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Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates freedom of expression, constitutional court rules

haaretz.com - The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a block on access to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia within Turkey is a violation of freedom of expression, the Haberturk news website reported.…

In Trump Country, a season of need on family farms

washingtonpost.com - Anne Lee mucks out the main dairy barn Dec. 4 during nightly chores at the Lee family's farm in Berkshire, N.Y. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) By Annie Gowen close Annie Gowen National corr…

Quake strikes near Iran nuclear power plant

news.yahoo.com - Map of Iran locating a 5.1-magnitude earthquake on Friday (AFP Photo/) Tehran (AFP) - An earthquake struck Iran on Friday less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the country's only nuclear power plan…

Michael Bloomberg’s Blatant Lies About Terrorism Show That He’s a Mainstream Politician

theintercept.com - On the evening of May 1, 2010, a Nissan Pathfinder SUV filled with fertilizer and propane was discovered in New York City’s Times Square. If it had exploded, it could have killed dozens or even hundr…

Of Two Minds - A "Market" Crash Is Baked In--Here's Why

oftwominds.com - Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed "market" as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in. The last thing punters and p…

Trump Spends Morning Rage-Tweeting About Impeachment; Still Not Worried Though

theroot.com - The morning after Christmas is typically a nice one for me. I spent mine playing some of the games I copped on Xbox over Christmas, eating leftovers and chilling with my dog. It was a pleasant mornin…

Home Alone 2: Donald Trump scene cut in Canada, angering supporters

theguardian.com - Canada’s national broadcaster has riled Donald Trump’s conservative base by airing Christmas movie favourite Home Alone 2 without a scene involving the president. The Canadian Broadcasting Company (C…

Public support for Trump conviction at all-time high, poll finds

news.yahoo.com - Public support for Donald Trump‘s removal from office is the highest it has ever been, according to a new poll. Fifty-five per cent of those asked said they were in favour of the US president’s convi…

Trump Won’t Say Whether Putin Swayed His View on Ukraine Interference in 2016

nymag.com - For a president who frequently has days in which no public events are scheduled, Trump had a fairly busy Christmas holiday, issuing a morning call for unity followed by an attack on Nancy Pelosi in t…

For Latin American Environmentalists, Looming Threats of Violence

undark.org - In 2008, Mexican activist Mariano Abarca was assaulted by employees of a Canadian mining company, Blackfire Exploration, at his home in Chicomuselo, a municipality in the state of Chiapas near Mexico…

President Trump’s Dream Is to Become America’s Viktor Orbán

nymag.com - For several years, Hungary has been the name American liberal intellectuals have given to their worst domestic nightmares. Hungary’s president, Viktor Orbán, has fashioned an apparently permanent maj…

Opinion | Big Money and America’s Lost Decade

nytimes.com - Unemployment in the United States is currently at a historical low, just 3.5 percent — and we’re achieving that low unemployment without any sign of runaway inflation, which tells us that we were cap…

How Turkey Defied the U.S. and Became a Killer Drone Power

theintercept.com - Finding oneself in the crosshairs of a military drone is, for most people, not the most comforting situation. Yet at an air show last fall, tens of thousands of people had a different reaction. A mil…

U.S. Cybercom contemplates information warfare to counter Russian interference in 2020 election

washingtonpost.com - Gen. Paul Nakasone, then a lieutenant general, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) By Ellen Nakashima close Ellen Nakashima National security reporter Email…

Refugees a Burden? Trump Says Yes; Research Says Otherwise

undark.org - When war hit close to home, Veronica Mesiko Simon grabbed a few dishes and a bundle of clothes. With a load on her head, six kids and a mother in tow, she ran for the Ugandan border, six miles away f…

Kremlin Expert: Lindsey Graham Is Being Blackmailed By Vladimir Putin

deepleftfield.info - There was a time not so long ago when Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was one of the sharpest critics of Donald Trump. When others were only too happy to carry water for the Trump administration, Graha…

A decade ago, the US was promised high-speed rail—so where is it?

qz.com - In 2009, US train enthusiasts received some of the best news since 1886, the year the country finally agreed to use the same rail gauge nationwide. US president Barack Obama had a plan to revitalize …

We Can’t Find One Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to Dinner

theintercept.com - Well, OK. Mark is probably sensitive to the privacy of his left-wing dinner companions and doesn’t want to mention them without checking first. But we can assume that Mark’s been getting together wit…

One of the nation’s biggest school systems will let students take time off to protest. The conservative backlash has begun.

washingtonpost.com - Students — many of them high school-age — gather in the District to protest during a global climate strike held Sept. 20. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post) By Hannah Natanson close Hannah Nata…

Why robot traders haven’t replaced all the humans at the New York Stock Exchange—yet

qz.com - As in so many other industries, robots have been marching into Wall Street for years. That’s especially the case in stock trading, where algorithms now do the majority of buying and selling. Instead …

Revealed: microplastic pollution is raining down on city dwellers

theguardian.com - Microplastic pollution is raining down on city dwellers, with research revealing that London has the highest levels yet recorded. The health impacts of breathing or consuming the tiny plastic particl…

Dozens survive Kazakhstan plane crash

bbc.com - A passenger jet has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 people but leaving dozens of survivors. The Bek Air plane was flying from Almaty - Kazakhstan's largest city - to the capital Nur-Sultan…

US hardliners want Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning crucified

intrepidreport.com - Mass incarceration in the US is a national disgrace, a crime against humanity, including countless numbers of political prisoners—persecuted behind bars for their beliefs and activism, for resisting …

Two huge suppressed news reports in a 3-day period reveal corrupt U.S. & allied mainstream press

intrepidreport.com - On Friday, December 12, Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept reported and documented that the mainstream U.S. press has lied through its teeth about “Russiagate,” and Zero Hedge reported and documented t…

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