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18 June 20
David Sirota | We've Always Had the Money for Medicare for All - We've Just Given It to Corporations Instead
David Sirota, Jacobin
Sirota writes: "In recent weeks, we've seen health care industry CEOs report paying themselves $2.4 billion as twenty-seven million people were thrown off their health care coverage."
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David Sirota, Jacobin
Sirota writes: "In recent weeks, we've seen health care industry CEOs report paying themselves $2.4 billion as twenty-seven million people were thrown off their health care coverage."
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This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe. (photo: Atlanta PD)
ALSO SEE: Atlanta Police Call in Sick to Protest Murder Charge Against
Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks
Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks
Former Atlanta Police Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Charged With Felony Murder
Brakkton Booker, NPR
Booker writes: "The white Atlanta police officer who shot a 27-year-old black man in the back last week in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant will face a charge of felony murder and 10 other charges, a Georgia county prosecutor announced Wednesday."
Brakkton Booker, NPR
Booker writes: "The white Atlanta police officer who shot a 27-year-old black man in the back last week in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant will face a charge of felony murder and 10 other charges, a Georgia county prosecutor announced Wednesday."
EXCERPT:
There is also reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Guardian indicating that Rolfe, the officer who killed Brooks, was previously reprimanded for his use of force.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Rolfe received a written reprimand in 2017 for using his firearm. His file, according to the paper, included a dozen other incidents ranging from vehicular accidents to complaints from citizens.
"He was exonerated in nine of those internal investigations," the newspaper reported.
The Guardian reported on a 2015 incident in which Rolfe and two other officers shot at Jackie Jermaine Harris, who was caught driving a stolen vehicle. Harris rammed a law enforcement vehicle, the paper reported, and the officers shot at him multiple times.
"However, the shooting was not reported by the police involved," The Guardian added. "Harris, like Brooks, is African American."
Jamaal Bowman is a progressive primary challenger taking on 16-term congressman Rep. Eliot Engel. (photo: Bowman Campaign)
Top Democrats Are Trying to Stop This Man From Becoming the Next AOC
Jesse McKinley, The New York Times
McKinley writes: "The primary result was a visceral warning to Democratic leadership that it had better quickly reckon with the push for progressive change, and not underestimate the candidates behind it. The Democratic establishment has apparently heeded that lesson."
wo years ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a young, untested democratic socialist, pulled off a shocking upset by defeating the No. 4 House Democrat, Representative Joseph Crowley. The primary result was a visceral warning to Democratic leadership that it had better quickly reckon with the push for progressive change, and not underestimate the candidates behind it.
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Jesse McKinley, The New York Times
McKinley writes: "The primary result was a visceral warning to Democratic leadership that it had better quickly reckon with the push for progressive change, and not underestimate the candidates behind it. The Democratic establishment has apparently heeded that lesson."
Representative Eliot Engel’s primary contest against Jamaal Bowman in New York is a test of the Democratic establishment’s ability to withstand its emboldened left wing.
wo years ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a young, untested democratic socialist, pulled off a shocking upset by defeating the No. 4 House Democrat, Representative Joseph Crowley. The primary result was a visceral warning to Democratic leadership that it had better quickly reckon with the push for progressive change, and not underestimate the candidates behind it.
The Democratic establishment has apparently heeded that lesson.
As the June 23 primary nears in New York, another long-tenured Democrat, Eliot L. Engel, is being threatened by a young progressive challenger, Jamaal Bowman. The race has become a focal point for the party’s directional battle, with money and marquee endorsements flying around in recent days.
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters spaced apart in the White House briefing room during a daily coronavirus news conference. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Mattis Speechwriter 'Confirms' Bolton's Claim Trump Wanted Journalists Imprisoned and Executed
Blake Montgomery, The Daily Beast
Montgomery writes: "A speechwriter for former Defense Secretary James Mattis took to Twitter late Wednesday to say he 'can confirm' a controversial claim in John Bolton's bombshell book The Room Where It Happened."
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Blake Montgomery, The Daily Beast
Montgomery writes: "A speechwriter for former Defense Secretary James Mattis took to Twitter late Wednesday to say he 'can confirm' a controversial claim in John Bolton's bombshell book The Room Where It Happened."
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'Police departments systemically fail to make arrests in sexual assault cases.' (photo: Ragan Clark/AP)
'Who Will Protect You From Rape Without Police?' Here's My Answer to That Question
Moira Donegan, Guardian UK
Donegan writes: "As uprisings have spread through American cities in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a once fringe leftwing position has become rapidly mainstream: abolishing the police."
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Moira Donegan, Guardian UK
Donegan writes: "As uprisings have spread through American cities in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a once fringe leftwing position has become rapidly mainstream: abolishing the police."
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Children in a displaced persons camp in Yemen's western province of Hodeida on May 6 2020. (photo: Khaled Zaid/AFP)
Human Rights Orgs Condemn UN for Pulling Saudi Arabia From Blacklist of Groups Killing Children
Agence France Presse
Excerpt: "Campaigners reacted angrily on Monday to removal of the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a list of groups violating children's rights, in a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres."
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Agence France Presse
Excerpt: "Campaigners reacted angrily on Monday to removal of the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a list of groups violating children's rights, in a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres."
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View from Albert Mountain on the Appalachian Trail at Nantahala National Forest. (photo: Getty)
US Supreme Court Clears Way for Pipeline to Cross Appalachian Trail
Lawrence Hurley, Reuters
Hurley writes: "Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia."
Lawrence Hurley, Reuters
Hurley writes: "Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia."
The 7-2 ruling was a victory for Dominion Energy Inc and President Donald Trump’s administration, both of which appealed a lower court ruling that halted construction of the 600-mile (965-km) Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would run from West Virginia to North Carolina.
The decision, written by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, removes one of several obstacles facing the project. Two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented.
“Today’s decision is an affirmation for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and communities across our region that are depending on it for jobs, economic growth and clean energy. We look forward to resolving the remaining project permits,” Dominion said in a statement.
Environmental groups including the Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center had sued to stop the pipeline after the U.S. Forest Service gave the green light for the project to run through the George Washington National Forest. Dominion Energy leads a consortium of companies in the project that also includes Duke Energy Corp.
After a protracted application process involving multiple federal agencies, the Forest Service granted the consortium a right of way under the trail in 2018.
The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in 2018 that the Forest Service lacked the authority to grant a right of way for the pipeline where it crosses the Appalachian Trail in the national forest land because the trail was overseen by the National Park Service.
In Monday’s ruling, the Supreme Court agreed with the Trump administration that the Forest Service retained the authority to approve rights of way across the trail.
The park service’s authority over the trail “did not transform the land over which the trail passes into land within the National Park System,” Thomas wrote.
Kelly Martin, who heads the Sierra Club’s Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign, vowed to contest the remaining permit applications.
“Nothing in today’s ruling changes the fact that the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a dirty, dangerous threat to our health, climate and communities, and nothing about the ruling changes our intention to fight it,” Martin added.
The proposed pipeline would be 600 feet (180 meters) below a section of the 2,200-mile (3,500 km) trail, which stretches from Maine to Georgia.
The Supreme Court’s ruling will also affect the proposed 300-mile (480-km) Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would run from West Virginia to southern Virginia and crosses the trail in the Jefferson National Forest. The pipeline is almost finished but construction was halted as a result of the ruling in the Atlantic Coast pipeline case before the crossing under the trail was completed.
[For a graphic on major cases before the Supreme Court, click tmsnrt.rs/2mZn6MJ]
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