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US Latinx and low-income communities are paying human costs of plastic pollution
Jun 08, 2021 03:14Plastics are manufactured and often incinerated in the US communities where poor people and people of color are rarely consulted or alerted to the risks. Studies have shown how rampant the plastic crisis is, finding microplastics in deep sea animals, in fish, in bodies, and even in rain.
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Black Wall Street was shattered 100 years ago; how the Tulsa race massacre was covered up and unearthed
Jun 08, 2021 03:09The Tulsa race massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.
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US police are backing bills that make it easier to crush nonviolent protests (2)
Jun 06, 2021 03:44Following the global wave of demonstrations after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, Republican state legislatures mounted a counterattack, introducing a deluge of “anti-riot” bills designed to make it easier for law enforcement to clamp down on demonstrations perceived as disorderly.
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US support emboldens Bahraini regime to commit more crimes
Jun 05, 2021 03:32While the attention of the world is turned towards Palestine, Yemen, and other hotspots in West Asia, the repressive minority regime of the Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain ruthlessly continues its brutalities against the Bahrain people.
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Generation of US veterans left with ‘emptiness’ after slow end to failed war
Jun 03, 2021 14:08A generation of American veterans are living every day with the memories and the sense that they ultimately accomplished nothing.
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Joe Biden calls for US to confront its past on 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre
Jun 03, 2021 05:02US President Joe Biden has used the centenary of the Tulsa race massacre as a rallying cry for America to be honest about its history, insisting that great nations “come to terms with their dark sides”.
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Texas Democrats’ late-night walkout scuppers Republican efforts to restrict voting rights
Jun 03, 2021 04:58SB7 bill that would introduce restrictions making it harder to vote fails to pass before midnight deadline after US Democrats leave the House of Representatives.
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Joe Biden is filling top pentagon positions with defense contractors (1)
Jun 03, 2021 04:54Some of the US top Defense Department officials — including Defense Secretary nominee Lloyd Austin — have deep ties to the private sector.
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Washington march for Palestine demands Biden and congress 'hold Israeli regime accountable for its war crimes in Gaza'
Jun 02, 2021 15:48Members of more than 100 Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim groups joined other critics of the Israeli regime's recent bombardment of Gaza in Washington, D.C. recently to hold a march for Palestine urging U.S. President Joe Biden and Congress to hold the Israeli regime “accountable for its war crimes."
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US is chasing China’s tail on 5G
Jun 02, 2021 15:45China opened its first 5G-enabled fully-automated port a year ago in Xiamen, with automated cranes stacking containers on driverless trucks. Shanghai’s Yangshan Port began fully automated, 24-hour operations in August 2020. In late 2020, Shandong Energy Group began operations at an automated coal mine controlled by a 5G network.