(2018-08-24). Headlines for August 24, 2018. democracynow.org Yemen: 31 Reportedly Killed in U.S.-Backed Airstrikes, Including 22 Children, National Enquirer Executives Had Safe Containing Dirt on Trump, New York City Prosecutor Opens Criminal Probe into Trump Organization, GOP Senators Give Trump Green Light to Fire AG Jeff Sessions, Rep. Duncan Hunter and His Wife Plead Not Guilty to Looting Campaign Funds, Prison Strike Against "Modern-Day Slavery" Spreads Nationwide, NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison, Hawaii: Flooding and Landslides Reported as Hurricane Lane Strikes, South Africa Rejects Trump Claim of "Large Scale Killing" of Farmers, A…
(2018-08-24). With His South Africa Tweet, Trump Became a Megaphone for a White-Supremacist Talking Point. thenation.com With His South Africa Tweet, Trump Became a Megaphone for a White-Supremacist Talking Point appeared first on The Nation.
(2018-08-24). Just What Was Lara Trump Up To? truthout.org Lost amid the Paul Manafort verdict and Michael Cohen's guilty plea is the release of a recorded phone call allegedly made last December by Lara Trump to recently fired White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. | Without knowing the full context, the call represents anything from an innocuous effort to help a friend to a campaign finance law violation to obstruction of justice. All of which raises the question: Just what was Lara Trump up to? | Newman released the recording exactly nine months to the day after it allegedly took place. Only days after her dismissal last December, Newman went on Good Morning America to vent her frustration as the highest-ranking African-American White House staffer. | "I have seen things that have made me uncomfortable, that have upset me, that have affected me deeply and emotionally, that has…
(2018-08-24). When It's Sad to be a Child. counterpunch.org It is a sad time to be a child. Who'd have thought it just a few years ago. Consider Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, and the United States, to name just a few of the places where sadness for children prevails. The war began in Syria five years ago. More than 6.1 million Syrians have fled More
(2018-08-24). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org The unions are continuing to limit job actions opposing work rule changes aimed at eliminating thousands of guard positions aimed at slashing costs while compromising safety.
(2018-08-24). Ex-ambassador McFaul finds it 'weird' that RT reports on 'threats' to South African farmers. rt.com 
Former US envoy to Russia Michael McFaul said it was "weird" that RT was covering what he described as "threats" —in quotation marks— to white farmers in South Africa, retweeting a conspiracy linking RT's coverage to Fox News.
(2018-08-23). The dangerous myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa. splcenter.org Narratives about a fictitious campaign to exterminate Afrikaners have the power to produce real violence.
(2018-08-23). NC's Sole Black Woman Historical Commissioner: Confederate Statues Don't Belong at State Capitol. democracynow.org 
Just two days after protesters tore down the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue at the state's flagship school, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the state's Historical Commission voted 9 to 2 to keep Confederate monuments on the grounds of the state Capitol. We speak with the African-American woman who dissented in the vote to keep the three Confederate monuments in place at the state Capitol. She also voted against adding historical context to the monuments. Valerie Johnson is one of only two black members of the North Carolina Historical Commission and the only black woman. She is a professor of wome…
(2018-08-23). State Dept warns South Africa of 'wrong path' amid land expropriation row. rt.com 
Expropriation of land without compensation "would not be a good thing" and would send South Africa "down the wrong path," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters amid a diplomatic row with Pretoria. |
(2018-08-23). Trump orders Pompeo to 'closely study' South Africa's land expropriation. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump has expressed concern over the fate of white farmers in South Africa, where the extremely controversial land redistribution reform might leave owners without their properties or any compensation. |
(2018-08-21). The U.S. Is Building a Drone Base in Niger That Will Cost More Than $280 Million by 2024. theintercept.com 
The Pentagon disclosed that in addition to the base's $100 million construction cost in Agadez, more than $30 million a year will be spent to operate it.
(2018-08-21). Black schoolgirl sent home from Louisiana Christian school over 'unnatural' hairstyle (VIDEO). rt.com 
An African-American girl in Louisiana was banned from classes at a Christian school because her "unnatural" hair extensions are against the rules. A new hairstyle didn't satisfy school bosses and her parents removed the child.
(2018-08-19). 'Where's the evidence?' Chicago community shocked after teen kills himself while running from police. rt.com 
A Chicago community is in disbelief after a 16-year-old African-American teen reportedly shot himself while running from officers after they tried to question him about being in possession of a weapon.
(2018-08-17). In DeVos's Home State, Students Push for their Right to Literacy. progressive.org Literacy has been, and continues to be, a critical component of African-American liberation.