News: US gov't spying, Israeli abuse (video)

Amy Goodman (Democracy Now, 8/6/18); Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old West Bank Palestinian activist jailed for months for slapping armed Israeli soldier who shot her cousin (Watch FULL SHOW)

• ALERT: “Quiet skies”? Boston Globe exposé reveals TSA secretly spying on thousands of US travelers

Amid deadly Israeli crackdown on desperate Gaza protests, US scholar Noam Chomsky says US must end support for Israeli "murderers"

Venezuelan Pres. Nicolás Maduro targeted in first assassination attempt by drone against head of state

“Earth will be annihilated”: On 73rd anniversary of U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, a warning against nuclear war

A slaughter in silence: How Trump’s “America First” policy enabled ethnic cleansing in the DRC

Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, freed from detention, denounces ICE “Concentration Camps”

Body of Olivia Lone Bear found in North Dakota as Native women face crisis of [racist] murders, rapes, and disappearances

Climate scientist: California wildfires are faster, stronger, deadlier and will continue to intensify

Rob Nixon: Government inaction on climate change is “slow violence” that hits world’s poor the hardest

“Losing Earth”: How humanity came to understand climate change and failed to act in time

• Aug. 2, 2018: Extreme weather is exploding around the world. Why isn’t the mainstream media talking about climate change?
• Aug. 1: A threat to global democracy: Siva Vaidhyanathan on how Facebook and surveillance capitalism empower authoritarianism 
• July 31, 2018: Remembering Ron Dellums: The radical Congressmember who fought against war, apartheid, poverty