Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Baltimore set to become first major American city to outlaw water privatization, House Democrats fight back against Big Pharma, Republicans want to give Trump the power to shut down media, and more.
Trump calls Howard Zinn’s work ‘propaganda.’ Hear the legendary historian in his own words.
Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom.
How one cooperative is trying to develop an alternative economy in Oakland
Repaired Nations seeks to build wealth for the Black community in the East Bay through education and empowerment of its residents and youth.
Interrupting Trump’s Strut Is Only a Start
Can we now get serious, journalists, about what’s at stake in American politics?
Newt Gingrich: Trump should use the CNN confrontation as an excuse to break the...
Gingrich is not alone in urging Trump to freeze out the press.
Joe Arpaio promoted his GOP Senate candidacy with a publication that denies the Holocaust
The anti-immigrant Joe Arpaio has a long history of racist and corrupt actions.
Photo Essay: The 26th night of the #KremlinAnnex
Over the weekend the protesters will continue to show up - even with the new people that will be sharing their park - white supremacists in the guise of the Unite the Right Rally on Sunday.
Investigation finds at least $800M in taxpayer money went to funding for-profit immigrant prisons...
"To the extent that the industry is in the business of expanding the system so they can make more money off holding more immigrants that can be confined, and doing everything possible to profit off of it by labor processes like getting detainees to work and paying them a dollar a day, there is very little distinction you can draw between slave labor and what they're doing."
“Somebody is going to die”: Lawyer describes chaos, illness & danger at migrant child...
"They’re breaking the law by taking the children away from their families."
New Fox News National Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton
The new poll is the first to show Clinton trailing Sanders. Similar polls show Bernie behind, but closing the gap.









