Prime 8 Report Top Stories. 6/22/18

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  1. United States Pulls Out of U.N.  Human Rights Council                                             

The Trump administration has announced that the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley announced the decision in a joint statement Tuesday. More in this NPR Report

In Related News Lee Camp pens an article on why you shouldn’t care so much about that.  Titled: If You Care About Human Rights, You Shouldn’t Care That Trump Pulled Out Of The Human Rights Council Linked Here.

2. (Speaking Of Lee Camp) Redacted Tonight Celebrates its 200th episode. Watch here.  

3. President Trump signs executive order to end child separations from their migrant families,

The order aims to end the separation of most migrant families by detaining them together while they await their court dates in criminal and immigration court. According to this report filed by NPR linked here. 

Additionally: In an effort to try an better understand this situation and its broader scope , we have included some other articles to help round out this story for you.

The Truth about Separating Kids ~ National Review.  

Desperate Asylum-Seekers Are Being Turned Away by U.S. Border Agents Claiming There’s “No Room” ~ The Intercept

The Border Patrol Was Monstrous Under Obama. Imagine How Bad It Is Under Trump ~ ACLU

 

4. Canada votes to legalize recreational cannabis, lifting 95yo ban~  learn more in this report filed by RT 

5. DOJ OIG RELEASES REPORT ON VARIOUS ACTIONS BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN ADVANCE OF THE 2016 ELECTION in this report released by the Office of the Inspector GeneralLink Here

Justice Department IG testifies: Michael Horowitz is expected to detail his report on the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 ~ NPR

6. Chris Hedges article in Truth Dig  “Et Tu, Bernie?”

7. “The Trump experience has plunged corporate ideology and war rationales into disarray.”  according to this report by Glen Ford and The Black Agenda Report. “Chaos in the Imperial Big House” 

8. Wikileaks publishes data set to archive of ICE employees with LinkedIn accounts. 

This, less than a week after a vigil was held worldwide on behalf of Wikileaks founder. Julian Assange who is a political refugee , being given political asylum and citizenship by the Ecuadorian government has been housed in the London based Ecuadorian embassy for almost 7 years now.

SEP rally to free Julian Assange, Sydney, 17 June 2018

Free Assange! Demand his return to Australia!#freeAssange#Wikileaks#auspol

Posted by Socialist Equality Party Australia on Saturday, June 16, 2018

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Dustin Micheli.