The "Blue Wave" Was Also a "Muslim Wave"
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2018-11-09
With the Muslim Ban, the promotion of torturer Gina Haspel to CIA director, and increases in hate crimes, it's been a rough year for us Muslims in the United States. | So hearing the words "Salam Alaikum" as Ilhan Omar took the national stage on Election Night to accept her win as Representative of Minnesota's 5th District made it feel like I could finally breathe a little bit easier. | The first Somali-American elected to Congress, Omar joined Rashida Tlaib, a daughter of Palestinian refugees, as the first Muslim women to be elected to US Congress. | The election of these women to Congress is a direct repudiatio…
truthout.org/articles/the-blue-wave-was-also-a-muslim-wave/

A Mother's Plea to Save Her Son… Julian Assange, Held 8 Years Without Charge by the UK Government
Mairead Maguire | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-09
On 4th November, 2018, Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange, made a deeply moving video public appeal to save the life of her son Julian. | Julian Assange is Editor in Chief of Wikileaks. Because of Wikileaks reporting of … | The post A Mother's Plea to Save Her Son… Julian Assange, Held 8 Years Without Charge by the UK Government appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/a-mothers-plea-to-save-her-son-julian-assange-held-8-years-without-charge-by-the-uk-government/5659320

Iran leaders will have to fall in line if 'they want their people to eat,' Pompeo says
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-09
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a BBC journalist that Iranian "leadership has to make a decision that they want their people to eat," dropping all pretense of caring about Iranians as he touted the latest harsh sanctions. | …
rt.com/usa/443497-pompeo-starving-iran-sanctions/

Democrats rally to defend fired Attorney General Sessions, Special Counsel Mueller
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-09
The Democrats and their "left" allies fear that Sessions' firing will derail the anti-Russia Mueller investigation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/09/sess-n09.html

Rapid Response to Firing of Sessions
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2018-11-09
Rapid response in San Rafael (Marin) to Trump attacking Mueller.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/08/18818931.php

Protest Rallies: Rapid Response to Protect Mueller Investigation after Sessions Firing
Moveon.org & others | indybay.org | 2018-11-09
Locations around whole SF Bay Area, state of California, and across USA.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/07/18818889.php

Pakistan's government bows to Islamist right, victimises anew woman in blasphemy case
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-09
Pakistan's PTI government has ordered the Supreme Court to review its decision vacating the blasphemy conviction and death sentence imposed on Asia Bibi.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/09/pabl-n09.html

Spanish law on trial as Catalan leaders face jail
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-09
In recent weeks, senior judges in the loftiest halls of the Spanish legal system — the Supreme Court, the National High Court and the Constitutional Court — have been exposed as subverters of a fair legal process, lackeys of Spain's almighty banking elite and bumbling incompetents, writes Dick Nichols from Barcelona. | The revelations of their unfitness to judge guarantees the Spanish legal establishment's impending show trials of Catalan political leaders and law officers will be the most politically explosive since the transition from the Franco dictatorship in the late 1970s. | Next January, 18 for…
greenleft.org.au/content/spanish-law-trial-catalan-leaders-face-jail

'All We've Got Are Protests and People Power'
Gabriel Thompson | thenation.com | 2018-11-09
'All We've Got Are Protests and People Power'…
thenation.com/article/feminists-birddog-aca-kavanaugh/

Civil rights under threat in name of national security
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-09
One of the usual threats trotted out by governments proposing what would otherwise be considered radical attacks on civil liberties is national security. | The Australian newspaper reported on June 8 that Attorney-General Christian Porter was demanding urgent passage of two separate espionage and foreign interference bills following "intelligence advice of an accelerated escalation in hostile foreign activity over the past 12 months". | The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security had just published a 400-page report containing 60 recommendations, giving the green light to the first bill, the Es…
greenleft.org.au/content/civil-rights-under-threat-name-national-security

Australian prime minister dismisses renewed calls to defend Julian Assange
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-08
Morrison's remarks are the first direct statement by the government of its support for the drive by the US government to get its hands on the WikiLeaks publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/08/assa-n08.html

As Julian Assange's Health Declines, the Media Obsesses About His Cat
Consortium News | theantimedia.com | 2018-11-08
While the media focused on Julian Assange's cat rather than his continuing arbitrary detention, evidence shows that Britain worked hard to force his extradition to Sweden where Assange feared he could then be turned over to the United States. (CN) — Let's start with the cat. You never would have thought one of these beloved felines would …

As Julian Assange's Health Declines, the Media Obsesses About His Cat

Yemen Is Another US Dirty War
David W. Pear | iranian.com | 2018-11-08
On October 31st the US Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis and the US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo called for a cease-fire and a negotiated settlement to the war against Yemen. This was more than an obvious publicity stunt. Was it a cruel Halloween prank? It is the US that is leading from behind the Saudi […] | The post Yemen Is Another US Dirty War appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/11/07/yemen-is-another-us-dirty-war/

Double standard? Rachel Maddow roots for #Resistance on Twitter
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-08
With protests planned over the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow dropped her pretense of journalistic objectivity and took to Twitter to encourage the Resistance. | …
rt.com/usa/443475-rachel-maddow-mueller-protest/

#Resistance holds 'Protect Mueller' rallies around the US (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-08
Democrat activists groups have mobilized on short notice to hold rallies in cities across the US, demanding that the new acting head of DOJ recuse himself from overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's "Russiagate" probe. | …
rt.com/usa/443488-save-mueller-rallies-resistance/

Trump Fires AG Sessions, Installs New Loyalist Whitaker to Oversee Mueller Probe
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-08
President Donald Trump has fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, replacing him with a Trump loyalist who has called special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation a "witch hunt." Matthew Whitaker, formerly Jeff Sessions's chief of staff, will now take charge of the Russia inquiry, prompting questions about the future of the Russia investigation and whether Trump will target Robert Mueller next. Some experts are raising questions about the legality of putting Whitaker in charge rather than Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who had been overseeing the Russia probe. The ACLU wrote in a statement, "Jeff…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/8/trump_fires_ag_sessions_installs_new

Mass protests follow Trump's firing of Sessions; demand hands off Mueller!
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-11-08
WASHINGTON–In a situation rife with irony — given Jeff Sessions's past record on voting rights, voter suppression and against workers' rights — citizen groups called mass protests for 5 p.m. local time, coast to coast, on Nov. 8 against President Donald Trump's arbitrary firing of Sessions, his Attorney General. They said it's a Trump attempt …
peoplesworld.org/article/mass-protests-follow-trumps-televised-breakdown-demand-hands-off-mueller/

Is America in a Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-11-08
After President Donald Trump tore through a " red line" on Wednesday by immediately replacing fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Matthew Whitaker–a fervent loyalist who has openly called for the defunding of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe–lawmakers, legal experts, and progressive analysts argued that T…
truthdig.com/articles/is-america-in-a-full-blown-constitutional-crisis/

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taken to hospital after fall
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-08
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the leading liberal-leaning member of the US Supreme Court, has been taken to hospital on Thursday morning. She fell in her office on the previous night. | …
rt.com/usa/443443-supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-/

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, Hospitalized After Taking Fall
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-11-08
The Supreme Court justice, who says she has no plans to retire, is currently under observation after tests revealed she broke three ribs. | The post Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, Hospitalized After Taking Fall appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/ruth-bader-ginsburg-85-hospitalized-after-taking-fall/

As Julian Assange Faces Crisis, the Media Obsesses Over His Cat
Stefania Maurizi | mintpressnews.com | 2018-11-07
While the media focused on Julian Assange's cat rather than his continuing arbitrary detention, evidence shows that Britain worked hard to force his extradition to Sweden where Assange feared he could then be turned over to the U.S., as Stefania Maurizi explains. | The post As Julian Assange Faces Crisis, the Media Obsesses Over His Cat appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/as-julian-assange-faces-crisis-the-media-obsesses-over-his-cat/251596/

Jeff Sessions Replaced by Aide Who Said Mueller Should Be Barred From Probing Trump Finances
Robert Mackey | theintercept.com | 2018-11-07
Donald Trump replaced Jeff Sessions with an acting attorney general who has argued that Robert Mueller should be barred from investigating Trump's finances. | The post Jeff Sessions Replaced by Aide Who Said Mueller Should Be Barred From Probing Trump Finances appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/11/07/jeff-sessions-replacement-matthew-whitaker-mueller-trump-finances/

U.S. Midterms: Native Americans unyielding battle against voter suppression
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-11-07
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that requires North Dakota voters to provide an I.D. with a residential address. The ruling has effectively made the process to vote next to impossible for Native Americans, who by-and-large do not have recognized addresses–but that's not stopping them. | Source…
mronline.org/2018/11/07/u-s-midterms-native-americans-unyielding-battle-against-voter-suppression/

The West is Failing Julian Assange
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-06
While the media focused on Julian Assange's cat rather than his continuing arbitrary detention, evidence shows that Britain worked hard to force his extradition to Sweden where Assange feared he could then be turned over to the U.S., as Stefania… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/06/the-west-is-failing-julian-assange/

The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Maryland Can Display a 40-Foot Latin Cross
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-06
The case could drastically alter longstanding precedent protecting the separation of church and state and send a devastating message to non-Christians | Last Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it will decide whether a state government's display of a gigantic, 40-foot Latin cross as a war memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, violates the separation of church and state. | On the surface, the case appears to be about one religious monument located at one busy intersecti…
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/government-promotion-religion/supreme-court-will-decide-whether-maryland-can

LIVE: Assange Emergency Meeting
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-03
Watch live an emergency meeting being held on new threats to Julian Assange. Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/03/live-assange-emergency-meeting/

Break-in Attempted at Assange's Residence in Ecuador Embassy
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-03
An attempt was made on Oct. 29 to break into the Ecuadorian embassy, where security has been removed and apparently new surveillance devices installed, reports Joe Lauria. Break-in Attempted at Embassy; Fears Raised of Abduction By Joe Lauria Special to… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/03/break-in-attempted-at-assanges-residence-in-ecuador-embassy/

New Threats to Julian Assange; Consortium News to Broadcast Emergency Meeting Live on Saturday
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-02
New threats to the safety of Julian Assange, to be disclosed shortly by Consortium News, have prompted an emergency meeting of his supporters. New Threats Reported to Assange to Be Revealed An alarming series of occurrences have unfolded this week… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/02/new-threats-to-julian-assange-consortium-news-to-broadcast-emergency-meeting-live-on-saturday/