Archives for General News
August 2019
Saturday, August 31:
Little Rock, Arkansas: Dr. Anika Whitfield Pleads for a Return of Democracy; by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Saudi Arabia Acknowledges Defeat In Yemen - Starts To Sue For Peace (3 comments)
$21 Trillion missing from Pentagon Books? Never again!
How the GOP Tax deal benefits the rich more than the middle class
CEO Salaries Have Spiked 940 Percent Since the 1970s (6 comments)
Friday, August 30:
The Epstein Saga, on and on it goes, but here's the best I've seen on it, sans looking. (6 comments)
Lula da Silva on BRICS (2 comments)
How an announcement in Utah signaled that the new nuclear arms race is on (7 comments)
Thursday, August 29:
The Trump Deportation Machine Has Now Turned Its Sights On the Sick (4 comments)
Cenk Uygur of TYT is a believer in Russiagate (7 comments)
Tuesday, August 27:
Helmand Province: drug lab on a global scale under US Marines very nose (2 comments)
Is the Democratic Establishment Backing Trump While Rigging the Nomination Against Bernie and Tulsi? (36 comments)
HILL TV EXCLUSIVE, Full Interview: Bernie Sanders sits down with Krystal Ball (1 comments)
Opinion Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs
Trump's Increasingly Dangerous Messiah complex demands his removal from office (4 comments)
Opioid crisis: Johnson & Johnson hit by landmark ruling
Stratfor: Kashmir may provide spark for Pakistan-India nuclear war
Monday, August 26:
Bernie Sanders Slams McConnell's "do-nothing" Senate (2 comments)
Nestle' Plan to Take 1,100,000 Gallons of Water a Day from Florida Natural Spring (4 comments)
The Amazon Is Burning Because the World Eats So Much Meat
Sunday, August 25:
Bernie Sanders Speaks at the DNC Summer Meeting (2 comments)
Groundbreaking Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, IA
Saturday, August 24:
Illegal Activity of Western Special Services in Syria
Friday, August 23:
NYC Petition to Rename Landfill After Donald Trump Gets 3M Signatures in Hours (2 comments)
Las Cruces bans glyphosate herbicides, like Roundup, on city property (10 comments)
Arizona Universities May Broaden Decreased Tuition Rates for Immigrants (1 comments)
Billionaire conservative philanthropist David Koch dies at 79 (16 comments)
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79
Thursday, August 22:
Terrorist Watch Lists Expanding Under Trump (5 comments)
Is the Meat Industry Fueling Amazon Wildfires? (1 comments)
Brazil's Bolsonaro Denounced as 'Sick' and 'Pathetic' for Blaming Amazon Forest Fires (2 comments)
Wednesday, August 21:
Ed Smart, Father of Elizabeth Smart, Announces He Is Gay and Reveals Truths About Religion and Gay People (1 comments)
"Sanctions" are deadly in Iran (2 comments)
President Trump says he could support Russia's return to G8 (1 comments)
Federal Reserve Nips Bank Rules; Critics Warn of Back sliding. (1 comments)
Greenland's leader rips Trump: Idea of buying territory 'not something to joke about' (5 comments)
Norfolk, VA sues in hopes of removing Confederate monument, cites free speech (2 comments)
Tuesday, August 20:
Trump Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci says Trump is "unstable" (1 comments)
An EPIC Case of Fraud in Oklahoma by John Thompson: ; at Diane Ravitch blog (2 comments)
Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Falls off Forbes Billionaire List Due to Charitable Giving (2 comments)
Monday, August 19:
Colorado: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. by Diane Ravitch (3 comments)
Sunday, August 18:
How Animal Researchers Stay Out of the News (2 comments)
America's Hidden Duopoly - Freakonomics Radio - Medium (1 comments)
Georgia DRE Voting System Found Unconstitutional, Banned for 2020! (4 comments)
Saturday, August 17:
Memo to mainstream journalists: Can the phony outrage - Bernie is right about media bias (1 comments)
How to Finance Medicare for All: Sanders' Options (20 comments)
Read Ed Smart's letter announcing he is gay (6 comments)
Pedophilia and Child Abuse, Widespread and Completely Out of Control (8 comments)
Shell Oil Orders Workers to Attend Trump Rally (2 comments)
Betsy DeVos Funds IDEA and Kipp to Saturate San Antonio with Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, August 16:
Trump's Latest Target: Legal Immigrants Requiring Public Assistance (2 comments)
Thursday, August 15:
Huge Win For Voters! Fed Judge Bans GA's Old Touchscreen Vote Systems For 2020
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How the U.S. Created the Central American Immigration Crisis
Beating our heads against the wall (1 comments)
'Something dark & nefarious': Google insider leaks docs revealing search engine 'blacklist' - RT World News (9 comments)
Activists Censor Anti-Racist Mural as "Offensive" (6 comments)
Wednesday, August 14:
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Future of Myanmar - The Atlantic
Tuesday, August 13:
Propulsion plant work complete on aircraft carrier Ford
Tomgram: William Astore, Military Strength Is Our National Religion
Presidential Candidate, Congresswoman and Active Duty Major Tulsi Gabbard Deployed Overseas: Service Before Self (20 comments)
Bernie Sanders Interview With Joe Rogan-- over 8 Million views
Monday, August 12:
ICE Ambushes Mississippi Poultry Plants in Largest Single-State Raid in History (1 comments)
Crusty M.D. Sends Tutorial to His Top Picks for President (1 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Creating a Spectacle of Slaughter at the Movies
Joe Rogan Interviews Bernie Sanders (1 comments)
Sunday, August 11:
Opinion | Trump Finds a Brawler for His War on Workers - Nickolas Kristof (1 comments)
Press Release: Aerial Ad Urges Iowa GOP Senator to Acknowledge, Act, on Climate Change
Exposing Zionism and Israel: A Definitive Guide (2 comments)
U.S. fencer Race Imboden takes knee during national anthem
The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism; a stunning report (5 comments)
White Supremacy Goes To The Very Top Of The NRA (5 comments)
Tragedies in Ohio, El Paso, Gilroy: Shooters had links to misogyny (1 comments)
Saturday, August 10:
Consortium News update on Seth Rich (5 comments)
Who Kills Your Meat? Illegal Immigrants Do (4 comments)
Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, is dead
Jeffrey Epstein Dies by Suicide While Awaiting Trial (1 comments)
Why Is the Forest Service Trying to Evade the Public?; We must speak up. (1 comments)
Elderly man in Washington State kills wife, self over medical bills (3 comments)
Friday, August 9:
Trump is copying Hitler's early rhetoric & policies in 20 different ways (2 comments)
How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status (1 comments)
Thursday, August 8:
Trump owes El Paso more than $500K for his February rally
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, A Comic Stands Up to Racism
Oklahoma Officials: Impossible To Track Epic Charter Schools' Alleged 'Ghost Students' (1 comments)
Food Shipment Destined For Venezuela Seized Due to US Blockade (5 comments)
Wednesday, August 7:
The 30-50 feral hogs meme went viral, but wild pigs are a serious threat. (2 comments)
The Extremely Inefficient-And Only-Way to Trace Guns in the U.S. "Guns Found Here;" The Atlantic (4 comments)
Trump Stifled Efforts To Combat White Supremacy While Fueling It
Californians Have Made their Choice: They Want Bernie and Tulsi (30 comments)
Waiting for Adults: Then and Now.
Tuesday, August 6:
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, How the Green New Deal Is Changing America (1 comments)
El Paso Congresswoman to Trump: Don't come here
Humor: From Underwear to Outerwear--Notes From Lollapalooza (2 comments)
Monday, August 5:
Galveston Police officer on horse pulls a black man on a leash (5 comments)
Joe Biden Is Coming For Your Legal Recreational Weed (4 comments)
Tomgram: Harris, Stimpson, and Freeman, The Military-Industrial Jobs Scam
Asteroid danger: Neil deGrasse Tyson warns of harbinger of doom space rock (2 comments)
Bellingcat unloads 4,000-word piece on Tulsi Gabbard over her questioning Syria chemical attacks - RT World News (3 comments)
Sunday, August 4:
Seeking Justice for 9/11 Heroes - An Interview with New York Area Fire Commissioner Christopher Gioia (4 comments)
Jewish Moroccan scholar: 'Israel uses Holocaust as a justification of occupation'
California Scrubs Controversial Kamala Harris-Era Arrest Reports (3 comments)
There Has Been Another Mass Shooting At A White Supremacist's Hands (2 comments)
Saturday, August 3:
Putin Flies to Siberia to See Devastation of Flooding (1 comments)
'Should Send Shockwaves Across the Nation': Grave Warnings as McConnell Accelerates Right-Wing Takeover of US Courts (1 comments)
Friday, August 2:
Secret Service Releases Records on Chinese President Xi's 2017 Visit to Mar-a-Lago
Trump says Ratcliffe is no longer his pick for director of national intelligence
NY Times: Detailed Maps of the Donors Powering the 2020 Democratic Campaigns
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (3 comments)
An epic legal battle brought ARCOS opioid data to light - WaPo (1 comments)
Judge's ruling throws huge spanner into US extradition proceedings against Assange
Veterans for Peace in Nicaragua
Jimmy Carter on Sanders: 'Can y'all see why I voted for him?'
The Truth About Tariffs (1 comments)
Thought Transparent World and Privacy
Thursday, August 1:
MSM is no longer ignoring Marianne Williamson (3 comments)
100 Years Ago, Farmers and Socialists Established the Country's First Modern Public Bank
Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, America's Real War
CNN: The Most Distrusted Name in News
Teachers Barred From Carrying Guns in New York Schools (1 comments)
Bolsonaro's Attacks on Glenn Greanwald (6 comments)
Why Does Trump Fan the Flames of Race-Based Terrorism?By Frank Figliuzzi former assistant F.B.I. dire (1 comments)