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« Reply #600 on: February 01, 2020, 06:47:43 am »

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As Coronavirus Spreads So Does Anti-Chinese Racism

mintpressnews.com - Facing the worldwide spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization declared a global emergency yesterday in response to the outbreak. Up from just 548 on January 22, there are, as of Frida…

US curbs immigration from Nigeria, five other nations

news.yahoo.com - Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Friday slapped immigration restrictions on citizens of six countries including Nigeria, in addition to the list of nations already targeted by his cont…

Senate set to acquit Trump next week after bid for witnesses in impeachment trial is defeated

washingtonpost.com - Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) speaks to reporters while flanked by Democratic Reps. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), Hakeem Jefferies (N.Y.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.), Val Demings (Fla.), and House Judiciary Commi…

Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response

foreignpolicy.com - When Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Wuhan coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern on Thursday, he praised…

Border restrictions intensify as coronavirus takes root around China and straddles globe

washingtonpost.com - A bus waits to transport Bangladeshi nationals evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan to a quarantine center in Dhaka on Saturday. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images) By Simon Denyer close Simon …

Trump Is Terrified Giuliani’s Ukraine Work Will Be Exposed

nymag.com - In May of 2019, President Trump held an Oval Office meeting in which he tried to enlist National Security Adviser John Bolton in his plot to enlist Ukraine to smear his domestic enemies. Trump told B…

The Senate Can Stop Pretending Now

newyorker.com - Just like that, at precisely 11 p.m. on Thursday, minutes after the end of the ninth day of the Senate trial of Donald John Trump, Senator Lamar Alexander ended it. In a statement tweeted out by his …

Rand Paul Outs Alleged Whistleblower to Spite John Roberts

vanityfair.com - Capped Medicaid payments would represent a radical departure in how the 55-year-old program is financed. The federal government has long provided open-ended matching funds to states.... Democrats are…

US Embassy Claims America, Not the Soviet Union, Liberated Auschwitz

mintpressnews.com - The United States Embassy in Denmark has apologized for a statement it made earlier this week that incorrectly claimed that it was American troops that liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration …

Dead on Arrival: Dissecting Trump’s Vision for the Future of Palestine

mintpressnews.com - Now that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has revealed the details of the so-called Deal of the Century, the only appropriate response is a bold, well-defined plan which offers a rea…

Wealthy Gulf States Plan to Spend Big to Coax Syria Away from Iran

mintpressnews.com - Since the dawn of the 2011 Syrian civil war, many aspects of the country’s political culture have been in flux. Yet a single doctrine has remained steadfast throughout that evolution: that Israel is …

‘We’ve pissed mother nature off, big time’: the people coming home after Australia's fires

theguardian.com - Gino McDonald, 61, builder (on left), and Patto McDonald, 56, artist, Upper Brogo Patto We were keeping an eye on the Fires Near Me app. By about lunchtime on New Year’s Eve we’d packed our daughter …

Trump acquittal 'meaningless' without witnesses: top Senate Democrat

news.yahoo.com - Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump's expected acquittal in his impeachment trial will be a hollow victory if the trial does not call any witnesses, top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said Fr…

As Coronavirus Spreads, So Do Misinformation and Xenophobia

undark.org - While containing the virus, which causes acute respiratory illness and has no known vaccine, has proved a formidable test for the Chinese government, the country’s swift response has drawn praise fro…

Of Two Minds - Second-Order Effects: The Unexpectedly Slippery Path to Dow 10,000

oftwominds.com - Dow 30,000 is "unsinkable," just like the Titanic. A recent Barrons cover celebrating the euphoric inevitability of Dow 30,000 captured the mainstream zeitgeist perfectly: Corporate America is firing…

ZeroHedge banned from Twitter after BuzzFeed accuses it of coronavirus conspiracy and ‘doxxing’ a Chinese scientist

rt.com - The site’s last tweet before the suspension referenced a paper by Indian scientists pointing to uncanny similarities between the 2019-nCoV virus and HIV, which internet researcher Christopher Torres …

'Really, Really Bad': Scientists Raise Alarm Over Warm Ocean Water Beneath 'Doomsday Glacier' in Antarctica

commondreams.org - A study by British and American scientists revealed that a massive sheet of ice known as the "doomsday glacier" is melting faster than experts previously believed—edging the world closer to a possibl…

Attorneys From Union-Busting Law Firms Are Throwing Support Behind Joe Biden

theintercept.com - In recent years, furniture retailer IKEA, Ivy League colleges, and Adecco, a staffing company that contracts labor to Google and other tech firms, have all brought in Jackson Lewis to assist in sabot…

Cadre of DNC Insiders Plot Return of Super Delegates to Stop Sanders at Convention

commondreams.org - As the first contests of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary draw near and Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to rise in polling, a small group of party insiders are considering making a bid to rever…

New York AG Preparing Case That Would Impose ‘Corporate Death’ On The Trump Organization

deepleftfield.info - Letitia James is the Attorney General for the state of New York, and that makes her one of the most powerful prosecutors in the country, especially since she’s making it clear that she intends to “us…

Texas Gets the Green Light to Limit Family Planning Services for Poor Women

theintercept.com - In late January, on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision marked its 47th anniversary, Texas got news from the federal government that it would be allowed to receiv…

America’s coronavirus: Containing the outbreak of Trumpism

intrepidreport.com - The epicenter of China’s coronavirus outbreak is widely thought to be a wet market in Wuhan. At such markets, seafood, chicken, and other conventional foodstuffs are on sale alongside live animals. Y…

Opinion | When the impeachment trial ends, the Senate’s reputation will be hopelessly in tatters

washingtonpost.com - By Ruth Marcus close Ruth Marcus Overseeing Washington Post signed opinion content and writing on domestic politics and policy Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Deputy editorial page editor January 31,…

How the Rich Plan to Rule a Burning Planet — Hampton Institute

hamptonthink.org - Originally published at Red Flag News. Republished from Monthly Review. The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extrem…

It’s Time to Admit That Half-Measures Can’t Stop Climate Change

theintercept.com - Germans have taken a different approach. Their climate debate may be better off for it. Carel Carlowitz Mohn leads a project called Klimafakten, or Climate Facts. Started up in the wake of the collap…

Bailing Out the Rich

economic-undertow.com - “You can’t have a liquidity crisis when the stock market is setting record highs for an entire week. Those two things just don’t correlate.” “You can’t have a liquidity crisis when the stock market i…

Opinion | The cringing abdication of Senate Republicans

washingtonpost.com - Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in Washington on Jan. 21. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) By Editorial Board January 31, 2020 at 5:50 PM EST REPUBLICAN SENATORS who voted Friday to suppress known bu…


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