession to the World Trade Organization and ushered in an era of rapid economic growth and full integration into the global market through a series of bold but not fully completed reforms. The pair are credited with orchestrating China’s gradual escape from international isolation following the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and its path to becoming the world’s second-largest economy. But for Tibetans, Zhu’s legacy as an architect of China’s economic rise is one of increasing Beijing’s political control over the region, Buchung Tsering, research director at the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet, told RFA. “As part of the Western Development Strategy, Zhu promoted greater economic development in Tibetan areas, seeking to use economic means to maintain ‘stability’ in Tibet and bring Tibetans in line with the Chinese government’s policies,” Tsering said. “Zhu Rongji can therefore be seen as a key figure in strengthening Beijing’s political control over Tibet through economic means.” A Tibetan demonstrator displays a Tibetan flag as they protest Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, Jan. 15, 2002. (Prakash Singh/AFP) The Western Development Strategy was a state-run economic development program that included large scale infrastructure projects intended to integrate China’s western frontier, including Tibet and the Uyghur region, with its booming coastal cities. Critics have said that this policy accelerated the westward migration of the Han population, objectively altering the local popula…

Learn Your Own History, and Add to It
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creator: Joel Haskard
date: 2026-08-12T20:49:12Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: add
subject: and
subject: History
subject: learn
subject: own
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: your
description: An interview with retired history professor Peter Rachleff.
encoded: An interview with retired history professor Peter Rachleff. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Joel Haskard.

Learn Your Own History, and Add to It
type: item
creator: Joel Haskard
date: 2026-08-12T20:49:12Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: add
subject: and
subject: History
subject: learn
subject: own
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: your
description: An interview with retired history professor Peter Rachleff.
encoded: An interview with retired history professor Peter Rachleff. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Joel Haskard.

[episode cut] From Deadspin to Defector: The Power of Worker-owned News Outlets
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-08-12T20:33:53Z
subject: Sources
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subject: defector
subject: episode
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subject: Power
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subject: the
subject: workerowned
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.

The media’s go-to ‘electability’ experts are funded by Wall St., Amazon, and health insurance giants
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creator: Adam Johnson
date: 2026-08-12T19:46:37Z
subject: article
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Sources
subject: amazon
subject: and
subject: are
subject: democratic party
subject: electability
subject: Elections
subject: experts
subject: funded
subject: giants
subject: goto
subject: health
subject: insurance
subject: Media Criticism
subject: media’s
subject: midterms
subject: movements
subject: Opinion
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: the
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One Court Case Could Change 2028
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ICE funding approved by Susan Collins and Trump GOP to deliver electric shock gloves to agents nationwide
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 12, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. As Mainers continue to target Sen. Susan Collins’ office with protests following a re...
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U.K.’s complicity in Israel’s genocide
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 12, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 12, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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How coral reefs became high-tech military bases and nearly got a VICE crew shot from the sky.
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My quest to find out if my blueberries come from problematic farms
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UN News Today 12 August 2026
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description: UN maritime agency condemns deadly attack on Red Sea shipAfghanistan: Harsh reality of five years of Taliban rule – UN WomenWHO stands by vaccination policy benefits for children
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Gaza Tribunal Co-Chairs Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon & Shahd Hammouri on U.K. Complicity in Genocide
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CPJ, partners submit shadow report to the UN on Venezuela UPR
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and other six international and local organizations submitted a shadow report on freedom of expression and press freedom in Venezuela to the United Nations that will be examined during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), at the 54th session of the UPR Working Group, scheduled for January–February...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and other six international and local organizations submitted a shadow report on freedom of expression and press freedom in Venezuela to the United Nations that will be examined during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), at the 54th session of the UPR Working Group, scheduled for January–February 2027 in Geneva, Switzerland. The report’s findings point to a worsening hostility against the independent press in Venezuela. The risks associated with exercising the right to freedom of expression have reached unprecedented levels, including the imprisonment of 26 media workers in last year. The joint report warns that the Venezuelan State has failed to fully implement the recommendations it accepted during its third cycle UPR, held in January 2022. On the contrary, over the past four years, persecution of voices critical of the government has intensified through a legal framework that violates international standards and a justice system that has become part of the state’s machinery of repression. The organizations made some recommendations to the state members including reform laws that unduly restrict freedom of expression, end arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and judicial harassment of journalists, and immediately lift arbitrary blocks on media outlets and websites. Read the full report in English here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 12, 2026
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CPJ, partners demand release of detained Shi’a Muslims in Egypt, including journalist Haidar Qandil
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to strongly condemn the arrest and enforced disappearance of at least 36 Shi’a Muslims in Egypt, including journalist Haidar Qandil, and called for their immediate release. Qandil was arrested on June 22, 2026, outside the offices of Al-Dostor newspaper in Giza, Greater Cairo, and taken...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to strongly condemn the arrest and enforced disappearance of at least 36 Shi’a Muslims in Egypt, including journalist Haidar Qandil, and called for their immediate release. Qandil was arrested on June 22, 2026, outside the offices of Al-Dostor newspaper in Giza, Greater Cairo, and taken to an undisclosed location — just hours after he had spent the day documenting the arrests of Egyptian Shi’a Muslims ahead of Ashura, a key religious commemoration. On July 16, after almost 24 days of enforced disappearance, Qandil appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution. Accused of joining, leading, and financing a terrorist group, Qandil was remanded in custody for 15 days under Case No. 5653 of 2026. Egypt remains one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, with 19 currently behind bars. Read the full letter in English and Arabic. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Working Families Feel the Heat of Trump’s Recklessness with Consumer Prices on the Rise in July
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description: Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.1% in July and are up 3.4% over the past year. July’s price increase reverses the disinflation seen in June, which was built on a short-lived ceasefire that quickly unraveled. Nearly six mo...
encoded: Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.1% in July and are up 3.4% over the past year. July’s price increase reverses the disinflation seen in June, which was built on a short-lived ceasefire that quickly unraveled. Nearly six months into his war with Iran, the president has failed to swiftly end the conflict and recently <a href="https://u109330751.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.yK-2BGBL7CX4z-2B5m0mj4mEzaUVIshBGrPbajnCKX0-2BQQxd-2BF52xGXA3IRXUberCm6XgnWHcfAtPcVu-2FkSoLzqQpwrRgrzMJ-2BXbKeyE0XOuGUmRtNTI17RoJe4OAPNujXvY2P91Ykxi3bN-2FOU4JH2Ko8J9Hee82py-2BUi4thzel-2BuNLOfHNFP0BOF1PVPy8A0kjr5_-p_s0lTyPdoyuzn-2FJTE9fjR8nSlryGpLl-2B7mxK4it06DfIPbN1fwPbo6gfcFcFLl-2B43osByIIFikoyes-2BFU-2FAelu7S1efddV4KFlHdVVL7tewLgXGyZuDdDEzIVYWt8k6XylrY-2BbKe3Dr4NQEwho19y7RS52u-2BBTAHo5S5so3LX1of8qyM6WhvJQNYSnmjRNSXDF7xsDj1PbQwizlf5ZljAXJfonktBCtKf7J7IdCF8q77Se-2BNEVPKSwkwzXmWOpCZtB5uiT1vYQ58NKTHXqRuVJOc-2FF4fgFiNW7zS-2BmO6xdnFbd7G-2BSSnbv4QYS-2F15ZKTMLFEK9OG7WenehijtZniGOZKw4ccZqlkKcNGTWOOBehE-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >said he does not “think about Americans’ financial situation” when negotiating an end to the war he started. Meanwhile, oil prices are back on the <a href="https://u109330751.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.yK-2BGBL7CX4z-2B5m0mj4mEzSM-2FyNk3m3ilWxVYGLwiPkJFkBFWxfhDT6hVp7kclXcYxbMlH92kJqsNVvsYcNgdfna2dqRUS9OsJ5Y-2FxXbX3YdWClvPlNkQurNjssJy8aGBb7AU_s0lTyPdoyuzn-2FJTE9fjR8nSlryGpLl-2B7mxK4it06DfIPbN1fwPbo6gfcFcFLl-2B43osByIIFikoyes-2BFU-2FAelu7S1efddV4KFlHdVVL7tewLgXGyZuDdDEzIVYWt8k6XylrY-2BbKe3Dr4NQEwho19y7RS52u-2BBTAHo5S5so3LX1of8qyM6WhvJQNYSnmjRNSXDircG3Cszku6Ris5UM0P7VljA3D5EomJ1haXXsgsn4REJa7qqeBRueNqmSKky-2F292tZRSExtffd0d3o3OjUj9laR4gNfncUUG-2BWQiBYR4UF6VGXHAK-2FqpwT-2Fg-2BEIHovv-2FwYr9rsRgUoWGfWbD4ConmrsUurLdyHzKJL0SpEYs9BI-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >rise, gas is back above <a href="https://u109330751.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.yK-2BGBL7CX4z-2B5m0mj4mEzRobv6WITJvvpbEaO8F16Ajtp9XZCp-2Fgf87HYURDjG2Pw4yi_s0lTyPdoyuzn-2FJTE9fjR8nSl…

Russia sentences journalist Vasilisa Shishkina to 12 years in jail on treason charges
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description: Berlin, August 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Russian authorities to swiftly clarify the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of journalist Vasilisa Shishkina on treason charges and her subsequent sentencing in May to 12 years in prison amid reports that she was targeted because of her work. Shishkina, an editor at the regional outlet Nomer...
encoded: Berlin, August 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Russian authorities to swiftly clarify the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of journalist Vasilisa Shishkina on treason charges and her subsequent sentencing in May to 12 years in prison amid reports that she was targeted because of her work. Shishkina, an editor at the regional outlet Nomer Odin in Russia’s eastern Republic of Buryatia, was sentenced on May 21 by the Supreme Court of Buryatia, her lawyer Vasily Dubkov said in a video posted to his Telegram channel on August 6 after a court in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk upheld the sentence. Shishkina’s trial was held behind closed doors, Dubkov said, without providing any further details beyond the sentence. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="169" width="300" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-607540" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png 1920w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=300,169 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=768,432 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=1536,864 1536w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=570,321 570w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=652,367 652w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=760,428 760w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=1140,641 1140w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/videoframe_89635.png?resize=367,206 367w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Journalist Vasilisa Shishkina, who has been jailed for 12 years. (Screenshot: People of Baikal/YouTube) “The prosecution and sentencing of Russian journalist Vasilisa Shishkina has be…

Gaza Tribunal Co-Chairs MP Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon & Shahd Hammouri on U.K. Complicity in Genocide
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date: 2026-08-12T12:17:33Z
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description: From London, we revisit the Gaza Tribunal, an independent, nongovernmental inquiry into the United Kingdom’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The tribunal, held nearly one year ago, was chaired by our three gue...
encoded: From London, we revisit the Gaza Tribunal, an independent, nongovernmental inquiry into the United Kingdom’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The tribunal, held nearly one year ago, was chaired by our three guests: former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Israeli professor of human rights law Neve Gordon and Palestinian legal scholar Shahd Hammouri. Their new book is titled The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide. We discuss the recent apology from Prime Minister Andy Burnham over the Labour Party’s early support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, the United Kingdom’s crackdown on the Palestine Action protest group under counterterrorism laws, and whether British policymakers will face any accountability for participating in “one of the biggest crimes in humanity.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 12, 2026
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description: Death Toll from Colombia Earthquake Tops 250 as Rescue Crews Scramble to Reach Survivors, Iran Nears Deal with Oman over Control of Strait of Hormuz, Trump Hid in Catering Truck to Sneak Off Air Force One Amid Alleged Threat from Iran, Former Ukrainian Prisoners Recount Torture and Sexual Abuse in Russian Jails, Minnesota Progressive Peggy Flanagan Wins Democratic Party Nomination for U.S. Senate Seat, David Crowley Tops Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, Lindsey Graham’s Sister Darline Advances to a Runoff in South Carolina Senate Race, Federal Judge Blocks U.S. Postal Service from Enforcing Trump Order on Mail Ballots, ICE Plans to Spend $20M to Purchase Electric Shock Gloves, Group Founded by Former ICE Agent Awarded $158M to Represent Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, DRC Reports More Than 4,000 Confirmed Ebola Cases, U.S. Could See Three Executions in Same Day for First Time Since 2010, Millions in Europe Will Witness a Total Solar Eclipse Today
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Democracy Now! 2026-08-12 Wednesday
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
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creator: Jesse Coburn
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encoded: Alex Bandoni and Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Corbis, AFP and Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps for hands, would end up drenched in oil, which would then — no surprise — combust as they moved steel blocks heated to 1,800 degrees into and out of a machine that periodically erupted columns of fire. One blaze that summer melted a robot’s cables, putting it out of commission for a week. Only weeks earlier, defense officials and executives had touted the factory’s innovative new machinery, imported from Turkey, at a gala opening ceremony. But employees were already used to spectacular mishaps, fiery and otherwise. “After the second, third, fourth time, it just became almost normal,” one former worker said. “It got to the point where I was not surprised by anything that happened there.” Instead of producing shells in an efficient and streamlined fashion, the pricey machines kept failing in bizarre ways. The robot arms would swing out of control, smashing into carefully calibrated equipment, and sometimes they would unexpectedly drop hunks of steel 5 feet down to the floor. The factory’s signature device, meant to precisely stretch the steel for the artillery shells, instead often cracked it beyond repair. Then there were the giant press machines, which required regular pounding with a sledgehammer to function properly but still botched the shaping of nearly every shell. “We really didn’t have any standardized practice,” said Quantel White, a former employee. “It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer e…

DN! Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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“They’re Putting Kids’ Lives at Risk”: How Abuse in a Tennessee Businessman’s Juvenile Prisons Remained Under Wraps
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date: 2026-08-12T09:00:00Z
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description: The post “They’re Putting Kids’ Lives at Risk”: How Abuse in a Tennessee Businessman’s Juvenile Prisons Remained Under Wraps appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260708-TN-Juvenile-Justice-Kranitz-1219_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true.jpg?w=1149" alt="A young man sits on a porch swing looking at the camera with a serious expression. He is holding a cigarette in one hand and a water bottle in the other. On either side of him are pillows with American flags, silhouettes of soldiers and the words “Support Our Troops.”"> Thomas Jarvis, now 20, was attacked twice at juvenile justice facilities overseen by Jason Crews, a Tennessee businessman. In both instances, facility leadership failed to report the incidents to the state as required. Stacy Kranitz for ProPublica The video clip lasted less than two minutes, but Tonya Webb remembers every second as heartbreaking. The grainy surveillance footage, dated June 29, 2024, showed a teenager in an anti-suicide smock being dragged violently by other teens across the floor at Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center. As guards watched, the teens pulled the smock over the boy’s head, exposing his naked body. Then they stuffed him, limbs flailing, into a cell. One guard pushed the door closed, locking him in, and the boy pressed his face against the sliver of a cell window. The guard flashed the teens a thumbs-up. Webb, a medication supervisor at the facility, saw the video when a co-worker showed it to her and knew she was looking at a serious violation of state policy. An incident like this one, in which employees encouraged youths to restrain another youth, would require staff to notify both the state and the boy’s family within 24 hours. Webb said she raised questions about the incident with the compliance director for the facility. The director said she’d handle it, but after weeks went by with no sign of a state investigation, Webb confronted the deputy to the facility’s executive director. “I know you’ve seen the video,” Webb recalled telling her. “Nothing’s being done about it.” …

Scientists define a new category of heat wave: ‘Snow eaters’
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creator: Kate Yoder
date: 2026-08-12T08:45:00Z
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description: Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year.
encoded: Matthew LaPlante doesn’t have to go to a lab to see his research in action. On some mornings, he can just look out his own window in the mountains high above Salt Lake City. After a warm night when the temperature stays above freezing, he’ll wake up and see that the snow level has dropped by inches, revealing more of the aspens he taps for syrup. “It feels like a monster came and just in the middle of the night, took a bite out of a snowpack,” said LaPlante, a journalist and climate scientist at Utah State University. So it’s fitting that scientists have started calling these kinds of heat waves, marked by unusually high temperatures in the spring and early summer, “snow eaters.” LaPlante was part of a recent study, published in the journal Science Advances, that attempted, for the first time, to identify what conditions exactly make for a “snow eater.” Compared to normal warm spells or heat waves, the researchers determined that these events happen when temperatures stay above freezing through both day and night for multiple days, typically three to five. These events can roughly double the rate at which snow melts, causing flooding and making it challenging to manage water resources. “Snow eaters” appear to be occurring earlier in the year and becoming more widespread in the Western United States as the climate warms. Since the 1850s, the study found, the area affected by snow eaters has increased by an average of about 40,000 square miles per century, and the first snow eater of the season has been arriving about one month earlier per century. The term “snow eater” has a murky history. By at least the 1880s, people in the West were talking about “snow-eating” chinooks, warm mountain winds that make snow disappear quickly. More recently, the phrase “snow-eater heat wave” first made headlines in March, when an early heat wave enveloped much of the West, quickly wiping away snowpack in the Colorado Rockies and California’s Sierra Nevada. The scientists hope the catc…

Some Nebraska communities are cashing in on renewables. Others are being left behind.
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creator: Anila Yoganathan
date: 2026-08-12T08:30:00Z
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description: More than 88 percent of the taxes on wind and solar went to just 10 of the state’s 93 counties.
encoded: In 2017, after about 10 years of discussions, then-superintendent Amy Shane finally got to see a much needed expansion at the O’Neill Public School District’s aging junior-senior high school get approved. Expanded classrooms, state-of-the-art science labs, a new gym. The difference-maker that helped push the $13.2 million project from proposal to reality: taxes on renewable energy developments. Over nine years, the school district has taken in about $7.6 million, which Shane said helped offset the expansion cost. “We could get something good for our students without putting a huge burden on our taxpayers,” Shane said. The project is an example of what economic development and renewable energy proponents have long argued: Renewable energy projects can help communities diversify their revenue streams and offset property tax burdens. The Nebraska excise tax, known as the nameplate capacity tax, requires qualifying renewable energy developments to annually pay $3,518 per megawatt of power that the facility can generate. The money flows to counties whose treasurers allocate it amongst local jurisdictions, including the county governments, community colleges, and school and natural resource districts. But in recent years, a number of Nebraska counties have enacted strict regulations on renewable developments, as opponents have raised concerns about property values, noise, health, safety, and fire risks. About 15 years after the tax was implemented, it’s worth looking at where the money has actually gone. Revenue distributed from the tax and the number of counties receiving it has risen over the years. In 2015, just nine counties received nameplate capacity tax revenue, which totaled $2.03 million, including penalties and interest, according to data from the Department of Revenue. In 2025, communities received over $13.6 million. But there’s an imbalance. More than 88 percent of that money went to just 10 of Nebraska’s 93 counties. Lawmakers created the nameplate capacity …

Government orders trigger sweeping Instagram censorship days after CJP protest
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creator: Amarabati Bhattacharyya
date: 2026-08-12T08:08:15Z
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description: Over the past few weeks, journalists, independent creators, news organisations, activists and Opposition politicians have been reporting a growing number of Instagram accounts being restricted in India or posts being arbitrarily taken down — many of them concerning the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, the brutal police crackdown that followed, or simply content critical of […]
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Rights Groups Sue the Trump Administration Over Targeting the ICC
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-08-12T06:17:18Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Ukrainian Ground Drones Run Supplies, Evacuate Wounded Under Russian Fire #ukraine
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-08-12T06:00:10Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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The Art of Resistance Four Years After Dobbs
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creator: Juliann Ventura
date: 2026-08-12T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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subject: Resistance
subject: sources
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subject: years
description: Artists across the country have channeled rage and disappointment at the overturn of Roe v. Wade into activism.
encoded: Artists across the country have channeled rage and disappointment at the overturn of Roe v. Wade into activism. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Juliann Ventura.

The Art of Resistance Four Years After Dobbs
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creator: Juliann Ventura
date: 2026-08-12T05:00:00Z
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description: Artists across the country have channeled rage and disappointment at the overturn of Roe v. Wade into activism.
encoded: Artists across the country have channeled rage and disappointment at the overturn of Roe v. Wade into activism. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Juliann Ventura.

Electroclash musician Peaches on identifying a pattern
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creator: Sun Noor
date: 2026-08-12T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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subject: identifying
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description: Is there a specific moment earlier on in your career that has affirmed your direction as an artist?
encoded: Is there a specific moment earlier on in your career that has affirmed your direction as an artist? I guess what I can say is that I had an idea. Then, once I was playing live, I could see how people were reacting—and having sort of major reactions to what I was doing [with stage performances]. I think that motivated me and told me where people were at, and it motivated me to push things even more, to see what reactions I could get from people. Is there a piece of advice you wish you’d received at the beginning of your journey? Actually, I’m really happy I didn’t, because I just probably would’ve stunted a lot of things I did. I really didn’t have any mentor or someone to talk to about this. Yeah, no. It was really like the Wild West for me with this kind of stuff and I’m happy about it. Has your approach to art changed over time? I think it hasn’t changed. My attitude has changed a little more. I used to get more angry if there was an opposing comment, but I let things roll off my back more and understand that it’s okay. Not everybody understands, and that’s fine and that’s good. It’s good to confuse people. You’ll find that they’ll probably come back to you, years later, with more understanding. Just give people space and time, like you’re giving yourself. Is there anything you’ve newly discovered about yourself in relation to your artistic practice? I guess I’m thinking a lot about tour and a lot about performance… The energy you expend can look like you’re expending all that energy without you tiring yourself out. I can’t explain that, but it’s working. Is there anything that you do consistently at the start of a new project, across your disciplines? I tell myself, “What the fuck am I doing? I’ve never done anything in my life.” I totally psych myself out. I’m like, “How am I going to do this?” I get stressed. I freak myself out. It’s a bad pattern, but it’s a pattern. Is there anything that helps you combat that self-doubt? I just have to go through it. Everyon…

A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-08-12T03:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
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description: The brilliant Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From, and playwright of The Domestic Crusaders, had me on The LeftHook to share my new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire. Watch or listen to the full discussion on how to overcome the very real and urgent threat of fascism. (Side note: In France, Marine Le Pen is campaigning for president wearing an ankle monitor, following in the footsteps of her fellow Russian asset, the convicted felon/Epstein wing-man). Trump is doing to our country what he did to the East Wing of our White House. How do we rebuild from the wreckage? That's what A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women is about. It's for anyone tired of Steve Bannon trying to demoralize us and flood the zone with sh*t. It's about concrete steps to stay grounded and focused in a world of chaos, to align your deepest needs and dreams with a higher purpose, creating world domination for the collective good. My own journey begins with being raised on stories of the government trying to kill you, and blame you for the crime, helped by Western corruption to cover-up the torture and murder. I am of course speaking of my Ukrainian heritage and the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. In all my years of studying my family's history and the two monsters, Hitler and Stalin, who drove that history, I look back on America's own, and see the authoritarianism that established this country. The white supremacy blood lust terrorizing Black Americans, Native Americans, mass discrimination and violence against immigrants, and the list goes on. Trump, Stephen Miller, Peter Thiel, and too many others carry on that violent legacy. That's why they're aligned with the Kremlin, which sees Ukrainians as inferior. In Ukrainian culture, we're taught to fight for our very lives, our voice, our art, our culture, our language, because no one else will. They want to erase us, so we must do the oppo…
encoded: The brilliant Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From, and playwright of The Domestic Crusaders, had me on The LeftHook to share my new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire. Watch or listen to the full discussion on how to overcome the very real and urgent threat of fascism. (Side note: In France, Marine Le Pen is campaigning for president wearing an ankle monitor, following in the footsteps of her fellow Russian asset, the convicted felon/Epstein wing-man). Trump is doing to our country what he did to the East Wing of our White House. How do we rebuild from the wreckage? That's what A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women is about. It's for anyone tired of Steve Bannon trying to demoralize us and flood the zone with sh*t. It's about concrete steps to stay grounded and focused in a world of chaos, to align your deepest needs and dreams with a higher purpose, creating world domination for the collective good. My own journey begins with being raised on stories of the government trying to kill you, and blame you for the crime, helped by Western corruption to cover-up the torture and murder. I am of course speaking of my Ukrainian heritage and the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. In all my years of studying my family's history and the two monsters, Hitler and Stalin, who drove that history, I look back on America's own, and see the authoritarianism that established this country. The white supremacy blood lust terrorizing Black Americans, Native Americans, mass discrimination and violence against immigrants, and the list goes on. Trump, Stephen Miller, Peter Thiel, and too many others carry on that violent legacy. That's why they're aligned with the Kremlin, which sees Ukrainians as inferior. In Ukrainian culture, we're taught to fight for our very lives, our voice, our art, our culture, our language, because no one else will. They want to erase us, so we must do the oppo…

Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza spy satellites
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-12T01:34:10Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: BlackSky
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Israeli genocide
subject: Maher Nazzal
subject: Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act
subject: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
subject: Rinad Tamimi
subject: Rocket Lab
subject: Sources
subject: Space Minister
subject: Spy satellites lawsuit
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description: Asia Pacific Report Lawyers for two Palestinian advocates with strong family ties to the Nakba in Gaza and a Māori medical doctor critical of the “colonial violence” in the occupied territories have filed a lawsuit today against New Zealand government support for BlackSky spy satellite launchings from the Rocket Lab site in Māhia. Their lawsuit
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Lawyers for two Palestinian advocates with strong family ties to the Nakba in Gaza and a Māori medical doctor critical of the “colonial violence” in the occupied territories have filed a lawsuit today against New Zealand government support for BlackSky spy satellite launchings from the Rocket Lab site in Māhia. Their lawsuit seeks a judicial review of government policy, arguing that the satellites risk supplying Israeli military forces with targeting data in attacks on the population of the besieged Gaza Strip. New Zealand-founded space company Rocket Lab is BlackSky’s primary launch provider, says a statement by the Palestine Solidarity Media Network (PSNA) that is supporting the lawsuit filed at the Wellington High Court. READ MORE: Justice For Palestine welcomes legal challenge to govt approval of BlackSky spy satellite launches from NZ Other Rocket Lab reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-131936 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall.png" alt="Yasser Abdulaal, one of the three plaintiffs " width="300" height="430" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall-209x300.png 209w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall-293x420.png 293w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Yasser Abdulaal, one of the three plaintiffs . . . “Israel is still bombing and killing in Gaza. We hope that we will stop these satellite launches.” Image: PSNA Rocket Lab launched a BlackSky satellite from Māhia in March, with further launches recently approved by the Minister for Space. The three plaintiffs bringing the lawsuit are New Zealanders — Christchurch engineer Yasser Abdulaal; Auckland-based information technology professional Maher Nazzal; and Dr Timoti Te Moke (Ngāti Rangitihi, Tapuika …

Palestinian Kiwis, Māori doctor file claim against NZ govt over Gaza spy satellites
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-12T01:34:10Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: BlackSky
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Israeli genocide
subject: Maher Nazzal
subject: Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act
subject: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
subject: Rinad Tamimi
subject: Rocket Lab
subject: Sources
subject: Space Minister
subject: Spy satellites lawsuit
subject: Wellington High Court
subject: ACT
subject: activities
subject: against
subject: and
subject: aotearoa
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: blacksky
subject: Civil Society
subject: claim
subject: court
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: doctor
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: file
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: govt?
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subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: israeli
subject: Judicial review
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subject: Politics
subject: PSNA
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subject: rocket
subject: satellites
subject: Security
subject: Self Determination
subject: Solidarity
subject: sources
subject: Space
subject: spy
subject: Syndicate
subject: tamimi
subject: wellington
description: Asia Pacific Report Lawyers for two Palestinian advocates with strong family ties to the Nakba in Gaza and a Māori medical doctor critical of the “colonial violence” in the occupied territories have filed a lawsuit today against New Zealand government support for BlackSky spy satellite launchings from the Rocket Lab site in Māhia. Their lawsuit
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Lawyers for two Palestinian advocates with strong family ties to the Nakba in Gaza and a Māori medical doctor critical of the “colonial violence” in the occupied territories have filed a lawsuit today against New Zealand government support for BlackSky spy satellite launchings from the Rocket Lab site in Māhia. Their lawsuit seeks a judicial review of government policy, arguing that the satellites risk supplying Israeli military forces with targeting data in attacks on the population of the besieged Gaza Strip. New Zealand-founded space company Rocket Lab is BlackSky’s primary launch provider, says a statement by the Palestine Solidarity Media Network (PSNA) that is supporting the lawsuit filed at the Wellington High Court. READ MORE: Justice For Palestine welcomes legal challenge to govt approval of BlackSky spy satellite launches from NZ Other Rocket Lab reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-131936 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall.png" alt="Yasser Abdulaal, one of the three plaintiffs " width="300" height="430" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall-209x300.png 209w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abdulaal-cropped-JM-300tall-293x420.png 293w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Yasser Abdulaal, one of the three plaintiffs . . . “Israel is still bombing and killing in Gaza. We hope that we will stop these satellite launches.” Image: PSNA Rocket Lab launched a BlackSky satellite from Māhia in March, with further launches recently approved by the Minister for Space. The three plaintiffs bringing the lawsuit are New Zealanders — Christchurch engineer Yasser Abdulaal; Auckland-based information technology professional Maher Nazzal; and Dr Timoti Te Moke (Ngāti Rangitihi, Tapuika …

The Segal State 2 – the mask, the children, the money and the answer
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-12T01:10:32Z
subject: Antisemitism Commissioner
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Jillian Segel
subject: Michael West Media
subject: Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
subject: Social cohesion
subject: Sources
subject: The Segel State
subject: and
subject: answer’
subject: Antisemitism
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Australia
subject: children
subject: Civil Society
subject: cohesion
subject: commission
subject: commissioner
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Education
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: into
subject: jillian
subject: mask
subject: Media
subject: michael
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description: How Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate, while the Coalition demanded more was covered in Part One. It ended with a question polite Australia refuses to ask. Today, in Part Two is the answer. Andrew Brown reports for Michael West
encoded: How Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate, while the Coalition demanded more was covered in Part One. It ended with a question polite Australia refuses to ask. Today, in Part Two is the answer. Andrew Brown reports for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown The architecture would be scandal enough on paper. It did not stay there. Antisemitism Commissioner Jillian Segal took an oath at a Royal Commission. Segal conceded regulators had found little inaccuracy in ABC and SBS reporting on Israel and Gaza. The journalism was true. Her objection was that the truth made Israel look bad. Her remedy was another oversight body and more positive stories about the amazing startup nation READ MORE: The Segal State 1 – the public office Australia never voted for The Segal State 2 – the mask, the children, the money and the answer A taxpayer-funded official told a Royal Commission, under oath, that accurate reporting is a problem the state should fix with pressure for flattering coverage. Under oath, the mask came off Show the starving children of Gaza if you insist, then cut to a cheerful Israeli tech segment for balance. There are countries where officials talk like that. None of them are democracies. And the Prime Minister kept her in office anyway. Then she reached for the children University students, Segal observed, are relatively fixed in their ideas. Younger children are more open. Education, she said, is a tool for building ideas, cohesion and culture. An advocate surveyed the population, identified the audience least capable of arguing back, and proposed to begin there. She unveiled a National Centre for Education Against Antisemitism to train government, business and police at scale and capture the hearts and minds of Australians. Her phrase. The Gonski taskforce runs from early childhood to university. Something in the curriculum, Segal mused, might have to come ou…

Pacific media figures pay tribute to Solomons legend George Atkin
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Tributes have flowed in for the renowned Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin, who has died. As well as being a former correspondent for the then-RNZ International and ABC Pacific, Atkin was a leading figure in journalism in Solomon Islands and in the Pacific Islands region. He was the first president of the
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Tributes have flowed in for the renowned Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin, who has died. As well as being a former correspondent for the then-RNZ International and ABC Pacific, Atkin was a leading figure in journalism in Solomon Islands and in the Pacific Islands region. He was the first president of the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI), serving from 1985 to 1989 and was a respected member of the country’s media fraternity. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/abarigawantok/posts/%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%81%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%86-%F0%9D%90%80-%F0%9D%90%8F%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%82%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%85%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%82-%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%83%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%80-%F0%9D%90%8F%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91-%F0%9D%90%86%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%86%F0%9D%90%84-%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%8A%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8D-%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%88joining-my-fellow-wantoks-/1010678141948279/">READ MORE: Remembering a Pacific media pioneer — George Atkin Aeta’i The veteran journalist worked for numerous mainstream media outlets such as the Solomon Star newspaper, Island Sun newspaper and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation. A prominent Solomon islands media figure, Robert Iroga, said Atkin was an editor, journalist, storyteller and mentor who understood the power of the pen. “He understood that journalism was not simply about filling pages or broadcasting news. He understood that words could change policies, challenge governments, expose wrongdoing and even force leaders to resign,” Iroga said. Some of the region’s best known names in the news media sector have also paid tribute to Atkin on social media. A Pacific legend Alexander Rheeney, a former editor of both PNG’s Post Courier newspaper and the Samoa Observer, said Atkin “wa…

Pacific media figures pay tribute to Solomons legend George Atkin
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Tributes have flowed in for the renowned Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin, who has died. As well as being a former correspondent for the then-RNZ International and ABC Pacific, Atkin was a leading figure in journalism in Solomon Islands and in the Pacific Islands region. He was the first president of the
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Tributes have flowed in for the renowned Solomon Islands journalist George Atkin, who has died. As well as being a former correspondent for the then-RNZ International and ABC Pacific, Atkin was a leading figure in journalism in Solomon Islands and in the Pacific Islands region. He was the first president of the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI), serving from 1985 to 1989 and was a respected member of the country’s media fraternity. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/abarigawantok/posts/%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%81%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%86-%F0%9D%90%80-%F0%9D%90%8F%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%82%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%85%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%82-%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%83%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%80-%F0%9D%90%8F%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91-%F0%9D%90%86%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%86%F0%9D%90%84-%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%8A%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8D-%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%88joining-my-fellow-wantoks-/1010678141948279/">READ MORE: Remembering a Pacific media pioneer — George Atkin Aeta’i The veteran journalist worked for numerous mainstream media outlets such as the Solomon Star newspaper, Island Sun newspaper and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation. A prominent Solomon islands media figure, Robert Iroga, said Atkin was an editor, journalist, storyteller and mentor who understood the power of the pen. “He understood that journalism was not simply about filling pages or broadcasting news. He understood that words could change policies, challenge governments, expose wrongdoing and even force leaders to resign,” Iroga said. Some of the region’s best known names in the news media sector have also paid tribute to Atkin on social media. A Pacific legend Alexander Rheeney, a former editor of both PNG’s Post Courier newspaper and the Samoa Observer, said Atkin “wa…

Cost of living, water tariffs, mining on Cook Islanders’ minds ahead of election
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description: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific The Cook Islands goes to the polls this week for its four-yearly general election. Like all countries in the region, the Cooks has had its fair share of challenges due to global shocks in recent years, and there’s a sense that voters are looking for some stability, particularly around
encoded: By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific The Cook Islands goes to the polls this week for its four-yearly general election. Like all countries in the region, the Cooks has had its fair share of challenges due to global shocks in recent years, and there’s a sense that voters are looking for some stability, particularly around the cost of living The prime minister and leader of the Cook Islands Party, Mark Brown is in no doubt about the priority for people in this election. READ MORE: Two-way battle — no clear majority as Cook Islands prepares for polls Other Cook Islands elections reports He said for his party it is about consolidating the country’s growth and economic recovery since reopening borders four years ago when the Cooks emerged the covid pandemic. “Now, that strong economic growth has allowed us to catch up, if you like, with pay increases that were halted or paused during the covid period,” he said. “It’s allowed us to increase our welfare payments, to old age pensions, child benefit, and these are all things that we’re gearing up to try and meet the challenges of cost of living.” Water charges Water utility charges are another issue in this campaign. The leader of the Cook Islands Democratic Party, who is also the Leader of the Opposition, Tina Browne, said if elected, her party would push to remove water use tariffs for residential and agricultural users on Rarotonga. “And we will review the present structure of [water utility] To Tatou Vai,” she said. “Of course, water infrastructure costs money. The real question is how that cost should fairly be met. I do not accept that another household bill should automatically be the first answer.” For the United Party, “free water for all” is one of its main campaign points. Leader Teariki Heather said his party would remove residential water tariffs should they form government. “Absolutely, we will revoke whatever legislation is against that for the water tariffs,” he told RNZ Pacific. His party’s position is “water is a…

‘Those People’
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description: The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did.
encoded: The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Elizabeth DiNovella Fernández.

Trump doesn’t rule out ‘national security emergency for elections’ floated by far-right host
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Canada’s wildfire season is taking a heavy toll on First Nations
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description: Thousands have been forced from their homes as Indigenous leaders raise concerns about firefighting resources, emergency assistance, and who decides when communities are safe.
encoded: This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. When the chief of the Okanagan Indian Band looked down on his community from a helicopter last week, much of what he had known all his life was gone. Homes had burned. Photographs, memorabilia and Salish baskets had disappeared with them. More than 30 band members had lost their homes, naspəpʕásəs Dan Wilson said, along with around 200 homes and other structures belonging to non-band members. “Our loss is measured in the family histories that have been lost — especially the Elders who have lost their homes,” he said. The destruction left by the Bradley Creek wildfire at nk̓maplqs (the head of Okanagan Lake) comes amid a wildfire season that has repeatedly forced Indigenous peoples across Canada from their homes. As of Tuesday, 601 wildfires were burning across the country, including 113 classified as out of control and another 371 that remained out of control but were being monitored rather than actively suppressed. Those numbers have translated into a summer of evacuations, displacement and, in some communities, devastating losses for First Nations. Wildfires have affected at least 81 First Nations and forced 9,131 people from their communities since April 1; 2,524 people remained evacuated as of Tuesday. As fires have threatened communities from British Columbia to Ontario, Indigenous leaders have raised concerns about inadequate firefighting equipment, delays in emergency assistance and the information used to make evacuation decisions. In Ontario, a fast-moving fire devastated Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in July as residents fled by boat. At least 12 First Nations in the province have been fully or partially evacuated because of wildfires this summer, according to Chiefs of Ontario. The organization is demanding an independent public inquiry into what Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict called a “catastrophic and systemic failure” in the response. And last week, leaders of Kiashke Zaaging Anishin…

How Billionaires Are Controlling Midterm Primaries
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UN holds hearing on escalating violence against Palestinians in Occupied West Bank; House Dem leader Jeffries calls for closure of Delaney Hall immigrant detention center – August 11, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Occupied West Bank UN holds hearing on escalating violence against Palestinians in Occupied West Bank, official says it’s “advancing de-facto annexation”; House Dem leader Jeffries calls for closure of Delaney Hall immigrant detention center, blasts “violent mass deportation machine”; Food banks, immigrants, activists in Sacramento blast federal food aid cuts, urge state action for immigrants and vulnerable residents; 3 CA lakes – Clear Lake, Tahoe, and Salton Sea – in trouble from natural and human sources; 3 states – Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma – are set to hold executions on the same day, a first in the US since 2010; Lebanon becomes first country in Middle East and Arab world to ban capital punishment The post UN holds hearing on escalating violence against Palestinians in Occupied West Bank; House Dem leader Jeffries calls for closure of Delaney Hall immigrant detention center – August 11, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. UN holds hearing on escalating violence against Palestinians in Occupied West Bank, official says it’s “advancing de-facto annexation”; House Dem leader Jeffries calls for closure of Delaney Hall immigrant detention center, blasts “violent mass deportation machine”; Food banks, immigrants, activists in Sacramento blast federal food aid cuts, urge state action for immigrants and vulnerable residents; 3 CA lakes – Clear Lake, Tahoe, and Salton Sea – in trouble from natural and human sources; 3 states – Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma – are set to hold executions on the same day, a first in the US since 2010; Lebanon becomes first country in Middle East and Arab world to ban capital punishment The post UN holds hearing on escalating violence against Palestinians in Occupied West Bank; House Dem leader Jeffries calls for closure of Delaney Hall immigrant detention center – August 11, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Can an old map from the 1700s really justify China’s claim to the South China Sea?
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First came the Flock cameras. Now local cops want autonomous drones.
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description: This article was originally published by Truthout on Aug. 10, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Police in cities across the U.S. are rolling out a pro-drone PR blitz as hundreds of local police departmen...
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CPJ joins call for Zambian authorities to keep internet on during elections
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined #KeepItOn Coalition partners in urging Zambian authorities and telecommunication providers to ensure free and open internet access before, during, and after the country’s general election on August 13. In the letter, the coalition highlighted Zambia’s 2021 internet shutdown, when access to major social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter,...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined #KeepItOn Coalition partners in urging Zambian authorities and telecommunication providers to ensure free and open internet access before, during, and after the country’s general election on August 13. In the letter, the coalition highlighted Zambia’s 2021 internet shutdown, when access to major social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, was cut off on the election day, August 12, and the following day. The Ministry of Technology and Science told Zambians in June that it will not deliberately restrict the internet during this year’s polls. The government said it was unable to establish the cause of the 2021 internet shutdown and the coalition called on authorities to continue a transparent investigation into that disruption. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Is the death penalty the "stepchild of lynching"?
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UN News Today 11 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: Myanmar: UN investigators document deliberate military attacks on civilians Colombia earthquake update - OCHA, WHO Ebola outbreak passes grim new threshold with 2,000 dead
encoded: Myanmar: UN investigators document deliberate military attacks on civilians Colombia earthquake update - OCHA, WHO Ebola outbreak passes grim new threshold with 2,000 dead This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Bryan Stevenson on the "Enduring Evil of Slavery" and Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite History
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Tracked, doxxed, put on TV trial: How women CJP protesters were hunted down by the Right wing & ‘star’ anchors
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description: As the CJP protests gathered momentum, a parallel campaign began online against some of the women who participated in them. Accounts targeting the protesters circulated their videos, hurled abuse at them and published screenshots containing sensitive personal information, turning online trolling into outright doxxing. Many of those targeted had either spoken to the media during […]
encoded: As the CJP protests gathered momentum, a parallel campaign began online against some of the women who participated in them. Accounts targeting the protesters circulated their videos, hurled abuse at them and published screenshots containing sensitive personal information, turning online trolling into outright doxxing. Many of those targeted had either spoken to the media during the protests or posted reels and other content on social media with abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Several Right-wing handles subjected them to sustained trolling and abuse while putting their private information in the public domain. The most alarming instance involved a young woman from Noida. A clip of her using expletives against Modi during the Delhi protests went viral, following which Delhi-based Supreme Court lawyer Smriti Singh Chandel filed a zero FIR against her, invoking charges of defamation and “intentional insult to provoke breach of peace”. Chandel also posted a photo of the FIR complaint on her Instagram handle, which revealed the home address of the accused individual. She also posted a video of men outside Gautam Budh Nagar police station holding the complaint copy and claiming they had access to the personal details of the female. Police had “assured” them, they said, that she would be arrested within days. Young Female Protester Bears The Brunt Confusion over the female’s age — whether or not she is a minor — and her name further problematised the case. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a video saying that he “forgave” everyone who had abused him during the protest, the female protester posted an apology video, admitting her mistake, apologising to him and to the country. She claimed she was “influenced” by others useing abusive language against the PM. As reports began to suggest that the protester was in fact a minor, responding to allegations of doxxing a minor, trolls claimed that the girl in the apology video was not the same as the gi…

Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 11, 2026
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Kuwait arrests political commentator, revokes citizenship of two journalists
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description: Washington, D.C., August 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti political commentator Mohammed Saleh al-Sabti. Al-Sabti was arrested in July after taking part in an interview on Saudi-owned channel Al-Arabiya, according to the independent media outlet Newsroom, as well as a Kuwaiti blogger and a rights...
encoded: Washington, D.C., August 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti political commentator Mohammed Saleh al-Sabti. Al-Sabti was arrested in July after taking part in an interview on Saudi-owned channel Al-Arabiya, according to the independent media outlet Newsroom, as well as a Kuwaiti blogger and a rights activist who confirmed his arrest to CPJ on condition of anonymity, citing security concerns. In the interview, al-Sabti called for calm and de-escalation, saying, “we hope Iran will submit to reason and make peace with its neighbors, and commit to agreements” — a statement that prompted backlash on social media. CPJ could not independently verify the conditions of his arrest or the charges against him. “Al-Sabti’s arrest is the latest example of the deteriorating press freedom situation in Kuwait, which has worsened considerably since the start of the Iran war in early 2026,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “The Kuwaiti government must end the weaponization of wartime conditions as a pretext to silence journalists through arrest and citizenship revocation.” Al-Sabti is a well-known Kuwaiti political commentator who has written for and appeared on several media outlets, including Al-Arabiya, Kuwait-based newspaper Aljarida, and the independent outlet Arabi21, among others. Also in July, Kuwait issued Emiri Decree No. 121 of 2026, revoking the citizenship of six people, including exiled blogger Mansoor al-Muhareb and exiled freelance journalist Abdullah al-Saleh. “This is a harsh retaliatory measure against us, aimed at repressing us and making an example of us to repress Kuwaiti society,” al-Muhareb told CPJ. “What is dangerous is these measures extend to our families.” On April 29, 2026, Kuwaiti authorities revoked the citizenship of U.S.-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and his two sisters, just days after his release from two months of wrongful detention. Since the Ir…

Bryan Stevenson on the “Enduring Evil of Slavery” and Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite History
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description: We spend the hour with civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2018, the organization opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, to tell the history of millions of enslaved ...
encoded: We spend the hour with civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2018, the organization opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, to tell the history of millions of enslaved Africans who were abducted and trafficked across the Atlantic to the Americas by European powers, and to chronicle the legacy of slavery, racism, lynchings and segregation in the United States. The Legacy Museum has just opened its first international exhibition as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. “In putting together the content we have at the Legacy Museum, you begin to appreciate just how global the institution of slavery was,” Stevenson tells Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman in Edinburgh. “We were eager to have an opportunity to present this content on this continent, which … hasn’t done very much to acknowledge this history.” Stevenson details the Equal Justice Initiative’s goal of educating the public about racial iniquities, as well as his own family’s connection to slavery. “My foreparents did not come to this country seeking greater opportunity. They did not come seeking shelter from some distant threat. They came in chains. They were victims of a brutal abduction,” he says. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 11, 2026
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description: More Than 160 People Dead After a 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Colombia, NOAA: July Was the Hottest Month Ever Documented in the U.S., More Than a Million People Evacuated as Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall in China, Trump Issues Executive Order Reducing Childhood Vaccinations, Trump Demands Compensation from Iran Threatening Ceasefire Negotiations, Syrian Court Sentences Ousted Leader Bashar al-Assad to Death, Trump-Linked Oil Company Preparing to Drill in Greenland, Colombia Recognizes Morocco’s Sovereignty Over Occupied Western Sahara, State Department Revokes More Than 175,000 Visas from Foreign Nationals, U.S. Appeals Court Allows Thousands of Lawsuits Against Social Media Companies, Judge Orders Emergency Pause on NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax, Tens of Thousands of Student Protesters March on State Legislature in Jharkhand, India, Massachusetts Expands Late-Term Abortion Access
encoded: More Than 160 People Dead After a 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Colombia NOAA: July Was the Hottest Month Ever Documented in the U.S. More Than a Million People Evacuated as Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall in China Trump Issues Executive Order Reducing Childhood Vaccinations Trump Demands Compensation from Iran Threatening Ceasefire Negotiations Syrian Court Sentences Ousted Leader Bashar al-Assad to Death Trump-Linked Oil Company Preparing to Drill in Greenland Colombia Recognizes Morocco's Sovereignty Over Occupied Western Sahara State Department Revokes More Than 175,000 Visas from Foreign Nationals U.S. Appeals Court Allows Thousands of Lawsuits Against Social Media Companies Judge Orders Emergency Pause on NYC Mayor Mamdani's Pied-à-Terre Tax Tens of Thousands of Student Protesters March on State Legislature in Jharkhand, India Massachusetts Expands Late-Term Abortion Access This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-11 Tuesday
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Why Did Kosovo Remove Ukrainian Flag After Zelenskyy’s Serbia Visit? #shorts
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DN! Tuesday, August 11, 2026
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description: Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?
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creator: Al Shaw
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description: The post Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone? appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Collage by Alex Bandoni/ProPublica. Source images: keko-ka/Getty Images. I file a lot of Freedom of Information Act requests. I’ve been requesting staff lists from both Trump administrations, and I have tracked thousands of federal political appointees in order to publish financial disclosures in searchable databases. Much of that data was sourced from the Office of Personnel Management, which maintains a trove of information about who works in the federal government. But that agency’s FOIA department was thrown into chaos as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fanned out across federal agencies to cut employees in early 2025. Getting records from the agency has since become an increasingly Kafkaesque process, one that in early July of this year bounced me between three different seemingly abandoned email inboxes and two web portals. Aside from the fact that my once-routine requests now languish for months, just asking for documents has become its own kind of shell game. “They just let the whole Privacy team go,” a now-former FOIA specialist at OPM told me by email in February 2025, referring to public records office staff. The specialist was cut the next day. Here’s how the process worked at most agencies before the Trump administration and DOGE destroyed the offices that managed these requests: You would send a simple email with a text description of the documents you want. That’s it. It didn’t mean you would get the records in the most timely manner, or would get the records you wanted at all. But it was a simple process, and it often worked. According to OPM data, more than 600 government information specialists (staffers who administer FOIA and the Privacy Act) have resigned or been fired since the start of the second Trump administration. Within OPM itself, 12 information specialists left, seven of whom were laid off. (There was one new hire in that time period.) Reached by phone, the former FOIA specialist told me the cuts made the office less eff…

They’re making record profits, but oil companies still won’t ‘drill, baby, drill’
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creator: Austin Corona
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description: The war in the Middle East has sent Big Oil’s profits soaring. Companies are pocketing the money rather than expanding drilling.
encoded: Over the last two weeks, oil companies have announced eye-popping profits from the spring quarter. Exxon Mobil pulled in $14.5 billion. Chevron landed $12 billion, its highest quarterly profit on record. Shell posted $9.8 billion — more than twice its earnings from the same time last year. These profits are largely a product of supply constraints brought on by the war in the Middle East. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively blockaded, oil suppliers have rerouted shipments over land and through pipelines. The resulting supply shortages, constrained refining capacity, and higher transportation costs have driven up oil and gasoline prices, delivering windfall profits for producers. But companies aren’t using those profits to drill lots of new wells or explore untapped oil fields. Instead, they’re pocketing the cash and paying their shareholders, experts say. What was once an industry defined by the “drill, baby, drill” ethos is now defined by another term: “capital discipline.” It’s a phenomenon in which rampant drilling and production growth has given way to tightened belts and bigger payouts to investors. Oil executives expected a weak financial year in 2026 due to a supply glut, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz constrained oil production and allowed companies to charge top dollar for use of their refineries outside the Middle East. “While we didn’t anticipate the current situation, we were prepared for it,” Exxon CEO Darren Woods said in a July call with analysts, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Despite the temporary loss of approximately 10 percent of our upstream production, we delivered exceptional financial results.” Chevron executives offered a similar assessment. In July, Chief Financial Officer Eimear Bonner told Bloomberg that the company didn’t adjust their production as prices rose. “We did not change any of our plan,” she said. The Trump administration’s focus on “unleashing” U.S. energy is running headlong into oil companies’ growing commi…

A new type of levee is taking root in Northern California
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creator: Charlotte Burks
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description: Combining flood mitigation with wetland habitat restoration, "horizontal levees" could protect coastal cities and wildlife from rising seas.
encoded: Visitors to the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, captivated by gliding birds overhead and golden hills across the Bay waters, could be forgiven for failing to notice that the preserve is also home to the Bay’s newest levee. Most levees look like steep, barren embankments or riprap-clad seawalls, designed to prevent flooding by adding extra feet of height. But this project, though it shares a name, is a different type of infrastructure altogether. Seeded with over 35 species of native plants, the site is a pilot for what’s known as a horizontal levee, or living levee, blending into the estuary’s natural scenery as it spreads its feet of added height over a longer area. In stark contrast to a traditional levee, the Palo Alto Horizontal Levee Pilot Project’s natural appearance and gradual slope are designed to interact with Bay waters the same way natural estuaries do. “When you look at levees that are along the bay front, a lot of times they’ve got really steep faces and big, huge rocks in front of them to protect them from wind waves,” explained Mark Lindley, lead engineer on the Palo Alto living levee. “By having this flat, gradual slope with really dense vegetation on it instead of having rock, the waves break on that slope like they do on a beach.” The project is part of a growing trend in California’s Bay Area of using this type of green infrastructure to provide both flood mitigation and habitat restoration. Completed in 2017, the Oro Loma Horizontal Levee near Hayward, California was the first of its kind and informed the design of the Palo Alto project, and others. There are around a dozen in various stages of design and development around the Bay. But the Palo Alto pilot project is the first to be hydrologically connected to the Bay. Beneath the plants, soil, and gravel layers, plumbing connects the slope of the horizontal levee to the Palo Alto Wastewater Treatment Center across the street, allowing treated wastewater to irrigate the levee’s plants. As it…

Floods can leave communities facing higher overdose deaths for years
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creator: Katie Myers
date: 2026-08-11T08:15:00Z
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description: Disrupted treatment, unstable housing, and lasting trauma can compound a disaster’s toll — a pattern now emerging in communities recovering from Hurricane Helene.
encoded: This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. Hush Sinn delivers needles, naloxone, and other medical supplies to people in the mostly rural mountain communities of Madison County, North Carolina. Sinn does this through Holler Harm Reduction, a grassroots organization that strives to minimize the risk of overdose and infection in a region where many residents are still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Sinn, who uses the pronoun they, believes the nonprofit, often known simply as “Holler,” has prevented a lot of tragedy. But nearly two years after the storm they and other harm reductionists have noticed a troubling pattern. “While overdose rates are still trending down, we get these weird spikes,” Sinn said. “And the spikes we get, we kind of consistently are able to relate back to Helene.” Financial stress, ongoing trauma, and unstable housing have disrupted some people’s recovery and thrust others into dangerous, even deadly, patterns of substance use. Sinn’s observations reflect a broader pattern across the region. A Pennsylvania State University study published last month found that severe flooding was associated with higher overdose death rates in economically distressed Appalachian counties — increases that can persist for at least a decade after the water recedes. Kristina Brant, the study’s lead author, began the research after watching healthcare providers struggle to maintain addiction treatment and harm reduction services during catastrophic floods in eastern Kentucky in 2021 and 2022. “After such a huge disaster, especially in a small community where so many people wear so many hats, the same person that provides one public health service is also going to be asked to jump in on flood recovery, right?” she said. Brant began to understand services could be interrupted for a long, long time, and wondered what that might mean for both those in long-term re…

Malaysian company files US$24 million lawsuit against veteran journalist P. Gunasegaram
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description: Jakarta, August 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) and its executive vice-chairperson, Salim Fateh Din, to withdraw their excessive RM100 million (US$24.45 million) defamation lawsuit against veteran journalist P. Gunasegaram over an opinion piece on an urban rail project. The lawsuit, filed in the Shah Alam High Court...
encoded: Jakarta, August 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) and its executive vice-chairperson, Salim Fateh Din, to withdraw their excessive RM100 million (US$24.45 million) defamation lawsuit against veteran journalist P. Gunasegaram over an opinion piece on an urban rail project. The lawsuit, filed in the Shah Alam High Court on July 29, stems from a July 3 post on Gunasegaram’s Facebook page that linked to an opinion piece he wrote for KINIBIZ, titled “LRT3 Shah Alam line welcome but questions on costs, delays remain,” according to the statement of claim reviewed by CPJ. The claim said Gunasegaram’s article had implied that the company had “obtained the LRT3 Project through the practice of cronyism, political patronage and political connections,” and that these factors contributed to cost overruns and delays in the project’s implementation. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="465" height="651" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/c1599ffc-960a-4e95-b883-9082a0a9eb5d.jpeg?w=465" alt="Veteran journalist P. Gunasegaram has been sued over an opinion piece on an urban rail project." class="wp-image-607339" style="aspect-ratio:0.7142913681877547;width:209px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/c1599ffc-960a-4e95-b883-9082a0a9eb5d.jpeg 465w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/c1599ffc-960a-4e95-b883-9082a0a9eb5d.jpeg?resize=214,300 214w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/c1599ffc-960a-4e95-b883-9082a0a9eb5d.jpeg?resize=367,514 367w" sizes="(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px" /> P. Gunasegaram is an independent journalist editor, columnist and author.(Photo: Courtesy of P. Gunasegaram) Gunasegaram, an independent journalist who co-founded KINIBIZ in 2013 and is published in outlets such as Malaysiakini, has defended the article as constituting fair comment on a matter of great public interest. He told CPJ that the column was based on facts drawn from…

Britain’s Big Brother state is already here – we just don’t realise it yet
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date: 2026-08-11T06:36:24Z
subject: Anti-protest laws
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Britain’s Big Brother state is already here – we just don’t realise it yet
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Taiwan soft-pedals Scarborough claim as Manila ties take priority
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-08-11T02:45:29Z
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description: Philippines' UN filing exposes gap between Taipei’s sovereignty claims and growing security priorities
encoded: Taiwan is trapped between sea rocks and a hard place: As the Philippines has filed documentation to strengthen its claims in the South China Sea, Taipei must balance asserting its own conflicting claims with building closer ties with Manila, especially as a potential ally against Chinese aggression, experts told Radio Free Asia. The Philippines on July 29 submitted its official nautical chart of Scarborough Shoal, a disputed feature in what Manila calls the West Philippine Sea – the section of the South China Sea that is within its exclusive economic zone – to the United Nations, to bolster its claim on the area, which is also claimed by China and Taiwan. Beijing immediately protested the filing, accusing Manila of infringing on Chinese sovereignty. Taiwan also opposed the move, but in a way that did not outright condemn the Philippines. It also repeated its call for Taiwan to be included in negotiations over South China Sea disputes. “The filing adds specificity to a Philippine position that was already well established,” Sylwia M. Gorska, a doctoral candidate in international relations at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, told RFA. “For Taiwan, the consequence is not the loss of its claim, but a further deterioration in its relative ability to make that claim consequential.” A map showing the overlapping claims of China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. (AFP) The episode highlights an increasingly awkward tension for President Lai Ching-te’s government. That government considers itself to be the continuation of the Republic of China, or ROC, and thus continues to formally claim land it historically laid claim to, dating back to the era that it controlled the mainland, including Scarborough Shoal and other South China Sea features. Meanwhile, the Philippines has become an increasingly important security partner as both governments contend with pressure from Beijing. Official status Unlike Manila and Beijing, Taipei is excluded fr…

Papua New Guinea seeks dialogue over new hefty $20,000 US visa bond
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-11T02:21:32Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Citizen compliance
subject: Sources
subject: US travel
subject: US visas
subject: Visa bonds
subject: Visa policies
subject: 20,000
subject: asia
subject: bond
subject: bonds
subject: citizen
subject: compliance
subject: dialogue
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
subject: Global
subject: guinea
subject: hefty
subject: James Marape
subject: Justice
subject: Migration
subject: new
subject: over
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Papua
subject: Papua New Guinea
subject: Policies
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: seeks
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: Tonga
subject: travel
subject: Tuvalu
subject: usa
subject: Vanuatu
subject: visa
subject: Visas
description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has sought further dialogue with the United States over its new visa bond policy. In a statement, Marape acknowledged that the US had copped them with a “substantial” US$20,000 visa bond for ordinary business and tourism travel to the US, saying Papua
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has sought further dialogue with the United States over its new visa bond policy. In a statement, Marape acknowledged that the US had copped them with a “substantial” US$20,000 visa bond for ordinary business and tourism travel to the US, saying Papua New Guineans were concerned. “I want our people to understand that this is not a breakdown in relations between Papua New Guinea and the United States,” Marape said. READ MORE: Other US visa reports “The United States is an important and longstanding friend and partner of Papua New Guinea, and we respect its sovereign right to determine its Immigration and Visa Policies.” Visa bonds have become a mainstay policy of the US State Department when it comes to travel from certain Third World countries, including five Pacific Island nations. It is a refundable sum of money for when the traveler leaves the country, though if they stay a day longer than their agreed travel time, or if they claim asylum, they lose it. Prices range from $10,000 to $25,000 across a list of 60 nations, including Fiji, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga and PNG. Tonga has been subject to a far more comprehensive travel ban, with very few exemptions, since January. More travel to US For PNG, Marape said his people are beginning to travel to the US in greater numbers, “for education, business, employment, sport, tourism and professional development”. He said he wanted to demonstrate that most Papua New Guineans were “genuine travellers”. “Our intention is to work with, not against, the United States on this matter,” Marape said. “If there are concerns about Papua New Guineans Overstaying Visas, then let us establish the facts and address them. We will encourage better compliance from our citizens … who respect the laws of their host countries. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Two Different America’s (Sic)
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-08-11T00:26:30Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: Hoo boy. With the approach of what bleakly promises to be "the super-Islamophobic midterms," the Bigot-In-Chief is letting his racist freak flag fly by attacking Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, whose smarts, strength, hotness, accomplished wife and Michigan win c...
encoded: Hoo boy. With the approach of what bleakly promises to be "the super-Islamophobic midterms," the Bigot-In-Chief is letting his racist freak flag fly by attacking Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, whose smarts, strength, hotness, accomplished wife and Michigan win clearly terrify him. Cue charges of "communist," "man of hate," and, probs soon, AI slop featuring suicide vests. Meanwhile, El-Sayed, a far sharper tool in the shed, has embraced the charge they represent "(two) America’s": The ads write themselves. Planet MAGA, of course, is already so delusional Trump just boasted of his "Great Poll Numbers," which now sit at rock-bottom lows of 38% to 33%. For a bunch of hacks led by a fragile narcissist who's never seen a scapegoat he didn't relish, the fantastical goes hand-in-stubby-hand with the fear-mongering: vandals in the Reflecting Pool, domestic terrorists at No Kings, migrant caravans, lunatic Bolsheviks, weird names or just brown-or-black skinned success, more terrifying to many of these losers than any threat of extremism. Enter, in peril, the high-achieving epidemiologist, health official, author and "Muslim boogeyman" El-Sayed. “Expect them to throw the whole bigoted kitchen sink at El-Sayed," says Mehdi Hasan. "This will be the anti-Zohran Mamdani campaign on anti-Muslim steroids." Unsurprisingly, it began in earnest the minute the good doctor won Michigan's against-the-odds primary against establishment Dem Haley Stevens. He'll face off against GOP Rep. and racist ijiot Mike Rogers, who of course has rushed to call the U.S.-born-and-bred El-Sayed "anti-American" and - pulling the same juvenile "Barack Hussein Obama" crap to undermine his legitimacy - to use his full, scary, def-not-in-Kansas-anymore name Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. But Abdulrahman, who doesn't suffer fools gladly, has brutally pushed back. "With a name like mine, I never thought running for office would be possible," he said at a campaign event. But if "Mike" wants to focus on his 11-letter (a lot!…

CPJ welcomes dismissal of defamation lawsuit against journalist Jeff Stein
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-08-11T00:11:35Z
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subject: Legal Action
subject: Sources
subject: SpyTalk
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subject: against
subject: committee
subject: cpj
subject: defamation
subject: dismissal
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description: Miami, August 10, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against investigative journalist Jeff Stein, editor of the SpyTalk podcast and Substack. Stein was sued for $1 million earlier this year by Keith Bass, the assistant secretary of War for Health Affairs and former director of the Office of Medical Services at...
encoded: Miami, August 10, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against investigative journalist Jeff Stein, editor of the SpyTalk podcast and Substack. Stein was sued for $1 million earlier this year by Keith Bass, the assistant secretary of War for Health Affairs and former director of the Office of Medical Services at the Central Intelligence Agency, over his reporting that Bass had been “effectively fired” from the agency in 2021. Stein has stood by his reporting, noting that Bass later became head of the Pentagon’s health services. “The dismissal of this lawsuit is a victory for press freedom and a reminder that courts must not be used to punish public-interest reporting,” said José Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas. “Strategic lawsuits to silence journalists have no place in a democracy. Reporters must be free to investigate powerful figures without fear of baseless legal retaliation.” Stein was represented by Substack’s Legal Defender program, whose attorneys argued that defamation lawsuits used to suppress reporting on public officials chill free speech and deprive the public of information on matters of public concern. They described the case as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP. A judge dismissed the lawsuit on July 9. The case was officially closed on July 27 after Bass’ attorneys failed to respond to the ruling. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Two-way battle – no clear majority as Cook Islands prepares for polls
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-10T22:57:17Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: CIP
subject: Cook Islands elections
subject: Cook Islands Party
subject: Cook Islands United Party
subject: Mark Brown
subject: Pa Enua
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: battle
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subject: cip
subject: clear
subject: cook
subject: Cook Islands
subject: Democracy
subject: democratic party
subject: Development
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Elections
subject: enua
subject: Featured
subject: for
subject: islands
subject: majority
subject: mark
subject: new zealand
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pacific Voices
subject: party
subject: Politics
subject: polls?
subject: prepares
subject: report
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
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description: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News An exclusive poll reveals a tight election with no clear winner, as the surging Cook Islands United Party (CIUP) challenges the governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) while cost-of-living concerns dominate voter focus. With just two days to go before the country heads to the elections on
encoded: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News An exclusive poll reveals a tight election with no clear winner, as the surging Cook Islands United Party (CIUP) challenges the governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) while cost-of-living concerns dominate voter focus. With just two days to go before the country heads to the elections on Wednesday (Thursday NZ time), a Cook Islands News election poll shows no clear winner, indicating a coalition will be required to form the next government. None of the political parties contesting the election achieved a majority in a sample of voters — representing just over one percent of those registered to vote — polled across the country. READ MORE: Other Cook Islands elections reports The governing CIP, which is seeking a fifth consecutive term, holds a narrow baseline lead with 30.5 percent popular support but faces a fierce challenge from the surging CIUP at 26.7 percent. The Democratic Party, which lost ground in the 2022 general election, has slumped further in the polls to 8.6 percent — tying with the Independents. With more than a quarter of the electorate (25.7 percent) still undecided and Independents capturing over 20 percent of votes in the Pa Enua (outer islands), no single party currently possesses a clear, unassisted path to a 13-seat parliamentary majority. CIP leader and caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown said they were grateful to be in front, which matched what their candidates were hearing at the doors — “a lot of quiet support for a team that has delivered”. Taking ‘nothing for granted’ “But a lead is not a result, and we take nothing for granted,” Brown told Cook Islands News. “With a field this wide, every vote has to be earned, and we intend to keep earning them right up to election day. “The only poll that counts is the one on August 12, and that one belongs entirely to our people.” Compared to previous electoral baseline, Teariki Heather-led Cook Islands United Party has experienced a major surge and has e…

Two-way battle – no clear majority as Cook Islands prepares for polls
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-10T22:57:17Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: CIP
subject: Cook Islands elections
subject: Cook Islands Party
subject: Cook Islands United Party
subject: Mark Brown
subject: Pa Enua
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: battle
subject: brown
subject: cip
subject: clear
subject: cook
subject: Cook Islands
subject: Democracy
subject: democratic party
subject: Development
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Elections
subject: enua
subject: Featured
subject: for
subject: islands
subject: majority
subject: mark
subject: new zealand
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pacific Voices
subject: party
subject: Politics
subject: polls?
subject: prepares
subject: report
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: twoway
subject: united
description: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News An exclusive poll reveals a tight election with no clear winner, as the surging Cook Islands United Party (CIUP) challenges the governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) while cost-of-living concerns dominate voter focus. With just two days to go before the country heads to the elections on
encoded: By Rashneel Kumar, editor of the Cook Islands News An exclusive poll reveals a tight election with no clear winner, as the surging Cook Islands United Party (CIUP) challenges the governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) while cost-of-living concerns dominate voter focus. With just two days to go before the country heads to the elections on Wednesday (Thursday NZ time), a Cook Islands News election poll shows no clear winner, indicating a coalition will be required to form the next government. None of the political parties contesting the election achieved a majority in a sample of voters — representing just over one percent of those registered to vote — polled across the country. READ MORE: Other Cook Islands elections reports The governing CIP, which is seeking a fifth consecutive term, holds a narrow baseline lead with 30.5 percent popular support but faces a fierce challenge from the surging CIUP at 26.7 percent. The Democratic Party, which lost ground in the 2022 general election, has slumped further in the polls to 8.6 percent — tying with the Independents. With more than a quarter of the electorate (25.7 percent) still undecided and Independents capturing over 20 percent of votes in the Pa Enua (outer islands), no single party currently possesses a clear, unassisted path to a 13-seat parliamentary majority. CIP leader and caretaker Prime Minister Mark Brown said they were grateful to be in front, which matched what their candidates were hearing at the doors — “a lot of quiet support for a team that has delivered”. Taking ‘nothing for granted’ “But a lead is not a result, and we take nothing for granted,” Brown told Cook Islands News. “With a field this wide, every vote has to be earned, and we intend to keep earning them right up to election day. “The only poll that counts is the one on August 12, and that one belongs entirely to our people.” Compared to previous electoral baseline, Teariki Heather-led Cook Islands United Party has experienced a major surge and has e…

The Bigoted Attacks On Abdul El-Sayed
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-08-10T22:42:02Z
subject: Sources
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subject: bigoted
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description: This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by The Intercept.
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Building Bonds
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creator: Marianne Dhenin
date: 2026-08-10T22:06:46Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: bonds
subject: building
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: As the number of immigrant detainees and their bond amounts skyrocket under Trump 2.0, their neighbors across the country rally to get them out.
encoded: As the number of immigrant detainees and their bond amounts skyrocket under Trump 2.0, their neighbors across the country rally to get them out. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Marianne Dhenin.

Amid spike in journalist killings in Mexico, CPJ urges federalizing cases to end impunity
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-08-10T22:04:37Z
subject: Alejandro Leyva Aguilar
subject: Alex Serna
subject: Carlos Castro
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Josué Martínez
subject: Luis Ángel López
subject: Murdered
subject: Roxana Guzmán
subject: Sources
subject: aguilar
subject: alejandro
subject: alex
subject: amid
subject: Ángel
subject: carlos
subject: cases
subject: castro
subject: committee
subject: cpj
subject: end
subject: federalizing
subject: guzmán,
subject: Impunity
subject: josué
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: Killings
subject: leyva
subject: lópez
subject: luis
subject: martínez
subject: mexico
subject: murdered
subject: protect
subject: roxana
subject: serna
subject: sources
subject: spike
subject: urges
description: Six journalists have been murdered in Mexico this year, five of them in just over two months, marking one of the deadliest spikes in violence against journalists that CPJ has documented in over a decade. Despite several organized calls for justice in the Mexican states where the reporters were killed, government authorities have not addressed...
encoded: Six journalists have been murdered in Mexico this year, five of them in just over two months, marking one of the deadliest spikes in violence against journalists that CPJ has documented in over a decade. Despite several organized calls for justice in the Mexican states where the reporters were killed, government authorities have not addressed concerns by local journalists and press freedom groups that journalists are being targeted in connection with their work. President Claudia Sheinbaum, who assumed office as Mexico’s first female president in late 2024, has not commented on the string of killings as a whole, nor has her government announced any specific actions in response. At a state level, responses have been equally lacking. Gov. Salomón Jara of Oaxaca condemned a journalist’s murder in his state, but faces criticism over his frequent verbal attacks against critical reporting. In Veracruz, where three of this year’s killings took place, Gov. Rocío Nahle denied during a June 15 press conference that her state has a press violence problem. Beyond announcing investigations, the state governments of Puebla and Guerrero have not directly addressed the killings of Josué Martínez and Alex Serna. In response, CPJ has called on the Mexican Federal Attorney General’s office (FGR) to federalize all cases of killed journalists, increase coordination between federal and state authorities, and strengthen protective measures for all journalists under the federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists. Federal authorities not only have broad authority, according to Article 21 of the Mexican National Code of Penal Procedures, to take charge of investigations of crimes against journalists when public officials are involved, but they also have shown to be more effective in the past in winning convictions in several high-profile cases of murdered journalists, including the 2017 killings of Miroslava Breach Velducea and Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Jour…

News in Brief 10 August 2020
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creator: Matt Wells
date: 2026-08-10T19:10:00Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2020
subject: august
subject: brief
subject: News
subject: podcastsun
subject: sources
subject: today
description: UN will support Lebanon ‘in every possible way’ pledges UN chiefUN rights chief warns new Somalia draft law ‘risks legitimizing child marriage’Boosting migrant worker protections during COVID pandemic
encoded: UN will support Lebanon ‘in every possible way’ pledges UN chiefUN rights chief warns new Somalia draft law ‘risks legitimizing child marriage’Boosting migrant worker protections during COVID pandemic This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Matt Wells.

Wagner Moura on Brazil’s history of dictatorship
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T19:01:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘wagner
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subject: dictatorship
subject: History
subject: moura
subject: now
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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UN News Today 10 August 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-08-10T18:43:28Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: august
subject: News
subject: podcastsun
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Ukraine: UNICEF highlights war’s psychological toll on youngstersDR Congo: Ebola response hamstrung by lack of healthcare facilities - WHOLack of accountability into abuse in Afghanistan: UNAMA
encoded: Ukraine: UNICEF highlights war’s psychological toll on youngstersDR Congo: Ebola response hamstrung by lack of healthcare facilities - WHOLack of accountability into abuse in Afghanistan: UNAMA This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Real public safety means more community, not cages
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2026-08-10T18:19:14Z
subject: Prisons and Policing
subject: Rattling the Bars
subject: Sources
subject: video
subject: and
subject: bars
subject: cages:
subject: Community
subject: means
subject: more
subject: not
subject: Policing
subject: prison industrial complex
subject: prison reform
subject: Prisons
subject: public
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subject: sources
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subject: Video
description: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sequence-12.00_00_03_20.Still002-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa stands in front of the historic True Reformer Building in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: TRNN." data-attachment-id="345834" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/real-public-safety-means-more-community-not-cages/sequence-12-00_00_03_20-still002" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sequence-12.00_00_03_20.Still002-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1440" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="Sequence 12.00_00_03_20.Still002" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa stands in front of the historic True Reformer Building in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: TRNN. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sequence-12.00_00_03_20.Still002-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1"> DC Justice Lab’s 2026 Public Safety Policy Agenda is chock-full of evidence that criminal justice reforms that prioritize restorative justice, not draconian punishment, lead to safer communities.
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 10, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-08-10T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
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subject: august
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subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 10, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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PEER and Allies Push Back on FCC’s Approval of Reflect Orbital’s Plan to Light Up the Night
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-10T17:21:18Z
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description: PEER, DarkSky International, the American Bird Conservancy, and Environment America — represented by Earthjustice — filed a formal Application for Review asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse its Space Bureau’s approval of Refl...
encoded: PEER, DarkSky International, the American Bird Conservancy, and Environment America — represented by Earthjustice — filed a formal Application for Review asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse its Space Bureau’s approval of Reflect Orbital Inc.’s Earendil-1 satellite. Earendil-1 is a commercial satellite that will reflect sunlight back to Earth at night. The Space Bureau granted Reflect Orbital’s application on July 9, 2026, finding it served the public interest and fell outside the environmental review requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — the federal law requiring agencies to study the environmental effects of major actions on the United States before granting approval. Selling Sunlight After Dark Reflect Orbital’s business model is to sell sunlight at night for uses such as replacing streetlights, extending outdoor work hours, and powering solar arrays. To do this, Earendil-1 will unfold a mirror roughly a tenth of an acre wide at 600–650 km altitude and steer reflected sunlight to chosen spots on the ground. A single Earendil-1 satellite is expected to project a beam roughly 5 km (over 3 miles) wide as it sweeps the ground, with scattered light extending further still. Although Reflect Orbital’s FCC application covers only this one satellite, the company has called this a “crucial testbed” for a much larger operation, with publicly stated plans to scale up to 50,000 satellites by 2035. Why This is a Problem In March, PEER and other groups filed comments with the FCC opposing Reflect Orbital’s original application for approval. In last week’s Application for Review, the groups say the Bureau didn’t adequately address a number of issues, including: Eye damage — a DarkSky technical report found the reflected light could be intense enough to injure eyes faster than a person could blink or look away. Astronomy disruption — the American Astronomical Society warned that even one pass could saturate telescope detectors and…

Media Dictates Democracy
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creator: Kiley
date: 2026-08-10T17:17:16Z
subject: Project Censored
subject: Sources
subject: censored
subject: Democracy
subject: dictates
subject: Media
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subject: sources
subject: The Project Censored Show
description: On this episode of The Project Censored Show, independent journalist and winner of the Illinois Library Association’s 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award, Kevin Gosztola, joins co-host Mickey Huff in conversation about the importance of standing up for fre...
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Foreign oil giant BP locks out workers at its last unionized refinery in USA
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Human Rights Education
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creator: Kiley
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description: On this episode of The Project Censored Show, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer and William Fernekes of Human Rights Educators USA (HREUSA) join co-host Mickey Huff to discuss their work, HRE programs, and their increased significance in a time of attacks on acad...
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How could Syrians be living in rubble while Russians partied on the beach?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-08-10T17:00:08Z
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Real Public Safety Means More Community, Not Cages
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-08-10T16:45:08Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Overcoming the Political Amnesia About Lying Trump’s Record
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-08-10T16:17:28Z
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subject: In the Public Interest
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subject: trump’s
description: By Ralph Nader August 10, 2026 A major dereliction by the feeble Democratic Party leadership is their unwillingness to address the political amnesia they have allowed corrupt, lying, cruel, outlaw tyrant Trump to enjoy with political impunity. Trump ha...
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Were Super PACs Ever Risk-Free?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-08-10T15:34:10Z
subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Actor Wagner Moura on Brazil’s Dictatorship, Bolsonaro & "A Trial — after An Enemy of the People"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T15:00:06Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Edinburgh International Festival Director & Famed Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the Power of Art
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T14:47:28Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: Democracy
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"Consistent Torture": Keith LaMar Speaks from Death Row After Receiving 3-Year Execution Reprieve
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T14:40:56Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 10, 2026
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date: 2026-08-10T13:45:49Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Actor Wagner Moura on Brazil’s Dictatorship, Bolsonaro & “A Trial — after An Enemy of the People”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T12:47:00Z
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description: We continue our coverage from the Edinburgh International Festival, where acclaimed Brazilian actor and filmmaker Wagner Moura stars in the play A Trial — after An Enemy of the People. A sequel to the 1882 Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the Peo...
encoded: We continue our coverage from the Edinburgh International Festival, where acclaimed Brazilian actor and filmmaker Wagner Moura stars in the play A Trial — after An Enemy of the People. A sequel to the 1882 Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People, A Trial — after An Enemy of the People interrogates themes of authoritarianism, misinformation and public judgement. It is directed by Brazil’s Christiane Jatahy. “We in Brazil, we know what a dictatorship is. We know how harmful that is, how horrible that is, how bad that is,” says Moura, referencing the military dictatorship in Brazil that took place from 1964 to 1985. He draws parallels between that period and the leadership of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for an attempted coup d’état. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Edinburgh International Festival Director & Famed Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the Power of Art
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T12:35:32Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: Democracy
subject: director
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subject: famed
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subject: International
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subject: now
subject: Power
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description: Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Scotland at the Edinburgh International Festival, which features music, opera, theater and dance and is one of Europe’s biggest arts festivals. We are joined by the acclaimed Scottish violinist Nicola ...
encoded: Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Scotland at the Edinburgh International Festival, which features music, opera, theater and dance and is one of Europe’s biggest arts festivals. We are joined by the acclaimed Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, one of the most celebrated classical violinists in the world. She became the first woman and first Scottish artist to become director of the Edinburgh International Festival in 2022. “I think what is quite unusual about the Edinburgh International Festival is the humanitarian mission that is woven into all of its origin rhetoric,” says Benedetti. She explains that this year’s festival focuses on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. “We’re not celebrating only dark or dazzling. We’re trying to present these things alongside each other.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

As El Niño and heatwaves dry up fields, governments must act fast
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-10T12:30:53Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: Climate campaigners warned that record high temperatures and a strong El Niño is resulting in severe drought in many countries, hitting crop yields and raising food prices. 350.org urged governments to move fast to protect farming communities and cons...
encoded: Climate campaigners warned that record high temperatures and a strong El Niño is resulting in severe drought in many countries, hitting crop yields and raising food prices. 350.org urged governments to move fast to protect farming communities and consumers, and mobilize the necessary funds through higher, permanent taxes on fossil fuel profits. As the world’s top oil and gas companies banked $93 billion in second quarter profits, the UN warned that 49 million people may be facing acute hunger due to an exceptionally strong El Niño fueled by climate change. Anne Jellema, 350.org Executive Director said: “Our leaders’ response has to be swifter and stronger than El Niño. We already know that global heating is supercharging extreme weather damage, and the public wants polluters to pay for it. With Big Oil’s earnings skyrocketing while a global food crisis looms, now is the time to act. The only way to stave off a humanitarian disaster is to make those causing it pay upfront — before even more damage is done.” Most of the Caribbean is currently suffering a moderate to severe drought triggered by El Niño, with conditions expected to get worse in the next few months lasting until early 2027. Amira Odeh Quiñones, 350.org Caribbean Organizer said: “Here in Puerto Rico, some households only have water three days a week. Historic amounts of sargassum seaweed due to record ocean temperatures are reducing fishermen’s catches. We’re already experiencing dramatic losses in agriculture due to drought and extreme heat. Local farmers are harvesting less, and the price of imported food is rising. Even if we contributed the least to the climate crisis, we are suffering from its harshest effects.” In Indonesia, nearly 93% of the country had recorded low rainfall by mid-July and droughts have been recorded in almost 500 locations amid El Niño. An increase in forest fires has also been observed, even though Indonesia has yet to enter its wildfire season. Sisilia Nurmala Dewi, 350.org Ind…

“Consistent Torture”: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row After Getting 3-Year Execution Reprieve
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T12:14:26Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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description: We speak with Keith LaMar, an artist, teacher and writer on death row in Ohio. LaMar, who has spent three decades in solitary confinement, was sentenced to death for the murder of five fellow prisoners during a 1993 prison uprising. He has alw...
encoded: We speak with Keith LaMar, an artist, teacher and writer on death row in Ohio. LaMar, who has spent three decades in solitary confinement, was sentenced to death for the murder of five fellow prisoners during a 1993 prison uprising. He has always maintained his innocence. His trial was held in a remote Ohio community before an all-white jury. LaMar is one of three men on death row for whom Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued reprieves, pushing back their execution dates to 2030. “The reprieve, while good in a legal sense in giving us more time, it also increases the pressure, the harassment that I’m undergoing,” says Keith LaMar. “I’ve been undergoing consistent torture since the last reprieve,” explains LaMar, who received a previous reprieve three years ago. LaMar’s lawyer Keegan Stephan says there is “incredible new evidence” of his client’s innocence, and Amy Gordiejew, campaign manager of Justice for Keith LaMar, says he “was framed.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Brazilian Actor & Filmmaker Wagner Moura on His Acclaimed Work, from “The Secret Agent” to “Marighella”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T12:00:00Z
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description: Part 2 of our interview with the Brazilian actor and director Wagner Moura, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Secret Agent.
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Headlines for August 10, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-10T12:00:00Z
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subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: august
subject: Democracy
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description: Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Gaza Peace Plan, NYT: Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Detail Beatings, Electric Shocks and Other Abuse in Israeli Detention, Iran Close to Final Pact with Oman to Reopen Strait of Hormuz, Yemen’s Iran-Backed Houthis Attack Saudi Aramco Refinery, Ukrainian Drone Attack Kills at Least 13 People in Russia, Trump’s Former Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche Confirmed as Attorney General, Federal Court Rules Trump Cannot Build Ballroom Without Congressional Approval, Right-Wing President Abelardo de la Espriella Sworn In as Colombia’s President, Federal Judges Terminate TPS for Immigrants from South Sudan and Burma, AP: Trump Admin Detains Parents and Spouses of Active-Duty U.S. Military Personnel in Immigration Crackdown, Private Prison Companies CoreCivic and GEO Group Report $1.4B in Revenue, Rallies Held to Mark One Month Since ICE Killing of Mexican Father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 178,000 Immigrants Forced to Flee South Africa Amid Violence and Harassment, Wildfires Force 20,000 People in British Columbia to Evacuate, Nagasaki Mayor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons as Japan Marks 81 Years Since Atomic Bombing
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Democracy Now! 2026-08-10 Monday
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description: Democracy Now! Monday, August 10, 2026
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At Least 13 Dead After Ukraine Drone Attack On Major Russian Oil Refinery
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-08-10T11:36:59Z
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subject: Ukraine
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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[full uncut conversation]. From Deadspin to Defector: The Power of Worker-owned News Outlets
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-08-10T11:27:11Z
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subject: uncut
subject: workerowned
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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The Segal State – the public office Australia never voted for
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-10T10:47:14Z
subject: Anthony Albanese
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Australian Labor Party
subject: Gaza censorship
subject: Jillian Segel
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subject: Sources
subject: Special power
subject: Voice to Parliament
subject: albanese
subject: Analysis
subject: anthony
subject: Antisemitism
subject: asia
subject: Australia
subject: australian
subject: Censorship
subject: Civil Society
subject: Coalition
subject: Crackdown
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: First Nations
subject: for
subject: gaza
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: illegitimate
subject: Indigenous
subject: jillian
subject: Justice
subject: Labor
subject: Media
subject: military
subject: never
subject: office
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: parliament
subject: party
subject: Politics
subject: Power
subject: public
subject: Referendum
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subject: segal
subject: segel
subject: sources
subject: special
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subject: voice
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subject: Zionism
description: Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it. Nothing like her office has existed in the federation. Labor built it. The Coalition wants it bigger. Nobody asked you. Andrew Brown reports for Michael West Media. Part one. SPECIAL REPORT: By
encoded: Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it. Nothing like her office has existed in the federation. Labor built it. The Coalition wants it bigger. Nobody asked you. Andrew Brown reports for Michael West Media. Part one. SPECIAL REPORT: By Andrew Brown Remember the referendum in which Australians voted to create a Voice to Parliament for Israel? You don’t. It never happened. We got one anyway. In 2023, 60.06 percent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could make representations only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here 60,000 years. READ MORE: Reports on the Bondi Royal Commission Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment. Nine months later, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three-year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth. Australia has never seen an office like this. Not once in 125 years. We have been here before and we said no. In 1951, Robert Menzies asked Australians for power to outlaw communism and police political belief. Even Menzies put it to a referendum, because a democracy does not seize control of ideas by fiat. A frightened people refused him. That refusal became a founding settlement of this country. The state does not decide what citizens may think. A captain’s call Albanese tore up that settlement with a press release. No referendum. No bill. No debate. One man appointed one advocate, and the checkpoint went up. An open society grants authority over its citizens three ways — election, appointment ratified by Parliament, or a c…

Pesta Babi documentary wins both Udin and Tasrif awards for ‘injustice’ storytelling
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-10T10:20:15Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Dandhy Dwi Laksono
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subject: Pesta Babi
subject: Pig Feast
subject: Sources
subject: Tasrif Award
subject: Udin Award
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subject: Alliance of Independent Journalists
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subject: Pacific Report
subject: pesta
subject: pig
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: storytelling
subject: Syndicate
subject: tasrif
subject: udin
subject: Victor Mambor
subject: West Papua
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description: Jubi News The environmental and human rights documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time has been awarded both the 2026 Udin and Tasrif Awards from Indonesia’s Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) during the organisation’s 32nd anniversary celebration at the Press Council Hall in Jakarta. The Udin Award was presented to director Dandhy Dwi
encoded: Jubi News The environmental and human rights documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in Our Time has been awarded both the 2026 Udin and Tasrif Awards from Indonesia’s Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) during the organisation’s 32nd anniversary celebration at the Press Council Hall in Jakarta. The Udin Award was presented to director Dandhy Dwi Laksono and the production team behind Pesta Babi — which premiered in New Zealand in March — while the Tasrif Award went to the documentary’s production team. Producer Victor C. Mambor, publisher of Jubi Media, who accepted the awards on behalf of the team, said they were dedicated to Papuans who had experienced discrimination and been denied their rights. READ MORE: West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military Read other Pesta Babi documentary reports “These awards are also for the journalists, particularly the Pig Feast team, for their consistency in producing this film,” he said. “The team faced many challenges during production, and some of those problems continue today. But we’re happy because being an AJI member has always meant being no stranger to problems.” He said journalists must continue to speak out about issues that needed to be brought to public attention and stand alongside people experiencing oppression. Anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Cypri Jehan Paju Dale, who accepted the Tasrif Award on behalf of the team, said receiving the two awards was an honour and an opportunity to affirm shared values. ‘Destruction of ecosystems’ “A major injustice is still taking place in Papua. Land appropriation, the destruction of ecosystems and military operations have continued for more than 60 years and are now occurring on a scale we have not seen before,” Paju Dale said. He said Papua was experiencing extractive mining, while thousands of people had been displaced from their villages by military operations and mining concessions. Paju Dale …

Free Palestine Party becomes latest political party in Aotearoa
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party is now an official list party and will be on every ballot paper for New Zealand’s general election on November 7. The Free Palestine Party is the only party in this election dealing with the most pressing economic, political and moral issue facing Aotearoa and the world today,
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party is now an official list party and will be on every ballot paper for New Zealand’s general election on November 7. The Free Palestine Party is the only party in this election dealing with the most pressing economic, political and moral issue facing Aotearoa and the world today, said a statement by the party. This crisis is caused by the “apartheid colony of Israel backed by US military power destabilising the Middle East”. READ MORE: ‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned at Stop Wars rally Other Gaza genocide reports More than 60 percent of the people of Aotearoa believe that the New Zealand government should sanction Israel for its human rights abuses, this rises to 68 percent among 18-29 year olds. The only way to bring peace to the Middle East, stop a global depression and end the holocaust of our time, is to put an end to the apartheid state of Israel, just like apartheid South Africa. The people of Aotearoa helped fight for the end of the apartheid state of South Africa and thousands of Kiwis today have joined the ongoing protests against the crimes of Israel. “It is time for Kiwis and Aotearoa to be leaders in the struggle against Zionism and Israel, as we were in the anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid movements,” said the Free Palestine Party statement. Centre of NZ politics “The party has become registered with the Electoral Commission to push this issue to the centre of New Zealand politics “where it should be”. Protesters over the Gaza genocide have held weekly demonstrations at multiple venues across New Zealand for 149 weeks — the longest continuous protests on an issue in New Zeakand’s history. Six main principles in the party’s platform would help in the fight against apartheid and would stop New Zealand from being complicit in the crimes against humanity of Israel and the United States, said the statement: The principles are: The right of Return for all Palestinians; The primacy of …

DN! Monday, August 10, 2026
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More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.
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description: The post More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Omaha resident Natalie Thorpe’s 3-year-old tested high for lead as a baby. Thorpe’s yard has enough lead to be risky but not enough to qualify for government cleanup. Rebecca S. Gratz for ProPublica Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on environmental cleanup, more than half the yards in a section of Omaha, Nebraska, that used to surround a lead smelter still have enough contamination to cause high blood-lead levels in kids, according to tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica. The findings were consistent across the city’s older urban core — in the historically Black neighborhoods north of downtown, the predominantly Hispanic areas to the south and the more white and affluent areas in midtown. However, homes closest to where a lead smelter and other downtown factories operated tended to have slightly higher concentrations than those farther out. As part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program, the federal government and the city of Omaha have been attempting to remove lead from Omaha’s yards since the late 1990s. The EPA’s cleanup standard for Omaha was set in 2009 and is based on health recommendations from 1994. Since then, research has shown that lower exposures can cause IQ loss in kids and heart attacks in adults. Twice in the last 15 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lowered what it considers a high blood-lead level. An EPA risk model found that to protect most kids according to those new health guidelines, soil levels would have to be below 100 parts per million — about 10 grains of rice in a 10-pound bucket of dirt. The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica tested 388 homes in the Omaha Superfund site and found that 208 had levels over 100 parts per million. But the EPA has never required that level of cleanup in Omaha or as a national remediation standard. Current EPA policy for the Omaha cleanup site directs contractors to dig up and replace yards if tests show they contain more than 400 parts per mi…

A new plan to preserve Georgia’s marshes: Give them space to migrate
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creator: Emily Jones
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description: Environmental protections usually only cover existing ecosystems. A group of conservationists wants the state to take a longer view.
encoded: Decades ago, in order to build up a solid foundation for I-95 through Southeast Georgia, construction crews dug some earth near the town of Midway, Georgia, about 50 miles south of Savannah, and left a deep pit. There’s now a public park in that spot, bounded by a tidal creek on one side and the leftover dredge pit on the other. Although the park is over 15 miles from the ocean, high tide washes up the creek twice a day. Lush marsh grass fills the space between solid ground and the creek, but it’s a different scene along the other bank, where the salt water has steadily eaten away at the land while depositing sediment in the basin. Now, what was once a deep pit is a shallow mud flat with little islands of marsh grass cropping up in the middle, naturally moving in now that the ground is suitable for it. But the grasses halt abruptly where they reach the small, muddy cliff of the bank — shorn away sharply where the tide has battered it. “If we walk that way, you’ll be able to see some of the, well, just plain erosion,” said Phil Odom, chairman of Liberty County’s Consolidated Planning Commission, on a recent afternoon. “This is how much it has collapsed. We’ve lost about six, eight feet right here.” Local leaders are hoping to fix that erosion at the water’s edge, and they’re approaching it in a way that considers the lessons of the I-95 construction and prior, failed attempts to address the problem. Instead of putting up a wall or using chunks of concrete to hold the soil in place, the county is attempting to restore the marsh grasses that grow here naturally. Their roots will help hold the soil in place. “We hope for it to replicate nature,” said Shannon Marino with Zulu Marine, which builds what are known as living shorelines. “When our solutions are done, you should look at it and not really recognize it as a repair or a bulkhead or a solution. It should just look like nature.” It’s an increasingly popular way to address coastal erosion in the face of rising seas.…

The key Hormuz question that everybody is avoiding
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date: 2026-08-10T06:43:17Z
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description: Special Correspondent When you hear “Iran” and “Strait of Hormuz” in the same sentence, what comes to mind? Tensions? Threats? Chaos? …That’s exactly what the MSM news media want you to think with their headlines. READ MORE: Trump says US only ‘semi-negotiating’ with Iran; Israel rejects Gaza plan Oil prices climb as Iranian demands cloud
encoded: Special Correspondent When you hear “Iran” and “Strait of Hormuz” in the same sentence, what comes to mind? Tensions? Threats? Chaos? …That’s exactly what the MSM news media want you to think with their headlines. READ MORE: Trump says US only ‘semi-negotiating’ with Iran; Israel rejects Gaza plan Oil prices climb as Iranian demands cloud outlook for Strait of Hormuz Other War on Iran reports But here’s what they don’t tell you: Iran let the world sail through that waterway for free for more than 40 years — no tolls, no fees. No questions asked. Meanwhile, other nations have been charging billions from ships using their strategic routes and nobody bats an eye. So why the sudden outrage against Tehran? And more importantly, what changed? Cashing in big time Meanwhile, what about other nations? They’re cashing in big time: Suez Canal — billions in fees yearly Panama Canal — charges for ships of up to $1 million per passage Turkish Straits — toll booths are alive and well So when Western powers point fingers at Tehran, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has one simple question: “Why are we the only ones painted as the ‘bad guys’ when we’ve been the most generous?” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-131829" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abbas-Araghchi-Buez-680wide.png" alt="Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi" width="680" height="445" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abbas-Araghchi-Buez-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abbas-Araghchi-Buez-680wide-300x196.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Abbas-Araghchi-Buez-680wide-642x420.png 642w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi . . . asking for a fair debate. Image: Bueze He’s not denying tensions. He’s not dodging responsibility. He’s just asking for a fair debate, not a one-sided blame game. Iran didn’t just w…

Thai IDs, legal work give hope to Myanmar refugees
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date: 2026-08-10T02:30:00Z
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Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other countries
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has announced that a review of his country’s security agreement with China has begun. Wale has said he was only permitted to read the 2022 agreement one day before an official meeting in Canberra in May this year, shortly after he was elected prime minister. Highlighting
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has announced that a review of his country’s security agreement with China has begun. Wale has said he was only permitted to read the 2022 agreement one day before an official meeting in Canberra in May this year, shortly after he was elected prime minister. Highlighting the lack of proper disclosure at the time of the agreement, when he was opposition leader, Wale told Parliament this must never happen again. READ MORE: Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against China Other Pacific security pact reports As such, he has called on the current opposition leader Manasseh Sogavare, who was prime minister at the time of the China agreement, to support the review. This comes after Sogavare alleged a lack of transparency over a new agreement that Wale’s government has signed with the United States which allows the US Coast Guard to have greater access to the Solomons. In response, Wale said there would be ‘no more secrecy’ on agreements that bind the nation “I call on the Leader of the Opposition to support the review, this House must support the principle that no treaty should stand without the informed consent of Parliament. “If that is the standard, then it must apply to every agreement this country has signed and not just some,” Wale said. Wale, who has overseen a foreign policy reset that observers note has the Solomon Islands pivoting back to the west, also stressed that China remains an important partner for his country. He said Solomon Islands remained “friends to all and enemies to none”. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other countries
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has announced that a review of his country’s security agreement with China has begun. Wale has said he was only permitted to read the 2022 agreement one day before an official meeting in Canberra in May this year, shortly after he was elected prime minister. Highlighting
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has announced that a review of his country’s security agreement with China has begun. Wale has said he was only permitted to read the 2022 agreement one day before an official meeting in Canberra in May this year, shortly after he was elected prime minister. Highlighting the lack of proper disclosure at the time of the agreement, when he was opposition leader, Wale told Parliament this must never happen again. READ MORE: Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against China Other Pacific security pact reports As such, he has called on the current opposition leader Manasseh Sogavare, who was prime minister at the time of the China agreement, to support the review. This comes after Sogavare alleged a lack of transparency over a new agreement that Wale’s government has signed with the United States which allows the US Coast Guard to have greater access to the Solomons. In response, Wale said there would be ‘no more secrecy’ on agreements that bind the nation “I call on the Leader of the Opposition to support the review, this House must support the principle that no treaty should stand without the informed consent of Parliament. “If that is the standard, then it must apply to every agreement this country has signed and not just some,” Wale said. Wale, who has overseen a foreign policy reset that observers note has the Solomon Islands pivoting back to the west, also stressed that China remains an important partner for his country. He said Solomon Islands remained “friends to all and enemies to none”. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have
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description: COMMENTARY: By Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad There are some conversations a nation keeps postponing because they are uncomfortable. Changing Fiji’s flag is one of them. We came close to having that conversation in 2015 and 2016. A nationwide design competition was launched, thousands of submissions poured in, opinions were fierce, and for a brief moment it
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad There are some conversations a nation keeps postponing because they are uncomfortable. Changing Fiji’s flag is one of them. We came close to having that conversation in 2015 and 2016. A nationwide design competition was launched, thousands of submissions poured in, opinions were fierce, and for a brief moment it felt as though Fiji was genuinely asking itself who it wanted to be. Then the conversation stalled. After Fiji’s historic victory in rugby sevens at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the government announced that the flag would remain unchanged. Since then, the issue has largely disappeared from public debate. READ MORE: Two dates, one wound: What Girmit Day means for Fiji’s future Other Fiji flag reports But postponing a conversation does not resolve it. If anything, it only leaves unfinished business for another generation. I believe that generation is ours. I say this not because I dislike our current flag. Quite the opposite. Like millions of Fijians, I have watched it rise at schools, sporting events, military ceremonies and international competitions. I have sung the national anthem beneath it. I have seen athletes wrap themselves in it with tears streaming down their faces. Those memories are real and meaningful. But memories belong to people, not pieces of cloth. Our love for Fiji does not live inside the Union Jack stitched into the corner of our flag. It lives in us. The truth is simple. Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987. For almost four decades we have chosen our own governments, written our own laws and determined our own future. Someone else’s empire Yet our national flag still carries the most recognisable symbol of the British Empire. I often ask myself a question that has never left me: If we truly believe we stand proudly as an independent republic, why does the first thing the world see on our flag belong to someone else’s empire? For me, this question is deeply personal. I a…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 9, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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When online rivalry turns into real-world violence, who pays the price?
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How Tech Companies Are Earning Billions By Creating Military AI
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Can AI be stopped?
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In rural communities, fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper solar boom
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creator: Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens
date: 2026-08-09T13:00:00Z
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description: Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue. The same methods are being employed nationwide.
encoded: Into a clear blue sky, the sweet-smelling smoke billows and spreads. Farmers have been burning and harvesting sugarcane this way for generations, but the practice creates ash fallout and hazardous air pollutants. Every year, farmers plan and coordinate the fires, to clear out pests like snakes and clear leaves, leaving behind only the stalks where the sugar lies. Nobody in Iberia Parish thinks twice. Sugarcane smoke is a part of life. But locals are wary of the dangers they suspect lurk within a different, newer industry. This new industry is going to be the ruin of Iberia Parish, they warn, with dangers ranging from toxic smoke and cancer-causing chemicals to homegrown tornados and flying debris, even poisoned farmland and worthless houses. Dangers that are almost entirely imagined, say experts, who now find themselves as the main line of defense against misinformation that could hamstring a vital field. It’s a dynamic being repeated nationwide. This is a close-knit community, part of the Acadiana region of Louisiana best known as Cajun Country. But last year, opposition to solar farms became so heated here that speakers at Iberia Parish Council meetings were brought to tears. Hundreds of residents successfully mounted a campaign opposing a proposed utility-scale solar project that would have been sited northeast of town. Opponents voiced fears that solar panels would destroy farms and poison the soil. They wore anti-solar T-shirts and staked yard signs. They snubbed and scolded the project’s supporters. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Solar-Misinformation-TN-post-1.png" sizes="(max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Solar-Misinformation-TN-post-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Solar-Misinformation-TN-post-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Solar-Misinformation-TN-post-1.png?quali…

Why US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-09T11:43:06Z
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subject: Infant mortality
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description: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle United States unilateral sanctions, the kind being imposed on Cuba today, are deadlier for children than war according to a major piece of research published in The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal. Totally ignored by the mainstream media, the report has bombshell findings that should call into question the use
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle United States unilateral sanctions, the kind being imposed on Cuba today, are deadlier for children than war according to a major piece of research published in The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal. Totally ignored by the mainstream media, the report has bombshell findings that should call into question the use of sanctions to impose punishments on entire populations for the actions of their governments. A staggering 500,000 civilians die annually due to US and EU unilateral sanctions that many Western countries help enforce. READ MORE: ‘To play God’: How US pressure has shattered Cuba’s healthcare Other sanctions reports Sanctions are ‘more tremendous than war’ The report by Professor Francisco Rodríguez, Silvio Rendón and Mark Weisbrot vividly underscores US President Woodrow Wilson’s comment that sanctions were “something more tremendous than war.” “Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis” data-mined major studies covering the years 1971-2021. Its primary source was the Global Sanctions Database (GSDB), internationally the most comprehensive aggregator of global datasets on sanctions. Analysing research covering the years 1971-2021 across 152 countries, the researchers found that unilateral sanctions (such as those imposed on Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Yemen and Iraq) were “associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the global mortality burden associated with armed conflict.” Imagine that: every year, for decades, sanctions (primarily US and EU sanctions) have taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians — and that rate has accelerated, not declined, because American use of sanctions has exploded in recent years. According to the Global Sanctions Database (GSDB), 25 percent of all countries have been put under US, EU, or UN sanctions in the 2010–22 period! That’s a massive leap from 8 percent in the 1960s. For this short article I will focus …

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-09T08:02:38Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Joel Jenkins Of late, Australia’s public broadcaster ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but modified from within after years of ideological, technical, and operational transfer, the organisation is failing in its duty to inform Australians. This is occurring at a time of
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Joel Jenkins Of late, Australia’s public broadcaster ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but modified from within after years of ideological, technical, and operational transfer, the organisation is failing in its duty to inform Australians. This is occurring at a time of great uncertainty, when it is needed to function healthily, truthfully, the most. The ABC’s subjective and selective journalism jolts through a country in flux, emblematic of a broader act of censorship that goes on to form the body of a foreign influenced effort to moderate the country’s resting state to entertain the previously unthinkable. READ MORE: Other media credibility reports In a world at boiling point, in a nation being led down the garden path by powerful small interests working in concert to shape public perception and limit the range of acceptable debate, the decline of the ABC has been felt by many Australians. With pandemics, bushfires, floods, wars and a live streamed genocide still unravelling unabated, the elite power structures that have controlled our country’s destiny have revealed themselves to be nothing short of diabolical — propped up by a corporate media apparatus that works directly in lockstep with the interests of the billionaires and powermongers of Australia’s shallow rooted elite. In this time of power and consolidation, the ABC has been commandeered and realigned through a concerted effort carried out by a network of former commercial media executives and political appointees who have steadily replaced the organisation’s independent traditions with a more compliant, establishment-friendly outlook. Ten years under the Coalition, squeezed from above, the ABC has been augmented from root to branch in a process of attrition. A decade of siloing and compartmentalising the old guard, replacing board members with former corporate media hatchetmen, and replacing outgoing ABC stalwarts and custodians with ne…

The ABC’s intellectual and moral decline comes at the worst possible time
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-09T08:02:38Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Australia
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subject: Editor's Picks
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subject: independence
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subject: israeli
subject: Justice
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description: COMMENTARY: By Joel Jenkins Of late, Australia’s public broadcaster ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but modified from within after years of ideological, technical, and operational transfer, the organisation is failing in its duty to inform Australians. This is occurring at a time of
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Joel Jenkins Of late, Australia’s public broadcaster ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but modified from within after years of ideological, technical, and operational transfer, the organisation is failing in its duty to inform Australians. This is occurring at a time of great uncertainty, when it is needed to function healthily, truthfully, the most. The ABC’s subjective and selective journalism jolts through a country in flux, emblematic of a broader act of censorship that goes on to form the body of a foreign influenced effort to moderate the country’s resting state to entertain the previously unthinkable. READ MORE: Other media credibility reports In a world at boiling point, in a nation being led down the garden path by powerful small interests working in concert to shape public perception and limit the range of acceptable debate, the decline of the ABC has been felt by many Australians. With pandemics, bushfires, floods, wars and a live streamed genocide still unravelling unabated, the elite power structures that have controlled our country’s destiny have revealed themselves to be nothing short of diabolical — propped up by a corporate media apparatus that works directly in lockstep with the interests of the billionaires and powermongers of Australia’s shallow rooted elite. In this time of power and consolidation, the ABC has been commandeered and realigned through a concerted effort carried out by a network of former commercial media executives and political appointees who have steadily replaced the organisation’s independent traditions with a more compliant, establishment-friendly outlook. Ten years under the Coalition, squeezed from above, the ABC has been augmented from root to branch in a process of attrition. A decade of siloing and compartmentalising the old guard, replacing board members with former corporate media hatchetmen, and replacing outgoing ABC stalwarts and custodians with ne…

Bold Plans for a More Affordable America
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description: Ralph welcomes Robert Reich (professor of Public Policy and former Secretary of Labor) to discuss his "Pledge to Make America Affordable Again." Then, Ralph speaks to Derek Shearer (former economic policy adviser and US Ambassador to Finland) about his...
encoded: Ralph welcomes Robert Reich (professor of Public Policy and former Secretary of Labor) to discuss his "Pledge to Make America Affordable Again." Then, Ralph speaks to Derek Shearer (former economic policy adviser and US Ambassador to Finland) about his recent work, "A Bold Economic Program for America." Robert Reich is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, including as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Mr Reich has written eighteen books, including The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, The Common Good, Supercapitalism, and Coming up Short: A Memoir of My America. He is co-founder of Inequality Media, co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute, and co-founding editor of The American Prospect. Democrats have an opportunity now to talk to the working class about—and not just the working class, the middle class too—about prices, about affordability in ways that are terribly important and meaningful and that really could get prices down or at least stop the onslaught of inflation. And also that are very, very consistent with what we believe as Democrats, as progressives, as people who want to see the nation move back toward its pursuit of social justice. Robert Reich You can bet that the right, the apologists for wealth in this country are going to say, “Oh, no, no, no, don’t do that because wealthy people will leave the country!” I mean, what they always do reflexively is say, “If you do that, we’ll leave.” And I say in California the same thing I would say about a national wealth tax—if they want to leave, let them leave. But they’re not going to leave because there are so many advantages to staying in California in terms of: this is where a lot of the high tech talent actually is. This is where the infrastructure for high tech is already. The climate, as I talk to you, I’m looking at a beautiful day out here. You know, who wants to leave California? And if you are a billionaire, and you…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 8, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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How online hackers are trying to make money off of Microsoft and Nvidia
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GOP push “tough-on-crime” policies in DC, re-entry advocates say they will only increase recidivism
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The US Military’s AI "Kill Chain" & It’s Major Flaws
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Trump is blocking billions of dollars of grants that would fix the grid
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description: The Department of Energy has canceled or stalled funding for thousands of projects that would improve the country’s stressed grid — and not just in blue states.
encoded: In Wisconsin, utility Alliant Energy has called off a project meant to reduce power outages in disadvantaged and tribal communities, after the Trump administration terminated a federal grant that would have supported it. In California, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which has deployed and upgraded hundreds of thousands of advanced smart meters, has not received any reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, for the work since October, when the Trump administration declared it was killing grants that it described as fueling ​“the Left’s climate agenda.” And in the upper Midwest, a consortium of regional grid operators, utilities, and state agencies is still waiting for $464 million in DOE funds meant to help build high-voltage transmission lines to reduce grid congestion — although the agency in charge of the project says the funding will soon be restored. Across the country, hundreds of such projects to improve grid reliability and make electricity more affordable face a highly uncertain future — the result of Trump administration actions that have slowed the outflow of billions of dollars of DOE funds to a trickle. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg" alt="A man's hand holds a gas pump" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&quality=75&strip=all 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?resize=160%2C90&quality=75&strip=all 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GasPump.jpg?resize=150%2C84&quality=75&strip=a…

‘Triple tap’ in Gaza, Iran and the Hind Rajab atrocities condemned at Stop Wars rally
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description: Asia Pacific Report “Triple-tap” attacks by Israeli and US forces against Palestine, Iran and Lebanon were condemned today at a Stop Wars Aotearoa rally against the atrocities in the Middle East in Auckland’s Aotea Square. New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters was also criticised in satirical theatre over accusations of racism and insults against immigrants.

Demolishing a varsity, dismantling futures: The story of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University’s fight for survival
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creator: Ankit Jain
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description: Barely 200 kilometres from Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, where students and youth of the country came together in thousands to demand educational reform in India, a notice was served on a university, declaring that most of its built structures were illegal and would soon be demolished. The institute, Mohammad Ali Jauhar University (MAJU), located in Rampur, […]
encoded: Barely 200 kilometres from Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, where students and youth of the country came together in thousands to demand educational reform in India, a notice was served on a university, declaring that most of its built structures were illegal and would soon be demolished. The institute, Mohammad Ali Jauhar University (MAJU), located in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, was established in 2006 by the Mohammad Ali Jauhar Trust, founded by Azam Khan, one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party. Khan, a former MP and 10-time MLA from Rampur, was one of the most powerful politicians in the region until the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2017. MAJU is recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and holds minority institution status. However, its staff and student body comprise people from varied backgrounds and religious communities, vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Zaheeruddin and students themselves told Alt News. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-318188 size-large" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_2120.jpg-e1786010283901-1024x701.jpeg" alt="" width="1024" height="701" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_2120.jpg-e1786010283901-1024x701.jpeg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_2120.jpg-e1786010283901-300x205.jpeg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_2120.jpg-e1786010283901-768x526.jpeg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_2120.jpg-e1786010283901-1536x1051.jpeg 1536w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_2120.jpg-e1786010283901.jpeg 1590w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> The university is named after Mohammad Ali Jauhar, freedom fighter, Khilafat leader and former Congress president, who founded Jamia Millia Islamia in 1920 On July 15, the Rampur Development Authority (RDA) issued a notice to the university declaring that 38 of its 40 buildings were illegal and would be demoli…

Australia, world leader in arresting climate protesters, drops 130 charges
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-08T04:25:49Z
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description: By Michael West NSW Police have dropped charges against the remaining climate protesters from Rising Tide’s 2024 People’s Blockade of Newcastle Harbour — the site of the world’s largest coal port. Climate Defenders Australia, which represented 117 of the arrestees, had repeatedly petitioned police to withdraw anti-protest charges after they failed to prosecute test cases,
encoded: By Michael West NSW Police have dropped charges against the remaining climate protesters from Rising Tide’s 2024 People’s Blockade of Newcastle Harbour — the site of the world’s largest coal port. Climate Defenders Australia, which represented 117 of the arrestees, had repeatedly petitioned police to withdraw anti-protest charges after they failed to prosecute test cases, and were required to pay A$73,000 in costs. READ MORE: Police drop charges against 125 Rising Tide protesters two years after Newcastle port blockade Rising Tide climate activists say they feel ‘vindicated’ after more than 100 charges are dropped Other Rising Tide protest reports Another 100 arrestees remain charged from the 2025 Rising Tide protest — the backlog for police and courts is another measure of the failure of Premier Chris Minns’ draconian anti-protest laws. Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker. Flashback: Heavy police presence as climate activists blockade Newcstle port Video: ABC News This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against China
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date: 2026-08-08T03:42:55Z
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description: By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific Disagreement from some China-aligned Pacific Islands countries has prevented regional countries within the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) issuing a joint statement against missile testing in the Pacific. At their meeting in Suva on Friday, PIF foreign ministers failed to agree on a unified statement against China after it fired
encoded: By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific Disagreement from some China-aligned Pacific Islands countries has prevented regional countries within the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) issuing a joint statement against missile testing in the Pacific. At their meeting in Suva on Friday, PIF foreign ministers failed to agree on a unified statement against China after it fired a nuclear-capable missile into Pacific waters last month, despite deep concern among most countries about Beijing’s actions. It is understood there was a majority of countries represented at the meeting who wanted a clear joint regional statement condemning such missile testing in the nuclear-free Pacific. READ MORE: Pacific foreign ministers to discuss Solomons’ idea for regional security treaty No Pacific consensus on China missile test condemnation Other Solomon Islands reports However, the Forum’s usual Pacific decision-making by consensus could not be met because Kiribati and Nauru were opposed to a strong statement condemning the testing. New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters told media some Pacific nations were using the consensus system because they were more concerned with external partners’ wishes than those that belong to the Pacific Islands Forum, something he described as an “unusual view”. “They didn’t actually lay out any reasons, apart from their disagreement, and not wishing for us to make the clear statement such as ‘we are opposed to missiles being fired into the Pacific’. “That’s what the statement should have said, and we’re still waiting for that to get laid out.” Some governments have pointed out that China is not the only country testing nuclear-capable missiles in the Pacific. The US regularly conducts tests into the Marshall Islands. Peters said that testing in the Marshall Islands was done with the country’s consent. Security agenda The PIF Foreign Ministers Meeting was held to set the agenda for the annual Leaders’ Meeting in Palau later this month. A Solomon Islands proposal …

Taiwan launches annual military drills as pressure from China grows
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date: 2026-08-08T01:30:00Z
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Media education, regulation, and organizing against Big Tech in Europe | Ep. 7
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The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy [EXCERPT]
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He was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. The story doesn’t end there.
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Where Super PACs Actually Came From
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A Requiem for America’s 250th Birthday
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creator: The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
date: 2026-08-07T19:55:10Z
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description: Donald Trump was the inevitable result of a country that has spent its existence profiting from slavery, economic exploitation, and a military-industrial complex
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Don’t Curtail Access to Weight-Loss Drugs
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A Father in Gaza Pleads for Materials to Rebuild
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A Bill in New York City Would Increase Protections for Package Delivery Workers
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Abortion pills by mail could be next as Trump admin seeks to curb access
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Juliana Leon died in a climate-linked heat wave. Her daughter is suing Big Oil.
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