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Perspective | Tiptoeing around Trump’s racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling

www.washingtonpost.com - By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist July 15 at 11:43 AM Long before Donald Trump ran for president, an inside-journalism battle was raging over the…

Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is

www.theatlantic.com - In a country whose founding documents declare that all are created equal, views like those held by the president create cognitive dissonance. How can anyone lay claim to the American creed while excl…

Trump says they ‘hate our country.’ The Democrats he attacked say the country ‘belongs to everyone.’

www.washingtonpost.com - By Ashley Parker , Ashley Parker White House reporter Email Bio Follow Rachael Bade and Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post…

Trump Seeks to Shut Down Asylum at Southern Border

foreignpolicy.com - Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: the Trump administration moves to constrain asylum seekers, Erdogan pledges S-400 missile system will be operational by April 2020, and China‘s economy grows at …

Labor Advocates Call for Prime Day Boycott as Amazon Workers Walk Out

www.commondreams.org - As Amazon encourages consumers to buy discounted items during the tech giant's 48-hour "Prime Day" sale, labor rights advocates are urging support instead for warehouse employees who plan to stage th…

Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its Technology

theintercept.com - Dalton’s emails distinguish between analyzing data and merely capturing it but suggest that Perceptics could be in the business of both. In response to the suggestion by an industry colleague that th…

Acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services chief says he does not know details of ICE raids

www.cnn.com - Washington (CNN)Acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli said Monday he did not know the details of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids

Exclusive- Libya: CIA Supplements Haftar with the Best Weapons Black-Market Has to Offer!!

www.newsbud.com - Last month, the UN-recognized Government of National Accord under Fayez al-Sarraj busted a cache of FGM-148 Javelin portable anti-tank missiles from France in a rebel camp headed by Khalifa Haftar. A…

Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here's How

gizmodo.com - Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple move more money than many medium-sized nations. Their extraordinary profits are won through extraordinary reach—this is not a secret. That a few compani…

Adam Schiff finds massive Russian money trail to Trump: "This should concern all Americans"

dcbluedot.com - As congressional hearings reveal more and more about just how deep Donald Trump’s and his team’s connections to Russia really go, a Reuters report has found that at least 63 individuals of what they …

Two million in Zimbabwe's capital have no water as city turns off taps

www.climatechangenews.com - More than two million residents around Zimbabwe’s capital have no access to running water, as drought and breakdowns push the city system to collapse. Just 50% of 4.5 million people in Harare and fou…

A Long Shadow Creeps over the Economy This Summer

thegreatrecession.info - It’s time to turn around and see the darkness that the Fed sees looming over you. Earnings season is already extending signs of recession with the first corporate reports coming in far darker than ex…

In divided Alaska, the choice is between paying for government or giving residents bigger oil wealth checks

theconversation.com - Alaskans will soon confront the dramatic effects of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes of US$444 million from the state operating budget of $8.3 billion, which went into effect July 1. The Alaska…

Smart phones have replaced entire rooms worth of stuff

www.treehugger.com - It's what we have called dematerialization, as all that is solid melts into apps. In 2014 we wrote Why Radio Shack is dying: Nobody needs what it sells anymore. and noted that every

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World

www.adbusters.org - ‘It was a bad time to be alive,’ Steve Brusatte tells us. A comet or asteroid about six miles across had just collided with the Earth, in the area we know as the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The spee…

50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the ‘moon hoax’

www.washingtonpost.com - Apollo 12 mission Commander Charles P. “Pete” Conrad was the third astronaut to walk on the moon. The moon ho

Australia's Orwellian anti-refugee system hints at what's to come for climate refugees | Jeff Sparrow

www.theguardian.com - If you want to imagine the politics of the future, think about climate refugees. This week the ABC published internal briefing notes from the Australian Defence Force warning about huge population fl…

Baltimore Police Tried to Kill Keith Davis Jr. Prosecutors Have Been Trying to Convict Him of Murder Ever Since.

theintercept.com - But Gutierrez’s story had holes. “His testimony was that Keith came to his cell and bought alcohol and randomly had this conversation with him, and it seemed kind of funky,” Latoya Francis-Williams, …

Croatian police use violence to push back migrants, president admits

www.theguardian.com - After months of official denials, Croatia’s president has admitted that the country’s police are involved in the violent pushbacks of migrants and asylum seekers apprehended inside the country. The b…

The big fashion fight: can we remove all the toxic, invisible plastic from our clothes?

www.theguardian.com - It was probably the only time a 93-year-old has stolen the show at Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage. Sir David Attenborough had important things to say when he warmed up for Kylie Minogue last month. Afte…

Charts Suggest the Dow Index Is Being Painted to Get “New Highs” in the Market

wallstreetonparade.com - What we need today is a real life character like Vinny Gambini in the movie My Cousin Vinny to take over the questioning for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee – like Ferdinand Pecora did in the early…

Revenge of the Power Grid

www.theatlantic.com - A quick primer on how electricity works: First, power plants create it, mostly by burning fuel (or smashing atoms) that heats water to make steam that spins a turbine. (Hydroelectric generators harne…

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