(2021-08-28). Millions face loss of their homes in wake of US Supreme Court ruling overturning eviction moratorium. wsws.org According to data from a Census Bureau survey, 6 percent of renters nationwide—more than 3.5 million people—say they are unable to pay their full rent due to the pandemic and are "likely" or "very likely" to face eviction.
(2021-08-28). Supreme Court Ruling Against Eviction Moratorium Could Facilitate Surge in COVID. truthout.org 
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court overwhelmingly ruled against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) most recent extension of the national eviction moratorium passed on August 3. This ruling will leave potentially millions of working class renters without any protections against eviction, particularly in southern states without statewide moratoriums, where the delta variant is still surging. | Despite the potentially catastrophic nature of the decision, the ruling no…
(2021-08-28). More Labor Unions Are Answering the Call for Solidarity With Palestine. truthout.org 
This article was originally published at In May, Palestinian workers urgently appealed for international solidarity against a sharp escalation of Israeli violence. Their appeals have been met with an unprecedented response — even in the United States, where labor officialdom has long supported the world's last remaining apartheid regime. | This dramatic shift is reflected in statem…
(2021-08-28). Saturday 8/28: Free Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…
(2021-08-28). Mercenaries in US Borders: A Sign of a Rapidly Declining Empire. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Aug 27, 2021 | More keeps getting revealed about the contractors from the mysterious mercenary company—or, as we've found out, companies—that have shown up in Minneapolis during this summer's Black Lives Matter protests. The most widely recognized of these companies, whose contractors have been reported to profile, inflict head trauma upon, grab, and surveil peaceful demonstrators, initially didn't have its name known to the public due to the contractors refusing to reveal what their employer is called. But as I've seen reported by one Minneapolis resident who has personal experi…
(2021-08-28). PSUV Ready to Enroll Candidates to Participate in Regional Elections. orinocotribune.com 
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is ready to register all the candidates of the Great Patriotic Pole who will participate in the regional elections scheduled for November 21, when "the revolutionary forces will achieve a considerable electoral victory," announced the president of the Electoral Commission of the red party, Diosdado Cabello, during a press conference offered this Friday August 27. | "Today, there are not only conditions for the November 21 elections, there is time for (the opposition) to prepare, and get ready, because on November 21 the revolutionary forces are going to beat them," s…
(2021-08-28). Iran Can Respond To America's 'Other Options'. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden said the US can turn to "other options" should negotiations with Iran fail. A senior Iranian official responded, saying it's an illegal threat and that Tehran has the right to respond in kind. | The warning from Tehran was voiced on Saturday by the secretary the Supreme National Security Council, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, who tweeted it in Farsi, English, Hebrew, and Arabic. He noted the "emphasis on using 'Other Options' against Iran" expressed during a meeting between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Friday. The signal was "an illegal threat to…
(2021-08-28). Parole board votes to release Robert F. Kennedy's assassin following his 16th parole hearing. rt.com 
A California parole board has voted to release Sirhan Sirhan — who killed US Senator Robert F. Kennedy — from prison after more than 50 years behind bars. The 77-year-old has said he shot the lawmaker over his support for Israel.
(2021-08-28). O'odham Voice Against the Wall Releases New Report on Elbit Spy Towers. indybay.org O'odham Voice Against the Wall demands a halt to the destruction and surveillance underway by Israel's Elbit Systems on the Tohono O'odham Nation and an end to the militarization by the U.S. Border Patrol, in a new 81-page report released to the world today.
(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…
(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 …
(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.
(2021-08-27). Right-wing Supreme Court throws out eviction moratorium. peoplesworld.org 
The 3.5 million people currently being kept in their homes thanks to the federal government's pandemic eviction moratorium may soon be out on the streets thanks to the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. The right-wing justices' ruling, issued late Thursday, blocks the Biden administration from enforcing the temporary moratorium extension imposed in early …
(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 "We have a responsibility to make a home for the people whose lives have been upended by interventionist U.S. foreign policy."
(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…
(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). As a Refugee, I Urge the US to Open Its Arms to Those Fleeing Afghanistan. commondreams.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."
(2021-08-27). Cori Bush Urges Congress to Act as Supreme Court Ends Eviction Moratorium. truthout.org 
Millions of people across the U.S. are once again at imminent risk of losing their homes after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the Biden administration's eviction moratorium, siding with a coalition of landlords and real estate companies that challenged the critical lifeline. | In an unsigned opinion, the 6-3 conservative majority
(2021-08-27). CDC eviction ban ended by Supreme Court: 4 questions about its impact answered by a housing law expert. realprogressives.org The Supreme Court lifted the CDC's eviction ban. A housing law expert answers questions regarding this decision.
(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…
(2021-08-27). Pro-Palestine Activists Rally Against Israeli Prime Minister Visit. popularresistance.org Washington D.C. – Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied near the White House on Thursday to denounce a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Washington. | Protesters rallied near the White House lawn to call for an end to US military and diplomatic support for Israel, citing Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians. | US President Joe Biden was set to meet Bennett at 15: 30 GMT, but the talks were moved to Friday following developments in Kabul where two suicide bombers killed and wounded scores of Afghans who had amassed outside Kabul airport. | Shortly before departing Israel…
(2021-08-27). Ex-Pence Aide: Stephen Miller's "Racist Hysteria" Made It Harder for Afghan Allies to Get Visas. democracynow.org 
As thousands of people in Afghanistan attempt to flee the country before the United States' withdrawal on August 31, we look at how the Trump administration made it much harder for Afghans who worked with the U.S. to apply and receive what is known as a special immigrant visa, or SIV. Oliva Troye, a former top aide to Mike Pence who resigned in protest, has placed the blame on Trump's xenophobic adviser Stephen Miller, saying he peddled "racist hysteria" in White House meetings about bringing Afghan allies to the U.S. "Stephen Miller would say, 'Well, these are terrorist cells in the making if you bring them here…
(2021-08-27). US Empire Reacts to Afghanistan Loss With Brutality & Terror. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Aug 25, 2021 | As imperialism has run its machinations within the different conditions of the world, it's turned these places into different types of tools for innovating in necro-politics. Israel is the U.S. empire's laboratory in repression, with the brutal anti-Palestinian tactics of the Zionist forces being used to train police in the U.S. and Colombia. Latin America is the empire's laboratory in the paramilitary facets of this repression, with the death squads in countries like Colombia being replicated in domestic U.S. militias like the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters. And Africa i…
(2021-08-27). 'The Answer Cannot Be More War,' House Dem Says After Deadly Attack in Afghanistan. commondreams.org The demand comes as Biden is set to have his first meeting with the far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
(2021-08-27). Jan Schakowsky, progressive except for Palestine. electronicintifada.net Chicago activists challenge congresswoman on her failure to support Palestinian children.
(2021-08-27). AJC is panicked by United Church of Christ's solidarity with Palestinians under settler-colonialism. mronline.org 
The United Church of Christ resolution calling Israel's continued "oppression" of Palestinians a "sin" has alarmed the American Jewish Committee and for good reason: Other Protestant churches are sure to follow, with measures that pose a real threat to apartheid.
(2021-08-27). Can Zionism and Palestinian nationalism live together? zcomm.org At the root of this conflict has been a majority of people on both sides demand for the right to attain a territorial expression of their collective identity…
(2021-08-27). Palestine's Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really 'Winning' Africa? counterpunch.org The decision by the African Union Commission, on July 22, to grant Israel observer status membership in the AU was the culmination of years of relentless Israeli efforts aimed at co-opting Africa's largest political institution. Why is Israel so keen on penetrating Africa? What made African countries finally succumb to Israeli pressure and lobbying? To
(2021-08-27). Biden DOJ Declines To Appeal Court Order Blocking Reparations For Black Farmers. moguldom.com The U.S. Department of Justice has opted not to file an appeal in federal court over an order blocking reparations for Black farmers and farmers of color. The reparations program was built into President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill to counter generations of systemic racism against Black farmers. Black farmers have been suing …
(2021-08-27). Texas House advances controversial voting bill after speaker bans word 'racism' amid 12-hour-long debate. rt.com 
Debate in the Texas House of Representatives over a controversial voting bill became so heated this week, Republican leadership insisted on accusations of 'racism' being banned from the floor. | "While we may have strong disagreements on the legislation and policy that will be debated, our rules require that we conduct ourselves in a civil manner and treat our colleagues with respect," House Speaker Dade Phelan reportedly told lawmakers on Thursday. It was the first regular business conducted in the House chamber since May. | A group of House Democrats fled the state in mid-July in protest of the elections bil…
(2021-08-27). Texas House Speaker Bans the Use of the Word 'Racism' During Election Bill Debate. sputniknews.com The election bill has prompted controversy and discussions among lawmakers, with Republicans insisting on measures like restricting mail- and drive-thru voting as a means of the protection of "election integrity", while Democrats describe the new restrictions as "voter suppression".
(2021-08-27). Silent Apartheid Metastasizing Under a GSAP of Frith Narrowed Fiendishly Austere, Alas. counterpunch.org Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave—/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,—/ Into this wild Abyss the wary
(2021-08-27). The Democrats, the pseudo-left and the cover-up of the January 6 coup. wsws.org This report to the 2021 SEP Summer School was delivered by Jacob Crosse, who writes regularly for the World Socialist Web Site on US politics and the activities of far-right and fascist groups.
(2021-08-27). Midwest Dispatch: The U.S. Government Might Be Paying Someone to Monitor You. progressive.org A recent report outlines how an Israeli company is capturing and selling your activity on social media to local authorities—including the police.
(2021-08-27). Biden says he's prioritizing Human Rights, but is welcoming an Israeli Prime Minister who boasts about War Crimes. juancole.com ( Otherwords.org ) — Biden can't say he's putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House. By Sahand Yazdanyar | August 25, 2021 In April 1996, Israeli artillery shells rained down on a United Nations compound where hundreds of civilians were taking refuge. As …
(2021-08-27). Biden Urged to Push Israeli PM to End 'Systematic Human Rights Abuses'. commondreams.org Insurance companies' opposition to comprehensive coverage, said one lawmaker, is "all the more reason, in my opinion, that we need to do it."
(2021-08-27). U.S. Opts Out Of Purchasing Israeli Iron Dome: Defense News. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The US Army has This comes in spite of the United States military having successfully carried out a first live-fire test of the missile defense system. | According to a report in Defense News website, Washington opted for Enduring Shi…
(2021-08-27). Defending Democracy: SPLC calls on Senate to swiftly pass John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. splcenter.org
(2021-08-27). Indigenous Brazilians converge on Supreme Court ahead of crucial land rights case. peoplesworld.org 
Thousands of Indigenous Brazilians marched to the country's Supreme Court Thursday, calling on judges to confirm their right to their ancestral lands. At least 6,000 demonstrators from 173 different ethnic groups sang and danced on the route from behind the National Theatre, where they have been camping for a week, dressed in traditional outfits including …
(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.
(2021-08-27). 10 Messages from the Indigenous Peoples in Brazil to the World. libya360.wordpress.com Brasil de Fato In Brasilia, indigenous people light the Square of the Three Powers on Tuesday (25) in support of the Brazil's Supreme Federal Court and against the "timeframe limitation". — APIB On the day the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court resumed the judgment that can define the future of indigenous peoples in the country, these…
(2021-08-27). Poor People's car caravan demands Manchin junk filibuster, back voting rights. peoplesworld.org 
CHARLESTON, W. VA.—Snaking through the hills of West Virginia, a caravan of cars carrying leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, its Mountaineer State members, and their allies arrived in Charleston to demand Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin junk the filibuster and back both strengthening voting rights and directing federal dollars to poor and near-poor people. "Where …