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The Truthdig team, Emily Robinson of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic (LIJC) and an LIJC staff lawyer will meet Thursday to discuss Los Angeles’ undocumented community and how the legal community plans to fight the president’s new policies.

The next DNC chair has an important job: protect the rights of citizens and stand up for the rule of law.

In an interview with the grass-roots media portal Actvism, Wolff discusses the methods of economic organization.

A tepee burns at Oceti Sakowin Camp in Standing Rock, N.D. Water protectors were responsible for burning several tepees at camp. (Donald Kaufman / Truthdig) Editor’s note: Truthdig contributor Donald Kaufman is currently on the ground at Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota. Read previous coverage of the #NoDAPL demonstrations here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see multimedia updates via Evrybit. 2:39 p.m. PST: “They are snatching up water protectors one at a time,” one observer reports via Facebook live. Читать дальше...

Rookuzz.. / (CC BY-SA 2.0) Over the past decade, the U.S. supplied an industrial chain said to involve slave labor, human rights violations and environmental destruction in Africa with $315 million in taxpayer-supported credit. The Guardian reports: Between 2007 and 2015, the US Export-Import Bank provided 48 insurance policies to the New Jersey-headquartered Connell Company to pursue deals with at least 17 mining companies in seven sub-Saharan countries. These included a $20,000 policy to supply... Читать дальше...

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By Danny Sjursen / TomDispatch Policymakers badly overestimated the efficacy of American power to shape foreign peoples and cultures to their desires.

On Tuesday’s episode of the “Late Show,” the conservative “Morning Joe” host told Stephen Colbert that it’s “incumbent upon [his] party especially to stand up right now and speak out.”

By Richard Sadler / Climate News Network Britain is poised to exploit tidal energy, a renewable source that is cheaper than nuclear and more reliable than wind.

Consider yourself warned.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Gen. John Kelly’s ramping up of deportation measures against undocumented residents of the US, in accordance with Donald Trump’s campaign promises, contains many hidden dangers.

The film world lost a key figure Saturday with the passing of the distinguished critic and filmmaker, whose work Truthdig was privileged to feature in the latter years of his career.

Donald Trump’s new orders give Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and local cops around the country new and wide—almost unlimited—power to enforce a vague law.

President Trump released two memorandums Tuesday, expanding the crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Here is the plan for enforcing immigration laws. Read Part 1 below, on the plan for implementing border security.

President Trump released two memorandums Tuesday, expanding the crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Here is the plan to implement border security. Read Part 2 above, on the plan for enforcing immigration laws.

Video footage showed the aftermath of riots in Rinkeby, Sweden. (Screen shot via Wall Street Journal) It has been three days since President Trump baffled reporters by referring to an unnamed terrorist incident in Sweden. The media and the Swedish government were quick to debunk the idea that any attack had occurred. But Trump’s remarks, just on the verge of disappearing from public discourse, are gaining attention again. Early Tuesday, news spread of riots that had broken out overnight in... Читать дальше...