A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to Operate
Alleen Brown | The Intercept | 2018-03-30
The company notorious for surveilling pipeline opponents at Standing Rock was pursuing a contract to guard Louisiana's Bayou Bridge pipeline. | The post A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to Operate appeared first on The Intercept.
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March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause
Jon Jeter | MintPress News | 2018-03-30
The dynamism and interracial character of last week's March For Our Lives rallies provides further evidence that American workers have a chance of challenging the wealthy for a bigger piece of the pie only when they put their tribal differences aside to fight together. | The post March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause appeared first on MintPress News.
March For Our Lives: A New Generation Sets Aside Tribalism for a Progressive Cause
The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
Sarah Anderson | counterpunch.org | 2018-03-30
OK, I admit it, I'm a freeloader. My neighbors asked if I'd go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the "eco-friendly" service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost: $750 for the season. Several neighbors went ahead and…
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Big Oil and Climate Science on Trial
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-03-30
Climate change science is basis of San Francisco and Oakland's legal case against Big Oil companies, to make them pay billions for rising public cost of rising sea level due to global warming. In surprise move, Chevron admits humans are causing climate change but say they are not liable…
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Melting Arctic and Antarctic Ice Sheets, Rising Oceans: The High Price of Delayed Action on Climate Change
Dan Drollette Jr | Global Research | 2018-03-30
New research (February 20, 2018) in Nature Communications found that in the 168 years that have passed since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the world's oceans have risen a total of about 8 inches. The study also found that …
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Republican Climate Denialism Has Sunk to a Staggering New Low Under Trump
Sophia Tesfaye, Salon | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-30
We didn't think the party could regress any further, but here we are. | Climate and weather are not the same thing, but good luck convincing the president of the United States of that basic fact. As if his tweets dismissing global warming as a "hoax" manufactured by the Chinese and his decision to pull the U. S. out of the multinational Paris Agreement on climate change weren't depressing enough, now there is evidence that Donald Trump's determination to make the Republican Party the " stupid party" has been a wild success. In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December. . .
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Sous Le Pave, La Plage: May 68
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2018-03-30
Fifty year anniversaries are important markers in our culture. This is the case whether we are acknowledging an individual's stay on earth or some greater historical moment. This is why so many are remembering the year 1968 in 2018. The nature of these reminiscences varies. Mainstream media coverage writes about 1968 as the year that…
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Sustainability Tastes Sweeter: Here's Your 2018 Easter Chocolate Shopping Guide
Etelle Higonnet, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-30
By making better chocolate choices, we can help reduce deforestation, protect wildlife and defend labor rights. | The week surrounding Easter is the top chocolate purchasing week of the year worldwide. Kids and adults all over the world enjoy the fun of Easter egg hunts and savor delicious treats. But chocolate truly is a guilty pleasure. For the chimps in West Africa, sloths in Peru, jaguars in Ecuador, dwarf buffalos in Indonesia and other animals, many of whom are endangered, chocolate spells disaster as cocoa encroaches on their precious forest homes a little more every year alongside our rising global appetite for chocolate. In the fall of last year, Mighty Earth's groundbreaking report " Chocolate's Dark Secret" revealed how the chocolate industry was actually the number-one driver of deforestation in Ghana and Ivory Coast, responsible for around 30 percent of overall. . .
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Regime Change, Partition, and "Sunnistan": John Bolton's Vision for a New Middle East
Whitney Webb | MintPress News | 2018-03-30
Bolton is likely to push for the creation of a new sectarian state out of Syrian and Iraqi territory, now that the groundwork has been laid and the path largely cleared to building a "new Middle East." Iran is currently the only country in the region with the potential to foil that plan. | The post Regime Change, Partition, and "Sunnistan": John Bolton's Vision for a New Middle East appeared first on MintPress News.
Regime Change, Partition, and “Sunnistan”: John Bolton’s Vision for a New Middle East
Teacher 'Rebellion' Spreads to Oklahoma.
Staff | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-03-30
OKLAHOMA CITY–A teacher rebellion that started in the hills of West Virginia spread like a prairie fire to Oklahoma this week and now threatens to reach the desert in Arizona. | In the deep red state of Oklahoma, the Republican-led Legislature approved money for teacher raises and more school funding, even hiking taxes on the vaunted oil and gas industry to do it. Republican Governor Mary Fallin rushed to sign the measures into law Thursday. | Oklahoma teachers were inspired by West Virginia, another red state where a 9-day strike led to 5-percent teacher raises. Oklahoma teachers haven't had a raise in a decade of Republican control and they won raises of between 15 and 18 percent. Now, teachers in Arizona thronged their GOP-run Capitol this week, demanding a 20 percent teacher pay hike. | "West Virginia woke us up," Arizona Educators Association…
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Trump's Nominee to Oversee Superfund Program Spent Decades Fighting EPA Cleanups on Behalf of Polluters.
Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | 2018-03-29
Though he has openly disparaged much of his agency's mission, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has remained steadfastly enthusiastic about Superfund, the federal program responsible for cleaning up some of the country's most contaminated industrial sites. The EPA budget brief released in February said the agency would "accelerate the pace of cleanups" and make an additional 102 Superfund sites and 1,368 brownfield sites "ready for use" by September 30, 2019. That move follows Pruitt's creation of a " Superfund task force," which laid out the program's priorities in July and, in December, issued a list of 21 sites to be fast-tracked for cleanup. | Yet even as he's offered up these promises, some of Pruitt's budgetary and hiring decisions have threatened the possibility that he'll be able to fulfill them. The EPA's proposed 2019 budget would cut the…
theintercept.com/2018/03/29/epa-superfund-scott-pruitt-peter-wright/
Russia: Activist Attacked in Dagestan
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-29
(Moscow) — An unidentified assailant viciously attacked a representative of Memorial, Russia's leading human rights group, on March 28, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. | Sirazhutdin Datsiev after the attack, March 28, 2018. | © 2018 Memorial, Makhachkala | Sirazhutdin Datsiev, the head of the Memorial office in Dagestan was hospitalized with a head injury. Russian authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the attack and punish those responsible. | "This cowardly attack can only be regarded as part of the ongoing harassment campaign against Memorial's work in the North Caucasus region," said Yulia Gorbunova, Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The Russian government needs to provide protection and put a stop to the violent campaign against activists who risk their lives to shed light on appalling human rights abuses in…
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Trump's Nominee to Oversee Superfund Program Spent Decades Fighting EPA Cleanups on Behalf of Polluters
Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | 2018-03-29
Though he has openly disparaged much of his agency's mission, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has remained steadfastly enthusiastic about Superfund, the federal program responsible for cleaning up some of the country's most contaminated industrial sites. The EPA budget brief released in February said the agency would "accelerate the pace of cleanups" and make an additional 102 Superfund sites and 1,368 brownfield sites "ready for use" by September 30, 2019. That move follows Pruitt's creation of a " Superfund task force," which laid out the program's priorities in July and, in December, issued a list of 21 sites to be fast-tracked for cleanup. | Yet even as he's offered up these promises, some of Pruitt's budgetary and hiring decisions have threatened the possibility that he'll be able to fulfill them. The EPA's proposed 2019 budget would cut the…
theintercept.com/2018/03/29/epa-superfund-scott-pruitt-peter-wright/
Russia: Activist Attacked in Dagestan .
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-29
(Moscow) — An unidentified assailant viciously attacked a representative of Memorial, Russia's leading human rights group, on March 28, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. | Sirazhutdin Datsiev after the attack, March 28, 2018. | © 2018 Memorial, Makhachkala | Sirazhutdin Datsiev, the head of the Memorial office in Dagestan was hospitalized with a head injury. Russian authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the attack and punish those responsible. | "This cowardly attack can only be regarded as part of the ongoing harassment campaign against Memorial's work in the North Caucasus region," said Yulia Gorbunova, Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The Russian government needs to provide protection and put a stop to the violent campaign against activists who risk their lives to shed light on appalling human rights abuses in…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/29/russia-activist-attacked-dagestan
UN Independent Expert: Venezuela Should Take US to the International Court of Justice.
MAOMMP | MintPress News | 2018-03-29
Alfred de Zayas, a UN Independent Expert for the promotion of an international democratic and equitable order, told Venezuela's newspaper àöltimas Noticias that "it is time" for Venezuela to ask the International Criminal Court "for an investigation into the crimes against humanity committed by the United States for imposing sanctions against it." | Why do you consider sanctions as crimes against humanity? | In 2000, the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights published a study that described sanctions as a serious violation of international law and human rights. In 2015, the Human Rights Council in Geneva created the role of the Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures. In his reports Idriss Jazairy, the Rapporteur, has demonstrated the adverse impacts of sanctions and has negotiated with governments so that sanctions are eliminated, as they are contrary to the spirit and letter…
UN Independent Expert: Venezuela Should Take US to the International Court of Justice
Defendants Acquitted After Using a 'Climate Necessity' Defense.
Staff | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-03-29
The Massachusetts trial appears to be the first in which the defendants successfully argued that their civil disobedience was justified by the need to stop climate change. | The post Defendants Acquitted After Using a 'Climate Necessity' Defense appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Here's What Trump Reportedly Won't Let His Aides Say About Russia.
Cody Fenwick, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-29
A new report suggests the president still hopes he can craft a good relationship with the foreign rival. | Discerning the true state of Russian-American relations is becoming increasingly complicated. While President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his fondness for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his desire to improve relations with the country, the current administration's policy toward its foreign rival has become increasingly tough. Under Trump, the United States has agreed to provide weapons to Ukraine to fend off Russian forces, expelled Russian diplomats in response to an apparent chemical attack on British soil, and implemented significant sanctions on Russian entities in response to meddling in the 2016 election. All the while, Trump has been quite obviously reluctant to criticize Russia in public, significantly diminishing the strength of the administration's otherwise considerable efforts to rein in Russian aggression. A new report from NBC. . .
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Energy Independence Requires Steel Independence.
Leo Gerard, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-29
New tariffs and a deal with South Korea will help bring jobs back. | Shale oil and gas, now fracked from deep underground in two dozen states, is celebrated for delivering energy independence to the United States. But that goal can't truly be achieved if America depends on China, Korea, even Brazil for the steel vital to drilling. Sustaining steel independence is a big part of what President Trump's tariffs are about. They're intended to revive American steel production which has been hammered by illegal trade practices, particularly in China. Just this week, the tariffs helped secure a new trade deal with Korea that reduces by 30 percent the amount of steel and drilling pipe the Asian country can export to the United States. As fracking geared up across the United States, American steelmakers invested in their mills to meet drillers' needs, from. . .
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China's Gold Backed Petro-Yuan Challenges US Dollar Hegemony.
Stephen Lendman | Global Research | 2018-03-29
Its introduction poses the first ever challenge to petro-dollar dominance. | China is the world's largest oil importing/consuming nation. Gold-backed petro-yuan futures trading began Monday on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, part of the Shanghai Futures Exchange — letting Chinese and …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-gold-backed-petro-yuan-challenges-us-dollar-hegemony/5634034
German Beer Industry in Shock Over Glyphosate Contamination.
Sustainable Pulse | Global Research | 2018-03-28
The Munich Environmental Institute (Umweltinstitut Màºnchen) has released shocking results Thursday of laboratory testing it has completed on 14 of the most sold beers in Germany. The probable carcinogen and World's most used herbicide — glyphosate — was found in …
globalresearch.ca/german-beer-industry-in-shock-over-glyphosate-contamination/5633850
Major Gun Maker May Have Declared Bankruptcy to Avoid Real Change.
Truthout Stories | 2018-03-28
A Remington 700 hunting rifle, a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington R1 Enhanced model 1911 pistol are seen for sale at Atlantic Outdoors gun shop on March 26, 2018, in Stokesdale, North Carolina. Remington has now filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection partially due to an estimated $950 million in debt. (Photo: Brian Blanco / Getty Images) | Remington, the weapons giant that produced the semi-automatic rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, declared bankruptcy in a Delaware court filing Sunday. Across social media, people applauded the company's demise following a very good run, if more than 200 years of profiteering off products with no explicit purpose other than murder can be summed up as good. Like so many gun manufacturers, Remington seems to have succumbed to a sales drop brought on by the election of the gun…
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6 Ways Trump's 2018 Budget Actually Helps Animals.
Kitty Block, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-28
Though the final budget contains harmful provisions, it also has some big wins for wolves, bears, horses and other animals. | There's great news for animals in the final 2018 budget bill that President Trump signed into law last week. The bottom line is this: the budget bill includes language to restrict funds from being used to harm horses and to address a purge of key animal enforcement records, it increases federal resources to enforce significant animal protection laws, and it omits riders that would have been devastating for wildlife. The Humane Society Legislative Fund, the government affairs affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States, worked with animal protection champions in both chambers and with other stakeholders to secure victories on a number of fronts, including these key outcomes: 1. Maintaining the ban on horse slaughter. The bill includes language to prohibit government. . .
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Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories: Asylum-seekers risk deportation or detention.
Amnesty International | 2018-03-28
Thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers are at risk of either being forced to go to Rwanda or Uganda, where their protection is not guaranteed, or being indefinitely detained in Israel. While some are already detained, the Israeli authorities have given others until early April to leave the country or be detained.
Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories: Asylum-seekers risk deportation or detention
Citizenship Question on 2020 Census Is Trump's Latest Declaration of Domestic War on Immigrants.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-28
"A naked attempt to politicize the census, with the goal of suppressing minority participation. " | The Trump administration's decision to add a controversial question on citizenship status to the 2020 Census questionnaire is its latest attack on immigrant communities–a far-reaching power grab disguised as a technicality. Legal advocates for Latinos and communities of color are seeing it as a declaration of domestic political war. "MALDEF calls for the immediate resignation of [Commerce Secretary] Wilbur Ross," said Thomas A. Saenz, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund president and general counsel. "His acquiescence in this political maneuver demonstrates his thorough incompetence to serve as Commerce Secretary. His apparent lack of even basic integrity has created a constitutional violation of unprecedented potential impact. ""President Trump's latest attempt to suppress the political influence of people of color under the guise of voter protection is beyond the pale," said Cristóbal. . .
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Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories: Asylum-seekers risk deportation or detention
Amnesty International | 2018-03-28
Thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers are at risk of either being forced to go to Rwanda or Uganda, where their protection is not guaranteed, or being indefinitely detained in Israel. While some are already detained, the Israeli authorities have given others until early April to leave the country or be detained.
Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories: Asylum-seekers risk deportation or detention
Lebanon: Candidates Should Commit to Rights Agenda.
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-28
Candidates for Lebanon's parliamentary elections should commit to human rights reforms. | (Beirut) — Candidates for Lebanon's May 6, 2018 parliamentary elections should commit to reforms to strengthen human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch is sending letters to major Lebanese political parties and parliamentary candidates urging them to commit to human rights reforms in ten areas. | The areas Human Rights Watch identifies are: freedom of expression and assembly, torture, the waste crisis, military court trials of civilians, women's rights, disability rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, refugee rights, justice and accountability, and privacy. Human Rights Watch will issue a statement prior to the elections detailing the commitments candidates and parties have made to strengthen human rights protections. | Related Content: | Human Rights Watch Letter to…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/28/lebanon-candidates-should-commit-rights-agenda
2020 Census Citizenship Question Trump's Latest Move in War on Immigrants.
Steven Rosenfeld | MintPress News | 2018-03-28
The Trump administration's decision to add a controversial question on citizenship status to the 2020 Census questionnaire is its latest attack on immigrant communities–a far-reaching power grab disguised as a technicality. | Legal advocates for Latinos and communities of color are seeing it as a declaration of domestic political war. | "MALDEF calls for the immediate resignation of [Commerce Secretary] Wilbur Ross," said Thomas A. Saenz, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund president and general counsel. "His acquiescence in this political maneuver demonstrates his thorough incompetence to serve as Commerce Secretary. His apparent lack of even basic integrity has created a constitutional violation of unprecedented potential impact." | "President Trump's latest attempt to suppress the political influence of people of color under the guise of voter protection is beyond the pale," said Cristóbal J. Alex, president of Latino Victory Project. "The inclusion of…
2020 Census Citizenship Question Trump's Latest Move in War on Immigrants
Lebanon: Candidates Should Commit to Rights Agenda
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-28
Candidates for Lebanon's parliamentary elections should commit to human rights reforms. | (Beirut) — Candidates for Lebanon's May 6, 2018 parliamentary elections should commit to reforms to strengthen human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch is sending letters to major Lebanese political parties and parliamentary candidates urging them to commit to human rights reforms in ten areas. | The areas Human Rights Watch identifies are: freedom of expression and assembly, torture, the waste crisis, military court trials of civilians, women's rights, disability rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, refugee rights, justice and accountability, and privacy. Human Rights Watch will issue a statement prior to the elections detailing the commitments candidates and parties have made to strengthen human rights protections. | Related Content: | Human Rights Watch Letter to…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/28/lebanon-candidates-should-commit-rights-agenda
China Meets Carbon Goals Early, but It Isn't Enough.
Staff | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-03-28
I am not a fundamentalist in any other area of life. But I am a carbon dioxide fundamentalist. | Well, you can add methane and some other gases. | The point is that CO2 emissions is the only issue that matters in speaking of climate change. It is a heat-trapping gas, and the more we put into the atmosphere, the hotter the planet will get over time. That means melting all land ice, massive rises in sea level over time, extreme weather (more intense hurricanes and cyclones, long-term drought in some places, increased flooding in others). Delta river valleys like that in Louisiana, or the delta in Egypt, or the country of Bangladesh, are doomed over time already. | We are driving gas-guzzling cars and burning coal to get electricity and eating a lot of beef; we are endangering our children and grandchildren.
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Russia: Protests against officials erupt in wake of Kemerovo fire.
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-03-28
The horrific fire at the Kemerovo "Winter Cherry" shopping mall and entertainment center on March 25 has brought social and political tensions in Russia to a boiling point.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/28/russ-m28.html
While Workers Get Crumbs, GOP Tax Scam Analysis Details $25 Billion Bonanza for Big Oil.
Truthout Stories | 2018-03-28
(Photo: Haymarketrebel; Edited: LW / TO) | "The oil and gas industry benefitted to the tune of billions of dollars from the Trump tax cut bill… And you didn't." | That's how the Center for Biological Diversity responded to a new analysis published Tuesday, which shows how the fossil fuel industry has saved $25 billion so far — "with many more billionaires more to come" — from the Republican tax plan signed by President Donald Trump in December. | Antonia Juhasz at Pacific Standard reviewed 2017 Securities and Exchange Commission filings by 17 American oil and gas companies, "looking at the largest companies in production, refining, and pipelines that also clearly specified the impacts of the Tax Act in their result." | Confirming reports that the new tax code has "supercharged the oil industry," she found that "it…
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Russia: Protests against officials erupt in wake of Kemerovo fire
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-03-28
The horrific fire at the Kemerovo "Winter Cherry" shopping mall and entertainment center on March 25 has brought social and political tensions in Russia to a boiling point.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/28/russ-m28.html
Big Oil Already Netted $25 Billion From GOP Tax Cuts.
Jessica Corbett | MintPress News | 2018-03-28
The oil and gas industry benefitted to the tune of billions of dollars from the Trump tax cut bill… And you didn't. That's how the Center for Biological Diversity responded to a new analysis published Tuesday, which shows how the fossil fuel industry has saved $25 billion so far–"with many more billionaires more to come"–from the Republican tax plan signed by President Donald Trump in December. | Antonia Juhasz at Pacific Standard reviewed 2017 Securities and Exchange Commission filings by 17 American oil and gas companies, "looking at the largest companies in production, refining, and pipelines that also clearly specified the impacts of the Tax Act in their result." | Confirming reports that the new tax code has "supercharged the oil industry," she found that "it is the oil and gas industry, including companies that backed the presidency of…
Popular Beer and Wine Brands Contaminated With Monsanto's Weedkiller, Tests Reveal.
Zen Honeycutt, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-27
Some brewers and vintners are taking steps to avoid contamination from glyphosate. | The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sample tested, even independent beers. Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all found to be positive for glyphosate in 2016. We tested further and released new findings last week of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U. S. , and in batch test results in American beer. What do these events all have in common? Monsanto's Roundup. French molecular. . .
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Proposed US Healthcare Changes Would Undermine Patient Rights.
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-27
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participates in a forum called Generation Next at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2018. | © 2018 Reuters | The US should reject a proposed rule that would give healthcare providers sweeping discretion to refuse patients care for religious or moral reasons. | Human Rights Watch has urged the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, to discard the proposed rule, which was issued for public comment in January. The rule purports to clarify existing legal protections for religious or moral objectors under federal law. In reality, it would dramatically expand healthcare providers' ability to turn away patients, without also protecting the rights of those who are refused care. | This would be particularly dangerous for women…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/proposed-us-healthcare-changes-would-undermine-patient-rights
Proposed US Healthcare Changes Would Undermine Patient Rights.
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-27
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participates in a forum called Generation Next at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2018. | © 2018 Reuters | The US should reject a proposed rule that would give healthcare providers sweeping discretion to refuse patients care for religious or moral reasons. | Human Rights Watch has urged the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to discard the proposed rule, which was issued for public comment in January. The rule purports to clarify existing legal protections for religious or moral objectors under federal law. In reality, it would dramatically expand healthcare providers' ability to turn away patients, without also protecting the rights of those who are refused care. | This would be particularly dangerous for women and lesbian,…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/proposed-us-healthcare-changes-would-undermine-patient-rights
Proposed US Healthcare Changes Would Undermine Patient Rights
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-27
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participates in a forum called Generation Next at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2018. | © 2018 Reuters | The US should reject a proposed rule that would give healthcare providers sweeping discretion to refuse patients care for religious or moral reasons. | Human Rights Watch has urged the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, to discard the proposed rule, which was issued for public comment in January. The rule purports to clarify existing legal protections for religious or moral objectors under federal law. In reality, it would dramatically expand healthcare providers' ability to turn away patients, without also protecting the rights of those who are refused care. | This would be particularly dangerous for women…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/proposed-us-healthcare-changes-would-undermine-patient-rights
Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming.
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2018-03-27
Everybody's heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. Who isn't aware? However, there's a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits maximum velocity. For the immediate future, the Paris Accord is riding the wrong…
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Turkey Announces Military Incursion into Iraq, Threatens US Over Manbij.
ZeroHedge.com | MintPress News | 2018-03-26
On Sunday President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the beginning of Turkish military operations in Iraq's Sinjar region a week after Turkey and allied Syrian FSA groups captured Afrin from Kurdish fighters. During that prior victory speech immediately on the heels of the Syrian Kurdish retreat from Afrin, Erdogan had promised further "extensions" of his forces in the region, including into Eastern Syria and Iraq, while making repeat historical references to the Ottoman empire. | Erdogan warned at the time that Turkish troops would keep pushing east further into Syrian Kurdish YPG territory (Kurdish "People's Protection Units" which Turkey considers an extension of the terrorist PKK), which would eventually pit his forces against the U.S. armed and trained Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). | During Sunday's speech, he pledged to take Tal Rifaat (northwest of Aleppo) and Manbij: "the U.S. needs to transfer the…
Turkey Announces Military Incursion into Iraq, Threatens US Over Manbij
US: FOIA Suit on Border Guards' Rights Abuses.
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-26
A U.S. border patrol agent escorts men being detained after entering the United Statesby crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico, in Roma, Texas, U.S., May 11, 2017. © 2017 Reuters | (San Francisco) — Human Rights Watch has filed suit against the US Department of Homeland Security for its failure to respond adequately to a Freedom of Information request about human rights abuses by border agents. | Though heavily redacted, the records Human Rights Watch has received thus far demonstrate that asylum officers within the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have repeatedly provided internal reports on Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) problematic practices. The documents provide details about multiple cases of intimidation, verbal, and even physical abuse by CBP officers. One email from an asylum officer indicated that an…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/26/us-foia-suit-border-guards-rights-abuses
Climate, Science, and Budget-Politics.
Lance Olsen | counterpunch.org | 2018-03-26
Today's debunkers of climate change and evolution seem cut of the same cloth, and part of a long tradition traceable at least back to the days of Copernicus and Galileo. Whether it be the structure of the universe, human evolution, or the more recent reality of a climate changed by human combustion of fossil fuels…
counterpunch.org/2018/03/26/climate-science-and-budget-politics/
FBI Under Renewed Scrutiny After Pulse Gunman's Father Revealed as FBI Informant.
Whitney Webb | MintPress News | 2018-03-26
The revelations about Omar Mateen's father and his relationship to the FBI have brought the agency under new scrutiny, both for its role in foiling domestic plots it creates and it's connections to the alleged perpetrators of the worst mass killings in recent years. | The post FBI Under Renewed Scrutiny After Pulse Gunman's Father Revealed as FBI Informant appeared first on MintPress News.
FBI Under Renewed Scrutiny After Pulse Gunman’s Father Revealed as FBI Informant
Trump's Cabinet Is the Most Volatile in a Century.
Truthout Stories | 2018-03-26
Your support is crucial to keeping ethical journalism alive! Donate now to keep our writers on the streets, covering the most important issues and beats. | Do you feel like the White House Cabinet Room has turned into some kind of revolving door? It's not just your imagination. Trump has fired more cabinet members at the start of his term than any other president in the last 100 years, according to an NPR analysis. | And that's just looking at the Senate-confirmable positions in the presidential cabinet — not the overall turmoil within the Trump team at large. | In addition to Rex Tillerson — fired via Twitter this month — the administration has released former Health and Human Services Secretary
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Mike Pompeo Better for Big Oil Than Former Exxonmobil CEO Rex Tillerson.
Basav Sen | MintPress News | 2018-03-26
It's said that you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. And the shady characters President Trump has surrounded himself with represent a new low even by Washington standards. | One thread that ties many of these people together is their deep connection with the fossil fuel industry — and their willingness to implement the industry's agenda, regardless of the impacts on people and planet. | The recent drama at the State Department encapsulates this neatly. Trump recently fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and tapped CIA chief Mike Pompeo, a former Congress member from Kansas, to replace him. | This may signal a number of disturbing changes. Unlike Tillerson, Pompeo has been a proponent of war with Iran, openly supported torture, and sent disturbing signals of approval to the…
Mike Pompeo Better for Big Oil Than Former Exxonmobil CEO Rex Tillerson
Ecuador: Judicial Harassment of Amazonian Defenders .
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-26
Indigenous people arrive in Quito after marching for 10 days to protest new mining and water law initiatives, as well as a constitutional reform project that would have allowed for indefinite re-election of the president. | © 2015 José Jácome/EFE | (New York) — The government of former President Rafael Correa abused the criminal justice system to target indigenous leaders and environmentalists who protested mining and oil exploration in the Amazon, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The groups are operating more freely under President Lenín Moreno, but the abusive prosecutions set in motion by his predecessor remain unaddressed. | The 30-page report, " Amazonians on Trial: Judicial Harassment of Indigenous Leaders and Environmentalists in Ecuador," shows that prosecutors in three prominent cases failed to produce sufficient evidence to support serious…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/26/ecuador-judicial-harassment-amazonian-defenders
Jordan: Step Forward, Step Back for Urban Refugees .
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-03-25
Syrian children attend class in a school in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, October 20, 2015. The school taught Syrian girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, but lacked electricity, heating, and running water. | © 2016 Bill Van Esveld/Human Rights Watch | (Amman) — Jordan began on March 4, 2018 to regularize the status of many refugees who have been living in towns and cities without permits, offering them greater protection, Human Rights Watch said today. However, on January 24, the government revoked the eligibility for subsidized health care for people living outside refugee camps. | The March 4 decision will protect thousands of vulnerable Syrian refugees from arrest for being outside refugee camps illegally and will increase their access to jobs, aid, and education. But the…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/25/jordan-step-forward-step-back-urban-refugees
'Like Falcon Space launch': Flat-Earther finally blasts off into California sky (VIDEO)
RT | RT US News | 2018-03-25
Flat-Earth theorist and self-taught rocket scientist 'Mad' Mike Hughes has catapulted himself half a mile into the air aboard a homemade rocket in Californian desert town. | RT.com…
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'Like Falcon Space launch': Flat-Earther finally blasts off into California sky (VIDEO).
RT | RT US News | 2018-03-25
Flat-Earth theorist and self-taught rocket scientist 'Mad' Mike Hughes has catapulted himself half a mile into the air aboard a homemade rocket in Californian desert town. | RT.com…
www.rt.com/usa/422262-flat-earther-launches-rocket/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes. Will Erode Privacy Protections Worldwide.
David Ruiz | Global Research | 2018-03-24
UPDATE, March 23, 2018: President Donald Trump signed the $1.3 trillion government spending bill–which includes the CLOUD Act–into law Friday morning. | "People deserve the right to a better process." | Those are the words of Jim McGovern, representative for Massachusetts …
globalresearch.ca/responsibility-deflected-the-cloud-act-passes-will-erode-privacy-protections-worldwide/5633337
Coal Baron Files Rambling, Self-Pitying Defamation Suit Against John Oliver for Making Jokes About Him.
Martin Cizmar, Raw Story | AlterNet.org | 2018-03-24
The judge dismissed the defamation suit and warned him not to send another letter. | The West Virginia coal baron whose practices were mocked by John Oliver and a giant squirrel sent a hilarious letter of protest to the judge who dismissed his defamation suit, according to the ACLU of West Virginia. Bob Murray was labeled "a geriatric Dr. Evil" in an episode of Oliver's HBO show, which highlighted incidents like a 2007 collapse caused by unauthorized mining practices in Utah which killed six miners, and which Murray claimed at the time was caused by an "earthquake. ""The jobs of our 6,000 coal miners depend on me and my reputation," the letter said. "I am a dying old man, but our employees will suffer as a result of your decision. "Murray also complained of getting mocked by the show's fans in letters. . .
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