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Democrats cave in secret budget deal with Trump
Dec 28, 2019 08:54While attention was focused on the House of Representatives’ impeachment of Donald J. Trump, legislators from both parties were secretly huddling with White House aides to seal a $1.4 trillion budget deal to fund the government until next September. They were rushing to do this to avoid a partial government shutdown starting December 21, 2019.
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Saudi coalition is creating a living nightmare for African migrants in Yemen
Dec 28, 2019 08:42In Southeastern Yemen, a region under the total control of Saudi and Emirati occupation forces, African migrants face extreme risks and serious human rights violations including torture, extortion, and sexual and physical abuse.
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange “slowly dies” in prison
Dec 28, 2019 08:37WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange originally worked with The Guardian to publish high-profile leaked documents. Yet the British newspaper later turned on him, publishing a series of questionable news reports about him that helped lay the groundwork for his arrest and imprisonment.
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The Afghanistan Papers give Trump what he needs to bring the troops home
Dec 27, 2019 10:37Over the next few months, 4,000 US troops will reportedly begin a phased drawdown from Afghanistan. That’s certainly a step in the right direction, but it still leaves 8,000-9,000 troops in harm’s way for no real reason.
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Trump's Impeachment & its impact on the US political Scene
Dec 27, 2019 10:31The recent impeachment of the controversial US president, Donald Trump, by the Democrats, who form the majority in the House of Representatives, is bound to have far reaching consequences for the American political landscape, whether or not Trump is absolved next month by the Senate, where his Republican Party holds the majority.
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We must address the roots of inequality to keep It from killing us
Dec 27, 2019 09:52The latest evidence shows that life expectancy in the U.S. actually declined in the last three years to 78.9 years after decades of uninterrupted increases. Diving into the life expectancy in cities, the story deepens. At the city level, life expectancy varies from a low of 71.4 years in Gary, Indiana, to a high of 84.7 in Newton, Massachusetts — a gap of more than 13 years. These gaps are generated and maintained by the structural and social determinants of health.
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Why we persist: Activists have protested US drone base for over a decade
Dec 26, 2019 16:54“Reaper terror, first under Bush, increasingly under Obama, then far more under Trump, keeps escalating. We may never know if our efforts somehow slow the pace. But we do know that here in our backyard, if we don’t stand up and speak out against war crimes, it’s unlikely anyone else will. And we know that if no one speaks out, the Pentagon will keep operating as if it has a popular mandate to keep up the killing. So we persist”, says Ed Kinane, cofounder of the Upstate Drone Action Coalition.
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Public housing has been woefully underfunded in US
Dec 26, 2019 16:51"Public housing has been utterly neglected, underfunded and politically demonized for decades. It’s faced attacks beginning with Richard Nixon and continuing through the Bill Clinton-era, with the creation of the draconian Faircloth Limit", says Alexis Goldstein, former Wall Street professional who now works on financial policy in an article published in the Truthout website under the heading: Public Housing Has Been Woefully Underfunded in US.
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Climate crisis threatens a third of plant species, endangering food supply
Dec 26, 2019 05:01"Botanists have made a new census of terrestrial plants — only to find that with nearly 40% of them rare, or extremely rare, this may put food at risk", says Tim Radford, environmental activist in an article published in the Truthout website under the heading: “Climate crisis threatens a third of plant species, endangering food supply.”
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5G won’t give you cancer, but it is messing up weather reports
Dec 26, 2019 04:54Both 5G and weather monitoring rely on the electromagnetic spectrum to work. If 5G encroaches into the space the weather satellites need to work then it creates an interference that blinds weather monitoring systems.