Radio Free
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date: 2026-09-06T20:12:42Z
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items: Remembering immigrant workers killed on 9/11
items: Why Christian Far Right Isn’t An Issue To Many Americans
items: No-confidence motion against Solomon Islands PM withdrawn
items: A hard-won rule to cut chemical plant pollution is being unraveled
items: What if the whole world played the same song?
items: Do you recognize this song?
items: Many voices. One shared language: music.
items: The People’s Historian / Galvanizing Labor Day
items: The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 5, 2026
items: How intense rains in the Grand Canyon turned into a deadly disaster
items: Palestine protesters renew ‘don’t buy Israeli’ pledge, demand NZ sanction Israel
items: Tibetan community shocked by devastation from Nepal flash flood
items: ‘It Feels Like A Safari’: How Zaporizhzhya Survives Daily Russian Attacks
items: 25 years later, 9/11 is still claiming lives
items: They Have Nowhere Left To Go: Druzhkivka Under Fire #ukraine #news #shorts
items: BJP’s violent meme war: The attacks on opponents and dissenters as ‘Dimagi Naxals’
items: A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate, Grief
items: You HAVE to hear this.
items: This changes the whole song!!
items: France commits more financial help to struggling New Caledonia
items: Shane Te Pou: Matua Pita Tipene, I wish you weren’t in Israel right now
items: Outlaw Trump Must Be Dumbfounded by His Opponents
items: There’s something special about this one… We miss you so much Grandpa Elliott 💛
items: How to Fight Media Oligarchy
items: Imagining Our Way Out of Dystopia
items: The Unsettling Reality of Gaza’s Open Graves
items: Tyson workers protest mass layoffs after Illinois plant closes
items: Bridges to China, Russia preparing to open as North Korea deepens ties with both
items: Why is YouTube Demonetizing So Many Cop Watchers? LIVE debate: w/Rights Crispy/Long Island Audit
items: Islamophobia Still An Issue 25 Years After 9/11
items: Trump Administration Takes Another Swing at Dismantling Clean Water Protections
items: The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 4, 2026
items: Student paper wins suit against Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestine speech
items: Trump’s New “Waters Of The U.S.” Proposal Takes Sledgehammer To Clean Water Act
items: Just wait for it… 👀
items: Looming disaster – The Grayzone live
items: NEWS RELEASE: Conference to Feature Labor Leaders, Activists
items: Israel’s Gaza “solution” is to empty it of Palestinians, defense minister says
items: WATCH: The Only Video You’ll Need to Understand Trump’s Meddling in the Brazil Election
items: Noisy Jobs Report Offers Little Comfort for Jobseekers Across Stumbling Economy
items: UN News Today 04 September 2026
items: Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
items: ‘The most powerful publishers the world has ever seen’: Fara Dabhoiwala on the real battle over free speech
items: My AAU coach abused me. They let him keep his job and keep coaching.
items: "Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack
items: "Terrorizing Our City": ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
items: "They Got Zero Notice": 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois
items: Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
items: Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 4, 2026
items: ‘Treated worse than cattle’: 2,500 Tyson workers laid off, plant shutters overnight
items: CPJ, RSF, and partners urge G20 leaders to uphold media access
items: “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack
items: “Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
items: “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois
items: Headlines for September 4, 2026
items: Democracy Now! 2026-09-04 Friday
items: 25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat⏐The Intercept Briefing
items: DN! Friday, September 4, 2026
items: Kenyan Standard’s Alex Kiprotich seized by armed men after escaping earlier attack
items: Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year.
items: With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem
items: As family farms decline and the climate heats up, farmers weigh what to do with their land
items: The Fate Of Ali Zarei: Blinded And Sentenced To Death #iran #humanrights #shorts
items: UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua on track, says Indonesia
items: New Report: "We Are Living on Borrowed Time” – Repression of Civil Society in Tunisia
items: ‘Godi Media Haye Haye’ to heckling on the ground: Why TV reporters became a target during CJP protests
items: Pacific Islands Forum statement denounced China’s July missile test.
items: Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test
items: This moment. This song. ✨
items: Why Are So Many Cop Watchers Being Demonetized by YouTube?

Remembering immigrant workers killed on 9/11
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-06T20:06:17Z
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Why Christian Far Right Isn’t An Issue To Many Americans
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-09-06T14:30:31Z
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No-confidence motion against Solomon Islands PM withdrawn
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-06T13:18:54Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gordon Darcy Lilo
subject: Manasseh Maelanga
subject: Matthew Wale
subject: Solomon Islands government
subject: Sources
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subject: darcy
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
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description: RNZ Pacific The motion of no confidence filed against the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands has been withdrawn. The motion against Prime Minister Matthew Wale, who has only been in the top job for more than three months, was set for debate in Parliament today. Manasseh Maelanga, who lodged the motion against Wale a week
encoded: RNZ Pacific The motion of no confidence filed against the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands has been withdrawn. The motion against Prime Minister Matthew Wale, who has only been in the top job for more than three months, was set for debate in Parliament today. Manasseh Maelanga, who lodged the motion against Wale a week ago, announced yesterday afternoon that he was withdrawing the motion. READ MORE: Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent Other Solomon Islands reports SBM Online reports Maelanga also signed the required documents for the formal withdrawal of the motion and submitted them to the National Parliament this afternoon. “I have not taken this decision lightly; the motion was never about professional ambition, personal interest or creating division in our country, it was not a decision I took in isolation,” Maelanga said. In response to the announcement, Prime Minister Wale thanked Maelanga for withdrawing the motion. “I have been quite concerned since I aware … the time I landed in Palau … emotions and public opinion, I think, also a rising level of public anger in terms of how leaders behave in these situations, and this is something not good in the public mind.” I welcome the spirit with which he [Maelanga] has acted…and he informed me on Friday afternoon that this is what he would do over the weekend,” Wale said. A week in Solomon Islands politics The motion came as a shock to Matthew Wale, who was in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting when the news broke. Wale left Palau early the next day to return home and deal with the domestic political crisis. On his return to Solomon Islands last week, he faced the resignations of three Cabinet ministers. Last Thursday, Wale then sacked the Finance Minister, Gordon Darcy Lilo, who also shares a political party with Maelanga. Lilo told RNZ Pacific that he had no involvement with the motion against the prime minister. Over the weekend, local media reported that two …

A hard-won rule to cut chemical plant pollution is being unraveled
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creator: Beth Gardiner
date: 2026-09-06T13:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: being
subject: chemical
subject: cut
subject: hardwon
subject: plant
subject: pollution
subject: Regulation
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subject: sources
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description: In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of polluting facilities and is working to rewrite the long-awaited rule.
encoded: In April 2024, Tish Taylor and her father, Robert, stood behind President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency chief, Michael Regan, as he signed a regulation designed to dramatically reduce toxic pollution from petrochemical plants like those that cluster near the Taylors’ homes along the lower Mississippi River, in Louisiana. Taylor struggled not to cry through the signing ceremony, which followed years of demands from communities like hers — in the 85-mile corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that has become known as Cancer Alley — for tighter limits on plants’ emissions. The new regulation, known as the HON rule, was “a wonderful gift to generations ahead of us,” Taylor said. “It’s hard for me to find the words to say how validated we felt.” For decades, regulations on emissions of hazardous chemicals such as toluene, ethylene oxide, and vinyl chloride have been weaker than restrictions on more common pollutants, such as those emitted by vehicles. The Biden administration took major steps to strengthen Clean Air Act rules on those hazardous air pollutants, and the HON rule was a centerpiece of that effort. Toughening requirements on six different pollutants at more than 200 petrochemical plants, it was one of a slate of regulations the Biden administration enacted on air toxics, each covering a specific industry, from steelmaking to tire manufacturing. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HON-Map.png" sizes="(max-width: 1322px) 100vw, 1322px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HON-Map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HON-Map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HON-Map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HON-Map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HON-Map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https…

What if the whole world played the same song?
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-06T00:15:12Z
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Do you recognize this song?
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-05T23:00:35Z
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Many voices. One shared language: music.
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-05T19:00:38Z
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Many voices. One shared language: music.
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date: 2026-09-05T19:00:38Z
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The People’s Historian / Galvanizing Labor Day
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-09-05T18:29:13Z
subject: Ralph Nader
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subject: galvanizing
subject: Historian
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description: Ralph welcomes sportswriter Dave Zirin to talk about his new book, "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." Then Ralph speaks to labor activist Gene Bruskin about their upcoming Labor Day event at Busboys and Poets in DC, "Galvanizin...
encoded: Ralph welcomes sportswriter Dave Zirin to talk about his new book, "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." Then Ralph speaks to labor activist Gene Bruskin about their upcoming Labor Day event at Busboys and Poets in DC, "Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers’ Compact." Dave Zirin is the sports editor for The Nation, a columnist for the Progressive, and the author of eight books on the politics of sports, including What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States and A People’s History of Sports in the United States. His new book is The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn. There’s a despondency that exists now, I believe, among people who are also very angry about the state of our politics. And the thing that Howard always insisted upon—he was an activist who happened to be a historian, not a historian who was an activist. And that doesn’t denigrate his incredible skills as a historian, it just says where his priorities were in his time on this planet. And one of the things that Howard believed so strongly is that the movements themselves needed to have a strong sense of history. The movements needed to know that we live in a time of great ups and downs. Dave Zirin People did step up to create the Zinn Education Project. And every book event I’m doing, I’m showing up with copies of their materials and they usually have somebody on the ground doing the organizing at the event. And at the very least, we’re helping it be a little bit sticky. You know what I’m saying? Like, it’s not just a book event. It’s not just celebrating Howard. But it’s also something that allows us to be able to make it matter in a way that it otherwise would not—because it’s not just about selling books, it really is about building a movement. Dave Zirin Gene Bruskin is a veteran of the labor movement as a local union president, an organizer, and campaign coordinator for numerous local and national unions. He has done extensive international l…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 5, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-09-05T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
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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 – September 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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How intense rains in the Grand Canyon turned into a deadly disaster
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creator: Gabrielle Canon
date: 2026-09-05T13:00:00Z
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description: Flash flooding in the Arizona tourist destination was probably triggered by compounding climate factors, such as drought and warming in Pacific Ocean.
encoded: A deadly flash flood in the Grand Canyon over the weekend was probably driven by a confluence of climate factors, including drought, wildfire scarring and warming temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that can supercharge storms. At least two people have died, nearly 80 people were rescued and one remained unaccounted for after a surge of water and debris swept through the immensely popular tourist destination on Saturday, fueled by torrents of rain that hit the national park’s Bright Angel Creek area. Flash floods are not uncommon in the region, especially during the monsoon season from June to September, when strong rains pummel the arid landscapes and can quickly fill narrow rock formations. Visiting the Grand Canyon — a crown jewel of the US national park system — can be particularly dangerous in the summer because of the risk of flash flooding, when clear days can give way quickly to thunderstorms and downpours. The steep, rocky nature of the canyon itself funnels water rapidly, transforming downpours into a charging wall of water. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grand-canyon-flod-8302026.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=853&crop=1 640w, https://gri…

Palestine protesters renew ‘don’t buy Israeli’ pledge, demand NZ sanction Israel
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-05T11:08:25Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Auckland Council
subject: Banners for Palestine
subject: Boycott Divest Sanction
subject: Boycott Israeli Apartheid
subject: Critics of Israel
subject: Gaza protests
subject: Illegal Israeli settlements
subject: Israel sanctions
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description: Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine activists made strong pleas for stronger boycotts of Israeli products and from illegal Israeli settlements on indigenous lands today and again demanded that the New Zealand government sanction Tel Aviv over its Gaza genocide. In the 153rd week of continuous protests, the activists themed the global BDS – boycott-divestment-sanctions — campaign
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine activists made strong pleas for stronger boycotts of Israeli products and from illegal Israeli settlements on indigenous lands today and again demanded that the New Zealand government sanction Tel Aviv over its Gaza genocide. In the 153rd week of continuous protests, the activists themed the global BDS – boycott-divestment-sanctions — campaign with local targets such as the Auckland Council and other investment funds. Speakers included activists Leeann Wahanui-Peters, Neil Scott, Kathy Ross, Achmat Esau and Anna Lee. READ MORE: Israel must protect West Bank’s Palestinians amid settler pogroms, says US envoy Other Gaza, Palestine reports Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) campaigner Neil Scott gave a blistering indictment of the current coalition government’s weak response to what he called Israeli crimes against humanity. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-133129 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Neil-Scott-BDS-APR-680wide.png" alt="PSNA campaigner Neil Scott" width="680" height="491" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Neil-Scott-BDS-APR-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Neil-Scott-BDS-APR-680wide-300x217.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Neil-Scott-BDS-APR-680wide-324x235.png 324w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Neil-Scott-BDS-APR-680wide-582x420.png 582w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> PSNA campaigner Neil Scott . . . a “blistering indictment” of the New Zealand coalition government’s Palestine policy failures. Image: Asia Pacific Report He also called on the government to end the “visa free” policy for anybody who is in the Israeli military. “That’s [those] in the current military, or the military reserves — and they are in reserves until the age of 40,” he said. “These people should not be coming to Aotearoa when they are …

Tibetan community shocked by devastation from Nepal flash flood
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-05T10:48:55Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Auckland Tibetan Association
subject: Disaster data
subject: Disaster preparedness
subject: Flash floods
subject: Glacier melting
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subject: Nepali Times
subject: Sources
subject: Tibetan community
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
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subject: Auckland
subject: China
subject: Climate
subject: Community
subject: Data
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subject: disaster
subject: Disasters
subject: Featured
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subject: from
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subject: Glaciers
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: kathmandu
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description: By Blessen Tom of RNZ New Zealand’s Tibetan community said it was shocked to see the devastation caused by last week’s catastrophic flash flood near the Nepal-China border. The community said the disaster had also highlighted ongoing concerns about the impact of increasing infrastructure construction and deforestation on the Tibetan Plateau. “It’s absolutely shocking and
encoded: By Blessen Tom of RNZ New Zealand’s Tibetan community said it was shocked to see the devastation caused by last week’s catastrophic flash flood near the Nepal-China border. The community said the disaster had also highlighted ongoing concerns about the impact of increasing infrastructure construction and deforestation on the Tibetan Plateau. “It’s absolutely shocking and very sad but it also reminds us how fragile our environment is, especially in Tibet,” said Gadhen Paljor, president of the Auckland Tibetan Association. READ MORE: Rescue efforts continue as Nepal-China flood death toll rises to 1280 Not if, but when next? — Nepali Times editorial Other Nepal reports Paljor was born in the Himalayan mountains while his parents were fleeing Tibet. He has been living in New Zealand for the past 25 years. Paljor said Auckland’s Tibetan community held special prayers for the victims of the flash flood. He said a Tibetan refugee settlement in Nepal had been washed away in the floodwaters. “One of the settlements had about 11 households, and it has all been swept away sadly,” he said. Construction impact Paljor was worried about the impact of increased construction and deforestation in the Tibetan region. In late 2025, China approved construction of what is set to become the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Tibetan Plateau. The South China Morning Post said the dam would be situated in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo, where the river drops 2000 metres over a 50 km stretch, creating immense hydropower potential. Paljor said he had not heard much news from Tibet since the flash flood because information was reportedly being tightly controlled. Concerns about access to information had also emerged before the floods. Nepali and Chinese officials met in Kathmandu three months ago to discuss the risks posed by floods, glaciers and weather hazards. The May 27 meeting called for stronger cooperation, including joint monitoring, glacial lake inventories and hazard ma…

‘It Feels Like A Safari’: How Zaporizhzhya Survives Daily Russian Attacks
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-09-05T10:42:00Z
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25 years later, 9/11 is still claiming lives
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creator: Reveal
date: 2026-09-05T10:00:52Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Center for Investigative Reporting
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They Have Nowhere Left To Go: Druzhkivka Under Fire #ukraine #news #shorts
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-09-05T07:46:14Z
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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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BJP’s violent meme war: The attacks on opponents and dissenters as ‘Dimagi Naxals’
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creator: Abhishek Kumar
date: 2026-09-05T07:20:01Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
subject: alt
subject: and
subject: attacks
subject: bjp’s
subject: dimagi
subject: dissenters
subject: meme
subject: naxals
subject: News
subject: opponents
subject: Politics
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subject: violent
subject: war
description: Following a restructuring of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) digital wing, the party has intensified its social media campaigning, increasingly employing violent memes and videos. On August 27, the Karnataka unit of the BJP shared a meme featuring a clip from the film ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, in which the protagonist unleashes a barrage of gunfire […]
encoded: Following a restructuring of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) digital wing, the party has intensified its social media campaigning, increasingly employing violent memes and videos. On August 27, the Karnataka unit of the BJP shared a meme featuring a clip from the film ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, in which the protagonist unleashes a barrage of gunfire on his opponents. In the meme, the shooters were depicted as the BJP’s state units, while the opponents were labeled ‘Dimagi Naxals’ — a term used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech to describe individuals with a “Naxalite mindset”. The accompanying caption stated, “We will not stop, we are confronting ‘Urban Naxals’ with full force.” The BJP Karnataka unit posted this video on Instagram as a collaborative post with the BJP units of Delhi, Goa, and Jammu & Kashmir. No slowing down – taking on “Dimaagi Naxals” with full force! https://t.co/cYhIZmKJ6E pic.twitter.com/iqANzyrBRT — BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) August 27, 2026 The Chhattisgarh BJP posted a clip from the web series ‘Mirzapur’ in which the character ‘Munna Bhaiya’ repeatedly slaps a student. In the clip, the student is portrayed as a ‘Dimagi Naxal’. The post’s caption states that instead of becoming a ‘Dimagi Naxal’, one could become a person who contributes to the country’s progress. It is worth noting that the person delivering the slaps is a goon, while the recipient is a student whom the BJP has labeled a ‘Dimagi Naxal’. Instead of being “Dimaagi Naxal” you can be someone who can participate in Nations progress. https://t.co/wexfJPYOy6 pic.twitter.com/jZ1nXgKlo0 — BJP Chhattisgarh (@BJP4CGState) August 27, 2026 The Himachal Pradesh BJP posted another scene from the web series ‘Mirzapur’ in which one character brandishes a knife, while another places a revolver on the table and delivers a tight slap to the first character. In this depiction, the character with the knife is portrayed as an ‘Dimagi Naxal,’ while the other character …

A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate, Grief
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-09-05T05:58:00Z
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description: The latest of thousands of innocent victims of the regime's brutish, inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer player, aspiring doctor and "beautiful soul" in Ohio who, overwhelmed by the shame ...
encoded: The latest of thousands of innocent victims of the regime's brutish, inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer player, aspiring doctor and "beautiful soul" in Ohio who, overwhelmed by the shame of an ICE shackle and the fear of being sent back to his ravaged country, just walked into highway traffic and took his own life - another brown life senselessly extinguished by a cabal of sadists indifferent to their own cruelty. "Li te chagrin," said his grieving father. "He was heartbroken." Hopefully, years from now, history will tell of the ceaseless racist atrocities perpetrated by the "abomination against humanity" that is this administration. For now, lest we forget, it feels vital to periodically document them. Never mind the petty crimes - the grifting, gilding, lying, tawdry abuses of taste and common decency. If justice ever catches up to them, let it be for the death, pain, loss, terror, the litany of stupid deadly barbarity afflicting hundreds of thousands of people of color, that began with the obscene gutting of USAID. In barely a year-and-a half, that early DOGE madness swiftly led to over 760,000 global deaths, two-thirds of them children, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, of hunger and once-preventable disease. Experts say deaths could reach 14 million by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five. But not to worry: Li'l Marco says "no one has died." At home, DHS and its ICE Gestapo have presided over about 675,000 deportations and perhaps 2.2 million "self-deportations," mostly by those who'd committed no crime but having the wrong skin color. They've been nannies, taco-makers, scientists, academics, kids with cancer, families split, people who peaceably lived and worked here for decades. Often, they abruptly vanish into an opaque detention system that holds them incognito, moves them away from family and lawyers, and ships them back to countries they fled in terror. Lately, cruelly, illegally, over…

You HAVE to hear this.
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description: This content originally appeared on Playing For Change and was authored by Playing For Change.
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This changes the whole song!!
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France commits more financial help to struggling New Caledonia
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description: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced more financial assistance for New Caledonia to assist the financially-embattled French Pacific territory. The announcement follows a three-hour meeting with a bipartisan delegation led by New Caledonia’s President Milakulo Tukumuli this week. Lecornu said this was to serve as a lifebuoy to
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced more financial assistance for New Caledonia to assist the financially-embattled French Pacific territory. The announcement follows a three-hour meeting with a bipartisan delegation led by New Caledonia’s President Milakulo Tukumuli this week. Lecornu said this was to serve as a lifebuoy to help New Caledonia overcome its most urgent challenges, including a near-collapse of the French territory’s pension scheme and medicare, which are both described as being on the verge of collapse. READ MORE: Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports Its other aim was to help New Caledonia conclude its 2026 financial year (11 million euros) and balance its 2027 budget (50 million euros). A major part of the announced assistance was also quoted as amounting to “400 to 600 million euros”. He also spoke about consultations to coordinate the package’s implementation during a “Prime Minister’s mission” team at a date yet to be determined. Since his election in July 2026, Tukumuli has expressed serious concerns regarding New Caledonia’s financial situation and the risk of what he termed a “shutdown”. High debt level He also expressed serious concerns at New Caledonia’s high level of debt, following loans contracted with the French government as a result of the covid crisis and, more recently, the civil unrest that took place in May 2024. The unrest and its related effects caused 14 deaths and significantly impacted New Caledonia’s economy, with an estimated €2 billion in material damage (mostly to local businesses) and an estimated drop of 13.5 percent in the Gross Domestic Product, as well as over 12,000 unemployed. New Caledonia’s recurrent request was also, in the face of record debt, to obtain that current loans (and its interests) be converted into into non-refundable grants. Lecornu said most of this fresh assistance would be in the form of grants. Apart from Lecornu, New Caledonia’s group of politic…

Shane Te Pou: Matua Pita Tipene, I wish you weren’t in Israel right now
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description: OPEN LETTER IN THE DAILY BLOG: By Shane Te Pou Tēnā koe, Te Rangatira Matua Pita Tipene, I’ve met you several times over the years and have always respected you. You have struck me as thoughtful, considered and serious about rangatiratanga with a genuine concern for the people you serve. I have seen you as
encoded: OPEN LETTER IN THE DAILY BLOG: By Shane Te Pou Tēnā koe, Te Rangatira Matua Pita Tipene, I’ve met you several times over the years and have always respected you. You have struck me as thoughtful, considered and serious about rangatiratanga with a genuine concern for the people you serve. I have seen you as an island of calmness surrounded by a sea of madness. That is why I struggle with the fact that you are in Israel right now. I know you have said that you want to see for yourself what is happening rather than rely only on the media. I also know that you have spoken about paying homage to our tūpuna of the 28th Māori Battalion who fought and died in that part of the world. READ MORE: US rejects Israeli suggestions of removing Palestinians from Gaza Israeli police kill Palestinian in Jerusalem as army blocks aid for Qusra Other Gaza genocide reports But I have to be honest, Pita: I do not understand either of those reasons for being there at this particular moment. Whatever the intention, I struggle to see how travelling to Israel now is the right thing to do, given what is happening in Gaza. This is not an ordinary time to visit Israel. A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in real time. Hamas must be condemned. I condemn the attacks of October 7, the killing of Israeli civilians and the taking of hostages. Nothing justifies those actions. But condemning Hamas does not require us to suspend our moral judgment about Israel’s response. Nothing that happened on October 7 justifies the killing of Palestinian civilians, the destruction of homes and essential infrastructure, the displacement of communities or the denial of basic necessities. I’m not really a stats man but here is one that we must collectively mourn upon nearly 22,000 Palestinian children killed from October 7th 2023 to February 2026. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-133095 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Join-us-Global-March-for-Peace-O…

Outlaw Trump Must Be Dumbfounded by His Opponents
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-09-04T23:39:28Z
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description: By Ralph Nader September 4, 2026 What must Tyrant Trump be thinking about his opponents’ feeble, weak, cowardly responses to his daily torrent of serious, impeachable offenses? Even his egomaniacal narcissism cannot fully explain his amazing good luck....
encoded: By Ralph Nader September 4, 2026 What must Tyrant Trump be thinking about his opponents’ feeble, weak, cowardly responses to his daily torrent of serious, impeachable offenses? Even his egomaniacal narcissism cannot fully explain his amazing good luck. Start with the House’s two impeachments of Trump, while Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, in 2019 and 2021.… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

There’s something special about this one… We miss you so much Grandpa Elliott 💛
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-04T23:00:34Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Playing For Change and was authored by Playing For Change.
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How to Fight Media Oligarchy
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creator: Victor Pickard
date: 2026-09-04T22:17:12Z
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subject: The Progressive
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subject: how
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description: Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy.
encoded: Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Victor Pickard.

Imagining Our Way Out of Dystopia
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creator: Ruth Conniff
date: 2026-09-04T22:02:16Z
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description: We cannot extract our way to a better future. Sharing and caring for the Earth is the only sane and healthy path forward.
encoded: We cannot extract our way to a better future. Sharing and caring for the Earth is the only sane and healthy path forward. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Ruth Conniff.

The Unsettling Reality of Gaza’s Open Graves
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creator: Sojoud Alkhour
date: 2026-09-04T21:53:56Z
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description: In Gaza, gravediggers are constantly preparing for the next burial.
encoded: In Gaza, gravediggers are constantly preparing for the next burial. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Sojoud Alkhour.

Tyson workers protest mass layoffs after Illinois plant closes
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-04T20:01:27Z
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Bridges to China, Russia preparing to open as North Korea deepens ties with both
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creator: Noh Jung Min for RFA
date: 2026-09-04T19:39:19Z
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description: Experts say the two new border crossings signal an era of closer cooperation between Pyongyang, Beijing and Moscow.
encoded: Satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows rapid progress on a new road bridge connecting North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River, while construction is also accelerating on a long-delayed bridge linking North Korea and China. Experts told RFA the bridges will help expand Pyongyang’s economic and strategic options as it draws closer to Beijing and Moscow. The two bridges could also symbolize Pyongyang’s growing strategic leverage as cooperation among North Korea, China and Russia deepens, analysts said. “Now, through these two bridges, North Korea is gaining access to China and Russia as vast economic and logistical backyards,” Im Eul-chul, a professor at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University in Seoul, told RFA. “This can also be interpreted as a message to the United States that North Korea has less reason to denuclearize or make major concessions simply to secure economic benefits through negotiations with Washington.” Map showing the locations of the two bridges (RFA) RFA previously reported that experts believe the new bridges may provide a means for China and Russia to further undercut international sanctions on North Korea, meant to deprive Pyongyang of cash and resources that could be funneled into its nuclear and missile programs. Construction accelerates Construction on both bridges has accelerated significantly, particularly in August, the satellite imagery shows. At the Tumen River Bridge, which connects North Korea’s northeastern city of Rason with Russia’s Khasan, the main road connecting the bridge to the Russian border checkpoint has been paved, and parking and inspection areas for cargo trucks are close to completion, including concrete and asphalt paving, Bruce Songhak Chung, a senior researcher at the Seoul-based Korea Institute for Security Strategy, told RFA. <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/3WBMRERW7JGA5AYCD2CUOFYKGU.png?auth=acc15fc775259ecfd23f7c686d3aed6323c73231300f6234da39b53617cce122&smart=true…

Why is YouTube Demonetizing So Many Cop Watchers? LIVE debate: w/Rights Crispy/Long Island Audit
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date: 2026-09-04T19:33:53Z
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Islamophobia Still An Issue 25 Years After 9/11
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-09-04T19:03:22Z
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Trump Administration Takes Another Swing at Dismantling Clean Water Protections
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-09-04T18:01:13Z
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description: The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today proposed a rule that would strip Clean Water Act protections from the vast majority of the country’s wetlands and streams. The proposal would generally protect only waters ...
encoded: The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today proposed a rule that would strip Clean Water Act protections from the vast majority of the country’s wetlands and streams. The proposal would generally protect only waters that flow every day of the year and wetlands that are permanently flooded. NRDC performed GIS analysis of a variety of scenarios the Trump administration has considered. Our research reveals that this proposal would put at least 94 percent of wetlands in the continental United States at risk of pollution or destruction. The proposal also targets millions of miles of streams that do not flow year-round, which make up about 79 percent of the streams in the continental United States. These rollbacks go significantly farther in weakening the Clean Water Act than the Supreme Court’s infamous Sackett v EPA decision three years ago. Following is a statement from Jon Devine, director of freshwater ecosystems at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): “What the Supreme Court did in its Sackett decision was an inexcusable assault on clean water. Communities and wildlife will pay the price until Congress fixes it. The Trump administration's answer has been to make a bad situation worse. “This proposal declares open season on the nation’s waterways. It denies federal protection to virtually all wetlands and more than three quarters of our streams, endangering drinking water supplies and flood-prone communities – and the agencies admit it themselves. The proposal would virtually eliminate protection for freshwater wetlands. Their own analysis says most streams would lose protection, with the West hit hardest.” Background: This is the Trump administration’s second attempt at weakening the Clean Water Act. In November 2025, EPA and the Corps proposed to narrow the definition of which wetlands and streams are protected under the Clean Water Act, and their proposal drew broad opposition. NRDC experts believe the new supplemental propo…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 4, 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 – September 4, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Student paper wins suit against Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestine speech
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-04T17:47:06Z
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Trump’s New “Waters Of The U.S.” Proposal Takes Sledgehammer To Clean Water Act
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date: 2026-09-04T17:43:58Z
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description: Today, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be consid...
encoded: Today, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be considered “Waters of the United States.” The proposal goes much farther than the initial proposed rule issued in November, by essentially reducing federal protections to waterways with permanent water. The proposed rule would compound the damage of the 2023 Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court decision, which eliminated protections for tens of millions of acres of sensitive wetlands and small streams. By gutting upstream protections, this rule ignores even the Court’s meager protections and will bring downstream water pollution. The proposal will be open for public comment for just 30 days. In response, Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen issued the following statement: “Trump is taking yet another sledgehammer to our bedrock Clean Water Act, shamelessly doubling down on his initial terrible proposal to strip protections from countless streams and wetlands. Make no mistake: This unlawful proposal gives bad actors the green light to fill, drain, and poison sensitive waterways from coast to coast. The result will be dirtier water for everyone. The administration must reverse course on this dangerous proposal.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Just wait for it… 👀
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-04T16:45:36Z
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Looming disaster – The Grayzone live
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NEWS RELEASE: Conference to Feature Labor Leaders, Activists
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-09-04T16:18:13Z
subject: Ralph Nader
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description: Ralph Nader and Busboys and Poets Present: Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers’ Compact NEWS RELEASE FOR RELEASE Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 10:00 AM FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Ralph Nader, 202-387-8030 or info@nader.org Conference to feature Labor...
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Israel’s Gaza “solution” is to empty it of Palestinians, defense minister says
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creator: Sharon Zhang
date: 2026-09-04T16:15:43Z
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WATCH: The Only Video You’ll Need to Understand Trump’s Meddling in the Brazil Election
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Noisy Jobs Report Offers Little Comfort for Jobseekers Across Stumbling Economy
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description: Today’s jobs report shows the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. Job gains averaged just 31,000 per month over the past year and labor force participation remains near recent lows at 61.6%. Today’s n...
encoded: Today’s jobs report shows the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. Job gains averaged just 31,000 per month over the past year and labor force participation remains near recent lows at 61.6%. Today’s noisy report offers little guidance for policymakers navigating the difficult waters of persistent inflation and a sluggish labor market that continues to look fragile under the hood. Those looking for a clear indication of a labor rebound will be left disappointed. Restaurants and bars drove more than one-third of job growth over the past month, and back-to-school season hiring drove roughly one-fourth. Wage growth slowed further in August, falling to 3.1% over the past year for private sector workers, the weakest in four years and below last month’s inflation rate. As Trump continues to impose new tariffs and wage his war on Iran, fueling inflation, working families are stretching paychecks to the brink. The average duration of jobless spells is 26.3 weeks – up more than a week from July – and nearly 2 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. Groundwork Collaborative’s Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Research, <a href="https://u109330751.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.yK-2BGBL7CX4z-2B5m0mj4mEzeRcbIQoFuBMpPuwhbC97HMasTVE9Y0ttYH7-2FxQGoVjgf0cAhqGU3tflGqaYQM4BjOEjmYP5Dxh0FfKB3qVsd98-3D8r2E_s0lTyPdoyuzn-2FJTE9fjR8nSlryGpLl-2B7mxK4it06DfIPbN1fwPbo6gfcFcFLl-2B43ZB10U23TTc0wyl4S-2F-2BJllXkb7uiYQQHL54EcATB6I1FFlufacjNYL8oJiGIq62niz7bYgcBWJkdX56KBm3GH9Tc0EGoxcP1mcazWt5yc-2FFuc6YpmKNZ9de00xWhhlVx4wthqONUEGvkKKnVQ2VbikWCKtPZLLLSbiyjbZPBRUB-2B2UHoilWfd21VxNaVc9jNBy2RnksFJaa2aHCOawQaATDNmI0QA8EkZg0VvsXn20SLwXJn67dLWpGq170Gvvnx-2B-2BcvQYFRT1FHTsG2geWkGNQVWsDrJNjMK27DUFQtwjuk-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >Elizabeth Pancotti, released the following statement: “Policymakers should look past the noise of today’s jobs report. Hiring remains concentrated in limited sectors of the economy. Worse, gains i…

UN News Today 04 September 2026
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description: Ukraine: Warehouse attacks put medical aid at risk, WHO warns UN and partners seek nearly $50 million for NepalWest Bank: Report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps
encoded: Ukraine: Warehouse attacks put medical aid at risk, WHO warns UN and partners seek nearly $50 million for NepalWest Bank: Report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Charlotte Dawson.

Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
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description: The post Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Photo collage by ProPublica. Source imagery by The Texas Tribune, with documents acquired by ProPublica. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net worth and holdings, a review by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. Among them: Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, reported owning seven homes but said he earned no income from any. Yet all but one was listed for rent during the reporting periods, and some current residents and neighbors at those addresses confirmed that the properties were rented, the news organizations found. Receiving income and not reporting it is a violation of federal disclosure law, three ethics experts said. Additionally, Paxton did not disclose mortgages for three condos at a Utah golf resort that federal law requires him to list as liabilities if they are not personal residences. He also valued his stake in a vacant plot of Texas land at up to $50,000 on last year’s filing, but his business partner told the newsrooms Paxton’s share for years has been worth about $1 million. Federal financial disclosure law requires property to be listed at fair market value. The apparent errors and omissions the newsrooms found obscure the extent of Paxton’s income streams, assets and debt, making it difficult for voters to make sense of his finances as they mull whether to support him in November’s election, the ethics experts said. “It reflects either pure sloppiness on Paxton’s part or a deliberate effort to conceal some of his investments and property holdings,” said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the nonpartisan good-government group Public Citizen. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="501" width="752" data-id="95911" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Paxtonfiling-2025_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_…

‘The most powerful publishers the world has ever seen’: Fara Dabhoiwala on the real battle over free speech
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My AAU coach abused me. They let him keep his job and keep coaching.
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"Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack
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date: 2026-09-04T14:43:17Z
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"Terrorizing Our City": ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-04T14:38:44Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"They Got Zero Notice": 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-04T14:35:59Z
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Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
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date: 2026-09-04T14:31:21Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 4, 2026
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‘Treated worse than cattle’: 2,500 Tyson workers laid off, plant shutters overnight
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description: <img width="1023" height="496" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tyson-plant-closure-Joslin.jpg?fit=1023%2C496&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Tyson workers were blindsided by the closure of their plant August 14. Photo: Caitlyn Clark" data-attachment-id="346387" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/treated-worse-than-cattle-2500-tyson-workers-laid-off-plant-shutters-overnight/tyson-plant-closure-joslin" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tyson-plant-closure-Joslin.jpg?fit=1023%2C496&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1023,496" 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="Tyson plant closure Joslin" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Tyson workers were blindsided by the closure of their plant August 14. Photo: Caitlyn Clark " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tyson-plant-closure-Joslin.jpg?fit=780%2C378&ssl=1"> “They gave no reason, nothing... people have no job. No money to pay our bills. For 11 years, I made money for them. And now they’re not doing anything for me.”
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CPJ, RSF, and partners urge G20 leaders to uphold media access
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date: 2026-09-04T14:01:03Z
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 19 other organizations, experts, and news leaders, are calling on Group of 20 leaders to ensure that “journalists and news organizations will be able to freely cover deliberations by representatives of the world’s largest economies, whose decisions have broad ramifications around the world.”...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 19 other organizations, experts, and news leaders, are calling on Group of 20 leaders to ensure that “journalists and news organizations will be able to freely cover deliberations by representatives of the world’s largest economies, whose decisions have broad ramifications around the world.” The letter follows the alarming news that the U.S. Treasury Department blocked several journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the Asheville Watchdog from covering the most recent finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, N.C. “No single country or official should have the authority to limit or hand-pick which journalists or news organizations may cover the event. Press access is not a privilege to be granted to favored journalists. It is essential to the public’s right to know,” said the letter, signed by members of the Media 20 initiative, an independent initiative working to ensure that the G20 supports a free, independent, and sustainable media ecosystem. “We need policymakers to acknowledge that information moves markets — from the corner stalls to the stock exchanges — and that information must be accurate and timely. Journalists are vital to keeping investors and the general public informed, and they must be able to report freely,” said Gypsy Guillén Kaiser, chief global affairs officer at CPJ. CPJ leads the U.S. host committee as part of the Media 20. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

“Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack
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description: A new documentary titled Top of the World tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, through the eyes of its former employees. Windows on the World served guests for 25 years, until the morn...
encoded: A new documentary titled Top of the World tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, through the eyes of its former employees. Windows on the World served guests for 25 years, until the morning of September 11, 2001, when attacks on the World Trade Center destroyed the North Tower in which the restaurant was located. Seventy-nine workers and 91 diners were killed. We’re joined by Top of the World's co-directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West, and by Sekou Siby, a former line cook at Windows on the World. Siby, who immigrated to the United States from the Ivory Coast in 1996, was originally scheduled to work on the morning of September 11, but a co-worker asked him to switch shifts. “He didn't make it,” says Siby, who became an organizer and longtime leader at the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), an advocacy group founded by Windows on the World workers to support each other in the aftermath of the attack. “The extraordinary immigrant workforce of Windows [of the World] and what they collectively created is just a reminder of the contributions of immigrant New Yorkers to the restaurant world and to the culture of the city,” says Cohen. “We want people to remember not just the tragedy, but the real beauty and the specific stories of what was lost on that day.” Top of the World premieres on CNN Monday, September 7, 2026. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
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description: We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has be...
encoded: We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has been the target of a spike in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, including local reports of ICE arresting parents at school bus stops. “We really have been describing it as the administration terrorizing our city, because that is what it felt like. The streets were empty. Kids stayed home from practice. Kids stayed home from school,” says Juliana Soares, the lead organizer for Danbury Unites for Immigrants. “Masked agents often would shut down the street to just abduct people. … They just do a gross display of force and intimidation in a grocery store parking lot, where they’re just walking around, kind of hunting their next target.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois
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description: Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meatpacking and processing company, shuttered a beef processing facility in Joslin, Illinois, last month, laying off more than 2,500 primarily immigrant workers “virtually overnight.” The company cites...
encoded: Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meatpacking and processing company, shuttered a beef processing facility in Joslin, Illinois, last month, laying off more than 2,500 primarily immigrant workers “virtually overnight.” The company cites the historic cattle shortage as a primary reason for the closure. The U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low on account of climate change-induced drought in the American West, rising prices for diesel and fertilizer amid the U.S. war on Iran, and years of corporate consolidation that has driven down profits for cattle ranchers. We speak to Caitlyn Clark, director of the group Essential Workers for Democracy, which is working to institute democratic reforms within the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), a labor union that represents more than a million workers across the United States. These workers include the former Tyson plant meatpackers, who worked in “some of the most dangerous jobs in America” while making “billions of dollars in profit for Tyson.” Tyson Foods CEO and President Donnie King made over $34 million last year, nearly 800 times more than the median Tyson worker. Since they were suddenly laid off, former Joslin plant workers have been protesting outside the shuttered plant, calling on Tyson “to extend their severance pay, and calling on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to intervene to help keep the plant open,” Clark tells us. “We need to take on the bosses and be serious about the level of inequality and exploitation that working people are facing today,” she adds. “Working people need more, they deserve more, and they’re ready to fight for it. It’s time that our union leadership catch up.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
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description: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit fi...
encoded: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit filed by The Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University, which claimed that some of its writers on student visas declined to report on topics related to Israel and Palestine, or requested their published articles be removed from the paper’s website, for fear of deportation. “What we were hearing from the noncitizens in our newsroom and from noncitizens across campus — current students, former students, alumni — was that they were genuinely frightened because of what they saw in the headlines, what they saw happen to Rümeysa Öztürk,” says George Porteous, editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily. Rümeysa Öztürk is the former Tufts University graduate student arrested and detained by ICE after co-authoring an op-ed encouraging Tufts to divest from Israel in her university’s student newspaper. “The chill is the point,” adds Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, the organization that represented The Stanford Daily in court. “That’s a First Amendment violation every day of the week. It’s flatly un-American.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for September 4, 2026
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description: As U.S. Conflict wIth Iran Enters 7th Month, Vance Declares, “I Wouldn’t Call This a War” , Israel’s National Security Minister Outlines Plan to Expel All Palestinians from Gaza Strip, 33 Democrats Join GOP Lawmakers to Pass Bill Stripping Funds from Schools That Boycott Israel, Missouri Supreme Court Blocks GOP’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map, Federal Judge Warns Mail-In Voting Restrictions Would Lead to “Major Disenfranchisement”, DOJ Says States Must Report Undocumented Immigrants or Lose Funds for Needy Families, U.S. Sends Third Deportation Flight to Cap-Haïtien Despite Rampant Insecurity in Haiti, Chinese National Is 57th to Die in Custody of ICE or Border Patrol Under Trump’s Second Term, 76-Year-Old Green Card Holder with Cancer Freed After Two Months in ICE Jail, DOJ Indicts ICE Officer Who Shot Immigrant in Minneapolis, But Blocks More Serious Charges, Survivors Pulled from Flooded Tunnel in Nepal as Death Toll from Glacier’s Collapse Nears 1,300, U.N. Warns the World Will “Overshoot” 1.5°C Limit to Global Heating, U.N. Warns “Supersized” El Niño Will Persist into 2027, Fueling Extreme Weather and Food Insecurity
encoded: As U.S. Conflict wIth Iran Enters 7th Month, Vance Declares, "I Wouldn't Call This a War" Israel's National Security Minister Outlines Plan to Expel All Palestinians from Gaza Strip 33 Democrats Join GOP Lawmakers to Pass Bill Stripping Funds from Schools That Boycott Israel Missouri Supreme Court Blocks GOP's Gerrymandered Congressional Map Federal Judge Warns Mail-In Voting Restrictions Would Lead to "Major Disenfranchisement" DOJ Says States Must Report Undocumented Immigrants or Lose Funds for Needy Families U.S. Sends Third Deportation Flight to Cap-Haïtien Despite Rampant Insecurity in Haiti Chinese National Is 57th to Die in Custody of ICE or Border Patrol Under Trump's Second Term 76-Year-Old Green Card Holder with Cancer Freed After Two Months in ICE Jail DOJ Indicts ICE Officer Who Shot Immigrant in Minneapolis, But Blocks More Serious Charges Survivors Pulled from Flooded Tunnel in Nepal as Death Toll from Glacier's Collapse Nears 1,300 U.N. Warns the World Will "Overshoot" 1.5°C Limit to Global Heating U.N. Warns "Supersized" El Niño Will Persist into 2027, Fueling Extreme Weather and Food Insecurity This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-09-04 Friday
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25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat⏐The Intercept Briefing
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description: This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by The Intercept.
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DN! Friday, September 4, 2026
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description: Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
encoded: Friday 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.

Kenyan Standard’s Alex Kiprotich seized by armed men after escaping earlier attack
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date: 2026-09-04T09:21:24Z
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description: Nairobi, September 4, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kenyan authorities to ensure a credible investigation into Tuesday’s seizure of Standard Group editor Alex Kiprotich by armed men whom local media allege were police officers. The five-hour incident followed a similar attack on June 27, when Kiprotich’s car was intercepted by men with guns...
encoded: Nairobi, September 4, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kenyan authorities to ensure a credible investigation into Tuesday’s seizure of Standard Group editor Alex Kiprotich by armed men whom local media allege were police officers. The five-hour incident followed a similar attack on June 27, when Kiprotich’s car was intercepted by men with guns but he managed to drive off before they got inside the vehicle. “Kenyan authorities have failed spectacularly in their duty to protect Alex Kiprotich, despite clear evidence he remained at risk after escaping another kidnapping attempt just two months ago,” said CPJ Africa Program Director Angela Quintal. “This brazen attack demands an immediate, independent and credible investigation, including into allegations of police involvement. Anything less will deepen concerns that President William Ruto’s government is enabling impunity for attacks on journalists and critics.” On Wednesday, police spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga said the Inspector General of Police had “ordered immediate investigations to determine what transpired, including the identity of the heavily armed individuals.” He said a recently created Anti-Abduction Unit would ensure justice. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="514" height="267" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-6.43.11-pm.png?w=514" alt="Dashboard camera footage shows an armed man whose car has intercepted the Standard Group's vehicle before he seized its occupant, journalist Alex Kiprotich." class="wp-image-616841" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-6.43.11-pm.png 514w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-6.43.11-pm.png?resize=300,156 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-6.43.11-pm.png?resize=367,191 367w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px" /> Dashboard camera footage shows an armed man whose car has intercepted the Standar…

Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year.
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creator: Christopher Osher
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description: The post Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/04xx26-dg-news-Chatting-5-1_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=1149" alt="A smiling woman and a man sit next to each other on a wooden bench in front of a wooden fence. The man has his arm around the woman and the woman has her hand on his knee. Diagonal lines of shadow fall across their bodies."> Jenifer Chatting and her husband, Luke, at home. Jenifer was diagnosed with liver damage after taking marijuana-based sleep pills. Stephen Swofford/The Denver Gazette In March 2022, Colorado public health officials started getting startling reports of liver damage tied to a new marijuana-based sleep aid that had quickly become a top seller in the state. But it wasn’t until June 2023, nearly 15 months later, that the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division would warn consumers that the danger had become so serious that the manufacturer had halted production of the sleep pills, called 1906 Midnight Drops, after more reports of “acute liver injury.” The delay highlights a slew of weaknesses in the system for protecting consumers from hazardous products in the nation’s first regulated recreational marijuana market. The health complaints had prompted the division to investigate, but the agency decided it didn’t have the power to pull the drops from the stores in this situation. If the agency had dug deeper, it might have found what the state attorney general’s office later discovered: The manufacturer, Sima Sciences, began receiving complaints of harm shortly after it launched 1906 Midnight Drops and two years before health officials ever did. Instead, the enforcement division took four months after the first report of liver damage to the state to post a notice on its website. But the agency didn’t call it a health and safety warning, which would have advised people not to consume the product. It released a more neutrally named “informational notification.” While ther…

With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem
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description: The president is facing a shortage of refining capacity, and more Venezuelan oil isn't going to help.
encoded: It has been more than two months since President Donald Trump’s tentative ceasefire with Iran broke down, and gasoline prices are still high. With the midterm elections looming, the president seems to have turned his attention to the problem, rolling out a series of actions he says will secure more crude oil from Venezuela and exempt refineries from renewable fuel mandates. Most recently, he summoned refiners to the White House earlier this week to discuss ways to lower prices at the pump, although the refiners left without making any public statements and the White House didn’t publish a list of the attendees. In the months since the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the world has found ways to conserve oil and move Middle East crude around, but structural factors are still keeping prices high. The U.S. average gas price on Thursday was around $4.11 per gallon, up more than 90 percent from this time last year, and diesel was even higher. The “crack spread,” which is the difference in price between crude oil and refined gasoline and diesel, soared to an historic high of more than $70 per barrel. This is a clear sign that the market for refined products is going haywire, and oil companies are raking in profits. The largest refineries in the United States have been operating at almost maximum capacity for several weeks now, longer than at any time in recent history, and they have deferred regular maintenance to take advantage of these soaring prices. The president’s frustration with the high fuel cost has become clear over the course of the summer. “Based on a shortage, they’re making too much money,” Trump said at an Oval Office briefing last month. “They ought to give some of that back to the public, and they better cut the retail price, the consumer price.” The biggest reason prices have remained high is that there isn’t enough refining capacity to make gasoline from all the available oil. Many refineries in the Middle East have shut down during the conflict, and R…

As family farms decline and the climate heats up, farmers weigh what to do with their land
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creator: Vivian La
date: 2026-09-04T08:30:00Z
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description: In Michigan and around the country, farmers are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as values rise, climate change threatens operations, and a younger generation chooses not to farm.
encoded: John Boyer grew up on his family’s 131 acres of rolling fields of corn, oats, and wheat in a rural area near the tiny city of East Jordan in northern Michigan. The farm had changed ownership outside the family several times over the decades before Boyer rebought it in 2018. He felt an obligation to repurchase and farm the land to prevent development from encroaching on the area’s community of family farms. “For any farmer, everything’s personal,” Boyer said. “Every piece of property, every stone you pick up, you spend countless hours out there.” As millions of farmland acres around the country are expected to change hands in the next few decades, farmers are facing decisions about whether — and if so, how — to preserve farmland amid pressures from rising land values, a shifting climate, and a younger generation that doesn’t want to farm. The number of acres devoted to farming in Michigan has declined in recent decades, as it has in the rest of the country. And ownership of that land is changing. In 2022, an estimated 9.5 million acres, or about a quarter of the state, were devoted to farming, a roughly 3 percent dip from 2017, according to the most recent federal farm census. Farmland in Michigan where the majority of operations were family-owned decreased nearly 470,000 acres in those same five years. Conversely, land leased or rented for farming operations increased by nearly 30,000 acres. Despite shifts in farm ownership and acreage dedicated to agriculture, the number of farmland acres in Michigan protected by conservation programs has increased in recent years, reflecting a national trend. The state saw an additional 22,000 acres protected in easements between 2017 and 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “It’s a matter of trying to figure out what exactly is going to be the best fit for everybody’s situation. And there’s a lot of pressure. There’s a lot of money,” said Jon LaPorte, a farm business management educator for Michigan State Univer…

The Fate Of Ali Zarei: Blinded And Sentenced To Death #iran #humanrights #shorts
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UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua on track, says Indonesia
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Indonesia’s government has indicated that a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua is on track. This comes as Melanesian Sperarhead Group (MSG) countries agreed to push Jakarta to facilitate the visit, after years of apparent inaction. A request for the visit was made
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Indonesia’s government has indicated that a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua is on track. This comes as Melanesian Sperarhead Group (MSG) countries agreed to push Jakarta to facilitate the visit, after years of apparent inaction. A request for the visit was made by Pacific Islands Forum countries back in 2019, but it has still not gone ahead, despite ongoing human rights violations in Papua. READ MORE: Melanesian countries to review Indonesia’s status at MSG if no action on West Papua visit West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’ and denounce Indonesian military violence Other West Papua reports A statement issued by MSG states from this week’s Pacific Forum leaders meeting in Palau appeared to reflect frustrations that the visit has still not been facilitated. The statement said that if a visit by the UN Commissioner’s office was not facilitated by Indonesia in order for a report on human rights issues in West Papua to be produced by their next summit in 2027, then Indonesia’s associate member status in the MSG will be reviewed. The full members of the MSG are: Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia’s FLNKS Kanak Movement. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has observer status at the MSG, and Indonesia has associate member status. ‘Constructive discussion’ In a response to RNZ Pacific following the statement, a spokesperson from Indonesia’s Embassy in New Zealand said there was “no discussion to review our membership within the MSG”. “We are always in constructive discussion on the issues deemed important by other members of the MSG, and we can also confirm that the said proposed visit is on the right path. “As you may have [been] aware that on July 2025, we already facilitate[d] a visit from UN Special Rapporteur [for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Albert Kwokow] to Papua,” the spokesperson said. “We can agree that this shows g…

UN human rights commissioner visit to West Papua on track, says Indonesia
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Indonesia’s government has indicated that a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua is on track. This comes as Melanesian Sperarhead Group (MSG) countries agreed to push Jakarta to facilitate the visit, after years of apparent inaction. A request for the visit was made
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Indonesia’s government has indicated that a visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua is on track. This comes as Melanesian Sperarhead Group (MSG) countries agreed to push Jakarta to facilitate the visit, after years of apparent inaction. A request for the visit was made by Pacific Islands Forum countries back in 2019, but it has still not gone ahead, despite ongoing human rights violations in Papua. READ MORE: Melanesian countries to review Indonesia’s status at MSG if no action on West Papua visit West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’ and denounce Indonesian military violence Other West Papua reports A statement issued by MSG states from this week’s Pacific Forum leaders meeting in Palau appeared to reflect frustrations that the visit has still not been facilitated. The statement said that if a visit by the UN Commissioner’s office was not facilitated by Indonesia in order for a report on human rights issues in West Papua to be produced by their next summit in 2027, then Indonesia’s associate member status in the MSG will be reviewed. The full members of the MSG are: Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia’s FLNKS Kanak Movement. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has observer status at the MSG, and Indonesia has associate member status. ‘Constructive discussion’ In a response to RNZ Pacific following the statement, a spokesperson from Indonesia’s Embassy in New Zealand said there was “no discussion to review our membership within the MSG”. “We are always in constructive discussion on the issues deemed important by other members of the MSG, and we can also confirm that the said proposed visit is on the right path. “As you may have [been] aware that on July 2025, we already facilitate[d] a visit from UN Special Rapporteur [for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Albert Kwokow] to Papua,” the spokesperson said. “We can agree that this shows g…

New Report: "We Are Living on Borrowed Time” – Repression of Civil Society in Tunisia
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‘Godi Media Haye Haye’ to heckling on the ground: Why TV reporters became a target during CJP protests
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description: The anger was impossible to miss. As television reporters walked into Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and adjoining protest sites to cover the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, many were greeted with chants of ‘Godi Media Haye Haye’. Several journalists carrying microphones or wearing lanyards bearing the logos of prominent television channels — including NDTV, News X, […]
encoded: The anger was impossible to miss. As television reporters walked into Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and adjoining protest sites to cover the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, many were greeted with chants of ‘Godi Media Haye Haye’. Several journalists carrying microphones or wearing lanyards bearing the logos of prominent television channels — including NDTV, News X, ABP News, and Times Now — found themselves surrounded by protesters questioning their coverage of the movement. In some instances, reporters were heckled. In some instances, the confrontation turned physical: Times Now reporter Dev Kotak was roughed up by the crowd at Jantar Mantar, and video of the aftermath circulated widely. A Zee News reporter was filmed in Mumbai standing in the rain as youth protesters around him jeered. The mood was most poignantly captured, perhaps, by a banner at the protest site. It contained the mugshots of six senior mainstream media journalist-cum-anchors: Arnab Goswami of Republic, Sudhir Chaudhary of DD, Chitra Tripathi of ABP, Anjan Om Kashyap of Aaj Tak, Amish Devgan then of News 18, and Rubika Liyaquat of Times Now Navbharat. Above their photos, the banner said, “India’s worst enemies — More dangerous that terrorists or anti-nationals”. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-319025 size-full" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HODXwrSa0AA6dfG.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="505" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HODXwrSa0AA6dfG.jpg 900w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HODXwrSa0AA6dfG-300x168.jpg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HODXwrSa0AA6dfG-768x431.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /> Captured at Jantar Mantar on July 24 by journalist Ayush Tiwari of Scroll.in Taken together, the scenes that unfolded in Delhi raise the important question: Why did a large section of young protesters reserve some of their sharpest criticism not for politicians or polic…

Pacific Islands Forum statement denounced China’s July missile test.
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Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test
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description: By Lillian Hanly of RNZ Leaders in the Pacific have registered their concern over a nuclear-capable missile test conducted by China in July, calling on all states to provide advance warning ahead of any testing. Nauru – one of the 18 Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members – noted its dissent from the statement. Partners to
encoded: By Lillian Hanly of RNZ Leaders in the Pacific have registered their concern over a nuclear-capable missile test conducted by China in July, calling on all states to provide advance warning ahead of any testing. Nauru – one of the 18 Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members – noted its dissent from the statement. Partners to the Forum will also be split into two tiers in future, and member states agreed to a declaration for urgent and inclusive climate action to keep 1.5 degrees of warming within reach. READ MORE: China risks exploding Pacific goodwill in one fell swoop of a nuclear capable missile The Pacifc Islands’ Forum in Palau has concluded, with leaders taking part in a daylong meeting on Thursday to discuss various issues, releasing a joint statement outlining their conclusions. Specifically, the Forum noted an intercontinental ballistic missile test that had “overflew” a number of members “without adequate notice”. The members called on all states undertaking testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles to provide transparency and reassurance, including advance notification of at least 24 hours. Palauan President Surangel Whipps Jr, who read the statement, concluded by saying: “I might note that the Republic of Naoero [Nauru] has dissented.” Overshadowed by tensions The Forum has been overshadowed with the tensions between China and Taiwan. One local told RNZ all he had been hearing about was “China, Taiwan, and how the outside world, outside countries are … making certain nations either afraid to talk or not standing up boldly. “All I hear is about just drama, and that defeats the whole purpose.” He said he wanted to hear more about what other countries were going through, whether that matched up with the problems facing Palau — like outmigration, cost of living, and drugs — and see what could be done by working together. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Thursday that China-Taiwan had not been a focus inside the PIF. “It’s a piece of a conv…

This moment. This song. ✨
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Why Are So Many Cop Watchers Being Demonetized by YouTube?
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The Equity Docket: If They Find Me in a Tree, Know It Wasn’t Me
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description: Modern day unsolved deaths bear the hallmarks of nineteenth and twentieth century lynchings.
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‘American dominance’: boat strikes, Cuba, and Latin American pushback
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description: https://www.spreaker.com/show/5958129/episodes/feed This week marks the 1-year anniversary of Trump’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific oceans. On September 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced the first air strike on a boat i...
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Trump admin’s mail ballot rules could derail midterms
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Let’s Heed the Wisdom of Wendell Berry
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description: As dangerous trends continue to intensify, we need his voice more than ever.
encoded: As dangerous trends continue to intensify, we need his voice more than ever. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Bill Lueders.

Remembering My Friend, Wendell Berry
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description: The great poet, essayist, and fiction writer had a habit of repeating himself—but only because what he had to say was so important.
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Two small Pacific islands creating one big stink with France over ownership
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Ben Bohane Amid an escalating sovereignty and maritime boundary dispute with France, Vanuatu has now filed an “application” at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against France. Vanuatu is seeking international recognition of sovereignty over two small islands in its far south. The islands are known on charts by their European names
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Ben Bohane Amid an escalating sovereignty and maritime boundary dispute with France, Vanuatu has now filed an “application” at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against France. Vanuatu is seeking international recognition of sovereignty over two small islands in its far south. The islands are known on charts by their European names Matthew and Hunter islands, but in Vanuatu they are called Umaenupne and Umaeneg with claims of long standing cultural and religious ties to the islands. READ MORE: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God — Ben Bohane Other Ben Bohane articles From the early 1900s Vanuatu was jointly administered by France and the UK under a condominium regime. In 1962, Australian planter and aviation pioneer Bob Paul, along with his aviator friend Henri Martinet applied to the Joint Court of New Hebrides to claim the islands, but their claim was rejected when France claimed the islands as part of New Caledonia. Vanuatu has initiated proceedings at the ICJ following the collapse of negotiations between the two countries in Paris in July, and decades of unsuccessful attempts over the years since Vanuatu’s independence in 1980. President Emmanuel Macron had offered to resolve the dispute when he visited Vanuatu in 2023 and meetings have since taken place in Port Vila last November and in Paris this past July. But the negotiations failed to deliver an agreed outcome. Legal precedent risk French analysts are concerned about the legal precedent of conceding the islands to Vanuatu, worried it will re-energise similar territorial disputes France has with other nations over remote islands, such as Clipperton atoll, which Mexico wants back. The French rightwing have also applied pressure to the issue, with Marie Le Pen warning after the meeting in Port Vila last November that the two islands were “not [Macron’s] to give away.” The ICJ is the world’s highest judicial body, and could provide a final, legal determination on the disp…

Wendell Berry’s Wisdom of Belonging
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creator: Kim Samuel
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description: The legendary poet, farmer, and philosopher had vital lessons on transforming modern isolation.
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Welcome to the United States of Corporations [TEASER]
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description: Joining us for this week's bonus show is the tenacious genius Michele Hornish, Executive Director of Every State Blue, a Missouri-based organization supporting the overlooked races in rural areas, building progressive infrastructure on the ground, election after election. We discuss the frontline strategies for defeating Republican autocracy. In our exclusive bonus episode, available in full for our Patreon and Substack communities who sustain Gaslit Nation, Andrea shares her insights from living in the belly of the beast–Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia–to expose how America is a corporation and how the sausage actually gets made in the world's most powerful military/budding dictatorship. Ready to fight back? Pre-order Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World On Fire, your mentor on your shelf for overcoming the fascist threat by unleashing the power of your wildest dream. Grab your copy, get one for a friend, and send a message to the media and publishing worlds that we need to get this book into the hands of as many women and girls as possible. Plus support independent journalism and unlock the full episode by subscribing on Patreon or Substack today! Pre-order A Reasonable Guide: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Join Patreon.com/Gaslit -- discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Get invites to exclusive events, bonus shows, and more! Join GaslitNation.Substack.com -- discounted annual memberships are available. Get invites to exclusive events, bonus shows, and more!
encoded: Joining us for this week's bonus show is the tenacious genius Michele Hornish, Executive Director of Every State Blue, a Missouri-based organization supporting the overlooked races in rural areas, building progressive infrastructure on the ground, election after election. We discuss the frontline strategies for defeating Republican autocracy. In our exclusive bonus episode, available in full for our Patreon and Substack communities who sustain Gaslit Nation, Andrea shares her insights from living in the belly of the beast–Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia–to expose how America is a corporation and how the sausage actually gets made in the world's most powerful military/budding dictatorship. Ready to fight back? Pre-order Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World On Fire, your mentor on your shelf for overcoming the fascist threat by unleashing the power of your wildest dream. Grab your copy, get one for a friend, and send a message to the media and publishing worlds that we need to get this book into the hands of as many women and girls as possible. Plus support independent journalism and unlock the full episode by subscribing on Patreon or Substack today! Pre-order A Reasonable Guide: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Join Patreon.com/Gaslit -- discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Get invites to exclusive events, bonus shows, and more! Join GaslitNation.Substack.com -- discounted annual memberships are available. Get invites to exclusive events, bonus shows, and more! This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Multiple reporters denied G20 summit credentials by Treasury Department
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date: 2026-09-03T18:57:12Z
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description: Journalists for several major news outlets had their requests for credentials to cover a Group of 20 summit in Asheville, North Carolina, denied without explanation by the Treasury Department in August 2026.Finance ministers, central bank governors and...
encoded: Journalists for several major news outlets had their requests for credentials to cover a Group of 20 summit in Asheville, North Carolina, denied without explanation by the Treasury Department in August 2026. Finance ministers, central bank governors and other senior officials from the world’s largest economies gathered from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 to discuss issues ranging from global market volatility and inflation to the U.S.-Iran war. Alan Rappeport of The New York Times and Matt Grossman of The Wall Street Journal had both sought credentials to cover the summit but were rebuffed, the Times reported. According to Bloomberg News, its reporters based in the U.S., France, Italy, Japan and China were all denied credentials as well. It added that while German officials successfully lobbied for accreditation for Times reporter Jim Tankersley, they were unable to secure the same for a Bloomberg reporter traveling with German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil. “I consider it unacceptable that journalists or entire news organizations are excluded. I have also made that clear, we have repeatedly made that clear in recent days,” Klingbeil told reporters on the second day of the summit. “I hope that there will be movement on this in the future.” A Treasury Department spokesperson told the Times that it was welcoming “nearly 300 members of the media from approximately a dozen countries” and highlighted that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent would participate in numerous media engagements during the event. “Members of the media will have a high level of access to policymakers throughout the event,” the spokesperson added, “and with that access comes a responsibility to report factual information consistent with established journalistic standards.” While the department did not offer an explanation for the exclusion of reporters from the Times, Journal and Bloomberg, Bessent told The Associated Press “it has nothing to do with point of view.” In a statement to the AP, the Times said tha…

“Clipping Is the New Canvassing” | w/Adam Mockler | Shane Smith Has Questions
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Israeli soldiers killed two teens in the West Bank
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-03T18:01:48Z
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – Trump Administration files emergency appeal to Supreme Court over mail voting rule.
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subject: rule
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subject: trump
subject: voting
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. UN report warns climate overshoot could bring decades of extreme weather and other impacts. Trump Administration files emergency appea...
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UN News Today 03 September 2026
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creator: Charlotte Dawson
date: 2026-09-03T16:32:32Z
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subject: today
description: El Niño likely to impact weather patterns into 2027Iran draft legislation could lead to more journalists jailed: Rights investigatorsInfrastructure destruction caused by the recent floods in Nepal raises risk of disease outbreaks
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump EPA’s Efforts to Attack Clean Air Waivers
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date: 2026-09-03T16:23:08Z
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description: Yesterday, a federal judge granted California a preliminary injunction blocking EPA’s actions targeting four Clean Air Act preemption waivers previously granted to California.Senior U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell also denied EPA’s motion to dismiss ...
encoded: Yesterday, a federal judge granted California a preliminary injunction blocking EPA’s actions targeting four Clean Air Act preemption waivers previously granted to California. Senior U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell also denied EPA’s motion to dismiss the case. The preliminary injunction ordered EPA to “restore the status quo” before announcing the reclassification of four clean air waivers. EPA unlawfully reclassified the waivers so Congress could attempt to repeal the waivers with an expedited process under the Congressional Review Act. In response to the announcement, Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All Director Katherine García released the following statement: “For decades, California's Clean Air Act waivers have protected public health and driven innovation in cleaner vehicles and engines. This summer, as families across the country struggled with rising costs, Trump’s EPA and congressional Republicans chose to spend their time attacking states' ability to protect residents from harmful pollution – instead of addressing the affordability crisis. The EPA's move to attack these waivers would benefit Big Oil at the expense of public health, and the court saw through it. Congress should take this ruling as a signal to abandon this unlawful scheme entirely and get to work on the real problems facing Americans.” Background on waivers: In June 2026, the EPA announced it was reclassifying four Clean Air Act preemption waiver orders into rules subject to Congressional Review Act. The four waivers enable California to address air pollution through the following standards: Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for passenger cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles that the auto industry has already been complying with since 2009; Smog-forming pollutant and GHG emissions limits for light-duty vehicles that the auto industry has already been complying with since 2015 (Advanced Clean Cars I (ACC I) program); The 2022 reinstatement of the 2013 ACC I waiver a…

Brazil’s battle against fake news and the US war to undermine it | Ep. 12
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creator: Michael Fox
date: 2026-09-03T16:13:08Z
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description: This is really a tale of two countries: the United States and Brazil. In both countries, far-right presidents come to power — Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. In both those countries, the presidents spent several years unraveling democratic inst...
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Texas county slashes number of polling sites ahead of midterms
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Nepal’s catastrophic floods must be a wake-up call on climate action as death toll passes 1,000
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description: The catastrophic floods in Nepal are a stark warning of what a hotter world will mean for communities on the climate frontline and why governments and donors must invest now in climate resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness, rather than wait...
encoded: The catastrophic floods in Nepal are a stark warning of what a hotter world will mean for communities on the climate frontline and why governments and donors must invest now in climate resilience, adaptation and disaster preparedness, rather than waiting for the next disaster to strike, Oxfam has warned. A week after the devastating floods, rescuers are still scrambling to reach people cut off by destroyed roads, bridges and landslides. Oxfam and local partners are racing to deliver life-saving assistance, but the scale of the destruction is making access to some of the worst-affected areas, particularly Rasuwa, increasingly difficult. Santosh Pandey, Oxfam in Nepal's Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Management Lead said “Nepal contributes just 0.1 per cent of global emissions, yet our communities are paying a devastating price as climate impacts and loss and damages escalate. “Nepal’s devastating floods should be a wake-up call for governments and donors. We cannot keep waiting for disasters to happen. In a burning world, climate shocks will become more frequent here and communities need the resources to prepare, adapt and become more resilient before the next disaster strikes.” The Government of Nepal estimates that 10,000 households – around 50,000 people – require immediate access to clean water, toilets and hygiene, with thousands more in need of shelter and food. Oxfam launched an emergency response a day after the floods struck. It is working with local authorities and partners in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading to reach some of the worst-affected communities. The major flash flood on 26 August was triggered by a massive glacier collapse and ice-rock avalanche that blocked the Lhende Khola, 20km north of the Rasuwagadhi checkpoint. At least 1,000 people have been killed and 3,916 remain unaccounted for, while more than 50,000 people have been displaced or temporarily moved from their homes. Nepal is highly exposed to floods, landslides and earthquakes. Climate chan…

Sanders, Casar Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development
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description: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control.The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act woul...
encoded: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would permanently ban the development and deployment of superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI development until a federal regulator has established safety rules. It would also direct the U.S. to pursue international agreements to prevent superintelligence from being developed anywhere in the world. “Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results,” Sanders said. “The leaders of the major AI companies publicly acknowledge that they do not fully understand the technology and that it is escaping their control. It is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced. That’s why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that humanity cannot fully control — at home and around the world. The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.” “If we allow Artificial Superintelligence to be built, it could risk the security, freedom, and lives of Americans,” Casar said. “Despite its potential deadly consequences, cutting-edge AI technology is less regulated than the average food truck. That must change. In just four years, we have gone from the first version of ChatGPT to AI models so powerful they cannot be properly controlled. Congress should immediately ban AI systems too powerful to control.” In recent weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have all acknowledged instances of their AI escaping human control and hacking into other companies’ systems — v…

Baltimore Community Surprises 74-Year-Old Man Who Was Brutally Beaten With Mutual Aid Check.
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Neither free nor imprisoned: Tunisia’s journalists in legal limbo
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description: In Tunisia, at least four journalists and commentators sentenced to prison over the last year remain free, trying to work and carry on with their daily lives while knowing they could be arrested and taken into custody. Two others are in exile, unable to return home without risking imprisonment. Whether they will eventually be forced...
encoded: In Tunisia, at least four journalists and commentators sentenced to prison over the last year remain free, trying to work and carry on with their daily lives while knowing they could be arrested and taken into custody. Two others are in exile, unable to return home without risking imprisonment. Whether they will eventually be forced to join three other journalists who are currently behind bars in Tunisia — Zied el-Heni, Mourad Zghidi, and Borhen Bsaies — remains unclear. The use of prison sentences against journalists represents part of a broader deterioration in press freedom in Tunisia under President Kais Saied. Once regarded as a beacon of press freedom in the Arab world following its 2011 revolution, the country has taken an increasingly authoritarian turn, particularly since Saied’s July 2021 power grab. Independent journalism has been among the most visible casualties, as authorities have expanded their censorship tactics through arrests, criminal prosecutions, and increasingly harsh prison sentences targeting journalists and commentators for their work. As these restrictions deepen, new forms of pressure continue to emerge, as journalists do not necessarily have to be behind bars to be silenced. Today, a growing number remain physically free while being handed prison sentences, convictions in absentia, or prolonged judicial harassment that leave them under the constant threat of arrest. For these journalists, the distinction between freedom and imprisonment is increasingly blurred. Ziad Debbar, president of the trade union the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), described the phenomenon to CPJ as “deferred imprisonment”: Journalists may remain outside prison, but the possibility of losing their liberty becomes part of their everyday reality. It’s a form of intimidation aimed at keeping them in a constant state of fear, he said. “Press freedom cannot be reduced to freedom of movement or whether a journalist is physically behind bars,” Debbar to…

Have you heard this version?
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AI in Medicine: Researcher Shreya Johri on How Technology Is Revolutionizing Patient Care
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-03T14:18:55Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"Modern-Day Poll Tax": Decision to Slash Polling Sites in Fort Worth Area Slammed as Discriminatory
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-03T14:18:27Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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USPS Whistleblower: New Trump Rules on Mail Ballots Could Lead to "Grave, Catastrophic Failure"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-03T14:17:42Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies at 92
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-03T14:16:36Z
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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 — September 3, 2026
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AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri
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date: 2026-09-03T12:46:07Z
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description: As part of our ongoing series on artificial intelligence, we speak with researcher Shreya Johri, who says AI has the power to revolutionize the field of medicine, particularly in diagnosing patients. Johri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dana-...
encoded: As part of our ongoing series on artificial intelligence, we speak with researcher Shreya Johri, who says AI has the power to revolutionize the field of medicine, particularly in diagnosing patients. Johri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and completed her Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School in 2025. She discusses ways that new technology is improving patient care, but she says AI must be treated like an additional tool and not be given control over patient care. “Doctors have to be responsible, have to take the responsibility of this, until we are more confident we have frameworks developed that can deploy these AI models in a more responsible way,” she says. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-03T12:34:02Z
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description: Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third. Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, will have just 224 polling...
encoded: Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third. Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, will have just 224 polling sites for 1.3 million voters. The change was approved in a party-line vote Tuesday, with all three of the county’s Republican commissioners voting in favor and the two Democrats opposing it. Civil rights groups including the ACLU and NAACP warn the changes will disproportionately affect voters of color. “The eyes of the nation are on Tarrant County,” says Roderick Miles Jr., a Democratic Tarrant County commissioner, who calls the voting restriction a “modern-day poll tax.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?
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description: EDITORIAL: Nepali Times No one could have predicted this disaster would happen when it did, but we all knew it would happen one day. As this paper went to press last Thursday afternoon, the unimaginable scale of the Central Nepal flood catastrophe was becoming apparent. With every notice about a bank branch that lost all
encoded: EDITORIAL: Nepali Times No one could have predicted this disaster would happen when it did, but we all knew it would happen one day. As this paper went to press last Thursday afternoon, the unimaginable scale of the Central Nepal flood catastrophe was becoming apparent. With every notice about a bank branch that lost all its staff, a police station without a single survivor, buses full of Janai Purnima pilgrims swept away, and phone calls to this office from Indian families asking to locate their loved ones — we have had to come to terms with the tragically high cost in human lives. Not since the 2015 earthquake has Nepal seen a disaster of this magnitude. In terms of economic damage to infrastructure and property, it is the worst in this country’s history. Remote sensing has enabled us to pinpoint the location of the avalanche on the north face of Langtang in Nepal that blocked the Lhende Khola which flows into the Trisuli in Nepal and which burst last Wednesday morning just before 9 am. READ MORE: Rescue efforts continue as Nepal-China flood death toll surpasses 1270 Temporary burial for flood victims in Nepal Nepal-Tibet floods: What happened, what caused them and who is missing? Other Nepal-China flood reports NEPALI TIMES The debris flow at Timure on the border was nearly 80m high, and as the flood raced downstream it swept everything in its path. It spared nothing. No one could have predicted this disaster would happen when it did. But anyone could have said it was bound to happen one day. In this newspaper, we ourselves have frequently reminded policy makers about the need to prepare for floods unleashed by extreme weather, glacial lake outburst floods, and transboundary climate calamities. We said that after the Barun Khola flood of 2017, after the Melamchi disaster of 2021, and after the Teesta flood in Sikkim that swept away a $1 billion dam, we wrote in this space about lessons for Nepal’s own hydroelectric plants on the Arun, Marsyangdi and Trisuli. And …

Glacier burst video from Alaska falsely viral as Nepal flash flood trigger
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description: Following the devasting flash floods in Nepal on August 26, which claimed over 1,200 lives and caused massive destruction, a video has gone viral on social media, purporting to show the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) phenomenon. It displays footage from a search helicopter, ostensibly showing the breach of a glacial lake in China. Users […]
encoded: Following the devasting flash floods in Nepal on August 26, which claimed over 1,200 lives and caused massive destruction, a video has gone viral on social media, purporting to show the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) phenomenon. It displays footage from a search helicopter, ostensibly showing the breach of a glacial lake in China. Users on social media have widely shared the clip, claiming that this was the immediate trigger to the Nepal floods. X user Bhavesh Mane (@iambmane) posted the clip on August 27, with the hashtag #NepalFloods. At the time of this article being written, the post garnered 2 million views, and was reshared close to 2,000 times. (Archive) A Glacial Lake Outburst Flood #GLOF can happen when a glacier-dammed lake suddenly breaches. Pressure and fractures create a pathway for the trapped water to escape, sending a massive surge of water and debris downhill at terrifying speed#GlacialFlood #NepalFloods #Nepal pic.twitter.com/0zrw0SIEqO — Bhavesh Mane (@iambmane) August 26, 2026 Also Read: Nepal floods: Unrelated videos of past disasters, AI visuals falsely viral A journalist with Dainik Bhaskar, Ashish Rai (@journorai) also posted the clip on X, which received 2 million views and close to 4,000 reshares. (Archive) Several other X users, like former MLA Rajpal Singh Sekhawat (@Rajpal_BJP), Dr. Kiran J Patel (@kiranpatel1977), Pradhyumn Sharma (@pradhyu78651514), AH Siddiqui (@anwar0262) and (@greatandhranews) posted the clip with the same claim. (Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Click to view slideshow. Fact Check To check whether the claims surrounding this viral clip are authentic, we broke it down into keyframes, then ran reverse image searches on the keyframes. This led us to an Instagram reel, uploaded by an user with the handle (@helipilotleigh), on August 22. It contains the exact same footage as the viral clip. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Leigh Coates (@helipilotleigh) In the caption, the user, whose name is Leigh Coates, expla…

“Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election
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date: 2026-09-03T12:21:28Z
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description: An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned that the Trump administration’s new system for handling mail ballots through the U.S. Postal Service is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if ...
encoded: An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned that the Trump administration’s new system for handling mail ballots through the U.S. Postal Service is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if it’s implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections. This follows President Trump’s executive order in March directing his administration to create federal lists of citizens and to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to people not on those lists. The legality of Trump’s executive order is being challenged. The new hurdles raised by the executive order for mail ballots and the rushed software system built to administer them “create this potential for grave, catastrophic failure,” says David Kligerman from Whistleblower Aid, the organization representing the whistleblower. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92
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description: Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. According to her Instagram page, she died Wednesday “at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her.” Steinem was a tireless advocate for the socia...
encoded: Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. According to her Instagram page, she died Wednesday “at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her.” Steinem was a tireless advocate for the social, economic and political advancement of women. Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine, the first major publication to be owned, run and written by women. She also helped found the National Women’s Political Caucus with a group of women including Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan and Fannie Lou Hamer. Before becoming a feminist icon, she served as director of the Independent Research Service, a nonprofit educational foundation secretly funded by the CIA. In 2013, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. She spoke with Democracy Now! at the historic Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017. We play an excerpt. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Why Was There A Shoot-Out In Kyiv Between Ukraine’s Government Agencies?
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Malta: The fight for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia must continue
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date: 2026-09-03T12:05:30Z
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description: VALLETTA, September 3, 2026—Almost nine years after investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in a car bomb, Malta has still not convicted the person or people who orchestrated her horrific murder, setting a terrible precedent that will resonate across Europe. On Wednesday, following an emotional trial that lasted 55 days and gripped the nation,...
encoded: VALLETTA, September 3, 2026—Almost nine years after investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in a car bomb, Malta has still not convicted the person or people who orchestrated her horrific murder, setting a terrible precedent that will resonate across Europe. On Wednesday, following an emotional trial that lasted 55 days and gripped the nation, a jury acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech, who had been accused of masterminding Caruana Galizia’s murder in October 2017, on two counts of complicity and criminal association. When the verdict was read, many people gasped, while others burst into tears. Fenech, who had pleaded not guilty, left the courtroom after the ruling. While the prosecution is expected to appeal, the verdict was devastating for Caruana Galizia’s family, whose long campaign for justice had already exposed failings by the Maltese state, with a public inquiry concluding that the assassination was both predictable and preventable. “Yesterday’s verdict means that almost nine years after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination sent shockwaves through Europe, Malta has still not convicted the person who orchestrated the crime. It is heartbreaking for her family, who have campaigned tirelessly for justice. And it is also devastating for all journalists who seek to hold the powerful to account, in Malta and right across the continent, ” said CPJ’s deputy director of advocacy Tom Gibson, who was in the Maltese capital Valletta for the verdict. “Malta has made many promises about journalism safety and upholding the rule of law in the years since her murder but has yet to deliver on most of them. That is unacceptable. We will continue to campaign for reform, and to stand by Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family until justice is served.” After the ruling, Caruana Galizia’s family said Daphne had been denied the justice she deserved. “Today should have belonged to Daphne. Her dreams and ours were shattered when she was killed outside her family hom…

Headlines for September 3, 2026
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description: Iran’s Red Crescent Asks ICC to Investigate U.S. Strike on Wedding That Killed Four, Widow of Airman Who Died Supporting U.S. Attacks on Iran Says She Was Denied Benefits, USS Abraham Lincoln Docks in Thailand After Unprecedented Wartime Deployment, Trump Nominates Hung Cao as Navy Secretary as GOP Lawmakers Call for Pete Hegseth’s Ouster, Israeli Soldiers Fatally Shoot Two Palestinian Teens in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Defense Minister Seeks Trump’s Support for Plans to Expel Palestinians from Gaza, Death Toll from Nepal Floods Tops 1,200 People, Former Venezuelan President Maduro and His Wife Ask Judge to Dismiss Drug Trafficking Charges, Chevron Pledges to Invest $7 Billion in Venezuela as U.S. Energy Secretary Touts Oil and Gas Deal, Rep. Greg Casar Blasts OpenAI for Withholding Info About Rogue AI Agent Hack, Trump Admin Sides with OpenAI in Legal Fight with New York Times and Other Newspapers, New York City Adopts AI Moratorium for K-8 Students, Workers Remove Giant Statue “Blue” from Kennedy Center Grounds
encoded: Iran's Red Crescent Asks ICC to Investigate U.S. Strike on Wedding That Killed Four Widow of Airman Who Died Supporting U.S. Attacks on Iran Says She Was Denied Benefits USS Abraham Lincoln Docks in Thailand After Unprecedented Wartime Deployment Trump Nominates Hung Cao as Navy Secretary as GOP Lawmakers Call for Pete Hegseth's Ouster Israeli Soldiers Fatally Shoot Two Palestinian Teens in Occupied West Bank Israeli Defense Minister Seeks Trump's Support for Plans to Expel Palestinians from Gaza Death Toll from Nepal Floods Tops 1,200 People Former Venezuelan President Maduro and His Wife Ask Judge to Dismiss Drug Trafficking Charges Chevron Pledges to Invest $7 Billion in Venezuela as U.S. Energy Secretary Touts Oil and Gas Deal Rep. Greg Casar Blasts OpenAI for Withholding Info About Rogue AI Agent Hack Trump Admin Sides with OpenAI in Legal Fight with New York Times and Other Newspapers New York City Adopts AI Moratorium for K-8 Students Workers Remove Giant Statue "Blue" from Kennedy Center Grounds This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-09-03 Thursday
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Ricardo Zúñiga shot dead in Puebla, sixth Mexican journalist killed in less than three months
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-09-03T10:45:18Z
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description: Mexico City, September 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of photographer and content creator Ricardo Zúñiga, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. Zúñiga was shot dead by unknown assailants on Saturday in the municipality of Tehuitzingo, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, according to news reports. Zúñiga was the sixth...
encoded: Mexico City, September 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of photographer and content creator Ricardo Zúñiga, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. Zúñiga was shot dead by unknown assailants on Saturday in the municipality of Tehuitzingo, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, according to news reports. Zúñiga was the sixth journalist killed in Mexico in less than three months and the second in Puebla state this Summer, according to CPJ research. According to the reports, Zúñiga, 35, was attacked while inside a business he owned in Santa Cruz Apotoltitlán, a small town within the Thuitzingo municipality, approximately 100 miles southeast of Mexico City. According to a report by news website La Silla Rota, two attackers approached him, fired multiple rounds and fled the scene after the attack. Zúñiga was hit once and died in the hospital of his injuries, according to the report. “The shocking killing of Ricardo Zúñiga continues Mexico’s appalling streak of killings of journalists in rapid succession this Summer and underscores the country’s abysmal record of investigating and prosecuting deadly attacks against the press,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “Unless the Mexican government finally decides to take decisive action, the cycle of deadly violence and impunity will only continue.” Ricardo Zúñiga was a photographer and content creator known locally for his multimedia productions on cultural events, including photos, videos and drone footage, which he shared on his Facebook page with over 13,000 followers, his <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2F%2540ricardozuniga7583%3Ffbclid%3DIwcGRvZgVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFic3d3UWh5NFJNQlNudTJZc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkOVgcEsLYT3vK3ma2cQ36CxZsXwofLsNzMNZZai7hFbPzojvRzn27nXA9_R_aem_L1O6HYglgv0lxG9my6hWlA&h=AUAiDUK0LCpFEKkeLxxOEp9vCGXBm7c7RCYUf1Z1NCSUraaMfnzxWFxJlH_ni-VuGE5KuT2zxlOA_czplyykydIA…

Ricardo Zúñiga shot dead in Puebla, sixth Mexican journalist killed in less than three months
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-09-03T10:45:18Z
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description: Mexico City, September 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of photographer and content creator Ricardo Zúñiga, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. Zúñiga was shot dead by unknown assailants on Saturday in the municipality of Tehuitzingo, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, according to news reports. Zúñiga was the sixth...
encoded: Mexico City, September 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of photographer and content creator Ricardo Zúñiga, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. Zúñiga was shot dead by unknown assailants on Saturday in the municipality of Tehuitzingo, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, according to news reports. Zúñiga was the sixth journalist killed in Mexico in less than three months and the second in Puebla state this Summer, according to CPJ research. According to the reports, Zúñiga, 35, was attacked while inside a business he owned in Santa Cruz Apotoltitlán, a small town within the Thuitzingo municipality, approximately 100 miles southeast of Mexico City. According to a report by news website La Silla Rota, two attackers approached him, fired multiple rounds and fled the scene after the attack. Zúñiga was hit once and died in the hospital of his injuries, according to the report. “The shocking killing of Ricardo Zúñiga continues Mexico’s appalling streak of killings of journalists in rapid succession this Summer and underscores the country’s abysmal record of investigating and prosecuting deadly attacks against the press,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “Unless the Mexican government finally decides to take decisive action, the cycle of deadly violence and impunity will only continue.” Ricardo Zúñiga was a photographer and content creator known locally for his multimedia productions on cultural events, including photos, videos and drone footage, which he shared on his Facebook page with over 13,000 followers, his <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2F%2540ricardozuniga7583%3Ffbclid%3DIwcGRvZgVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFic3d3UWh5NFJNQlNudTJZc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkOVgcEsLYT3vK3ma2cQ36CxZsXwofLsNzMNZZai7hFbPzojvRzn27nXA9_R_aem_L1O6HYglgv0lxG9my6hWlA&h=AUAiDUK0LCpFEKkeLxxOEp9vCGXBm7c7RCYUf1Z1NCSUraaMfnzxWFxJlH_ni-VuGE5KuT2zxlOA_czplyykydIA…

Sculpture made in April-May 2026 goes viral as 170-million-year-old Shaligram found in Nepal after floods
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description: Several videos have gone viral on social media following the devastating flash floods in Nepal on August 26, 2026. Some users shared a video claiming that after the disaster, the world’s largest Shaligram, said to be more than 170 million years old and weighing 30 tonnes, was found in Muktinath. In this context, Zee News […]
encoded: Several videos have gone viral on social media following the devastating flash floods in Nepal on August 26, 2026. Some users shared a video claiming that after the disaster, the world’s largest Shaligram, said to be more than 170 million years old and weighing 30 tonnes, was found in Muktinath. In this context, Zee News put out a report with a screenshot from the viral video and, along with the hashtags #Nepal, #Flood and #Shaligram, wrote: “Viral Video: Floods have revealed a secret, a 170-million-year-old Shaligram has been found.” <iframe style="width:100%; height:auto; aspect-ratio:16/9;" title="Viral Video : बाढ़ ने खोला राज, मिला 17 करोड़ साल पुराना शालिग्राम | #viral #nepal #shaligram #flood" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFkSmST1McA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen> Shaligrams are naturally formed stones traditionally found in Nepal’s Kali Gandaki River, and revered by Hindus as representations of the deity, Vishnu. Right-wing X user Amitabh Choudhary (@MithilaWaaala), who has been found <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%40MithilaWaaala+site%3Aaltnews.in+&sca_esv=99dc7e57846742f0&biw=1512&bih=861&sxsrf=APpeQnvD_9nzJsR-H3ghPhZ2JedS8ZLuxg%3A1788007760577&ei=UNWSarvrIuShnesPjqmoqAE&ved=0ahUKEwi707L778WWAxXkUGcHHY4UChUQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%40MithilaWaaala+site%3Aaltnews.in+&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiH0BNaXRoaWxhV2FhYWxhIHNpdGU6YWx0bmV3cy5pbiBIsl1Q0QFY41RwAngAkAEAmAHdAaABhRaqAQYwLjE2LjK4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgCgAgCYAwCIBgGSBwCgB8AEsgcAuAcAwgcAyAcAgAgB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp" rel="noopener">spreading misinformation and comminal propaganda several times in the past, shared a video and wrote: “Stone older than dinosaurs. Worlds largest Shaligram weighing 31 tonnes is revered as Form of Bhagwan Vishnu has been found in Nepal.” Kisi ne sahi hi kaha hai, “शुरुआत भी वही, सफ़र भी वही, और अंत भी वही।” S…

Defamation charges filed against 2 Peruvian journalists in connection with their reporting
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-09-03T10:32:52Z
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description: Bogotá, Colombia, September 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on judicial authorities in Peru to drop defamation charges filed against journalists César Hildebrandt and Eloy Marchán by a businessman with ties to Peru’s president. On Aug. 27, Damián Valenzuela, an Argentine lawyer and businessman, sued Hildebrandt, founder and editor of the newsweekly Hildebrandt en sus...
encoded: Bogotá, Colombia, September 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on judicial authorities in Peru to drop defamation charges filed against journalists César Hildebrandt and Eloy Marchán by a businessman with ties to Peru’s president. On Aug. 27, Damián Valenzuela, an Argentine lawyer and businessman, sued Hildebrandt, founder and editor of the newsweekly Hildebrandt en sus Trece and Marchán for aggravated defamation in response to the outlet’s investigation of his legal troubles. The Lima-based Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) described the article, written by Marchán, as “in the public interest” because Valenzuela is an advisor to President Keiko Fujimori. Valenzuela said his reputation was damaged by an Aug. 20 report in the newsweekly and its posts on social media which described him as facing numerous fraud lawsuits in the United States. According to news reports, Valenzuela filed his defamation lawsuit, which seeks $1 million in damages and prison sentences for Hildebrandt and Marchán, after the newsweekly refused his demand that they immediately retract the article. “Judicial harassment along with economic asfixia are being used in Peru and other countries in the region as tools to stigmatize and silence journalists and media outlets,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator in São Paulo. “Public interest pieces should never be hidden from society. CPJ urges the judicial authorities to immediately dismiss all the charges against César Hildebrandt and Eloy Marchán in line with the international standards.” In a post on X, Valenzuela said he was monitoring other media in Peru to “gather more evidence” should they republish Marchán’s story. In a voice message, Hildebrandt told CPJ that if he and Marchán are convicted of defamation, it would be impossible to pay the fine and would lead to the closing of the newsweekly. In a May 2026 special report, CPJ found that judicial harassment, including frivolous and unfounded lawsuit…

Defamation charges filed against 2 Peruvian journalists in connection with their reporting
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date: 2026-09-03T10:32:52Z
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subject: charges
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subject: connection
subject: defamation
subject: eloy
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subject: marchán
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description: Bogotá, Colombia, September 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on judicial authorities in Peru to drop defamation charges filed against journalists César Hildebrandt and Eloy Marchán by a businessman with ties to Peru’s president. On Aug. 27, Damián Valenzuela, an Argentine lawyer and businessman, sued Hildebrandt, founder and editor of the newsweekly Hildebrandt en sus...
encoded: Bogotá, Colombia, September 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on judicial authorities in Peru to drop defamation charges filed against journalists César Hildebrandt and Eloy Marchán by a businessman with ties to Peru’s president. On Aug. 27, Damián Valenzuela, an Argentine lawyer and businessman, sued Hildebrandt, founder and editor of the newsweekly Hildebrandt en sus Trece and Marchán for aggravated defamation in response to the outlet’s investigation of his legal troubles. The Lima-based Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) described the article, written by Marchán, as “in the public interest” because Valenzuela is an advisor to President Keiko Fujimori. Valenzuela said his reputation was damaged by an Aug. 20 report in the newsweekly and its posts on social media which described him as facing numerous fraud lawsuits in the United States. According to news reports, Valenzuela filed his defamation lawsuit, which seeks $1 million in damages and prison sentences for Hildebrandt and Marchán, after the newsweekly refused his demand that they immediately retract the article. “Judicial harassment along with economic asfixia are being used in Peru and other countries in the region as tools to stigmatize and silence journalists and media outlets,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator in São Paulo. “Public interest pieces should never be hidden from society. CPJ urges the judicial authorities to immediately dismiss all the charges against César Hildebrandt and Eloy Marchán in line with the international standards.” In a post on X, Valenzuela said he was monitoring other media in Peru to “gather more evidence” should they republish Marchán’s story. In a voice message, Hildebrandt told CPJ that if he and Marchán are convicted of defamation, it would be impossible to pay the fine and would lead to the closing of the newsweekly. In a May 2026 special report, CPJ found that judicial harassment, including frivolous and unfounded lawsuit…

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-03T10:26:44Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gordon Darcy Lilo
subject: Leadership challenge
subject: Matthew Wale
subject: Solomon Islands crisis
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: Cabinet
subject: challenge
subject: crisis
subject: darcy
subject: Democracy
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subject: Featured
subject: Finance
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subject: leadership
subject: lilo
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subject: No confidence vote
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
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subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
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description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says further resignations from Cabinet are imminent, as Prime Minister Matthew Wale gears up to fight a no-confidence motion. The motion of no confidence is expected to be tabled on Monday, September 7. Lilo — who shares a political party with
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says further resignations from Cabinet are imminent, as Prime Minister Matthew Wale gears up to fight a no-confidence motion. The motion of no confidence is expected to be tabled on Monday, September 7. Lilo — who shares a political party with the motion’s champion, Manasseh Maelanga — was removed from Cabinet by Wale this afternoon. READ MORE: Solomon Islands PM sacks minister, accuses rivals of opportunism as no-confidence vote looms Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Other Solomon Islands reports Speaking to RNZ Pacific on the day he was fired, Lilo denied any involvement in planning against Wale, but said he now felt obliged to support the motion. “I’m caught in between,” he said. “I cannot move [away] from a party member because there are only two of us, so we have to be together in this whole proposition.” Mealanga resigned as Wale’s Home Affairs Minister on Monday, joined by Justice Minister Clezy Rore and Commerce Minister Harry Kuma. Lilo did not reveal who he knew, or expected, to quit next. Backbench MPs elevated Wale elevated three government backbench MPs to Cabinet within the week to replace them, rather than pulling from the opposition. Those MPs — Rexson Ramofafia, Nestor Ghiro and Alfred Tuasuila — had joined the coalition in June. It means the government’s 33-member majority is drawn down to 29. Rore and Kuma, both People First Party (PFP) members, may be able to sway fellow party members to back the motion. As a result, Lilo predicted that a swing against Wale was highly likely. “I think there are valid reasons as well.” “It boils down to the way that Cabinet has… there seems to be an absence of an operation of a Cabinet government and that raises a lot of concerns.” Lilo noted that Wale’s coalition, formed in the rubble of Jeremiah Manele’s government in April, had never formalised terms through a signed agreement. “It coul…

DN! Thursday, September 3, 2026
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date: 2026-09-03T09:45:47Z
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description: Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
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creator: Carla Astudillo
date: 2026-09-03T09:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
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subject: decide
subject: Detained
subject: have
subject: immigrants
subject: Immigration
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subject: propublica
subject: sources
subject: take
subject: these
subject: unlawfully
description: The post These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Photos by Spencer Platt/Getty Images and Kurt Miller/The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he pushed for a seismic shift in immigration enforcement resulting in mass detention. Immigrants with no criminal convictions, who under previous administrations would have been released on bond or not detained in the first place, would now be held while their immigration cases were pending. In an effort to gain their freedom, tens of thousands of detainees have filed what are known as habeas petitions, asking federal judges to rule that they have been unlawfully held by the government. But their chances of a speedy ruling have varied dramatically. For some, freedom came within days. Others have waited months for a decision. Some were deported before a judge could rule. A ProPublica analysis of court records from the more than 70,000 habeas cases filed since January 2025 found that some judges take far longer than others to resolve cases as federal courts have adjusted unevenly to the unprecedented flood of filings. The waits have been particularly long in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana, where federal judges have usually taken three months or more to decide whether a detainee should be released. Among the cases that have been resolved in Mississippi, half took 92 days or more — the longest of any state. How Long Habeas Cases Take to Close, by District <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="676" height="1510" js-autosizes src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/habeas-backlog-mobile-fallback.png?w=676" alt="A U.S. map divided by federal district courts. Each district is colored a shade of purple based on the median time it has taken judges to close habeas cases, ranging from lightest (six days) to darkest (92 days). The darkest areas are the Southern District of Mississippi, Western District of Louisiana and Western District of Okl…

The summer we love is slipping away
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creator: Grist staff
date: 2026-09-03T08:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
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subject: Culture
subject: extreme weather
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subject: slipping
subject: sources
subject: summer
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description: From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
encoded: The summer we love is slipping away From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations. By Grist staff Sep 3, 2026 Topic Climate + Culture Share/Republish Copy Link Republish Copy Link <a href="mailto:?subject=Someone%20shared%20an%20article%20from%20Grist&body=The%20summer%20we%20love%20is%20slipping%20away%0D%0A%20%0D%0A%20You%20can%20read%20the%20full%20article%20here:%20https://grist.org/culture/summer-culture-region-climate-change/?utm_campaign=site-share-button-email" title="Share by Email" class="article-meta__share-link article-meta__share-email" rel="noopener" aria-label="Email" > Email SMS X Facebook Republish Reddit LinkedIn Bluesky There was a time when summer felt easy to recognize. In childhood, summer was a time of freedom and adventure. Even into adulthood, it is a time many of us feel most free to enjoy each other and the natural world — from lazy afternoons at the beach to camping trips and swimming holes, from family cookouts and neighborhood block parties to the simple pleasure of biting into peaches and tomatoes so ripe the juice runs down your wrist. It’s when our time of dreaming through the cold comes to fruition. The time when the vegetables and fruits we planted in the spring are harvested, the time when we finally spend our precious accrued vacation time and hard-earned cash, when we treat our children to the best of what life has to offer. But summer is changing. Over the past half-century, annual hot-season temperatures in parts of the United States have warmed by as much as 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit, driving heat waves, droughts, and downpours. This past July was the hottest month ever recorded for the contiguous U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. We are witnessing the slow erosion of our old summer normal. As climate change makes the season more extreme, our habits, traditions, and pastimes are also evolving, in ways b…

Fiber optic cables reveal ‘icequakes’ in endangered glaciers
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-09-03T08:30:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: cables
subject: endangered
subject: fiber
subject: Glaciers
subject: icequakes
subject: optic
subject: reveal
subject: Science
subject: solutions
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description: The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability.
encoded: One of the hottest, most fascinating new fields in science doesn’t sound particularly exciting: distributed acoustic sensing, aka DAS. It involves using fiber optic cables to spy on the environment, and is proving to be enormously powerful. By analyzing the way that vibrations scatter light through the wires, scientists can detect volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and even footsteps above. Last year, researchers laid a cable on the seafloor near a Greenland glacier, providing unprecedented insight into how the ice is rapidly deteriorating. Now a team working in the mountains of Switzerland has used DAS to expose another troubling trend in ice, known as hydrofracturing, in which meltwater seeps deep down and creates pressure. By studying the phenomenon, scientists can get a better idea of how ice the world over will decline, and therefore better predict consequent problems like sea level rise. “It’s hypothesized to be a mechanism that can cause mass disintegration of ice shelves and ice sheets in the Antarctic, Greenland, et cetera,” said Thomas Hudson, a seismologist at ETH­ Zurich in Switzerland and lead author of a recent paper describing the work. “But no one’s really observed the mechanism in any detail.” For all its simplicity, DAS provides incredible amounts of data. On a Swiss alpine glacier, Hudson and his colleagues laid out fiber optic cables in a grid pattern. Then, using a device called an interrogator, they fired laser pulses through the cable. Even the tiniest of disturbances along the cable sent the tiniest bits of light back to the device, where they were logged. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/figure1a.jpeg" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/figure1a.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/figure1a.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/figure1a.jpeg?quality=75&st…

Tibet Floods: Is The Chinese Government Censoring Information?
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Author and professor Patrick Cottrell on finding the energy and will to move through impossible situations
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date: 2026-09-03T07:00:00Z
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description: I’ve been a fan of yours for quite a long time. We met at a public library event in Austin, Texas after your first book, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, came out. And I loved that first book, with its offbeat and alluring sense of mystery. Your newest novel, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit, is very interestingly a sequel, which has a lot of the same atmospheric and humorous rewards as your first. What made you want to write a sequel and how did you think about its relationship to the first book?
encoded: I’ve been a fan of yours for quite a long time. We met at a public library event in Austin, Texas after your first book, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, came out. And I loved that first book, with its offbeat and alluring sense of mystery. Your newest novel, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit, is very interestingly a sequel, which has a lot of the same atmospheric and humorous rewards as your first. What made you want to write a sequel and how did you think about its relationship to the first book? In my head I was like, “Sure, this could be a sequel.” Then as I went on, I was like, “Well, the narrator is the author of the first book. It’s technically not a sequel per se.” But of course it’s inviting comparisons between the two [books]. I wanted to know if a reader—whoever that is—could go back and see this same place, same atmosphere, same family, but also understand that something about this narrator has fundamentally changed. And the way that he’s being perceived by others is really wrong. And I guess, it’s almost like the books are nested within one another. I became attached to the emotional atmosphere and I wanted to go back into it. Once the narrator of Afternoon Hours leaves the house, the book becomes radically different than the first one. Of course I had the thought that people would think that I rewrote my first book at various points in the process, but as I was writing, that’s not what I believed I was actually doing. It doesn’t bother me if people think that I rewrote my first book because so many of my favorite writers have repeated themselves and have rewritten the same book over the course of their careers. Rachel Cusk, for example, with her [Outline] trilogy, Karl Ove Knausgård, Annie Ernaux, Patrick Modiano. I like when I can read a random page from a book and I know who the author is, based on their style and the book’s preoccupations. Marie Ndiaye’s books are so original, each one has a different premise, but they all seem to circle around the same themes…

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll and its 230 people
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-03T06:13:57Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: Deepwater port
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subject: Opinion
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subject: Pacific Media Watch
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description: ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Milne Isolation has been a challenge for the people of the atoll of Tongareva, 1300km north of the Cook Islands capital on Rarotonga. Distance has made it difficult for the 230 residents to get supplies, or to travel for school and work. There are no scheduled flights; a ship visits every two
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Milne Isolation has been a challenge for the people of the atoll of Tongareva, 1300km north of the Cook Islands capital on Rarotonga. Distance has made it difficult for the 230 residents to get supplies, or to travel for school and work. There are no scheduled flights; a ship visits every two months. But isolation hasn’t been their greatest enemy; arguably, it’s engagement with the outside world that’s done them more harm. Ever since the crew of a passing English sailing ship, the Lady Penrhyn, dubbed the island Penrhyn in 1788, the people have suffered the colonial ambitions of distant empires. READ MORE: Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’ summit? US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands Forum Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Other PIF reports Missionaries brought new rules suppressing the language and faith and traditional cultural practices. Sailors brought disease that harmed the people and the plants. An imported coconut blight led to a catastrophic famine that nearly depopulated the island. The grimmest tragedy was in the 1860s, when London Missionary Society pastors sold 472 islanders for about five silver dollars a head, as slaves to Peru. They boarded the Spanish and Peruvian ships with a promise of good pay and a safe return. It was a lie. Most died in exile. Considering history Islanders will be quietly considering that history, after news this week that the United States and New Zealand governments will invest $102 million in building a new deepwater port on the atoll, potentially providing a staging post for overseas naval vessels. Either the flags or the politicians got mixed up, as New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau signed a $102 million deal this week…

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll and its 230 people
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date: 2026-09-03T06:13:57Z
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description: ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Milne Isolation has been a challenge for the people of the atoll of Tongareva, 1300km north of the Cook Islands capital on Rarotonga. Distance has made it difficult for the 230 residents to get supplies, or to travel for school and work. There are no scheduled flights; a ship visits every two
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Milne Isolation has been a challenge for the people of the atoll of Tongareva, 1300km north of the Cook Islands capital on Rarotonga. Distance has made it difficult for the 230 residents to get supplies, or to travel for school and work. There are no scheduled flights; a ship visits every two months. But isolation hasn’t been their greatest enemy; arguably, it’s engagement with the outside world that’s done them more harm. Ever since the crew of a passing English sailing ship, the Lady Penrhyn, dubbed the island Penrhyn in 1788, the people have suffered the colonial ambitions of distant empires. READ MORE: Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’ summit? US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands Forum Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Other PIF reports Missionaries brought new rules suppressing the language and faith and traditional cultural practices. Sailors brought disease that harmed the people and the plants. An imported coconut blight led to a catastrophic famine that nearly depopulated the island. The grimmest tragedy was in the 1860s, when London Missionary Society pastors sold 472 islanders for about five silver dollars a head, as slaves to Peru. They boarded the Spanish and Peruvian ships with a promise of good pay and a safe return. It was a lie. Most died in exile. Considering history Islanders will be quietly considering that history, after news this week that the United States and New Zealand governments will invest $102 million in building a new deepwater port on the atoll, potentially providing a staging post for overseas naval vessels. Either the flags or the politicians got mixed up, as New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau signed a $102 million deal this week…

You need to hear this. 🎧
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Jewelry designer Weijia (Vga) Cai on maturing over time
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date: 2026-09-03T04:00:00Z
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description: How did you first get into making jewelry?
encoded: How did you first get into making jewelry? I took a casting class in 2020, right before Covid, when I was between jobs. Afterward, I experimented on myself in my apartment. It started as a hobby, and then I got the job I’d applied for, but at night, I would do this for fun. I learned by experimenting and watching videos. Gradually, I formed my own way of making things. It went viral around 2024, and I quit my job and started making jewelry full-time. What was the job that you were trying to get? I was in fashion design. I worked at Proenza [Schouler] from 2020 to 2024. What was the video that blew up? What was going viral like? The one where I’m smashing a vodka bottle and making jewelry with the glass. I had a thousand followers at the time, and I posted the video and was slowly getting views. I was so excited when I reached 10k… Then it started blowing up. It became one million views. I made another video with a soju glass, and that one went even more viral. It got three million views. From those two videos, I gained 40,000 or 50,000 followers in three months. Had you been getting orders in the years before those videos? I didn’t have a website until 2023. I wasn’t selling my work because the product I was making was not really practical or marketable. I got the website six months or a year before the video. And that website wasn’t really a sellable, workable website. After the viral video, a ton of people started asking if I was selling the jewelry I made in that video. That’s when I put more effort into the website. In the first day after I opened orders, I got a flow of orders coming in. That’s when I thought, “Maybe I could do this full-time.” I know a little bit about how wax casting works, but can you elaborate on what that process is like and what appeals to you about that? The main method is to take a block of wax and then use a flex shaft to sculpt the wax into a shape. You make a mold out of wax, and then you put it in a kiln. With high temperature, the …

One song. A whole new feeling.
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Sources in Tibet and Nepal reveal stories of flood destruction, survival
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
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creator: Megan Rose
date: 2026-09-03T01:14:00Z
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description: The post Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Federal agents face off with protesters in a Minneapolis neighborhood after a federal agent shot a man from Venezuela while attempting to detain him in January. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images Over the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it. The agent, 52-year-old Christian Castro, allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg in Minneapolis this January during Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s immigration blitz that sent thousands of federal agents into the state. The incident was one of three shootings by immigration agents in the city, the other two of which were fatal. Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to charge Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law for the shooting of Sosa-Celis, according to several people familiar with the case. Those charges are similar to the ones leveled against Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s killing and can carry hefty prison sentences. Late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans, the assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota in charge of the case, told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims to prepare for Castro to be charged “only with False Statements,” according to an email that was reviewed by ProPublica. That charge would likely carry a far less severe punishment if he were convicted. “This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.” He wrote that the false statement charges could come soon and would likely be filed under seal. “It has been an honor and a privilege to try to get justice for your clients,” Evans concluded the ema…

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-03T00:56:07Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Israel has plans ready to forcibly remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them, the Defence Minister has boasted, reports The New Arab and news agencies. Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territory is considered a war crime under the
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Israel has plans ready to forcibly remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them, the Defence Minister has boasted, reports The New Arab and news agencies. Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territory is considered a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. “There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference hosted by Israeli news site Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. READ MORE: Israel still wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza, defence minister says Other Gaza reports The Israeli government “is organised and prepared to get them out — by sea, by air, by every way possible,” he said. The US embassy referred requests for comment to the State Department in Washington. US President Donald Trump, at the start of his second term, stunned much of the world by publicly calling for all two million Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip. Trump claimed a plan of developing the Mediterranean territory, devastated by Israeli bombardment since the October 2023, into a luxury resort destination. Strong pushback Trump walked back the idea following strong pushback, including from Egypt, the only country other than Israel to neighbour Gaza. The proposal was also condemned by Palestinians themselves, for whom any effort to force them off their land represents how the “Nakba”, or catastrophe; their forced mass displacement by Zionist forces in 1948, is ongoing. Announcing a supposed ceasefire in October, Trump laid out 20 points for the territory that included no forced displacement. Katz, known for his xenophobic and horrific remarks, said that Trump had only “frozen” the idea as he looked for countries to take in Palestinians, as Egypt was not an option. “The plan hasn’t been cancelled; it is being discussed all the time, even now, and I think there is no other solution for everyone’s good,” he said. “But for it to happe…

Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’ summit?
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date: 2026-09-03T00:14:14Z
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The Solomon Islands is asking its fellow Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members to reconsider the presence of dialogue partners at the regional body’s annual leaders meeting, RNZ Pacific understands. The issue was raised at a closed meeting of the PIF on Wednesday morning in Palau, with
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The Solomon Islands is asking its fellow Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members to reconsider the presence of dialogue partners at the regional body’s annual leaders meeting, RNZ Pacific understands. The issue was raised at a closed meeting of the PIF on Wednesday morning in Palau, with the Solomon Islands asking members to consider whether the leaders meeting should be separate from the dialogue partners’ process, RNZ Pacific understands. The presence of partners at the annual leaders’ meeting has been a contentious issue over the past few years. READ MORE: US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands Forum Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports Each year, a partners dialogue meeting is held as part of the leaders’ meeting week. In total, 21 countries are PIF dialogue partners, with key regional players like the United States, China, Japan and France among them. Taiwan, which also has a delegation in Koror, is a development partner. However, last year, then-host Solomon Islands banned partners from attending and deferred the dialogue partner meeting to Palau. It was held on Tuesday in Koror. As interest in the region has grown, the presence of partner delegations, as well as NGOs and observers has increased substantially. The current leaders’ meeting was expected to bring 2000 people to Palau. Extensive meetings, sideline events While interest and inves…

Melanesian countries to review Indonesia’s status at MSG if no action on West Papua visit
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date: 2026-09-02T23:38:37Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: asia
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subject: commissioner
subject: countries
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
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subject: high
subject: human
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: indonesia
subject: indonesia’s
subject: Justice
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subject: Pacific Islands Forum
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palau-Belau
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subject: United Liberation Movement for West Papua
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subject: West Papua human rights
subject: West Papua National Liberation Army
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Melanesian countries are pushing Indonesia to facilitate a long-requested visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights or have its membership in their regional bloc reviewed. A request for the visit was made by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) countries back in 2019, but it has
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Melanesian countries are pushing Indonesia to facilitate a long-requested visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights or have its membership in their regional bloc reviewed. A request for the visit was made by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) countries back in 2019, but it has still not gone ahead, despite ongoing human rights violations in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region, known internationally as West Papua. Frustration has built up among the Melanesian countries in the intervening years that Jakarta has not yet allowed the visit to take place. READ MORE: West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’ and denounce Indonesian military violence Other West Papua reports Now the members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) say that if a visit by the Commissioner’s office is not facilitated by Indonesia in order for a report on human rights issues in West Papua to be produced by their next summit in 2027, then Indonesia’s associate member status in the MSG will be reviewed. The full members of the MSG are: Papua New Guinea, FIji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia’s FLNKS Kanak independence movement. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has observer status at the MSG, and Indonesia has associate member status. The MSG has issued a statement from the current PIF leaders summit in Palau, saying Melanesian leaders “urged continued engagement with Indonesia to facilitate access by the end of Indonesia’s term as President of the Human Rights Council on 31 December 2026”. MSG members requested the bloc’s current chair, Fiji, to write to Indonesia to allow the visit of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua to produce a report on human rights issues in Papua, and to have the report delivered for consideration at the next MSG summit in 2027. 2027 MSG Summit review Leaders “affirmed that if these actions are not undertaken the Associate Member status shall be reviewed…

Getting Out of the Hole
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creator: Kevin Light-Roth
date: 2026-09-02T22:13:52Z
subject: Sources
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subject: the
description: We’re learning about the deleterious effects of solitary confinement on prisoners. How does it impact their families?
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When ICE Moves Into the Office Next Door
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creator: Eleanor J. Bader
date: 2026-09-02T22:01:30Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: when
description: Local activists push back against expansion of immigration enforcement workspaces.
encoded: Local activists push back against expansion of immigration enforcement workspaces. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

You might recognize the song… but not like this.
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-02T22:00:38Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Playing For Change and was authored by Playing For Change.
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Solomon Islands crisis: regional power rivalries spill into domestic politics
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creator: Charley Piringi for RFA
date: 2026-09-02T21:43:05Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: crisis
subject: domestic
subject: free
subject: into
subject: islands
subject: Pacific
subject: Politics
subject: Power
subject: radio
subject: regional
subject: rivalries
subject: solomon
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description: Experts say China may have had a hand in the filing of no confidence in Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s leadership.
encoded: HONIARA, Solomon Islands – Geopolitical competition over the Pacific between great powers could be playing out right now in the domestic politics of the Solomon Islands, experts told Radio Free Asia after Prime Minister Matthew Wale abruptly fled an international summit to defend his government against a motion of no confidence. Wale had arrived in Palau on Saturday evening ahead of the start of the annual Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting – a high-stakes gathering for regional diplomacy – only to depart hours later on Sunday to address the motion against his leadership. Wale has yet to address the motion publicly. Sources familiar with the situation indicate that the cabinet has been locked in high-level consultations since his return as the government scrambles to mount a defense. The flags of Pacific Island nations during the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Koror, Palau, September 1, 2026. (Mick Tsikas/Reuters) The Prime Minister delegated representation duties in Palau to his Foreign Affairs Minister Rick Houenipwela. Wale has been prime minister only since May 15, after a no-confidence motion sacked his predecessor Jeremiah Manele. Political Instability The volatile nature of Solomon Islands politics has been significantly intensified by the aggressive maneuvering between China, Australia, and the United States, Alexander L. Vuving, a professor at the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, told RFA. “Domestic politics in Solomon Islands is inherently unstable, the absence of strong party structures and the dominance of personality-driven coalitions,” Vuving said. “You have different individuals juggling for power, and they would change the coalition.” The political landscape in the Solomon Islands is plagued by the absence of robust party frameworks and the prevalence of shifting, personality-led coalitions, Vuving said. The resulting internal turmoil in Honiara is amplified as the Solomon Islands are positione…

In Defense of Voting Rights
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description: Thousands protested disenfranchisement efforts on the sixty-third anniversary of the March on Washington.
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[episode cut] CYCLE Documentary Sheds Light on Forgotten Victims of Police Violence
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Fishermen killed by the Pentagon in boat strikes
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date: 2026-09-02T20:02:20Z
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Imprisoned Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to ‘foreign collusion’
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date: 2026-09-02T18:13:07Z
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description: He will likely need to serve any sentence in its entirety after his current one ends in January, legal expert says.
encoded: Read a version of this story in Mandarin One of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, Joshua Wong, will likely have to serve consecutive sentences after pleading guilty to foreign collusion Wednesday, a Hong Kong-based legal professional told Radio Free Asia. Wong, 29, is one of the most internationally recognizable faces of the now-quashed democracy movement in the city. He was among 45 Hong Kong opposition politicians and pro-democracy activists who were convicted with “conspiracy to commit subversion” under the city’s 2020 National Security Law for taking part in a democratic primary in the summer of 2020. He is already serving a four-year-and-eight-month sentence for subversion. He is currently due for release in January, but will almost certainly have to serve more time after entering his plea. A March 4, 2021, photo shows pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong walking to a prison van to head to court in Hong Kong. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Wong is accused of trying to call on foreign countries, organizations or people in 2020 to “impose sanctions or blockade, or engage in other hostile activities” against China and Hong Kong over the controversial law. The foreign collusion charge has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, but Wong’s lawyer, Derek Chan, asked Judge Tam Yiu-ho to give Wong a sentence of three to 10 years, which is at the “upper end of the lower band” of punishments for the crime, according to a report by AFP. Chan noted that Wong had already served most of his first sentence and that his actions in the second crime were not particularly severe. Low possibility of parole Regardless of what sentence Wong will receive, he will likely have to serve it in its entirety after his current sentence is up, a Hong Kong legal professional identified only by his surname Wang, told RFA Mandarin. “Under the principles of common law in Hong Kong, when two cases involve different offenses, the court will consider the criminal acts, the time of occurrence…

We ask five musicians: Can anyone ‘make it’ in today’s music industry?
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India’s Hindu nationalist RSS and its influence in the United States
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T18:08:57Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: now
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subject: states
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subject: united
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 2, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-09-02T18:00:00Z
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subject: evening
subject: News
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subject: september
subject: sources
subject: the
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 – September 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Look Upstream: AI, Federal Data, and the Politics of What Gets Counted
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creator: Kiley
date: 2026-09-02T17:00:39Z
subject: Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics
subject: Project Censored
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subject: and
subject: censored
subject: counted,
subject: Data
subject: dispatches
subject: federal
subject: from
subject: gets
subject: look
subject: Media
subject: Politics
subject: project’:
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: upstream
subject: what
description: By avram anderson The US federal government is expanding AI use in high-stakes decisions that affect people’s civil rights, privacy, health and safety, access to education, housing, employment and public benefits, and exposure to law-enforcement and im...
encoded: By avram anderson The US federal government is expanding AI use in high-stakes decisions that affect people’s civil rights, privacy, health and safety, access to education, housing, employment and public benefits, and exposure to law-enforcement and immigration while simultaneously transforming the data, demographic variables, classifications, research programs, government webpages, publications,… The post Look Upstream: AI, Federal Data, and the Politics of What Gets Counted appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kiley.

Inside the Strait of Hormuz Swimming between Iranian warships and a fifth of the world’s oil.
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-09-02T17:00:37Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
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subject: inside
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subject: News
subject: oil
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subject: strait,
subject: swimming
subject: the
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subject: world8217s
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Why Dems are sacrificing a Senate candidate for Israel
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-09-02T16:52:38Z
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subject: sacrificing
subject: senate
subject: sources
subject: why
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US Treasury losing control as Iran war triggers global dollar selloff
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-09-02T16:42:02Z
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subject: dollar
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subject: treasury
subject: triggers
subject: war
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Richard Wolff: The full economic pain of the Iran war is "about to unload"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T16:02:03Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: (full
subject: about
subject: Democracy
subject: economic
subject: iran
subject: now
subject: pain
subject: richard
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: unload
subject: war
subject: wolff,
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UN News Today 02 September 2026
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creator: Isaiah Steinberg
date: 2026-09-02T15:54:51Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
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subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: News
subject: podcastsun
subject: september
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description: Global warming likely to reach 1.8°C above pre-industrial levelsFloods on the Nepal-Tibet border leave 2.2 million tonnes of debrisExperts urge US to end strikes on alleged drug boats
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This is one you’ll want to hear twice.
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-09-02T15:15:30Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Playing For Change and was authored by Playing For Change.
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Assault on Bangladeshi Muslim woman falsely communalised on social media
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creator: Prantik Ali
date: 2026-09-02T14:29:03Z
subject: Alt News
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subject: assault
subject: bangladeshi
subject: communalised
subject: falsely
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description: A 27-second long video has gone viral on social media over the past week. The clip shows a mob, predominantly comprising men, kicking and attacking a woman in the middle of a busy street, while police personnel in the vicinity do little to nothing to prevent the attack. The X user, Vikas Pokhariyal (@vikasindiafirst), posted […]
encoded: A 27-second long video has gone viral on social media over the past week. The clip shows a mob, predominantly comprising men, kicking and attacking a woman in the middle of a busy street, while police personnel in the vicinity do little to nothing to prevent the attack. The X user, Vikas Pokhariyal (@vikasindiafirst), posted the clip on August 31, claiming that a female Hindu teacher had been attacked by Islamists in Bangladesh. At the time of this article being written, the post had been reshared over 3000 times. (Archive) Female Hindu teacher attacked by Islamists in Bangladesh pic.twitter.com/DQnvCjN8FK — Vikas Pokhariyal (@vikasindiafirst) August 31, 2026 Pokhariyal later posted a reply to his tweet, attempting to correct his earlier claim. “Correction: The woman was reportedly assaulted by shopkeepers and salesmen after she complained about the shop under the Consumer Rights Protection Law,” the tweet read. Another X user, Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7), posted the same clip, with a seperate claim that in Bangladesh, a Dalit teacher had allegedly offered water to an upper-caste Muslim child, following which she was chased down in the streets and thrashed. (Archive) दलित मुश्लिम एकता ऊँची जाति के मुस्लिम बच्चे को प्यास लगने पर अपना पानी पिलाने वाली दलित शिक्षिका को सड़कों पे दौड़ा दौड़ा के कूटा… मामला बांग्लादेश के ढाका के कुफ़न्ना इलाके का जय जय भीम + मीम… जिओ शेरों pic.twitter.com/Iew8np2MDG — Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7) August 31, 2026 X user Yati Sharma (@yati_Official1) further amplified similar claims. (Archive) बांग्लादेश में दलित हिंदू महिला शिक्षिका पर मुस्लिम कट्टर पंक्तियां द्वारा हमला। pic.twitter.com/W3ClKFtOFJ — Yati Sharma (@yati_Official1) August 31, 2026 Fact Check To verify the authenticity of the claims surrounding the viral clip, Alt News broke it down into keyframes. A reverse image search on one keyframe led us to a news report published by the Bangladeshi news portal BD News 24 on August 30. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" clas…

"Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy": U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s RSS & Hindu Supremacy
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date: 2026-09-02T14:23:20Z
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"Went to Sea and Never Came Back": Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes
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date: 2026-09-02T14:20:32Z
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U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T14:16:12Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: inequality
subject: iran
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subject: rising
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 2, 2026
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date: 2026-09-02T13:59:05Z
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The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-02T13:43:45Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: British justice
subject: Contempt of Court
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subject: Criticism of Israel
subject: Establishment media
subject: Jonathan Cook
subject: Palestine Action
subject: Political defendants
subject: Show trials
subject: Sources
subject: Tony Greenstein
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subject: ‘even
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subject: cook
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subject: Indigenous
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subject: Mainstream media
subject: Media
subject: military
subject: Opinion
subject: opponents
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Palestine
subject: political
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: rigs
subject: Self Determination
subject: show
subject: sources
subject: State
subject: Syndicate
subject: the
subject: tony
subject: trial
subject: trials?
description: In a stinging rebuke to the judge, the jury members unanimously acquitted Tony Greenstein after just two hours of deliberation. As it turned out, it was not Greenstein on trial; it was British justice, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and
encoded: In a stinging rebuke to the judge, the jury members unanimously acquitted Tony Greenstein after just two hours of deliberation. As it turned out, it was not Greenstein on trial; it was British justice, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and peace activist, to get him locked up for as much as 14 years — supposedly for “inviting support for Hamas”. Fearful that the judge would punish his barrister for delivering a closing speech that properly defended him, Greenstein instead spoke directly to the jury. For half an hour, he picked apart sham charges relating to three social media posts and a blog article he wrote against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. READ MORE: Other Gaza genocide reports In doing so, he exposed the proceedings as a political show trial — one of a growing number, designed to silence opposition both to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to the British state’s complicity in it. In summing up, Judge Sarah Plaschkes said she had considered referring Greenstein for contempt of court. But instead she dismissed his eloquent, damning address to the jury as a “rambling speech delivered by an old man”. At that point, presumably, she had no idea what impact Greenstein’s words would have on the jury. In a stinging rebuke to the judge, the jury members unanimously acquitted him after just two hours of deliberation. As it turned out, it was not Greenstein on trial; it was British justice. Hearing all the facts Once given a chance to hear all the facts, not just the ones curated by the Crown, the jury accepted Greenstein’s arguments, including his accusation that the judiciary were readily conniving in the growing authoritarianism unleashed by the UK state’s complicity in genocide. Which may explain why Greenstein’s landmark victory in a case with huge implications for free speech — and the right to speak out on the British state’s partnership in Israel’s genocide — was almost ent…

The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
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date: 2026-09-02T13:43:45Z
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subject: Criticism of Israel
subject: Establishment media
subject: Jonathan Cook
subject: Palestine Action
subject: Political defendants
subject: Show trials
subject: Sources
subject: Tony Greenstein
subject: Trial by jury
subject: ‘british’
subject: ‘even
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subject: Asia Report
subject: contempt
subject: cook
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subject: criticism
subject: Decolonisation
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subject: Featured
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: greenstein
subject: has
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: israel
subject: jonathan
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subject: Mainstream media
subject: Media
subject: military
subject: Opinion
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subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Palestine
subject: political
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: rigs
subject: Self Determination
subject: show
subject: sources
subject: State
subject: Syndicate
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subject: tony
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subject: trials?
description: In a stinging rebuke to the judge, the jury members unanimously acquitted Tony Greenstein after just two hours of deliberation. As it turned out, it was not Greenstein on trial; it was British justice, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and
encoded: In a stinging rebuke to the judge, the jury members unanimously acquitted Tony Greenstein after just two hours of deliberation. As it turned out, it was not Greenstein on trial; it was British justice, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and peace activist, to get him locked up for as much as 14 years — supposedly for “inviting support for Hamas”. Fearful that the judge would punish his barrister for delivering a closing speech that properly defended him, Greenstein instead spoke directly to the jury. For half an hour, he picked apart sham charges relating to three social media posts and a blog article he wrote against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. READ MORE: Other Gaza genocide reports In doing so, he exposed the proceedings as a political show trial — one of a growing number, designed to silence opposition both to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to the British state’s complicity in it. In summing up, Judge Sarah Plaschkes said she had considered referring Greenstein for contempt of court. But instead she dismissed his eloquent, damning address to the jury as a “rambling speech delivered by an old man”. At that point, presumably, she had no idea what impact Greenstein’s words would have on the jury. In a stinging rebuke to the judge, the jury members unanimously acquitted him after just two hours of deliberation. As it turned out, it was not Greenstein on trial; it was British justice. Hearing all the facts Once given a chance to hear all the facts, not just the ones curated by the Crown, the jury accepted Greenstein’s arguments, including his accusation that the judiciary were readily conniving in the growing authoritarianism unleashed by the UK state’s complicity in genocide. Which may explain why Greenstein’s landmark victory in a case with huge implications for free speech — and the right to speak out on the British state’s partnership in Israel’s genocide — was almost ent…

Journalist İrem Delice arrested in Turkey on suspicion of ‘spreading disinformation’
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-09-02T13:41:43Z
subject: Aydın Denge
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subject: Imprisoned
subject: İrem Delice
subject: İslam Keleş
subject: Legal Action
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description: Istanbul, September 2, 2026—Turkish authorities should immediately release journalist İrem Delice, who was arrested on August 29 on suspicion of “spreading disinformation,” and repeal the disinformation law, which is being used all too often to criminalise journalism and silence reporting in Turkey, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Delice and three other staff members from...
encoded: Istanbul, September 2, 2026—Turkish authorities should immediately release journalist İrem Delice, who was arrested on August 29 on suspicion of “spreading disinformation,” and repeal the disinformation law, which is being used all too often to criminalise journalism and silence reporting in Turkey, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Delice and three other staff members from Aydın Denge, a news outlet in the western Aydın Province, were taken into police custody on August 26 after the publication of a report on the death of a local woman named Gülşen Erdoğan under the headline “Erdoğan passed away.” The four – publisher Emin Aydın, responsible news editor Yeşim Ülker and reporters İslam Keleş and Delice – were placed under investigation for publicly spreading disinformation on the basis that the deceased had the same surname as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In a column published in Aydın Denge, publisher Aydın said the death report was a routine story and the outlet did not intend to confuse or trick the readers. A court in Aydın released the four pending investigation under judicial control on the same day but Delice, who wrote the story about the local woman’s death, was later imprisoned on August 29 after the prosecution appealed the releases. “Once again authorities have used Turkey’s disinformation law to deprive a journalist of her freedom. İrem Delice should be released immediately, and authorities must stop their abuse of this vague legislation to criminalize journalism,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “Representatives of Aydın Denge say they reported the death of a local as they always do and with no intention of clickbait. Even if mistakes were made, nobody deserves to go to prison in this case.” In his column published on August 29, Aydın said there was no intention to insult the president. “In the post in question, we absolutely had no intention of targeting the President of the Republic of Turkey, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erd…

Headmaster saves 900 students from Nepal flash floods
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-09-02T13:41:09Z
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subject: Students
description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.

“Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy”: U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s RSS & Hindu Supremacy
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T12:49:20Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 8220stand
subject: Activists
subject: Democracy
subject: democracy8221
subject: for
subject: hindu
subject: india8217s
subject: Lawmakers
subject: multifaith
subject: now
subject: Protest
subject: RSS
subject: sources
subject: supremacy
description: Demonstrators gathered outside Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday to protest against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a far-right Indian paramilitary Hindu nationalist organization with close ties to Indian Prime Minister Naren...
encoded: Demonstrators gathered outside Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday to protest against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a far-right Indian paramilitary Hindu nationalist organization with close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leader of the RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, was holding a rally inside the arena to launch a global speaking tour marking the 100th anniversary of the RSS. The RSS’s “explicitly stated mission, its purpose, is to create a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu nation — to take the India that is a secular and inclusive democracy and transform it into a country that is just for Hindus, where Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and other minorities are basically erased,” says Sunita Vishwanath, co-founder of Hindus for Human Rights Action. ”RSS affiliates, these Hindu right-wing organizations, exist in growing numbers in the diaspora, especially in America.” “In 1939, [Madison Square Garden] hosted a Nazi rally with swastikas hung from the banners around a portrait of George Washington. They said they wouldn’t do something like that again, and yet here they were hosting Mohan Bhagwat, spouting a similar fascist ideology,” says Brad Lander, a Democratic nominee for Congress from New York City, who joined Saturday’s protest. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T12:32:54Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: Strikes
description: A year ago today, the United States bombed a small boat in the Caribbean, killing nine people on board. Two survivors clung to the wreckage for 45 minutes, reportedly waving for help, before a second “double-tap” strike killed them...
encoded: A year ago today, the United States bombed a small boat in the Caribbean, killing nine people on board. Two survivors clung to the wreckage for 45 minutes, reportedly waving for help, before a second “double-tap” strike killed them, too. President Trump posted a video of the first attack on social media, announcing that 11 terrorists had been killed in a military operation that would be called “Operation Southern Spear.” The second video, showing the killing of the survivors, has never been released. The bombings have continued for a year, killing at least 227 people in nearly 70 separate strikes. The Pentagon often accuses the boats it targets of narcotrafficking. In a new documentary, the investigative team at Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines traveled to St. Lucia and Colombia to speak with two families who believe their loved ones, both fishermen, were killed at sea by U.S. airstrikes. “They describe it as a war. They describe these people as enemy combatants that are attacking America,” says Josh Rushing, a senior correspondent for Fault Lines who worked on the documentary. In reality, “it’s unclear, really, if the U.S. government knows who they’re killing … They’ve never named anyone in any of the strikes.” “We had the 'war on drugs,' the 'war on terror.' This is kind of the worst of both,” says Rushing. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T12:15:17Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 40t
subject: Debt
subject: decline
subject: Democracy
subject: Empire
subject: inequality
subject: iran
subject: more
subject: national
subject: now
subject: richard
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subject: sources
subject: war
subject: wolff,
description: We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which recently reached the six-month mark. “Because it’s only been going on for a few months, the impact on the prices we pa...
encoded: We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which recently reached the six-month mark. “Because it’s only been going on for a few months, the impact on the prices we pay is about to unload itself,” says Wolff. The U.S. national debt, which recently topped $40 trillion, is “one of the many signs of an economy and of an empire that is now in decline,” says Wolff. “There is an enormous increase in defense spending, or now war spending, that is scheduled, and no comparable increase in revenue.” Wolff also discusses how a global selloff of U.S. government bonds means increasing borrowing costs for everyday consumers. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for September 2, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-02T12:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: Democracy
subject: for
subject: headlines
subject: now
subject: september
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description: U.S. Launches Wave of Attacks in Iran, Killing 11 People, German Officials Accuse Russia of an Attempted Drone Attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport Last Month, World Food Programme Announces It Will Halve Its Food Assistance in the Occupied West Bank, Israeli Court Brings Criminal Charges Against a Dozen Guards Accused of Beating Palestinian Prisoners, Ebola Outbreak Death Toll Tops 3,000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Whistleblower Warns USPS Mail Voting System Headed for “Catastrophic Failure” Ahead of Midterms, Federal Immigration Agents Arrest 50,000 People in August, 20-Year-Old Haitian Immigrant Dies by Suicide After Being Outfitted with an Ankle Monitor, Activist Ya’akub Vijandre Wins Right to Challenge ICE Detention After Nearly 1 Year Behind Bars, Mississippi Police Chief Fired over Racist Text Messages, House Censures GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards over Sexual Harassment Claims, 80-Year-Old Sen. Ed Markey Defeats Primary Challenger Who Raised Concerns over His Age
encoded: U.S. Launches Wave of Attacks in Iran, Killing 11 People German Officials Accuse Russia of an Attempted Drone Attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport Last Month World Food Programme Announces It Will Halve Its Food Assistance in the Occupied West Bank Israeli Court Brings Criminal Charges Against a Dozen Guards Accused of Beating Palestinian Prisoners Ebola Outbreak Death Toll Tops 3,000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Whistleblower Warns USPS Mail Voting System Headed for "Catastrophic Failure" Ahead of Midterms Federal Immigration Agents Arrest 50,000 People in August 20-Year-Old Haitian Immigrant Dies by Suicide After Being Outfitted with an Ankle Monitor Activist Ya'akub Vijandre Wins Right to Challenge ICE Detention After Nearly 1 Year Behind Bars Mississippi Police Chief Fired over Racist Text Messages House Censures GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards over Sexual Harassment Claims 80-Year-Old Sen. Ed Markey Defeats Primary Challenger Who Raised Concerns over His Age This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-09-02 Wednesday
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encoded: Democracy Now! Wednesday, September 2, 2026 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

BJP men led the group that raided Anandabazar Patrika office in Kolkata
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creator: Ankita Mahalanobish
date: 2026-09-02T11:38:42Z
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description: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has distanced itself from the hooliganism at the Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) office in Kolkata on September 1, with state spokesperson Debjit Sarkar asserting that BJP was not involved in the incident and that “wearing saffron could not be a political identity”. “I don’t know who all went there. Wearing saffron […]
encoded: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has distanced itself from the hooliganism at the Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) office in Kolkata on September 1, with state spokesperson Debjit Sarkar asserting that BJP was not involved in the incident and that “wearing saffron could not be a political identity”. “I don’t know who all went there. Wearing saffron cannot be a political identity. If any particular person is identified, the party can comment on it. Our party does not condone attacks on any place. We don’t know who went there, but our party was not involved,” he said. A group of saffron-clad men shouted slogans and painted the walls of the ABP office in Kolkata saffron on Tuesday, days after West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had demanded an apology from the daily for describing the violence at Jadavpur University on July 19 and 20 as “gerua gundami” — or “saffron hooliganism”. When Alt News examined the footage of the raid on the ABP office closely, we identified three men with direct BJP links leading the group. One, Pramod Dubey, was seen addressing the crowd. He is a BJP worker. The other, Suraj Verma, another BJP worker, was seen painting a pillar on the left side of the main gate, and the third, Ravi Gupta, the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Uttar Howrah 1 Mandal, was also in the group. See the graphics below: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-319258" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-02-at-11.32.33-1024x536.jpeg" alt="" width="1024" height="536" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-02-at-11.32.33-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-02-at-11.32.33-300x157.jpeg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-02-at-11.32.33-768x402.jpeg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-02-at-11.32…

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
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creator: Jen Fifield
date: 2026-09-02T11:00:00Z
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subject: usps
subject: voting
description: The post New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: An election worker processes mail-in ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California’s state primary election in June. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned. The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process, come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a whistleblower disclosure with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, warning that the new system is untested and error-prone, and could lead to mass disenfranchisement in the upcoming election. The whistleblower described the entire process as “secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed.” In a March executive order, President Donald Trump directed the Postal Service to create the new rules, including requiring states to give USPS a list of all voters eligible to receive a ballot in the mail and requiring USPS to use those lists to determine which ballots get sent to voters. USPS officials were tasked with crafting the details of how the new system would work, including the creation of a new portal for states to upload their voters’ information and the back-end software that would allow mail delivery sites and local post offices to track, and potentially block, ballots entering into the mail on their way to voters. Voting rights organizations, state officials and Democratic political groups filed lawsuits challenging the new rules, and a federal court has temporarily blocked the requirements for states. The merits of the new rule are expected to reach the Supreme Court before the November election. Even if the Supreme Court allows the plan, though, election officials and experts say that the new system could not be ready …

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to remove street dwellers
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-02T10:52:43Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Children and Social Protection Ministry
subject: Fiji Police Force
subject: Lautoka City Council
subject: Pasifika homeless
subject: Sources
subject: Street dwellers
subject: and
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subject: Featured
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subject: homelessness
subject: housing
subject: Human Rights
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subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pasifika
subject: Police
subject: Politics
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subject: Security
subject: social
subject: sources
subject: street
subject: Syndicate
subject: who
subject: women
description: By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Authorities in Fiji are offering contradictory accounts of a nationwide effort to remove beggars and street dwellers from public spaces, with questions over warning notices and what support is available for those affected. The agencies involved have been unable to clearly identify what those services are and who is
encoded: By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Authorities in Fiji are offering contradictory accounts of a nationwide effort to remove beggars and street dwellers from public spaces, with questions over warning notices and what support is available for those affected. The agencies involved have been unable to clearly identify what those services are and who is responsible for providing them, or what happens to people after they are moved from their public places. The ongoing lack of clarity has raised concerns among civil society organisations that the enforcement effort may be getting ahead of the support systems needed to make it work. READ MORE: Other Fiji homeless reports Last month, The Fiji Times reported that city rangers were serving warning notices to individuals soliciting alms in public areas. The notices stated that behaviour such as persistent begging or obstructing of footpaths were offences and could lead to “enforcement actions”. The operation has been advertised as a joint effort between the Lautoka City Council, Fiji police, and the Women, Children and Social Protection Ministry. RNZ Pacific has repeatedly sought clarification on how the operation works in practice, on what would trigger a warning notice, what happens when someone refuses to leave, what support programmes are offered for street dwellers, and what role each agency plays. The office of the Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Sashi Kiran, declined to comment on the ministry’s role in supporting street dwellers or on what programmes being offered to people being moved from public spaces. The office of Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu would only say police were there to “ensure the safety of all parties” and would “use necessary force” if required. When RNZ Pacific asked what that meant in practice, and what powers police would use if people refused to leave public spaces, no detailed explanations were provided. RNZ Pacific’s specific questions to both the ministry and police remain u…

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to remove street dwellers
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-02T10:52:43Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Children and Social Protection Ministry
subject: Fiji Police Force
subject: Lautoka City Council
subject: Pasifika homeless
subject: Sources
subject: Street dwellers
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subject: children
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subject: Politics
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subject: Security
subject: social
subject: sources
subject: street
subject: Syndicate
subject: who
subject: women
description: By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Authorities in Fiji are offering contradictory accounts of a nationwide effort to remove beggars and street dwellers from public spaces, with questions over warning notices and what support is available for those affected. The agencies involved have been unable to clearly identify what those services are and who is
encoded: By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Authorities in Fiji are offering contradictory accounts of a nationwide effort to remove beggars and street dwellers from public spaces, with questions over warning notices and what support is available for those affected. The agencies involved have been unable to clearly identify what those services are and who is responsible for providing them, or what happens to people after they are moved from their public places. The ongoing lack of clarity has raised concerns among civil society organisations that the enforcement effort may be getting ahead of the support systems needed to make it work. READ MORE: Other Fiji homeless reports Last month, The Fiji Times reported that city rangers were serving warning notices to individuals soliciting alms in public areas. The notices stated that behaviour such as persistent begging or obstructing of footpaths were offences and could lead to “enforcement actions”. The operation has been advertised as a joint effort between the Lautoka City Council, Fiji police, and the Women, Children and Social Protection Ministry. RNZ Pacific has repeatedly sought clarification on how the operation works in practice, on what would trigger a warning notice, what happens when someone refuses to leave, what support programmes are offered for street dwellers, and what role each agency plays. The office of the Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Sashi Kiran, declined to comment on the ministry’s role in supporting street dwellers or on what programmes being offered to people being moved from public spaces. The office of Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu would only say police were there to “ensure the safety of all parties” and would “use necessary force” if required. When RNZ Pacific asked what that meant in practice, and what powers police would use if people refused to leave public spaces, no detailed explanations were provided. RNZ Pacific’s specific questions to both the ministry and police remain u…

‘Their school is everything’: Palestinian children face learning crisis
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creator: Reem Abaza
date: 2026-09-02T10:00:00Z
subject: Podcasts/UN Interviews
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: children
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subject: everything
subject: face
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subject: learning
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description: As a new school year begins, classrooms are reopening and children are returning to their studies – but that’s not the case for many young Palestinians.For many in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, schools run by the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UN...
encoded: As a new school year begins, classrooms are reopening and children are returning to their studies – but that’s not the case for many young Palestinians.For many in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, schools run by the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, have provided a pathway to opportunity for generations, with some 2.5 million students graduating. However, financial constraints and conflict have disrupted or shattered their progress, threatening to further derail their prospects for the future.In an interview with UN News’s Reem Abaza, UNRWA Director of Education Julia Dicon discusses what education means to Palestine refugee children and why sustained support is critical. This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Reem Abaza.

Texas Rejected an AI-Driven School’s Bid to Open a Charter. The State Still Approved It for the Voucher Program.
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creator: Lexi Churchill
date: 2026-09-02T10:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
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description: The post Texas Rejected an AI-Driven School’s Bid to Open a Charter. The State Still Approved It for the Voucher Program. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: via Wikimedia Commons, lori05871 via Flickr. The rejections piled up one after another as leaders of Alpha School, a growing network of private school campuses, tried to convince states that their artificial-intelligence-led teaching model belonged in publicly funded charter schools. The Alpha system is centered on the idea that students can “crush academics,” like reading and math lessons, in just two hours a day. AI software teaches the lessons. The human teachers, referred to as guides, focus on motivation and emotional support. “School is broken, and we’re here to fix it,” Alpha’s “2 Hour Learning” tagline claims. But over the last two years, officials in numerous states have questioned the model, characterizing it as “untested” and ”experimental.” In North Carolina, one charter school board member feared two hours was “not nearly enough” to teach required subjects. A month earlier, in August 2024, an official in Utah worried that the school’s instructors may act more like “a life coach” than a teacher. Even the largely conservative Texas State Board of Education, which had approved most charter applications over the last decade, rejected Alpha’s pitch last summer. “I’m just a little skeptical of those types of gains,” said Keven Ellis, a Republican board member in Texas, in response to Alpha’s claims of massive improvements in student academic outcomes over short periods of time. By this spring, Alpha had applied to form charter schools in at least 10 states, according to an Instagram post from co-founder MacKenzie Price in March. Only Arizona had said yes. “I’ve met with White House representatives. Policy makers at the federal and state level. Decision makers who hold the fate of our society in their hands,” said Price in the Instagram post, months after Texas rejected the company’s charter pitch. “Unfortunately, change is hard.” What Price didn’t mention in her post was that Texas leaders were rollin…

350.org responds to UN report confirming world set to breach 1.5°C: ‘Every fraction of a degree’ still worth fighting for
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-09-02T09:58:06Z
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description: The world is on track to cross the 1.5°C global warming threshold, likely within the next few years, according to a major new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today. Limiting Overshoot finds that even the most optimistic scenario now po...
encoded: The world is on track to cross the 1.5°C global warming threshold, likely within the next few years, according to a major new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today. Limiting Overshoot finds that even the most optimistic scenario now points to a peak temperature rise of 1.8°C, with most other projections higher still, but concludes that an "overshoot, peak and decline" pathway can still bring the world back below 1.5°C if governments act immediately on emissions, methane and the fossil fuel phase-out. 350.org says the report is both a warning and a call to action. Overshoot may now be unavoidable, but its depth and duration are not fixed – these will be decided by political choices being made right now. Fenton Lutunatabua, 350.org Pacific "We absolutely have to claw back every fraction of a degree possible. Just because overshoot is deemed inevitable, that doesn't mean we stop fighting to limit it to as short an overshoot as possible. It is still within our grasp to limit how high temperatures rise and how long they stay above 1.5°C. Every day above 1.5°C is another coastline swallowed, another plantation flooded, another coral reef lost. "We have the stark science outlining our situation, and we have the solutions, what we need is the political will to see them through. As our leaders gather in Palau for the Forum Leaders meeting, all eyes are on one of the world's largest fossil fuel exporters, Australia, and how they act on this urgent warning. The climate crisis is here and any delay in mitigation, in phasing out coal, oil and gas, will only make our adaptation pressures harder and more expensive to bear." Savio Carvalho, 350.org Head of Campaigns and Networks, said the report's findings echo what frontline communities are already living through: "This report confirms what communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis have been telling us for years: that delay is not a neutral act, it is a decision. We've just watched a glacier collapse bury…

An Assault Rifle In An Open-Cockpit Propeller Plane: Ukraine’s Unlikely Drone Hunters
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DN! Wednesday, September 2, 2026
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date: 2026-09-02T09:46:01Z
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description: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.
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creator: Ren Larson
date: 2026-09-02T09:00:00Z
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description: The post Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Joe Rogers, a former resident of the Hyder Mountain Road mobile home park near Clyde, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene swept his mobile home into the nearby river with his wife and three of their dogs still inside. The county still allows trailers and campers at the mobile home park. Jesse Barber for ProPublica and The Assembly Dave Masters could no longer ignore the storm as trees cracked and the swollen river roared. It was dark outside, but through the window he could see his father’s house, usually 100 feet away from the Pigeon River, was surrounded by water. Masters, tall and slender, forded the frigid waist-deep water to wake up his father and convince the 63-year-old to evacuate. From the son’s trailer on the hillside, the two watched the water rise as Hurricane Frances wreaked havoc on Western North Carolina in early September 2004. Within an hour, his father’s home floated up like a bobber on a fishing line and then sailed down the middle of the road before veering into a telephone pole and cracking in half. The two pieces finally stopped when they got caught under a bridge downstream. Just 10 days later, Hurricane Ivan dumped more rain in an unprecedented double whammy for the mountainous region far from the coast. Haywood County realized it needed to prevent further harm. It condemned several neighboring mobile homes along with a wood-frame house across the river. Recognizing the threat of flooding, the county eventually bought out that house, making the land near the town of Clyde permanent open space under a federally funded program to reduce the risk of future loss of life and property damage. The state also paid to relocate Masters’ father and another family from the trailer park on Hyder Mountain Road out of the floodplain “to mitigate the possibility of future damage to life and property should subsequent events occur.” But although federal floodplain maps showed that the land where the trailer park sat was at risk, the county didn’t buy out the mob…

Gen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback.
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creator: Kate Yoder
date: 2026-09-02T08:30:00Z
subject: Grist
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subject: actually
subject: Culture
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subject: Language
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description: Here's how the fabric went from a "miracle" fiber to TikTok slang for fake.
encoded: Even if you’re not wearing polyester now, it’s probably sitting somewhere in your closet — after all, it is the most ubiquitous fabric for textiles on Earth. Is that bad? Judging by social media, the answer is solidly “yes.” Influencers want you to know it’s a form of plastic, fashioned from melted crude oil or PET bottles and extruded into threads. That disgust factor (“ugh, I’m wearing plastic?”) might help explain why “polyester” is now trending as an insult on TikTok. “Polyester lifestyle,” says the top comment on a viral video in which an 18-year-old imagines his oddly specific dream life — wearing blue-light glasses in a coffee shop while a Claude agent does half his job during lunch break; getting a call that he has to pack for a sudden business trip to Europe while watching the sunset from the tennis court — as a 1987 composite sketch of the Unabomber gradually fades into view. There’s just one problem with the story that “polyester” is, as Mashable put it last month, “Gen Z’s new way to call you fake”: The term has already been used this way for about half a century. The Oxford English Dictionary gives examples from 1979 (“A gleaming brazen polyester clown”) and 1987 (“Clifton wears polyester suits and a polyester smile”). “TikTokkers just seem to be leaning into the ‘inauthentic’ and ‘low-quality’ edge of that meaning,” said Kory Stamper, a lexicographer and author. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/polymer-experiment.jpg" alt="Close-up of colorful balloons linked by skewers in a classroom lab" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/polymer-experiment.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/polymer-experiment.jpg?resize=1200%2C797&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/polymer-experiment.jpg?resize=330%2C219&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/polymer-experiment.jpg?resize=7…

Michigan invests $7.5M to find out if it’s sitting on a clean energy gold mine
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creator: Vivian La
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description: The funding will go toward researching geologic hydrogen, a carbon-free energy source buried beneath the state that could clean up heavy-emitting industries like transportation.
encoded: Michigan is investing $7.5 million to research geologic hydrogen — a clean energy source buried beneath the state that experts say could help power a transition away from fossil fuels. That’s because when hydrogen fuel burns, the only byproduct is water. There are no greenhouse gases or other harmful air pollutants emitted, unlike fossil fuels. If used as a fuel or in fuel cells, a large store of hydrogen could help clean up the state’s high-emissions industries, such as trucking and steel as well as cement manufacturing, said Kevin Mehren, director of the Michigan Infrastructure Office. Energy production, including at natural gas plants, and transportation are the top sources of greenhouse gas emissions in both Michigan and the country at large. Geologic hydrogen “is a major decarbonization tool, I think one of the strongest that we have come across,” Mehren said. “It has massive potential across all aspects of our economy, just to fill gaps and provide a new energy source for us.” A 2025 study from the U.S. Geological Survey mapped out areas around the country with a lot of potential for buried hydrogen, with Michigan on the higher end. The study prompted Governor Gretchen Whitmer in January to direct state resources into more research, from which the recent funding announcement stemmed. Companies in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa — states also highlighted in the USGS survey — are currently drilling for geologic hydrogen, according to Sandia National Laboratories. Mehren hopes this potential can translate into a new industry in Michigan, depending on what further research reveals. “The goal here really is to determine: Is it there? Can we access it? And can this be the tool that we hope it is?” he said. A portion of this initial funding will support research in the areas that researchers think might store a lot of natural hydrogen, like around Michigan’s lower peninsula. The state sits on top of what’s called the Midcontinent Rift. It’s where the North American contin…

Crystal artist Kerin Rose Gold on the thrill and peril of going viral
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date: 2026-09-02T07:00:00Z
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description: You started a-morir almost two decades ago—which is when we first met.
encoded: You started a-morir almost two decades ago—which is when we first met. I had just started selling at Patricia Field. I was experimenting, doing weird fringe necklaces and feathered headbands, and the eyewear, obviously, is what stuck. But you emailed me from your AOL address because you were writing for AOL Style. R.I.P. And I was like, “Oh my god! Somebody found my stuff and wrote about it!” It was one of my first ever pieces of press. I’m so grateful we’ve been friends ever since. I forgot you were doing all those other creative experiments when you started. Obviously you were carving a unique path, but did you have a sense then of how much of a trail you would have to blaze? I still kind of don’t believe that this is what my career has turned into. I’m fucking flabbergasted. I never thought about it because it’s never something I would have conceptualized. Bedazzling is very physical, meticulous, laborious work, and you live with a chronic illness. How do you take care of your body so you can be creatively productive? The reason my career started in the first place was because I found a drug therapy that finally put me into remission. I was violently, actively ill for 10 years with ulcerative colitis. Once I went into remission, I had a post-traumatic stress breakdown. I got fired from a job because I literally couldn’t function at work. I was just like, “Don’t cry at work today. It’s the only goal.” I’m fortunate that, aside from two very specific instances, for most of my career, the reason I’ve been able to do this is because I’ve been in remission. Kerin Rose Gold, handmade corset My illness started in 2008. And the thing about having a chronic illness is—and I’m speaking only for me—If you have the flu, or if you have a stomach bug, or if you have a fever, you’re assed out on the couch for a few days. If your whole life is that, you can’t. I couldn’t be assed out on the couch for a decade. That wasn’t going to work for me. So I graduated from NYU with honors…

‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-02T05:54:21Z
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description: Will a global human rights declaration help pave the way for Australian Zomi Frankcom’s Israeli killers to be held accountable for her death? Human rights advocate Shamikh Badra asks at Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Shamikh Badra The killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza in April 2024 has not gone away as
encoded: Will a global human rights declaration help pave the way for Australian Zomi Frankcom’s Israeli killers to be held accountable for her death? Human rights advocate Shamikh Badra asks at Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Shamikh Badra The killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza in April 2024 has not gone away as an issue in Australia. Six of her World Central Kitchen colleagues were also killed in the attack. Last week, the IDF said it would not pursue a criminal investigation or take additional measures against anyone involved in the incident. This, despite originally sacking the commander who ordered it, Colonel Nochi Mendel. In an October 2025 interview, Colonel Mendel said he did not mean to kill any of the WCK employees, but said: “I’m not sorry for what I did.” READ MORE: Other Gaza, Palestine reports His comments sit awkwardly with the IDF’s earlier description of the attack as a “grave mistake” caused by misidentification. That makes the accountability question harder to avoid. The convoy’s movements had been coordinated with the Israeli military and the vehicles carried World Central Kitchen markings. This was not one strike. Three vehicles were hit in three separate strikes over four minutes. Mendel also said he had been watching a continuous live drone feed as the convoy moved. Not about ‘mistakes’ It is no longer enough to reduce the case to a question of whether mistakes were made. Seven humanitarian workers were killed. The commander who ordered the attack has acknowledged that he did so. Yet the criminal process has been closed without an independent process establishing responsibility. There was a lot of anger after the WCK deaths, particularly over how aid workers could be killed while doing their job. For the Australian government, it also raised a difficult question: how should those responsible be held to account? Humanitarian workers are protected by international law, but when they are killed, accountability can be hard to secure…

One song. Musicians from around the world. 🌎
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PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-02T05:00:55Z
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subject: NZ foreign policy
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description: Asia Pacific Report New Zealand signed an international letter criticising Israel which foreshadows sanctions but a pro-Palestine advocacy group has rapped the government over its “haphazard” and “mixed messages” West Asia policy. The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) cited a “hint of future economic sanctions” against Israel in a statement of concern issued jointly by
encoded: Asia Pacific Report New Zealand signed an international letter criticising Israel which foreshadows sanctions but a pro-Palestine advocacy group has rapped the government over its “haphazard” and “mixed messages” West Asia policy. The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) cited a “hint of future economic sanctions” against Israel in a statement of concern issued jointly by New Zealand, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Canada just over a week ago. However, New Zealand did not put its name to another second and stronger statement of condemnation against Israel constructing the highly strategic E1 illegal settlement on the Occupied West Bank. READ MORE: ‘Not sorry’ – will international pressure mean justice for Zomi Frankcom? PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements censure Why Israeli tenders for illegal E1 West Bank settlement prompted outrage Other Gaza, Palestine reports The second statement was issued at the same time, and had been signed by 22 Western countries. All the countries who signed the second letter, except New Zealand and Germany, also signed the first one. PSNA spokesperson Rinad Tamimi said in a statement that ether New Zealand was deliberately identifying and aligning with Germany — which is Israel’s third largest arms supplier — or “outsourcing” its foreign policy, “More likely, it’s National outsourcing its foreign policy to New Zealand First, whose leader is blatantly pro-Israel. That haphazard arrangement results in mixed and ambiguous messages for the world and for New Zealanders,” Tamimi said. Warning over tenders She said there was a suggestion of economic sanctions in the second statement which did have New Zealand’s signature. The statement stated “businesses should not consider bidding for construction tenders. “They should be aware of legal and reputational consequences, including the risk of involving themselves in various breaches of international law.” Tamimi said this warning was presuma…

You weren’t expecting this legend playing this track… #ringostarr #thebeatles #robbierobertson
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Hey EU, Sanction Jared and Ivanka
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-09-02T03:11:00Z
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description: Like Ukraine can't defeat fascism alone, neither can America. We need the world to stand up to MAGA's lawlessness. Making the case on Gaslit Nation is Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation and author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. If Democrats win back power, they must use it maximally. Mystal, a prophetic voice in the fight for democracy, breaks down how, including by showing what Biden and the Democrats should have done to curb Trump and MAGA extremism when they had the chance. (We'll be shouting we told you so all the way to the gulag!) He explains why Merrick Garland was – as we warned here on Gaslit Nation – a threat to democracy, what actions Democrats and the people must take now in the limited time we have left, and why New York State Attorney General Tish James serves as a vital reminder of the importance of local resistance. (Remember her iconic video calling out Elon Musk?) Most importantly, Mystal calls on world leaders to divest from America, an urgent strategy that helped bring down apartheid. This week's bonus show, out Thursday, available in full for our communities on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substack.com that keep our show going, looks at America as a corporation, sharing important insights into how the sausage gets made, and shares resources on fighting Flock cameras. Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation – we could not make our show without you! Show Notes: Want a concrete plan on how to dream big for yourself and the kind of world you want to live in? And then help create it? Pre-order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ "Karoline" by Deena Marie – available on Apple Music, Spotify, and wherever you get your music. Learn more on her Instagram: deenamariedmt. Submit your own song to be played on Gasl…
encoded: Like Ukraine can't defeat fascism alone, neither can America. We need the world to stand up to MAGA's lawlessness. Making the case on Gaslit Nation is Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation and author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. If Democrats win back power, they must use it maximally. Mystal, a prophetic voice in the fight for democracy, breaks down how, including by showing what Biden and the Democrats should have done to curb Trump and MAGA extremism when they had the chance. (We'll be shouting we told you so all the way to the gulag!) He explains why Merrick Garland was – as we warned here on Gaslit Nation – a threat to democracy, what actions Democrats and the people must take now in the limited time we have left, and why New York State Attorney General Tish James serves as a vital reminder of the importance of local resistance. (Remember her iconic video calling out Elon Musk?) Most importantly, Mystal calls on world leaders to divest from America, an urgent strategy that helped bring down apartheid. This week's bonus show, out Thursday, available in full for our communities on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substack.com that keep our show going, looks at America as a corporation, sharing important insights into how the sausage gets made, and shares resources on fighting Flock cameras. Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation – we could not make our show without you! Show Notes: Want a concrete plan on how to dream big for yourself and the kind of world you want to live in? And then help create it? Pre-order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ "Karoline" by Deena Marie – available on Apple Music, Spotify, and wherever you get your music. Learn more on her Instagram: deenamariedmt. Submit your own song to be played on Gasl…

You need to hear this. 🎧
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US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands Forum
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-09-02T00:44:57Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Christopher Landau
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the Pacific region, RNZ Pacific understands. Details are yet to be finalised, but RNZ Pacific understands it was discussed at a closed dialogue partners meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the Pacific region, RNZ Pacific understands. Details are yet to be finalised, but RNZ Pacific understands it was discussed at a closed dialogue partners meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ summit in Palau on Tuesday. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Koror for the annual meeting. His trip to Palau comes after a raft of engagements in the region this year as the Trump administration’s point-person for the Pacific. READ MORE: Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports The US is one of PIF’s founding Dialogue Partners, alongside Canada, France, Japan and the United Kingdom. The PIF currently has 21 Dialogue Partners, which comprise external countries and organisations that have formal relationships with PIF and support Pacific regional priorities through political engagement. Landau made a funding announcement with NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown about a new port in Penrhyn Atoll, the Cook Islands’ northernmost island. Penrhyn, or Tongareva, is a former US military base. The US has committed US$50m to the major port upgrade, while New Zealand is contributing US$10m. The two countries are co-funding the infrastructure project. Port plan discussed in April Peters said the idea of a new port for Tongareva was first discus…

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands Forum
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the Pacific region, RNZ Pacific understands. Details are yet to be finalised, but RNZ Pacific understands it was discussed at a closed dialogue partners meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the Pacific region, RNZ Pacific understands. Details are yet to be finalised, but RNZ Pacific understands it was discussed at a closed dialogue partners meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ summit in Palau on Tuesday. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Koror for the annual meeting. His trip to Palau comes after a raft of engagements in the region this year as the Trump administration’s point-person for the Pacific. READ MORE: Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports The US is one of PIF’s founding Dialogue Partners, alongside Canada, France, Japan and the United Kingdom. The PIF currently has 21 Dialogue Partners, which comprise external countries and organisations that have formal relationships with PIF and support Pacific regional priorities through political engagement. Landau made a funding announcement with NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown about a new port in Penrhyn Atoll, the Cook Islands’ northernmost island. Penrhyn, or Tongareva, is a former US military base. The US has committed US$50m to the major port upgrade, while New Zealand is contributing US$10m. The two countries are co-funding the infrastructure project. Port plan discussed in April Peters said the idea of a new port for Tongareva was first discus…

US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands Forum
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the Pacific region, RNZ Pacific understands. Details are yet to be finalised, but RNZ Pacific understands it was discussed at a closed dialogue partners meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the Pacific region, RNZ Pacific understands. Details are yet to be finalised, but RNZ Pacific understands it was discussed at a closed dialogue partners meeting at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ summit in Palau on Tuesday. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Koror for the annual meeting. His trip to Palau comes after a raft of engagements in the region this year as the Trump administration’s point-person for the Pacific. READ MORE: Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports The US is one of PIF’s founding Dialogue Partners, alongside Canada, France, Japan and the United Kingdom. The PIF currently has 21 Dialogue Partners, which comprise external countries and organisations that have formal relationships with PIF and support Pacific regional priorities through political engagement. Landau made a funding announcement with NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown about a new port in Penrhyn Atoll, the Cook Islands’ northernmost island. Penrhyn, or Tongareva, is a former US military base. The US has committed US$50m to the major port upgrade, while New Zealand is contributing US$10m. The two countries are co-funding the infrastructure project. Port plan discussed in April Peters said the idea of a new port for Tongareva was first discus…

Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision
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description: By L.N. Reklai in Koror, Palau Pacific Islands Forum leaders are being urged to strengthen regional unity and ensure the Forum remains firmly Pacific-led as member countries work to deliver the goals of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. Outgoing Forum Chair Solomon Islands and incoming Chair Palau, at the opening ceremony of
encoded: By L.N. Reklai in Koror, Palau Pacific Islands Forum leaders are being urged to strengthen regional unity and ensure the Forum remains firmly Pacific-led as member countries work to deliver the goals of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. Outgoing Forum Chair Solomon Islands and incoming Chair Palau, at the opening ceremony of the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, both emphasised that collective action — particularly on climate change, ocean protection and economic resilience — will be critical to turning regional commitments into tangible results for Pacific communities. Speaking on behalf of Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale, Foreign Minister Rick Hou described the Forum chairmanship as a responsibility shared among members rather than belonging to a single country. READ MORE: US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’ Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports “In our Pacific way, the chair is rather like a paddle passed from hand to hand — no one owns it,” Hou said, describing how each country took its turn before passing responsibility to the next. He said the achievements during Solomon Islands’ chairmanship were the result of collective regional effort, including the establishment of the Pacific Resilience Facility, endorsement of the Blue Pacific Ocean of Peace Declaration and progress on regional labor mobility. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://i0.wp.com/islandtimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSC_0061-1-scaled.jpg?resize=780%2C386&ssl=1…

Sources in Tibet and Nepal reveal stories of flood destruction, survival
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date: 2026-09-01T23:16:15Z
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subject: asia
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description: Among the thousands of missing people are 10 Tibetan tour guides, who worked near the border.
encoded: As the death toll from last week’s glacial flooding disaster at the Tibet-Nepal border surpassed 1,000 on Tuesday, sources inside Tibet told Radio Free Asia that a group of 10 Tibetan travel guides are among the missing. AFP reported that more than 4,500 people were missing, but both the death toll and the number of missing could be higher, as exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups have accused China of underreporting casualty totals on the Tibetan side of the border. Chinese authorities have forbidden journalists from entering the disaster zone or interviewing affected family members, and have punished those accused of “spreading rumors” about the disaster, New York-based Human Rights Watch reported. Residents and officials of Kyirong County (Gyirong in Chinese), which borders Nepal’s Rasuwa district, witnessed entire villages destroyed, they told RFA Tibetan on condition of anonymity for security reasons. “Within 3 minutes the flood reached the area near the Kyirong customs office, and no one who was there survived,” a Tibetan resident of Kyirong County told RFA. “There were about 30 people in the village.” The resident said that many people from the area had been working in the area on road construction at the time of the disaster. “Now, many of them are dead,” the resident said. “There is no hope left. It was like a dream. It came out of nowhere.” A Chinese official in the same area confirmed that several people who were displaced by the disaster were able to find alternative lodging. “A few people from the affected area have been kept in a guesthouse and in paying guest rooms in private homes,” the official told RFA. “I am not comfortable explaining other details.” Missing guides Ten Tibetan travel guides from the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the surrounding areas, and elsewhere have been missing since the flood, another Tibetan resident told RFA. The source said that the guides were stationed in the Dram (Zhangmu) area along the border. “They usually take travellers an…

Voters, Don’t Be Fooled by State Tax-Cut Measures
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creator: Amber Wallin
date: 2026-09-01T22:50:22Z
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description: Say “no” to tax cuts for the wealthy in November.
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Darline Graham’s Dilemma: Support Trump or People with Disabilities
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creator: Mike Ervin
date: 2026-09-01T22:34:48Z
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description: The political reality is that she cannot plausibly do both.
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Detenido operario MAGA en América Latina por complot de asesinato por encargo.
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-09-01T22:24:33Z
subject: Sources
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subject: latina
subject: maga
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subject: por
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What happens when you’re deported to a country you’ve never heard of?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-01T22:24:09Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: Democracy
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subject: never
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: what
subject: when
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Why Trans Rights Benefit All Of Us
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subject: trans
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Pacific Islands Forum meeting ‘less productive’ with a third of its leaders absent
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date: 2026-09-01T20:38:36Z
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subject: leaders
subject: less
subject: meeting
subject: Pacific
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description: Analysts say Beijing’s influence may have undermined the event, where the China-Taiwan rivalry is front and center.
encoded: The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum meeting will be “less productive” than in previous years because one third of the regional grouping’s leaders are not present for the summit in Palau, where China-Taiwan tensions are front and center, experts told Radio Free Asia. Leaders from five of the 18 member nations — Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, and New Caledonia — sent deputy ministers or other senior officials in their stead. A sixth leader, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale, had arrived in Palau, but returned to Honiara to address a no-confidence filing in his leadership. “The meeting is already less productive because as a political meeting, without leaders, it cannot be viewed as being productive,” Alan Tidwell, director of the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, told RFA. “Being productive means having leaders in the room.” The theme of this year’s forum uses the Palauan word for Palau as an acronym – B.E.L.A.U., Building Economies: Life. Action. Unity. But the invitation of Taiwan to the forum meeting as a development partner, and China as a dialogue partner, has left the countries of the Pacific Islands Forum, or PIF, anything but unified. <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/UE6UQM5N4FHQDPQBQWEEZEDRSE.jpg?auth=7895e1484b9c74881939346c2fc586026a22e93eade685c6e2c057e33ea7af9d&smart=true&width=1500" alt="Palau President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. and Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung during the inauguration of Taiwan-funded solar energy and electric bus projects in Koror, Aug. 30, 2026, ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting." height="2654" width="1500"/> Palau President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. and Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung during the inauguration of Taiwan-funded solar energy and electric bus projects in Koror, Aug. 30, 2026, ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. (Saeed Khan/AFP) China-Taiwan rivalry Palau is one of three Pacific countries and one of 12 gl…

Venezuela’s oil steal?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-01T18:20:44Z
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subject: Sources
subject: Democracy
subject: now
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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This version hits different! Full show available at playingforchange.com
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description: This content originally appeared on Playing For Change and was authored by Playing For Change.
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 1, 2026
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date: 2026-09-01T18:00:00Z
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subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: september
subject: sources
subject: the
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 – September 1, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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You’ve never heard this song like this. 👀🎶
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date: 2026-09-01T17:58:42Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Playing For Change and was authored by Playing For Change.
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New community museum honors the legacy of Eddie Conway and the Black Panthers
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2026-09-01T17:07:29Z
subject: Prisons and Policing
subject: Rattling the Bars
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description: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/final.00_05_28_15.Still007-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Eddie Conway via TRNN." data-attachment-id="346271" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/museum-honors-eddie-conway-and-black-panthers/final-00_05_28_15-still007" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/final.00_05_28_15.Still007-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="final.00_05_28_15.Still007" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Eddie Conway via TRNN. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/final.00_05_28_15.Still007-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1"> "...We need our own people's archives. We need our own spaces where we not only celebrate and remember, but we tell accurate histories of resistance, of black liberation in particular, but not even limited to that, the experience of indigenous people, the experience of Latino people" says Dominque Conway.
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Why did VICE’s Syrian TV interview turn into an ambush that left everyone cringing?
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date: 2026-09-01T17:00:15Z
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Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers’ Compact
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-09-01T16:56:14Z
subject: Ralph Nader
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description: Busboys and Poets and Ralph Nader present Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers’ Compact, a discussion of how unions can maximize the impact of Labor Day to mobilize workers and voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and afterwards. DATE AND TI...
encoded: Busboys and Poets and Ralph Nader present Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers’ Compact, a discussion of how unions can maximize the impact of Labor Day to mobilize workers and voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and afterwards. DATE AND TIME September 7, 2026 @ 2PM LOCATION Busboys 14th & V 2021 14th St… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

New Community Museum Honors the Legacy of Eddie Conway and the Black Panthers
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-09-01T16:38:18Z
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UN News Today 01 September 2026
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creator: Isaiah Steinberg
date: 2026-09-01T15:59:31Z
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description: More than 1,000 now dead after Nepal-Tibet floodsWFP forced to cut food assistance in West BankIOM helps administer nearly 13,800 measles vaccines in Yemen
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CPJ urges Benin’s president to strengthen press freedom
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creator: CPJ Africa
date: 2026-09-01T15:49:05Z
subject: Ali Moumouni
subject: Comlan Hugues Sossoukpè
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Legal Action
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subject: ali
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged Beninese President Romuald Wadagni to take decisive measures to protect press freedom, in a letter marking his first 100 days in office. The letter highlights Benin’s deteriorating press freedom record in recent years, including the July 2025 arrest of Comlan Hugues Sossoukpè, publishing director of the privately owned...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged Beninese President Romuald Wadagni to take decisive measures to protect press freedom, in a letter marking his first 100 days in office. The letter highlights Benin’s deteriorating press freedom record in recent years, including the July 2025 arrest of Comlan Hugues Sossoukpè, publishing director of the privately owned online outlet Olofofo Info. Sossoukpè was arrested in the Ivory Coast and forcibly extradited to Benin despite his refugee status. He remains detained without trial, as does his colleague Ali Moumouni, who was arrested days later. CPJ also called on Wadagni to reform Benin’s Digital Code, which has been regularly weaponized against journalists. Several member states raised concerns with Benin about this law in its most recent Universal Periodic Review before the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2023. Read the full letter here in English and French. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Africa.

Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of "La Junta" Oversight
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-01T14:47:45Z
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subject: marks
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subject: Water
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U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive "Third Country" Deal
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-09-01T14:44:37Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: deal
subject: Democracy
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The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 1, 2026
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The Scientist Trying to Keep Kratom Legal Has Not Disclosed Longstanding Ties to Kratom Lobbyists
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description: The post The Scientist Trying to Keep Kratom Legal Has Not Disclosed Longstanding Ties to Kratom Lobbyists appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Jin Ke Wang for ProPublica The leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, a substance that has left a trail of death and addiction around the world, has routinely failed to disclose longstanding financial ties to the industry’s most powerful lobbying group, ProPublica has found. University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for an annual symposium on research into the leaf’s medicinal potential from the American Kratom Association — none of which has been disclosed in his conflict of interest statements or on the papers he publishes. The fight to keep kratom legal across the country has taken on increased urgency as more potent kratom derivatives have appeared on store shelves and evidence has mounted of the leaf’s risks to users’ health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5,200 people in the United States died from drug overdoses involving kratom between 2020 and 2024. And calls to poison control centers involving kratom have spiked 1,200% in the last decade. The lobbying group, which says it advocates for kratom consumers, has waged a pitched battle in statehouses and in Washington, D.C., to keep kratom products widely available in America’s gas stations, smoke shops and convenience stores. Documents show it has relied repeatedly on McCurdy to help convince lawmakers kratom is safe enough to remain legal — deploying him to key states that are either considering full bans on the leaf or are on the verge of overturning an existing ban. His success fighting federal regulators earned him a place in the AKA’s Legacy Advocate Hall of Fame. Kratom comes from a tree native to Southeast Asia and is sold as a powder or in capsules, tablets or shots like energy drinks. In small amounts, it acts as a stimulant. In larger amounts, it acts like an opioid. Although the Food and Drug Administration prohibits marketing it as a supplement or…

Maryland community pushes for answers about plastic recycling plant
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description: This story originally appeared in Prism on Aug. 31, 2026. After years of organizing, residents in Howard County, Maryland, say they’re running out of options to find out what their plastic recycling corporate neighbor, W.R. Grace, is emitting.&nb...
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Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight
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description: Juan Carlos Dávila reports from Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a severe water crisis. A record-breaking drought has led to severe shortages and a system of water rationing that residents say could have been prevented by better infrast...
encoded: Juan Carlos Dávila reports from Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a severe water crisis. A record-breaking drought has led to severe shortages and a system of water rationing that residents say could have been prevented by better infrastructure maintenance. Climate scientists have warned for years that changing weather conditions in the Caribbean are likely to exacerbate existing infrastructure failings, but rather than address the root cause of the water shortage, explains Dávila, a pattern of government inaction and failed public services is used to justify increasing privatization. Puerto Rico’s water woes come 10 years after the United States passed the bankruptcy law PROMESA to restructure the U.S. territory’s debt, installing an unelected board colloquially known as “La Junta” that continues to hold sweeping authority to determine fiscal and public policy. “This water crisis taking place right now in Puerto Rico, also La Junta bears some responsibility on it,” says Puerto Rican investigative reporter Luis Valentín. “It did not reduce the debt, and [so] pretty much crowds out resources that could be used for infrastructure work.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal
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description: As part of its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration is secretly deporting immigrants to countries that they have no ties to. CNN correspondent Isobel Yeung recently traveled to the Central African Republic, which in recent month...
encoded: As part of its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration is secretly deporting immigrants to countries that they have no ties to. CNN correspondent Isobel Yeung recently traveled to the Central African Republic, which in recent months has accepted dozens of immigrants who had previously been granted deportation protections because they risk facing torture in their home countries. Despite the fact that the State Department warns U.S. citizens not to travel to the Central African Republic “under any circumstances,” the Department of Homeland Security has now deported dozens of immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Cuba, Russia and Iran to a legal limbo in a country wracked by civil war between Muslim and Christian militias and officially ruled by a Russia-backed authoritarian dictator. We play excerpts of Yeung’s report, which features interviews with immigrants who now live precarious lives in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, without family, friends or even a common language, and at risk of malaria, extortion and violence. “Many of them did not know where they were going to until they stepped foot on the flight,” Yeung tells Democracy Now! They have been placed in temporary lodgings for three months, but after that, continues Yeung, “I don’t think anyone knows where they’re supposed to go.” According to Third Country Deportation Watch, the United States has signed so-called third-country deportation agreements with as many as 35 governments around the world. Most of the over 20,000 people deported under these agreements have been turned back at ports of entry to Mexico, but an increasing number are being placed on deportation flights and sent to countries like Costa Rica and Ghana, far from their countries of birth. By carrying out this scheme and by threatening other immigrants with the possibility of third-country deportation to coerce them into choosing to “self-deport,” the Trump administration “is really attacking and undermin…

The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves
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description: The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas and two...
encoded: The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas and two months after The New York Times revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela, effectively controlling Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. The new oil deal gives the Department of Defense a 35% stake in a joint U.S.-Venezuelan private company that now holds 100-year leases to 17 oil fields. It also gives the U.S. the right to buy some of the oil produced at cost — a major triumph for the Trump administration as the war on Iran depletes the United States’ strategic oil reserves. Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez claims U.S. investment in Venezuela’s oil industry will jumpstart the country’s floundering economy, but critics, including Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez, say the deal is not only “unfavorable to Venezuela” but also appears to violate the Venezuelan Constitution. “The whole history around this is extremely shady,” adds Rodríguez, who previously led Venezuela’s Congressional Budget Office and now teaches at the University of Denver. “It’s clear that this is not a deal that any Venezuelan government would have entered into unless this country had been subject to an invasion, and unless its authorities had been held at gunpoint. So, I think we’ve replaced gunboat diplomacy now for gunpoint diplomacy.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Russia Has New Dangerous Drones
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Headlines for September 1, 2026
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description: Trump Reportedly Weighing More Strikes Against Iran, WaPo: Conservative Veterans Given Secret Pentagon Jobs, Army Civilian Chief Daniel Driscoll Resigns After Clashing with Hegseth, Israeli Attacks Kill at Least Four People, Including Three Children, in Gaza, School Principal in Nepal Evacuates 900 Students to Safety from Floods, Second Person Confirmed Dead After Flash Floods Sweep Grand Canyon National Park, Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump’s Ballroom, Third Eyewitness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Released from ICE Jail, U.S. Citizen Deported to Mexico Granted Permission to Return to the U.S., Federal Judge Extends Order Temporarily Pausing Border Wall Construction at Big Bend National Park, EEOC Finds Cisco Violated Civil Rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim Employees, 12 People Killed in Russian Attacks in Ukraine, Primary Elections Held Today in Massachusetts, Activist, Writer and Farmer Wendell Berry Dies at 92
encoded: Trump Reportedly Weighing More Strikes Against Iran WaPo: Conservative Veterans Given Secret Pentagon Jobs Army Civilian Chief Daniel Driscoll Resigns After Clashing with Hegseth Israeli Attacks Kill at Least Four People, Including Three Children, in Gaza School Principal in Nepal Evacuates 900 Students to Safety from Floods Second Person Confirmed Dead After Flash Floods Sweep Grand Canyon National Park Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump's Ballroom Third Eyewitness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Released from ICE Jail U.S. Citizen Deported to Mexico Granted Permission to Return to the U.S. Federal Judge Extends Order Temporarily Pausing Border Wall Construction at Big Bend National Park EEOC Finds Cisco Violated Civil Rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim Employees 12 People Killed in Russian Attacks in Ukraine Primary Elections Held Today in Massachusetts Activist, Writer and Farmer Wendell Berry Dies at 92 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-09-01 Tuesday
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Saffron-clad men gherao Anandabazar Patrika office in Kolkata, paint walls saffron
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description: A group of saffron-clad men painted the walls of the Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) office in Kolkata saffron on September 1, days after West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had demanded an apology from the daily for describing the recent violence at Jadavpur University as “gerua gundami” — or “saffron hooliganism”. Videos show two men painting […]
encoded: A group of saffron-clad men painted the walls of the Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) office in Kolkata saffron on September 1, days after West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had demanded an apology from the daily for describing the recent violence at Jadavpur University as “gerua gundami” — or “saffron hooliganism”. Videos show two men painting two pillars at the main entrance of the office while several police personnel stand by. Some of the police officials can also be seen recording the incident on their cellphones. Several other saffron-clad men had gathered at the spot, raising slogans including “Bhagwa ka apmaan nahi sahega” (“We will not tolerate the insult of Bhagwa”) and “Anandabazar Patrika haye haye”. An ABP editor told Alt News that the demonstration began around 1:30 pm on Tuesday and continued for nearly an hour. In another video, the group can be seen addressing a motley crowd and saying, “This land belongs to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. This land belongs to Swami Vivekananda. This land is Saffron”. Alt News procured more footage from the incident where the saffron-clad men could be seen sloganeering near the main gate in Hindi and Bengali before being escorted away by the police. Anandabazar had carried the headline “Saffron Hooliganism: Logo broken during raid on JU campus” on its front page on August 21. Following this, Adhikari launched a sharp attack on the media outlet while maintaining that his demand for an apology did not amount to a threat to the media. Meanwhile, Kolkata Police lodged an FIR at Bowbazar police station against editor Ishani Dutta Roy, chief reporter Soma Mukherjee and “others from its editorial team” following a complaint by Sanjay Shastri Maharaj. He alleged that the headline that Anandabazar Patrika had used implied an intention to “hurt Hindu sentiments and disturb public peace”. He stated that the phrasing was “highly objectionable, derogatory, misleading and offensive”. “It is necessary to ascertain through investigation…

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its ‘failures’ on Gaza genocide
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party was presented at a solidarity rally at the weekend as the new political group contesting the New Zealand general election in November. But the plea was “don’t vote for us” — instead, use the party as a platform pressure the government to honour its obligations under international law
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party was presented at a solidarity rally at the weekend as the new political group contesting the New Zealand general election in November. But the plea was “don’t vote for us” — instead, use the party as a platform pressure the government to honour its obligations under international law over Palestine. Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA), the rally — staged on the 152nd consecutive week since Israel launched its genocide on the besieged Gaza enclave in October 2023 — activist Anna Lee “unofficially” explained the party’s stance. READ MORE: New Zealand’s Free Palestine Party aims to turn solidarity movement into political force Palestine Free From the River to the Sea Party Global March for Palestine embed code In an interview with Türkiye’s Anadolu news agency in July, party leader Paul Hopkinson declared: “The Palestinian issue has disappeared from public space. We will make sure that the Palestinian issue is front and centre in this election.” Formally registered as a NZ political party on August 5, Free Palestine states on its website that it is “committed to justice, international law, and a democratic state with equal rights for all citizens”. “My understanding is we don’t want you to vote for the Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party,” said Lee, a PSNA organiser and a party member. “The aim is to change public opinion and put sustained parliamentary pressure on the New Zealand government to uphold its obligations under international law with respect to Palestine.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132920" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Anna-Lee-DR-680wide.jpg" alt="PSNA's Anna Lee" width="680" height="398" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Anna-Lee-DR-680wide.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Anna-Lee-DR-680wide-300x176.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100v…

How Free Palestine party plans to pressure NZ govt over its ‘failures’ on Gaza genocide
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party was presented at a solidarity rally at the weekend as the new political group contesting the New Zealand general election in November. But the plea was “don’t vote for us” — instead, use the party as a platform pressure the government to honour its obligations under international law
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party was presented at a solidarity rally at the weekend as the new political group contesting the New Zealand general election in November. But the plea was “don’t vote for us” — instead, use the party as a platform pressure the government to honour its obligations under international law over Palestine. Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA), the rally — staged on the 152nd consecutive week since Israel launched its genocide on the besieged Gaza enclave in October 2023 — activist Anna Lee “unofficially” explained the party’s stance. READ MORE: New Zealand’s Free Palestine Party aims to turn solidarity movement into political force Palestine Free From the River to the Sea Party Global March for Palestine embed code In an interview with Türkiye’s Anadolu news agency in July, party leader Paul Hopkinson declared: “The Palestinian issue has disappeared from public space. We will make sure that the Palestinian issue is front and centre in this election.” Formally registered as a NZ political party on August 5, Free Palestine states on its website that it is “committed to justice, international law, and a democratic state with equal rights for all citizens”. “My understanding is we don’t want you to vote for the Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party,” said Lee, a PSNA organiser and a party member. “The aim is to change public opinion and put sustained parliamentary pressure on the New Zealand government to uphold its obligations under international law with respect to Palestine.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132920" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Anna-Lee-DR-680wide.jpg" alt="PSNA's Anna Lee" width="680" height="398" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Anna-Lee-DR-680wide.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Anna-Lee-DR-680wide-300x176.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100v…

DN! Tuesday, September 1, 2026
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Help Us Investigate Abusive Coaches in Youth Sports
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date: 2026-09-01T09:05:00Z
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description: The post Help Us Investigate Abusive Coaches in Youth Sports appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Photos by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica. For more than a year now, I’ve been investigating how youth sports organizations have failed to protect kids from sexual abuse, and the gaps in the system that have allowed coaches banned for misconduct to keep working with young athletes. So far, I’ve shown that one major nonprofit sports organization, the Amateur Athletic Union, has become a haven for coaches accused of abuse. I identified eight coaches who are still working with kids under the AAU despite having been banned by SafeSport, a center created by Congress to protect kids from abuse in sports that has a public list anyone can check. The AAU has said it does not comment on individual cases but in a statement said that it is “committed to protecting its athletes through comprehensive protection policies overseen by our Compliance Department.” I also told the story of a Texas volleyball coach named Ryan Richardson, who continued coaching despite having been banned by SafeSport and is now under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security. Richardson did not respond to multiple requests for comment on ProPublica and The Washington Post’s reporting, or an email seeking comment about the Homeland Security investigation. When he was first suspended in 2024, Richardson told the local news website MyRGV that complaints about him were an effort to “retaliate and defame someone’s character,” and he said he “would never do anything to risk the physical or mental wellbeing of these strong young ladies.” I’m still reporting, and I want to hear from you. I know these are sensitive topics that can be difficult to discuss. I also know how important these stories are. If you know about a coach on the SafeSport list who is still working with kids, or you have other experiences with how youth sports organizations have handled abuse allegations, please fill out our brief questionnaire. I’m particularly interested in: Findin…

Homeland Security Opens Child Exploitation Probe Into Banned Texas Volleyball Coach
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creator: Molly Hensley-Clancy
date: 2026-09-01T09:00:00Z
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description: The post Homeland Security Opens Child Exploitation Probe Into Banned Texas Volleyball Coach appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260826-richardson-folo_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_quality_95_embedColorProfile_true_4452a2.jpg?w=1149" alt="A collage featuring a photo of a man wearing a baseball cap spotting a weighted bench-press bar for a teen girl, who has been covered with an opaque white marker scribble, next to a large black-and-white graphic of a Homeland Security Investigations badge on the right."> Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Photo via Instagram. A Texas volleyball coach who was the subject of an investigation last month by ProPublica and The Washington Post is now facing a federal child exploitation probe, according to an agent for Homeland Security Investigations, the main investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. The ProPublica and Post story detailed how Ryan Richardson continued to coach teenage girls for years at his gym in Pharr, Texas, amid allegations of misconduct, even after he was suspended in early 2025 and subsequently ruled “permanently ineligible” this February by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, an oversight group. On its public disciplinary list, SafeSport said it found that Richardson had an intimate relationship with a minor, committed sexual misconduct involving a minor, and engaged in physical misconduct and bullying. Juan J. Flores Jr., a supervisor in a Homeland Security Investigations unit that focuses on child exploitation in the Rio Grande Valley, told ProPublica and The Post that he had launched the probe into Richardson in response to the story, which included allegations from a parent and former players that he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old player beginning in 2022 and that he groomed and emotionally and physically abused others. “My plan is to turn over every rock, have every conversation. I know he’s still coaching,” Flores said. Richardson did not respond to multiple requests for comment on ProPublica and The Post’s reporting or…

When plastic companies write the lesson plans
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creator: Joseph Winters
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description: The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.
encoded: This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology. But there’s another subject that’s been sneaking into school curricula: plastics. A new report from the nonprofit Plastic Pollution Coalition documents the many ways the plastics industry has been inserting its agenda into classrooms across the U.S. — including through lesson plans and worksheets, hands-on science experiments, and a program called “PlastiVan” that travels from city to city teaching students about “the contribution plastics make to modern life.” Industry interests offer these resources to teachers for free or for cheap, according to the report. The materials tend to highlight the necessity of plastics while downplaying their significant downsides to human health and the environment. “When that information is provided to kids, it obfuscates the true impacts of plastic pollution,” said Madison Dennis, senior policy and advocacy manager for Plastic Pollution Coalition and one of the report’s main authors. Besides harming marine life, plastics can expose people to hazardous chemicals, clog storm drains and contribute to flooding, and release planet-warming greenhouse gases. Dennis’ organization is calling for stricter school policies against the use of industry-sponsored learning materials. The report lays out four case studies of plastics industry “propaganda” for schoolkids. One involves the Society of Plastics Engineers, or SPE, a trade group that recently became a division of the Plastics Industry Association. SPE’s lesson plans include activities like a “plastic scavenger hunt,” which aims for students to “understand that plastics are ubiquitous and their importance to society and their personal life.” A video titled “Your Bottle Means Jobs” explains how plastics recycling supports local employment. Another case study highlights the American Association of Chemistry Teachers, an initiative of …

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’
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date: 2026-09-01T08:08:54Z
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States and New Zealand will co-fund a new “lifeline” port with the Cook Islands on Penrhyn Atoll — a former US military base. The US says it will commit US$50 million, while New Zealand will contribute US$10 million. The US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States and New Zealand will co-fund a new “lifeline” port with the Cook Islands on Penrhyn Atoll — a former US military base. The US says it will commit US$50 million, while New Zealand will contribute US$10 million. The US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau, said it would build on the Critical Minerals Framework that the Cooks signed with the US in February, which advances the keen interest from Washington in deep sea mineral resources in the Cook Islands. READ MORE: Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports “This project underscores the United States’ strong commitment to our partners in the Pacific,” Landau said, noting that US personnel constructed Penrhyn’s port and airstrip more than 80 years ago. “Through transformational infrastructure initiatives such as this, we are making the United States and our partners safer, stronger, and more prosperous.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132907 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide.png" alt="Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands" width="680" height="424" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide-300x187.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide-674x420.png 674w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands . . . a former US military base. Image: Ewan…

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’
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date: 2026-09-01T08:08:54Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: asia
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subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Innovation
subject: islands
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subject: military
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subject: Palau-Belau
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States and New Zealand will co-fund a new “lifeline” port with the Cook Islands on Penrhyn Atoll — a former US military base. The US says it will commit US$50 million, while New Zealand will contribute US$10 million. The US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The United States and New Zealand will co-fund a new “lifeline” port with the Cook Islands on Penrhyn Atoll — a former US military base. The US says it will commit US$50 million, while New Zealand will contribute US$10 million. The US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau, said it would build on the Critical Minerals Framework that the Cooks signed with the US in February, which advances the keen interest from Washington in deep sea mineral resources in the Cook Islands. READ MORE: Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports “This project underscores the United States’ strong commitment to our partners in the Pacific,” Landau said, noting that US personnel constructed Penrhyn’s port and airstrip more than 80 years ago. “Through transformational infrastructure initiatives such as this, we are making the United States and our partners safer, stronger, and more prosperous.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-132907 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide.png" alt="Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands" width="680" height="424" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide-300x187.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Penrhyn-Atoll-RNZ-680wide-674x420.png 674w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands . . . a former US military base. Image: Ewan…

Magazine editors John Baccigaluppi and Larry Crane (Tape Op) on the value of endless curiosity
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creator: Eric Steuer
date: 2026-09-01T07:00:00Z
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description: Tape Op’s been around for a few decades now. How do you keep a project that’s been going for that long creatively exciting?
encoded: Tape Op’s been around for a few decades now. How do you keep a project that’s been going for that long creatively exciting? Larry Crane: I think the thing that really works about doing this magazine, and doing it this long, is that I’ll simply never know everything there is to know about making records. Between John and me, we know a lot, but we still meet people all the time who know things we don’t. I think that’s why there have only been a few times over the years where I’ve felt burned out on it, or less inspired. I run a studio, I do recording sessions, I’m mixing, I’ve always been very involved in the things I write about. I don’t want to disparage the magazines about making music that came before us, but they were usually more technical, talking about new gear and stuff, and a lot of times they weren’t as actively involved in making albums as John and I are. For me, those things feed into each other. The art of making records is always changing, and keeping up with that, meeting new artists, learning about new ways that people are producing their work—that’s what I will always care about. Even though we’re now guys in our sixties, the most important part of it is still the artists and the records, so continuing to learn is what keeps things exciting. Larry Crane and Elliott Smith. John Baccigaluppi: Especially now, you’ve got so many younger people coming into music with a completely different perspective from what we grew up with. Back when we started, getting access to make a record was difficult. There was a serious degree of gatekeeping by labels and studios. Now anyone can make a record on their phone. We’ve had to change how we run our studios and interact with artists to adapt to that. You could complain about it, but why would you? It is what it is. I think it’s great! I really embrace it. It’s exciting to work with younger artists who have a completely different perspective from what we grew up with. Also, I think the collaboration aspect of it is a …

Peters blasts Solomon Islands cabinet ministers for move against PM Wale
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-31T22:53:19Z
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description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has blasted Solomon Islands cabinet ministers who moved against their leader on the eve of the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Palau. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has been forced home to deal with a motion of no confidence from his
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has blasted Solomon Islands cabinet ministers who moved against their leader on the eve of the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Palau. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has been forced home to deal with a motion of no confidence from his Home Affairs Minister Manasseh Maelanga. Three Cabinet ministers, including Maelanga, have resigned from his GREAT coalition government. READ MORE: Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports More ministers are rumoured to follow suit, including Finance Minister and former Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo, potentially tipping the numbers against Wale’s favour. Speaking to reporters in Palau ahead of the summit’s opening ceremony, Peters struggled to hide his disdain. “To think that a motion of no confidence was moved when you’re at a critical Pacific event concerns me about the people who moved the motion,” he said. “For goodness’ sake, could you possibly have waited until your brothers, sisters and cousins have sorted out the Pacific in the meantime, just for these few days?” Returned within hours Wale, who reportedly first learned of the motion after landing in Palau, was on a plane back home within hours. Peters said that the departure weighed heavy on fellow leaders, considering several heads of government had opted not to go. “He had to get the next plane, and President [Surangel] Whipps Jr had to take him. That shows how saddened Whipps was by that, we all were, that Wale had to go home. But at least they’re trying.” The leaders of Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu and New Caledonia are also sitting out the summit. Fij…

Crisis of the Common Good
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creator: Senator Chris Murphy
date: 2026-08-31T22:16:58Z
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description: Over the past quarter century, Wall Street interests, technology industry and university elites, and anonymous donors have all gained strong footholds in our party’s power structure.
encoded: Over the past quarter century, Wall Street interests, technology industry and university elites, and anonymous donors have all gained strong footholds in our party’s power structure. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Senator Chris Murphy.

How Music Became a Space for Psychological Recovery in Gaza
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creator: Ohood Nassar
date: 2026-08-31T21:58:30Z
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description: The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music attempts to create spaces of calm and healing.
encoded: The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music attempts to create spaces of calm and healing. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Ohood Nassar.

American Doctors in Gaza
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creator: Lisa Mullenneaux
date: 2026-08-31T21:41:26Z
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description: A new documentary follows three physicians as they volunteer in Gaza and fight for the rights of its people.
encoded: A new documentary follows three physicians as they volunteer in Gaza and fight for the rights of its people. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Lisa Mullenneaux.

Solidarity in Masafer Yatta
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creator: Sam Stein
date: 2026-08-31T21:34:13Z
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description: Settler violence has unquestionably intensified since the last time I was in the West Bank a year and a half ago. So has activism and resistance.
encoded: Settler violence has unquestionably intensified since the last time I was in the West Bank a year and a half ago. So has activism and resistance. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Sam Stein.

California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Punish Administrators Who Fail to Vet Teachers for Misconduct
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creator: Holly McDede
date: 2026-08-31T20:40:00Z
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description: The post California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Punish Administrators Who Fail to Vet Teachers for Misconduct appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: California Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi authored a bill, passed by the legislature last week, that would allow the state to punish administrators who fail to fully vet teacher applicants as well as discipline educators who do not disclose their full employment histories when applying for jobs. Rich Pedroncelli/AP California lawmakers unanimously passed legislation last week to ensure that school administrators are informed about past accusations of misconduct against teachers as part of their hiring process. The legislation follows a KQED-ProPublica investigation revealing how delays and inaction, combined with a lack of transparency, allowed educators to get new jobs after school districts reported them to the state teacher licensing agency for sexual harassment or other misconduct. Our reporting found that at least 14 educators were hired by new schools after their former employers determined they had sexually harassed students or committed other sexual misconduct. The bill, authored by Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, is an attempt to make sure that doesn’t happen again, adding teeth to background check mandates in place since 2025. Under that law, applicants for jobs at public schools are supposed to list every teaching position they have ever held. The requirement expanded to private school teaching applicants this year. Top school administrators are required to check with applicants’ previous employers to see if they had ever been reported to the state for credible or substantiated complaints of egregious misconduct. But the existing law relies on schools and teachers to follow the mandates without clear penalties for those who fail to do so. Muratsuchi’s bill specifies that the state’s teacher licensing agency may discipline teachers and administrators; that can include issuing public reprimands, or suspending or revoking their credentials if they don’t comply. “If there aren’t any penalties, there are no consequences,” Muratsuchi said in an interview…

Taiwan steps up AI defenses as China election interference fears grow
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-08-31T20:38:10Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
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description: Beijing is likely to employ AI for deepfakes, fake recordings and targeted interactions with voters, experts said.
encoded: China is likely to use artificial intelligence to influence Taiwan’s Nov. 28 local elections, analysts told Radio Free Asia. Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, warned this month that Beijing could use AI to target groups of voters, impersonate Taiwanese social media users and circulate fabricated recordings or scandals shortly before election day. The warning comes as Taipei steps up its defenses against AI interference in the election regardless of whether it originates inside or outside of the democratic island, which China considers to be its territory. Taiwan’s government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claim and says the island’s future can be decided only by its people. Researchers say influence operators can use AI to produce content more quickly, manage networks of fake accounts and tailor messages to individual voters. “I do think that AI will be more involved in the November local elections,” Sze-Fung Lee, an independent researcher specializing in Chinese hybrid warfare, told RFA. “The use of AI has been observed repeatedly in previous elections, and I believe we will continue to see it in the form of deepfakes for defamation campaigns, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and more sophisticated microtargeting.” People ride past campaign ads for presidential and parliamentary candidates ahead of the general election in Taipei, Jan. 12, 2024. (Ann Wang/Reuters) China has a long history of interfering in Taiwan’s elections, and it will likely use AI as it continues its efforts, William Yang, a Northeast Asia analyst at the Belgium-based International Crisis Group, told RFA. “I do think Taiwan has legitimate reason to worry about Chinese election interference assisted by advanced AI technology,” Yang said. “Now with the assistance of advanced AI technology, these efforts will certainly be on the rise, especially when it coincides with key election cycles.” Beijing has repeatedly denied interfering in Taiwan’s elections. It accuses the DPP of pro…

Trump’s Drug Pricing Deals Are a Farce
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-31T20:16:12Z
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description: President Donald Trump is expected to announce more most-favored nation (MFN) drug pricing deals with additional pharmaceutical companies today. Public Citizen plans to immediately file a Freedom of Information request to obtain the texts of the newly...
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Drones as First Responders
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creator: Kiley
date: 2026-08-31T20:07:44Z
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description: On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Beryl Lipton from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to talk about the Drone-as-First-Responder Programs, which yes– are as horrifying as they sound. Beryl outlines t...
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The Death of Freedom of Information
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creator: Kiley
date: 2026-08-31T19:53:02Z
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description: Today on the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield is joined by Ian Head from the Center for Constitutional Rights to talk about the slow death of the Freedom of Information Act. Ian outlines the various ways in which law enforcement agencies...
encoded: Today on the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield is joined by Ian Head from the Center for Constitutional Rights to talk about the slow death of the Freedom of Information Act. Ian outlines the various ways in which law enforcement agencies in particular avoid accountability, and various strategies to… The post The Death of Freedom of Information appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kiley.

Out-of-touch Trump says communities that reject AI data centers will be ‘backwards and poor’
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creator: Brad Reed
date: 2026-08-31T19:38:47Z
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 31, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. President Donald Trump on Monday warned Americans that they risk becoming “backwards and poor” unless they all...
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Why the U.S. is running out of munitions
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David Sirota: "Corruption is Why the Working Class is Being Immiserated in the United States"
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CPJ calls on Tunisia to release imprisoned journalists amid deadly heatwave
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description: New York, August 31, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately release journalists Zied el-Heni, Mourad Zghidi, and Borhen Bsaies, as reports of prisoner deaths amid an extreme heatwave raise grave concerns about life-threatening conditions in the country’s overcrowded prisons. At least 10 prisoners have died in recent weeks, as temperatures...
encoded: New York, August 31, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately release journalists Zied el-Heni, Mourad Zghidi, and Borhen Bsaies, as reports of prisoner deaths amid an extreme heatwave raise grave concerns about life-threatening conditions in the country’s overcrowded prisons. At least 10 prisoners have died in recent weeks, as temperatures across Tunisia approached 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in some cities, including five prisoners who died in a single day in prisons in the greater Tunis area. Rights groups and prisoners’ families have reported severe overcrowding, water and electricity cuts, inadequate ventilation, and limited access to medical care. “The deaths of 10 prisoners amid Tunisia’s severe heatwave make the continued imprisonment of journalists Zied el-Heni, Mourad Zghidi, and Borhen Bsaies even more alarming,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “These journalists should never have been imprisoned for their journalism and practicing their right in free speech. Tunisian authorities must not compound that injustice by leaving them exposed to dangerous prison conditions. They must release the three journalists immediately.” Zghidi and Bsaies have been imprisoned since May 2024. After completing eight-month sentences stemming from their commentary and social media posts, they were kept behind bars under a new financial investigation. In January 2026, both journalists were sentenced to three and a half years in prison on money laundering, tax, and other financial charges. El-Heni is serving a one-year prison sentence under Article 86 of the Telecommunications Code, following his April 24 arrest over a social media post criticizing the prosecution of journalist Khalifa Guesmi, who was imprisoned for more than three years. CPJ urges Tunisian authorities to: · Immediately release imprisoned journalists Zied el-Heni, Mourad Zghidi, and Borhen Bsaies. · Ensure humane prison conditions, including ac…

Full show only at playingforchange.com 🎶▶️
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 31, 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 31, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Jane Fonda remembers Dolly Parton, her "9 to 5" co-star
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A Dalí-designed shopping mall that became the feared secret police headquarters.
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Israel bombed a hospital. It separated a family for three years.
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Open Letter to Representative Hakeem Jeffries
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description: August 31, 2026 Rep. Hakeem Jeffries U.S. House of Representatives 2267 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Rep. Jeffries, Like other civic advocates, I read the New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles about your private mee...
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Nepal floods: Unrelated videos of past disasters, AI visuals falsely viral
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description: A devastating flash flood on Wednesday, August 26, near the Nepal-Tibet border, resulted in massive destruction in several districts of Nepal, including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, and Gorkha, with over 700 dead and over 2,500 people still missing. Reportedly, a glacial landslide of ice and rock caused the flash floods, which destroyed homes roads, bridges and […]
encoded: A devastating flash flood on Wednesday, August 26, near the Nepal-Tibet border, resulted in massive destruction in several districts of Nepal, including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, and Gorkha, with over 700 dead and over 2,500 people still missing. Reportedly, a glacial landslide of ice and rock caused the flash floods, which destroyed homes roads, bridges and power plants. In the days following the catastrophe, social media was rife with video clips showing the extent of devastation — from gigantic waves of floodwater gushing through entire villages, to buildings collapsing, and people being swept away under the debris. However, Alt News found that a large number of these videos circulating on social media were not authentic. Several of these videos were not from Nepal at all, but drawn from various other calamities which occurred across the world in the last few years. Clip From 2025 Uttarakhand Floods An X user, Said Ercan (@saidercan), posted a compilation clip on August 27 showing the havoc wreaked by large flood waves. The first clip shows a torrential river flowing through a mountainous area, and eventually sweeping through the houses on the banks, destroying them in an instant. The post has garnered over 5.8 million views and been reshared over 5,000 times at the time of publishing. (Archive) To verify whether the video is of the Nepal floods, we broke it down into keyframes and ran a reverse image search. This led us to an Instagram post uploaded by The Times of India, on August 5, 2025, featuring the same footage. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Times of India (@timesofindia) The caption states that the footage is of the Uttarakhand cloudburst havoc. “At least four people have died and many are feared missing after a devastating flash flood triggered by a cloudburst in the upper catchment area of the Kheer Ganga river caused large-scale destruction in Dharali village in Uttarkashi district…,” read the caption. A Dainik Bhaskar report also fe…

Her baby was evacuated from Al-Shifa under fire. It took nearly 3 years to hold him again.
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UN News Today 31 August 2026
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description: Secretary-General calls for action towards racial equalityUN committee urges collective effort on reparationsSenior UN official attends Pacific forum in Palau
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Why Randy Fine and Laura Loomer are targeting me – Max on the Judge
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The importance of keeping Indigenous languages alive
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Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with "9 to 5"
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Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington
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"Left Behind and Overlooked": Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks
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The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon
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"Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions": Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 31, 2026
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Trump Administration Sued for Approving ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide Trifludimoxazin
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description: Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network North America have sued the Trump administration over the registration of trifludimoxazin, a potent PFAS pesticide that breaks down into long-lived...
encoded: Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network North America have sued the Trump administration over the registration of trifludimoxazin, a potent PFAS pesticide that breaks down into long-lived, PFAS byproducts. PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of chemicals characterized by ultra-strong carbon-fluorine bonds that are highly resistant to break down. Trifludimoxazin takes years to decades to break down. The groups’ lawsuit was filed Friday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the use of trifludimoxazin on many crops, including corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, oranges, apples, peanuts and almonds, despite acknowledging the chemical’s potential harms to wildlife and human health. “Trifludimoxazin is a likely human carcinogen that belongs to a family of weedkillers that also causes reproductive harm, birth defects and neurological deficits in animal studies,” said Bill Freese, science director at Center for Food Safety. “As if the health threats weren’t enough, this incredibly potent herbicide can drift to stunt crops and wild plants hundreds of yards from a sprayed field, while runoff threatens wetland plants. Potent biocides like this have no business on the American landscape.” The EPA acknowledges that trifludimoxazin causes thyroid tumors in rodent studies but did not assess the cancer risk to farmworkers who use the pesticide or to people exposed to trifludimoxazin-contaminated food or water. Spray drift is likely to result in widespread harm to native plants and crops grown for food. Trifludimoxazin is 10 times more toxic to plants than dicamba, the herbicide whose rampant drift and runoff has caused unprecedented damage across many millions of acres of crops since 2017. “While everyone’s distracted by the Trump administration’s erratic actions on the world stage, it keeps approving dangerous forever pesticides right here o…

Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”
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description: Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton after the iconic country singer, actor and philanthropist’s death on August 25 at age 80. Her former co-star Jane Fonda tells Democracy Now! how they made the classic workplace comedy 9 to 5,...
encoded: Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton after the iconic country singer, actor and philanthropist’s death on August 25 at age 80. Her former co-star Jane Fonda tells Democracy Now! how they made the classic workplace comedy 9 to 5, for which Parton wrote the accompanying hit song. “She could see through people to their essence,” Fonda says of Parton. “She loved everyone.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington
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description: As Gary, Indiana, recovers from flooding and a two-week power outage, we also speak with Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, who discusses the city’s history as a site of Black struggle and organizing...
encoded: As Gary, Indiana, recovers from flooding and a two-week power outage, we also speak with Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, who discusses the city’s history as a site of Black struggle and organizing. In 1972, the city hosted the National Black Political Convention, which brought together thousands of activists to plan for increasing African American political power. Attendees included Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Jesse Jackson, Bobby Seale, Louis Farrakhan, Shirley Chisholm, Harry Belafonte and Amiri Baraka. “It was one of the great gatherings in the history of Black people in this country,” says Daniels, who calls the current backlash to racial progress “the dying gasp of a system that needs a major overhaul.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks
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description: Thousands of residents recently spent two weeks without power in Gary, Indiana, following a storm that ripped through the majority-Black city. The blackout ground the city to a halt, trapping residents in their apartments, forcing the closure ...
encoded: Thousands of residents recently spent two weeks without power in Gary, Indiana, following a storm that ripped through the majority-Black city. The blackout ground the city to a halt, trapping residents in their apartments, forcing the closure of many businesses and leading to fuel shortages at gas stations. Officials in Indiana estimate the storm might have caused up to $5 billion in damage in Gary and other communities. “We’re still in the recovery phase, as we speak,” says Gary Mayor Eddie Melton, who underscores that “hardening the infrastructure” should be a priority for the NIPSCO utility company. “We’ve never seen wind this strong before. … They need to ensure that the utility grid system is going to sustain that type of wind.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung
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description: Top U.S. military leaders have reportedly advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending the war in Iran because ongoing operations in the Middle East have degraded the Pentagon’s ability to confront threats elsewhere. Accordin...
encoded: Top U.S. military leaders have reportedly advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending the war in Iran because ongoing operations in the Middle East have degraded the Pentagon’s ability to confront threats elsewhere. According to The Washington Post, the warnings appeared in a classified assessment for Hegseth prepared by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. This comes after multiple reports have revealed the U.S. is facing a critical munitions shortage, having used up much of its global stockpile of expensive missile systems during the war against Iran. “The Pentagon is completely dysfunctional when it comes to fighting this kind of war,” says defense analyst William Hartung, principal adviser at the Project on Government Oversight. He says the U.S. policy establishment and the defense industry are less interested in effectiveness than in running a “money-making machine.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing
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description: More than 900 people in Nepal are confirmed dead after a massive wall of water, mud and debris crashed through a Himalayan river valley on the border with Tibet. More than 4,200 people are missing in Nepal and hundreds more in Tibet. Families ...
encoded: More than 900 people in Nepal are confirmed dead after a massive wall of water, mud and debris crashed through a Himalayan river valley on the border with Tibet. More than 4,200 people are missing in Nepal and hundreds more in Tibet. Families are searching hospitals for loved ones, and crews have buried hundreds of unidentified bodies in shallow graves. Rescue efforts are also underway for more than 900 hydropower workers, believed to be trapped in more than a dozen underground tunnels blocked by debris. The cause of the flash flooding is believed to have been the collapse of a glacier in the mountains, leading a wave of water, rocks and debris to carve its way through the valley. “This is a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions,” says journalist Kunda Dixit, speaking to Democracy Now! from the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. “We used to say that the glaciers are melting in the Himalaya. Now it seems like the mountains are cracking up,” says Dixit. “This has sort of redefined what global warming and climate change is doing, not just to Nepal and the Himalaya, but to the planet.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 31, 2026
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description: U.S. Forces Target Iranian Launchers; Iran Retaliates Against U.S. Military Targets in the Region, U.S. Strikes Deal to Control 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil, Death Toll in Nepal-Tibet Floods Surpasses 900 People, Flash Floods Sweep Grand Canyon National Park, Killing One Person, ICE Plans to Spend $2 Million to Purchase “Robot Dogs”, Three Palestinians Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Occupied West Bank, Masked Israeli Settlers Attack NBC News Team Reporting in the Occupied West Bank, Israeli Strikes Kill Two Palestinians, Including 3-Year-Old Boy, in Gaza, Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin Violated Rights of International Students in Seeking to Deport Them for Pro-Palestinian Activism, Russian Attack on Ukrainian Weapons Depot Kills 38 People, Trump Threatens to Report NBC’s Kristen Welker to the FCC, Protesters Rally Against RSS Event at Madison Square Garden, Thousands Rally for Voting Rights on Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington
encoded: U.S. Forces Target Iranian Launchers; Iran Retaliates Against U.S. Military Targets in the Region U.S. Strikes Deal to Control 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil Death Toll in Nepal-Tibet Floods Surpasses 900 People Flash Floods Sweep Grand Canyon National Park, Killing One Person ICE Plans to Spend $2 Million to Purchase "Robot Dogs" Three Palestinians Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Occupied West Bank Masked Israeli Settlers Attack NBC News Team Reporting in the Occupied West Bank Israeli Strikes Kill Two Palestinians, Including 3-Year-Old Boy, in Gaza Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin Violated Rights of International Students in Seeking to Deport Them for Pro-Palestinian Activism Russian Attack on Ukrainian Weapons Depot Kills 38 People Trump Threatens to Report NBC's Kristen Welker to the FCC Protesters Rally Against RSS Event at Madison Square Garden Thousands Rally for Voting Rights on Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-31 Monday
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West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’ and denounce Indonesian military violence
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description: Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this week to condemn growing military violence in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. Paula Makabory, an executive member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), has also appealed to Melanesian
encoded: Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this week to condemn growing military violence in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. Paula Makabory, an executive member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), has also appealed to Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders to do the same and to call for an immediate end to the violence in civilian areas and to address the environment crisis in West Papua. Her call is being supported by several Pacific-based organisations. READ MORE: Vanuatu special envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports “The letter sent today to Pacific leaders calls for immediate action because the humanitarian situation has reached a critical juncture, underscored by devastating casualties reported in recent weeks,” Makabory said in a statement. She cited the following recent incidents as examples of many since mid-2025 until now which showed an escalation of extrajudicial killings and the use of drones and land mines by the Indonesian military in civilian areas: Thursday, 18 June 2026: A drone strike in Intan Jaya. At about 1pm local time, an elderly Papuan woman was killed, and two other women were severely injured in an attack involving explosive materials deployed by Indonesian military drones. Local sources indicate an alarming escalation in military tactics, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and landmines placed along civilian footpaths. Wednesday, 17 June 2026: A fatal shooting in Dekai, Yahukimo. At 4.05 pm local time, a young Papuan man was shot and killed in Yahukimo Regency, Papua Pegunungan. Eyewitness accounts from the victim’s family directly implicated members of the Indonesian Marine Task Force. Thursday, 2 July 2026: American pilot Nicholas F. Gosselin of Associ…

West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’ and denounce Indonesian military violence
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description: Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this week to condemn growing military violence in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. Paula Makabory, an executive member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), has also appealed to Melanesian
encoded: Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this week to condemn growing military violence in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. Paula Makabory, an executive member of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), has also appealed to Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders to do the same and to call for an immediate end to the violence in civilian areas and to address the environment crisis in West Papua. Her call is being supported by several Pacific-based organisations. READ MORE: Vanuatu special envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports “The letter sent today to Pacific leaders calls for immediate action because the humanitarian situation has reached a critical juncture, underscored by devastating casualties reported in recent weeks,” Makabory said in a statement. She cited the following recent incidents as examples of many since mid-2025 until now which showed an escalation of extrajudicial killings and the use of drones and land mines by the Indonesian military in civilian areas: Thursday, 18 June 2026: A drone strike in Intan Jaya. At about 1pm local time, an elderly Papuan woman was killed, and two other women were severely injured in an attack involving explosive materials deployed by Indonesian military drones. Local sources indicate an alarming escalation in military tactics, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and landmines placed along civilian footpaths. Wednesday, 17 June 2026: A fatal shooting in Dekai, Yahukimo. At 4.05 pm local time, a young Papuan man was shot and killed in Yahukimo Regency, Papua Pegunungan. Eyewitness accounts from the victim’s family directly implicated members of the Indonesian Marine Task Force. Thursday, 2 July 2026: American pilot Nicholas F. Gosselin of Associ…

[uncut conversation] CYCLE Documentary Sheds Light on Forgotten Victims of Police Violence
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Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after three of his most senior ministers formally quit on Monday. This comes after Wale, 57, who was elected to the top job just over 100 days ago, cut short a
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after three of his most senior ministers formally quit on Monday. This comes after Wale, 57, who was elected to the top job just over 100 days ago, cut short a trip to Palau after East Malaita MP and Home Affairs Minister Manasseh Maelanga launched a surprise leadership challenge. He was elected prime minister on May 15 by 26 votes to 22 against Peter Shanel Agovaka. READ MORE: Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched State broadcaster SIBC is reporting the three cabinet ministers who resigned are Justice Minister Clezy Rore, Commerce Minister Harry Kuma and Maelanga. Solomon Islands Governor-General’s deputy Private Secretary Maxwell Banyo confirmed the resignations to SIBC on Monday. RNZ Pacific has approached Wale’s office for comment but has not received a response. Solomon Islands media have described the turn of events as an “internal coalition revolt”, while regional political watchers have called it “deeply unfortunate”. According to Maelanga, the reason for the no-confidence motion is that Wale “has repeatedly made decisions on matters of national importance without properly consulting Cabinet”. ‘Complicated’ reasons Solomon Islands academic Dr Tarcisius Kabutaulaka said the reasons for the motion of no confidence against Wale were “complicated”. “The fundamental questions for Solomon Islands are these: If the motion were to go through, what can a new government do in the remaining period of this Parliament?” Dr Kabutaulaka wrote for In-depth Solomons. “How would a change of government benefit the Solomon Islands? How would it further erode Solomon Islanders’ already low confidence in Parliament and its members? “And how would it address the country’s chronic problem of instability?” “While Solomon Islands’ members of Parliament tu…

Solomon Islands ‘dangles over the edge of political instability’ as three ministers quit
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after three of his most senior ministers formally quit on Monday. This comes after Wale, 57, who was elected to the top job just over 100 days ago, cut short a
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale’s Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) coalition appears headed for a major test after three of his most senior ministers formally quit on Monday. This comes after Wale, 57, who was elected to the top job just over 100 days ago, cut short a trip to Palau after East Malaita MP and Home Affairs Minister Manasseh Maelanga launched a surprise leadership challenge. He was elected prime minister on May 15 by 26 votes to 22 against Peter Shanel Agovaka. READ MORE: Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched State broadcaster SIBC is reporting the three cabinet ministers who resigned are Justice Minister Clezy Rore, Commerce Minister Harry Kuma and Maelanga. Solomon Islands Governor-General’s deputy Private Secretary Maxwell Banyo confirmed the resignations to SIBC on Monday. RNZ Pacific has approached Wale’s office for comment but has not received a response. Solomon Islands media have described the turn of events as an “internal coalition revolt”, while regional political watchers have called it “deeply unfortunate”. According to Maelanga, the reason for the no-confidence motion is that Wale “has repeatedly made decisions on matters of national importance without properly consulting Cabinet”. ‘Complicated’ reasons Solomon Islands academic Dr Tarcisius Kabutaulaka said the reasons for the motion of no confidence against Wale were “complicated”. “The fundamental questions for Solomon Islands are these: If the motion were to go through, what can a new government do in the remaining period of this Parliament?” Dr Kabutaulaka wrote for In-depth Solomons. “How would a change of government benefit the Solomon Islands? How would it further erode Solomon Islanders’ already low confidence in Parliament and its members? “And how would it address the country’s chronic problem of instability?” “While Solomon Islands’ members of Parliament tu…

The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
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encoded: Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in July. Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Images In mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and other financial companies accused of exploiting Americans — the role Congress had created for the agency after the 2008 economic crash. Vought had spent the first 18 months of the new Trump administration trying to dismantle the bureau, much as he and other appointees had done with the U.S. Agency for International Development. At CFPB, he’d ordered mass layoffs, tried to choke off the bureau’s funding and ended the lease on its headquarters, attempting to make good on his vow to put civil servants “in trauma.” But federal courts blocked Vought’s efforts to close the CFPB, with a judge at one point saying the administration had acted with “complete disregard” for Congress. So Vought, who is one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers, switched tactics: If there had to be a watchdog, theirs would be more of a golden retriever, friendlier to industry and less aggressive. Vought had accused the bureau of “thuggery” in the past, and said the “new” CFPB would focus on deregulation, embrace “humility” and adopt a “collaborative approach” to its dealings with companies that harm consumers. As evidence of the success of this new approach, Vought singled out one company by name in his testimony, a buzzy startup called Bilt. The company, which offers credit cards used to make rent and mortgage payments, had fumbled a critical transition, leading to confusion and financial stress for its customers. In the past, the CFPB might’ve deployed examiners to ensure that every consumer harmed got relief, investigated Bilt’s technology platforms for potential flaws, questioned its third-party contr…

DN! Monday, August 31, 2026
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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?
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encoded: Jimmie “Chris” Duncan lived in a motel in Alexandria, Louisiana, for weeks until he found an apartment. Kathleen Flynn for ProPublica Jimmie “Chris” Duncan wiped the sweat off his forehead as he assessed his temporary home from the parking lot of a rundown motel in central Louisiana. Sure, there’s drug dealing and prostitution, he said on a recent summer afternoon. And he suspected his neighbors were cooking meth on a floor below the room he paid $350 a week to rent. But, he said, “I feel safe here. I mean, I’ve been on death row. I feel safe anywhere.” Duncan had spent the last three decades trying to prove his innocence after a jury convicted him of killing his former girlfriend’s toddler. An investigation by Verite News and ProPublica last year showed that prosecutors had relied on key evidence that appeared to be fabricated by a pair of forensics experts whose use of bite mark analysis has since been widely discredited as junk science. Nevertheless, Louisiana prosecutors continued to argue that Duncan should be put to death. The threat became ever more real as Gov. Jeff Landry began expediting executions, despite the state’s track record of convicting and sentencing to death people later found to be innocent. It wasn’t until June that the Louisiana Supreme Court threw out Duncan’s murder conviction, ruling that the bite marks found on the child’s body, the only physical proof tying Duncan to the alleged crime, could not have been made by a human. Chief Justice John Weimer was so outraged by the prosecution of Duncan that he compared it to 17th-century witch trials. “We now look back at those practices as asinine and absurd” with “no basis whatsoever in logic,” he wrote. Some of the evidence against Duncan, he said, was “similarly specious.” The trauma that the state imposed on Duncan as a result of his wrongful conviction continues today. Although Louisiana’s top jurist tore apart the state’s case against Duncan, the 57-year-old West Monroe native still isn’t tr…

When ocean temperatures increase, so does child malnutrition on land
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description: Researchers are just discovering this troubling consequence of climate change, but they still don't know why it happens.
encoded: In 2024, an interdisciplinary team of social and marine scientists set out to examine whether the prevalence of marine heatwaves — prolonged rises in ocean temperatures that are becoming more frequent and more intense because of climate change — has any impact on child and maternal health outcomes. “I was very ready to find nothing,” said Clark Gray, a human geographer and professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the research. The researchers published their report this month, which revealed some distressing results. The team discovered that for every standard deviation increase in the number of marine heatwaves in a 24-month period — or roughly three more marine heatwaves than normal — child mortality increases by 5.4 percent. Child wasting and child stunting, which can result from malnutrition, also increased — by 6.5 and 8.8 percent respectively. The ways in which marine heatwaves might influence extreme weather on land are still being studied. This study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is not without its limitations. The authors specifically looked at health data from low and middle-income countries. The data analysis also only demonstrates a correlation between marine heatwaves and health; the authors are still not sure why or how child malnutrition and mortality spikes when oceans warm. For example, marine heatwaves have been shown to disrupt oceanic food chains. It’s possible that these warm-water events are causing vital fish or shellfish populations to die off. However, the authors pointed out that other mechanisms — such as terrestrial heatwaves or the spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases — cannot be ruled out as other drivers. Katy Seto, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, called the research important nevertheless. She noted that high-level findings such as these create an opportunity for refining future research. “It is definitely…

Manhattan’s flood walls are almost done. What will Mamdani do next?
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description: The new mayor wants to invest in coastal resilience, but he will have to decide which areas of the city to protect.
encoded: New York City has more than 500 miles of coastline. The city’s coastal zone is home to more than 1 million people as well as billions of dollars of residential and commercial property, and no two miles of the waterfront are quite the same. The marshy areas of southern Queens, the housing projects in waterfront Brooklyn, and the towers of Manhattan’s Financial District are all vulnerable during high tides and major storm events, and each of these areas is vulnerable in a different way. The city learned these lessons the hard way in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy sent almost 14 feet of storm surge up New York Harbor and flooded thousands of structures across the five boroughs. In the aftermath of the disaster, the city embarked on one of the most ambitious climate adaptation efforts in U.S. history. Leaders spent billions of dollars to elevate and armor the lower reaches of Manhattan with flood gates and berms, rebuild the destroyed beaches in Queens, and buy out homes in the low-lying neighborhoods of Staten Island. Each stage of this effort faced delay and controversy, but the post-Sandy effort is now almost complete. The elevated East River Park in Manhattan is now partly open to sunbathers and tennis players. Farther down the island, construction crews are installing rolling-track flood walls that will be deployed during major storm surge events. These flood defenses will be operational by the 2027 hurricane season, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already laying the groundwork for what comes next. Last month the mayor announced a major expansion of the Bureau of Coastal Resilience, promising to add almost 70 new staff members to a unit that had been on a shoestring budget under prior mayor Eric Adams. The first members of this new team will deploy the flood gates and clear the coastal zone in the runup to big storm events. “There was this huge investment of over a billion dollars to build these gates, and once you build it, you have to maintain it,” said Lisa Garcia, the …

Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau With the final list of leaders attending the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Palau still unconfirmed, the regional body’s policy hub is moving to emphasise the robustness of potential decisions and outcomes from the week. The annual summit is supposed to bring together
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau With the final list of leaders attending the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Palau still unconfirmed, the regional body’s policy hub is moving to emphasise the robustness of potential decisions and outcomes from the week. The annual summit is supposed to bring together leaders from the Forum’s 18 member states to discuss and progress major regional issues. However, as of Monday morning, five members were going to be in Koror without representation at the top level. Kiribati President Taneti Maamau and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale are the two late withdrawals. READ MORE: Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports Maamau has reportedly been unable to arrange travel in time for the meeting and also had a parliamentary sitting he needed to attend. His absence has raised a lot of concerns over cohesiveness of PIF following tensions over a lack of agreement among members at the PIF Foreign Ministers Meeting earlier this month. Members failed to reach consensus on a statement [condemning China’s missile test at that meeting. The dummy warhead landed in Pacific waters near Tuvalu last month. Naoero (formerly Nauru) and Kiribati, which have strong ties to Beijing, were understood to be the members which did not support a statement on it. Both those countries were also understood to be isolated from the wider collective for their stance in Suva. Naoero’s President David Adeang confirmed this morning he would be in Koror. Wale forced to return home Meanwhile, Wale did make it to Palau, however he was forced to return home after a motion of no confidence was filed against his leadership. Samoa, Vanuatu and New Caledonia are also not represented in Palau at leadership level. Instead, their delegations are being led by deputy leader…

Missing leaders won’t derail Pacific Islands Forum outcomes, says secretariat
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau With the final list of leaders attending the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Palau still unconfirmed, the regional body’s policy hub is moving to emphasise the robustness of potential decisions and outcomes from the week. The annual summit is supposed to bring together
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau With the final list of leaders attending the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Palau still unconfirmed, the regional body’s policy hub is moving to emphasise the robustness of potential decisions and outcomes from the week. The annual summit is supposed to bring together leaders from the Forum’s 18 member states to discuss and progress major regional issues. However, as of Monday morning, five members were going to be in Koror without representation at the top level. Kiribati President Taneti Maamau and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale are the two late withdrawals. READ MORE: Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports Maamau has reportedly been unable to arrange travel in time for the meeting and also had a parliamentary sitting he needed to attend. His absence has raised a lot of concerns over cohesiveness of PIF following tensions over a lack of agreement among members at the PIF Foreign Ministers Meeting earlier this month. Members failed to reach consensus on a statement [condemning China’s missile test at that meeting. The dummy warhead landed in Pacific waters near Tuvalu last month. Naoero (formerly Nauru) and Kiribati, which have strong ties to Beijing, were understood to be the members which did not support a statement on it. Both those countries were also understood to be isolated from the wider collective for their stance in Suva. Naoero’s President David Adeang confirmed this morning he would be in Koror. Wale forced to return home Meanwhile, Wale did make it to Palau, however he was forced to return home after a motion of no confidence was filed against his leadership. Samoa, Vanuatu and New Caledonia are also not represented in Palau at leadership level. Instead, their delegations are being led by deputy leader…

Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua
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description: Vanuatu Daily Post The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) should revisit a proposal for an independent regional delegation to visit West Papua and assess reported human rights concerns, says Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman. With the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM) opening today, Natuman said Pacific leaders would
encoded: Vanuatu Daily Post The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) should revisit a proposal for an independent regional delegation to visit West Papua and assess reported human rights concerns, says Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman. With the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM) opening today, Natuman said Pacific leaders would have an opportunity to reconsider the issue and determine how the region could respond to continuing concerns about human rights and the wellbeing of the people of West Papua. Natuman, a former prime minister, said the Forum had previously proposed sending a delegation to West Papua to assess the human rights situation directly. READ MORE: Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports However, he said the Forum had written to the Indonesian government regarding the proposed visit but had not received a response. Natuman said direct access remained important if Pacific leaders were to develop a clearer understanding of the situation and consider reports of human rights concerns raised at regional and international levels. The proposed visit could provide a fact-finding mechanism for Pacific countries, allowing representatives to engage with relevant stakeholders and assess conditions before reporting their findings to the Forum. Natuman said the issue also extended to the participation of West Papuan representatives in regional and international forums, where he claimed their involvement had faced obstacles. Similar challenges He pointed to similar challenges within the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) and said there would be no West Papuan delegation attending the upcoming PIF. Natuman also referred to discussions surrounding West Papua at United Nations human rights mechanisms in Geneva, arguing that Indonesia’s position within international institutions had presented additional challenges for those seeking gr…

Vanuatu Special Envoy calls for PIF to ‘reopen’ issue of Pacific access to West Papua
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description: Vanuatu Daily Post The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) should revisit a proposal for an independent regional delegation to visit West Papua and assess reported human rights concerns, says Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman. With the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM) opening today, Natuman said Pacific leaders would
encoded: Vanuatu Daily Post The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) should revisit a proposal for an independent regional delegation to visit West Papua and assess reported human rights concerns, says Vanuatu Special Envoy on Decolonisation and Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Joe Natuman. With the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM) opening today, Natuman said Pacific leaders would have an opportunity to reconsider the issue and determine how the region could respond to continuing concerns about human rights and the wellbeing of the people of West Papua. Natuman, a former prime minister, said the Forum had previously proposed sending a delegation to West Papua to assess the human rights situation directly. READ MORE: Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched Other PIF reports Other West Papua reports However, he said the Forum had written to the Indonesian government regarding the proposed visit but had not received a response. Natuman said direct access remained important if Pacific leaders were to develop a clearer understanding of the situation and consider reports of human rights concerns raised at regional and international levels. The proposed visit could provide a fact-finding mechanism for Pacific countries, allowing representatives to engage with relevant stakeholders and assess conditions before reporting their findings to the Forum. Natuman said the issue also extended to the participation of West Papuan representatives in regional and international forums, where he claimed their involvement had faced obstacles. Similar challenges He pointed to similar challenges within the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) and said there would be no West Papuan delegation attending the upcoming PIF. Natuman also referred to discussions surrounding West Papua at United Nations human rights mechanisms in Geneva, arguing that Indonesia’s position within international institutions had presented additional challenges for those seeking gr…

Oh Canada: We Will Neither Cower Nor Bend
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description: More insane idiocy from the petty huckster clown king whose idea of governance is threatening lawsuits, trade wars, buildings that won't put his name on them; bungling war and peace; flaunting Nazi loyalty queries and sadistic images of black men in c...
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Clothing brand founders Ellie Chen and Jensen Neff (Oddli) on building a creative ecosystem
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description: Why is it important for you to build community through your work, and with the people who invest in your brand?
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Solomon Islands PM Wale rushes home from Palau after confidence challenge launched
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale made an emergency trip back to Honiara on Sunday morning from Palau after a motion of no confidence was filed against him. Wale was in Palau to attend the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting as its current chair. He was suppose to hand over the chairmanship
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale made an emergency trip back to Honiara on Sunday morning from Palau after a motion of no confidence was filed against him. Wale was in Palau to attend the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting as its current chair. He was suppose to hand over the chairmanship to Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr in Palau. READ MORE: Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau Other PIF reports Wale, 57, was elected prime minister of the country on May 15 and has been in office for just over 100 days. The no-confidence motion against him over the weekend has been filed by East Malaita MP and Minister of Home Affairs Manasseh Maelanga. The Solomon Islands Parliament has confirmed it has received the notice. Maelanga is accusing Wale of making unilateral decisions without proper consultation and without taking matters through cabinet. “The motion follows concerns that the Prime Minister has repeatedly made decisions on matters of national importance without properly consulting Cabinet or obtaining its approval,” Maelanga said in the statement. “I have taken this step with confidence in our democratic institutions and a firm commitment to stable, transparent and accountable government.” Claims rejected Maelanga has also rejected claims that the challenge against Wales leadership was intended to derail ongoing investigations. The motion is the first major political challenge for Wale since coming to power. He had only just landed in Palau when news of the no-confidence motion back home reached him. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-132813" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Matthew-Wale-PIF-680wide.png" alt="Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale" width="680" height="509" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Matthew-Wale-PIF-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Matthew-Wale-PIF…

Meet the Ukrainian entrepreneur lifting spirits through flower deliveries
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They built a fake company to hire North Korean IT workers
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PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements censure
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description: Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestine advocacy group has criticised the “absence of signature” by the New Zealand government on a 22-member joint statement condemning the E1 Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank as a “moral collapse” in foreign policy. The recent joint statement was issued by the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada,
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestine advocacy group has criticised the “absence of signature” by the New Zealand government on a 22-member joint statement condemning the E1 Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank as a “moral collapse” in foreign policy. The recent joint statement was issued by the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the European Commission. The statement condemned the decision by the Israeli Higher Planning Committee to approve plans for settlement construction in the E1 area, East of Jerusalem, as “unacceptable and a violation of international law”. READ MORE: NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’ over Gaza genocide Palestinians, UK condemn Israel’s ‘destructive’ E1 settlement plan PM Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s E1 settlement plan Other Palestine reports The E1 settlement would divide the Occupied West Bank into two regions — northern and southern — and seriously damage the prospect of a Palestine state. However, the status of New Zealand’s position on the joint protest was confusing with an Australian government statement not listing New Zealand while the UK version did. RNZ National reports that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon had condemned Israel’s E1 settlement plan in spite of New Zealand “not signing a joint statement”. Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Tamimi condemned the New Zealand’s government’s “absence from the statement” in the context of the specific citing of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, describing the settlements as a “flagrant breach of international law.” “The Key/English National Party government co-sponsored this resolution at the UN Security Council in 2016,” she said in a statement. Israel’s E1 Settlement Plan Sparks International Condemnation Vi…

PSNA slams NZ’s ‘uncaring’ lack of signature on global Israeli settlements censure
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description: Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestine advocacy group has criticised the “absence of signature” by the New Zealand government on a 22-member joint statement condemning the E1 Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank as a “moral collapse” in foreign policy. The recent joint statement was issued by the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada,
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestine advocacy group has criticised the “absence of signature” by the New Zealand government on a 22-member joint statement condemning the E1 Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank as a “moral collapse” in foreign policy. The recent joint statement was issued by the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the European Commission. The statement condemned the decision by the Israeli Higher Planning Committee to approve plans for settlement construction in the E1 area, East of Jerusalem, as “unacceptable and a violation of international law”. READ MORE: NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’ over Gaza genocide Palestinians, UK condemn Israel’s ‘destructive’ E1 settlement plan PM Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s E1 settlement plan Other Palestine reports The E1 settlement would divide the Occupied West Bank into two regions — northern and southern — and seriously damage the prospect of a Palestine state. However, the status of New Zealand’s position on the joint protest was confusing with an Australian government statement not listing New Zealand while the UK version did. RNZ National reports that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon had condemned Israel’s E1 settlement plan in spite of New Zealand “not signing a joint statement”. Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Tamimi condemned the New Zealand’s government’s “absence from the statement” in the context of the specific citing of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, describing the settlements as a “flagrant breach of international law.” “The Key/English National Party government co-sponsored this resolution at the UN Security Council in 2016,” she said in a statement. Israel’s E1 Settlement Plan Sparks International Condemnation Vi…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 30, 2026
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Michael Jordan said no, so VICE got Dennis Rodman and the Globetrotters instead.
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CPJ, partners demand answers on disappeared Yemeni journalist Waheed al-Sufi
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description: On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Committee to Protect Journalists, together with press freedom and human rights organizations, calls on all parties to the conflict and the de facto authorities in Yemen to immediately end the use of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention against journalists and media workers, and to...
encoded: On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Committee to Protect Journalists, together with press freedom and human rights organizations, calls on all parties to the conflict and the de facto authorities in Yemen to immediately end the use of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention against journalists and media workers, and to urgently disclose the fate of journalist Waheed al-Sufi, whose fate remains unknown. Al-Sufi, editor-in-chief of Al-Arabiya, an independent Yemeni newspaper and website, was abducted in April 2015 from Sanaa, which is under the control of the powerful Houthi rebel group. He has not since been brought before any judicial authority, and no charges have been filed against him. The statement noted that enforced disappearance is often the gateway to further violations, including killings — as in the case of journalist Mohammed al-Maqri, abducted in 2015 and executed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on December 28, 2024 — as well as torture and ill-treatment. Journalist Naseh Shaker was abducted from Aden in 2023 and forcibly disappeared for nearly a year, before it later emerged he had been subjected to detention, torture, and cruel and degrading treatment. Read the statement in English and Arabic. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change
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description: Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution.
encoded: The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, the U.S. Army’s military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of the climate emergency, a lawsuit claims. Dr. Adam Kalkstein, a civilian professor of geography at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a testy meeting with Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point’s academic board, the court filing said. According to Kalkstein, who taught Army cadets there for 17 years, he told the dean at a November 2025 meeting that an order to cut from the curriculum content about the human causes of climate change was immoral and potentially illegal. It “would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the Constitution,” he said. Reeves responded by “storming out” of the meeting after telling Kalkstein that Donald Trump was commander in chief and set the agenda for West Point, the lawsuit alleged. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg" alt="" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?resize=1536%2C864&quality=75&strip=all 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?resize=160%2C90&quality=75&strip=all 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smokestack_Woman_EPA.jpeg?resize=150%2C84&quality=75&strip=all 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" height="900" width="1600" loading="laz…

Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau
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description: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting officially kicks off tonight in Koror, Palau. The runway leading in is already proving eventful, with at least one partner withdrawing its leader last-minute. For those who are not acclimatised, the mugginess of Koror’s 30 degree heat is stifling.
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting officially kicks off tonight in Koror, Palau. The runway leading in is already proving eventful, with at least one partner withdrawing its leader last-minute. For those who are not acclimatised, the mugginess of Koror’s 30 degree heat is stifling. READ MORE: Solomon Islands PM returns home before PIF meeting to face no-confidence motion Pacific Elders call for climate accountability, stronger regional unity Vanuatu journalist denied entry to Palau while traveling to cover Pacific leaders meeting Other PIF reports After five minutes in the sun, you’re sweating and whatever you’re carrying feels a few kilos heavier. Finding relief, even if it’s momentary, quickly becomes a priority. The fury at which geopolitics is wrapped into this year’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ meeting is a lot like Koror’s heat — even though you can’t see it, it’s all-encompassing and impossible to avoid. Already, questions have been raised over the last-minute withdrawal of Kiribati President Taaneti Maamau. Now, it is also uncertain whether Naoero (formerly Nauru) President David Adeang will be attending as planned. Maamau’s late withdrawal, and the current lack of certainty around Naeoro’s President Adeang, goes to the heart of problems around unity and outside interference in the PIF. Lack of agreement At the end of the PIF foreign ministers’ meeting in Suva earlier this month, the lack of agreement from members over a statement condemning China’s missile test dominated headlines. The dummy warhead landed in Pacific waters near Tuvalu last month. Naoero and Kiribati, which have strong ties to Beijing, were understood to be the members which did not support a statement on it. Both those countries were also understood to be isolated from the wider collective for their stance in Suva. The lack of agreement means the issue of a statement on the missile testing was deferred to Koror. In the la…

Shooting Wars & Trade Wars
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-08-29T18:01:39Z
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description: Ralph speaks with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, about the fall of the American Empire and self-proclaimed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. Then we welcome the CEO and co-founder of the Canadian-based organization Co...
encoded: Ralph speaks with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, about the fall of the American Empire and self-proclaimed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. Then we welcome the CEO and co-founder of the Canadian-based organization Corporate Knights, Toby Heap, to break down Trump’s unprecedented trade war with our closest ally. Plus, Ralph has some choice words for Hakeem Jeffries and his meeting with Jared Kushner and for Hillary Clinton and her take on the war with Iran. Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel. Over his 31 years of service, Colonel Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005, and Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Colonel Wilkerson also served as Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia, and for fifteen years he was the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network, senior advisor to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and co-founder of the All-Volunteer Force Forum. Two-thirds of the world now thinks that we are an enemy of their state. Two-thirds of the world. And it happens to be the two-third that has the greatest amount of the GDP in the world. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson I’ve lived for 81 years, almost 82, and I’ve watched my country go to hell right in front of my face… And the billionaires who want all of this to happen, they do not want a democracy. A democracy is fallible. A democracy can’t beat China. A democracy can’t beat Russia. A democracy can’t even beat Iran. They want a technocracy that is run by them, armed by them, technical revolution by them. They want all of this, and oh by the way they want to live to 150 while they’re doing it too. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson Every freaking hour they create a series of war cri…

The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 29, 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 29, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Baltimoreans BLAST Data Centers at City Planning Commission Hearing
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David vs. Goliath in the South China Sea.
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Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA
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New Film, Filipiñana, takes aim at inequality & structural violence in the philippines
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creator: Democracy Now!
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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How rising temperatures likely contributed to Nepal’s deadly flood
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description: Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.
encoded: Roughly 160 people are dead and hundreds more — including dozens of international tourists — are missing after flash floods hit a region on the mountainous border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. Devastating footage posted to social media shows people fleeing a wall of water that washed away buildings and vehicles. Initial analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the Nepalese government indicate that the flooding was likely triggered by a landslide caused after a piece of a glacier fell hundreds of feet. As the region warms, its ice is becoming increasingly unstable, raising the risk of catastrophic flooding. “The glaciers over there are definitely in retreat,” said Joseph Shea, an associate professor of geography at the University of Northern British Columbia. “There’s a lot of glacier mass up there, but we’re seeing thinning, we’re seeing retreating.” Since 2000, the world’s glaciers have lost 5 percent of their ice, with much more drastic impacts in certain regions. Nepal’s glaciers lost nearly a quarter of their area between 1970 and 2010. More than 160 smaller glaciers in the country, research has found, have vanished entirely. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Glacier-scientists-e1773773901971.jpg" alt="Four researchers in coats and hats stand around a hole dug in the ice on top of a glacier, while the sun peeks over the mountains behind them" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Glacier-scientists-e1773773901971.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Glacier-scientists-e1773773901971.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Glacier-scientists-e1773773901971.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Glacier-scientists-e1773773901971.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Glacier-sci…

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’ over Gaza genocide
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-29T11:09:33Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s Middle East policies and called on voters to oust it and elect parties pledging “humanitarian” policies. The spokespeople accused the Christopher Luxon-led government of turning a “blind eye to a full-blown genocide” and being complicit in crimes against humanity. Speaking at
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s Middle East policies and called on voters to oust it and elect parties pledging “humanitarian” policies. The spokespeople accused the Christopher Luxon-led government of turning a “blind eye to a full-blown genocide” and being complicit in crimes against humanity. Speaking at the 152nd consecutive week of pro-Palestine protests in Te Komititanga Square in downtown Auckland, speakers for the fledgling Free Palestine Party, Green Party, Labour Party, Te Pāti Māori and an independent candidate for Mangere, Dr Timoti Te Moke, delivered stinging criticisms of the government to loud cheers. READ MORE: Iran says it will stand firm over ‘unjust’ US sanctions, settlers besiege West Bank’s Qusr Palestine Action activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort spray-painting Other Palestine reports Organisers invited nine political parties and independent candidates to take part in today’s rally and forum. Only five agreed. But FPP and TPM were unable to attend and sent statements. “As a party we have marched beside and for our Palestinian whānau, we have pleaded with our government to do more, do better — speeches, written questions, letters,” Te Pāti Māori coleader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said in a statement presented by Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa’s Leeann Wahanui-Peters. “We called for ceasefires, to sanction Israel, expel the Israeli ambassador, recognise the State of Palestine, pushed for humanitarian pathways, called to end to NZ participation in military occupation. “But this is no big feat. This should’ve been the norm in the face of such atrocity.” Ngarewa-Packer’s statement said: “We have watched as the people of Palestine have lost their homes, their land, their whānau — grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, children — whole generations. ‘Experiencing loss after loss’ “Injuries unseen, unprecedented. No food, food blocked. They pick up, re…

NZ left parties condemn Luxon govt on lack of humanity, ‘complicity’ over Gaza genocide
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description: Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s Middle East policies and called on voters to oust it and elect parties pledging “humanitarian” policies. The spokespeople accused the Christopher Luxon-led government of turning a “blind eye to a full-blown genocide” and being complicit in crimes against humanity. Speaking at
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s Middle East policies and called on voters to oust it and elect parties pledging “humanitarian” policies. The spokespeople accused the Christopher Luxon-led government of turning a “blind eye to a full-blown genocide” and being complicit in crimes against humanity. Speaking at the 152nd consecutive week of pro-Palestine protests in Te Komititanga Square in downtown Auckland, speakers for the fledgling Free Palestine Party, Green Party, Labour Party, Te Pāti Māori and an independent candidate for Mangere, Dr Timoti Te Moke, delivered stinging criticisms of the government to loud cheers. READ MORE: Iran says it will stand firm over ‘unjust’ US sanctions, settlers besiege West Bank’s Qusr Palestine Action activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort spray-painting Other Palestine reports Organisers invited nine political parties and independent candidates to take part in today’s rally and forum. Only five agreed. But FPP and TPM were unable to attend and sent statements. “As a party we have marched beside and for our Palestinian whānau, we have pleaded with our government to do more, do better — speeches, written questions, letters,” Te Pāti Māori coleader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said in a statement presented by Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa’s Leeann Wahanui-Peters. “We called for ceasefires, to sanction Israel, expel the Israeli ambassador, recognise the State of Palestine, pushed for humanitarian pathways, called to end to NZ participation in military occupation. “But this is no big feat. This should’ve been the norm in the face of such atrocity.” Ngarewa-Packer’s statement said: “We have watched as the people of Palestine have lost their homes, their land, their whānau — grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, children — whole generations. ‘Experiencing loss after loss’ “Injuries unseen, unprecedented. No food, food blocked. They pick up, re…

Palestine Action activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort spray-painting
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description: Pacific Media Watch Palestine Action activists accused of vandalising a Scottish golf course owned by United States President Donald Trump have been accused of “terrorism” offences, reports Al Jazeera. The potential use of “terror-scale” sentencing was reported by The Guardian and The New York Times on Friday. The seven activists, who spray-painted messages in support
encoded: Pacific Media Watch Palestine Action activists accused of vandalising a Scottish golf course owned by United States President Donald Trump have been accused of “terrorism” offences, reports Al Jazeera. The potential use of “terror-scale” sentencing was reported by The Guardian and The New York Times on Friday. The seven activists, who spray-painted messages in support of Gaza and dug up turf at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire last year, have been charged with malicious damage “having a terrorist connection,” the newspapers reported. READ MORE: Palestine Action activists will not be sentenced as terrorists, judge rules Other Palestine Action reports An initial hearing on the cases is due to open at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday. The charges stem from a March 8, 2025, protest targeting the resort over Trump’s stance on Gaza. Activists from the British group sprayed red paint across the clubhouse, damaged turf and sprinklers, applied weedkiller to the greens, and painted “Gaza is not 4 sale” across the property. All seven defendants were charged under ordinary criminal law for malicious property damage. However, the prosecution’s 16-page indictment asserts the acts were “aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection”. Palestine Action has been locked in a legal battle with the United Kingdom since the British government proscribed it as a “terrorist” group last year. ‘Protests to save lives’ Cofounder Huda Ammori said that the charges against those involved in the protest at Turnberry made it clear that prosecutors were trying to appease Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We used direct action protests to save lives — the opposite of terrorism — by disrupting the flow of arms being used to murder Palestinians,” she said in a statement. “By hitting the profits of arms companies and by daring to spray paint on the golf course owned by the demagogue who has enabled Netanyahu’s crimes, we made powerful enemies. The British governm…

Palestine Action activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort spray-painting
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
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description: Pacific Media Watch Palestine Action activists accused of vandalising a Scottish golf course owned by United States President Donald Trump have been accused of “terrorism” offences, reports Al Jazeera. The potential use of “terror-scale” sentencing was reported by The Guardian and The New York Times on Friday. The seven activists, who spray-painted messages in support
encoded: Pacific Media Watch Palestine Action activists accused of vandalising a Scottish golf course owned by United States President Donald Trump have been accused of “terrorism” offences, reports Al Jazeera. The potential use of “terror-scale” sentencing was reported by The Guardian and The New York Times on Friday. The seven activists, who spray-painted messages in support of Gaza and dug up turf at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire last year, have been charged with malicious damage “having a terrorist connection,” the newspapers reported. READ MORE: Palestine Action activists will not be sentenced as terrorists, judge rules Other Palestine Action reports An initial hearing on the cases is due to open at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday. The charges stem from a March 8, 2025, protest targeting the resort over Trump’s stance on Gaza. Activists from the British group sprayed red paint across the clubhouse, damaged turf and sprinklers, applied weedkiller to the greens, and painted “Gaza is not 4 sale” across the property. All seven defendants were charged under ordinary criminal law for malicious property damage. However, the prosecution’s 16-page indictment asserts the acts were “aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection”. Palestine Action has been locked in a legal battle with the United Kingdom since the British government proscribed it as a “terrorist” group last year. ‘Protests to save lives’ Cofounder Huda Ammori said that the charges against those involved in the protest at Turnberry made it clear that prosecutors were trying to appease Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We used direct action protests to save lives — the opposite of terrorism — by disrupting the flow of arms being used to murder Palestinians,” she said in a statement. “By hitting the profits of arms companies and by daring to spray paint on the golf course owned by the demagogue who has enabled Netanyahu’s crimes, we made powerful enemies. The British governm…

Preparing For The Worst From Russia: Latvia’s ‘Weekend Warriors’ #shorts
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New Zealand says its ties with its Realm countries remain strong and stable
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description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand says its connections to its Realm countries remain strong and stable, after the first of a series of annual “family reunions”. Christopher Luxon met with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, Niue’s Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi and the Ulu-o-Tokelau Alapati Tavite in Government House this yesterday, ahead
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand says its connections to its Realm countries remain strong and stable, after the first of a series of annual “family reunions”. Christopher Luxon met with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, Niue’s Prime Minister Dalton Tagelagi and the Ulu-o-Tokelau Alapati Tavite in Government House this yesterday, ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Palau next week. The Realm countries will ride together this weekend to Palau for the Pacific Island Forum leaders summit next week. READ MORE: Other New Zealand Realm reports “We’ve got a 140,000 Cook Islanders, Niueans, Tokelauans, living here in New Zealand,” Luxon told reporters. “We’ve got deep connectivity between our four countries, and so it’s really important, in a volatile and uncertain world… what more [New Zealand] can be doing.” When the year began, the relationship between New Zealand and the Cook Islands was frosty. The Cooks had struck out in late 2024, signing a security deal with China that New Zealand had not approved of. Amidst a myriad of issues, a breakdown in communications led to a breakdown in trust, leading to a cut in aid only restored earlier this year. Now, Prime Minister Luxon said it has been sorted. ‘Normalised our relationship’ “We’ve normalised our relationship, and we sorted the issues of the last year or so out,” he said. Brown said one of the earlier sore points, a Cook Islands passport, has been laid to rest. “That’s no longer part of our discussions at the moment,” he said. “The Cook Islands has pretty well established itself internationally as a country, and as citizens of New Zealand and increasingly Australia, that’s where our status is right now.” Prime Minister Tagelagi echoed this sentiment for his own country. “If anything, we are so grateful for the New Zealand support, but the Pacific needs to reach out further,” he said, “so we don’t always have to rely on New Zealand.” For it’s part, the Cooks are fielding an unprecedented l…

Marianas voices demand a seat at the table in U.S. seabed mining proposal
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description: The project can boost CNMI economy and U.S. national security, but there are also local concerns, they said.
encoded: SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — As the U.S. government moves forward with plans to open more than 65 million acres of federal waters around the Northern Mariana Islands to potential seabed mineral exploration, business leaders and Indigenous advocates told Radio Free Asia the U.S. territory must not be sidelined in decisions driven partly by national‑security priorities. The proposed leasing notice, released August 17 by the Marine Minerals Administration, or MMA, follows earlier steps identifying vast areas of ocean for possible mineral development around the territory, officially called the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI. The plan has triggered intense debate across the islands, where concerns span environmental risks, cultural impacts, fisheries, tourism, and democratic accountability. Though the plan could be economically beneficial, the business community in the CNMI is approaching it with caution, Joshua Wise, president of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce, told RFA. <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/FOWVRL5XNNBRZGYFHE5W74A2SQ.jpg?auth=f16cd1c95c22ff9cc104367c25b895726c8aa643a3a00b0326bc3ca85c3363e1&smart=true&width=1500" alt="This map shows the mineral lease sale areas near CNMI as identified by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM. In July, BOEM was reunified with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to form the Marine Minerals Administration." height="2550" width="1500"/> This map shows the mineral lease sale areas near CNMI as identified by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM. In July, BOEM was reunified with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to form the Marine Minerals Administration. (MMA) “There are legitimate concerns, but there may also be significant economic opportunities that deserve to be fully understood,” Wise said, adding that critical minerals have become central to U.S. national security, manufacturing, technology, and supply‑chain resilience — meaning the CNMI …

Cuban journalist given 2 months to leave country for practicing journalism
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description: Miami, August 28, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urges the Cuban government to end its harassment of Austin Llerandi, a journalist and the director of Amanecer Habanero, a community media outlet in Havana. Llerandi, 36, has been detained numerous times in recent months for exercising his constitutional right to freedom of expression and a...
encoded: Miami, August 28, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urges the Cuban government to end its harassment of Austin Llerandi, a journalist and the director of Amanecer Habanero, a community media outlet in Havana. Llerandi, 36, has been detained numerous times in recent months for exercising his constitutional right to freedom of expression and a free press. Cuba’s penal code considers it a crime to defy “socialist law” or work as a journalist outside of state-controlled media. These laws violate the Cuban constitution which recognizes freedom of press as well as freedom of thought and expression, while also establishing the people’s “right to the free development of their personality.” On the latest occasion, he was summoned for interrogation on August 21 at the Marianao police station for five hours. He was advised that he is being investigated for possible violation of Decree 370 which bans media publications not authorized by the state. He was warned by a State Security officer that he should leave the country within two months or face jail. This is the second time in a month that Mr. Llerandi has been threatened with jail for “crimes against State Security” following an interrogation on July 14. “Cuban authorities should immediately end their harassment of Austin Llerandi. No journalist should have to choose between prison and exile simply for doing their job,” said José Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas. “Llerandi has the right to remain in Cuba and practice journalism freely, without threats, detention, or intimidation.” Llerandi is the editor of Amanecer Habanero newsletter published by the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP). He told CPJ that he plans to “stay true to myself” and keep producing “the kind of journalism I believe in.” Amanecer Habanero is one of several media outlets belonging to the (ICLEP), a Cuban exile media group which has received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)…

Trump Administration’s War on DEI in Universities Closes Off Students’ Learning Opportunities
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description: Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink.
encoded: Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Sara Gabler.

Rethinking the Anti-Defamation League
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description: Emmaia Gelman’s new book explores the group’s opposition to leftist movements, especially those linked to racial issues.
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Prison Creative Arts Project: Imagination in the Face of Incarceration [EXCERPT]
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Prison Creative Arts Project: Imagination in the Face of Incarceration [EXCERPT]
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Nevada preached peace on the Colorado River. Now it’s suing to protect its water.
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description: The state’s lawsuit claims the federal government’s plan for the river could strip Las Vegas of two-thirds of its water supply.
encoded: Nevada officials have long presented themselves as a voice for compromise and conservation in debates over the Colorado River. The Las Vegas area, home to two-thirds of the state’s population and most of its economy, has become a model of urban water conservation. As the river has declined from overuse and a decades-long drought exacerbated by climate change, southern Nevada water planners built extensive water reuse facilities and implemented tight restrictions on new turf and fountains, dropping the region’s per capita water use by 58 percent in roughly 20 years. Meanwhile, in interstate negotiations over the management of the Colorado River, state representatives have positioned themselves as bridge-builders, sometimes referring to themselves as the “middle basin” between the river’s divided upper and lower basin states. When the federal government’s new management plan for the river was announced earlier this month, most observers thought Arizona, which stands to take the largest immediate cuts, would launch the first lawsuit over the plan’s implications for its water supplies. So it came as a surprise to many Colorado River experts when Nevada became the first to sue the federal government over the plan this week. “I expected that there would be litigation, but it was surprising to me that Nevada fired the first shot,” said Anne Castle, former chair of the Upper Colorado River Commission, Nevada’s lawsuit comes after more than two years of negotiations among the seven Colorado River states and the federal government over how to reduce water use on the declining river. The states failed to reach a long-term agreement before the river’s current management procedures expire in October, leaving the Interior Department to impose its own plan. The federal government’s plan largely relies on cuts to water use among the lower basin states — Arizona, Nevada, and California — to prop up water levels in the river’s largest reservoirs. Those reservoirs have been draining s…

New film "Runa Simi" highlights Quechua language revitalization in Peru
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The Project Censored Newsletter–August 2026
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description: Censored Press News Allison Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender, spoke to AP’s Deepti Hajela about the absence of nuance in the body and beauty standards discourse surrounding Ariana Grande’s recent music video, saying, “We limit both the complexi...
encoded: Censored Press News Allison Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender, spoke to AP’s Deepti Hajela about the absence of nuance in the body and beauty standards discourse surrounding Ariana Grande’s recent music video, saying, “We limit both the complexity of the folks that we are directing our attention to,… The post The Project Censored Newsletter–August 2026 appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kiley.

Amy Goodman addresses her brief absence from Democracy Now!
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title: Tohono O’odham Chairman Jose gives update on border wall construction on tribal land; California sues Trump administration over moves to roll back state’s offshore wind energy progress – August 28, 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. “o’odham_land” by Meditations on the Collapse, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 New Fed chair Warsh says he wants to give markets fewer clues about plans to address inflation, hints at interest hike; California sues Trump administration over moves to roll back state’s offshore wind energy progress; Tohono O’odham Chairman Jose gives update on border wall construction, trespassing on tribal land; Faith organizations, immigrant activists holding vigils against construction of detention center near Gilroy, AG Bonta has challenged project in court; Saturday marks International Day against Nuclear Tests, Sunday is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances The post Tohono O’odham Chairman Jose gives update on border wall construction on tribal land; California sues Trump administration over moves to roll back state’s offshore wind energy progress – August 28, 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. New Fed chair Warsh says he wants to give markets fewer clues about plans to address inflation, hints at interest hike; California sues Trump administration over moves to roll back state’s offshore wind energy progress; Tohono O’odham Chairman Jose gives update on border wall construction, trespassing on tribal land; Faith organizations, immigrant activists holding vigils against construction of detention center near Gilroy, AG Bonta has challenged project in court; Saturday marks International Day against Nuclear Tests, Sunday is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances The post Tohono O’odham Chairman Jose gives update on border wall construction on tribal land; California sues Trump administration over moves to roll back state’s offshore wind energy progress – August 28, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats’ Failures Explained
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Trump’s Latest Vanity Project: Emulating A Persian Gulf Oil Monarch
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description: The Trump administration is demanding that Venezuela hand over control of more than a dozen of the country’s vast oil fields, according to reports from Axios. If the deal moves forward, the U.S. federal government would take ownership of the fields an...
encoded: The Trump administration is demanding that Venezuela hand over control of more than a dozen of the country’s vast oil fields, according to reports from Axios. If the deal moves forward, the U.S. federal government would take ownership of the fields and would hand operational control to private oil companies. In response, Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, issued the following statement: “President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are demanding Venezuela turn over ownership of more than a dozen Venezuelan oil production fields to the United States federal government. If this comes to pass, Trump will likely transfer operational control to U.S. oil companies, opening the door to Trump’s typical bilateral transactional corruption, bestowing lucrative opportunities for the oil companies he chooses to reward. “In the nearly eight months since Trump’s illegal January 2026 Venezuelan invasion, the Trump administration has managed a $13 billion slush fund gleaned from its control over Venezuelan oil sales, with zero transparency, and little to no public oversight or accounting. The President has no authority to negotiate a deal where the federal government takes control over foreign oil production facilities, and Congress must intervene and put an end to Trump’s oil fueled imperialism. “Trump hasn’t been shy about expressing his admiration of Gulf Monarchs’ oil slush funds, and his effort to establish a South American kleptocracy is an outrage. There’s been no improvement in human rights in Venezuela, so Trump’s move is further evidence that his illegal actions in Venezuela are all about controlling oil with no public accounting, transparency or oversight. This is yet another Trump gift for Big Oil.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

What happens when your government minder tells you he’s living in 1984?
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Trump threats overshadow Brazil’s presidential election
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UN News Today 28 August 2026
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description: Nepal: Humanitarian situation remains dire as rescues persistLebanon: Civilians face difficulties returning homeIMO: Six-thousand seafarers remain trapped in Strait of Hormuz
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Report from Nepal: Catastrophic flooding in the Himalayas
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Trump Threats Overshadow Brazil’s Presidential Election
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“Filipiñana”: Dark Satire Takes Aim at Inequality & Structural Violence in the Philippines
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HRW Executive Director Philippe Bolopion shares why HRW is suing the Trump Administration
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"The Lion King" in Quechua?: New Film "Runa Simi" Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive
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"Who Paid, Who Gained": Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services
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Looking into private schools? Here are some tips from investigative reporters
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VHP, Bajrang Dal ‘attack’ reading session in Ahmedabad; tear Malala, Anne Frank books
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description: A peaceful book-reading session in Ahmedabad descended into chaos on August 27 after members of the Bajrang Dal and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) allegedly disrupted the gathering by raising slogans, threatening participants and making communal remarks. They allegedly tore copies of ‘I Am Malala’ and ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ being read at the […]
encoded: A peaceful book-reading session in Ahmedabad descended into chaos on August 27 after members of the Bajrang Dal and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) allegedly disrupted the gathering by raising slogans, threatening participants and making communal remarks. They allegedly tore copies of ‘I Am Malala’ and ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ being read at the session and used abusive language, before the confrontation eventually turned into a scuffle. Organised by Students and Collective Group (SYCA) at AUDA Garden in Vastrapur, the session was attended by around 40–50 people. According to SYCA, around 30-50 Right-wing activists, who claimed to be associated with the two outfits, arrived at the venue wearing saffron scarves and carrying baseball bats and sticks. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Student&Youth Collective Ahd (@studentandyouthcollective) During the ruckus, one of the attackers was caught on camera saying, “Check if they are Muslims by pulling down their pants.” An FIR was filed later in connection with the incident at Vastrapur Police Station naming Bajrang Dal members Hiren Rabari and Jimit Rabari. SYCA members shared photos with Alt News which showed torn books and injuries to the participants. At least six were injured, they said. Click to view slideshow. How the Anand Niketan School Controversy Escalated The August 27 confrontation at the reading session was the latest escalation in a controversy that began with a canteen incident at Anand Niketan School in Ahmedabad’s Shilaj area and soon shifted focus to two books in its library. On August 11, something resembling a piece of glass was allegedly found in food served at the school canteen. An eighth-grade student reportedly swallowed it and was later admitted to hospital. The student’s parents protested and made serious allegations against the school management. Within days, however, the controversy expanded to include two books available in the school library — ‘I Am Malala’ and ‘The Diary of a Young …

"Don’t be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!" Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update
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Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is "Glaring Example of Climate Injustice"
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"Shut Down Dilley": Rep. Joaquin Castro on "Abusive" ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 28, 2026
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‘Only The Truth Matters’: Families Of Srebrenica, Sarajevo Victims React To Mladic’s Death
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“The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive
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description: Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks — and that half of the world’s 7,000 spoken languages could be lost by the end of the century. Quechua is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, with approxima...
encoded: Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks — and that half of the world’s 7,000 spoken languages could be lost by the end of the century. Quechua is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, with approximately 7 to 10 million speakers living primarily in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. But like so many Indigenous languages, Qechua is vulnerable due to cultural pressures and discrimination. The new documentary Runa Simi — “our language” in Quechua — follows Fernando Valencia, a Peruvian voice actor, Indigenous activist, radio host and single father, who has dubbed many online clips of animated movies into Quechua from his home in Cusco, Peru. In the film, Fernando pursues his most ambitious goal yet: to fully dub Disney’s animated classic The Lion King into Quechua, with the help of his 8-year-old son, Dylan. “I am sharing our culture to the worldwide culture,” says Fernando Valencia, who started dubbing films after noticing that Quechua-speaking Indigenous children were watching movies dubbed into Spanish that they couldn’t understand. “There’s like one hour a week of Quechua [in school], so it is very hard to actually learn it,” says Fernando’s son Dylan, who is now 14 years old. “Indigenous people in Peru are fighting for basic rights, like having water, electricity, healthcare, education in their own language,” says Augusto Zegarra, the director of Runa Simi. “But they also have the right to access entertainment in their own language.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Who Paid, Who Gained”: Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services
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description: A team of researchers led by Democracy Now!’s Juan González at the University of Illinois Chicago recently released an in-depth study on how, through a program called Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Chicago has spent some $16 billion in p...
encoded: A team of researchers led by Democracy Now!’s Juan González at the University of Illinois Chicago recently released an in-depth study on how, through a program called Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Chicago has spent some $16 billion in property taxes it collected over the past 40 years to fund downtown development. The money was supposed to be used to eliminate urban blight. ”TIF funding has actually exacerbated economic inequities throughout the city, pouring more than half of the billions of dollars that it collected into downtown neighborhoods while the 70 other community areas around the city were left to share the other half,” says González. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Don’t be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!” Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update
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description: Amy Goodman is back to hosting Democracy Now! after taking time off following a medical procedure to remove skin cells on her nose that tested positive for squamous cell cancer. “I think it’s important that … we don’t have to...
encoded: Amy Goodman is back to hosting Democracy Now! after taking time off following a medical procedure to remove skin cells on her nose that tested positive for squamous cell cancer. “I think it’s important that … we don’t have to be picture-perfect on TV or video. We are not plastic. We are people, and people get by in all sorts of ways around the world,” says Goodman. She reminds listeners and viewers to check in with the dermatologist: “A spot, a bump on their skin, a mole or a blemish anywhere, or just a rough spot, something scaly, might be cancerous.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”
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description: We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic flooding i...
encoded: We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region that swept away entire communities. Nepali authorities say they have rescued more than 3,700 people so far. Geologists say the flash floods were set off by a landslide and glacial avalanche so powerful it set off its own seismic signal. Climate scientists warn the region is warming much faster than the global average, leading to the rapid retreat of glaciers. “Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas,” says Sunil Acharya, a climate and public policy specialist reporting from Kathmandu, Nepal. “This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.” “The number of people being killed, the number of properties being damaged has been way beyond what we can adapt to,” says Acharya. The floods have “[washed] away hundreds of villages, a huge number of bridges and road infrastructure and also hydropower stations.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families
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description: Calls to shut down the ICE jail known as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas continue to grow following the detention and deportation of 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father Victor Martinez Nieto to Mexico. According to the...
encoded: Calls to shut down the ICE jail known as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas continue to grow following the detention and deportation of 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father Victor Martinez Nieto to Mexico. According to the family’s lawyer, Nieto had begged officers to let his son go as they were arrested on their way to soccer practice in Austin last week. Nieto wanted Liam released to his mother, but ICE reportedly refused. The arrest happened just days before Liam was set to start kindergarten. Texas Democratic Congressmember Joaquin Castro previously attempted to visit Liam and his father at Dilley but was denied by ICE. Last month, Castro led a group of more than 110 Democratic House members in a nationwide call to end family detention and shut down Dilley. “You have kids as young as 2 months old who have been in prison there,” says Castro. “And every child that’s put in there — every woman, every person — there are American investors who are making money off of their imprisonment.” Castro notes that children are not supposed to be held in detention centers for more than 20 days. “I’ve met with kids who have been there three months, seven months, 10 months. And so, this is really abusive, and it’s traumatizing a lot of kids.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 28, 2026
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description: Death Toll From Glacier’s Collapse on Nepal-Tibet Border Tops 500, Iran Sets Conditions for Reopening Strait of Hormuz on 6-Month Anniversary of Trump’s “Excursion”, Pentagon Faces “Beyond Critical” Shortage of Interceptors as Iran War Exhausts Supplies, Israel Strikes Lebanon, Killing Newlywed Woman, Gaza’s Children Protest as Israel’s Military Chief Declares Kite Flying a “Terrorist Act”, U.S.-Born Children Are Sent to Haiti Aboard Second Deportation Flight in a Week, ICE Steps Up Raids on Haitian Community in Springfield, Ohio, ICE Agent Charged with Shooting Venezuelan Man in Minnesota Walks Free from Texas Jail, Trump Orders Lake Ontario to Be Renamed “Lake America” Amid Canada Trade War, Fired Stars and Stripes Journalists Sue Pentagon, Alleging Retaliation by Hegseth, U.S. Navy Mulls Plan to Name Aircraft Carrier After Donald Trump Instead of Black War Hero, DOJ Suggests Demolishing Kennedy Center as Trump Once Again Looks to Add His Name to the Building, Trump Discloses 1,000+ Stock Trades in June, Including Energy Companies That Profited from War
encoded: Death Toll From Glacier's Collapse on Nepal-Tibet Border Tops 500 Iran Sets Conditions for Reopening Strait of Hormuz on 6-Month Anniversary of Trump's "Excursion" Pentagon Faces "Beyond Critical" Shortage of Interceptors as Iran War Exhausts Supplies Israel Strikes Lebanon, Killing Newlywed Woman Gaza's Children Protest as Israel's Military Chief Declares Kite Flying a "Terrorist Act" U.S.-Born Children Are Sent to Haiti Aboard Second Deportation Flight in a Week ICE Steps Up Raids on Haitian Community in Springfield, Ohio ICE Agent Charged with Shooting Venezuelan Man in Minnesota Walks Free from Texas Jail Trump Orders Lake Ontario to Be Renamed "Lake America" Amid Canada Trade War Fired Stars and Stripes Journalists Sue Pentagon, Alleging Retaliation by Hegseth U.S. Navy Mulls Plan to Name Aircraft Carrier After Donald Trump Instead of Black War Hero DOJ Suggests Demolishing Kennedy Center as Trump Once Again Looks to Add His Name to the Building Trump Discloses 1,000+ Stock Trades in June, Including Energy Companies That Profited from War This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-28 Friday
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Alumni revolt over Israel: 450 Sydney Uni staff, graduates accuse university of ‘profound moral failure’ on Gaza
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description: Deepcut News More than 450 University of Sydney (USyd) alumni and current staff have signed a letter calling for a mass meeting to discuss the university’s ties to Israel amid concerns of a crackdown on free speech. The letter, submitted to Chancellor David Thodey on Tuesday, accused the university of “failing to respond meaningfully to
encoded: Deepcut News More than 450 University of Sydney (USyd) alumni and current staff have signed a letter calling for a mass meeting to discuss the university’s ties to Israel amid concerns of a crackdown on free speech. The letter, submitted to Chancellor David Thodey on Tuesday, accused the university of “failing to respond meaningfully to the ongoing genocide in Gaza” which it said “represents a profound moral failure”. The signatories — among them recipients of Australian AM and OAM honours, a former deputy vice-chancellor and two politicians — are calling for a meeting of Convocation, a body comprising alumni, staff and members of the university’s governing Senate. READ MORE: Other university freedom of expression reports As well as the university’s institutional ties to Israel, the letter noted “an accelerating erosion of freedom of expression” as a crisis warranting a Convocation meeting. “We want to give voice to the disquiet among staff and alumni and force the university to take this issue seriously. They can’t keep sweeping an ongoing genocide under the rug,” Dr David Brophy, senior lecturer in history, told Deepcut News. Two weeks to reply Convocation meetings are common in universities as a means for alumni and staff to provide input into the institution’s governance. The University of Western Australia and University of New England are among those that hold regular Convocation meetings. The University of Sydney (Amendment Act) Rule 1999 requires Convocation to “hold at least 1 meeting in each year”. The last meeting it held, however, was over three decades ago. “Convocation is not a relic of a bygone age: meetings were held as recently as the 1990s,” the letter read. According to the university’s governing document, the chancellor has 14 days from the request to give notice of a meeting — or until September 8. If granted, the meeting is to be held within 28 days of the request — or by September 22. “Our chancellor is considering the request to summon a meet…

Six months on, Iran is still standing but survival is becoming more costly
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description: ANALYSIS: By Mahjoob Zweiri It has been six months since the United States and Israel launched their coordinated military campaign against Iran on February 28. The war is easily cast as the latest turn in the long antagonism between Washington and Tehran, but that frame misses its immediate context. Its real context is the aftermath
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Mahjoob Zweiri It has been six months since the United States and Israel launched their coordinated military campaign against Iran on February 28. The war is easily cast as the latest turn in the long antagonism between Washington and Tehran, but that frame misses its immediate context. Its real context is the aftermath of October 7, 2023: Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that followed spread across the region, wore down Iran’s network of allies, and pulled Israel and Iran into increasing confrontation, culminating in the 12-day war of June 2025 and the US-Israel campaign launched last February. The bilateral track only sharpened this trajectory. Nearly eight years before the current war, Trump’s first administration launched “maximum pressure” aimed at driving Iran’s oil exports to zero. READ MORE: Iran to draft conditions to open Hormuz following mediator requests Other War on Iran reports When it failed to force political change, economic coercion eventually gave way to military force. Six months on, the campaign has come full circle, back to economic pressure applied with greater force. Economics, then war, then economics again. At the 100-day mark, Tehran could plausibly present the outcome as a victory of survival: Its adversaries had failed to topple the system, and by its own measure that was what mattered. Six months on, that claim is harder to sustain because the pressure has shifted to the terrain on which Iran has always been weakest. The question is no longer whether Iran can survive military attack, but whether it can withstand an economic siege with no sign of lifting. A leadership hollowed out at the top The most visible change is at the summit. After the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the opening strike, his son Mojtaba was appointed just more than a week later, a succession Tehran presented as proof of continuity and cohesion. But six months on, he has yet to make a verified public appearance. His portrait is carried thr…

Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA⏐ The Intercept Briefing
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Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
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creator: Joaquin Sapien
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description: The post Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica and Vanessa Saba for ProPublica. Photo by Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo. When ProPublica recently investigated a rape crisis that surged through Syracuse University in the 1980s, we found evidence that the school had taken steps to suppress news coverage of the assaults. The university responded by portraying itself as a changed institution today, “committed to supporting the students who come forward and being there for them at every step of the process,” as a school spokesperson put it. But the university’s recent actions in a lawsuit filed by a former student who was attacked on campus during that period appear at odds with that commitment. After the Syracuse Police Department agreed to provide old records to the victim, lawyers for Syracuse University intervened, seeking to block the victim’s access to many of the records. The school argued in legal papers that the subpoena sent to the police department was “overbroad” and suffered “from fatal geographic overreach” that rendered “it unreasonably burdensome and irrelevant.” New York state court Judge Joseph Lamendola ruled in the university’s favor in February, dramatically limiting the records the victim could obtain to make her case that the school should have beefed up security in response to escalating crime in the area. In June, her attorneys appealed that decision, sending the matter to a state appellate court. “It smacks of the 1980s when SU quashed media coverage of sexual assault. It’s that all over again,” said Andrew Stengel, a former Manhattan prosecutor representing the victim. He accused the university of “retraumatizing” his client “by pretending sexual assault wasn’t a problem on campus and in the surrounding area.” Stengel and his client, referred to as Jane Doe in legal filings, are suing the university under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law that opened a one-year exemption from the statute of limitations for survivors of long-ago sexual assaults to p…

DN! Friday, August 28, 2026
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
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description: The post Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital” appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Camp East Montana, an immigration detention facility inside the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas Omar Ornelas for ProPublica The first emergency call about a detainee trying to harm himself came about a month after Camp East Montana — an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas — started to house immigrants. It was 2:50 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12. “We have a patient currently in holding who is saying he’s got suicidal ideations, swallowed some foreign object, has refused our basic medical care here,” a nurse told the operator. In the audio, you can hear that someone is moaning and yelling in the background. “At this point he is unable to speak and rolling on the floor in agonizing pain, holding his stomach,” the nurse continued. “A preliminary X-ray was done and a foreign object was found. We just need to take him to the hospital that’s closest so that they can verify if the object is currently in his system and possibly to excavate the object.” I’ve been reporting on Camp East Montana for months. It sits on barren military land and was supposed to be a model for how the Trump administration would carry out mass deportations. Instead, it became an example of what could go wrong. It remains in operation despite claims of inhumane conditions and abuse, which Department of Homeland Security officials have said are “categorically false.” ICE plans to keep the facility running at least through Sept. 30, 2027, The Associated Press reported. In the span of six weeks between December 2025 and January 2026, three men died at Camp East Montana, making it one of the country’s deadliest detention centers at the time. In July, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune published my investigation into the Jan. 3 death of one of those men, Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban national with a history of mental illness. He died after an altercation with guards over his medication, and a medical examiner ruled Lunas Campos’ death a homicide. (The Trump administration initially c…

The rush to power data centers is weakening the Clean Air Act
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creator: Emily Jones
date: 2026-08-28T08:45:00Z
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description: New guidance from the EPA takes away one of the most reliable tools for tracking pollution from power plants — and encourages data centers to build their own.
encoded: Across the country, the electricity needs of data centers have been a major driver of the widespread resistance to the speedy developments. The rapid buildouts of data centers have raised concerns that residential and small business utility customers will end up shouldering the costs, and about the health and climate impacts because much of the new capacity relies on burning fossil fuels. The rush has also given rise to a popular refrain: Make the data centers provide their own electricity. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro recently announced a moratorium on “any AI data center that does not bring, develop, and pay for their own power,” citing electricity costs in a post announcing the move on Instagram. Texas Governor Greg Abbott blocked new data centers from connecting to the state’s power grid. A drumbeat of calls for data centers to make power for themselves has been beating for months among regulators, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders. The calls for this approach argue it will shield utility ratepayers from data center costs. And it may. But new guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency about “islanded” power plants — those built to serve a single facility rather than the electricity grid — shows there aren’t as many reliable safeguards against the environmental and climate impacts. The EPA published guidance last month clarifying that the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program “does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected in any way to the larger electricity grid.” It’s part of a broader effort, experts said, to loosen regulations for data centers and power plants built to serve them. The Acid Rain Program is just one component of the complex federal air pollution law, which can require one facility to obtain numerous Clean Air Act permits, according to Mindy Goldstein, director of Emory Law School’s environmental law program. Exempting islanded power plants from the acid rain provisions means one fewer permit that indepen…

How to deal with burnout on a burning planet
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creator: Leslie Davenport
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description: Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys.
encoded: In this month’s Ask a Climate Therapist column, we’re tackling two questions at once — each examining similar themes of burnout and paralysis from two very different vantage points. Wherever you are on your own path of climate engagement, I hope the advice will resonate. Dear Leslie, I have been working in sustainability for over 24 years. I’m tired, demoralized, feeling pretty beaten. I try to live by the motto that you only fail when you stop — but with a heavy heart I feel I’m nearly at the point of giving up. Do I give up, and say I tried? Or how do I continue trying in a world that I have little influence or control over? —An Exhausted Specialist I’m 31, and I know more about climate change than anyone I work with. Twice now I’ve driven to a neighborhood canvassing event and left without getting out of the car. The only way I can explain it is that I’ve started to believe that nothing I do could make the slightest dent in the immensity of the planetary crisis. It sounds true when I say it out loud, but I can’t tell if it’s clarity or just fear dressed up as reasoning. —Frozen Activist Submit a question for a future Ask a Climate Therapist column Dear Exhausted Specialist and Frozen Activist, You’re arriving at the same boulder from opposite directions: One of you has been pushing against it for 24 years with shaking arms, and the other has backed off because you’ve decided that you can’t possibly budge it. And I get it. It’s painful to track worsening climate impacts knowing that they were coming, and to then assume the burden of failure. What I see in common with your struggles is a belief that you need to be equal to the scale of the crisis. What I would offer you instead is the reality is that none of us can do it alone, and when we try, we’re on the road to burnout. Ask a Climate Therapist tackles your questions about how to navigate the emotional side of climate change, with leading climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport. Have a question? Ask it here! Cu…

In the American West, wildfire comes for the suburbs
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creator: Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
date: 2026-08-28T08:15:00Z
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subject: Sources
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description: Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness.
encoded: Somersett, a short drive from downtown Reno, Nevada, is a peaceful place where homes with sweeping, high-desert views line cul-de-sacs and roads meander through shrubland, trailheads, and golf courses. But in the summer, months of low humidity and hot weather prime the landscape to burn. On the morning of August 22, it did. In just a few days, strong winds carried the flames of the Hawk Fire more than 23 miles, placing some 90,000 people on evacuation notice as dense smoke and orange skies blanketed the city. By Wednesday, dozens of houses had been destroyed. Two weeks earlier, the Bug fire burned 150 square miles just north of the same area. It’s the latest in an era of worsening wildfires in the United States, where more than 7.9 million acres have burned this year. A similar story is playing out in Canada, where First Nations and residents of Ontario have borne the brunt of more than 5,100 fires across the country. Scientists say climate change has made these fires, along with others in Europe, significantly more likely to happen. This year’s blazes in the Western U.S. were exacerbated by record-low winter snowfall, depriving the landscape of the moisture that typically seeps from snowpack throughout the summer, and by extreme and long-lasting heat waves that baked the landscape. And the fires have highlighted another, deadly piece of the puzzle: suburban sprawl. “What’s happened over the last decades is, we’ve had explosive population growth in naturally fire-prone areas,” said Tim Brown, director of the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada. “People are moving in to where fire happens.” The wildland-urban interface, which researchers often call the “WUI,” is the phrase given to places where housing is sandwiched between paved city-centers and forests or grasslands. Researchers have been raising the alarm about the fire risk posed to homes in these areas since the 1980s. As humans burn more fossil fuels and warm the planet, l…

New research shows the world isn’t doing nearly enough to fix its food problem
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creator: Frida Garza
date: 2026-08-28T08:00:00Z
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description: Emissions from agriculture are trending up, but experts say progress must continue even as we blow past global deadlines.
encoded: A new report finds that, across the globe, progress toward developing more sustainable, resilient food systems is not advancing fast enough to meet internationally agreed upon deadlines. The research builds on previous studies tracking a number of goals, including some established a decade ago by United Nations member countries, like eliminating hunger and poverty. The deadline to reach these targets, known as Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, is 2030. The paper also considers net-zero emissions goals set by the Paris Agreement. For the majority of these goals, researchers involved in this study say it is now virtually impossible to reach the 2030 deadline. The report, led by the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, differs from the group’s earlier work by measuring progress at both the global and regional level. Alongside their paper, which was published in Nature Food earlier this month, the authors launched an interactive dashboard that showcases how nearly every country in the world is advancing (or not) on about 50 different metrics. These include things like the cost of a healthy diet, fruit and vegetable availability, agricultural yields, greenhouse gas emissions from growing food, and more. For certain environmental or climate-related metrics, this food systems report card feels especially dire. For example, the authors looked at how much greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems have gone up or down in recent years. In order to do this, the team calculated gross emissions from agri-food systems as a percentage of each country’s average historical emissions. They found that globally, change in agri-food emissions is trending in an undesirable direction — that is, up. Emissions from agricultural production present a significant challenge on the road to reducing global warming, as they make up about a third of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization. According to the paper, in order to reach net-zero…

Nepal Flood Crisis: Hundreds Dead, More Than 1,400 Missing
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Photographer Trent Davis Bailey on art as therapy
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description: What brought you to photography as an art form?
encoded: What brought you to photography as an art form? I think I inherited photography from my brother, my dad, and my mom. The first time I became interested in photography, I was tied to a tree. My older brother had gotten a high school art assignment to make pictures that included a rope. I was 12 at the time. He tied me to the cottonwood in our backyard, shot a roll of film, and then turned around and walked inside the house with me still tied to the tree. In that moment—in that pause between him coming back out to untie me and me being willing to be tied to a tree for art sake—I realized how the camera is this powerful tool to change the relationships between people, even kin. And so, it shifted the dynamic between my brother and me: we became collaborators. We were engaging in this artistic act that was based on the reality of our lives, but it was also partly fictional. A week later, I asked my dad if I could borrow his old Nikon that he had in college. I started taking pictures of the neighborhood where I lived. I would bring it with me when my family went into the high country of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. I would photograph my cat. I wasn’t doing anything particularly serious, but I became obsessed with the process of, as Gary Winogrand famously put it, “to see what the world looks like photographed.” I would skip lunch to work in the dark room and make prints. I became obsessed with the magic of photography, both as an alchemical process and the woodshop-like nature of the darkroom. It’s very meditative. And then there’s the actual experience of being out in the world with a camera. I found myself walking the halls of my middle school, stopping people to take close-up portraits of their faces. They weren’t necessarily people that I had interacted with before. Photography was teaching me how to be in the world. How has your relationship with taking pictures changed over time? It’s ever evolving just as I am. I look at my first book, The North Fork (Trespasser, 2…

Ukrainian Drone Spots SOS, Sparking 3-Day Rescue From Frontline Village #ukraine #drones
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PNG’s parliament Bougainville vote still many months away
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific After an historic day in which the result of Bougainville’s independence referendum was finally tabled in Papua New Guinea’s national Parliament, an eventual decision on the matter is at least months away. The Parliament adjourned after debate on Thursday on the tabling of the Bougainville referendum result from 2019
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific After an historic day in which the result of Bougainville’s independence referendum was finally tabled in Papua New Guinea’s national Parliament, an eventual decision on the matter is at least months away. The Parliament adjourned after debate on Thursday on the tabling of the Bougainville referendum result from 2019 in which 97.7 percent of Bougainvilleans voted for independence PNG’s members of Parliament will have the final say on whether to ratify the result, although it is not clear when that vote will be taken. READ MORE: Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the brink of statehood? Other Bougainville independence reports A delegation from the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) sat patiently in the gallery and watched on as MPs offered different takes on what everyone agreed was a difficult decision for them to have to make. As the Joint Consultation Report and the Melanesian Framework documents were also newly tabled, PNG’s opposition leader James Nomane pointed out that the MPs could hardly be expected to make informed decisions when they had only just received these documents. “I ask that the government be very, very clear about when this vote will take place, and make all effort to inform all leaders of the House about: yes, what happens; no, what happens?” Nomane said. PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape said his government had a plan for the way forward for either outcome of the vote, affirmative and negative. Setting the vote date After the adjournment, he issued a statement saying the PNG and Bougainville governments would meet in October to set the date for the Parliament vote on the referendum. Earlier, he told MPs to go away and digest the report documents before deciding how to vote, and to ponder the Bougainville viewpoint, while also urging Bougainvilleans to consider the perspective of PNG. “This is not simply a constitutional or political issue. It concerns the lives, hopes and futur…

A Place of Peace Amid Turmoil on the Sea
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creator: Giacomo Sini
date: 2026-08-28T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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description: Paréa Lesbos, a community center for migrants and asylum seekers on the Greek coast, is a scenic refuge for those who have faced violence and chaos.
encoded: Paréa Lesbos, a community center for migrants and asylum seekers on the Greek coast, is a scenic refuge for those who have faced violence and chaos. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Giacomo Sini.

Did CJP workers in Rajasthan break their vehicles? Video evidence disproves BJP MLA’s claims
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creator: Abhishek Kumar
date: 2026-08-28T03:31:36Z
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description: On August 21, CJP co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka and his colleagues were attacked while visiting a village in Rajasthan under the ‘School Theek Karo’ campaign. The next day, local BJP MLA Kailash Verma gave his version of the incident to the media, placing the entire blame on CJP. Verma claimed that “around 100 to 150 CJP […]
encoded: On August 21, CJP co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka and his colleagues were attacked while visiting a village in Rajasthan under the ‘School Theek Karo’ campaign. The next day, local BJP MLA Kailash Verma gave his version of the incident to the media, placing the entire blame on CJP. Verma claimed that “around 100 to 150 CJP workers arrived in 30-40 vehicles and descended on the village, terrorising its residents.” He went so far as to allege that CJP workers themselves pelted stones at their own vehicles and smashed the windows merely to garner sympathy. 100-150 लोग आते है गाव वालो के हाथापाई करते है और खुद वीडियो बनाने के लिए खुद पत्थर फेकते है खुद की गाडिया खुद तोड लेते है चोरी और सीनाजोरी दोनो करने के बावजूद आप 48 घंटे का अल्टीमेटम देते हो – कैलाश वर्मा (स्थानिय BJP विधायक) मगर वीडियो मे सबसे मजेदार बात ये है जो शख्स गाडियो… pic.twitter.com/yVfoBqZnu5 — एक नजर (@1K_Nazar) August 22, 2026 However, publicly available video evidence directly contradicts this claim. It clearly shows a man smashing the windows of two vehicles belonging to CJP workers. The same man is also seen beating another person with a stick. Crucially, he later told a camera that he was with the BJP. He was also standing alongside Kailash Verma when the BJP MLA addressed the media. What Happened in Rajasthan? CJP workers, led by Ashutosh Ranka, had travelled to Rampura-Kanwarpura village in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district to inspect a government school. They said the school had been operating for several years from a buffalo shed and was in a deplorable condition. All levels of disgust have been crossed today. रामपुरा, कंवरपुरा में पिछले काफ़ी सालों से स्कूल भैंसों के तबेले में चल रहा है। लेकिन जब हम वहाँ निरीक्षण करने पहुंचे तो सरेआम मारपीट, पत्थरबाजी की गई। कारों के शीशे फोड़े गए, टीम पर पत्थर बरसाये गए। कपड़े फाड़े गए। ट्यूब में पत्थर… pic.twitter.com/H15osb1ODA — Ashutosh Ranka (@AshutoshRanka) August 21, 2026 Soon after the team entered the village, however, some people allegedly surrounded the CJP wo…

Before and after: Nepal-Tibet floods
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date: 2026-08-28T03:20:54Z
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No communal angle in murder of four of Hindu family in Bangladesh; social media claims false
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creator: Ankita Mahalanobish
date: 2026-08-28T02:35:05Z
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description: In the aftermath of the brutal killing of four members of a family on August 22, 2026, in Bangladesh, social media has been abuzz with claims framing the incident along communal lines. A Bangladesh-based X account, Bangladeshi Hindus Community (@Hindubd49346), shared a post on August 23, claiming that six Muslim men brutally killed a Hindu […]
encoded: In the aftermath of the brutal killing of four members of a family on August 22, 2026, in Bangladesh, social media has been abuzz with claims framing the incident along communal lines. A Bangladesh-based X account, Bangladeshi Hindus Community (@Hindubd49346), shared a post on August 23, claiming that six Muslim men brutally killed a Hindu Family in Rangpur, Bangladesh. (Archive) Rangpur Hindus are being systematically targeted and killed in Bangladesh. Last night, six Muslim men reportedly entered a Hindu family’s home and brutally killed four members of the family. They also reportedly killed a Eight-year-old boy by cutting his throat. pic.twitter.com/Bhh8LPu1rY — Bangladeshi Hindus Community (@Hindubd49346) August 23, 2026 The account subsequently published a series of posts questioning the investigation and repeatedly amplified claims that “Bangladeshi jihadis-Islamists” were responsible for the deaths, including that of a child. Click to view slideshow. Another Bangladeshi X account, Voices of BD Hindus (@HinduUnityBD), shared a video shot from the crematorium, accompanied by a caption alleging that the family was killed by ‘Anti-Hindu Tarique Rahman’, seemingly targeting the Bangladeshi prime Minister. (Archive) Watch the last rites of this Hindu family. Anti-Hindu Tarique Rahman had them killed. This happens to Hindus in Bangladesh every day & the world human rights groups stay silent.#HinduGenocide https://t.co/mWXNW0B5E8 pic.twitter.com/3x4n7O37Qq — Voice Of BD Hindus (@HinduUnityBD) August 23, 2026 On August 26, ISKCON monk Radharamn Das (@RadharamnDas) wrote a long, descriptive post on X, similarly suggesting that the killings had a communal dimension. Das asserted, “Their only ‘crime’ was that they were Hindus”. (Archive) I am feeling deeply depressed today. The brutal annihilation of the entire Ganesh Chakraborty family is horrifying & yet, so far, not a single liberal, human-rights activist, or leftist has raised their voice in support of Hindus in Ban…

Kiribati detained a Chinese ship … because of shark fins?
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creator: Radio Free Asia
date: 2026-08-28T02:00:33Z
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Trump’s Unholy War on the First Amendment
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creator: Bill Lueders
date: 2026-08-27T22:26:28Z
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description: The President and his administration are using Christian nationalism to shape the federal government.
encoded: The President and his administration are using Christian nationalism to shape the federal government. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Bill Lueders.

Upending the Foreign Policy Establishment
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creator: The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
date: 2026-08-27T22:06:45Z
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description: A new generation of Democrats are demanding international policies that actually reflect our values.
encoded: A new generation of Democrats are demanding international policies that actually reflect our values. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good.

A Giant Who Walked Among Us
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creator: Ashana Bigard
date: 2026-08-27T21:23:09Z
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description: Remembering the civil rights leader and New Orleans icon Jerome Smith.
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[Steve Ellner] Targeting Venezuela
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description: For sheer brazenness, the January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, ranks near the top in the long history of U.S. interventions in Latin America. They were taken to New York and jailed to awa...
encoded: For sheer brazenness, the January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, ranks near the top in the long history of U.S. interventions in Latin America. They were taken to New York and jailed to await trial in June 2027. Trump’s policies aside, U.S. sanctions on Venezuela were imposed under President Obama, who declared that country of 30 million people an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” From Cuba to Chile and from Nicaragua to Brazil, few countries in Latin America have escaped U.S. invasions, bombings, assassinations, coups, kidnappings, rigged elections, boycotts, blockades or sanctions. Oil-rich Venezuela has long been on Washington's hit list. Today, it has ceded its sovereignty to the U.S. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Satellite imagery shows extensive damage from Nepal-Tibet border floods
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description: Advocates call on Chinese authorities to allow information transparency in Tibet’s rescue and relief efforts.
encoded: Satellite imagery taken at the Nepal-Tibet border shows extensive destruction from flooding and landslides that inundated the area Wednesday leaving hundreds of people dead or missing, but information from the Chinese-controlled side of the border is severely lacking, Tibetan rights activists told Radio Free Asia. A comparison of imagery taken Aug. 23 and Aug. 27 of Tibet’s Kyirong County (Gyirong in Chinese), and Nepal’s Rasuwa district, shows that customs buildings, a bridge and other infrastructure on the border appear to have been swept away in the carnage. Restaurants, hotels, homes, and other buildings downstream on the Nepal side also appear to have been destroyed or washed away. Further downstream, much of Timure village appears to have disappeared in the latest imagery, underscoring the scale of the disaster and raising concerns about casualties and property loss. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the disaster also caused extensive infrastructure damage — about 3 kilometers of the G216 highway leading to Kyirong Port were damaged, and five telecommunications base stations initially stopped operating. The Chinese government is severely restricting detailed information about the situation inside Tibet, Ryan Fioresi, executive director at Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet, or ICT, told RFA citing sources on the ground. “Chinese authorities have relocated local residents, barred journalists, independent observers, and others from entering the affected area, and prevented reliable firsthand information from emerging,” he said. “As a result, the international community remains largely dependent on Chinese state media, whose coverage has focused primarily on Xi Jinping’s directives and official accounts of rescue and relief efforts, rather than the actual conditions on the ground, survivors’ experiences, or the full extent of the casualties and destruction.” Lobsang Yangtso, a senior environmental researcher at the International Ti…

Anti-imperialist brother of bizarrely devoted Trump aide speaks out
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UNRWA: A vital lifeline for Palestine refugees amid shrinking humanitarian space
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description: Despite increasingly difficult conditions, the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, continues to operate on the ground, remaining a vital lifeline and providing education, healthcare, humanitarian aid and social protection in Gaza and the We...
encoded: Despite increasingly difficult conditions, the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, continues to operate on the ground, remaining a vital lifeline and providing education, healthcare, humanitarian aid and social protection in Gaza and the West Bank. Roland Friedrich, director of UNRWA Affairs in the West Bank, spoke to UN News’ Reem Abaza and stressed that the issue goes beyond the agency itself, saying the “restoration of respect for the United Nations at large and for UNRWA as an agency mandated by the General Assembly” is essential. He warned that shrinking humanitarian space and displacement are dangerous trends and underlined that urgency of returning to a credible pathway towards the two-State solution and eventually a situation where UNRWA as an agency “does not have to do its work anymore because the conflict is moving towards a solution”. This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Reem Abaza.

UNRWA: A vital lifeline for Palestine refugees amid shrinking humanitarian space
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description: Despite increasingly difficult conditions, the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, continues to operate on the ground, remaining a vital lifeline and providing education, healthcare, humanitarian aid and social protection in Gaza and the We...
encoded: Despite increasingly difficult conditions, the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, continues to operate on the ground, remaining a vital lifeline and providing education, healthcare, humanitarian aid and social protection in Gaza and the West Bank. Roland Friedrich, director of UNRWA Affairs in the West Bank, spoke to UN News’ Reem Abaza and stressed that the issue goes beyond the agency itself, saying the “restoration of respect for the United Nations at large and for UNRWA as an agency mandated by the General Assembly” is essential. He warned that shrinking humanitarian space and displacement are dangerous trends and underlined that urgency of returning to a credible pathway towards the two-State solution and eventually a situation where UNRWA as an agency “does not have to do its work anymore because the conflict is moving towards a solution”. This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Reem Abaza.

How the AI training process leaves workers traumatized
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‘Mass psychosis’: corporate Democrats ripped for attacks on anti-zionist Hasan Piker
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Israel lobby coups the Dems – Max on the Judge
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What does a $17 billion fine really mean to Meta?
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 27, 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 27, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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"Grifters That Shifted From Crypto to AI"
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Ugandan journalist Remmy Asiteza detained on `fake news’ charges
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date: 2026-08-27T17:45:32Z
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description: Nairobi, August 27, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Remmy Asiteza, who has been charged with publishing “fake news” in connection to his coverage of corruption allegations in the ministry of the presidency. Asiteza was arrested on August 13 in the capital, Kampala, and appeared in...
encoded: Nairobi, August 27, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Remmy Asiteza, who has been charged with publishing “fake news” in connection to his coverage of corruption allegations in the ministry of the presidency. Asiteza was arrested on August 13 in the capital, Kampala, and appeared in court on August 17, according to Emmanuel Kirunda, secretary general of the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA), who spoke to CPJ. Asiteza was charged with “publishing fake news” and “broadcasting without a license,” according to a copy of the charge sheet reviewed by CPJ, and remanded to Kampala’s Luzira Prison until September 9. “Remmy Asiteza is the latest Ugandan journalist to find himself behind bars, as authorities weaponize judicial proceedings to punish reporting and commentary on critical, public interest subjects,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Muthoki Mumo. “Authorities should release Asiteza without delay and encourage, rather than punish, coverage of corruption.” Prosecutors allege that Asiteza published false information on the news site he runs, Daily Express, which authorities say is unlicensed, in July 7 and July 8 reports alleging corruption in the recruitment of local government officers, according to the charge sheet. Asiteza and others still at large falsely claimed that Uganda’s Minister of the Presidency Milly Babalanda was corrupt, it said. The charge sheet cites a July 7 Daily Express report alleging that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni had ordered a corruption probe into the recruitment scheme, but did not elaborate on the July 8 reporting associated with the case. Uganda’s 2019 Communications (Licensing) Regulations stipulates fines of up to 960,000 Ugandan shillings (US$257) and/or imprisonment for up to two years for those convicted of “publishing fake news.” Asiteza, who denied the charges, appeared at the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Court without legal cou…

With 350+ dead and 1,300 missing, Nepal carnage seen as climate disaster
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Behind VICE’s wildest story – basketball diplomacy with Dennis Rodman in North Korea.
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UN News Today 27 August 2026
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description: Nepal disaster: Amid massive destruction, aid teams contribute to response DR Congo Ebola outbreak: Most under-5s succumb to the deadly disease – WHOSouth Africa: 50,000 migrants displaced amid surge in racist hate crimes
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"Platform Extractivism": Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
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date: 2026-08-27T15:27:13Z
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Data Workers: "Today’s Factory Workers" Exploited & Traumatized in the Pursuit of Autonomous Tech
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These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.
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description: The post These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater, Florida, where ProPublica found immigrants were rebooked at much higher rates than at similar facilities across the country Tina Russell for ProPublica Every third morning Soumia Bensalah was roused before the break of dawn. Pulled from her cell, shackled hand and foot, she was herded onto a bus and driven over Tampa Bay from the Pinellas County Jail to a cramped hold room at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. Each time, she sat there all day, still shackled. Once evening came, she was driven back to the jail, forced to wait for hours in a hallway, photographed, strip-searched, questioned and led back to her cell. This happened five times last December, and Bensalah said it left her exhausted and humiliated. It was no coincidence that Bensalah, a French Moroccan with a pending green card application, was released from the Pinellas jail and then sent back at regular, 72-hour intervals, according to legal experts. That’s the maximum amount of time that county jails like Pinellas’ can hold immigrants on behalf of ICE. The limit exists to prevent immigrants detained on civil charges from spending too long in jails meant for people detained on criminal charges. Repeat releases and readmissions, known as rebookings, typically happen in secret and circumvent federal rules and regulations, according to eight legal experts interviewed by ProPublica. The jail had refused to release the logs that documented Bensalah’s journey, citing federal immigration regulations that shield jail records, which are typically public. We were able to trace the journey after obtaining an unredacted copy of the Pinellas jail’s booking logs from a source who provided them on the condition of anonymity, for fear of workplace reprisal. We checked them against anonymized federal immigration data collected by the Deportation Data Project. The repeat rebookings stem from the fact that the federal government often doesn’t have enough detention spa…

As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 27, 2026
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The cost of truth: Inside Iran’s mounting media crackdown
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description: Arrest, prosecution, and censorship have long shaped the media landscape in Iran. Currently, nine journalists are known to be imprisoned for doing their job, including Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh, who was detained in September 2024 and is currently serving 10 years in prison. But members of the press interviewed in August by the Committee to...
encoded: Arrest, prosecution, and censorship have long shaped the media landscape in Iran. Currently, nine journalists are known to be imprisoned for doing their job, including Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh, who was detained in September 2024 and is currently serving 10 years in prison. But members of the press interviewed in August by the Committee to Protect Journalists say this year’s war with Israel and the United States has solidified these repressive measures. The impact became clear when CPJ reached out to dozens of journalists to map the current reality inside Iran. Only five agreed to be interviewed. Many declined, others stopped responding after initial conversations, and several said they feared speaking — even anonymously — because they believed doing so could expose them to retaliation. During a near-total internet blackout that lasted 88 days, connectivity plummeted to about 1%, leaving journalists unable to report on the surging violence in their country. But rather than describing an entirely new reality, journalists said the conflict exacerbated existing patterns of judicial harassment, surveillance, and self-censorship. What some expected to be temporary wartime policies have instead endured after the large-scale fighting of the nearly six-month war eased months ago, trapping local journalists in a prolonged struggle and shaping their daily reporting. Mounting legal risks One veteran journalist in Tehran paused momentarily when CPJ asked him to describe the current state of affairs. “If I talk to you about what journalists face in Iran, I’ll become an example myself.” “They will summon me, open another case against me, and ask why I spoke to a foreign organization,” said the journalist, requesting anonymity to speak freely. In a country where CPJ has documented at least seven journalists facing arrest, detention or summons since the outbreak of war on February, 28, 2026, their self-censorship and calculated caution have become tools of navigati…

‘Butcher Of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladic Dies Aged 84
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Protecting against advertising technology
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description: Advertising technology, also known as ad tech, enables and facilitates targeted online advertising. These tools and systems often harvest and distribute internet users’ data, helping build individualized profiles that can be bought, sold, or otherwise obtained by private companies, governments, or other actors. Research published by CPJ and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at...
encoded: Advertising technology, also known as ad tech, enables and facilitates targeted online advertising. These tools and systems often harvest and distribute internet users’ data, helping build individualized profiles that can be bought, sold, or otherwise obtained by private companies, governments, or other actors. Research published by CPJ and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School has shown how journalists are at risk at home and in exile from this architecture of mass surveillance and those that harness it. While tracking from digital advertising technology has become ubiquitous and structural change is needed to address these threats, you can take actions to limit the information gathered through these systems. Disable your advertising ID and adjust your device and account settings Note: Sharing your location with an app may mean the location is shared with various third parties as well, the Electronic Freedom Foundation has found. See these links along with instructions below to help adjust your account settings: Android Android ad privacy settings, location sharing settings, and how Google uses data they collect from your device Turn off ad topics: Settings -> Google -> All Services -> Privacy & security -> Ads -> Ads privacy -> Ad topics -> Off Turn off suggested ads: Settings -> Google -> All Services -> Privacy & security -> Ads -> Ads privacy -> App suggested ads -> Off Turn off ad measurement: Settings -> Google -> All Services -> Privacy & security -> Ads -> Ads privacy ->Ad measurement -> Off Limit location permissions: Settings -> Location -> App location permissions -> Adjust individual app permission to limit location tracking Limit data shared to personalization index: Settings -> Google -> All Services -> Privacy & security -> Personalize using shared data -> Adjust individual app permission Delete advertising ID: Settings -> Privacy -> Ads -> Delete Advertising ID (on devices running Android 12 or later versions) Windows 1…

“Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
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description: Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a h...
encoded: Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence, is based on extensive fieldwork among data workers in Venezuela. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a hyperinflation crisis, entire communities in Venezuela depended on data work, says Posada, a professor at Yale University. Paid as little as 50 cents per hour and monitored by surveillance algorithms, most workers did not even know who or for what end they were working for. “From the perspective of the worker, you would just see the tasks. … [T]he algorithm here is the manager.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Caitlin Johnstone: All it takes is one crack in the lie we’ve been sold
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description: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone had captioned the clip, “Every awakening begins with a fracture
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone had captioned the clip, “Every awakening begins with a fracture in the lie.” Yeah. It does tend to happen like that. LISTEN: A reading by Tim Foley You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks it’s Palestine. You keep pulling on that thread, uncovering more and more uncomfortable truths, until eventually you discover that pretty much everything you’ve been taught about your world was a lie. Every war. Everything about how your government really operates. Everything you’ve been told about nations and how they work. Everything about capitalism and communism and how your society is structured. It was all lies, fed to you by parents, teachers, preachers, pundits, politicians and news men from the moment you were old enough to process complex thought. It can feel scary. It can feel like the end of your world, because in a sense that’s exactly what it is. Your sincere pursuit of the truth leads to the unraveling of everything you thought you knew, and you find yourself plunging into a great abyss of uncertainty about what’s real. And a lot of people do get lost at this juncture. They plunge down too many rabbit holes with too much paranoia and not enough critical thinking, and they wind up replacing all their old indoctrinated belief systems with new beliefs that are just as crazy and power-serving as the first ones. There’s often a gap between letting go of your old worldview and assembling a new one where it’s easy to get confused and misled. But if you remain sincere, careful, relentlessly self-honest and dedicated to the truth while ensuring your critical thinking faculties remain operating at full power, you eventu…

Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
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description: Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the compan...
encoded: Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli, the author of Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation and co-writer of the documentary In the Belly of AI. Casilli estimates that over 160 million people are involved in data work around the world. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Nepal-Tibet flash flood shows the deadly price of climate delay
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description: A glacial collapse that resulted in a flash flood in the Nepal-Tibet border shows that climate delay is proving to be deadlier and more destructive than world leaders admit, climate groups said. Disasters like this are becoming more frequent and more ...
encoded: A glacial collapse that resulted in a flash flood in the Nepal-Tibet border shows that climate delay is proving to be deadlier and more destructive than world leaders admit, climate groups said. Disasters like this are becoming more frequent and more deadly as the Himalayas warm and glaciers destabilize, 350.org said, extending sympathies and calling for immediate international support for affected people and communities. Aakriti Dotel, National Network Coordinator, Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) said: “The devastating floods in Rasuwa are another painful reminder of the growing climate crisis facing Nepal and the Himalayas. As our glaciers melt and extreme weather events become increasingly unpredictable, communities living downstream are bearing the devastating consequences. We mourn the lives lost and the livelihoods affected and call for urgent global climate action. There must be stronger support for vulnerable mountain communities, and accountability from those most responsible for the climate crisis.” 350.org pointed out that the tragedy exposes the failure of big polluting countries to provide the much needed finance that will enable vulnerable countries like Nepal to adapt to a changing climate, such as technology for early warning systems and other Disaster Risk Reduction measures. Savio Carvalho, 350.org Head of Campaigns and Networks said: “Every destabilized glacier in a warming Himalaya is a ticking time bomb that can go off unannounced, and when it does, those least responsible for the climate crisis pay with their lives. This moment of grief has a clear message for world leaders: delay is deadly. Rich countries must finally deliver the finance and protection they owe frontline communities. Without a rapid transition away from fossil fuels, the planet will continue to heat up and lives can be lost in a flash.” To interview Nepalese climate activists, including those impacted by the flood, kindly reach out. This content originally appeared on…

As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
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description: Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories have announced a groundbreaking legal settlement with technology giant Meta over accusations that the social media company deliberately designed addictive products they knew ...
encoded: Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories have announced a groundbreaking legal settlement with technology giant Meta over accusations that the social media company deliberately designed addictive products they knew to be harmful to children. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is set to pay at least $12 billion and up to $17.1 billion in financial penalties, in addition to implementing design changes for underage users. “This is the least they can do to prevent harms that have metastasized and have already caused suicides … [but] we cannot be relying on fines, or certainly even on litigation, after harms have already transpired. What we need are rules of the road. And we need rules that go to the root cause of the business model,” says Amba Kak, the co-executive director of AI Now Institute, who joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on tech policy and regulation. Kak, who advises various governments on AI regulatory guidelines, adds, “The era of looking to tech CEOs or tech luminaries to give us answers for what are fundamentally social and political questions, I think, is gone.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Filipiñana”: Dark Satire Takes Aim at Inequality & Structural Violence in the Philippines
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description: Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel discusses his debut feature film “Filipiñana.” Set at an upscale golf country club outside Manila, the film explores inequality, colonialism, structural violence and patriarchy. “Filipiñana” premiered at Sundance where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It opens in New York at Film Forum on Friday.
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Headlines for August 27, 2026
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description: Over 350 Die and Hundreds Are Missing as Glacier’s Collapse Triggers Floods in Nepal and Tibet, Pentagon Says It Killed 4 People in Latest Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats, Iran Blocks IAEA Inspectors from Visiting Nuclear Sites Bombed by U.S. and Israel, Ukraine and Russia Trade Attacks as Moscow Warns the U.K. Against Supplying Arms to Kyiv, Meta Reaches Landmark $17 Billion Settlement over Teen Social Media Addiction, ICE Arrests Parents at School Bus Stops as Agents Target Danbury, Connecticut, 5-Year-Old Liam Tadeo and His Father Deported to Mexico, Judge Blocks Minnesota’s Bid to Extradite ICE Agent Accused of Firing Gun on Venezuelan Man, Alex Pretti’s Family Calls for Accountability Seven Months After His Killing by Federal Agents, Appeals Court Declines to Dismiss Charges Against Rep. LaMonica McIver over ICE Jail Visit, U.S. Designates Palestine Action as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists”
encoded: Over 350 Die and Hundreds Are Missing as Glacier's Collapse Triggers Floods in Nepal and Tibet Pentagon Says It Killed 4 People in Latest Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Iran Blocks IAEA Inspectors from Visiting Nuclear Sites Bombed by U.S. and Israel Ukraine and Russia Trade Attacks as Moscow Warns the U.K. Against Supplying Arms to Kyiv Meta Reaches Landmark $17 Billion Settlement over Teen Social Media Addiction ICE Arrests Parents at School Bus Stops as Agents Target Danbury, Connecticut 5-Year-Old Liam Tadeo and His Father Deported to Mexico Judge Blocks Minnesota's Bid to Extradite ICE Agent Accused of Firing Gun on Venezuelan Man Alex Pretti's Family Calls for Accountability Seven Months After His Killing by Federal Agents Appeals Court Declines to Dismiss Charges Against Rep. LaMonica McIver over ICE Jail Visit U.S. Designates Palestine Action as "Specially Designated Global Terrorists" This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-27 Thursday
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Israel threatens forceful action against kite-flying in Gaza
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Comedian’s Australian visa sabotaged, war crimes suspects cheered through
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description: The Israel lobby has tried to sabotage comic Bassem Youssef from entering Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected of war crimes. Andrew Brown writes on the joke that could not enter Australia, and the army that could for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown On Sunday morning, before
encoded: The Israel lobby has tried to sabotage comic Bassem Youssef from entering Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected of war crimes. Andrew Brown writes on the joke that could not enter Australia, and the army that could for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown On Sunday morning, before the sun is over Sydney Heads, up to 40 current and former soldiers of the Israel “Defence” Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge with numbers pinned to their chests and a cheer squad waiting at the Opera House. On Thursday night in Perth, a stage will be empty. Bassem Youssef will not be on it. Home Affairs wanted an FBI clearance and a criminal record from Egypt, whose generals forced him into exile in 2014. His passport had lapsed. Cairo took its time. The tour is gone. Youssef performed here in 2023 and 2015 without a police certificate. He did not change. The lobby did. In June, Peter Wertheim of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry told The Sydney Morning Herald his organisation had gone to Home Affairs to have Youssef kept out. His stated principle was that anyone with a record of “debased generalisations about entire national or religious communities” should never be granted a visa. Hold that sentence. We will come back to it. Home Affairs will not say what it did with Wertheim’s request. The paperwork did the job a refusal would have done, and no minister had to sign it. Now the IDF runners in the Sydney Marathon. Their trip is paid for by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council and the Zionist Council of NSW, which calls them a “peace delegation”. They run for the Israeli charity Shalva, and Shalva has published their profiles. IDF war crimes suspects Meet First Lieutenant Roy Oryon. Shalva’s profile says he served as deputy commander of Company B, 13th Battalion, Golani Brigade, through what Israel calls the Swords of Iron War. He led his men on October 7. Company B lost 18 soldiers that day and he wear…

Comedian’s Australian visa sabotaged, war crimes suspects cheered through
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description: The Israel lobby has tried to sabotage comic Bassem Youssef from entering Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected of war crimes. Andrew Brown writes on the joke that could not enter Australia, and the army that could for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown On Sunday morning, before
encoded: The Israel lobby has tried to sabotage comic Bassem Youssef from entering Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected of war crimes. Andrew Brown writes on the joke that could not enter Australia, and the army that could for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown On Sunday morning, before the sun is over Sydney Heads, up to 40 current and former soldiers of the Israel “Defence” Forces (IDF) will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge with numbers pinned to their chests and a cheer squad waiting at the Opera House. On Thursday night in Perth, a stage will be empty. Bassem Youssef will not be on it. Home Affairs wanted an FBI clearance and a criminal record from Egypt, whose generals forced him into exile in 2014. His passport had lapsed. Cairo took its time. The tour is gone. Youssef performed here in 2023 and 2015 without a police certificate. He did not change. The lobby did. In June, Peter Wertheim of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry told The Sydney Morning Herald his organisation had gone to Home Affairs to have Youssef kept out. His stated principle was that anyone with a record of “debased generalisations about entire national or religious communities” should never be granted a visa. Hold that sentence. We will come back to it. Home Affairs will not say what it did with Wertheim’s request. The paperwork did the job a refusal would have done, and no minister had to sign it. Now the IDF runners in the Sydney Marathon. Their trip is paid for by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council and the Zionist Council of NSW, which calls them a “peace delegation”. They run for the Israeli charity Shalva, and Shalva has published their profiles. IDF war crimes suspects Meet First Lieutenant Roy Oryon. Shalva’s profile says he served as deputy commander of Company B, 13th Battalion, Golani Brigade, through what Israel calls the Swords of Iron War. He led his men on October 7. Company B lost 18 soldiers that day and he wear…

DN! Thursday, August 27, 2026
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How to Check In on Your 401(k) Fees
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encoded: Tomi Um for ProPublica The rules governing your retirement plan may be changing. As we reported in July, President Donald Trump wants to encourage 401(k) plans to invest more in private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency, which can be complex and risky. To pave the way, the Department of Labor has proposed rules that would make it harder for employees to hold companies liable for how they oversee retirement plans. Employers are required to serve the best interests of their employees when choosing investment options. Under the proposed changes, a company that follows a certain process would get the benefit of the doubt in court, making it harder for workers to sue over the management of their 401(k). A spokesperson for the Department of Labor did not respond to requests for comment. In an announcement from March, the department said the proposed rule change will “democratize access to alternative investments in 401(k) plans” and “lower litigation risks” for employers who are acting with good judgment. The new rules, expected to be finalized this year, also raise broader questions: What investment options are already offered in people’s retirement accounts, and what are people paying in fees? We’ve asked the public to send us their annual 401(k) disclosures so we can understand the range of funds and fees people have in their accounts. (Want to send us yours? Here’s how.) So far, we’ve heard from more than 200 people, many of whom also asked us questions about their plans. To find the answers, we spoke with eight economists, lawyers and retirement benefit experts. If you have questions about your specific retirement plan, experts recommend talking to a fee-only financial planner who will serve as a fiduciary (which means they must provide advice in your best financial interest, not theirs). You can check a financial adviser’s qualifications by searching here. Table of Contents How could the proposed changes affect my 401(k)? How do I know if my 401(k) is in good s…

‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem
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description: Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.
encoded: As artificial intelligence devours more land and electricity, a new breed of tech companies promises that outer space holds the solutions to our problems on Earth. If data centers are so hard to find a place for down here, why not put them hundreds of miles above the planet instead? Since power demand surges in the evening, why not send tens of thousands of mirrors into orbit to shine sunlight down on demand, powering solar farms after sunset? These ideas might sound far-fetched, but they are real proposals from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and start-ups in the space industry. As private industry drives the new “space race”, now launching more rockets than countries do, even the cosmos is starting to feel a bit crowded. A growing amount of so-called “space junk” has led to concerns that all the metal could collide, creating a destructive layer of debris that anything launching into orbit would have to contend with. Earlier this month, part of a discarded SpaceX rocket unintentionally slammed into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour, blasting a new crater. As Musk’s SpaceX, Bezos’ Blue Origin, and other companies expand into space, they risk causing more problems for Earth in the process: air pollution, climate effects, and light pollution. The practice of downplaying these negative consequences while trumpeting the message that space operations can make life better on Earth has a new name: “starwashing,” a term the space researcher Melissa E. Yingling helped popularize in an article published in The Conversation earlier this month. It’s a play on the term “greenwashing,” used to critique companies that highlight small sustainable investments to divert attention from the pollution their businesses cause. Space companies are appealing to a sense of “cosmic wonder” and making promises to benefit humankind, along with promoting their environmental bona fides, Yingling wrote. For example, Blue Origin says its mission is “to restore and sustain Earth” as it sends rockets and lunar…

On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US
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creator: Tristan Baurick
date: 2026-08-27T08:30:00Z
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description: Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG.
encoded: Less than two years after opening, a liquefied natural gas terminal near New Orleans is seeking a multi-billion-dollar expansion under the Trump administration’s new “emergency” permitting process that cuts regulatory review and could put nearby wetlands and waterways at greater risk. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted Plaquemines LNG fast-tracked permitting under a “national energy emergency” that President Donald Trump declared last year. The agency cut the public comment period from the typical 30 days to 10, and is expected to move quickly to approve the expansion, a step which would allow the terminal to more than double in size, growing from nearly 590 acres along the Mississippi River to about 1,220. That would make the facility the largest LNG export terminal in North America, according to its owner, Virginia-based Venture Global. Environmentalists warn that the expedited review will mean less scrutiny of dredging, in-water construction, and the filling of marshlands in a region rapidly losing land. By the Army Corps’ estimates, Venture Global’s $18 billion expansion could damage up to 470 acres of wetlands and river bottoms in central Plaquemines Parish, about 25 miles south of New Orleans. “Louisiana is already dealing with a coastal crisis,” said Matt Rota, a senior policy director with Healthy Gulf, a New Orleans-based environmental group. “Destroying 400 more acres in Plaquemines Parish is ridiculous. I don’t know how many acres they have left, but it’s not that much.” <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PlaqueminesLNG_016-2000x1333-1.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PlaqueminesLNG_016-2000x1333-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PlaqueminesLNG_016-2000x1333-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PlaqueminesLNG_016-2000x1333-1.jpg?…

The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it
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creator: Joseph Winters
date: 2026-08-27T08:15:00Z
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description: In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation.
encoded: The fossil fuel industry isn’t just raking in record profits amid the war with Iran. In California, it’s also spending big to oppose climate and worker-safety legislation. According to analyses by a coalition of environmental groups called the Last Chance Alliance, oil and gas companies spent more than $17 million on California lobbying during the first half of 2026. That includes $10.3 million during the first quarter — a new record for the sector — and another $6.8 million during Q2. Much of the spending was directed against legislation proposing new costs and liabilities for the fossil fuel industry, like a state bill that would make companies pay for rebuilding following climate-intensified natural disasters. But other bills targeted were more milquetoast, seeking to clarify existing workplace-safety laws and ensure more thorough reporting of cleanup costs when oil companies want to decommission projects. Faraz Rizvi, campaign and policy director for the nonprofit Asian Pacific Environmental Network — a member of the Last Chance Alliance — criticized companies for “aggressively lobbying” against straightforward measures to protect communities and boost transparency. “They’re not actors that have consumers’ or communities’ interests at heart,” he told Grist. Last Chance Alliance pulled the data from mandatory reporting to the California secretary of state. The top spenders in the oil-and-gas lobbying category included the Western States Petroleum Association, which spent $4.3 million over the first half of the year; Chevron, whose spending amounted to $3.7 million; and Phillips 66, an oil refiner that spent just over half a million dollars. Much of the money went to consultants and alleged “front groups” that present themselves as grassroots operations but are funded by the fossil fuel industry, like Californians for Energy Independence. One big target of the sector’s lobbying was California’s cap-and-invest program, which requires companies to pay for a finite —…

Can Serbia Control Kosovo’s Water Supply? #balkans #news #geopolitics #shorts
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-08-27T07:00:25Z
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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.

Meet Priti Gandhi: The ‘huge Godse fan’ now steering BJP’s social media cell
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creator: Ankita Mahalanobish
date: 2026-08-27T06:29:49Z
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description: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on August 17 announced an entirely new national social media team after 11 years, replacing Amit Malviya with Deepak Mhaskey as its national social media convener. The party also announced four social media co-convenors, including Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav. Alt News had earlier reported that […]
encoded: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on August 17 announced an entirely new national social media team after 11 years, replacing Amit Malviya with Deepak Mhaskey as its national social media convener. The party also announced four social media co-convenors, including Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav. Alt News had earlier reported that within minutes of BJP’s announcement, a search on X revealed that the accounts of the four social media co-convenors had either vanished or their posts had become inaccessible. However, screenshots of their past tweets, often containing personal and contentious opinions, surfaced online, raising concern over the sudden disappearance of their accounts. Yadav, for instance, deleted more than 60,000 posts before making her X handle accessible again. Mhaskey deleted at least 1,342. Gandhi’s X account, which has over 500,000 followers, remains ‘protected’ or hidden from public view at the time of this article being published. A notice states “Only approved followers can see @MrsGandhi’s posts”. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-318966" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-27-001713.png" alt="" width="808" height="996" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-27-001713.png 808w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-27-001713-243x300.png 243w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-27-001713-768x947.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px" /> An earlier screenshot of her profile captured by us shows her following 2,015 handles, which has now gone down to 1,875. In other words, she has recently unfollowed 140 X users. <img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-318698 size-large" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-17-at-17.18.39-e1787807146763-689x1024.jpeg" alt="" width="689" height="1…

Long time coming: After decades of struggle, is Bougainville on the brink of statehood?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-27T05:30:23Z
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subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: statehood
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subject: Syndicate
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subject: Time
description: ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific We could be about to find out whether a part of the Pacific Islands will become the world’s newest nation. After a seven-year wait, Papua New Guinea’s Parliament is today (Thursday, August 27) expected to finally table the question of whether to approve of independence for the country’s
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific We could be about to find out whether a part of the Pacific Islands will become the world’s newest nation. After a seven-year wait, Papua New Guinea’s Parliament is today (Thursday, August 27) expected to finally table the question of whether to approve of independence for the country’s autonomous region of Bougainville. In a 2019 referendum, an overwhelming 97.7 percent of Bougainvilleans voted for independence — but the referendum was non-binding and PNG’s national Parliament has the final say in whether to ratify this result. READ MORE: ‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville vote Flashback: Bougainville: New Zealand’s part in a guerilla war — David Robie Other Bougainville independence reports They are to debate the matter from today, before later putting it to a vote, with support from a three-quarters majority of MPs being the threshold required for ratification. The decision is no small thing. Bougainville is around 2 percent of PNG’s total landmass, or 2.7 percent of PNG’s total population. It may seem small, but in the New Zealand context, this would be a bit like giving up, in land mass terms, the Auckland region or, in population terms, like letting go of Dunedin City. So it is a big call for a bunch of MPs to make. Brutal civil war No country is comfortable with ceding some of its territory. But in this case, the context is the legacy of a brutal civil war and ensuing crisis that played out during the 1990s, which brought not just Bougainville to its knees, but PNG too. New Zealand played a central role in mediating a lasting peace — 2001’s Bougainville Peace Agreement ultimately provided for the referendum that took place in 2019, in which over 200,000 people from an overall population of around 300,000 cast their vote. The tabling of the referendum result in Parliament has been a long time coming, and follows a series of consultations over the years between the PNG government …

Mark Brown’s Cook Islands Party set to govern for historic fifth consecutive term
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-27T05:00:34Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Cook Islands elections
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description: Cook Islands News/RNZ Pacific Mark Brown’s governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) is set to return to power for a historic fifth consecutive term after securing an absolute majority of 13 of the 24 parliamentary seats following final count of the 2026 general election. The Democratic Party, the country’s main opposition in the previous Parliament, has
encoded: Cook Islands News/RNZ Pacific Mark Brown’s governing Cook Islands Party (CIP) is set to return to power for a historic fifth consecutive term after securing an absolute majority of 13 of the 24 parliamentary seats following final count of the 2026 general election. The Democratic Party, the country’s main opposition in the previous Parliament, has been wiped out after losing all its seats, with its outspoken leader Tina Pupuke-Browne and deputy leader Vaitoti Tupa both defeated. The Cook Islands United Party secured four seats, one more than in 2022, while independents won seven seats, including three from Mangaia, two from Atiu and one each from Mauke and Manihiki. READ MORE: Brown, who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, will serve his fifth consecutive term as an MP. He is currently in his second term as prime minister, having taken office in October 2020 and led his party to victory again at the 2022 and 2026 elections. According to Cook Islands News, Brown’s CIP is expected to form a government for a historic fifth consecutive term on its own. In addition, the CIP had already received support from six independents, the newspaper reported. “This brings the incoming government caucus to 19 seats in the 24-member Parliament, giving them an unprecedented supermajority.” Brown told CIN on Tuesday local time, that according to advice from Crown Law, “the Prime Minister has held his warrants because he’s won his seat and now commands a majority”. He also confirmed that all Cabinet ministers who retained their seats would remain in their positions. Brown said once the chief electoral officer issued the official Gazette with the final count, the successful members of Parliament would be named, formally “endorsing” the government. Final results: Tupapa Maraerenga: Tamaiti Maru Willie (CIP) – 617, Rota Tama Williams (CIUP) – 227, Edward Victor Drollett (Demo) – 117 Takuvaine-Tutakimoa: Mark Brown (CIP) – 312, Davina Hina Te Raurea Joan Hosking-Ashford (Demo) – 115, V…

Gallery owner Gabrielle Giattino on finding the role you want to play
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creator: Maria Owen
date: 2026-08-27T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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description: You are the founder of Bureau, a contemporary art gallery in New York City, known for a highly authentic and conceptual program. Tell me about how you started out in the world of art, and how you’ve managed to maintain curatorial integrity despite market pressures.
encoded: You are the founder of Bureau, a contemporary art gallery in New York City, known for a highly authentic and conceptual program. Tell me about how you started out in the world of art, and how you’ve managed to maintain curatorial integrity despite market pressures. I didn’t set out to run a gallery, that’s for sure. I’m originally from New York, and so after completing my Master’s in Art History in London, I came back and was looking for jobs. I happened to have had some very light experience with some Swiss artists in a show that I had worked on in London with friends. I think it was because of this that I was offered a job at the Swiss Institute, to be the assistant to the artistic director, who at the time was Marc-Olivier Wahler. I knew a lot about modern art and had studied art history, but had focused on early 20th-century Dada and Surrealism. I got a crash course in contemporary art at the Swiss Institute. I was there for five years, slowly worked my way up, and eventually hit a glass ceiling when Marc-Olivier left. My friend, Howie Chen, who was a curator at the Whitney at Altria, was also feeling frustrated at the time. We decided to start a little project space called Dispatch, at 127 Henry Street. It had already been a location of another artist-run project and has since been the location of Chapter NY and FIERMAN and now OPEN STUDIO, David Fierman’s progressive studio project. A storied address. Matt Hoyt, Escalator To Common Art, Dispatch, 2008. Howie and I were running what we called a “curatorial Dispatch office.” It was a really tiny space where we could invite artists to experiment. We were interested in the urban location of a taxi dispatch office, the idea of things and communications coming in and going out. It was a place for not only projects, but where people could receive information about what artists were doing. After running Dispatch for about three years, I had started working with a number of artists who I wanted to continue working with…

Gallery director Gabrielle Giattino on finding the role you want to play
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creator: Maria Owen
date: 2026-08-27T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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description: You are the founder of Bureau, a contemporary art gallery in New York City, known for a highly authentic and conceptual program. Tell me about how you started out in the world of art, and how you’ve managed to maintain curatorial integrity despite market pressures.
encoded: You are the founder of Bureau, a contemporary art gallery in New York City, known for a highly authentic and conceptual program. Tell me about how you started out in the world of art, and how you’ve managed to maintain curatorial integrity despite market pressures. I didn’t set out to run a gallery, that’s for sure. I’m originally from New York, and so after completing my Master’s in Art History in London, I came back and was looking for jobs. I happened to have had some very light experience with some Swiss artists in a show that I had worked on in London with friends. I think it was because of this that I was offered a job at the Swiss Institute, to be the assistant to the artistic director, who at the time was Marc-Olivier Wahler. I knew a lot about modern art and had studied art history, but had focused on early 20th-century Dada and Surrealism. I got a crash course in contemporary art at the Swiss Institute. I was there for five years, slowly worked my way up, and eventually hit a glass ceiling when Marc-Olivier left. My friend, Howie Chen, who was a curator at the Whitney at Altria, was also feeling frustrated at the time. We decided to start a little project space called Dispatch, at 127 Henry Street. It had already been a location of another artist-run project and has since been the location of Chapter NY and FIERMAN and now OPEN STUDIO, David Fierman’s progressive studio project. A storied address. Matt Hoyt, Escalator To Common Art, Dispatch, 2008. Howie and I were running what we called a “curatorial Dispatch office.” It was a really tiny space where we could invite artists to experiment. We were interested in the urban location of a taxi dispatch office, the idea of things and communications coming in and going out. It was a place for not only projects, but where people could receive information about what artists were doing. After running Dispatch for about three years, I had started working with a number of artists who I wanted to continue working with…

Why Isn’t Jared Kushner in Prison for Corruption, and Why Is Hakeem Jeffries Meeting with Him?
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-08-27T04:00:00Z
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description: Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges. Instead, they follow a long family tradition of using their immense illicit wealth to live above the law. In this week's bonus show, we respond to reports that New York Congressman and House Speaker hopeful Hakeem Jeffries secretly met with Kushner, the president's son-in-law, himself the son of a convicted felon, and the shadow secretary of state traveling the world while representing both the American taxpayer and his own grift. They claim Kushner doesn't have an official White House role, then why is he in the middle of every major geopolitical conflict, meeting with dictators and other kleptocrats? (It's the money!) News of the Jeffries/Kushner meeting set off a debate in this week's Gaslit Nation Salon over whether Jeffries is the right leader for Democrats in Congress during this dangerous time, who would be better positioned to replace him, and why we must demand accountability if we're ever going to rebuild our democracy. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments. To hear the full discussion, subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon or Substack. Discounted annual memberships are available, and on Patreon, you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Are you an unreasonable woman or know one? We have the book for you! Pre-order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire – today: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Show Notes: Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly: President Trump's son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us…
encoded: Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges. Instead, they follow a long family tradition of using their immense illicit wealth to live above the law. In this week's bonus show, we respond to reports that New York Congressman and House Speaker hopeful Hakeem Jeffries secretly met with Kushner, the president's son-in-law, himself the son of a convicted felon, and the shadow secretary of state traveling the world while representing both the American taxpayer and his own grift. They claim Kushner doesn't have an official White House role, then why is he in the middle of every major geopolitical conflict, meeting with dictators and other kleptocrats? (It's the money!) News of the Jeffries/Kushner meeting set off a debate in this week's Gaslit Nation Salon over whether Jeffries is the right leader for Democrats in Congress during this dangerous time, who would be better positioned to replace him, and why we must demand accountability if we're ever going to rebuild our democracy. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments. To hear the full discussion, subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon or Substack. Discounted annual memberships are available, and on Patreon, you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Are you an unreasonable woman or know one? We have the book for you! Pre-order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire – today: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Show Notes: Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly: President Trump's son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us…

Why Isn’t Jared Kushner in Prison for Corruption, and Why Is Hakeem Jeffries Meeting with Him?
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-08-27T04:00:00Z
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description: Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges. Instead, they follow a long family tradition of using their immense illicit wealth to live above the law. In this week's bonus show, we respond to reports that New York Congressman and House Speaker hopeful Hakeem Jeffries secretly met with Kushner, the president's son-in-law, himself the son of a convicted felon, and the shadow secretary of state traveling the world while representing both the American taxpayer and his own grift. They claim Kushner doesn't have an official White House role, then why is he in the middle of every major geopolitical conflict, meeting with dictators and other kleptocrats? (It's the money!) News of the Jeffries/Kushner meeting set off a debate in this week's Gaslit Nation Salon over whether Jeffries is the right leader for Democrats in Congress during this dangerous time, who would be better positioned to replace him, and why we must demand accountability if we're ever going to rebuild our democracy. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments. To hear the full discussion, subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon or Substack. Discounted annual memberships are available, and on Patreon, you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Are you an unreasonable woman or know one? We have the book for you! Pre-order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire – today: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Show Notes: Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly: President Trump's son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us…
encoded: Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges. Instead, they follow a long family tradition of using their immense illicit wealth to live above the law. In this week's bonus show, we respond to reports that New York Congressman and House Speaker hopeful Hakeem Jeffries secretly met with Kushner, the president's son-in-law, himself the son of a convicted felon, and the shadow secretary of state traveling the world while representing both the American taxpayer and his own grift. They claim Kushner doesn't have an official White House role, then why is he in the middle of every major geopolitical conflict, meeting with dictators and other kleptocrats? (It's the money!) News of the Jeffries/Kushner meeting set off a debate in this week's Gaslit Nation Salon over whether Jeffries is the right leader for Democrats in Congress during this dangerous time, who would be better positioned to replace him, and why we must demand accountability if we're ever going to rebuild our democracy. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments. To hear the full discussion, subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon or Substack. Discounted annual memberships are available, and on Patreon, you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Are you an unreasonable woman or know one? We have the book for you! Pre-order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire – today: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Show Notes: Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly: President Trump's son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us…

Eat Local, Help Farmers, Avoid Pathogens
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creator: Hannah Wallace
date: 2026-08-26T23:25:58Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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description: Consumers have the power to limit the impact of this and future outbreaks.
encoded: Consumers have the power to limit the impact of this and future outbreaks. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hannah Wallace.

The Grassroots Climate Lawyers Taking the EPA to Court
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creator: Leslie Williams
date: 2026-08-26T23:13:06Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: Climate
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description: Behind a legal campaign to meet the Trump Administration’s gutting of environmental protections with slow, granular resistance.
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David Sirota: How to get obscenely rich while losing to Donald Trump, the Democrats’ failures explained
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CPJ, IAPA warn broadcast fee proposal will force Costa Rican news outlets off air
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) issued a joint statement on Wednesday warning that a bill under discussion in Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly could threaten the financial viability of radio and television broadcasters by imposing a fee on broadcast spectrum usage. Bill file number 24.461, scheduled for a second review...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) issued a joint statement on Wednesday warning that a bill under discussion in Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly could threaten the financial viability of radio and television broadcasters by imposing a fee on broadcast spectrum usage. Bill file number 24.461, scheduled for a second review on Thursday, would impose a progressive fee of up to 7.73% of a station’s annual gross revenue for broadcast spectrum usage. CPJ and IAPA urge that any fee tied to spectrum use should be based on objective, technical and proportional criteria, and should not create conditions that force stations off the air. The statement notes that free broadcast signals remain a critical source of news for households with lower incomes, rural communities and the public during emergencies, elections and natural disasters. The organizations cited a 1985 opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, ruling that restrictions on media viability amount to restrictions on freedom of expression itself, given that access to information is an individual and a collective right in Costa Rica. CPJ and IAPA also pointed to a broader decline in press freedom conditions in Costa Rica in recent years, including stigmatizing rhetoric toward journalists and outlets. Read the full statement in Spanish here and English here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

David Sirota: How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats’ Failures Explained
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Nepal-Tibet floods kills at least 160
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[episode cut] Surviving and Thriving in Turbulent Times Third World Newsreel’s Enduring Legacy
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Voting Rights Groups Move to Block Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule
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description: Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule. The groups sim...
encoded: Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule. The groups simultaneously asked a federal court to immediately block USPS from implementing that rule for the November midterm elections. The plaintiffs in this case, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, are the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, League of Women Voters, Association of Americans Resident Overseas, U.S. Vote Foundation, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Massachusetts, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF. “USPS’s decision to rush this blatantly unconstitutional rule into effect just weeks before an election is the latest step in a rollout that has sown confusion at every turn and now threatens to disenfranchise voters who did everything right. This is chaos by design, and voters are the ones who will pay for it,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. “No administration should be able to manufacture confusion around how we vote and undermine confidence in our elections in the process. Rather than serving voters, this rule threatens access to the ballot and treats voters as collateral damage. We will continue to use every legal tool available to block this illegal power grab and ensure voters can cast mail ballots with the confidence that their votes will be counted.” On Aug. 11, 2026, the court issued an order in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, blocking USPS from implementing Section 3 of the executive order for the upcoming Nov. 3 midterm elections. The Supreme Court later stayed a different court order issued in the separate Trump v. California case block…

Robert Reich on why progressives and socialists are winning elections
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Reporter confronted by police at his home in New York
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description: After JB Nicholas reported on a pickup truck that struck and seriously injured a cyclist in Malone, New York, three police officers knocked on his door just after midnight on Aug. 2, 2026, and told him to stop contacting the driver’s family.“The family...
encoded: After JB Nicholas reported on a pickup truck that struck and seriously injured a cyclist in Malone, New York, three police officers knocked on his door just after midnight on Aug. 2, 2026, and told him to stop contacting the driver’s family. “The family that you’re messaging, that was involved in the accident,” a police sergeant told him, according to body camera footage. “You need to not message them anymore.” Body-camera video of Police in Malone, NY knocking on a reporter's home at Midnight and threatening to arrest him--me--for reporting. READ MORE HERE https://t.co/bguYsHTgut pic.twitter.com/t5rZoSJyL7 — JB Nicholas (@JasonBNicholas) August 13, 2026 The sergeant warned Nicholas that the family would pursue charges if he continued contacting them. Nicholas replied that the family had contacted him first, asking him to take down his reporting. As the officer turned to leave, he commented that Nicholas’ story “was nothing but a huge lie.” Nicholas, who runs the online outlet The Free Lance News, told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that the late-night visit followed an earlier confrontation between him and police at the nearby crash scene. “When you put it all together, it totally looks like an attempt to bully or scare a reporter into not covering a criminal investigation literally in my own backyard,” Nicholas said. Nicholas rushed to the site after hearing about the crash. Police told him the crash could be fatal and ordered him away from the scene, according to a video he posted on X. People wonder why the "news media" sucks, especially in small town areas. This is one of the reasons why. Generally speaking, police hate the press. Like these Malone Village cops and this New York State Trooper telling a reporter to get lost at the scene of an accident. pic.twitter.com/Z4rbs5cu7L — JB Nicholas (@JasonBNicholas) August 2, 2026 “Mind your business,” one of the officers said in the video. Nicholas replied, “I have a right to observe police activity in a public space…

Catching Frauds on Camera
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Mail-in voting at risk ahead of midterms
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The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 26, 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 26, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Democrats, groups fight back after Supreme Court clears way for Trump attack on mail voting
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Chasing China’s islands by plane and nearly getting shot from the sky.
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Inside Iran: Strait of Hormuz Blockade
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Washington Post ordered to rehire opinion columnist Karen Attiah
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"Most Americans Are Getting Poorer": Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Dems
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Trump’s Contested Order to Restrict Mail-In Voting Could Disenfranchise Millions: Ari Berman
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"A Victory for Journalism": Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Opinion Columnist Karen Attiah
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Statement on 29 States Settling Lawsuit with Meta
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description: Fairplay Executive Director Josh Golin released the following statement today:“This is a watershed moment for the growing movement to protect children from addictive and dangerously designed social media. In addition to a significant financial penalty...
encoded: Fairplay Executive Director Josh Golin released the following statement today: “This is a watershed moment for the growing movement to protect children from addictive and dangerously designed social media. In addition to a significant financial penalty, the state attorneys general have secured the most significant injunctive relief yet from Meta, including a number of measures to protect young people’s sleep, such as disabling Instagram overnight for minors’ accounts. The settlement also requires disabling addictive and harmful features like displays of like counts and plastic surgery filters and new guardrails to protect children from predatory adults. We also greatly appreciate that Meta will be required to identify both under-13 and under-18 users without infringing on the privacy of adults. We thank the state attorneys general for their historic leadership in fighting for our children’s safety and well-being online. “This settlement also underscores the need for KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act. As internal documents have shown over and over, Meta and other social media companies deliberately design their products to addict kids, and that is the root cause of so many mental health difficulties and serious online harms for minors. While it’s gratifying to see state attorneys general take action to hold companies like Meta accountable, we also need our federal government to step in to force these companies to make their products safe for kids by design so that every child on every platform will be protected, both now and in the future. KOSA has robust, bipartisan support from over three-quarters of the US Senate. We call on Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Charles Schumer to bring the bill to the floor for a vote next month.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Climate Change Worsening Drought Conditions in Western States
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description: Climate change has reduced snowpack by 36 percent and streamflow by 13 percent across the western United States, and more than half of those impacts have been triggered by emissions from fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers, according to a n...
encoded: Climate change has reduced snowpack by 36 percent and streamflow by 13 percent across the western United States, and more than half of those impacts have been triggered by emissions from fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers, according to a new report released today by University of California, Merced and Union of Concerned Scientists. Additionally, the report ties one-tenth of the observed groundwater loss in California’s Central Valley directly to emissions from these companies. In response, Aaron Regunberg, director of Public Citizen’s Climate Accountability Project, issued the following statement: “Millions of Americans are experiencing historic water scarcity. We now know that a small number of fossil fuel companies are responsible for a significant portion of this disaster. And they knew full well what they were doing. Already in 1988, companies like Shell were issuing internal reports predicting that climate change—caused by the burning of their fossil fuel products—would create ‘significant changes’ in ‘precipitation patterns’ that ‘would impact on the human environment, future living standards and food supplies’ and could have ‘major social, economic, and political consequences.’ Yet fossil fuel companies lied to the public about this reality for decades, and continue to block the climate action we need to address this crisis. These companies need to face accountability.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 26, 2026
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UN News Today 26 August 2026
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description: Ukraine: At least 3,900 children killed or injured since start of Russian full-scale invasion - UNICEF African nations pledge to train three million health workers - WHO It’s time to tackle the $1 trillion cost of land degradation: UN deputy ...
encoded: Ukraine: At least 3,900 children killed or injured since start of Russian full-scale invasion - UNICEF African nations pledge to train three million health workers - WHO It’s time to tackle the $1 trillion cost of land degradation: UN deputy chief This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

“Most Americans Are Getting Poorer”: Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats
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description: Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked the former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich. Reich wrote in a post online that “Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week the K-shape...
encoded: Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked the former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich. Reich wrote in a post online that “Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week the K-shaped economy — the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor — is 'dead.' Hogwash. Not only is the K-shaped economy very much alive, even CEOs are admitting it’s a problem.” The treasury secretary went on to suggest the University of California, Berkeley should fire Reich. “There’s something in this administration,” says Reich. “It’s almost a kind of testosterone poisoning in which everybody has to be really nasty, put down everybody else.” Reich goes on to discuss economic inequality, pointing out that while inflation is on the rise, “most Americans are finding that their wages are stagnant … which means that most Americans are getting poorer.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump’s Contested Order to Restrict Mail-In Voting Could Disenfranchise Millions: Ari Berman
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description: The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court’s injunction on President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. Trump’s order directs the Department of Homeland ...
encoded: The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court’s injunction on President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. Trump’s order directs the Department of Homeland Security to create state-by-state lists of eligible voters who are citizens. The U.S. Postal Service would then use the lists provided by states to assess whether voters should be allowed to vote by mail. Justices ruled 6 to 3 that California and 22 other states lacked standing to sue over the issue. The ruling, however, did not address whether Trump had authority to impose the rules. A separate nationwide injunction against parts of the same order remains in place. “This leads to a lot of uncertainty going into the midterms, because the Trump executive order would radically restrict vote by mail,” says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. If the ruling goes into effect, “it could disenfranchise millions of voters in November.” “If voting proceeds based on these DHS lists,” adds Berman, “it’s going to be inaccurate, it’s going to be unconstitutional, and a lot of legitimate American voters are going to be wrongly labeled as noncitizens and unable to vote — either based on shoddy data or an intentional attempt by the Trump administration to prevent people from voting.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“They Threw Me to the Wolves”: Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump, Winning Her WaPo Job Back
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description: A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire award-winning opinion columnist Karen Attiah with back pay. Attiah was fired last fall over comments she made following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Sh...
encoded: A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire award-winning opinion columnist Karen Attiah with back pay. Attiah was fired last fall over comments she made following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Shortly after Kirk was killed last September, Attiah wrote online, “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.” “The Washington Post argued that my posts disparaged white men and were in violation of their social media policy,” says Attiah, who attributes her ability to challenge her firing to her union, the Washington Post Guild. “I am very much ready and willing to go back to writing,” she says. “My beat was writing about race, gender, human rights and global issues. So, I fully expect — and, frankly, demand — that I be able to publish freely, that I be able to write freely. So that is what is on the table.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Inside a health facility in Al Mokha, Yemen
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“Trump’s War on the Left”: Jack Crosbie of Rolling Stone on the Prairieland Nine, NSPM-7 & More
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description: Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Crosbie of Rolling Stone, who has been reporting on the Prairieland Nine — the nine activists in Texas who were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in connection to an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. Crosbie’s recent articles include “Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left” and “How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center.”
encoded: Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Crosbie on his recent articles, “Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left” and “How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 26, 2026
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description: Iran Announces That It’s Resuming Negotiations with Oman over Strait of Hormuz, Palestinians Hold Vigil for Journalists Killed in Israeli Strike a Year Ago, Israeli Forces Storm Major UNRWA Facility in Occupied East Jerusalem, Far-Right Israeli Lawmaker Destroys Limestone Monument in Occupied West Bank, U.S. Delists Syria as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, CIA Director Makes Unannounced Trip to Moscow, Canada Responds to U.S. Tariffs as Trump Floats Renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America”, Interfaith Coalition Denounces RSS Leader’s Visit to Madison Square Garden, ICE Detains a Record 50,000 People in July, New York Bill Prohibiting Local Law Enforcement from Cooperating with ICE Goes into Effect, Six Immigrants Who Resisted Getting Off the Plane in Liberia Were Deported to Equatorial Guinea, Federal Judge Orders the Release of Second Key Witness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Colombia’s New Right-Wing President Abelardo de la Espriella Vows to Deport Thousands of Immigrants, Federal Judge Blocks Ohio from Requiring Residents to Provide Proof of Citizenship When Registering to Vote, House Democratic Leader Jeffries Lashes Out at Critics of His Meeting with Kushner, Darline Graham Wins South Carolina’s Republican Senate Primary Runoff, Federal Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bid to Overturn Her Sex Trafficking Conviction, Two Unvaccinated People Have Died from Measles in Pennsylvania, CNN: Members of Specialized Team That Responds to Natural Disasters in National Parks Dispatched to Work on Trump’s Pet Projects, Beloved Country Superstar Dolly Parton Dies at 80
encoded: Iran Announces That It's Resuming Negotiations with Oman over Strait of Hormuz Palestinians Hold Vigil for Journalists Killed in Israeli Strike a Year Ago Israeli Forces Storm Major UNRWA Facility in Occupied East Jerusalem Far-Right Israeli Lawmaker Destroys Limestone Monument in Occupied West Bank U.S. Delists Syria as a State Sponsor of Terrorism CIA Director Makes Unannounced Trip to Moscow Canada Responds to U.S. Tariffs as Trump Floats Renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" Interfaith Coalition Denounces RSS Leader's Visit to Madison Square Garden ICE Detains a Record 50,000 People in July New York Bill Prohibiting Local Law Enforcement from Cooperating with ICE Goes into Effect Six Immigrants Who Resisted Getting Off the Plane in Liberia Were Deported to Equatorial Guinea Federal Judge Orders the Release of Second Key Witness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Colombia's New Right-Wing President Abelardo de la Espriella Vows to Deport Thousands of Immigrants Federal Judge Blocks Ohio from Requiring Residents to Provide Proof of Citizenship When Registering to Vote House Democratic Leader Jeffries Lashes Out at Critics of His Meeting with Kushner Darline Graham Wins South Carolina's Republican Senate Primary Runoff Federal Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's Bid to Overturn Her Sex Trafficking Conviction Two Unvaccinated People Have Died from Measles in Pennsylvania CNN: Members of Specialized Team That Responds to Natural Disasters in National Parks Dispatched to Work on Trump's Pet Projects Beloved Country Superstar Dolly Parton Dies at 80 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-26 Wednesday
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New Caledonia’s President Tukumuli outlines six-month recovery roadmap
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description: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s President Milakulo Tukumuli on Monday outlined the urgent issues facing the French Pacific territory. In a special address at New Caledonia’s Congress, Tukumuli, who was elected president of the collegial multiparty government on July 31 following provincial elections, said he gave his government six months to tackle
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s President Milakulo Tukumuli on Monday outlined the urgent issues facing the French Pacific territory. In a special address at New Caledonia’s Congress, Tukumuli, who was elected president of the collegial multiparty government on July 31 following provincial elections, said he gave his government six months to tackle the most pressing issues facing New Caledonia. After this, he said his government would start to focus on other issues. READ MORE: Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports He said the most immediate urgencies included necessary efforts to salvage the territory’s pension and health insurance schemes, currently facing a short-term risk of total collapse. He added, if nothing was done, more than 40,000 New Caledonian pensioners could find themselves pensionless “within a few months”. New Caledonia’s healthcare system was also under direct threat with a cumulated current deficit to the tune of US$420 million. Another urgency was to examine the local political system’s expenditures in order to reduce costs. First ‘fix the canoe’ “The fall is now receding, but recovery has not started yet. When a canoe is taking water, it’s not time to take stock of what is onboard. You begin by fixing the hull and restoring the course,” he told local Congress members as part of his general policy speech. “I did not request this position just to manage impotency,” he said, stressing that New Caledonia was still recovering from the damage caused by the 2024 civil unrest. On the crucial nickel mining sector in New Caledonia, where most of the stakeholders and operators are still searching for new investors, Tukumuli said his government would support any “coherent” offer by “solid” and “durably engaged” stakeholders. But he said New Caledonia’s economy also needed to reduce its long-term dependency on nickel through other economic sectors such as tourism, agriculture, the blue economy or digital-based projects. “Let’s make sure that …

Thai protesters picket Israeli embassy over tourist harassment
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description: Khaosod English A Thai protest group submitted a letter outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok this week, urging Israeli tourists and residents in Thailand to respect the country’s laws, customs and culture. Tae Achiwa, a leader of the Thai Mai Thon — “Thais Won’t Tolerate It” — group, delivered the protest letter following complaints from
encoded: Khaosod English A Thai protest group submitted a letter outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok this week, urging Israeli tourists and residents in Thailand to respect the country’s laws, customs and culture. Tae Achiwa, a leader of the Thai Mai Thon — “Thais Won’t Tolerate It” — group, delivered the protest letter following complaints from residents in several tourist destinations, including Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Pai. The group said it had received complaints alleging intimidation, harassment and disputes involving Israeli nationals, including conflicts related to businesses and property. READ MORE: Thai vendor confronts Israeli tourists, raises Palestinian flag Other Israeli tourist protests The letter stressed that the group did not intend to generalise about Israeli people, saying anyone found to have violated Thai law should be investigated and prosecuted through the legal process. Embassy staff did not accept the letter directly and instead instructed the group’s representatives to leave it outside the embassy building. The representatives then placed the document there as requested. Speaking to reporters, Tae said the group’s action was peaceful and was focused on complaints from Thai residents rather than the Israeli war on Palestine. “We came peacefully. I’m not here to call for ‘Free Palestine.’ Your war is your war,” he said. “Today I’m here because Thai people are suffering from tourists who come into the country, and you are not urging your tourists to behave. That’s all.” The group said it hoped Israeli visitors and residents would respect Thai laws and local communities while authorities handle any alleged offences through established legal procedures. Republished from Khaosod English. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Unlawful and deadly force by Indian police
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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
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description: The post The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth joined defense officials for a facility tour at the opening of General Dynamics’ artillery factory in 2024. Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Mejia/U.S. Army The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics $533 million for an artillery factory that failed to produce a single usable shell. Instead of efficient, state-of-the-art production lines, half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding paid for machines that kept failing in bizarre ways, former workers told ProPublica’s Jesse Coburn. Giant robot arms would catch fire. The Texas factory’s signature device often cracked the steel meant for the shells. And workers regularly had to take a sledgehammer to certain machines to try to make them function properly. But the machines still botched nearly every shell. The boondoggle, which included a real-life dumpster fire, was described as an “absolute disaster,” by one former official who worked in an Army office overseeing the project. The official, like others interviewed for the story, spoke on the condition of anonymity. Read More <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="459" height="306" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.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/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg 3000w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Dod-Artillery-Final.jpg?resize=863,5…

DN! Wednesday, August 26, 2026
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Adam Johnson: Coverage of my media book being banned proves the thesis
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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.
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description: The post Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Members of the faith-healing sect Followers of Christ bury loved ones, many of them children and infants, in Peaceful Valley Cemetery in Caldwell, Idaho Sarah A. Miller for ProPublica In Idaho, parents who say their faith prohibits lifesaving medical care for their children can’t be charged with child neglect or manslaughter. Supporters of this protection over the years have included lawmakers who voiced support for “traditional” Idaho values. But from at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake, newspaper archives and historical documents show. “Every parent of any child who willfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical attendance for such child, is guilty of a misdemeanor,” reads the 1887 edition of Idaho territory statutes, published before statehood. The statutes included no mention of spiritual belief as a “lawful excuse.” Three years later, the state constitution explicitly put limits on Idaho’s freedom of religion. It would not excuse “acts of licentiousness,” polygamy or other practices “inconsistent with morality or the peace or safety of the state.” It wasn’t long before the law came down on members of the Followers of Christ, a faith-healing sect that arrived in Idaho in 1899 and remains active in the state. From 2015 to 2025, the sect’s congregations in Idaho experienced 15 preventable deaths of children, according to ProPublica’s reporting. Read More Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen. Pearl Annis was a 13-year-old girl whose parents had moved from Oklahoma to Idaho’s Magic Valley in the spring of 1915 with at least one other Followers family. The Annises and their 13 children shared “a two-room shack,” a local newspaper reported. An officer and a doctor visited the home after neighbors voiced concern. They found Pearl in bed, fully dressed and on the cusp of death. …

The great American road trip is in peril
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creator: Katherine Bagley
date: 2026-08-26T08:45:00Z
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description: Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises.
encoded: My husband, friends, and I sat huddled at a faux-marble-topped table in the lobby of our Utah hotel, looking down at a Google Maps route pulled up on my iPhone. We pinched and scrolled the screen as the breakfast buffet crowd hummed around us. We were less than a week into a Great American Road trip — one that would take us 9,000 miles from coast to coast and border to border. Today’s agenda was to relocate from Moab, the gateway city for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, to our hotel near Bryce Canyon. But there was a problem: Utah was on fire. To the west of us, the Cottonwood Fire had burned through 94,000 acres of forest and mountain towns, making it the largest conflagration in the United States. To the east, the Jones Fire had just erupted near the ghost town Cisco, its smoke plume looming on the flat horizon, visible from our hotel room. In total, more than a dozen wildfires were burning across the state, closing roads and turning the skies an ominous orange. We had to find a safe way through. “If we take Route 89, it takes us straight into the middle of the Cottonwood Fire,” said my childhood friend Jessie, who had joined us with her husband for the Utah leg of our trip. “There’s Route 72 through Loa, but that isn’t much farther away,” my husband said. We switched apps from Google Maps to Watch Duty, a real-time wildfire tracker, waiting for it to load our precise location. My kids shifted their attention from their stacks of chocolate chip pancakes to the screen, which was covered in fire symbols. My 12-year-old son looked at me, worried. “The edge of the Cottonwood Fire is creeping toward Route 72, too,” I noted. We had to make a decision and get going. <img class="article-asset " src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Utah_WatchDuty_IMG_9107-e1787599254173.jpeg" alt="a screenshot of the app watch duty with fires showing around Utah" data-caption="" data-credit="Katherine Bagley" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Utah_Wat…

The Worst of The Worst
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description: Well damn, we sure feel safer knowing ICE pulled 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his construction worker dad Victor off Austin's streets on their way to a soccer game before Liam could start kindergarten the next day; also that they were held at a family co...
encoded: Well damn, we sure feel safer knowing ICE pulled 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his construction worker dad Victor off Austin's streets on their way to a soccer game before Liam could start kindergarten the next day; also that they were held at a family concentration camp, ICE refused to let Liam's mother take him, and both father and son will "self-deport" to not further sully our pristine white shores. Question: How do these sick fucks sleep at night? Thanks to the obscene $200 billion-plus gifted to DHS and ICE by their evil overlords, arrests of undocumented or at least unwanted immigrants surged to nearly 50,000 largely innocent people in July, a 15% spike from a month earlier and the regime's highest monthly arrest total to date. So yes, the sadists are still at it, just more quietly than when a psychotic Noem and Bovino were blasting out histrionic videos of daredevil agents dropping from helicopters onto apartment rooftops to grab terrified families - images reportedly, inexplicably "provoking a lot of ordinary people." Wusses, all. Many recent arrests come during "traffic stops," increasingly with the help of partnering state and local law enforcement lured by "generous financial incentives," especially in Texas and Florida; ICE is also arresting more Haitians whose protections have been stripped away. Among those detained are over 6,200 kids, 10 times more than during Biden's tenure, despite ongoing, fantastical DHS claims they're going after the "worst of the worst" murderers, drug traffickers, sex offenders - and despite ghastly data showing up to 85% of ICE thugs themselves have sex offenses on their records, most against children. New data, like old data, also shows less than a quarter of those arrested have any criminal convictions. Elsewhere, ICE abuses go on apace. A sailor aboard the troubled USS Lincoln said ICE has taken his father, who had a work permit, into custody. “Having a family member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation’s …

Singer-songwriter Emei on drawing boundaries
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creator: Yang Shi
date: 2026-08-26T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
subject: boundaries
subject: creative
subject: drawing
subject: emei
subject: independent
subject: Music
subject: singersongwriter
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description: Where does your stage name, Emei, come from?
encoded: Where does your stage name, Emei, come from? So, my English name is Emily Li, and my Chinese name is Li An Mei. Ever since I was little, my mom just called me Emei. It was like An Mei and Emi together. When I was choosing an artist’s name, I had so many ideas. Then a friend of mine mentioned Emei, and I loved it. It just sounded so familiar. When people call me Emei, it feels like my mom’s calling me. I want to talk more about your upbringing. Were you born in China, or were you born here? Did your parents meet in the States? They met in China, and they immigrated to Connecticut in the late ’80s. I was born in New Jersey and grew up here. We went back to China a lot because my grandparents lived there. [*speaking in Mandarin*] Nice. I’m also Chinese. Where are you from in China? [*in Mandarin*] Oh nice. We mostly go back to Hangzhou. It’s so pretty. How does it feel to grow up in both cultures, Chinese and American? How did it shape you as an artist? I started singing when I was 9, and had a Chinese vocal coach. So I sang mostly in Chinese songs. I was just this little Chinese kid going to a lot of shows in Flushing, New York. Do you ever perform in Chinese still? All my songs are in English, but hopefully one day I will merge the two. I’m very precious about it. I don’t want to force it. One day I would love to put out some Chinese songs. When I’m on tour, I cover a Chinese song every night. I sing fun little songs in the middle of the crowd, and I always do a Chinese song. When you were 15, you went back to China and finished third on Chinese Idol. How pivotal was this milestone? I was very nervous. I was less experienced, but I also had a lot less pressure. I didn’t really care where I placed compared to others, other than my own pressure of wanting to be the best. I wanted to do a good job… At the same time, I felt a lot less strongly about what I wanted to sing, how I wanted to look, who I was as an artist. I was just being told what songs to cover. Now that ha…

Trump is Trying to Steal the 2026 Vote: Maya Wiley on Fighting Back
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-08-26T03:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: back
subject: fighting
subject: gaslit
subject: maya
subject: nation?
subject: sources
subject: steal
subject: the
subject: trump
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description: We are in the fight of our lives against a neofascist transnational crime syndicate obsessed with gutting your voting rights and turning the DOJ into a petty MAGA HOA. But if you think it's time to curl up and surrender in despair, here to wake you up is Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the daughter of relentless Civil Rights organizers, to break down exactly how we defeat this authoritarian coup. The MAGA mob is breaking laws and shredding democratic norms for one simple reason: they are absolutely terrified of our collective power. Maya's parents faced down the exact same terror during the Civil Rights Era, landing on Nixon's enemies list while fighting off a corrupt government, and they won. Maya carries their legacy, reminding us that despair is the oppressor's weapon. Her message is a powerful call-to-action: organized joy, relentless community building, and "fighting forward" are how we create the next era of civil rights. They want you exhausted and apathetic, but we will rebuild our democracy. Gen Z, you especially have the sheer numbers to help stop the coup if you show up for the kind of world you want to live in and flex your power. The Gaslit Nation bonus show is now included in our Tuesday episodes. Support our independent journalism, hear the continuation of our conversation, and join our resilience community by subscribing on Patreon or Substack today. Want a plan to launch a dream project and help us build a better world? Order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substack.com for our community New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation list…
encoded: We are in the fight of our lives against a neofascist transnational crime syndicate obsessed with gutting your voting rights and turning the DOJ into a petty MAGA HOA. But if you think it's time to curl up and surrender in despair, here to wake you up is Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the daughter of relentless Civil Rights organizers, to break down exactly how we defeat this authoritarian coup. The MAGA mob is breaking laws and shredding democratic norms for one simple reason: they are absolutely terrified of our collective power. Maya's parents faced down the exact same terror during the Civil Rights Era, landing on Nixon's enemies list while fighting off a corrupt government, and they won. Maya carries their legacy, reminding us that despair is the oppressor's weapon. Her message is a powerful call-to-action: organized joy, relentless community building, and "fighting forward" are how we create the next era of civil rights. They want you exhausted and apathetic, but we will rebuild our democracy. Gen Z, you especially have the sheer numbers to help stop the coup if you show up for the kind of world you want to live in and flex your power. The Gaslit Nation bonus show is now included in our Tuesday episodes. Support our independent journalism, hear the continuation of our conversation, and join our resilience community by subscribing on Patreon or Substack today. Want a plan to launch a dream project and help us build a better world? Order Andrea's new book A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substack.com for our community New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation list…

Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco threat
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-26T01:50:09Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: International Seabed Authority
subject: Pacific deep sea mining
subject: Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment
subject: Precious metals
subject: Rare minerals
subject: Sources
subject: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
subject: ‘precious’
subject: alert
subject: Analysis
subject: asia
subject: assessment
subject: authority
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subject: catastrophe:
subject: Climate
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subject: convention
subject: Cook Islands
subject: crisis
subject: deep
subject: Development
subject: eco
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: environment
subject: Featured
subject: fisheries
subject: Global
subject: International
subject: isa
subject: Kiribati
subject: Law
subject: metals:
subject: minerals
subject: Mining
subject: nations
subject: Nauru
subject: not
subject: ocean
subject: Pacific
subject: pacific ocean
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Politics
subject: pollution
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subject: sea’
subject: seabed
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
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subject: threat
subject: UNCLOS
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description: COMMENTARY: By Kalinga Seneviratne In the past year there has been a scramble by the big powers to secure the continuing supply of “rare minerals” that are used in batteries driving electric cars and wind power turbines. There is a looming catastrophe awaiting the Pacific Ocean if countries in the region are not alert to the
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Kalinga Seneviratne In the past year there has been a scramble by the big powers to secure the continuing supply of “rare minerals” that are used in batteries driving electric cars and wind power turbines. There is a looming catastrophe awaiting the Pacific Ocean if countries in the region are not alert to the environmental threats facing the region. Decades ago, greedy industrialists were polluting the air, and their governments refused to listen to scientific warnings of a looming climatic disaster, and now the island nations of the South Pacific are facing the brunt of climate change disasters. If the current trends of digging out rare minerals from wherever you can find them continues, we will be left with oceans — especially the Pacific — where we cannot swim or fish, further threatening the livelihoods of many small Oceania nations. READ MORE: Pacific protesters against deep sea mining challenge US exploration ship Other Pacific deep sea mining reports With the scramble for rare minerals extending to the deep seabed, a new geopolitical battle is hotting up in the South Pacific, where corruption and divisions among Pacific Island countries could be fermented by global powers battling to control the supply chain, with countries like Cook Islands, Kiribati and Nauru on the frontline. Eliki Drugunalevu, a member of the research team that compiled the Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA) to the COP 29 meeting in Azerbaijan in 2024, warned in an interview with In-Depth News that inaction by the United Nations to pause the march towards deep sea mining for precious metals would result in a “catastrophic impact” on the Pacific for the long term. The Pacific catch sold at the Suva fish market in Fiji. Image: Kalinga Seneviratne/IDN “People on the Pacific islands rely on the ocean not only for their sustenance but also for their economic survival,” he said. “If the fish are not going to come in, they will have to fish in another community’s fis…

No, Japan and India did not sign a ‘contract’ allowing 50 million Hindus to settle in Japan
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creator: Prantik Ali
date: 2026-08-26T01:20:11Z
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description: A video showing Union defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi signing what appears to be a diplomatic agreement has gone viral on social media. Users have circulated this clip with the claim that India and Japan have signed a contract to allow for “50 million Hindus to settle in Japan.” X […]
encoded: A video showing Union defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi signing what appears to be a diplomatic agreement has gone viral on social media. Users have circulated this clip with the claim that India and Japan have signed a contract to allow for “50 million Hindus to settle in Japan.” X user @CoinMarginalX posted the viral claim on August 21. (Archive) NEW: Japan and India signed a contract to allow 50 millions Hindus to settle in Japan. pic.twitter.com/cHao8wTGC9 — CoinMarginalX (@CoinMarginalX) August 21, 2026 Another X user, Hindu hero, (@SuperBrahmin) posted the same claim. (Archive) <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-318904" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_33-1.jpg" alt="" width="897" height="694" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_33-1.jpg 897w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_33-1-300x232.jpg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_33-1-768x594.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px" /> Shesh Paul Vaid (@spvaid), the former director general of police (DGP) of Jammu and Kashmir, amplified this viral claim, calling it an unique agreement. His tweet was viewed 92,000 times at the time of publication. However, it was later deleted by the user. <img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-318910" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-24-at-5.15.30-AM.jpeg" alt="" width="1179" height="1171" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-24-at-5.15.30-AM.jpeg 1179w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-24-at-5.15.30-AM-300x298.jpeg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-24-at-5.15.30-AM-1024x1017.jpeg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-24-at-5.15.30…

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville vote
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-26T00:33:54Z
subject: ABG
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Bougainville future
subject: Bougainville Peace Agreement
subject: PNG constitution
subject: PNG Parliament
subject: Ratification debate
subject: Sources
subject: abg
subject: address
subject: agreement
subject: asia
subject: Bougainville
subject: Bougainville independence
subject: bpa
subject: constitution
subject: debate
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Development
subject: difficult
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: finally
subject: future
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Justice
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Papua New Guinea
subject: parliament
subject: Peace
subject: png
subject: ratification
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: Self Determination
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subject: Syndicate
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subject: this
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description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has urged the nation to appreciate the gravity of the decision on Bougainville that Parliament is to debate this week. The PNG Parliament resumed on Tuesday and from Thursday MPs will debate whether to ratify the 97.7 percent vote by Bougainvilleans for independence in
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has urged the nation to appreciate the gravity of the decision on Bougainville that Parliament is to debate this week. The PNG Parliament resumed on Tuesday and from Thursday MPs will debate whether to ratify the 97.7 percent vote by Bougainvilleans for independence in their 2019 non-binding referendum. PNG’s national MPs have the final say, in adherence with the 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA), which was signed following Bougainville’s civil war and related crisis of the 1990s, and ultimately provided for the referendum. READ MORE: Other Bougainville independence reports “The referendum was legitimate, peaceful and overwhelming in its result, and we respect the voice expressed by the people of Bougainville,” Prime Minister James Marape said in a statement. As the referendum result is finally to be tabled in Parliament, Marape cautioned MPs and the public not to create division over the issue through threats, fear, regionalism or hostility. “Every member of Parliament will have the opportunity to speak. Every member will ultimately have to exercise his or her responsibility according to conscience, guided by the Constitution and the interests of our country.” ‘Not an ordinary debate’ “This is a difficult task but duty demands that we do this,” Marape said, while also praying with other MPs for wisdom to guide their deliberations on the issue. He said Papua New Guineans should appreciate the gravity of the matter because the decisions on Bougainville will have implications for future generations. “This is not an ordinary parliamentary debate. It concerns our Constitution, our sovereignty, our national identity, the aspirations of the Bougainville people and, above all, the peace that our people have worked so hard to maintain.” It remains uncertain whether this week’s debate will culminate in a vote on whether to ratify the refendum result as soon as the debate finishes, or whether it will be s…

‘This is a difficult task’: PNG parliament to finally address Bougainville vote
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-08-26T00:33:54Z
subject: ABG
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Bougainville future
subject: Bougainville Peace Agreement
subject: PNG constitution
subject: PNG Parliament
subject: Ratification debate
subject: Sources
subject: abg
subject: address
subject: agreement
subject: asia
subject: Bougainville
subject: Bougainville independence
subject: bpa
subject: constitution
subject: debate
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Development
subject: difficult
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: finally
subject: future
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Justice
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Papua New Guinea
subject: parliament
subject: Peace
subject: png
subject: ratification
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: task
subject: this
subject: vote
description: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has urged the nation to appreciate the gravity of the decision on Bougainville that Parliament is to debate this week. The PNG Parliament resumed on Tuesday and from Thursday MPs will debate whether to ratify the 97.7 percent vote by Bougainvilleans for independence in
encoded: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has urged the nation to appreciate the gravity of the decision on Bougainville that Parliament is to debate this week. The PNG Parliament resumed on Tuesday and from Thursday MPs will debate whether to ratify the 97.7 percent vote by Bougainvilleans for independence in their 2019 non-binding referendum. PNG’s national MPs have the final say, in adherence with the 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA), which was signed following Bougainville’s civil war and related crisis of the 1990s, and ultimately provided for the referendum. READ MORE: Other Bougainville independence reports “The referendum was legitimate, peaceful and overwhelming in its result, and we respect the voice expressed by the people of Bougainville,” Prime Minister James Marape said in a statement. As the referendum result is finally to be tabled in Parliament, Marape cautioned MPs and the public not to create division over the issue through threats, fear, regionalism or hostility. “Every member of Parliament will have the opportunity to speak. Every member will ultimately have to exercise his or her responsibility according to conscience, guided by the Constitution and the interests of our country.” ‘Not an ordinary debate’ “This is a difficult task but duty demands that we do this,” Marape said, while also praying with other MPs for wisdom to guide their deliberations on the issue. He said Papua New Guineans should appreciate the gravity of the matter because the decisions on Bougainville will have implications for future generations. “This is not an ordinary parliamentary debate. It concerns our Constitution, our sovereignty, our national identity, the aspirations of the Bougainville people and, above all, the peace that our people have worked so hard to maintain.” It remains uncertain whether this week’s debate will culminate in a vote on whether to ratify the refendum result as soon as the debate finishes, or whether it will be s…

First deportation flight lands in Haiti after TPS revoked
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-25T23:30:02Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

RNZ tops trust survey, lifts radio and digital audiences
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-08-25T23:17:34Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Commercial radio
subject: Newstalk ZB
subject: Radio audiences
subject: RNZ Morning Report
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: audiences
subject: Broadcasting
subject: Business
subject: commercial
subject: digital
subject: Featured
subject: Innovation
subject: lifts
subject: Media
subject: morning
subject: Morning Report
subject: new zealand
subject: newstalk
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: radio
subject: report
subject: RNZ
subject: RNZ Checkpoint
subject: RNZ Mediawatch
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: sources
subject: survey
subject: Syndicate
subject: tops
subject: trust
description: RNZ Larger audiences across radio and digital platforms have combined with stronger trust in RNZ than other outlets, new data suggest. RNZ’s results in the closely watched GfK radio survey were released on Tuesday morning. After a fall in the first survey of the year, RNZ National bounced back up to 509,200 listeners. Commercial talk
encoded: RNZ Larger audiences across radio and digital platforms have combined with stronger trust in RNZ than other outlets, new data suggest. RNZ’s results in the closely watched GfK radio survey were released on Tuesday morning. After a fall in the first survey of the year, RNZ National bounced back up to 509,200 listeners. Commercial talk station Newstalk ZB dropped fractionally to 656,900 in the same survey. Music stations The Breeze (597,100), and More FM (521,900) both had higher audiences than RNZ National. READ MORE: Other RNZ media reports RNZ Morning Report still trails Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking Breakfast in the hotly contested weekday morning slot, but the gap between the two shows closed in the latest survey. While Hosking shed 14,000 listeners, Morning Report gained 6300, leaving it still 101,700 adrift. At the other end of the weekday schedule, both RNZ’s 4pm-6pm Checkpoint (down 3000 to 226,400) and ZB’s 4pm-7pm Heather du Plessis Allan Drive were marginally down (down 1700 to 272,500). RNZ Concert was slightly up to 163,800. Commercial radio as a whole was down 65,000 to 3.43m on the same survey. Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith has demanded an improvement in RNZ’s radio audiences. RNZ’s newly-appointed board chair Brent Impey has also stated the public broadcaster is “coming after” Newstalk ZB, in a much more aggressive stance than his predecessor Jim Mather. Results slow to move GfK results are, by their methodology, relatively slow to move. RNZ’s improvement against the industry trend in this survey mirrors results from the same time last year, which preceded a fall back again in the first survey of this year. A long-term trend of sustained audience growth for RNZ is not yet evident. Total commercial radio audiences have also not consistently grown in recent GfK surveys. RNZ’s website, however, has had much stronger and more consistent audience growth. After a redesign of its homepage, the audience in July according to Nielsen was 1.78 mi…

The Teacher Pay Penalty Remained High in 2025
type: item
creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-25T21:47:36Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: 2025
subject: common
subject: dreams
subject: high
subject: pay
subject: penalty
subject: remained
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subject: teacher
subject: the
description: Teachers earned 25.2 percent less than comparable college graduates in other professions in 2025, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).The relative teacher pay penalty — wh...
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The Ellison family and Israel lobby’s smearing of Mark Ruffalo shows how tedious the ‘antisemitism scandal’ script is getting
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creator: Adam Johnson
date: 2026-08-25T21:06:48Z
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subject: International
subject: israel
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subject: mark
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Beyond the Wire: stopping violence without police
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2026-08-25T20:05:54Z
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subject: video
subject: and
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subject: beyond’
subject: movements
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subject: Politics
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subject: Video
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subject: wire
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Hong Kong court verdict aims to erase Tiananmen memory, 1989 student protester says
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creator: Meng Ou for RFA Mandarin
date: 2026-08-25T19:50:59Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
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subject: asia
subject: China
subject: court
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subject: hong
subject: kong
subject: memory
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description: Court convicts two former leaders of the group that organized yearly candlelight vigils of “inciting subversion.”
encoded: A Hong Kong court this month convicted two leaders of a dissolved pro-democracy group to erase the memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, a pro-democracy activist who was a student leader during the 1989 event told Radio Free Asia. The Hong Kong High Court ruled Aug. 21 that the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, its former chairman Lee Cheuk-yan and its former vice-chairwoman Chow Hang-tung, were guilty of “inciting subversion of state power.” The Alliance is best known for organizing yearly candlelight vigils in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park each year in remembrance of the Tiananmen incident, a practice that continued until 2019. In 2020 authorities stopped the vigil citing health concerns during the pandemic, then from 2021 onward they were able to use Hong Kong’s draconian National Security Law to end it permanently. Erasing the past The verdict is intended to discourage commemorations of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Wang Dan, who was a student leader of the protests in 1989, told RFA. “The authorities clearly hope to use this verdict to erase every trace of history and prevent Hong Kong people from remembering June 4th,” he said, referring to the massacre by the date which it occurred, as is customary in Chinese. Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan, left, and Chow Hang-tung posing during photo sessions in Hong Kong on March 21, 2021. (Peter Parks/AFP) Wang said that he does not believe authorities can succeed in erasing the event from the public consciousness. “Such a verdict will only lead more people to commemorate it in silence,” he said. “Silent remembrance is still remembrance. The memories people carry in their hearts cannot be completely destroyed by such brutal acts.” In September 2021, authorities arrested Lee, Chow, and another former chairman of the Alliance, Albert Ho, with “inciting subversion of state power.” The Alliance voted to dissolve on Sept. 25 of that year. Lee and Chow were held in custod…

Homeschooling Hate
type: item
creator: Mark Hay
date: 2026-08-25T19:33:15Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: Hate
subject: homeschooling
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home.
encoded: The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mark Hay.

Beyond the Wire | Boots on the Ground: Community-Led Safety Panel
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-08-25T19:19:46Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Real News Network
subject: beyond’
subject: boots
subject: communityled
subject: ground’
subject: network
subject: News
subject: panel
subject: real
subject: safety
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: wire
description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Inside Gaza’s Eye Care Crisis
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creator: Hassan Herzallah
date: 2026-08-25T19:07:54Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: care
subject: crisis
subject: eye
subject: gaza’s
subject: inside
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: For many Palestinians in Gaza, treatable vision problems have an outsized impact on daily life due to shortages of eye care and medical supplies.
encoded: For many Palestinians in Gaza, treatable vision problems have an outsized impact on daily life due to shortages of eye care and medical supplies. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hassan Herzallah.

Canada announces tariffs on US goods, matching Trump tariffs on Canada; Israel strikes desalination plant in Gaza as strikes on civilian areas intensify – August 25, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-08-25T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: announces
subject: areas
subject: august
subject: Canada
subject: civilian
subject: desalination
subject: evening
subject: gaza
subject: goods
subject: intensify
subject: israel
subject: matching
subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: plant
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: tariffs
subject: trump
description: Canada announces tariffs on US goods worth $27 billion, matching Trump tariffs on Canada; Israel strikes desalination plant in Gaza, as UN says strikes on civilian areas intensify; Deadly overcrowded boat disaster in South Africa raises questions abo...
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Recreation, Conservation Groups Unite Against Forest Service Travel Rule Rollback
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-08-25T17:39:59Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: against
subject: common
subject: conservation
subject: dreams
subject: forest
subject: groups
subject: recreation
subject: rollback
subject: rule
subject: service
subject: sources
subject: travel
subject: unite
description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently launched a process to significantly revise its Travel Management Rule, which guides where motorized vehicles are and are not allowed on almost 200 million acres of national forests and grasslands.The USDA is...
encoded: The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently launched a process to significantly revise its Travel Management Rule, which guides where motorized vehicles are and are not allowed on almost 200 million acres of national forests and grasslands. The USDA is proposing to flip the U.S. Forest Service’s longstanding approach to travel management on its head, forcing local forests to allow motorized vehicles everywhere except for places that are specifically closed. The current rule requires motorized vehicles to stay on a designated system of roads, trails and areas in national forests and grasslands and is an essential policy for wildlife conservation, balanced recreation, and public safety. This comes directly on the heels of the USDA’s proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which would make 45 million acres of remote backcountry forests available for clearcut logging, road-building and other development, unleashing back-to-back blows to our national forests. Combined, these actions are part of the administration’s systematic dismantling of the rules and safeguards that keep national forests safe, accessible, and managed for everyone. “This is yet another egregious attack in the systematic dismantling of public lands management of our national forests,” said Dan Hartinger, senior director for agency policy at The Wilderness Society. “Travel management provides the basic guardrails that let hikers, hunters, anglers, and riders share the same forest without chaos; removing those guardrails threatens the freedom of all public lands users to safely enjoy our national forests the way they choose. Paired with the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule, this destructive agenda sells out future generations’ enjoyment of our forests in order to hand them over for corporate profits.” “The Travel Management Rule creates a framework that balances uses on national forest lands. It draws on local decision-making processes to support all user groups in enjoying public lan…

Harry Potter Helped A Ukrainian POW Survive 4 Years In Russian Captivity #shorts
type: item
creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-08-25T17:32:37Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: #shorts
subject: captivity,
subject: europerl
subject: free
subject: harry
subject: helped
subject: potter
subject: pow
subject: radio
subject: russian
subject: sources
subject: survive:
subject: ukrainian
subject: years
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Who is Rigging Crypto?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-08-25T17:17:15Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
subject: crypto
subject: News
subject: rigging’
subject: sources
subject: vice
subject: who
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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What happens when the founder of a company gets trampled and loses his shoes?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-08-25T17:00:19Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
subject: and
subject: company
subject: founder
subject: gets
subject: happens
subject: his
subject: loses
subject: News
subject: shoes
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trampled
subject: vice
subject: what
subject: when
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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‘The red states, we’re going to hit hard’: Canadian politicians vow to make MAGA pay for Trump’s trade war
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creator: Brad Reed
date: 2026-08-25T16:32:30Z
subject: article
subject: Economy and Inequality
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subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: Canada
subject: canadian
subject: economy
subject: for
subject: going
subject: hard
subject: hit
subject: inequality
subject: International
subject: maga
subject: make
subject: movements
subject: pay
subject: politicians
subject: Politics
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subject: reprint
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: the
subject: trade
subject: trump
subject: trump’s
subject: vow
subject: war
subject: were
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U.S. threatens even more sanctions as Iran war drags on
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-25T16:04:14Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘even
subject: Democracy
subject: drags
subject: iran
subject: more
subject: now
subject: Sanctions
subject: sources
subject: threatens
subject: war
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes staffers after editorial independence comments
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-08-25T15:47:34Z
subject: Censored
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Sources
subject: Stars and Stripes
subject: after
subject: and
subject: censored
subject: comments
subject: committee
subject: department of defense
subject: editorial
subject: fires
subject: hegseth
subject: independence
subject: Journalists
subject: pentagon
subject: pete
subject: press freedom
subject: protect
subject: sources
subject: staffers
subject: star’s
subject: stripes’
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description: Miami, August 25, 2026—The Pentagon is acting directly against government transparency and press freedom by firing the longtime publisher, the editor-in-chief, and a senior reporter at Stars and Stripes newspaper, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday. Multiple outlets reported that the Pentagon dismissed Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, and...
encoded: Miami, August 25, 2026—The Pentagon is acting directly against government transparency and press freedom by firing the longtime publisher, the editor-in-chief, and a senior reporter at Stars and Stripes newspaper, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday. Multiple outlets reported that the Pentagon dismissed Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, and Middle East correspondent Lara Korte on August 21 after they spoke in favor of the newspaper’s long-held editorial independence from the Department of Defense, which partly funds the outlet. “The brazen firing of senior Stars and Stripes staffers raises serious concerns over how far the Pentagon is willing to go to control the narrative surrounding military actions and spending,” said Jose Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas. “Journalists covering U.S. military action must be free to report in the public interest without fear of government retaliation. The Pentagon should respect Stars and Stripes’ long-held editorial independence and allow reporters to do their jobs.” The Pentagon’s firing of Stars and Stripes staffers follows larger attempts by the Defense Department, under the direction of Secretary Pete Hegseth, to control reporting on U.S. military action days after the outlet reported deteriorating living conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln amid a prolonged deployment in the Middle East. In April, outlets reported that the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes ombudsman and editorial independence steward Jacqueline Smith after Hegseth declared that he would exert editorial control over the newspaper to eliminate “woke distractions.” Sean Parnell, Hegseth’s spokesman, in a January tweet on X said the newspaper will be reshaped to focus on “warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability and ALL THINGS MILITARY.” he “No more Associated Press reprints.” CPJ’s emails to the Pentagon seeking clarification on editorial changes at Stars and Strip…

No, man seen with Ashutosh Ranka in Rajasthan is not the one who threatened Nepal-like violence at Jantar Mantar
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description: Following the attacks on the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) workers in Rajasthan, several social media users claimed that CJP convenor Ashutosh Ranka was accompanied by a man who had earlier been found calling for demolishing the Parliament and provoking Nepal-like violence during the July 20 protest in Delhi. As part of its ‘School Thik Karo’ […]
encoded: Following the attacks on the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) workers in Rajasthan, several social media users claimed that CJP convenor Ashutosh Ranka was accompanied by a man who had earlier been found calling for demolishing the Parliament and provoking Nepal-like violence during the July 20 protest in Delhi. As part of its ‘School Thik Karo’ initiative, a CJP team visited a government school operating from a buffalo shed at Rampura in Kanwarpura area of Jaipur district in Rajasthan when they were allegedly attacked. They reported being beaten with sticks and pelted with stones. CJP later accused the attackers of being affiliated with the BJP. On August 21, X user Office of Vijay Patel (@VijayGajeraO) claimed that Ranka had arrived with “goons” who wanted to attack Parliament and trigger Nepal-style mass violence in India. The post featured a collage comparing a man accompanying Ranka with another man seen in a viral video from the CJP protest. The latter had allegedly said that Parliament would be attacked and a Nepal-like situation created if Dharmendra Pradhan did not resign. (Archive) Ashutosh Ranka came with the goons who wanted to attack the parliament and wanted to cause Nepal-style mass violence in India. pic.twitter.com/yoKV2KnetZ — Office Of Vijay Patel (@VijayGajeraO) August 21, 2026 The handle is run by Right-wing influencer Vijay Patel who claims to be an investigative journalist. The post has garnered over 850,000 views. Abhijit Iyer Mitra (@Iyervval), another Right-wing influencer, shared and amplified the claim. (Archive) The most important part of this video isn’t what happened today. It’s the fact that this video captured a stated intent to commit violence on 20th July outside parliament. Also that far from being “outsiders”, the rioters were in fact core CJP members. https://t.co/r0VbwXGEfU — Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) August 21, 2026 The post amassed over 150,000 views. Another pro-BJP handle user, Raushan Sinha (@Mrsinha), also shared a simila…

UN News Today 25 August 2026
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description: Joint UN-Red Cross appeal for stricter controls on autonomous weapons Afghanistan nutrition emergency leaves 3.7 million suffering from wasting - UNICEFRed Sea pirates: Release all captive seafarers immediately, insists IMO chief
encoded: Joint UN-Red Cross appeal for stricter controls on autonomous weapons Afghanistan nutrition emergency leaves 3.7 million suffering from wasting - UNICEFRed Sea pirates: Release all captive seafarers immediately, insists IMO chief This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Indiana Residents are Fighting to Survive. Why isn’t this Getting More Coverage?
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
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description: The post Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, front left, and senior U.S. military leaders listen to President Donald Trump speak at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia in 2025. Evan Vucci/AP Photo Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations. Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” current and former defense officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea. The poll from early 2025, which has not been previously reported, cemented top-level military support for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response, a relatively new program adopted after years of heavy civilian tolls in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. As part of its mission, CHMR (pronounced “chimmer”) stationed personnel within major regional commands. Officials tried to develop a picture of life on the ground in combat zones to aid decision-making on military strikes and avoid or minimize civilian harm. In the poll, Hegseth gave commanders three options: cut 65% of staff but keep the effort operational, continue with only a small centralized office in Washington, or eliminate the program. Nine commanders chose the first option to preserve the enterprise as much as possible, according to a memo reviewed by ProPublica. Leaders of two commands, one overseeing the nuclear arsenal and the other focused on cyber threats, declined all three options, asking to maintain the full program. Leaders at U.S. Central Command, the Tampa, Florida-based center that oversees military action in the Middle East, pressed to keep its full CHMR staff of 16. Eliminating or scaling back the effort would “result in decreased efficiency of U.S. lethal operations due to an increased risk of target misidentification and reduced battlespace awareness,” a memo reviewed by ProPublica said. …

Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence
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Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch
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U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran By Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 25, 2026
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Professor Jiang meets The Grayzone on Skid Row
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In rebel-controlled eastern DRC, political coverage banned, journalist Claude Kashonga suspended
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description: Kinshasa, August 25, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on rebel authorities controlling part of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to lift the restrictions that prohibit media outlets in South Kivu province from broadcasting or publishing political content. Local regulatory authorities should also reverse their decision to suspend a Bukavu FM political program...
encoded: Kinshasa, August 25, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on rebel authorities controlling part of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to lift the restrictions that prohibit media outlets in South Kivu province from broadcasting or publishing political content. Local regulatory authorities should also reverse their decision to suspend a Bukavu FM political program and its host, Claude Kashonga. On August 19, Patrick Busu Bwa Ngwi Nshombo, the governor appointed for South Kivu by the M23 and Congo River Alliance (AFC) rebels, summoned media executives operating in the city of Bukavu to his office and warned of harsh sanctions if they failed to comply with a series of new conditions, according to a media report and four local journalists who spoke to the CPJ after attending the meeting. The conditions included indefinite bans on broadcasting political debates and on covering news about the DRC government, requirements to cover AFC/M23 activities and air their information for free, and a mandate to focus broadcasts on peace, the environment, education, health, and development. “The rebel authorities’ censorship of political and conflict coverage in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo illustrate an intensifying and persistent crackdown on press freedom, in a region where journalists already work under pressure from death threats and arrests,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Muthoki Mumo. “The M23/AFC coalition must rescind its unjust decisions and restore the local population’s access to diverse reporting and commentary on current affairs.” “The M23 governor began by lamenting what he described as a lack of media coverage regarding M23’s activities,” a local journalist who attended the meeting told CPJ under condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisal, adding that Busu warned local media outlets against criticizing the rebels or relaying news from the DRC government. “He questioned whether our media outlets were serving K…

In rebel-controlled eastern DRC, political coverage banned, journalist Claude Kashonga suspended
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description: Kinshasa, August 25, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on rebel authorities controlling part of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to lift the restrictions that prohibit media outlets in South Kivu province from broadcasting or publishing political content. Local regulatory authorities should also reverse their decision to suspend a Bukavu FM political program...
encoded: Kinshasa, August 25, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on rebel authorities controlling part of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to lift the restrictions that prohibit media outlets in South Kivu province from broadcasting or publishing political content. Local regulatory authorities should also reverse their decision to suspend a Bukavu FM political program and its host, Claude Kashonga. On August 19, Patrick Busu Bwa Ngwi Nshombo, the governor appointed for South Kivu by the M23 and Congo River Alliance (AFC) rebels, summoned media executives operating in the city of Bukavu to his office and warned of harsh sanctions if they failed to comply with a series of new conditions, according to a media report and four local journalists who spoke to the CPJ after attending the meeting. The conditions included indefinite bans on broadcasting political debates and on covering news about the DRC government, requirements to cover AFC/M23 activities and air their information for free, and a mandate to focus broadcasts on peace, the environment, education, health, and development. “The rebel authorities’ censorship of political and conflict coverage in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo illustrate an intensifying and persistent crackdown on press freedom, in a region where journalists already work under pressure from death threats and arrests,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Muthoki Mumo. “The M23/AFC coalition must rescind its unjust decisions and restore the local population’s access to diverse reporting and commentary on current affairs.” “The M23 governor began by lamenting what he described as a lack of media coverage regarding M23’s activities,” a local journalist who attended the meeting told CPJ under condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisal, adding that Busu warned local media outlets against criticizing the rebels or relaying news from the DRC government. “He questioned whether our media outlets were serving K…

Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence
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description: “I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-ye...
encoded: “I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protesters convicted of terrorism-related charges after federal prosecutors accused them of being members of an “antifa terror cell.” In an interview with Rolling Stone writer Jack Crosbie, Hill says that she had no intention of committing violence at the protest, which ended when a police officer was shot and wounded by a fellow protester who says he fired in self-defense. No other injuries were reported, and Hill says she had already left when the shooting occurred. “It was my belief that we would go home at the end of the night to continue eating and drinking and be merry. We truly didn’t think that anything was going to go wrong. And we didn’t expect or want any violence to occur.” For prosecutors pushing the overly broad and poorly substantiated idea that anti-fascist organizing against the Trump administration is violent and dangerous, the Prairieland case was a “gold mine,” says Crosbie. “There’s no real burden of proof. They can just say that you’re 'antifa,' and that becomes sort of gospel, according to the government.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-25T12:30:04Z
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description: We speak to journalist Aura Bogado, whose new investigation into Illinois law enforcement and prosecutorial collaboration with ICE has revealed that dozens of immigrants have been arrested and deported with the help of local officials in viola...
encoded: We speak to journalist Aura Bogado, whose new investigation into Illinois law enforcement and prosecutorial collaboration with ICE has revealed that dozens of immigrants have been arrested and deported with the help of local officials in violation of the state’s sanctuary law. “Those are 150 individuals whose lives were very often changed, communities completely split apart,” says Bogado about her reporting. She further explains that while “there are constitutional rights for everybody, that [are] afforded to every person, … those rights are suspended in the immigration context. The bar that is needed to prove a case for deportability is so much lower.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-08-25T12:13:15Z
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description: The Trump administration has announced unspecified plans to further tighten sanctions on Iran, threatening other countries, including China, in the process. We speak to sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder about what he calls the “rhetorical...
encoded: The Trump administration has announced unspecified plans to further tighten sanctions on Iran, threatening other countries, including China, in the process. We speak to sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder about what he calls the “rhetorical” and “psychological warfare” of the announcement. For Iran, says Mulder, the announcement was not “really materially all that meaningful. And to the extent that they are, they hurt ordinary Iranians and not the government.” The impact on the U.S. relationship with China, however, could be much greater. If the U.S. does place secondary sanctions on Iran’s trading partners, the “U.S.-China trade truce might be unraveling,” warns Mulder. “The space for maneuver that the U.S. has in using these tools of very coercive economic statecraft has narrowed.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for August 25, 2026
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description: SOUTHCOM Resumes Bombing Boats Accused of Drug Smuggling, China Calls on U.S. to “Act Rationally” as Bessent Threatens Secondary Sanctions on Iran’s Partners, Supreme Court Sides with Trump over Limits to Mail-In Voting, Trump Threatens Even More Tariffs on Canada, Deepening Trade War, Israel Bombs Gaza Water Desalination Plant, Mosque and Tents, Killing 7, Including Children, Montreal City Council Passes Watered-Down Palestine Resolution That Doesn’t Halt Ties with Israel, Heavily Armed Gang Kills Dozens in Overnight Raid in Haiti, Trump Administration Announces Plans to Revoke Visas of Asylum Seekers, Trump Administration Seeks to Charge Employers Over $103,000 to Hire Workers with H-1B Visas, ICE Arrests Mother and Daughter Who Were Seriously Injured in Car Crash and Hospitalized, Democratic Congressmember Al Green Files Articles of Impeachment Against Trump, Palestinian Artist Sliman Mansour Dies at 79
encoded: SOUTHCOM Resumes Bombing Boats Accused of Drug Smuggling China Calls on U.S. to "Act Rationally" as Bessent Threatens Secondary Sanctions on Iran's Partners Supreme Court Sides with Trump over Limits to Mail-In Voting Trump Threatens Even More Tariffs on Canada, Deepening Trade War Israel Bombs Gaza Water Desalination Plant, Mosque and Tents, Killing 7, Including Children Montreal City Council Passes Watered-Down Palestine Resolution That Doesn't Halt Ties with Israel Heavily Armed Gang Kills Dozens in Overnight Raid in Haiti Trump Administration Announces Plans to Revoke Visas of Asylum Seekers Trump Administration Seeks to Charge Employers Over $103,000 to Hire Workers with H-1B Visas ICE Arrests Mother and Daughter Who Were Seriously Injured in Car Crash and Hospitalized Democratic Congressmember Al Green Files Articles of Impeachment Against Trump Palestinian Artist Sliman Mansour Dies at 79 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-08-25 Tuesday
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Meta’s failure to catch election-related disinformation ads on Facebook
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DN! Tuesday, August 25, 2026
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Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen.
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creator: Audrey Dutton
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description: The post Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NA610018_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=1149" alt="A blue blanket rests on the lap of a barefoot woman wearing a dark short-sleeve shirt and ankle-length brown shirt. She sits in a brown armchair and holds the hands of two people on her left and right, also sitting. No faces can be seen."> Newborn baby Malachi lies in the lap of his mother after dying from pneumonia and bleeding lungs — preventable conditions that could have been treated in a hospital — in 2023 in Idaho. Since the 1970s, the state’s criminal and civil laws have allowed parents who belong to Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray as their children die. Obtained by ProPublica via Canyon County Sheriff A sheriff’s deputy opens the door of an Idaho farmhouse where a newborn baby has just died. It’s almost 10 p.m., but the house is filled with adults and children seated anywhere they can find a spot: in reclining chairs, on the wood-stove hearth, on a chest of drawers. Some of the women hold babies in their laps. “Sorry,” the deputy whispers as the door creaks. No one greets the officer. No one speaks or even looks at anyone else, casting their eyes instead at the floor or around the room. The deputy’s video camera records as he walks through the front room and past a bedroom door adorned with children’s artwork. Inside the bedroom, newborn Malachi’s mother sits in a recliner. His body lies in her lap, covered by a blue blanket. As people in uniform ask Malachi’s parents about his birth, death and the two days in between, members of the family’s church — one of at least four Followers of Christ churches in Idaho — watch from folding chairs. People come and go from the bedroom; one woman cradles a sleeping toddler. Malachi died from pneumonia and bleeding lungs, according to an autopsy. It would have been treatable with antibiotics and newborn care in a hospital, said doc…

US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
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description: The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
encoded: The United States has never been one of the most ambitious countries when it comes to tackling climate change, but it has long maintained a program that funds innovative clean energy technology. This program is known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, or ARPA-E, and over the past 15 years it has doled out more than $4 billion to universities and startups that are trying to change the way we produce energy. It’s very hard to raise money for this kind of moonshot technology, which can take years or even decades to scale up large enough to generate a profit. A huge number of emergent technologies never attract the funding to cross this “valley of death” between experiment and big business. The purpose of the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E, which was modeled on a similar program run by the U.S. military, was to help energy inventors span this gap and develop the climate technologies of the future. A landmark report from the National Academies of Science, requested by Congress and released last week, has found that this high-risk, high-reward program is working: ARPA-E’s $4 billion investment has led to more than $20 billion in additional funding and more than 1,400 patents. Projects that received ARPA-E money were much more likely to get patents and additional investment than projects that were denied. The report also found that around 40 percent of ARPA-E grants led to a “crowding in” effect: After a startup proves that a new technology is feasible, other companies jump in and try to replicate it. “We’re trying to enable very talented people who could be doing other things to spend their lives trying to do incredibly risky things that, probabilistically speaking, will not deliver a profit in time to benefit them,” said Chris Bataille, a fellow at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy and an expert on the development of clean energy technology who was not involved in the report. The report committee, which consisted of more than a dozen sci…

Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most
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subject: wind
description: The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution.
encoded: With congested, aging power lines and a densely developed landscape, the East Coast has few options for building large-scale renewable power. Meanwhile, the region’s electricity prices are rising, and states are falling behind their emissions goals. Offshore wind offered a unique opportunity to meet those challenges, experts say, but the industry is barely surviving under economic headwinds and an openly hostile federal government. Offshore wind isn’t dead, but advocates agree that the technology is fading just when the region needs it most. Offshore wind developers, who had already struggled with high construction costs, hit a minefield when the Trump administration took office in 2025. The administration has subjected offshore wind projects to questionable Pentagon reviews, permit revocations, and stop-work orders, some of which survived only briefly before being blocked by courts. The administration’s most consequential move may have been its decision to pay developers to surrender their rights to develop in federally managed waters. By mid-August, it had committed to roughly $4 billion in payouts, wiping an estimated 21 gigawatts of potential wind power capacity off U.S. coasts, or enough energy to power over 15 million average-sized U.S. homes. Experts say more deals could follow. As they wait for conditions to improve, the industry must push through what offshore wind experts describe as an irked malaise. “Companies are trying to be upbeat, but I think if you kind of peel back the layers a bit, there’s a number of emotions out there; anger, sadness,” said Mark Repsher, an energy and sustainability expert at PA Consulting. “These people like what they do … sometimes it’s been their whole career, and it’s been put on pause now.” At least nine companies are still holding onto their offshore wind development rights, most of them European energy giants like Shell, and at least some appear unlikely to strike a deal. Denmark-based Orsted, the world’s largest develope…