RSN: Harvey Wasserman | Life and Death Spiral of US History: From Deganawidah to The Donald




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RSN: Harvey Wasserman | Life and Death Spiral of US History: From Deganawidah to The Donald 
The crowds at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. (photo: AP)
Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
Wasserman writes: "I now host two radio shows, co-wrote the Grammy-winning Solartopia with Pete Seeger, helped coin 'No Nukes,' spoke at Woodstock 2, co-/wrote twenty books and many viral screeds. I've joyously embraced Civil Rights, social justice, radical journalism, organic farming, No Nukes, Solartopia, election protection, psychedelic exploration, and a whole new way of thinking."
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'Going Through Hell' at the Border: Parents Split From Children Tell of Anguish
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laughland writes: "For five long weeks Evelin* had no idea where her two children were. She was apprehended with them at the US border on 19 May - after fleeing violence in Guatemala - and her family was ripped apart under the Trump administration's 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy."
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Whistleblower Reality Winner to Sign Plea Deal
Courage Foundation
Excerpt: "Accused NSA whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner has signed a plea agreement. A plea hearing has been scheduled for 10.00am EST in Courtroom 2 at the Federal Justice Centre, United States District Court, 600 James Brown Boulevard, Augusta Georgia for Tuesday 26 June 2018. Further details of the plea agreement will be made available thereafter."
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A car plows into pedestrians and vehicles on the mall in Charlottesville during a white supremacist rally. The driver hit the knot of cars and people at high speed, then backed up and fled the scene. (photo: AJC)
A car plows into pedestrians and vehicles on the mall in Charlottesville during a white supremacist rally. The driver hit the knot of cars and people at high speed, then backed up and fled the scene. (photo: AJC)


Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' Organizer Gets Approval for 'Anniversary' Event in DC
Joe Heim, The Washington Post
Heim writes: "An organizer of last year's deadly white-supremacist gathering in Charlottesville has received initial approval from the National Park Service to hold a rally across from the White House on Aug. 12, the anniversary of last year's event."
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30 Years of Data Shows Asylum Seekers Are Not an Economic Burden
Daniel Oberhaus, Motherboard
Oberhaus writes: "For the last two years, the Trump Administration has continually cited the burden that undocumented immigrants place on the US economy as justification for its 'zero tolerance' border policy."
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In Roche, a woman watches as her house, which belonged to her family for many generations, is demolished during a forced displacement. (photo: Rafael Ríos)
In Roche, a woman watches as her house, which belonged to her family for many generations, is demolished during a forced displacement. (photo: Rafael Ríos)

Death and Displacement: A USAID Export
Victoria McKenzie and Steven Cohen, NACLA
Excerpt: "In April 2013, the northeastern department of La Guajira, Colombia was suffering its worst drought in three decades. The streams that flow down from the Sierra Nevada and Serrania del Perija had reduced to a trickle, and the scattered wells on the already arid Caribbean peninsula were running dry. In the previous three years, thousands of Indigenous Wayuu children had died of thirst, hunger, and disease."
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Scott Pruitt. (photo: Getty Images)
Scott Pruitt. (photo: Getty Images)

The EPA Just Killed Three Expert Advisory Committees
Brian Khan, Earther
Khan writes: "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to become a shell of its former self under Scott Pruitt. The latest salvo: the agency's rejiggered science advisory board stocked with industry types just killed three committees it has traditionally relied on."
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