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US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion

www.theguardian.com- An estimated 50 nuclear bombs stored at a US airbase in Turkey have become potential bargaining chips in the tense relationship between Washington and Ankara in the wake of the Turkish offensive into…

Furious commuters drag Extinction Rebellion protesters from top of Tube

news.sky.com - Angry commuters have pulled Extinction Rebellion protesters from the top of a Tube as activists disrupted services across London. A Catholic and Anglican priest also climbed onto a train at a differe…

Brexit deal has been reached say E.U. and U.K. leaders

www.washingtonpost.com - European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks at a media conference at E.U. headquarters in Brussels, Oct. 17, 2019. (Frank Augstein/AP) By Michael Birnbaum, close Michael Birnbaum Bru…

Chaos in Hong Kong chamber over violent attack on activist

www.theguardian.com - The Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, has again been forced from the legislative chamber because of protests by opposition members after a violent attack on a leader of the nearly five-month-old protest …

Trump Has ‘Very Serious Meltdown’ in Meeting With Democrats

nymag.com - The president usually doesn’t respond well to criticism and has plenty of insults to hurl at political allies and enemies alike — a dynamic that has apparently taken off since Trump faced waves of co…

Giuliani Pushed Trump to Deport Cleric Sought by Turkey, Ex-White House Officials Said

www.nytimes.com - The idea that Mr. Trump should order Mr. Gulen deported was fiercely opposed inside the White House, where officials saw the issue as a matter to be handled by the Justice Department, not a political…

Gordon Sondland, Trump envoy and key figure in impeachment probe, faces criticism over $1 million taxpayer-funded home renovation

www.washingtonpost.com - By Michael Birnbaum, close Michael Birnbaum Brussels bureau chief covering Europe Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Shane Harris and close Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email…

‘People Taking Action Inspires Other People’

fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed Payday Report’s Mike Elk about the GM strike for the October 11, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: As we record the show on…

WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom

fair.org - It’s not hard to figure out that corporate media represent the perspectives and interests of a small elite investor class of the US population, rather than its vast working class majority. Simply com…

Frank Rich: There Are 5 Candidates Still Standing After Latest Democratic Debate

nymag.com - Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today, what last night’s debate tells us about the Democr…

The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades

www.vanityfair.com - Traders in the Chicago pits have been watching these kinds of wagers with an increasing mixture of shock and awe since the start of the Trump presidency. They are used to rapid fluctuations in the S&…

Newly uncovered tax documents show Trump kept '2 sets of books' and may have committed financial fraud

www.businessinsider.com - Newly uncovered tax documents from President Donald Trump contain several discrepancies that real-estate experts said could point to financial fraud, ProPublica reported on Wednesday. The documents o…

Ancient Assyrian Tablets Seem to Contain References to a Massive Solar Storm

gizmodo.com - Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic …

Climate Data Is Being Privatized. Will the Public Lose Out?

undark.org - People watch a wildfire in the town of Rafina, near Athens, Greece on July 23, 2018. Extreme weather events are expected to become more common as the climate changes. How do we avoid a future in whic…

Of Two Minds - Economic Decay Leads to Social and Political Decay

www.oftwominds.com - If we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading quickly into every nook and cranny of the society and culture. It seems my rant yest…

'It's a crisis, not a change': the six Guardian language changes on climate matters

www.theguardian.com - In addition to providing updated guidelines on which images our editors should use to illustrate the climate emergency, we have updated our style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describ…

Michael Cohen’s testimony about Trump’s shady business practices just got strong corroboration

www.vox.com - A new ProPublica investigation lends credence to a remarkable claim made by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer and fixer, during his congressional testimony earli…

Graham on Syria: 'could create bigger disaster than Obama leaving Iraq' - Middle East - Jerusalem Post

www.jpost.com - Lindsey Graham . (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday played down the crisis in Syria touched off by Turkey's incursion against U.S.-allied Kurdish forc…

The Real Reason Mahmoud Abbas Called for Palestinian Elections

www.mintpressnews.com - On September 26, Abbas took on the world’s most important political platform, the United Nations General Assembly, to call for “general elections in Palestine – in the West Bank, including East Jerus…

October: Growing preference for SUVs challenges emissions reductions in passenger car mark

www.iea.org - A dramatic shift towards bigger and heavier cars has led to a doubling of the share of SUVs over the last decade (Photograph: Shutterstock) This commentary is derived from analysis that will be publi…

LeBron Turns Out to Be Just Another Employee

nymag.com - LeBron James is not a politician. This feels like a weird thing to have to say, even though, as I’ve argued in the past, maybe someday he should become one. But he’s going to be treated like one from…

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