(2025-08-30). Why Japan's Rethinking Borders After America's Crackdown. thinktank.pk In a world where borders are blurring faster than ever, Japan—long known for its cautious approach to foreigners—is hitting the reset button on immigration. Just months into 2025, with the U.S. under the Trump administration rolling out aggressive overhauls like mass deportations and tighter visa scrutiny, Tokyo is launching its own deep dive. But why …
(2025-08-30). Trump's Immigrant Gulags: A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations. juancole.com Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water, the more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the more money a rich man has, the more driven and addicted he becomes to accumulating …
(2025-08-30). At least 70 killed in capsize of migrant boat off West Africa, says Gambia. geo.tv 
Representational image shows migrants on a capsizing boat off the coast of Libya in this handout picture released by the Italian Marina Militare on May 25, 2016. — ReutersAt least 70 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of West Africa, Gambia's…
(2025-08-30). Moving Gold, Moving Economies: The rise of migrant women in Zimbabwe's mining sector. independent.co.ug 
Women are transforming the economic landscape of an entire region, bringing energy, skills, organisation — and a sense of future — to a haphazard, dangerous trade. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Faith's hands are calloused, her nails stained with soil and ore. But when she smiles, there's something golden about it, something earned. Each …
(2025-08-30). Labor Day Solidarity Season Opens in DC. indybay.org Kicking off Labor Day weekend on August 28, the "Solidarity Season Rally and March" organized by the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO demonstrated the importance of workers by reminding everyone that "Workers make DC run and deserve better than mass firings, union busting, deportations, and occupation." They demonstrated their "…support for Federal workers and labor rights, our opposition to union-busting" by highlighting "working-class solidarity over the billionaire ruling class."
(2025-08-30). Australian government moves to axe legal rights for mass deportations to Nauru. wsws.org The Albanese Labor government's measures could see around 350 former detainees quickly rounded up for a new version of indefinite detention—first inside Australian detention facilities and then on the remote island of Nauru.
(2025-08-30). Microsoft terminations spark outrage over role in Gaza bombing program. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Microsoft has fired four workers who took part in protests against the company's alleged support of the Israeli military during its ongoing operations in Gaza. There has been a lot of criticism of Microsoft's Azure cloud services lately, and reports say they are being used in military targeting and mass surveillance programs. | Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that they had fired two employees for "serious violations of company policy," according to CNBC. The company said that going into the office of Brad Smith, Microsoft's Vice Chair and President, during a protest at the company's headquarters was "
(2025-08-30). Attack on Nur: Gono Odhikar Parishad to stage nationwide protests. jagonews24.com Gono Odhikar Parishad (GOP) will stage demonstrations across the country on Saturday, August 30, protesting the attack on its President Nurul Haque Nur…
(2025-08-30). Three killed in fire at Indonesian government building blamed on protesters. aljazeera.com At least three people were killed and several injured in a fire blamed on protesters in Sulawesi island.
(2025-08-30). Over 100 Sacramento Jews protest Senator Alex Padilla as part of actions against genocide in Gaza. indybay.org The group said the Israeli military is starving the people of Gaza through a five month total blockade on food, water and medicine, while the Israeli government has announced a plan to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a concentration camp.
(2025-08-30). Well Fargo Closes Branches Amid Accusations of Genocide. indybay.org Multiple coordinated "Stop Billionaires Summer" action protests and street theater at downtown SF Wells Fargo actions…
(2025-08-30). I Agree That He Was Always A Fraud … smoothiex12.blogspot.com albeit Born in the USA should it have been written from the moral and civic position of such people like Roger Waters it would have been a great protest song but it wouldn't be "anti-American", unless this Lewis guy wants to believe that the US went to Vietnam to do humanitarian work and not "to go and kill a yellow man". If Aaron doesn't understand that the US killed millions of Vietnamese civilians and that the US, certainly, deserved this "anti-American" song ⚪ he should have his head examined. But then again ⚪ explaining to people like Lewis what war crimes and crimes against humanity are will be exercise…
(2025-08-30). A week of protests in Indonesia fuelled by glaring social inequality. wsws.org Protests erupted on Monday after it was announced that parliamentarians would be given an exorbitant monthly accommodation allowance, highlighting the country's worsening social inequality.
(2025-08-29). Reports of Uprising at 'Alligator Alcatraz'. unicornriot.ninja 
(2025-08-29). When Border Patrol Came for Kern County. aclusocal.org 
For the attorneys, organizers, and community members on the ground, the Kern County immigration raid was more than just a headline — it was a turning point in the fight to protect their neighbors from fear and injustice. | %3Ciframe%20class%3D%22media-youtube-player%22%20width%3D%22480%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20title%3D%22Holding%20Border%20Patrol%20Accountable%20for%20Unlawful%20Immigration%20Raids%20%7C%20ACLU%22%20src%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube-nocookie.com%2Fembed%2FRsllmgM8Zj0%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26amp%3Bcontrols%3D1%26amp%3Bmodestbranding%3D1%26amp%3Brel%3D0%26amp%3Bshowinfo%3D0%26amp%3Bcolor%3Dwh…
(2025-08-29). Illinois: Trump attacks cash bail reform in latest escalation against immigrants. liberationnews.org 
What was behind the move to end cash bail and how is immigrant-bashing being used to undermine an anti-racist reform?
(2025-08-29). US: Migrants Face Abuse in Guantánamo. hrw.org Click to expand Image | The first US military aircraft to carry detained migrants to a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is boarded from an unspecified location in the US, February 4, 2025. | © 2025 DHS/Handout via REUTERS…
(2025-08-29). Trump's Venezuela drug war gambit and the militarization playbook at home. workers.org 
Solidarity activist Michelle Ellner takes stock of the Trump administration's escalating rhetoric, militarization and migrant crackdown. This article first appeared in venezuelanalysis.com on Aug. 17, 2025. By Michelle Ellner President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls "narco-terrorist" networks in . . . |
(2025-08-29). Western Civilization Is Not Worth Saving. thealtworld.com Western civilization is not worth saving. I think that's been pretty well established by now. | That's one of the silliest things about the way rightists are always babbling about how we need to protect our way of life from immigrants or Islam or "the trans agenda" or whatever. They're beginning with the assumption that this train wreck of a society is worth saving at all. | I am not saying that westerners should die. I am not saying that all the ideals and values that westerners purport to hold are worthless. I am saying that this civilization, as it actually exists, is an indefensible disaster. Clearly. | Our w…
(2025-08-29). 69 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Mauritania. jagonews24.com Some 68 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Mauritania earlier this week, an official told AFP on Friday…
(2025-08-29). PA protest against incarceration of migrant workers. workers.org 
Hundreds of people from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities across Pennsylvania rallied in the city of Philipsburg, on Aug. 24. to protest against the GEO Moshannon Valley Processing Center. As the largest federal detention facility not located in the U.S. South, the for-profit facility receives most of the people arrested . . . |
(2025-08-29). Millions of Afghans forced to return to a hellscape the world forgot. responsiblestatecraft.org 
It's been a dark summer for Afghans. When Israel launched the 12-day war with Iran on June 13, Tehran used it as a pretext to scapegoat some of its most vulnerable residents.In its latest wave of deportations, an estimated
(2025-08-29). 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still fighting for justice. liberationnews.org 
Hurricane Katrina, as severe as it was, was not primarily a natural disaster but a brutal, man-made disaster facilitated by the capitalist system.
(2025-08-29). Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump's Warfare State. counterpunch.org 
(2025-08-29). Workers' intifada against Microsoft. workers.org 
As the United Nations' world food crisis authority finally declared a famine in Gaza, direct action demonstrators protested war profiteer Microsoft, whose technology is used to aid the U.S./Israeli war, which is committing genocide in Gaza. No Azure for Apartheid demonstration on Microsoft's campus in Redwood, Washington, Aug. 20, 2025. . . . |
(2025-08-29). The Art of Deflection: Trump Sent Troops Into Cities Not to Fight Crime But to Deflect From the Epstein Files. counterpunch.org 
There is a clear link between media coverage of the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's files and Trump's deployment of Federalized National Guards and Marines into the Democratic-leaning cities of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Trump has also promised to send troops into other cities that heavily voted for Democrats. These actions will divert public and