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All News Articles for 2016-09-07

Wednesday, September 7, 2016
	Gathering Up the Generals, Clinton and Trump Compete for Best Imperialist "Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are unabashed militarists, seeing no shame or dysfunction in America’s wars overseas, and seemingly promising to escalate current wars or begin new ones." Read more
	Prominent Scholars Decry TPP's "Frontal Attack" on Law and Democracy "Today's letter from top legal experts makes clear: ISDS undermines the American judicial system and tilts the playing field further in favor of big multinational corporations" Read more
	Global Warming Likely Doubled Chances of Historic Louisiana Rainfall, Study Finds "We found that the mostly likely impact of climate change is a near doubling of the odds of such a storm" Read more
	The US Superbug Crisis Growing as National Tracking Efforts Fall Far Short 'No one at the state or federal level knows how many people are dying from drug-resistant infections,' Reuters investigation finds Read more
	Costa Rica Has Been Running on 100 Percent Renewable Energy for Months Costa Rica's electrical grid has relied solely on renewable energy sources for 76 days straight, aiming for an all-renewable future Read more
	Jeremy Corbyn Pledges Fracking Ban, Energy Co-ops in Green Labour Agenda 'We want Britain to be the world's leading producer of renewables technology,' he said in Nottingham, a proposed fracking site Read more
	New Suit 'Makes Clear Voting Discrimination Is Alive and Well Across Alabama' At-large method of electing the state's appellate court judges "unlawfully dilutes the voting strength of African-Americans" Read more
	One Out of Every 200 Children in the World Is Now a Refugee: UNICEF Nearly 28 million children are fleeing war and conflict worldwide Read more
	UK Lawmakers Call for End to Saudi Arms Trade, Push for War Crimes Probe 'The weight of evidence of violations of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition is now so great, that it is very difficult to continue to support Saudi Arabia' Read more
	As Dakota Access Pipeline Fight Grows, Where Are Obama and Clinton? Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein may face charges for spray-painting construction equipment at a DAPL site on Tuesday Read more