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Biarritz in lockdown as G7 summit descends on French resort

www.theguardian.com- The French seaside resort of Biarritz is under lockdown by security forces ahead of the G7 summit, with more than 13,000 police as well as a special magistrates court set up to try anyone committing …

Trump retaliates in trade war by escalating tariffs on Chinese imports and demanding companies cut ties with China

www.washingtonpost.com - By Jeff Stein , Jeff Stein Economic policy reporter Email Bio Follow Taylor Telford , Taylor Telford Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow Gerry Shih and Gerry Shih China Corr…

Hong Kong: tens of thousands turn out to protest against new surveillance tactics

www.theguardian.com - Riot police have thrown teargas at thousands of protesters and beat many of them after a tense stand-off in Hong Kong. Tens of thousands of demonstrators were holding an anti-government rally on Satu…

GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon

theintercept.com - The crisis in the Amazon comes as Brazil is now governed by an administration openly hostile to environmental concerns and Indigenous communities. President Jair Bolsonaro, a former Army captain once…

Report Shows Corporations and Bolsonaro Teaming Up to Destroy the Amazon

www.mintpressnews.com - As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and busines…

GateHouse’s Takeover of Gannett: Bad News for Journalism and the Planet

fair.org - USA Today‘s “Just the FAQs” video (8/20/19) on the Amazon fires—which promises to explain, “How does this affect our planet?”—manages to avoid ever using the words “climate” or “global warming.” (The…

WaPo Complicit in Corruption of DC Council’s Corporate ‘Concierge’

fair.org - After years of hiding in plain sight, Jack Evans’ ethical problems are suddenly a story (WJLA, 3/5/19). When the FBI came knocking on DC Councilmember Jack Evans’ door in June, it set off an earthqua…

Trump talks about serving '14 more years' as president

news.yahoo.com - Donald Trump has again mused about serving more than the legal limit of two terms as US president, during an extraordinary back and forth with reporters outside the White House. “What they’re doing, …

Analysis | Trump is flailing to blame someone, anyone, for an economy he’s increasingly anxious about

www.washingtonpost.com - By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow August 23 at 1:31 PM ....My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?…

Unsealed Filings Detail Felix Sater’s Work as an Intelligence Asset, With Significant Gaps

theintercept.com - Felix Sater was among the most closely held secrets for federal prosecutors and investigators in New York for nearly a decade. Two documents unsealed today following a request by The Intercept reveal…

The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton Relationship

www.mintpressnews.com - On August 10th, and for several days after, speculation swirled after it was announced that Jeffrey Epstein had been found dead in his cell. His cause of death has officially been ruled suicide by ha…

'I hereby order': Trump mocked for highly formal, meaningless decree

www.theguardian.com - Leaning further into a burgeoning economic war with China of his own design, Donald Trump on Friday levied a series of bizarre demands of American companies who do business in the country. They inclu…

We'd Better Retreat from the Coasts While We Still Can, Scientists Urge Amid Climate Crisis

www.livescience.com - As many as 1 billion people are expected to be forced out of their homes by the droughts, floods, fires and famines associated with runaway climate change over the next 30 years — and they all have t…

Amazon deforestation is close to tipping point

phys.org - Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse…

Sydney's water supply falling at fastest rate on record due to drought

uk.reuters.com - SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia’s biggest city Sydney is running down its water supply at the fastest rate on record with dams expected to fall below half maximum capacity due to the worst drought on re…

Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe: Framers would tell us to impeach him right now

www.salon.com - In an effort to answer these questions and many others, I recently spoke with Laurence Tribe, a leading scholar of constitutional law and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. …

State Tax Breaks Rewarded Companies Connected to One Powerful Man. The Governor Just Killed Them — for Now. — ProPublica

www.propublica.org - This article was produced in partnership with WNYC, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProP…

If Property Rights Were Real, Climate-Destroying Companies Would Be Sued Out Of Existence | Current Affairs

www.currentaffairs.org - If I have a piece of property, and you damage my property, I can sue you. Tort law, which exists to compensate parties for harms, operates on fairly “conservative” premises: When your rights are infr…

The case for strategic and managed climate retreat

science.sciencemag.org - Faced with global warming, rising sea levels, and the climate-related extremes they intensify, the question is no longer whether some communities will retreat—moving people and assets out of harm's w…

Andrew Yang Was Absolutely Right That It's 'Too Late' Over Climate Change, NASA Scientist Says

nextshark.com - Scientists at NASA have just backed Andrew Yang on his dark but realistic climate change response from the second Democratic debate weeks ago. Immediately after the debate political pundits criticize…

From Flying Spiders to Global Warming, a Hymn for a Windswept Planet

undark.org - How easy it is to imagine weather as a force wholly imposed upon us. We shake our fists at rain on the day of an outing, at snow entombing our cars. The causes of that rain or snow are complex, invol…

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