2021-08-27: News Headlines

Staff (2021-08-27). 25,000 Baltimore families face eviction after SCOTUS moratorium ruling. therealnews.com Baltimore housing advocates say they are "devastated" by the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) eviction moratorium. The reason for the decision, which was announced late Thursday and given by way of an unsigned, eight-page opinion, was that Congress must approve such a measure. | "There are 129,000 Maryland families behind on rent, 25,000 Baltimore City families behind on rent and facing eviction, usually through no fault of their own," Matt Hill, attorney for the Public Justice Center told The Real News. "It's going to force them to live in crowded…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-27). US Supreme Court Strikes Down Latest Eviction Ban, Placing 6.5 Million Households at Risk. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Flyers put during a Cancel The Rents campaign against evictions in Washington DC. (Photo: Zeb Habash/Twitter) The United States supreme court on Thursday, August 26, struck down the latest federal eviction moratorium put in place by the administration of president Joe Biden. In a 6-3 decision, the conservative supermajority in the supreme court…

Johanna Kichton (2021-08-27). People's Action on SCOTUS Scrapping Eviction Moratorium: Congress, Act Now to Save Lives. peoplesaction.org Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today released the following statement by Homes Guarantee Campaign Director Tara Raghuveer in response to the Supreme Court of the United States striking down President Biden's eviction moratorium: "Millions of poor and working class people, Black and brown people, women and families will wake up tomorrow at …

ecns.cn (2021-08-27). U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden administration's eviction moratorium. ecns.cn The U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling Thursday blocked the Joe Biden administration's eviction moratorium meant to create a buffer for households struggling to pay their rent amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Staff (2021-08-27). US Supreme Court sides with landlords as it blocks federal eviction moratorium, putting millions at risk of homelessness. rt.com The US Supreme Court has vacated a stay on a lower court's decision to end the latest federal eviction moratorium, arguing that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) far overstepped its authority by imposing it. | In a

_____ (2021-08-27). 'Congress Must Act,' Says Cori Bush as Supreme Court Ends Eviction Moratorium. commondreams.org

sputniknews (2021-08-27). US Supreme Court Lifts Federal Eviction Moratorium. sputniknews.com The eviction moratorium was imposed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent landlords from evicting those unable to pay rent as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged across the country.

_____ (2021-08-27). Supreme Court Allows Evictions To Resume During Pandemic. popularresistance.org Washington — The Supreme Court's conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. | The court's action late Thursday ends protections for roughly 3.5 million people in the United States who said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to Census Bureau data from early August. | The court said in an unsigned opinion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reimposed the moratorium Aug. 3, lacked the authority to do so under f…

David Rosen (2021-08-27). Biden's Gambit: A Finger in the Dike. counterpunch.org Is it unclear whether Joe Biden's presidency and the Democratic control of Congress will survive the Afghanistan debacle. Recalling Malcolm X's great warning following John F. Kennedy's assassination, "The chickens are coming how to roost," the U.S.'s military-driven foreign policy may have hit a wall. The systematic failure of the military and intelligence bureaucracies has

Kevin Gosztola (2021-08-27). Dissenter Weekly: Australian Witness In Afghanistan War Crimes Inquiry Was Bombed—Plus, Ag-Gag Laws. thedissenter.org In this edition of "Dissenter Weekly," Kevin Gosztola goes through whistleblower stories from the week of August 26, 2021. | We cover an investigation by the Australia Broadcasting Corporation that found a witness in an Afghanistan war crimes inquiry was relocated after their home was bombed. | The show highlights Representative Ilhan Omar's letter to President Joe Biden urging him to pardon drone whistleblower Daniel Hale. | Toward the end of the show, Kevin goes over the passage of a law backed by Big Agriculture in Iowa that makes audio or video recording in a "trespassing" crime. He also descri…

Staff (2021-08-27). Afganistán, fracaso anunciado: Experto de la CIA vaticinó la derrota estadounidense en 2009. cubadebate.cu Uno de esos documentos llegó a manos de Hillary Clinton el 12 de noviembre de 2009. Uno de sus principales asesores, Sidney Blumenthal, le remitió un informe con un resumen de la conversación que había mantenido con William Murray, ex jefe de la CIA en Pakistán. Ese oficial, destacaba Blumenthal, "fue uno de los miembros de un pequeño equipo de la CIA" que había dirigido "laresistencia afgana a la ocupación soviética".

Sam Husseini (2021-08-27). Crucial Points in the Pandemic Origin Debate. counterpunch.org With the "intelligence" "community" providing the results of its alleged "investigation" as to the origins of the pandemic, reportedly "inconclusive" — it's important to keep some critical things, and some possibilities, in mind. Among them: * The US Congress can investigate without Chinese involvement. While many are calling for deeper inquiry (an overdue, good thing) they are doing

_____ (2021-08-27). Scheer Intelligence: What Democrats Did To Welfare Haunts Them. popularresistance.org A recent piece in the Washington Post titled "Welfare rolls decline during the pandemic despite economic upheaval" delves into one of the biggest domestic policy failures of Bill Clinton's presidency: the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which provides financial assistance for the country's poor. TANF, explains reporter Amy Goldstein, is the reason why when the coronavirus spread and shelter-in-place mandates were issued, causing millions of Americans to lose their jobs at rates comparable to the Great Depression, even less people were able to receive needs-based cash assistance than prior…

WSWS (2021-08-27). Supreme Court orders Biden administration to revive Trump's Remain in Mexico immigration policy. wsws.org The program, which forced immigrants to stay in Mexico while their asylum cases played out in the US, was rescinded by the Biden Administration this year but was ordered to be reinstated by a 6—3 conservative majority of the Supreme Court.

James Haught (2021-08-26). Only Religious War Remains. counterpunch.org The Taliban seizure of Afghanistan underscores an ugly 21st century fact: Religion-based warfare remains the world's worst type of armed conflict, and the "holy warriors" display barbaric cruelty. After America's CIA under President Reagan helped brutal Muslim tribal warlords drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, victorious warlords fell into conflict with each other. That's

Ramón Pedregal Casanova (2021-08-26). øLos codiciosos de la guerra eterna salen corriendo de Afganistán? globalizacion.ca Julián Assange expresaba hace 10 años en Wikileaks: ´El objetivo es utilizar Afganistán para lavar dinero de las bases impositivas de EEUU y de países europeos a través de Afganistán y traerlo de vuelta a las manos de las élites…

WSWS (2021-08-26). US fails to provide evidence for COVID-19 "lab leak" claims. wsws.org A new report by the US intelligence agencies has failed to produce a shred of evidence to substantiate claims by the White House and major US media outlets that a lab leak is a "plausible" scenario.

Nicholas Stender (2021-08-26). Supreme Court forces re-adoption of racist anti-immigrant policy. liberationnews.org A Supreme Court ruling yesterday — upholding an earlier ruling by a right wing judge — dealt a blow to immigrants' rights by requiring the Biden administration to re-adopt a racist Trump era immigration policy. Known as the "Remain in Mexico" policy, this measure prohibits people who arrive at the southern border from entering the …

_____ (2021-08-26). Ilhan Omar to Joe Biden: Pardon Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale. commondreams.org Only when I stop knowing what I know do I see the world as it is, do I see it shimmer and pulsate, do I see it bleed wonder.

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