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23 August 2019

The US Is Set To Drown The World In Oil
Earlier this year, we crunched the numbers from the latest climate science and industry forecasts and found that we can’t afford to drill up any oil...

What It’s Like To Grow Up Hunted
When I was just 10, I already knew what it was like to plan for a future without my parents. It was a quiet Sunday night when my dad told me to hide...

Open Borders: A Progressive Response To The Immigration Crisis
People migrate from one place to another for a variety of reasons. A good part of that migration has to do with international relations, national...

‘This Illegal And Dangerous Pipeline Must Be Shut Down’: Standing Rock Sioux Renew The Fight Against The DAPL
The media may have forgotten the ferocious battle the Standing Rock water protectors fought against the Dakota Access Pipeline but that doesn’t mean...

Columbia Gas Denied Right To Take Public Land For Potomac Pipeline
A federal court judge today denied Columbia Gas the right to move forward with construction of a gas pipeline through public land in Washington...

Women Protest Raping Spree By Burning Police Station In Mexico
About two thousand people, mostly young women (many of whom identify themselves as anarcofeministas), marched and rampaged through the Zona Rosa...

The Rise And Fall Of Nicaragua’s ‘Human Rights’ Organizations
When political conflict results in people being killed – especially at the hands of a government – the deaths are not just personal tragedies, they...
23 August 2019
- Macron posts Amazon fire photo that’s not from this year, gets torched by Brazil’s Bolsonaro
  Across social media, people are sharing images of fires raging through the Amazon rainforest accompanied by cries for immediate action from world leaders. Emmanuel Macron answered, but with a misleading, old photo.
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- Kids as young as FOUR caught carrying knives at UK schools
  A four-year-old was among more than 1,000 children caught in possession of a blade at school last year, with one child threatening a teacher that they were going to stab and kill them, according to Freedom of Information requests.
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- Putin orders ‘exhaustive’ response to US missile test, says it shows Washington worked to breach INF
  The Russian Armed Forces will scrutinize a recent cruise missile test, conducted by the US after ditching the landmark INF Treaty, and examine reciprocal measures. However, Moscow says it is not aiming for an arms race.
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- WATCH: Plane cabin fills with smoke moments before emergency landing
  Horrified passengers of Hawaiian Airlines were lucky to escape disaster after their cabin filled with smoke during a flight to Honolulu on Thursday. Their plane made an emergency landing before the crew evacuated all on board.
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- Oops! Turboprop plane hits 4 Hornet jets amid bumpy landing on USS Abraham Lincoln (VIDEO)
  A botched landing saw an early warning aircraft ram into two F/A-18 Hornet jets on an aircraft carrier deck and take out two other planes by sending debris into them, the US Navy has said.
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- Earth’s final frontier: Russia's floating nuclear power plant leaves for new Arctic home
  The world’s first floating nuclear power plant (NPP), designed and built by Russia, is set to start its trip across the Arctic to its ‘workplace’ in the Chukotka Region and will provide Russia’s remote areas with heat and energy.
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- Free speech v free enterprise? Lawsuit over big tech censorship strikes at core of American values
  A looming court battle over social media censorship challenges America’s dual devotion to free speech and free enterprise, an analyst told RT, arguing that popular platforms like Facebook have essentially become public utilities.
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23 August 2019
- Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, but at What Price?
  
  With Jewish settlers dictating the political agenda in Israel, and constantly provoking Palestinians in the Occupied
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- With Trump’s Help, Israel Chooses Short-Term Land Grabs Over Long-Term Legitimacy
  
  As Israel prepares for another round of elections, the Trump administration seems poised to give Prime Minister Benjamin
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- US Trained Honduran Police Get Medieval as Political Prisoner Edwin Espinal Released
  
  The Honduran corruption canard keeps the focus on police resources and individuals rather than on the pangs of privatization,
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- Aloha from Dr. Martin Luther King and Tulsi Gabbard
  
  “Aloha,” says Gabbard, “is a powerful force that motivates us to take action for the well-being of others and our country.”
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- Manifestos of Hate: What White Terrorists Have in Common
  
  Crusius, Tarrant and many such white terrorists are connected through a deep bond that exceeds the supposed claim of mental
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- Conspiracy Theories: Jeffrey Epstein’s Uniquely American Death in Jail
  
  There does not have to be a conspiracy for people to be permitted space to grapple with this outcome in the context of a
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- Saudi, UAE Proxies Clash in Southern Yemen, as UAE Plots Partition
  
  At least 2,400 citizens have been forcibly expelled from Aden, while over 1,600 shops have been burned and damaged, more than
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23 August 2019

23 August 2019