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News Friday, August 17, 2018 Watch What Bill McKibben Calls 'One of the Best and Most Straightforward Videos about Climate Change I've Ever Seen From a Political Leader' Bill McKibben, the author numerous books on human-caused global warming and co-founder of the global action group 350.org, said on Friday morning that he had just watched "one of the best and most straightforward videos about climate change I've ever seen from a political leader." It was a video... Read more |
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News Thursday, August 16, 2018 'Believe Me, My Tapes Are Much Better Than Theirs': Omarosa Continues to Troll President With Release of New Secret Recording Omarosa Manigault Newman, the reality TV star who was fired from her post in the Trump administration earlier this and has been making political waves ahead of the publication of her forthcoming book by releasing secretly recorded conversations from both the 2016 campaign trail and from inside the... Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Roger Stone Deletes 'Proud' Nazi Space Force Image Posted to Instagram, But the Internet Never Forgets "Over on the Instagram," as the Washington Post 's Josh Dawsey astutely and comically said on Twitter late Monday night, "Roger Stone seems to be in the 'space force all the way!' camp." The tweet from Dawsey was a response to a post by Stone, one of President Donald Trump's longtime allies and... Read more |
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News Friday, August 10, 2018 'Guilty on All Counts!': In Historic Victory, Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit In an historic victory for those who have long sought to see agrochemical giant Monsanto held to account for the powerful company's toxic and deadly legacy, a court in California on Friday found the corporation liable for damages suffered by a cancer patient who alleged his sickness was directly caused by exposure to the glyphosate-based herbicides, including the widely used weedkiller Roundup. Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Ron Dellums, Radical Antiwar Activist, Unlikely House Armed Services Chairman, Dead at 82 Former Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, a Marine-turned-antiwar activist who represented Oakland in the House and went on to chair the Armed Services Committee, died of cancer early Monday in Washington. He was 82. Dellums was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and... Read more |
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News Sunday, July 29, 2018 Israeli Navy Hijacks 'Freedom Flotilla' Attempting to Break Gaza Blockade Israeli warships on Sunday intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat trying to break its more than decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military and activists said. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship is named Al Awda (The Return) to underline the importance of this long-standing... Read more |
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News Saturday, July 28, 2018 Hottest Four Years Ever? 2015. 2016. 2017. 2018? According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2018 is on pace to be the fourth hottest year on record. Only three other years have been hotter: 2015, 2016 and 2017. "The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle," Michael Mann, a climate scientist and... Read more |
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News Friday, July 27, 2018 On 'Democracy Now!', Noam Chomsky Condemns US for 'Brutal and Sadistic' Refugee Policies Amid Erosion of Democracy Noam Chomsky, world-renowned dissident, linguist and author, and University of Arizona professor , joined Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Friday morning to discuss a myriad of issues in a four-part series, including U.S. role in today's refugee crisis, the growing divide in the Democratic party,... Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 24, 2018 New Study Reveals Climate Change Could Prompt Tens of Thousands Additional Suicides in U.S. and Mexico by 2050 New research found a link between rising temperatures and suicide, indicating that unchecked climate change could lead to additional 9,000 to 40,000 suicides across the United States and Mexico by 2050. The findings by researchers at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley were... Read more |
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News Friday, July 20, 2018 "ICE Is" Looking for Very Low-Level Recruits in Amazing New Spoof Video by Michelle Wolf Comedian Michelle Wolf put out a new clip on Friday that pokes some serious fun at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) by recognizing the terrorizing affect its practices have had on immigrant communities. Riffing on the idea of a fictional campaign called "ICE is..."—not to be... Read more |