News & Views | Trump Policy Has Ripped 2,000 Kids—47 Per Day—From Parents in Just Six Weeks

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [] [] News & Views | 6/15/18 [] Feature... [] ["Appalling. Inhumane. It Needs to Stop." Trump Policy Has Ripped 2,000 Kids—47 Per Day—From Parents in Just Six Weeks](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0 by Jake Johnson, staff writer In the six weeks that President Donald Trump's "heartless and cruel" family separation policy has been in effect, nearly 2,000 immigrant children have been separated from their families, according Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data obtained by the Associated Press and published on Friday. [] [] News... [] [On Prison's 6,000th Day, Groups Demand Trump "Choose Justice Over Inhumanity" and #CloseGitmo](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [ A Witness Against Torture protest at NYC City Hall on June 26, 2012. (Photo: Felton Davis/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Marking the 6,000 days that the offshore prison has been open, a group of human rights campaigners on Friday is urging President Donald Trump to stand on the side of justice and close Guantánamo's doors forever. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Forget His Fancy Lotion and Chick-Fil-A, Pruitt's Gutting of EPA Rule Threatens Drinking Water of 117 Million Americans](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) 1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0 by Julia Conley, staff writer As Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting ethics controversies, his agency on Friday advanced a proposal to roll back a clean water regulation which has aimed to limit pollution in the drinking water of about 117 million Americans. --------------------------------------------------------------- [As AT&T-Time Warner Close Deal, Floodgates 'Wide Open' for Corporate Mega-Mergers](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) 1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0 by Jake Johnson, staff writer Thanks to a federal judge's decision this week to approve AT&T and Time Warner's $85 billion merger—which, if allowed to stand by the Trump Justice Department, will spawn a "massive media-telecom behemoth"—anti-monopoly advocates are ominously warning that a flood of major corporate acquisitions once considered "unthinkable" due to their potentially disastrous effects on consumers could be coming in the very near future. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It.](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [Protesters at a rally in Vancouver to show opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline on September 9th, 2017. (Photo: William Chen/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer As Canada's controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project faces ongoing opposition, the former governor of the Bank of Canada said that protesters may die but that the government should push the project through anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Isn't Middle School': Judge Sends Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort to Jail Over Witness Tampering](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) 1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0 by Common Dreams staff Saying the court could not "turn a blind eye" to accusations by prosecutors of witness tampering, a judge on Friday sent Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, to jail—revoking his house arrest as he faces trial on numerous charges. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Historic First': Nebraska Farmers Return Land to Ponca Tribe in Effort to Block Keystone XL](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [ceremony](1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer In a move that could challenge the proposed path of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline—and acknowledges the U.S. government's long history of abusing Native Americans and forcing them onto reservations—a Nebraska farm couple has returned a portion of ancestral land to the Ponca Tribe. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [] [] Views... [] [The Military Industrial Drain](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) ["The military budget has become bloated with waste and abuse. According to the Pentagon’s own internal figures, the department could save at least $125 billion by reducing operational overhead." (Photo: David B. Gleason/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Robert Reich It’s time to rein in Pentagon spending and this endless war machine, and demand investment in America. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Helps the Cause of Peace in the Koreas, but What About Elsewhere?](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [A South Korean railway station's TV image of Donald Trump meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Photo: Ahn Young-joon / AP)](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Sonali Kolhatkar Trump’s foreign policy involves giving free rein to the military establishment in a way that even Obama did not, which could result in perpetual war everywhere but in the Koreas. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why I’m Going to the Border for Father’s Day](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy towards undocumented immigrants. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by George Goehl I hope dads across the country can, for just a minute on this Father’s Day, contemplate the risks that migrant fathers take to make their children safe. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Curious Campaign Role of Donald Trump’s Foundation](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) ["All of this is a legal problem for the Foundation, the 2016 Campaign and Trump, because the Foundation is not allowed to participate in any political campaign, even Trump’s own." (Photo: Flickr/GageSkidmore)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy In an extensive complaint and supporting documents, New York’s Attorney General says Trump’s foundation made nearly $3 million in illegal contributions to his campaign. Trump calls the suit “ridiculous” and says he won’t settle. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Project Maven Is the Litmus Test For Google’s New Principles](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) ["The prospect of the world’s largest technology companies training machines in the service of the world’s most powerful military is unnerving to say the least."(Photo: IDF via Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by Rasha Abdul Rahim As AI technology advances, the question of who will be held accountable for associated human rights abuses is becoming increasingly urgent. --------------------------------------------------------------- [UN Report Says US is a “Shithole Country”](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) ["The symptoms of the devastating inequality here include Americans now living shorter and sicker lives than citizens of other rich democracies." (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) by John M. Repp Instead of corporate media basically ignoring the UN report, there should be screaming headlines. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3Ap15FVonY0) [] [] Newswire... 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