Archives for General News
June 2021
Wednesday, June 30:
Biden's defense of new airstrikes in Iraq and Syria is weak (7 comments)
If California is Facing a Rare Mega-Drought, Why is the State Releasing Water from Reservoirs
Tuesday, June 29:
NATO military exercises - show of force (2 comments)
Making Black History in Texas Democratic Party Politics
Cartoon: Who Remembers Travel?
Tomgram: Hartung and Smithberger, Washington's National Security Spending Follies
Welcome to the Darwinian Jungle
Colossal Financial Pyramid: There Is More to BlackRock Than You Might Imagine. (3 comments)
Monday, June 28:
Whistleblower and the press break the code of silence in an Australian police state (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People - The New York Times (1 comments)
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, On the Downhill Slope
Susan Lee Schwartz: New Hampshire Endorses Vouchers, Defunds Public Schools; by Diane Ravitch
Susan Lee Schwartz: My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Dep. of Education;Diane Ravitch; FormerAss'tSec'y, Educational Research & Iprovement (1 comments)
Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report (2 comments)
Sunday, June 27:
ACORN 8 Whistleblowers Honored with Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award at the Largest Anti-Fraud Conference (1 comments)
Mike Gravel, Former U.S. Senator For Alaska, Dies At 91
Twelve thousand years ago goats were domesticated in the Zagros (5 comments)
Saturday, June 26:
Susan Lee Schwartz: After GOP Blockade of For the People Act, Progressives Mobilize 'Deadline for Democracy'; Common Dreams (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Billy Townsend: A Florida School District That Is Fighting Privatizers and Winning; by Diane Ravitch
Canada Adds US rightwing militia group Three Percenters to terror list
India Charges Offences Against Humanity For Misleading Ivermectin Claims (5 comments)
Friday, June 25:
A review of Antonio Damasio's book: When Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: R.I. House approves bill that would automatically enroll students in charter lotteries (1 comments)
Thursday, June 24:
Notes on book "The Grand Biocentric Design," by Robert Lanza
Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber arrested on Capitol HIll (1 comments)
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living with World's End in Plain Sight
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast confronts Georgia operative throwing legal voters off rolls (1 comments)
The Syrian war is over: now what?
Wednesday, June 23:
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Really Big Fight on Voting Rights Is Just Around the Corner (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: From the Past, a Chilling Warning About the Extremists of the Present - (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: What Happens When Society Stops Caring for Its Children? in New Hampshire; by Diane Ravitch posts Jeanne Dietsch (1 comments)
Tuesday, June 22:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Homicides soar nationwide; local leaders at a loss for answers - (1 comments)
U.S. appeals court blocks ruling that overturned California's assault weapons ban
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, A Tale of Three Reconstructions
Chris Jones' viral campaign ad shows how extraordinary Black politicians have to be
Monday, June 21:
Officer injured in Capitol riot blasts GOP Rep. Clyde's behavior as 'disgusting'
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, Vaccine Nationalism
Texans Fight Back Against Antidemocratic GOP on Father's Day
Sunday, June 20:
Iran agreement will help to make the region safer": Iranian political analyst
My Interpretation of Vociferous Contemporary American Conservatives Today
Saturday, June 19:
Humor: With Covid Shutdowns Over Can Class Reunions Be Far Off? (1 comments)
Thursday, June 17:
Tomgram: William Astore, Big Lies Have Consequences, Too (1 comments)
Wednesday, June 16:
Dennis Kucinich jumps into Cleveland mayoral race
Tuesday, June 15:
Trump Pressured DOJ To Back Election Fraud Claims, New Emails Show
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, It's Time to Touch the Third Rail
Pope Francis Maintains His Doctrinally Conservative Approach
Sunday, June 13:
Fear-based Religious Lies Promoted by Hollywood (22 comments)
A Criminal For Helping a Suffering animal? Interview with Activist Wayne Hsiung (2 comments)
Group of Seven Illustrates Existential Global Problem Not Solution (1 comments)
Remember the Alamo? A battle brews in Texas over history versus lore (2 comments)
Saturday, June 12:
Embassy reopening's in Damascus as Syria returns to normalcy
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers (1 comments)
Large Trade Association PAC Pumped Money Into Manchin Coffers in March (9 comments)
Institutions, Philosophy of Gain of Function
Friday, June 11:
Susan Lee Schwartz: It's Not Just Income Taxes. Billionaires Don't Pay Inheritance Taxes Either (1 comments)
Thursday, June 10:
Powerful Democrat, Son Gave Money to Sen. Manchin Recently
Susan Lee Schwartz: Protecting Borders, Not Life; by Robert C. Koehle
Susan Lee Schwartz: A New Giuliani Tape Shows a Key Witness Didn't Testify Accurately in the First Trump Impeachment - Mother Jones (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen - Axios
The Keystone XL pipeline project has been terminated.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Skeletons in My Virtual Closets
Keystone XL pipeline project officially terminated
Tuesday, June 8:
abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Iranian Presidential Election. A new butcher is on top of the list.
The Syrian public health sector fights COVID-19 amid US-EU sanctions
Latvian politics risks causing considerable damage to economy
Graphic Novel Review: Fictional Father
Etymological Divergence of Vaccination (2 comments)
Tomgram: John Feffer, Still Waiting to Exhale
Monday, June 7:
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Formula for National (In)Security
Friday, June 4:
Cartoon--Mass Shootings Come Back as Lockdowns End (1 comments)
The Chinese Communist Party's Global Lockdown Fraud (7 comments)
Thursday, June 3:
Capitol Police officers thought they were going to die, share harrowing Jan. 6 stories for the first time (5 comments)
Remember the Name - Sheikh Jarrah
Tomgram: Nina Burleigh, How to Make Money Off a Pandemic (1 comments)
WATCH: Boat explodes just after passengers harass family with Pride flag (1 comments)
Wednesday, June 2:
Humor--Who Needs Olympics? Transit Riders Have Their Own "Games" (1 comments)
Tuesday, June 1:
NATO hooligans in the Baltic States
Tomgram: Belle Chesler, Living in Pandemic Purgatory, Up Close and Personal