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Massive explosion in Somalia’s capital kills at least 76

washingtonpost.com - Somali security assess the scene of a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday. (Feisal Omar/Reuters) By Omar Faruk and Max Bearak close Max Bearak Nairobi bureau chief E…

Navy Seal pardoned of war crimes by Trump described by colleagues as 'freaking evil'

theguardian.com - A Navy Seal platoon leader controversially cleared of war crimes by Donald Trump was a “toxic” character who was “OK with killing anything that moved”, according to fellow Iraq veterans who reported …

The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility

newrepublic.com - The rally was initially conceived as a parody of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on August 28, 2010, itself a version of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, but for angry white people. Right…

Uruguay seizes $1bn of **** hidden in flour

bbc.com - Uruguay says it has seized a record haul of 6 tonnes of ****, calling it the biggest setback for traffickers in the country's history. Naval and customs officers seized 4.4 tonnes of the drug in M…

FBI Reportedly Investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged ‘Madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell

nymag.com - Shortly after the suspicious suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in August, Attorney General William Barr said that any co-conspirators “should not rest easy.” Almost five months later,…

The Art of Creating Community: Bedtime Goose and Uproar Performing Arts

unicornriot.ninja - Minneapolis, MN – Premiering in August 2017 in a cafe courtyard, Mother Goose’s Bedtime Stories is a celebration of “the black, brown, indigenous, LGBTQI+ folk and Womxn in the arts scene of Minneapo…

How the Military Lost Its Proper Place in the Constitutional Order

theatlantic.com - While the risk of soldiers quartered in homes—one of the Framers’ chief complaints—is the least of our worries today, it was hardly the Framers’ only concern. They also feared the inspiring “man on h…

Where’s Rudy? - The Bulwark

thebulwark.com - If there is one piece of evidence that might bring around a handful of congressional Republicans to the pro-impeachment side it would be direct, first-hand testimony that Trump personally and unambig…

Three suspected Russian spies traveled to Barcelona in 2016 and 2017

elpais.com - At least three suspected members of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU, as it is known in Russian by its initials) traveled to Barcelona between November 2016 and December 2017, according to info…

Inside the Video Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Rodrigo Duterte

theintercept.com - Jaypee Larosa was standing in front of an internet cafe in Davao City, a metropolitan hub on the Philippine island of Mindanao, when three men in dark jackets pulled up on a motorcycle and opened fir…

Wikileaks Still Publishing State Secrets as Founder Julian Assange "Slowly Dies" in Prison

mintpressnews.com - Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own words, relayed through English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder called him on Christmas Ev…

Submarine to explore why Antarctic glacier is melting so quickly

theguardian.com - An international team of scientists has reached the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica and is preparing to drill through more than half a kilometre of ice into the dark waters beneath. The 600-metre deep…

6 mega-trends that marked the past decade

treehugger.com - These are the ones that also had a green slant to them, making them special to TreeHugger's heart. It's that time of year when we look back and reflect on the trends that shaped the past 12 months, e…

What's happening to all the "recycled" waste now that it's not shipped to China?

treehugger.com - It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling". We have had recycling since the seventies. It's part of our lives. Saabira Chaudhuri writes in the Wall Street Journal: For de…

The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery

undark.org - Every week, dozens of metal flasks arrive at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, each one loaded with air from a distant corner of the world. Research chemist Ed Dlugokencky…

Is 'Little Rocket Man' Winning? - Antiwar.com Original

original.antiwar.com - As of Dec. 26, Kim Jong Un’s "Christmas gift" to President Donald Trump had not arrived. Most foreign policy analysts predict it will be a missile test more impressive than any Pyongyang has yet carr…

Everybody’s Watching You: The Intercept’s 2019 Technology Coverage

theintercept.com - Wait! Before you go on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadn’t done it? Consider what t…

Pro-Coup Venezuelan Soldiers Who Fled to the US Now Locked Up in ICE Detention Center

mintpressnews.com - The Venezuelan soldiers who participated in the U.S.-backed coup attempt in April of this year and subsequently fled to the U.S. have been incarcerated in ICE detention camps ever since. Telemundo, a…

Will the ICC's Investigation into Israeli War Crimes Finally Bring Justice to Palestine?

mintpressnews.com - Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor, said in a statement regarding “alleged crimes” committed in the occupied Palestinian territories that “all the statutory criteria …

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