Trump ordered & then called off attacks on Iran. Then Jake Tapper chastised Mike Pence on CNN for not starting another war for no reason — on this week’s Redacted Tonight
Elizabeth Lea Vos compares the extradition cases of the brutal Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange — on Disobedient Media
I’m performing live in London, England as well as Kansas City, Minneapolis, and more. You can get tickets or vote for your own city at RedactedTour.com.
John Kiriakou is the whistleblower who served time in jail for exposing the CIA torture program. Michael Nigro is a photojournalist who was arrested before an Extinction Rebellion action in NYC recently. — I sat down with both of these heroes for VIP this week
The mission to clean the massive plastic patch in the ocean is back on after a false start. The mission was started by a young man named Boyan Slat, and we need more people taking climate change as seriously as he does. — on Grist
9,500 current & former Border Patrol agents have been caught in a secret Facebook group where they share racist, misogynistic messages — on ProPublica
I attended the counter protests to Unite The Right in Charlottesville 2 years ago where James Fields accelerated into a march & killed Heather Heyer. He was just sentenced — on Unicorn Riot
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Several politicians including Alexandria Ocasio Cortez took a tour of several migrant detainment camps (concentration camps) this week and what they saw is disgusting.
The detainees are being denied medical help, children are caring for children, people are being told to drink out of the toilets, they are being kept in purposefully cold rooms, and from what Ocasio Cortez has said, it sounds like the camp guards are abusing these people worse when the public eye isn’t on them.
This is the exact kind of situation that requires direct action. Our government has failed us, and we can’t rely on them to protect anyone’s human rights. So I’ll leave you with some inspiration:
All it would take to stop this is solidarity from millions of us standing up and saying no more.
Shut down ICE. Shut down the immigrant detention centers.
- Lee
Former CIA Man on Creating Coups, Assange Lies, & Iran
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Watch out, Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This ocean cleanup device MIGHT work this time.
Grist | Molly Enking
It’s try, try again for the Ocean Cleanup, an ambitious project designed to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The NGO had to pump the breaks in December after the $20 million project needed to undergo four months of iteration and repairs.
Neo-Nazi Gets Multiple Life Sentences In Federal Prison for Charlottesville Car Attack
Unicorn Riot | Chris Schiano
Last Friday, June 28, 2019, James Alex Fields appeared for sentencing in federal court on charges related to his deadly car attack after the neo-nazi Unite The Right rally on August 12, 2017. Fields, now age 22, had already pleaded guilty to 29 hate crime counts named in the federal hate crime prosecution – 1 count of first-degree in the murder of Heather Heyer, and 28 other counts for willfully injuring over two dozen others.
From Pinochet To Assange: A Tale Of Two Extraditions
Disobedient Media | Elizabeth Vos
The plethora of crimes committed during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile between 1973 and 1990 were exactly the type of abuse of power that Julian Assange would uniquely expose through WikiLeaks. Both Assange and Pinochet have battled against extradition from the UK, with vastly different outcomes and contrasting positions taken by the UK government. Astoundingly, the UK supported Pinochet, a human-rights abuser, and persecuted Assange, a journalist who has exposed crimes of the powerful.
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes
ProPublica | A.C. Thompson
The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”
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- Lee