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Schiff accuses top intel official of illegally withholding 'urgent' whistleblower complaint

www.politico.com - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (center). | Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images The nation's top intelligence official is illegally withholding a whistleblower complaint, possibly to prote…

Taliban visits Moscow days after Trump says talks 'dead'

apnews.com - MOSCOW (AP) — A negotiating team from the Taliban arrived Friday in Russia, a representative told The Associated Press, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared dead a deal with the insur…

Pompeo blames Iran for drone attacks on Saudi oil field

www.cnn.com - "Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply. There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen," Pompeo continued, providing no ev…

Iran denies carrying out crippling attacks on Saudi oil facilities

www.washingtonpost.com - Smoke is seen following a fire at an Aramco factory in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, September 14, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters) By Kareem Fahim , Kareem Fahim Istanbul bureau chief cover…

Hong Kong police disperse protests with tear gas and water cannon as unrest enters its 15th week

www.washingtonpost.com - Anti-government protesters are sprayed with water cannon during a demonstration near Central Government Complex in Hong Kong, China, Sept. 15, 2019. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) By Shibani Mahtani and Shiban…

Justice Dept. to Honor Team That Worked on Kavanaugh Confirmation Process

www.nytimes.com - Lawyers who worked in the office of legal policy, which carries out significant policy initiatives, and in the federal programs branch, which defends the administration in court, were also part of th…

Jim Crow Steals North Carolina's 9th CD

www.gregpalast.com - Stolen again. Democrat Dan McCready supposedly lost the special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District to Republican Dan Bishop by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased vot…

To Hell With Y’all: Charlottesville Judge Rules Confederate Statues Will Stay

www.theroot.com - I’m referring to the removal of public monuments of known racists. But the law—in that comfortable cradle of great virtue the world knows as Charlottesville, Va.,—has prevailed. And it’s the celebrat…

Week 148

theweeklylist.org - As Congress returned to session, House Democrats had conflicting messages on impeachment. The Trump regime’s Justice Department seized on the divergence, saying lawmakers were not entitled to see the…

Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks

www.mintpressnews.com - NEW YORK — For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called “High Fivers,” or the “Dancing Israe…

Joe Biden recalls lessons learned as the only white lifeguard at city pool in 1962

www.washingtonpost.com - By Travis M. Andrews Travis M. Andrews Pop culture reporter covering music, movies, TV, comedy and celebrity culture Email Bio Follow June 27, 2017 The summer of 1962 stretched out with possibility b…

The world has a third pole – and it's melting quickly

www.theguardian.com - Many moons ago in Tibet, the Second Buddha transformed a fierce nyen (a malevolent mountain demon) into a neri (the holiest protective warrior god) called Khawa Karpo, who took up residence in the sa…

With Elephant Ivory Banned, a Worrying Trade in Mammoth Tusks

undark.org - Woolly mammoths last roamed the earth some 4,000 years ago, but their tusks — fashioned into sculptures, jewelry, and trinkets — have become hot commodities in China, where elephant ivory is now bann…

The real reason the climate movement has failed - Resilience

www.resilience.org - If you think that climate change is turning out to be worse than anyone had thought, it’s not hard to find people who agree with you. Just check out some recent headlines: And after reading all those…

How the FBI Increased Its Power After 9/11 and Helped Put Trump in Office

theintercept.com - Mike German, a former FBI special agent, had four years on the job when he took an assignment that would change his life forever. It was 1992. A jury in Simi Valley, California, had just acquitted a …

Brainerd school chair questions teaching of evolution

www.startribune.com - The chairwoman of Brainerd’s school board this week questioned the teaching of evolution and suggested that it’s incompatible with Christian beliefs. “I did have a question about evolution,” Sue Kern…

‘She Said’ Recounts How Two Times Reporters Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story

www.nytimes.com - [ “She Said” names some of the people who helped Harvey Weinstein evade scrutiny. ] And then there was Gloria Allred, the crusading feminist lawyer, whose law firm, in 2004, negotiated a nondisclosur…

The Chaos Theory Behind Fascism

www.strategic-culture.org - The disclosure by the British Parliament of the “Most Sensitive” Operation YELLOWHAMMER document describes a United Kingdom ripe for the machinations of Britain’s proto fascists, who make up a large …

Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism

www.desmogblog.com - This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. “Freak yachting accidents do happen…” That was how Britis…

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News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.

Schiff accuses top intel official of illegally withholding 'urgent' whistleblower complaint

Taliban visits Moscow days after Trump says talks 'dead'

Pompeo blames Iran for drone attacks on Saudi oil field

Iran denies carrying out crippling attacks on Saudi oil facilities

Hong Kong police disperse protests with tear gas and water cannon as unrest enters its 15th week

Justice Dept. to Honor Team That Worked on Kavanaugh Confirmation Process

Jim Crow Steals North Carolina's 9th CD

To Hell With Y’all: Charlottesville Judge Rules Confederate Statues Will Stay

More Americans Questioning Official 9/11 Story As New Evidence Contradicts Official Narrative

Week 148

Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks

Joe Biden recalls lessons learned as the only white lifeguard at city pool in 1962

The world has a third pole – and it's melting quickly

With Elephant Ivory Banned, a Worrying Trade in Mammoth Tusks

The real reason the climate movement has failed - Resilience

How the FBI Increased Its Power After 9/11 and Helped Put Trump in Office

Brainerd school chair questions teaching of evolution

‘She Said’ Recounts How Two Times Reporters Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story

The Chaos Theory Behind Fascism

Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism

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