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Bolivia's New US-Backed Interim Gov't Wastes No Time Privatizing Economy

mintpressnews.com - It has been barely one month since the administration of Jeanine Añez seized power in a military coup in Bolivia, but it has wasted no time in attempting to transform the economy and society. Its lat…

U.N. Climate Talks Collapsed in Madrid. What’s the Way Forward?

nymag.com - You could see the failure of the United Nations’ COP25 climate conference, which just concluded in Madrid, coming from months away — if not years or decades. It was, of course, the 25th COP, and judg…

Boeing will halt 737 Max production in January as FAA reviews software fix

washingtonpost.com - By Jonathan O'Connell and close Jonathan O'Connell Reporter covering economic development with a focus on commercial real estate and the Trump Organization Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Aaron Gregg…

Watch: Glenn Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Who Was Deposed in a Coup

theintercept.com - We also discussed the once-notorious but now forgotten extraordinary event in 2013, when Morales’s presidential plane was forced to land in Austria as he was traveling back to Bolivia from a state vi…

Purdue payments to Sackler family surged after OxyContin fine

theguardian.com - The wealthy owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma started taking far more money out of the company after it was fined for misleading marketing of the powerful prescription painkiller. Purdue made p…

Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges

washingtonpost.com - The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP) By Jon Swaine, Douglas MacMillan and close Douglas MacMillan Reporter covering corporate accountability Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Mich…

The pound plummets after Boris Johnson's 'drastic' move that raises risk of Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal

businessinsider.com - The pound sank on Monday morning after Boris Johnson put forward a law that would raise the risk of Britain crashing out of the EU by the end of 2020 without a deal. The pound fell 1% against the dol…

British Weapons Manufacturers, Banks, See Share Price Rocket after Conservative Election Victory

mintpressnews.com - The big winner in last week’s conservative landslide elections in the United Kingdom? Weapons manufacturers. Almost every one of Britain’s top arms producers saw large spikes in their share price imm…

2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed

mintpressnews.com - Corte Madera, California — A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominion…

In Tulsa, an investigation finds possible evidence of mass graves from 1921 race massacre

washingtonpost.com - The Greenwood section of Tulsa, in the aftermath of the 1921 massacre. (Greenwood Cultural Center) By DeNeen L. Brown close DeNeen L. Brown Local enterprise reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow D…

DCCC to Consultants: Helping to Elect a Republican? Sure, We’ll Work With You.

theintercept.com - The DCCC has faced intense scrutiny for the blacklist policy, which critics say is another example of the committee exploiting its position to keep centrist Democrats in power while discouraging wome…

Guinea protests turn bloody in fight to stop president's third term

theguardian.com - On the morning of 14 November Abdourahmane Diallo set out on his motorcycle taxi along the pothole-laden roads of Conakry, the bustling capital of Guinea. By nightfall he was dead. His family said th…

Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raising the Ire of Pollution Researchers

undark.org - Fifteen years ago, the U.S. National Library of Medicine launched Toxmap, a free, interactive online application that combines pollution data from at least a dozen U.S. government sources. A Toxmap u…

Glacial melt creates Andes time bomb | Climate News Network

climatenewsnetwork.net - The speed of glacial melt in parts of Latin America is threatening water supplies – and life and limb in cities downstream. LONDON, 16 December, 2019 – Rising regional temperatures in the Andes and t…

In New Documentary, Animal Rights Activists Prosecuted as Terrorists

theintercept.com - Still: Courtesy of Virgil Films “You see the train coming, but it hits you anyway,” said animal rights activist Josh Harper. “They just went down the list and it was ‘guilty as charged,’ ‘guilty as c…

Can We Break the Cycle of War and Famine?

undark.org - Vandana Shiva, an Indian environmental activist, once described growing one’s own food as “the most revolutionary act.” That idea is clearly echoed in “Food or War,” by Australian climate scholar Jul…

The mother of us all: Ancient India’s Vedic civilization

intrepidreport.com - Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millen…

Former Pakistan leader Musharraf sentenced to death: state media

news.yahoo.com - Islamabad (AFP) - A Pakistan court Tuesday sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in absentia to death for treason, state media reported, an unprecedented move in a country where the armed …

Antifascist Soccer Fans Are Refusing To “Stick To Sports” ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - On their way to a soccer match on October 24th, a group of supporters of Lazio—a club based in Rome that was once supported by Benito Mussolini—gave Nazi salutes and sang a song from the Hungarian Re…

What Jeremy Corbyn Has Meant To Me ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - A week before the 2019 General Election, I (temporarily) left the United Kingdom. The campaign had become increasingly bitter and fractious, and I’d watched as the Labour Party tried to claw back a s…

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