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Breakdown of Safety Is Not Unique to Boeing — It’s Endemic to Capitalist Society
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Heads are rolling at Boeing, but new leadership doesn’t alter the labor conditions and profit motives that erode safety.
China’s short video and live streaming sector still growing, with more than 15 million hosts, as online shopping fuels demand
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Xinmei Shen
Publish date: Thursday, March 28th, 2024
That expansion shows how short video and live-streaming campaigns have boosted online retail sales on the mainland.
Hong Kong’s No 2 official says no foreign officials or businesspeople raised domestic national security law concerns at international forum
Source: News - South China Morning Post
William Yiu
Publish date: Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Chief Secretary Eric Chan says overseas officials and business figures ‘must welcome’ domestic national security legislation after ‘no one raised issue’ at international conference.
Ukraine war: Russia’s Putin says nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets won’t change things on battlefield
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Reuters
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
The Russian president told military pilots that the fighters would be legitimate targets, wherever they might be.
‘Free Speech’ Fan Elon Musk Enlists State Allies to Silence Critics
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024

Elon Musk has tried to use his wealth to crush free speech. Now his friends in government are joining his efforts to silence critics.

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Missing, presumed dead workers from Key Bridge weren’t informed of mayday call
Source: The Real News
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
The remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore. Photo by Michael A. McCoy for The Washington Post via Getty Images
Six workers are still missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed on March 26. A source tells The Real News the missing men were not made aware of the Dali's mayday call.
RNC Is Demanding New Job Applicants Say Whether 2020 Election Was “Stolen”
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
"Donald Trump is demanding fealty to his extreme, anti-democratic beliefs," a Biden campaign spokesperson said.
GLAAD, Media Matters Call Out NYT for Excluding Transgender Voices
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Research reveals The New York Times excluded transgender voices in 66 percent of its trans issue coverage.
Ex-Fossil Fuel Regulator Appointed by Trump Joins Carbon Capture Firm
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Neil Chatterjee’s career move reflects the revolving door between government and industry.
Dem Marilyn Lands Wins Alabama Special Election Using Abortion Rights Message
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
"Our legislature must repeal Alabama’s no-exceptions abortion ban," Lands said in her special election victory speech.
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Sheds Light on Dangers Faced by Many Immigrant Workers
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Six people are missing and presumed dead after a cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning.
State Department Official Resigns Over Biden Gaza Policy
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
“Trying to advocate for human rights just became impossible,” Foreign Affairs Officer Annelle Sheline said.
Trump Is Turning the January 6 Coup Leaders Into Fascist Martyrs
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Trump’s heroization of those who led the attack on the Capitol is eerily similar to tactics used by Hitler in 1923.
Supreme Court Justices Indicate They Probably Won’t Limit Access to Mifepristone
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Two conservative justices seemed to give anti-abortion activists a blueprint for challenging the drug in the future.
Xi Jinping tells US delegation China’s economy is ‘sound and sustainable’
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Kawala Xie
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Chinese leader also promises more policy support to build ‘first-class business environment’ in meeting with executives and academics.
Angel Reese, Brittney Griner, and the politics of race and gender
Source: The Real News
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Angel Reese of LSU in action during a NCAA Women's Basketball game between LSU and Coppin State at the Coppin State, Physical Education Complex, Baltimore on December 20th, 2023. Photo by Simon Bruty for The Washington Post via Getty Images
The media moments surrounding these two athletes offer insights into the turbulent politics of race and gender.
Philly’s Law-and-Order Policy Worsens Overdose Crisis and Hinders Harm Reduction
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
The crisis in the Kensington neighborhood is the result of enforced deprivation and neglect of the people by the state.
Trump Tax Cuts May Have Contributed to Decline in Donations to Higher Ed
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Individual donations declined by about 4 percent two years after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law.
Xi Jinping warns Dutch leader Mark Rutte not to put up barriers after ban on chip technology exports to China
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Orange Wang
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Xi told the outgoing Dutch prime minister that ‘ fragmenting industrial and supply chains will only lead to division and confrontation’
Apple’s iPhone shipments slumped in February, highlighting why CEO Tim Cook went on a charm offensive in China
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Kelly Le
Publish date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
iPhone shipments in China fell by about one third in February from a year ago, according to official state data, a sign that the US tech giant is losing ground to local brands in the world’s No 2 economy.
Hong Kong student sentenced to 8 weeks in jail for making fake withdrawal applications in organ donation system
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Fiona Chow
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Wong Tsz-shing made false withdrawal applications amid wave of requests in city’s organ donation system after cross-border matching system announced last year.
Malaysia swelters under worsening heatwave as temperatures near 40 degrees
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Bloomberg
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Singapore is also reeling from the heat with temperatures over 36 degrees recorded in some parts of the city state in recent days.
Trump Says Conviction Will Make Him More Popular. Polls Say Otherwise.
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Poll after poll demonstrates that a criminal conviction between now and November makes Trump less popular.
Honduran narcodictator convicted, but ‘no accountability for the US role’
Source: The Real News
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez gives instructions to an army colonel, after delivering a speech during the eighth anniversary of the Military Police of Public Order (PMOP) in Tegucigalpa, on August 24, 2021. Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images
Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been convicted of drug trafficking charges by a US court—but Washington’s role in propping him up has yet to be accounted for.
‘In Even the Best Coverage There Is No Accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry’CounterSpin interview with Evlondo Cooper on climate coverage
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

"It doesn't have to be about just showing the destruction and carnage. There are ways that you can empower people to take action."

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Washington State Enacts Comprehensive Worker Protections for Strip Club Dancers
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
"This is a beautiful step towards decriminalization and a huge show of stripper solidarity,” one activist said.
Experts Back Mexico’s Ban on Genetically Modified Corn Amid US Trade Dispute
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
The Biden administration is challenging the ban in a dispute settlement panel under a North American trade deal.
Public Health Advocates Decry CDC’s Weakened Pandemic Guidelines
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Critics say the changes are not backed by evidence and put more people at risk for long COVID.
White House Wants $895 Billion for Pentagon and Nukes in Fiscal Year 2025
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
After adjusting for inflation, that’s only slightly less than last year’s proposal, but far higher than Cold War levels.
If Supreme Court Restricts Abortion Pills, Birth Control Could Be Next
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Republicans across the country have blocked Democratic efforts to codify the right to use contraception.
New Poll Shows Shift in Momentum Favoring Biden Among Swing State Voters
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
The shift in poll numbers comes after Biden's State of the Union address and his recent touring of several swing states.
Jeremy Corbyn Calls for Pressuring Biden to Drop All Charges Against Assange
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
"All of us that believe in democracy should now be standing alongside Julian," the former UK Labor Party leader said.
Unionized Workers at NBC Decry NBC’s Hiring of Trump Lackey and Former RNC Chair
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
"Our journalism is tarnished" by McDaniel's hiring, NBC News Guild said in a social media post.
Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
After the ICJ told Israel not to commit genocide, it killed, wounded and denied aid to tens of thousands of Gazans.
Sanders Says State Department’s Position on Israel “Makes a Mockery of US Law”
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
The claim that Israel is not violating international law with its war on Gaza is "absurd on its face," the senator said.
Trump’s social media company rises 40 per cent in its Nasdaq debut
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Associated Press
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Trump Media & Technology Group – acquired on Monday by a blank-check company called Digital World Acquisition – runs the social media platform Truth Social.
China’s foreign investment, confidence push gathers speed as top officials highlight ‘win-win opportunities’
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Mandy Zuo
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Nearly all of China’s top-level officials responsible for economic affairs have met or have plans to meet with multinational executives amid Beijing’s push to revive confidence and lure foreign investment.
Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

On March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt title: “The Army Stands Ready.” Schill cut his teeth in France’s overseas adventures in the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, and Somalia. In this article, General Schill wrote that his troops are “ready” for any confrontation and that he could mobilize 60,000 of France’s 121,000 soldiers within a month for any conflict. He quoted the old Latin phrase—“if you want peace, prepare for war”—and then wrote, “The sources of crisis are multiplying and carry with them risks of spiraling or extending.” More

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Car Wars: Hydrocarbons, Lithium, and the Greening Grid
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

New battlelines are being drawn in today’s revamped auto world, not over style as in the 1980s – when Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca characterized success as “to grab the new just as soon as it is better” – or performance as in the 1930s – when Henry Ford introduced the V8 to an evolving car crowd – ushering in a free-wheeling independence that soared in the 1950s with 41,000 miles of freshly paved road (thanks to a $25-billion US Federal Aid Highway Act). Now it’s the engine itself and whether electric vehicles are worse for the environment than “gasmobiles” as is dubiously being claimed by some. With electric vehicle sales reaching 10% in 2023, the petrolheads are overheating. At over $3 trillion in annual sales, it’s only standard business practice to badmouth the competition. More

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The New Modern-Day Militarized Fort!
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

This week represents the first year anniversary of the State’s attack and arrest of Amin Chaoui and others who were challenging its attempt to build another kop city, this time within the Atlanta, Ga, area. It’s important to look at the creation of kop city within the larger context of State repression and the creation More

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Close-up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending Israel as it continues to methodically kill civilians no less precious than the signers’ More

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Taurus and the Bullfighters
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Watching genteel Bundestag ladies and gentlemen speechifying, often with forceful words and gestures but mostly polite, it is hard to imagine that their topic is war or peace, possibly world war or peace, even atomic war or peace. A key word was Taurus, Latin for “bull.” But they weren’t arguing about Zodiac astrology or the More

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Is the Same Old Democratic Party Ready to Correct Course? In Time?
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

While calling this year’s presidential election against Der Fuhrer Donald Trump the most critical ever, the Democratic Party is using the same old playbook for this year’s campaigns. The same old obsession with raising record amounts of money at the expense of presenting an authentic, vibrant agenda that will motivate millions of voters to vote More

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Sick Cultures: When Belief Systems Turn Pathological
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

It might come as a surprise but the answer to this question derives from influences many of which are beyond our control. For instance, most of us experience attitudinal changes along a spectrum from day to day or maybe even hour to hour. This has to do with our individualized reaction to all manner of More

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The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing the Australian Taxpayer
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of the AUKMIN (Australia-United Kingdom Ministerial Consultations) talks.  It showed, yet again, that Australia’s government loves being mugged.  Stomped on.  Mowed over.  Beaten. It was mugged, from the outset, in its unconditional More

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AI, Budget Defecits and the Aging Crisis
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

I have long been amazed at how major debates over various economic policy issues can have completely contradictory assumptions, and no one seems to notice. This was driven home to me by a New York Times column by Peter Coy (a very good columnist) where he addressed the issue of whether AI would take all More

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A One-State Solution Could Transform the World
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel, with, good God, every resident equally valued, equally free. “Snort! No one wants this! It’s not possible — it’s not true!” My reply to the cynics is this: We will not enter More

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The Votes That Count
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

In the US there are elections because of our Constitution. There is political bantering over everything, including whether the US is much of a democracy or not. But, make no mistake, starting from the Declaration of Independence, when Thomas Jefferson wrote “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the More

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In Japan, thousands of dementia patients go missing every year – but AI could soon help find them
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Julian Ryall
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
More than 18,000 people with dementia were reported missing in Japan last year. Technology that can detect foot-dragging and shorter steps is being trialled to help locate them.
Foreign firms in Hong Kong review operations after Article 23 legislation, but insiders say changes already made following 2020 Beijing-imposed law
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Connor Mycroft,Jeffie Lam
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Lawyers and consultants say the bulk of needed changes by international business sector were made after the 2020 Beijing-imposed national security law took effect.
China and US battle, quietly but fiercely, on yet another tech front: patent applications
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Mark Magnier
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
According to 2023 UN data, Chinese inventors led in international patent applications for the second year running, posting some 14,000 more than the second-place US.
‘This Decline in Local Journalism Was Noticed First by Journalists Themselves’ 
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

"They could buy the newspaper for a song, sell the building, maybe sell the printing press...and they've already made their money back."

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Trump Avoids Paying Full $454 Million for Now, But Faces April 15 Court Date
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Predictably, Trump claimed the new criminal trial date amounted to "election interference" and a "witch hunt.”
US Shift in Rhetoric Isolates Israel, But Can It Prevent the Invasion of Rafah?
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Today the US finally decided not to obstruct a UN Security Council resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Ocasio-Cortez Condemns US Complicity in Gaza “Genocide” and “Forced Famine”
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
“This was all accomplished … with U.S. resources and weapons,” she said.
Northern Gaza on the Brink of Famine as Israel Denies Entry of UNRWA Food Aid
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Israeli officials informed the UN of the new restrictions on Sunday, prompting outrage from human rights advocates.
Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments Tuesday on FDA  Mifepristone Approval Process
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Lower courts in the case relied on anonymous internet blog posts and questionable witnesses to formulate their opinions.
Orioles team store workers picket for better contract
Source: The Real News
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Screenshot by TRNN
Workers at the Baltimore MLB team store, who are subcontracted through a company known as Fanatics, are fighting for full time work, decent pay, and healthcare.
Government Spending Bill Will Prohibit Flying Pride Flags at Embassies
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
“LGBTQ+ rights should be nonnegotiable,” said LGBTQ legislative researcher Allison Chapman.
Sudan May Soon Face the World’s Worst Hunger Crisis
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
"This is the largest mass mortality crisis that we are facing in the world," says author Alex de Waal.
EU Launches Investigation Into Tech Titans for Monopoly Practices
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
The multibillion-dollar companies could face fines of up to 10 percent of their global revenue.
Centrist Dems Might Save Johnson From Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate order against Mike Johnson late last week.
UK sanctions Chinese entities for ‘malicious cyber activity’ against MPs
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Finbarr Bermingham
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Activity triggering first UK sanctions against China in three years also allegedly gathered data on millions of British voters.
Biden’s Infrastructure Law Has Put a “Climate Time Bomb” in Black Neighborhoods
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
A new report says the bill's highway investments will wipe out climate progress and displace Black communities.
Terrorist Attack and Election Pave Way for Putin to Intensify Repression and War
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Political theorist Ilya Budraitskis analyzes the terrorist attack, the Russian election and the trajectory of war.
Survivors of sexual assault in juvenile detention are speaking out
Source: The Real News
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Woman hand holding on chain link fence for remember Human Rights Day. Via Getty Images
Last year, Maryland lifted the statute of limitations on civil lawsuits against state employees who have committed sexual abuse. A class action lawsuit seeking justice for several survivors was filed this January.
New attack helicopter seen as vital in any PLA operations against Taiwan, India
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Amber Wang,Seong Hyeon Choi
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
First images of the aircraft – referred to as the Z-21 – emerged on social media last week.
Mainland Chinese buyers have benefited the most from the removal of Hong Kong’s property curbs, have stepped up luxury purchases, JLL says
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Salina Li,Yulu Ao
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Mainland Chinese buyers are aggressively snapping up new luxury homes worth HK$30 million or more since the removal of all of Hong Kong’s property curbs last month, JLL says.
Russia casts doubt on Islamic State responsibility for concert attack
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Reuters
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the militant group has since released what it says is footage from the attack.
Hong Kong braces for 11 million trips back and forth across border for Easter break and Ching Ming Festival
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Oscar Liu
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
About 9.5 million land border crossings expected over Easter break and Ching Ming Festival, with another 1.5 million by air and sea.
West Papua: The Torture Mode Of Governance
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and blessed by the international “community” whose neoliberal politics of extraction means extermination of anything and anyone getting in its way. More

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Climate Agreements Suck
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

Climate agreements suck. There are no real enforcement provisions. Many signatories cheat. Some don’t rep0rt at all. Moreover, reported data is highly suspect. It’s a worldwide scandal recently exposed by YaleEnvironment360. Evidence of cheating is found in the atmosphere: Global CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one More

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Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

It seems that there has never been a better time than now to buy an electric vehicle in the United States, especially if you read news headlines and White House press releases. You might be forgiven for thinking that you can actually afford to upgrade your old gas-guzzling sedan with a sleek, new zero-emissions EV. And if you can’t afford one, the various local, state, and federal rebate programs will surely knock thousands off the price tag, right? More

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The Monster in the House
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

I read with interest Ron Waterman’s guest view in the March 19, 2024 Independent Record regarding Hitler’s and the Nazi’s attacks on Jewish people and our own Country’s slide toward authoritarianism. I agree with his commentary. What piqued my further interest, however, was what I had just read about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in More

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Coming Soon to a Mansion Near You: A Tax on Over-the-Top Greed Grabs
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

Back in 1928, the bold and brassy mobster Al Capone spent $40,000 — about $851,000 in today’s dollars — on “a stately Spanish Colonial-style villa” that sat on an isle right off Miami’s coast. Local historic preservationists would end up cherishing that villa for years after Capone’s 1947 passing. They apparently didn’t cherish it enough. More

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The Cost of Revenge: A Cantor’s Critique of Israel’s Response to Hamas
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

In the wake of the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, many of Israel’s supporters, myself included, have succumbed to the understandable impulse for violent retribution. Israel is a land that I love, both culturally as a Jew — and third-generation Holocaust survivor — and spiritually as an ordained cantor. It follows that More

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The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

At the outset, the United States was blessed with enormous tracts of land (that it stole from the natives) and a considerable labor force (that it enslaved from Africa) to achieve economic success based largely on growing things. The next leap forward—into the industrial era—was facilitated by large deposits of coal and oil. A century More

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The Hidden Genocide in Ethiopia
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

The Ethiopia of Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party, is a dark and frightening place, where anyone challenging the government are at risk of violence and arrest. People from the Amhara ethnic group are particularly targeted; killing of Amhara men, women and children is a daily occurrence in what constitutes a genocidal campaign of hate More

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Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

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NYT’s Ross Douthat Rants Incoherently on Trump’s Bloodbath
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Monday, March 25th, 2024

It’s amazing how so many arguments in policy circles are transparently self-contradictory. Ross Douthat gave us a fantastic example in a NYT column defending Donald Trump’s bloodbath comment. Douthat defends Trump by arguing that his bloodbath referred to the need to protect the U.S. auto industry from Chinese cars. This is arguably what Trump meant, More

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Follow-Up to an Open-Letter Demanding Accountability From the EU Leadership for Complicity in Genocide
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024

Dear President von der Leyen, Dear President Michel, Dear High Representative Borrell We here at GIPRI in Geneva are coming back to you on the matter of a ceasefire in Gaza. We have had no response from you on our previous communications, the most recent of which dated 15th March has already been published as More

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‘Expensive, cramped and ageing’ UK homes lag behind most of developed world, research finds
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Bloomberg
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024
Homes in England are more cramped than those in New York City, according to new analysis that showed UK property offers the worst value for money in the developed world.
To Fight Global Fascism, We Must Confront Zionism
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024
To stand with Palestine is to transform our genocidal global systems and build a different world.
Georgia Swamp Defenders Are Resisting Mining in Endangered Okefenokee Wetlands
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024
Locals are fighting a proposed titanium mine threatening the swamp's endangered species and carbon-capturing processes.
Congress Continues UNRWA Funding Cut Until 2025, Enforcing Famine in Gaza
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024
President Biden has said he will sign the $1.2 trillion spending bill immediately.
Israeli Forces Assault 3 Gaza Hospitals in 1 Day, Committing Massacres
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024
The IDF reportedly ordered Palestinians to leave al-Amal Hospital “naked" and ran over survivors at al-Shifa with tanks.
In NY Jails, Prisoners Must Submit Their Abuse Grievances to Their Abusers
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Sunday, March 24th, 2024
Legal victories by LGBTQ people and youth of color face rollbacks amid the rise of new, reactionary sheriffs.