
What do migrant journeys from Africa to Europe and from Central America to the United States have in common? To begin with, the basic inhumanity of the response.
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California fires: Zinke blames devastation on ‘radical environmentalists’ – Los Angeles Times Bigger POS than his boss
“It’s not time for finger-pointing,” Zinke said. “We know the problem. It’s been years of neglect, and in many cases it’s been these radical environmentalists that want nature to take its course. …You know what? This is on them.”
Source: California fires: Zinke blames devastation on ‘radical environmentalists’ – Los Angeles Times
To intervene or not? David Attenborough doco crew comes to aid of trapped penguins

Documentary makers for David Attenborough’s Africa once left a baby elephant to die of thirst, but this time BBC crew came to the aid of penguins trapped in an icy gully in Antarctica, and the series’ producer says Sir David would have done the same.
Christopher Columbus: A product of his time or guilty of genocide?
Christopher Columbus may have discovered the New World, but he is now persona non grata in the city of Los Angeles.
The White House just can’t stop making Jim Acosta look good
Finland to President Trump: We don’t rake the forest floor, but we do other things you should emulate – Los Angeles Times
Finns object to Trump’s ridiculous attempt to recruit them into the web of cynical fabrication he constantly tries to spin for political gain.
FBI now classifies far-right Proud Boys as ‘extremist group’, documents say

Group is now designated ‘with ties to white nationalism’ according to report produced by Washington law enforcement
The FBI now classifies the far-right Proud Boys as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism”, according to a document produced by Washington state law enforcement.
The FBI’s 2018 designation of the self-confessed “western chauvinist group” as extremist has not been previously made public.
Senate Democrats file lawsuit against Matthew Whitaker’s appointment

- Donald Trump ‘acted unconstitutionally’ in replacing Sessions
- Senate must be allowed to approve acting attorney general
Three leading Democratic US senators filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing Donald Trump of illegally appointing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, saying the president violated the US constitution and denied the Senate its right to approve the nomination.
The lawsuit was filed in US district court for the District of Columbia by senators Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse and Mazie Hirono. It is the most high-profile litigation so far to be brought challenging Whitaker’s appointment.
موقعة رئيس الشرطة والبنشر بين البطولة والخذلان
موقعة رئيس الشرطة والبنشر بين البطولة والخذلان


جري ما جرى من تداول لصور رئيس شرطة الخليل بينما كان يغير عجل الجيب العسكري الإسرائيلي من تصليح للبنشر. لم يعد هناك حاجة لإضافة الكثير على الموضوع، ويكفي القول ان الغضب والاستياء الذي ظهر من قبل الرأي العام يؤكد على استياء الشارع الفلسطيني من حالة التنسيق الأمني كأثر مباشر لاتفاقية أوسلو، وبالتالي يبدو ان التنسيق الأمني هو ما تبقى من أوسلو مفعلا. وعليه، فان غضب الشارع وتعبيره ما بين استهزاء ومساءلة يأتي كذلك وسط حالة من الإحباط الشعبي على الحال المعاش. ولم يكن حظ رئيس الشرطة في هذا المشهد في أحسن احواله، وخصوصا وان الشعب كان يحتفل في قرارة نفسه بإنجاز غزة، ولم يكن الا من الطبيعي وضع الموقفين في مقارنة.
المشكلة، والمصيبة كالعادة، هو في محاولة التبريرات، وذلك في الافاضة فيها، او العقاب الاعمى، في الاستبداد فيه.
بين المطالبة بعقاب رئيس الشرطة وبين الإعلان عن تجريده لرتبته العسكرية العريقة ومنصبه العالي واحالته…
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Monday Open Thread | Stacey Abrams: ‘Democracy failed’ in Georgia governor race
Voting suppression predator #BrianKemp brazeningly STOLE the election while the country was watching by purging Black voters from the voter rolls and the media declared him the winner. Democracy my ass.
Georgia democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that there has been systematic, deliberate disenfranchisement for years in the state of Georgia and that reached its pinnacle in this year’s midterm election.
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