(2021-09-15). California Votes No: Governor Gavin Newsom Survives Republican-Led Recall Effort. democracynow.org 
Californians overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-led recall effort against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday that cost close to $300 million in taxpayer funds. The failed recall was seen as a battle against the far right and a referendum on several key issues ahead of the 2022 midterms, including the pandemic, immigrant rights, the climate crisis and the related unhoused crisis. California voters cast their ballots in the recall because "as attention started being focused nationally on this election, people started realizing what was at stake," says Sasha Abramsky, "Left Coast" correspondent for The Na…
(2021-09-15). 20 Years Later, Undocumented Immigrants Who Aided 9/11 Recovery & Cleanup Efforts Demand Recognition. democracynow.org 
Following the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, advocates are calling for lawmakers to establish a pathway for legal residency for as many as 2,000 immigrant responders and cleanup workers at ground zero. An estimated 6,000 undocumented immigrants took part in the recovery efforts after 9/11, but many didn't seek medical help or went uncounted for their symptoms because they feared deportation. Undocumented workers exposed themselves to toxins and "sacrificed their lives" to assist with the cleanup, and, 20 years later, still lack recognition and medical aid, says Rosa Maria Bramble Caballero, a licensed clin…
(2021-09-15). Migrants in Mexico demand solution to migration and refugee crisis. peoplesdispatch.org For the past two days, Central American and Haitians migrants stranded in Mexico and migrant rights activists have been carrying out an indefinite hunger strike in the Tapachula municipality to demand authorities respect their rights…
(2021-09-15). Russian Warplanes Hammer Militant Positions In Greater Idlib With Guided Bombs (Video, Photos). southfront.org 
An Su-24 taking off from Hmeimim air base in 2015. IMAGE: Russian Ministry of Defense | On September 15, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out more than 12 airstrikes on militants' positions in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The Russian airstrikes hit positions located near the towns of Zurzur, al-Hammammah and Darkush in the western countryside of Idlib. The three towns are situated a few kilometers away from the border with Turkey. | ÿßÿ±ÿ®ÿπ ÿ…
(2021-09-15). PMU Convoy Struck By Unknown Aircraft On Syria-Iraq Border, U.S. Denies Involvement. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 14th, a Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) convoy came under attack by unknown aircraft at the Qasem border crossing between Iraq and Syria. | Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with the PMU, said the attack targeted three vehicles carrying infrared monitoring equipment in the town of al-Bukamal in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. | Unidentified war je…
(2021-09-15). Not a Nation of Immigrants. orinocotribune.com 
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz — Sep 12, 2021 | The thrust of American struggles has been to deracialize but not to decolonize. A deracialized America still remains a settler society and a settler state. | On George Washington's birthday, 2018, the Donald Trump administration's director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, L. Francis Cissna, changed the agency's official mission statement, dropping the language of "a nation of immigrants" to describe the United States. The previous mission statement had said the agency "secures America's promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and usefu…
(2021-09-14). 9/11's Border Legacy: Razor Wire, "Smart" Surveillance, and Billions in Security Contracts. counterpunch.org Along the 20-foot border wall in Nogales, Arizona, six lines of coiling razor wire blanket the rust-colored bollards from top to bottom. Shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated in January, Nogales mayor Arturo Garino asked that it be cut down. Although the wall itself predated the Trump administration, the razor wire was installed by the
(2021-09-14). Journalists and media organizations condemn crackdown on press in Kashmir. peoplesdispatch.org Local and international bodies have condemned the September 8 police raids in Srinagar targeting senior journalists Hilal Mir (44), Shah Abbas (50), Showkat Motta (52) and Azhar Qadri (34)…
(2021-09-14). A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Why the U.S. Should Keep its Promise to Diversity Visa Winners. aclu.org Update 9/14/2021: This week, the House Judiciary Committee will begin markup of immigration provisions in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. As of Monday morning, the language restores access to diversity visas for people who were selected in the diversity visa lottery but were denied visas due to Muslim, Africa, and immigrant travel bans and COVID-19 related disruption. Now the fight continues to ensure the language stays in the reconciliation bill and becomes law. | I was six years old when I first saw the Statue of Liberty, on a trip to New York with my parents and two younger siblings. We were not…
(2021-09-14). Parliamentarian Wants More Debate as Immigration Legalization Program Moves Forward in Congress. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats returned to Capitol Hill this week, where they expressed confidence in the prospects of passing a legalization program for up to eight million immigrants through the budget deal currently making its way through both chambers of Congress.
(2021-09-14). A Review of the Diagnosis and Management of Headache—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to my recent narrative review on the diagnosis and management of headache, Dr Langland reviews some of the medical literature on the use of aspirin in migraine prevention. However, the most recent treatment guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology considered such studies and determined that there were inadequate or conflicting data to support or refute the use of aspirin for migraine prevention.
(2021-09-14). A Review of the Diagnosis and Management of Headache. jamanetwork.com To the Editor After reading the recent review on headaches, we would like to discuss the unmentioned topic of surgical management of headaches. Over the past 2 decades, interest in surgical treatment of headaches has developed in response to the serendipitous discovery of migraine resolution following cosmetic forehead rejuvenation surgery by Guyuron et al in 2000. On each side of the head, extracranial locations of nerve pathology have been characterized and described as migraine trigger sites. These trigger sites correspond with a sensory nerve, including the greater occipital nerve, lesser occipital nerve, and…
(2021-09-14). Report: State Of Insecurity — The Cost Of Militarization Since 9/11. popularresistance.org Twenty years after 9/11, the war on terror has remade the U.S. into a far more militarized actor, both around the world and at home. The human costs of this evolution are many — including mass incarceration, widespread surveillance, the violent repression of immigrant communities, and hundreds of thousands of lives lost to war and violence. | But of course, this militarization also has financial costs too. Over 20 years, the U.S. has spent more than $21 trillion on militarization, surveillance, and repression — all in the name of security. These investments have shown us that the U.S. has the capacity…
(2021-09-14). Migrantes: Del 11 de septiembre al COVID-19. globalizacion.ca En lo que fue la tragedia del 11 de septiembre de 2001 (11-S) los trabajadores inmigrantes estuvieron ahí presentes. 20 años después, en medio de la pandemia del Covid-19, también han estado ahí, haciendo lo que mejor saben hacer que…