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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/29
« Reply #540 on: December 29, 2019, 09:13:32 am »

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Hanukah stabbings: five hurt in Monsey, New York state

theguardian.com - An attacker has stabbed five people during Hanukah festivities at a rabbi’s home in New York state. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council said an attacker wearing a scarf fled after stabbing the…

2019, The Year Trump Made a Hash of U.S. Foreign Policy | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - End of year proves a good platform for looking back to sum up administration achievements or missteps over the year, as well as how certain we are about the directions in which our nation is moving. …

Victoria bushfires: thousands told to evacuate vast east Gippsland fire threat zone

theguardian.com - Victorian authorities have told thousands of visitors and residents in East Gippsland – an area half the size of Belgium – to leave immediately as a bushfire threat looms. The emergency management co…

Russia and Ukraine in controversial prisoner swap

bbc.com - Russia and Ukraine have begun the final phase of a long-awaited prisoner exchange, the office of the Ukrainian president said on Sunday. Authorities agreed to the swap - aimed at improving relations …

Kim Jong-un Is Plotting a Not So Happy New Year

nymag.com - Kim Jong-un is back, with all the subtlety of a Christmas tree lighting, to let us know that he and his nuclear weapons are planning to take another turn in the spotlight in 2020. While we were focus…

Trump retweets a post naming the alleged whistleblower

washingtonpost.com - Trump attends a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Andrew Harnik/AP) By Colby Itkowitz close Colby Itkowitz Congress, campai…

Beware Of Anonymous Republicans 'Concerned' About McConnell's Impeachment Plans

crooksandliars.com - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced that he is “not an impartial juror” and pledged to conduct an impeachment trial of Donald Trump in “total coordination” with the White House. McCo…

Several killed & injured as blast hits military graduation parade in Yemen

rt.com - An explosion occurred in the middle of a military graduation parade in the south of Yemen on Sunday, leaving several people dead and wounded. An explosive device was activated near a guest platform a…

On land, Australia’s rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it’s worse.

washingtonpost.com - 2°C: Beyond the limit 2°C: Beyond the limit On land, Australia’s rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it’s worse. By Darryl Fears Darryl Fears Reporter focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and issue…

Ex-Christian publication editor who quit says he had 'no other choice' after pro-Trump editorial

cnn.com - Washington (CNN)A former editor for The Christian Post said Thursday he had "no other choice" but to resign from his job after the Christian news website issued a strong editorial supporting Presiden…

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd - PressThink

pressthink.org - ‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press. Its contents were explosive, embarras…

Dispatches From The Kwanzaa Kid: How I Killed the Kwanzaa Carol

theroot.com - If I’m ever sent to prison on charges of first-degree blackness or mayonnaise-related hate speech, I will probably have to do my time in solitary confinement. I’m pretty sure there are prison gangs t…

Fed study: Trump tariffs backfired, caused job losses and higher prices

thehill.com - President TrumpDonald John TrumpLA Times editorial board torches Trump on climate Spotify to pause the selling of political advertising Fed study: Trump tariffs backfired, caused job losses and highe…

Climate Change, Migration, and Militarization in Arizona’s Borderlands

theintercept.com - Imagine a sensation akin to sticking your face in a furnace, except the furnace is everywhere and you are walking through it. The air is not just hot. It actually burns against your eyeballs. Every s…

Peter Thiel’s Palantir Was Used to Bust Relatives of Migrant Children, New Documents Show

theintercept.com - A May 2017 ICE document on an impending “Unaccompanied Alien Children Human Smuggling Disruption Initiative,” characterized as “a joint effort of ERO and HSI,” makes explicit the fact that ERO used P…

A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

theintercept.com - Today, The Intercept launches “A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a seven-minute film narrated by the congresswoman and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades …

The Citizens United ruling broke American democracy at the start of the decade. It never recovered

salon.com - The election of President Donald Trump will likely define this decade, but the breakdown in our political system which sowed deeper partisan divisions and ultimately paved the way for his White House…

2020: who and what to look out for

theguardian.com - The rancour over Brexit has been cruel to the restaurant sector. A weakening pound has made ingredients more expensive, while mixed messages on residency rights for EU citizens has caused myriad prob…

Over 1,000 experts call for global action on 'depleting' groundwater

telegraphindia.com - Nearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and nongovernmental agencies to "act now" to ensure global ground…

'World's oldest rhino' dies aged 57

bbc.com - A rhino thought to be the oldest in the world has died in Tanzania, aged 57. Fausta, an eastern black rhino, was first sighted in the Ngorongoro crater in 1965, when she was three. She roamed the cra…

When crowds toppled communism's house of cards

bbc.com - When the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe collapsed in the final months of 1989, I was sent to report on each of the revolutions that took place in the space of only six weeks: the fall of the Berlin …

You Can Have Means Testing or You Can Have Democracy

jacobinmag.com - A few weeks ago, I made my way through Soldiers to Citizens, a 2005 book by the political scientist Suzanne Mettler. Ostensibly a history of the GI Bill, the work is part of a burgeoning scholarly fi…

How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World

theintercept.com - The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and outfitted with triangular white teeth and a “feed …

Neoliberal economics destroyed the economy and the middle class

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From Socialism to Populism and Back

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Why Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims?

theintercept.com - It’s been described as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a million or more Uighur Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. The Chine…

X is for Extinction Rebellion: the insurgent climate movement that went mainstream

newstatesman.com - When Extinction Rebellion (XR) blockaded central London in April 2018, the movement seemed to have come from nowhere. Protesters assembled a fuschia boat in the centre of Oxford Circus and organised …


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