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‘Investigate the investigators’ is new Trump rallying cry to counter Mueller report

www.washingtonpost.com - By Toluse Olorunnipa Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email Bio Follow May 4 at 4:15 PM For President Trump’s reelection effort, “Investigate the investigators!” is becoming the new “Lock her u…

A War Reporter Covers “The End of Ice” — And It Will Change the Way You Think About Climate Catastrophe

theintercept.com - Can you tell me about your trip to the Great Barrier Reef and what you saw there? There’s something to be said about the coral reef phenomenon in talking about climate change because it is one of the…

Russia FM Blasts US Illegal 'Methods of Blackmail' Against Cuba

www.telesurenglish.net - Russia’s Foreign Ministry urged the international community to unite in condemning the United States’s new anti-Cuban blockade measure, which came about after President Donald Trump lifted the waiver…

AOC Refuses To Condemn Venezuela Coup

www.telesurenglish.net - U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, has said she will follow the Democratic Party’s leadership in regards to Venezuela, and refused to back Presi…

Want to root out fake news? Leave it to the readers

news.mit.edu - Would you like to rid the internet of false political news stories and misinformation? Then consider using — yes — crowdsourcing. That's right. A new study co-authored by an MIT professor shows that …

Syrian, Iraqi Forces Conduct Joint Border Op Against ISIS

www.telesurenglish.net - The Syrian government forces and Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces have banned together to conduct a joint military operation along their shared border, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Frida…

US: Felony Charges Against Activist Protesting Arms Dealers

www.telesurenglish.net - A man in the United States is facing felony charges for spray painting ‘Yemen’ on the Palo Alto offices of arms manufacturers Lockheed Martin. The act was in protest of the U.S.-backed Saudi war in Y…

ALDI says all packaging will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025

www.treehugger.com - The supermarket chain is also taking a number of other steps to help combat the global plastics catastrophe. Sometimes when I am in a large supermarket I do a little thought experiment that goes like…

The Zombie Epocalypse: A River of Denial Floods Markets Everywhere

thegreatrecession.info - The highest summit of irrational exuberance ever, which is not even seen by those engaging in it, establishes the perfect peak for the greatest global economic collapse ever. Some days the level of d…

A user's guide to "Cultural Marxism": Anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, reloaded

www.salon.com - The family of the accused Poway Chabad terrorist was profoundly anguished and confused by what he had done. "Our sadness pales in comparison to the grief and anguish our son has caused for so many in…

Indonesia plans to move its capital from Jakarta. Here's why

www.cnbc.com - Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, is planning to move its capital away from Jakarta, which is suffering from severe congestion and is rapidly sinking. The country's president, Joko…

Our Towns: What Happens to Abandoned Malls?

www.theatlantic.com - Fort Wayne is the second-largest city in Indiana, after Indianapolis. On the I-69 route along which Deb and I traveled (with our colleagues from New America-Indianapolis and Indiana Humanities), it’s…

A Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci May Reveal Why He Never Finished the Mona Lisa

www.livescience.com - Later in his career, Leonardo da Vinci's ability to use his right hand appeared to be hampered — a problem long thought to have been caused by a stroke. But a new analysis suggests that it was nerve …

What Number of Kids Makes Parents Happiest?

www.theatlantic.com - A small example: Parents can read books to two children at once—this doesn’t “dilute” their limited time. A larger one: Instead of splitting up a fixed pile of cash, parents might start saving differ…

Hurricane Michael Unearths Evidence of Fort Occupied by Hundreds of Freed Slaves

www.livescience.com - Tangled up in the root balls of enormous trees toppled by Hurricane Michael, which ripped through Florida last October, was an archaeological treasure: ammunition and artifacts from Fort Gadsden, a s…

Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast that scientists are losing their equipment | CBC News

www.cbc.ca - Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is thawing so fast that it's gulping up the equipment left there to study it. "The ground thaws and swallows it," said Merritt Turetsky, a University o…

Diamonds: Tears of the Gods

blogs.scientificamerican.com - Humans have been captivated by diamonds, the planet's hardest natural material, for nearly five thousand years. In Egypt, they were incorporated into the ankh, symbolizing the sun. People in ancient …

Big Corporations Pay No Income Tax, Unlike You

www.strategic-culture.org - Telling you that Donald Trump lied, or that the one percent continue to succeed in their incessant class warfare, ranks in the astonishment department with being told the Sun rose in the east this mo…

Part 1. How long do civilizations last?

energyskeptic.com - This is most, but not all of Kemp’s BBC article, which you ought to read in its entirety at the link in the title below. I disagree with him when he says that: “The collapse of our civilization is no…

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