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US Announces Three New Bases in Iraq After Iraqis Demand Full Withdrawal

mintpressnews.com - Less than a week after millions of Iraqis took to the streets demanding the U.S. military leave for good, the United States announced that is planning to build three new military bases in Iraq, accor…

Trump legal team advances blanket defense against impeachment

washingtonpost.com - By Erica Werner, close Erica Werner Congressional reporter focusing on economic policy Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Karoun Demirjian and close Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on n…

Support for witnesses in Senate trial at 75 percent: poll

thehill.com - A large majority of voters say the Senate should allow witnesses to testify during President TrumpDonald John TrumpCNN's Don Lemon explains handling of segment after Trump criticism NPR reporter afte…

Wavering Democrats face pressure as GOP eyes bipartisan vote for Trump acquittal

washingtonpost.com - Reacting to the loud questioning of journalists Wednesday, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) winces as he heads to the first day of a question-and-answer session during the Senate impeachment trial of Preside…

China virus death toll rises to 170, more than 1,700 new cases

news.yahoo.com - The 38 new deaths marked the biggest single-day jump yet and come as a massive containment effort is under way that has effectively locked down tens of millions of people in Hubei (AFP Photo/Hector R…

Live updates: U.S. plans new evacuation flights as coronavirus cases in China grow by more than 1,000 per day

washingtonpost.com - Workers make protective suits at a factory, as the country is hit by an epidemic of the new coronavirus, in Chaohu, Anhui province, China, Jan. 28, 2020. (China Daily/Reuters) By Simon Denyer and clo…

1st case of coronavirus confirmed in India, student in Kerala state tests positive

rt.com - The patient reportedly caught the virus while studying at Wuhan University. Wuhan, China is the epicenter of the deadly epidemic, which has already claimed an estimated 170 lives. China has experienc…

John Bolton’s Book Is Making Fools of Trump’s Republican Enablers

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newyorker.com - Speaking to reporters after Donald Trump’s lawyers completed their opening arguments in his impeachment trial on Tuesday, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, could barely conceal a smile. “I h…

Alan Dershowitz for the Defense: L’État, C’est Trump

newyorker.com - An hour into the Senate trial of Donald John Trump on Wednesday, the emeritus Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz came to the floor to answer a question from a former Harvard law student, Senator T…

Trump border wall between US and Mexico blows over in high winds

theguardian.com - A section of Donald Trump’s much-vaunted border wall between the United States and Mexico has blown over in high winds, US border patrol officers have been reported as saying. The steel panels, more …

Why It Matters How Candidates Respond To Aggression Against Iran ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - On Friday, January 3rd, Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani was assassinated by a Reaper Drone, alongside some 10 others, including high level officials of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, on orders giv…

How the U.S. Is Enlisting Central America in Its Asylum Crackdown

theintercept.com - It was the gunshots that did it. Leonardo had received death threats from a criminal gang extorting money from the little store run out of his family’s home on the eastern outskirts of San Salvador, …

Of Two Minds - Coronavirus and the "Unsinkable" Titanic Analogy

oftwominds.com - Unthinkable doesn't mean unsinkable. As we all know, the "unsinkable" Titanic suffered a glancing collision with an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. A half-hour after the iceberg had opened si…

Bolivia: Meet the Candidates Taking on the US-Backed Right Wing Gov't

mintpressnews.com - Bolivia’s presidential elections are scheduled to take place on May 3, 2020. The elections will be organized by the ‘transitional’ government of Jeanine Anez who seized power in a U.S.-backed militar…

France: Media Silent as Riot Police Beat up Striking Firefighters

mintpressnews.com - Truncheons rain down on fallen protestors as masked, black-clad riot police brutalize firefighters striking in full uniform, looking distinctly similar to their peers in the police, except that they …

Macron accuses Erdogan of failing 'to keep word' on Libya

news.yahoo.com - Paris (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday of failing "to keep his word" to end meddling in Libya, saying Ankara was sending ships with …

Heartburn Gave My Dad Cancer. What About the Rest of Us?

undark.org - Nearly 20 years ago, my family got together in the Finger Lakes region of New York for Thanksgiving. The last night of our trip, we went out to a local tavern for dinner. I can’t remember if my fathe…

What the Hell Is Vexit?

nymag.com - In a partnership that befits our deeply stupid time, Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia has teamed up with Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University president and Florida hotelier, to advance a new pr…

Opinion | What Will You Do When the Culture War Comes for You?

nytimes.com - Journalists who build followings online, in part by being incisive, combative, funny and omnipresent on Twitter, are often hired because of that exposure — because they’re a known quantity. At a larg…

Newly released satellite data reveals the patterns of record warmth in 2019

washingtonpost.com - By Andrew Freedman and Andrew Freedman Editor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. Email Bio Follow John Muyskens John Muyskens Graphics editor specializing in da…

EXCLUSIVE: The cyber attack the UN tried to keep under wraps

thenewhumanitarian.org - The UN did not publicly disclose a major hacking attack into its IT systems in Europe – a decision that potentially put staff, other organisations, and individuals at risk, according to data protecti…

Opinion | Why Will Breitbart Be Included in ‘Facebook News’?

nytimes.com - Growth has always been the end game for Facebook. The company’s onetime internal credo, “Move fast and break things,” was about a need for rapid, sometimes reckless innovation in service of adding mo…

Opinion | Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists

nytimes.com - Now, political operatives are exploiting commercial techniques to correlate microtargeting data with the identification numbers of cellphones. This allows campaigns to mobilize, persuade and turn out…

Hundreds of Canadian Workers Are Blockading an Oil Refinery Right Now

jacobinmag.com - In one of the most militant job actions Canada has seen in recent memory, workers at the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan — locked out by their employer since December 5 over a contract…

New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

treehugger.com - Not only that, they are "argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic." And all men. Whenever I see the most egregious behaviour by drivers, they are often in BMWs, Mercedes or Audis. This …

Lungs damaged by smoking can 'magically' heal – study

theguardian.com - Smokers can turn back time in their lungs by kicking the habit, with healthy cells emerging to replace some of their tobacco-damaged and cancer-prone ones, a study shows. Smokers have long been told …

The U.S. is recycling its big lie about Iraq to target Iran

intrepidreport.com - Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.” But our government is now threateni…

Kushner: Palestinians Have Never Done Anything Right in Their Sad, Pathetic Lives

vanityfair.com - Last June, more than two years after his father-in-law assigned him the task of bringing peace to the Middle East, Jared Kushner held a big kickoff conference in Bahrain to unveil the economic portio…

Trump's Deal of the Century Won't Bring Peace...That Was the Plan - CounterPunch.org

counterpunch.org - Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Much of Donald Trump’s long-trailed “deal of the century” came as no surprise. Over the past 18 months, Israeli officials had leaked many of its det…

Trump’s EPA is a huge cancer risk

intrepidreport.com - This January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017. The societ…


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