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2021-09-05: News Headlines

Marjorie Cohn (2021-09-05). SCOTUS Ruling Allows Texas to Deputize Citizens as Anti-Abortion Police. zcomm.org Donald Trump's installation of three radical right-wing "justices" on the Supreme Court is paying off for the forces trying to overturn Roe v. Wade…

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2021-09-05). US Supreme Court Ruling Allows Texas to Deputize Citizens as "Anti-Abortion Police" globalresearch.ca

12 days to go (2021-09-05). Vote No on Recall vs Supreme Court's Anti-Abortion Decision. indybay.org Taliban Texas was aided by the Taliban US Supreme Court on 9/2/21 with its 5-4 decision supporting banning abortion at 6 weeks and supporting vigilante justice, while California's anti-abortion Republican Party threatens to attack abortion, mandating your NO Vote on the Recall TODAY.

Anonymous669 (2021-09-05). Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Arrested Journalists After Accusing Them Of Spying For US, SDF, Russia & Damascus. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On September 4, al-Qaeda-linked Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, arrested two brothers, Bashar and Mohamad al-Sheikh, who work as activists and journalists for the SY+ agency. | A large force of the terrorist group arrested the two brothers after raiding their house in the al-Anadolu camp near the town of Kafr Lusin on the border with Turkey. | #ÿߟÑÿ¨ŸàŸÑÿߟ&Uuml…

Editor (2021-09-04). WW condemns Texas anti-abortion law — editorial. workers.org Workers World condemns in the strongest terms the Supreme Court of the United States 5-4 ruling Sept. 2 that refused to restrict a Texas law banning abortion procedures as early as six weeks into a person's pregnancy. The Texas statute also codifies the right for anyone, including a complete stranger, . . . |

_____ (2021-09-04). Shadow Docket Supreme Court Decisions Could Affect Millions. popularresistance.org Traditionally, the process of getting an opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court takes months and those rulings are often narrowly tailored. Emergency orders, especially during the court's summer break, revolve around specific issues, like individual death penalty cases. Since Aug. 24, that truncated process known as the shadow docket has moved at astronomical speed, producing decisions related to immigration, COVID-19 and evictions and, most recently, abortion.

teleSUR (2021-09-04). El Salvador: Top Court Opens the Way for Bukele's Reelection. telesurenglish.net El Salvador's Supreme Court (CSJ) reversed a 2014 ruling that banned presidential re-election, thus opening the way for President Nayib Bukele's second term in office in 2024. | RELATED: | The ruling specified that incumbent presidents might only compete in the electoral race if they have not occupied the presidential position immediately before their election. | Since Bukele did not hold office in the 2014-2019 period, he is now eligible f…

_____ (2021-09-04). Whistleblower Shares Perspective On End To Afghanistan War. popularresistance.org David McBride is a former military lawyer in the Royal Australia Regiment and Australia Special Forces. He completed two tours in Afghanistan and submitted an internal complaint against what he witnessed in the war. He immediately faced scrutiny and harassment. What David had to reveal was published as "The Afghan Files." It was a "quite a big story in Australia," according to him. But the Australia government responded by raiding the ABC and targeting David with a prosecution for an espionage offense.

Kevin Gosztola (2021-09-04). Dissenter Weekly: South African Whistleblower Murdered, FBI Whistleblower Speaks Out (Exclusive For Paid Subscribers). thedissenter.org In this edition of "Dissenter Weekly," Kevin Gosztola goes through whistleblower stories from the week of September 2, 2021. | We cover a South African whistleblower who was murdered. She was reportedly targeted in a professional hit job by several gunmen, who were arrested. | The show also highlights latest developments with the Environmental Protection Agency and their corruption, which continues as a service to particular industries like the chemical industry. | Finally, the show concludes with some highlights from a New York Times Magazine feature on FBI whistleblower Terry Albury. | Listen to…

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2021-09-04: News Headlines

Jake Johnson (2021-09-03). Report Details Corporate Landlord Gluttony as Millions Face Eviction. zcomm.org By striking down the CDC's eviction moratorium, said one critic, the Supreme Court "sided with rich corporate landlords that are itching to kick out vulnerable families."

Staff (2021-09-03). A CIA Drone Analyst Apologizes to the People of Afghanistan. democracynow.org As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA's drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan "from not only myself, but from the rest of our society as Americans." During deployments to Afghanistan, Christopher Aaron says he was able to see "the human toll, the resource toll of these wars, as well as the fact that the policy of dropping 'guided missiles' at people from remote controlled airplanes was not allowing us to actually win the war." We also speak with Eyal Press, who profiles Aaron in his new book, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and…

Jeffrey Kaye (2021-09-03). "A Real Flood of Bacteria and Germs": Communications Intelligence and Charges of U.S. Germ Warfare During the Korean War. counterpunch.org In February 2013, the CIA posted over 1300 items online as part of their earlier "Baptism by Fire" document release commemorating the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The bulk of their accompanying narrative material concerned long-time controversies as to whether the CIA had failed to anticipate both the North Korean invasion

12 days to go (2021-09-03). Vote No on Recall vs Supreme Court's Anti-Abortion Decision. indybay.org Taliban Texas was aided by the Taliban US Supreme Court on 9/2/21 with its 5-4 decision supporting banning abortion at 6 weeks and supporting vigilante justice, while California's anti-abortion Republican Party threatens to attack abortion, mandating your NO Vote on the Recall TODAY.

WSWS (2021-09-03). The Texas abortion ban: A massive assault on democratic rights. wsws.org The US Supreme Court's decision to allow the Texas abortion ban to go into effect September 1 must be opposed by the entire working class. The right to free, safe and legal abortion is a fundamental democratic right.

Kevin Gosztola (2021-09-03). 9/11 Cinema: 'The Siege' Foreshadowed America's Dark Transformation. thedissenter.org FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard (Screen shot from the promotional trailer for "The Siege" and fair use for the purposes of commentary)[Editor's Note: This is the first in The Dissenter's weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, "Twenty Years In A Security State."] | Yunis Shokuri, who was a Guantanamo Bay prisoner for over 13 years, once recalled the plot of "The Siege" when he appeared before a military tribunal. "The movie was about terrorists carrying out terrorist attacks in the United States.""The CIA and FBI were no…

Edward Curtin (2021-09-03). The Incantational Bewitchment of Propaganda. dissidentvoice.org We'll know our disinformation is complete when everything the America public believe is false. — William Casey, CIA Director, February 1981 All propaganda succeeds because it satisfies needs that it has first created. If you follow the daily rat-a-tat mainstream news reports and react to them, you will be caught in a labyrinth that has been …

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