nytimes.com - Widespread defections on that basis seem highly unlikely. And Senator Susan Collins, the moderate Republican from Maine who broke with her party and backed holding a confirmation hearing and vote on …

Why are drug prices rising so much? Pharma exec admits ‘no other rationale’ than profit-making

intrepidreport.com - Corporations’ quest for profits is what “is driving up drug prices and nothing more.” That’s according to Dennis Bourdette, M.D., chair of neurology in the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)…

After failing at other impossible tasks, Kushner gets handed another

msnbc.com - Donald Trump tends not to trust many of the officials around him, which leads the president to keep things within the family – literally. His young and inexperienced son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has an…

Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian on border: Gaza ministry

news.yahoo.com - Relatives and friends of a teenager Fahd al-Astal mourn outside a hospital in in Khan Yunis in Gaza on November 29, 2019 (AFP Photo/SAID KHATIB) Gaza City (Palestinian

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Mexico warns will not allow US military operations against cartels

news.yahoo.com - Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned Friday he would not allow the US to conduct cross-border armed operations, after Donald Trump vowed to designate Mexican drug…

Mall of America Prohibits Families of Police Killings Over Planned Black Friday Protest

unicornriot.ninja - Bloomington, MN – Police used Thanksgiving Day to deliver trespass notices to family members of two recent police killings. In lieu of a previously planned Black Friday protest at the Mall of America…

Will the ICC Prosecute Perpetrators of the ‘War on Terror’?

strategic-culture.org - On May 13 2014, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief Prosecutor announced it would reopen the investigations into alleged war crimes committed by British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, f…

Neo-Nazi Arms Dealer Exposed as Canadian Navy Sailor

unicornriot.ninja - Alberta, Canada – A Serbian arms dealer with connections to racist terror groups in the USA has been outed as a sailor in the Canadian Navy. Earlier this month, a copy of a web server for the defunct…

Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds

nytimes.com - In her study, Dr. Mutz sought to answer two questions: Is there evidence to support the economic anxiety argument, and did the fear of losing social dominance drive some voters to Mr. Trump? To find …

The 2019 Black Friday Video Hall of Shame - The Organic Prepper

theorganicprepper.com - If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! American shoppers continued to embarrass themselves in the eyes of the world during this year’s brawl shopping extra…

Rising sea levels pose threat to homes of 300m people – study

theguardian.com - More than three times more people are at risk from rising sea levels than previously believed, research suggests. Land that is currently home to 300 million people will flood at least once a year by …

Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Confederate Monument Law

theroot.com - On Wednesday, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city of Birmingham violated Alabama’s monument protection law when it placed a plywood screen around a Confederate monument in a dow…

The Biggest News Story in the U.S. That Nobody Paid Attention To

medium.com - Air pollution kills. According to the World Health Organization, every year, 7 million people die early because of air pollution — from more strokes, heart attacks, and deadly lung and respiratory in…

Why the Trump regime toppled Bolivia’s Evo Morales

intrepidreport.com - In a word, he wasn’t “our guy” in La Paz, Bolivia’s political capital. He didn’t surrender the sovereign rights of the nation and people to US interests. He was democratically elected and reelected f…

Scientists find ‘monster’ black hole so big they didn’t think it was possible

washingtonpost.com - An artist’s rendition of LB-1, a massive black hole discovered by scientists in the Milky Way Galaxy. (Yu Jingchuan/Beijing Planetarium/Chinese Academy of Sciences/AFP/Getty Images) By Katie Mettler …

'There are no words': Samoa buries its children as measles outbreak worsens

theguardian.com - Fa’aoso Tuivale sleeps on her children’s grave during the day, when she misses them most. She and her husband, Tuivale Luamanuvae Puelua, are sitting on the newly-dried concrete that mark the graves …

Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua ‘national security threat’ and targets Mexico

thegrayzone.com - One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administr…

Chile football season called off amid protests

bbc.com - The football federation in Chile has announced it is to cancel the rest of the season due to security concerns following weeks of anti-government

China’s African Swine Fever Now Global Threat | New Eastern Outlook

journal-neo.org - The worst outbreak of fatal African Swine Fever disease ever has devastated the world’s largest pig population, that of China, over the past months. Now it is spreading to neighboring states and even…

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