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Spain battles biggest wildfires in 20 years as heatwave grips Europe

www.theguardian.com- Firefighters battled wildfires at a scale not seen for 20 years in Spain and southern France was placed on unprecedented red alert as much of western Europe sweltered in an extreme early-summer heatw…

Racist Immigration Chief Blames Drowned Father For His Child's Death

splinternews.com - The Trump administration has always eagerly blamed the deaths of immigrants desperate to the flee conditions of their home countries on themselves, and Ken Cuccinelli has fallen right in line. Speaki…

Trump to allow U.S. firms to sell technology to Huawei and promises farmers they would win from new talks, in wide-ranging news conference

www.washingtonpost.com - By Damian Paletta , Damian Paletta Reporter covering economic policy Email Bio Follow David Nakamura and David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Simon Denyer Simon Denyer To…

Do newspaper presidential endorsements matter anymore?

bigthink.com - Consider it; it's kind of weird that newspapers endorse candidates at all. The rest of the time they report the news and maybe print a few opinion pieces, all the time claiming objectivity and neutra…

Political Ploy by Mitch McConnell Blocks Attempt to Stop War With Iran

theintercept.com - Senate Republicans narrowly defeated an amendment Friday that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to attack Iran without congressional approval. The 50-40 vote gave the measure a majo…

Joe Biden's harsh lesson: when you're on top, the only way to go is down | Nathan Robinson

www.theguardian.com - The Democratic presidential field is currently so crowded with candidates that it is difficult for televised debates to be anything but a frenzied spectacle. Thursday night’s debate in Miami wasn’t e…

No, the census has never been delayed. Even when it was really hard to conduct.

www.washingtonpost.com - A census worker collects information in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1940. (Dwight Hammack/U.S. Census Bureau/FDR Presidential Library) By Gillian Brockell Gillian Brockell Staff writer for Retropolis Email…

Average Age of Vehicles Sets Record, New-Vehicle Sales Drop to Where They Were 20 Years Ago. What Are Automakers Doing?

wolfstreet.com - The average age of passenger cars and trucks on the road in the US ticked up again in 2019, to another record of 11.8 years, IHS Markit reported today. When I entered the car business in 1985, the av…

“Schumer F--ked Us”: Progressives Rage at Leadership Over Border Bill

www.vanityfair.com - Progressive concerns that the Trump administration cannot be trusted with the funding are not unfounded. On Thursday Vice President Pence and Pelosi reportedly struck a handshake agreement on the 90-…

Single Topic Debates

splinternews.com - If there was one thing we learned from watching 20 candidates debate for four hours, it is: that’s too many candidates. If there is a useful thing we learned, however, it is this: We should be holdin…

In Chennai Water Crisis, Climate Change and Mismanagement to Blame

undark.org - Indian women with empty plastic pots protest as they demand drinking water in Chennai on June 22, 2019. Chennai — India’s sixth largest city — is running out of water. A combination of climate change…

Concentration Camps Made In The USA, The Battle To Ban Poisons & Police Artillery

popularresistance.org - Legal wins against herbicides and pesticides are often just the beginning of more battles – and could fall short of the necessary change to protect our land and our soil. Next, the number of refugees…

Putin, With Whom Trump Joked About 'Fake News,' Has Seen 42 Journalists Killed During His Reign

www.mediaite.com - President Donald Trump joked about “fake news” journalists with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who leads a country where more than two dozen reporters have been murdered since Putin first came to …

For Its 150th Birthday, Goldman Gives Itself a 150-Minute Miniseries

www.vanityfair.com - To be expected, I guess, along with the bits of introspection, there are also moments of craven sycophancy. These are most often delivered by three supposedly objective outsiders, whom Burns—no doubt…

Older American Descend Into Retirement Without A Golden Parachute

www.occupy.com - When Social Security was first introduced in the United States in the 1930s, it fundamentally altered life experiences for millions of retirees, even though life expectancy at the time was only aroun…

At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor

www.theatlantic.com - In the faint predawn light, the ship doesn’t look unusual. It is one more silhouette looming pier-side at Naval Base San Diego, a home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. And the scene playing out in its…

Humans destroyed 10% of wilderness in just 25 years

energyskeptic.com - Preface. Humans are destroying the wilderness so quickly there it could mostly disappear in less than a century. Since 1993 the world lost an area twice the size of Alaska. So kiss biodiversity, carb…

Why We Still Need A Movement To Keep Youth From Joining The Military

popularresistance.org - Above Photo: From Nnomypeace.net Elizabeth King, In These Times – Eighteen is the youngest age at which someone can join the U.S. military without their parents’ permission, yet the military markets …

Empathy is the secret ingredient that makes cooperation – and civilization – possible

theconversation.com - Human societies are so prosperous mostly because of how altruistic we are. Unlike other animals, people cooperate even with complete strangers. We share knowledge on Wikipedia, we show up to vote, an…

Opinion - Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil

www.informationclearinghouse.info - The truth is that all of American foreign policy during the upcoming year will be designed to pander to certain constituencies that will be crucial to the 2020 presidential election. One can bank on …

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