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Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. "It's Everywhere" - Global Research
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As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage.
Police Report Deems Firing 55 Shots In 3.5 Seconds At A Sleeping (Black, Duh) Man "Reasonable"
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The choice by six crazed racist cops to pump 55 shots into Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old Bay Area rapper, for the crime of falling asleep in his car at a Taco Bell was "reasonable," argues a new report by a paid "expert" and former cop who called the killing "in line with contemporary training and pol...
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"I do not think there was a time bomb or an object attached to the side of the ship," said Yutaka KatadaThe climate crisis is rapidly warming the Arctic, and the effects are being felt from Alaska to Greenland. The northernmost point on the planet is heating up more quickly than any other region in the world. The reason for this warming is ice–albedo feedback: as ice melts it opens up land and sea to the sun, which then absorb more heat that would have been bounced off by the ice, leading to more warming. It's a vicious circle of warmth that's changing the environment at the north pole.
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'The Changes Are Really Accelerating': Alaska at Record Warm While Greenland Sees Major Ice Melt
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"The numbers needing relocation will grow, the costs are going up, and people's lives and cultural practices will be impacted."
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"The top one percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half owns less than nothing."A rise of more than 5°C could happen within a decade, possibly by 2026. Humans will likely go extinct with a 3°C rise and most life on Earth will disappear with a 5°C rise. In the light of this, we should act with integrity.
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Blog edited by Sam Carana, with news on climate change and warming in the Arctic due to snow and ice loss and methane releases from the seafloor.I am surprised that our government has not created another false flag event like 9/11 when they murdered 3000 of their own citizens as an excuse to begin attacking the Middle East. Instead they just keep running their lying mouths about Iran while expecting everyone to believe the garbage they spew. These disgusting, immoral, murderous bastards can hardly wait to slaughter more innocent people. They killed 576,000 children in Iraq in the 90's then went on to kill two-million Middle Eastern people during the last 16 years. More than a million women and children have been murdered for no good reason by the likes of the pig in this photo.
"Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more lies to make a case for war."
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"Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more lies to make a case for war."“To say that this EPA plan is abysmal would be too kind,” said Kyla Bennett, the science policy director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a group which represents federal environmental scientists and other experts, and a former attorney and scientist formerly with EPA, in a statement on Thursday. “Under its current leadership, EPA appears incapable of fulfilling its mission of protecting the public from emerging health threats.”
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Trump’s EPA Is Letting “Forever Chemicals” Into Our Food, Experts Say
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Public health watchdogs said the government must take swift action to limit human exposure to PFAS chemicals.One small example of how we are giving the keys to the kingdom over to corporate interests:
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Boeing, Obama, a Gold Watch, and 346 Dead
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During his time as President of the United States, Barack Obama promoted the sale of Boeing planes—including the 737 Max 8 planes—around the world.. Democrats want to make Donald Trump the issue in 2020.If they do, they will lose again, the way they lost in 2016.Instead, the 2020 election should...
Sanders Demands McConnell Allow Senate Vote to Raise 'Absurdly Low' Federal Minimum Wage to $15
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"I ask that you allow the Senate to take up the Raise the Wage Act to immediately begin improving the lives of working Americans across the country."
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth | WTC Twin Towers and Building 7
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AE911Truth is a nonprofit organization that represents more than 3,000 architects and engineers who are calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7 on 9/11.
Cop Block | Reporting Police Abuse, Brutality, and Corruption
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Cop Block is a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goal of police accountability.At least 60 companies reported that their 2018 federal tax rates amounted to effectively zero, or even less than zero, on income earned on U.S. operations, according to an analysis released today by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The number is more than twice as many as ITEP found roughly, per year, on average in an earlier, multi-year analysis before the new tax law went into effect.
Among them are household names like technology giant Amazon.com Inc. and entertainment streaming service Netflix Inc., in addition to global oil giant Chevron Corp., pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co., and farming and commercial equipment manufacturer Deere & Co.
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You paid taxes. These corporations didn't. – Center for Public Integrity
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About twice as many of the largest U.S. companies reported they didn’t owe taxes in 2018 compared with previous years, a partial result of the 2017 Trump tax law, according to a report.
Bolton’s Dangerous Psychopathology
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John Bolton has been saying for years that he wants to overthrow the Iranian government, but this time he seems to have gone too far, writes Joe Lauria, editor-
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"We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases."
Tens of Thousands Flood Streets in UK to Protest Trump
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U.K. protesters rally against Trumpism, including attacks on women and marginalized people.
Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
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Methane and CO2 released from the thawing permafrost will further accelerate the rate of global warming.
Climate Change Threatens Societal Collapse Within Decades: Report
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Even by the standards of the dire predictions given in climate studies, this one's extreme: civilization itself could be past the point of no return by 205
Thirty-Two Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation
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For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises together in…Our con man president has been up to his old tricks down in Panama lately. Well... he doesn't need to put up with any crap out those assholes. All he needs to do is take out a great big insurance policy on his properties down there then send in the jets and bomb the place. I'm sure there must be some terrorists down there somewhere.
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Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
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The owners of a 70-story Panama City hotel tower formerly managed by President Donald Trump’s companies are accusing them of stiffing the Panamanian goveThey have been doing the same sort of thing they did with Iraq for Iran and Russia... make up all sorts of lies to demonize them and make them look like threats to justify attacking them and creating more war. Maybe our government will kill some more of our citizens so they can accuse one of them of doing it like they did for Iraq and Afghanistan with 9/11. They are bound to do something soon. The stockholders in the Military Industrial Complex need to make more money.
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Who's Behind the Iran Disinformation Campaign?
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What follows is a conversation between Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Sharmini Peries
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Despite the Robert Mueller report's conclusion that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new Co29 Minutes Video Comedy News
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"If Dr. Warren were convicted and imprisoned on these absurd charges, he would be a prisoner of conscience."
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"This latest assault on children's health is the opposite of what millions of Americans want, which is a safe environment for their kids."
New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected
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We have less than 12 years to reverse climate change, according to a new IPCC report.
Stop Hoping That The Swamp Will Drain The Swamp
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If you only tuned into US politics within the last couple of years this will come as a major surprise, but believe it or not there was once a time when both major parties weren’t constantly c…
Yes, My Fellow Soldiers Died in Vain
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Editor's note: This story was originally published in The American Conservative. Sergeant Alex Fuller hailed from the depressed coastal town of New Bedford
Striking Ohio Hospital Workers Remain United, Head to Bargaining Table
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Worker solidarity and community support have only grown in the two weeks since the strike began.Welcome to fascism. They may not gun them down in the street but they lock them up and are trying to have them thrown in prison. It is legal to run over them and kill them in North Dakota. When you can go to prison for for peaceful protesting in an effort to defend your rights and the world you live in, you are not living in a free country.
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Pipeline Activists Challenge Louisiana Law That Criminalizes Protest
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A new lawsuit could set an important precedent for activists fighting fossil fuels nationwide.
British Prime Minister Theresa May Admits Brexit Defeat and Resigns
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"She can't govern, and nor can her divided and disintegrating party," said Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn in response.Some Real Life Symptoms of War and Being in the Military. No doubt we, or any country, should have a strong military, but it has been used the wrong way... resulting in the slaughter of millions of innocent people along with infinite horrors visited upon the troops. Most of it is goes back to the greed and lust for wealth and power with the monsters that run the show. We are told about all sorts of threat and horrible leaders of other countries and groups for reasons to take action and most of that is a combination of total bullshit mixed with situations of our own creation designed to create an apparent need for military action that will enrich the leaders of the industries that produce all the weapons and supplies required for it. It also gains the various spoils of war and the destruction of economic competitions that are developing outside the Dollar Standard.
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The US Army Asked Twitter How Service Has Impacted People. The Answers Were Gut-Wrenching.
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After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself “as a man and a warrior”, the US Army tweeted, “How has serving impac…That horrible, communist, socialist healthcare bill!! Using tax money to help working poor people have medical care is just plain immoral!! If you're poor, just don't get sick. If you do, then maybe you just need to die. And Medicaid? Come on people... this is America... sick, poor people are inconvenient and we can't just put them in concentration camps and throw them in an oven so it's easy to just ignore them and let them die.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEGpriv2TAc&t=309sCongressional Republicans could soon vote to repeal Obamacare. John Oliver explores why their replacement plans are similar to a thong. Connect with Last Wee...
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29 Minutes Video| VICE News Hip Pro-War Propaganda, Embassy Protectors Arrested, Trump Crushing The Poor
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"What we decide to do collectively as a species politically, globally, over the next decade is going to determine the future of the next generations in terms of the habitability of the planet."
Over 1,351 Climate Strikes in 110 Countries Planned for Friday as Global Revolt Escalates
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"Activism works. So act."
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"Republicans sold the tax scam as a way to create jobs and help workers. They lied," wrote Sen. Bernie Sanders after Ford announced it is cutting 7,000 jobsuring the times when I’m being as emotionally honest with myself as I’m capable — when I truly ponder the idea that this industrialized version of our species may well have already baked enough warming into Earth’s life-supporting biosphere that all of us may very well be on the way out — I feel at a total loss as to what to do.
From that point of numbness, my life force begins to ask, “What next, then?” Cycling through this process for years since I’ve been reporting on the climate crisis, and most intensely during the research and field trips for my book The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, circumstances (namely my own grief and despair) have inevitably forced me into contending with my emotions.
I’ve learned, through a lot of pain and struggling, that the only way forward is to allow myself to deeply feel and express the fear, rage, shock, panic, sadness, anxiety and despair. Only then can I move into a place of taking some of the deep breaths which accompany acceptance of the grave situation at hand.
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Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask: To What Do We Devote Ourselves?
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Capitalism disconnects us from that which sustains us: our planet. Let's devote ourselves to reconnecting.Fish in a barrel. The Israelis would just pick them off with their sniper rifles... men, women, children... unarmed and making no threat to them... and they are the kind of murderous scum we support. It's kind of ironic since at the same time they are out ally, so are the Neo Nazi Party in the Ukraine.
According to the United Nations, 1,700 young Gazans are facing amputation, mainly of their legs, in the next two years. They’re among the 7,000 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza shot by Israeli snipers over the last year.
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1,700 Youths in Gaza Face Amputation Due to Israeli Sniper Violence
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U.S. taxpayers are funding this catastrophe.While characterizing their campaigns as “grassroots” operations fueled by the people, many 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have reportedly been spending a significant chunk of their time on the trail cozying up to Wall Street executives and raking in checks at big-dollar events across the nation.
Two major presidential candidates, however, are eschewing the lavish fundraisers and donor meetings that have come to encapsulate the widespread corruption of the American political system: Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
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Warren and Sanders Refuse to Cozy Up to Wall Street Donors
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Many 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have been raking in checks at big-dollar events across the U.S.Donald Trump is a liar, in fact 10,000 times a liar according to the frazzled fact-checkers at The Washington Post. This is axiomatic now: His most ardent supporters adore him for his lies because he does it to “own the libs,” which is what passes for policy in this vacant age. Still, this lie is particularly striking for its wanton absurdity. His financial disclosure report for 2018 came out only four days ago. The Professional Bank loan is right there in the documents. He signed them. The man is not just a liar, but a damn lazy one at that.
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Deutsche Bank Has Rolled on Donald Trump
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The old rule still applies: Always follow the money.Everyone who is aware of the US government’s extraordinary criminal actions at home and abroad bears a heavy weight. The millions of peoples murdered, maimed, orphaned, widowed, and displaced by gratuitous American military aggression comprise a Holocaust of deaths based entirely on lies and false accusations in order to advance secret American and Israeli agendas. I suspect that the heavy burden of responsibility for mass murder and destruction committed in our name is the reason most Americans prefer the fake news fed to them about how good and wonderful and exceptional we are and how hard our government works to protect us from the nasty folks elsewhere. This storyline converts the illegal brutal war crimes of the US government against women, children, defenseless citizens, schools, wedding parties, funerals, and farmers in their fields into glorious and brave defenses of our liberty and virtue. If you want the truth watch the video leaked by Manning of US troops enjoying themselves while from the air they machine-gun reporters and innocent civilians walking along a street and follow up by machine-gunning a father and his two young children, babies, who stopped to help the wounded bleeding in the street. The leak of the video that showed the true picture of Washington’s wars is the reason Manning was tortured and imprisoned. It is the person who told the truth, not the criminals who committed the murders, who was punished.
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The Assange/Manning Cases Discredit Humanity - PaulCraigRoberts.org
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UPDATE: www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/20/the-assange-manning-cases-discredit-us-and-uk-justice-systems/ The Assange/Manning Cases DiscreditRotten to the core and proud of it...
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He "seems to take smug pleasure in being a blatant telecom shill."Both sides are rotten with the stench of corruption....
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Rebranding Corruption Benefits Shady Politicians on Both Sides of the Aisle
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No one is happier about the Supreme Court’s rebranding of corruption than sketchy politicians.They would not even be doing all that to those immigrants if there wasn't big profits to be made, but there is, so they, we demonize them. The same goes for the bullshit wars. They do it for the money... our money. They are milking it for all its worth... and then some. They are milking you... like a giant leech. Human life holds no more value than the profit it can generate for the inhuman psychopaths at the top. There is still the possibility that the citizenry will get too pissed off and unite against the top so they still have to be nice enough to us to prevent that. But... they are doing a great job of dumbing everyone down and keeping us in line with all the total bullshit... it's called propaganda and that's all you get when you turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper.
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Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails
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Migrants are increasingly hard to track down amid a tangled web of private contractors and misinformation.Our government persecutes the people who are able to expose their crimes with the truth. It is not what America is... it is fascism and part of how the people in this country are losing their freedom and rights to what amounts to a bunch of criminals that have managed to bullshit their way into power. What you see there in that picture is a true American hero who is willing to suffer any consequences to stand up for our rights. You could put all the worms in congress and the White House together and you would not get a fraction of the integrity and courage this one person has.
In a move press freedom advocates and progressive critics decried as an “outrageous” and “unprecedented” escalation of a prolonged government harassment campaign, a federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury and imposed a $500 fine for every day she is in custody after 30 days. If Manning refuses to comply with the grand jury subpoena after 60 days, the fine will increase to $1,000 per day. During a court hearing on Thursday, Manning told Judge Anthony Trenga that she has no intention of giving in to government pressure. “I would rather starve to death than to change my opinion in this regard,” said Manning. “And when I say that, I mean that quite literally.”
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Chelsea Manning to Return to Jail in 'Unprecedented' Ruling
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Free speech advocates cry foul after a judge slaps the whistleblower with a steep financial fine if she continues to refuse to testify.According to Duke University’s Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, there were 413 documented—and probably thousands of lesser-known—cases of women being prosecuted for having miscarriages or attempting abortions between the time Roe v. Wade became the law of the land and 2005. Between 2005 and 2014, the Guttmacher Institute documented another 380 cases.
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Thom Hartmann: The GOP Is Hellbent on Locking Up Women
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A draconian new abortion bill in Alabama suggests that Republicans have embraced a "Christian" version of fundamentalist Islamic law.Most of you probably don't care about the news and certainly will not go to the trouble to read much of it. It's a lot of bad stuff and it might spoil your day. The things that are happening now would definitely spoil your day. Basically, we are in the process of losing everything we hold dear and largely take for granted in this country and around the whole world. Our corporate owned government wants to shut the journalists up that will tell you exactly what is happening and give you the many truths they do not want you to know. Most of the mainstream media is already censored and essentially shut up. However, there are still some good sources out there.
“How can you have a free press if you don’t have free sources?” asks Edward Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.” The question strikes directly at the heart of journalism ethics during an era in which sources and—in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange—publishers are being persecuted or prosecuted for speaking truth to power. Wasserman’s April op-ed for The New York Times, “Julian Assange and the Woeful State of Whistle-Blowers,” makes a strong case for enshrining the rights of media sources in the Constitution, alongside freedom of the press. His powerful defense of Assange is based on his belief that “the First Amendment is no better than the willingness of people to come forward.”
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Has Freedom of the Press Become an Illusion?
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University of California journalism professor Edward Wasserman argues that the media has abandoned a basic commitment to the First Amendment.Those in the parade of imbeciles, grifters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, racists, Trump family members, charlatans, generals and Christian fascists, all of whom often see power as a way to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayer, are too many to list here. They include former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (who blamed “environmental terrorist groups” for the 2018 California wildfires, hired private jets to fly himself around the country and opened public lands for mineral and gas exploitation), former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt (who held lavish dinners with the coal-mining and chemical executives whose companies he then deregulated) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. This moral swamp also contains bizarre, Svengali-like figures darting in and out of the shadows, such as Stephen Miller, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci and Omarosa Manigault Newman, not to mention paid-off porn stars and mistresses, sleazy lawyers and bungling and corrupt campaign managers.
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The collapse of our democratic institutions began long before the arrival of Trump, who is capitalizing on the evisceration of the rule of law.
The Countless Deaths Carried Out in Your Name | Robert Heston
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No Country for the Sick and Poor
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For a society in which people do more than just survive, a decent health care system is an absolute necessity. Americans must demand better.This sick psychopath probably masturbates to pictures of dead, blown apart bodies from US bombs. He keeps making up lies to justify war any way he can, and he'll never be satisfied until he gets that war... and even when he does, it will never be enough... even when people like you die in large numbers because for him, the people in the White House, and most of congress, people like you are just toys.
Bolton presented his threat and the deployments as a response to alleged intelligence about a possible Iranian attack on U.S. targets in the Middle East. But what has emerged indicates that the alleged intelligence does not actually reflect any dramatic new information or analysis from the U.S. intelligence community. Instead, it has all the hallmarks of a highly political case concocted by Bolton.
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Bolton Is Spinning Israeli ‘Intelligence’ to Push for War Against Iran
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Donald Trump’s security chief has used this method before—and it could draw the U.S. into yet another catastrophic war.“[Tech barons are] believers in some kind of techno fantasy world, where at least they will be able to survive and prosper,” McKibben tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence. “And they’re completely caught up in that world, and not paying much attention to [earth’s destruction]—in fact, they’re abetting it. We learn with each passing day more about the ways that, say, Google’s tools are being used by the oil industry to find yet more hydrocarbons that we can’t burn. … What [tech barons] and the Koch brothers don’t want is society—they don’t want the rest of us in their way. They want to do what they want to do.”
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Silicon Valley Couldn't Care Less About Earth’s Imminent Demise
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It may be too late to save the planet, warns Bill McKibben, but there's a reason that doesn't seem to keep up our tech barons up at night.This sick psychopath probably masturbates to pictures of dead, blown apart bodies from US bombs. He keeps making up lies to justify war any way he can, and he'll never be satisfied until he gets that war... and even when he does, it will never be enough... even when people like you die in large numbers because for him, the people in the White House, and most of congress, people like are just toys.
Bolton presented his threat and the deployments as a response to alleged intelligence about a possible Iranian attack on U.S. targets in the Middle East. But what has emerged indicates that the alleged intelligence does not actually reflect any dramatic new information or analysis from the U.S. intelligence community. Instead, it has all the hallmarks of a highly political case concocted by Bolton.
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Bolton Is Spinning Israeli ‘Intelligence’ to Push for War Against Iran
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Donald Trump’s security chief has used this method before—and it could draw the U.S. into yet another catastrophic war.But these lies have been circulating in Trump’s anti-abortion evangelical base for years. Last year at a social gathering, I happened to be discussing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing with a friend when I was overheard by a woman who turned out to be an anti-abortion activist and lawyer. This highly educated woman began practically frothing at the mouth, berating me for supporting abortion rights and rattled off exactly the kind of lies Trump told during his State of the Union address and at his Wisconsin rally. Entering my personal space aggressively, she explained to me how babies are ripped out of mothers’ wombs and killed because the mothers wanted an abortion.
It was the first I had ever heard of such claims, and all I could say was that such a thing could not possibly be true. Afterward, when I researched it, I realized anti-abortion activists had created a dangerous myth in order to criminalize abortion. Now that myth is gaining legitimacy from the highest authority in the nation: the president.
I wonder: Do they really believe the lies? Any sane person who hears Trump’s description about a cold and calculating decision by health care providers and parents to murder a newborn in a hospital would ask why such actions were not already illegal—they are. They would question the veracity of a tale so far-fetched that it becomes apparent that its only purpose is to incite violence among the easily swayed and well-armed, goading them to commit violence against doctors, nurses and abortion providers.
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Trump's Abortion Lies Are Going to Get Somebody Killed
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There’s a reason why the president is amplifying lies about abortion procedures—and it isn’t to save children.28 Minute Audio | We speak with world-renowned educator, author and public intellectual Henry Giroux, the author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism, who joins us to discuss his article at Truthout, “Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump.” We discuss how democracies in Poland, Hungary, India, Turkey and recently Brazil have succumbed to fascist takeovers by demagogues, and how the United States is not immune to the same forces of malicious ignorance and arrogant anti-intellectualism led by our own Donald Trump.
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The US Not Immune to a Fascist Takeover by a Demagogue
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The forces of malicious ignorance and arrogant anti-intellectualism led by Donald Trump could bring fascism to the US.Something sinister and horrifying is happening to liberal democracies all over the globe. Democratic institutions, such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege worldwide. Some of the latest examples of this can be found in the resurgence of vigilantes and right-wing militia groups along the southern border and the intrusion of tech-based educational practices into schools producing curricula that some parents claim turn kids into zombies. Trump’s continued attack on higher education offers another highly visible example: His proposed 2020 budget request would enact a staggering $7.1 billion reduction in the Education Department as part of a policy to dismantle the department itself.
The promise of democracy is receding as present-day fascists work to subvert language, values, courage, vision and a critical consciousness. Education has increasingly become a tool of domination as the entrepreneurs of hate deploy right-wing pedagogical apparatuses to attack workers, Black youth, refugees, immigrants and others they consider disposable. In the midst of a moment when an older social order is crumbling and a new one is struggling to define itself, there emerges a moment of confusion and danger. We are once again at a historical juncture in which the structures of liberation and authoritarianism are vying over the future.
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Fascism Is on the March. We Need Radical Education to Fight Back.
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In a world beset by fascist nightmares, radical education offers hope for social transformation.DemocracyNow! Video Report
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Navy SEALs Tried for Months to Report Superior for War Crimes
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Navy SEALs who witnessed their platoon chief commit war crimes in Iraq were encouraged not to speak out.Tar sands oil is a thick, mucky, clay-like substance that is infused with a hydrocarbon called bitumen. The oil around Beaver Lake is extracted by a process known as steam-assisted gravity drainage, which occurs under the earth and is similar to fracking. Farther north, extraction is done by strip-mining the remote boreal forest of Alberta, 2 million acres of which have already been destroyed. The destruction of vast forests, sold to timber companies, and the scraping away of the topsoil have left behind poisoned wastelands. This industrial operation, perhaps the largest such project in the world, is rapidly accelerating the release of the carbon emissions that will, if left unchecked, soon render the planet uninhabitable for humans. The oil is transported thousands of miles to refineries as far away as Houston through pipelines and in tractor-trailer trucks or railroad cars. More than a hundred climate scientists have called for a moratorium on the extraction of tar sands oil. Former NASA scientist James Hansen has warned that if the tar sands oil is fully exploited, it will be “game over for the planet.” He has also called for the CEOs of fossil fuel companies to be tried for high crimes against humanity.
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If we do not join with the Cree and other indigenous peoples to halt oil extraction from tar sands, it will be “game over” for the planet.Does Trump actually want to end the perpetual "wars" we have going on in the Middle East and Africa or not? It's hard to know exactly what he really thinks or intends because what comes out of his mouth is usually either lies or some nonsense that proves he doesn't really know what he's talking about. He has been giving lip service to ending our various wars, but the facts show quite the opposite... much like his many other promises... speaking of which... if you have been reading the real news [something you can find links to at my sungraffix.net website] you already know the facts that prove him a liar through and through.
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Trump Doesn't Want to End US Wars. He Wants to Hide Them.
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If you kill somebody and there’s no one there (on our side anyway), is the United States still at war?
Elizabeth Warren’s Student Debt Plan: An Economic Boon for People of Color
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Canceling part of everyone's debt could substantially address racial disparities inherent in student loan borrowing.
Most Restaurant Workers Don't Earn Enough to Feed Their Own Families
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Workers dependent on tips have to rely on food stamps and soup kitchens to survive despite working full time.
American Health Care Horror Stories: An Incomplete Inventory
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Universal health care would make these tragedies and absurdities unthinkable.
The Last Time There Was This Much CO2, Trees Grew at the South Pole
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The muddled political response to very clear climate science is putting millions of people at risk.
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"Words matter."“It’s kind of a shame that we have to say, put in this disclaimer, ‘whatever you think of Julian Assange,’ ” the Truthdig editor in chief tells his guest, Bruce Shapiro, in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.” “Because of course, any whistleblower is going to be attacked, and it’s the traditional argument of shooting the messenger. […] Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning more spectacularly […] distributed at least 700,000 military, war and diplomatic records. And there is no question of the news value of those records, the right of the public to know that information, the need of the public to know that information. There has not been one documented example of an injury or death as a result of the release of that information.”
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What's Really Behind Julian Assange's Arrest
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The U.S. government’s attack on the WikiLeaks founder covers up a menacing assault on the First Amendment, argues journalist Bruce Shapiro.An Empire of Bullshit
After two years of gaslighting the public while it blew smoke up America’s ass, the Jacobin news media enjoyed its final feeding frenzy with the release of the 400-page Mueller report. They expected 1000 pounds of raw filet mignon, but it turned out to be tofu fried in olestra. The ensuing fugue of hyperventilating hysteria was also duly expected and William Barr stoically endured their hebephrenic peevings at the release ceremony — a press conference which itself offended the media.
The threats and raving continued all the livelong day and far into the peeper-filled night with CNN’s Chris Cuomo blustering “It’s time to rumble,” and the lugubrious hack David Gergen muttering soulfully, “This was not fake news,” and The Times’ Maggie Haberman fuming that the White House had played the “Nazi anthem” Edelweiss — very fake news, it turned out, since the tune was written for Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s 1959 Broadway show, The Sound of Music (and sung by the anti-Nazi hero Baron von Trapp). Meanwhile Rachel Maddow had the balls to confab in prime time with disgraced former FBI mandarin Andy McCabe, officially identified as a liar by his own colleagues at the agency. What a circus of perfidious freakery!
Understand that the Mueller Report itself was the mendacious conclusion to a deceitful investigation, the purpose of which was to conceal the criminal conduct of US government officials meddling in the 2016 election, in collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign, to derail Mr. Trump’s campaign, and then disable him when he managed to win the election. Mr. Mueller was theoretically trying to save the FBI’s reputation, but he may have only succeeded in injuring it more gravely.
The whole wicked business began as a (failed) entrapment scheme using shadowy US Intel “assests” Stefan Halper and Joseph Mifsud to con small fish Papadopoulos and Carter Page into incriminating themselves (they declined to be conned) and moved on to ploys like the much-touted Trump Tower meeting to ensnare Trump Junior and then to several efforts (also failed) to flip Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen — the final product of which was an epic failure to find one instance of real chargeable criminal collusion between anyone connected to Mr. Trump and Russia.
By the way, the Mueller Report failed to mention that the two Russians present in that August 2016 Trump Tower meeting, lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, were on the payroll of Hillary Clinton’s oppo research contractor Fusion GPS, and met with that company’s principal, Glenn Simpson, both before and after the meeting — just one example among many of the Mueller Team’s shifty tactics, but a move that speaks volumes about Mr. Mueller’s actual intent, which was to keep his prosecutorial circus going as long as possible to interfere with Mr. Trump carrying out his own duties.
The Special Prosecutor’s main bit of mischief, of course, was his refusal to reach a conclusion on the obstruction of justice charge. What the media refuses to accept and make clear is that a prosecutor’s failure to reach a conclusion is exactly the same thing as an inability to make a case, and it was a breach of Mr. Mueller’s duty to dishonestly present that failure as anything but that in his report — and possibly an act of criminal prosecutorial misconduct.
Like any tantrum, the media’s frenzy will run out of steam (and credibility) and now they will be whipped like dogs for betraying their public trust. There is a counter-narrative to the “Resistance” narrative, and it is a true crime story. That suppressed story is finally going to roll out in the implacable workings of actual (not fake) justice and it is going to crush a lot of people who concocted this epic political hoax, including some members of the press who knowingly and dishonestly abetted it.
Many criminal referrals have already been made on the likes of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr, and a big net has been cast to pull in the figures who have been hiding in the thickets lo these two-and-a-half-years of smoke and gaslight: Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, William Brennan, James Clapper, Nellie Ohr, Samantha Power, Bill Priestap, Jim Rybicki, James Baker, Mike Kortan, John Carlin, Mary McCord, Josh Campbell and more. Some of these are going to jail and some have already flipped. The fetchings should reach the Obama White House. Mr. Mueller himself, even in his majestic granitic silence, will be liable for failing to inform his boss, the Attorney General, that the predicate document for his witch hunt was known to be a fraud back in 2016, and was used anyway to spy on a presidential candidate.
Let congress put on a carnival of its own now. It will be greeted like a TV commercial for a hemorrhoid remedy while the real national psychodrama plays out in grand juries and courtrooms, demonstrating what a grievous injury was done to this republic by its own vested authorities.
James Howard Kunstler | kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/
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In an "unprecedented" revelation that highlights the consequences of the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan, the United Nations announced Wednesday that U.S.-backed forces killed more Afghan civilians than the Taliban and other armed anti-government groups did in the first three months of this yea
Inside the Globalist War On Our World | New Eastern Outlook
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The unconventional war for complete control of our world goes on. Camouflaged underneath the stealthy facade of relative prosperity for some, World War III rages as the cries of a billion people are muffled. The report you are about to read should amplify the horrific screams gagged by those engaged...
Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine | New Eastern Outlook
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As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage. A second US court jury case just ruled that Monsanto…
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"We have to overthrow this system which is eating the planet with perpetual growth. I mean since when was GDP a sensible measure of human welfare?"
Our Version Of Events Is Holy: Israel Is Killing With Impunity, and Now, New Duplicity
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Soldiers and settlers in a racist Israel continue to kill unarmed Palestinians - 17 in March alone. They mask their atrocities by inventing tales of stabbings, car attacks, "massive" violence and, in a base new trick, destroying video evidence of their crimes. To a young father stoning a car, a boy....
The Destruction of the Palestinians Will Be Israel’s Undoing
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Most of Israel’s problems would be solved if it could establish lasting peace with its neighbors, says journalist and filmmaker Mariam Shahin.
The U.S. Is Blocking Investigations Into War Crimes in Afghanistan
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The victims of dozens, if not hundreds, of crimes will likely never see justice.
An American Tragedy Is Unfolding in Our Classrooms
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A society that refuses to invest in the education of its children is refusing to invest in the future. It is nihilism on a grand scale.Of course you can do like some people I know.... become a freelance person and don't give the lying, cheating, corrupted bastards anything and file any taxes.
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How TurboTax Routinely Dupes Its Customers
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A new investigation finds the company's "Free File" product is unusually difficult to access, all but compelling online users to pony up.
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If the Espionage Act, the NDAA, and other legislation were to completely displace the U.S Constitution and its First Amendment, then the prospect of real journalism would finally be extinguished.
Legal Petition: North Carolina Energy Monopolies Violating Customers' First Amendment Rights
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The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a motion to join a legal effort that would ban Duke
Trump Vetoes Resolution to End US Complicity in Yemen Crisis
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Congress urged to "pull out the stops" to confront Trump.
Trump Wants to End Regulation That Cut Mercury Pollution by 81 Percent
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We have until April 17 to submit a public comment to the EPA against this misguided and dangerous rule change.
We Are All Complicit in America's War Machine
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Uncle Sam insists that we fight our enemies abroad or we'll be fighting them at home. It's a deadly lie that's met with collective apathy.While many Palestinians who were eligible to vote boycotted the election, there is a growing nonviolent resistance movement in the occupied territories and around the world. In Gaza, 2 million people live under Israeli siege in what former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron called the world’s largest “open-air prison.” For the past year, tens of thousands of Palestinians have marched every Friday to the separation fence between Gaza and Israel. It’s called the “Great March of Return,” and is met by Israeli military snipers who fire live ammunition into the nonviolent crowd. According to the U.N., over 270 Gazans have been killed, at least 41 of whom were children, and close to 30,000 have been injured, with many of those injured suffering amputations. Journalists and medical first responders have also been shot, some fatally.
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The Horrors of Israeli Occupation Have Been Laid Bare
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Christians and Jews look to the Holy Land as they observe Easter and Passover. Events in the region, though, are no cause for celebration.On Wednesday, more than 100 activists from the New York chapter of Extinction Rebellion descended on City Hall to protest the extraction of fossil fuels and raise awareness about a crisis that threatens the very survival of humankind. Patch reports that police have arrested 62, with demonstrators laying down in the streets and climbing light poles to unfurl banners declaring a climate emergency. According to an April 14 press release, Extinction Rebellion has planned to “disrupt business as usual” in 80 cities across 33 countries, from India to Australia and throughout Europe and the U.S. Truthdig’s Michael Nigro reports from downtown New York.
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Global Climate Rebellion Hits New York City (Photo Essay)
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Banks now create most of our money supply and need to be made public utilities, following the stellar precedent of the Bank of North Dakota, which makes below-market loans for local communities and businesses while turning a profit for the state. The Bank of North Dakota was founded in 1919 in response to a farmers’ revolt against out-of-state banks that were foreclosing unfairly on their farms. Since then it has evolved into a $7.4 billion bank that is reported to be even more profitable than JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, although its mandate is not actually to make a profit but simply to serve the interests of local North Dakota communities. Along with hundreds of public banks worldwide, it has demonstrated what can be done by cutting out private shareholders and middlemen and mobilizing public revenues to serve the public interest.
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The Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us
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California and Washington are in a race to form the nation's second state-owned bank, a century after the first was established.29 Minutes Video | The arrest of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. Joining Chris Hedges to discuss the arrest and pending extradition of Julian Assange is the historian Vijay Prashad.
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The arrest of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. Joining Chris Hedges to discuss the arrest and pending extradition of Julian Assange is the historian Vijay Prashad."Ours is a society that condones and even celebrates organized, profitable, global murder."
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The F-35 Fighter Jet Will Cost $1.5 Trillion. It’s Time for New Priorities.
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Ours is a society that condones and even celebrates organized, profitable, global murder.
