Why Scott Pruitt Must Go
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-10
The simple and inescapable truth is that Montana has been ravaged by mining and industrial activities. That's why we have a rather daunting list of federal Superfund sites in what we still call "the last best place." And that's why Scott Pruitt, President Trump's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, must be replaced…
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YouTube illegally collects data on children, say child protection groups
RT | RT US News | 2018-04-09
Google violates child protection laws by collecting data from, and advertising to, children under 13, according to a complaint lodged with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by a coalition of child protection and privacy groups. | RT.com…
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Bankruptcy Won't Keep Remington From Producing Guns
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-09
No "alternative facts" here — we publish the uncensored, uncorrupted news you rely on. Support Truthout by making a donation! | Two-hundred-year-old gun manufacturer Remington has recently declared bankruptcy, which has some gun violence advocates thrilled — but they should put away the party hats. | The venerable arms manufacturer is not going out of business, and the company will continue to produce guns after it's gone through the bankruptcy process. The confusion over what Remington's bankruptcy actually means highlights just how tangled the laws surrounding insolvency can be, as well as the importance of accuracy in conversations about business practices. | In February, Remington started making moves to file for bankruptcy protection, citing what some are calling the " Trump slump" in gun sales; numbers are dropping under the Trump Administration,…
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Col. Larry Wilkerson: Pentagon Plans for Climate Change Despite White House
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-04-09
A new report from the World Bank says that climate change could displace as many as 143 million people by 2050, generating geopolitical instability and posing new threats to national security. Can the Pentagon properly manage the threats with a climate denialist in the White House? We speak to Col. Larry Wilkerson…
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Shell Has Known About the Climate Crisis for Decades
Eric Ortiz | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-09
Climate change deniers often make the claim that more research is needed to determine if fossil fuels are warming the earth. But while the energy industry foments scientific uncertainty, internal research from Royal Dutch Shell confirms the company knew about the science of global warming decades ago and then hid the knowledge. | Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent, unearthed a Shell report from 1988 called " The Greenhouse Effect" that calculated Shell's contribution to global warming and anticipated the multinational oil and gas company could be sued in the future over environmental damage. | According to Climate Files: The confidential report, "The Greenhouse Effect," was authored by members of Shell's Greenhouse Effect Working Group and based on a 1986 study, though the document reveals Shell was commissioning "greenhouse effect" reports as early as 1981. Report highlights…
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Shell Knew Science of Global Warming in 1980s, Kept Silent, Report Says
Eric Ortiz | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-09
The multinational company, like some other oil corporations, has spent millions to mislead the public while profiting off the destruction of our planet. | The post Shell Knew Science of Global Warming in 1980s, Kept Silent, Report Says appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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TigerSwan Employee Applied for Security License in Louisiana Without Disclosing Ties — After Firm's Attempt Was Denied
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-09
The private security firm TigerSwan, known for its controversial military-style tactics against Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, is appealing the decision to deny its application for a license to operate in the state of Louisiana, where Energy Transfer Partners is building the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.On February 26, 2018, Anne White Hat, Rosebud Lakota Nation, was among those arrested after protesting at a Bayou Bridge Pipeline construction site. (Photo: Julie Dermansky) | The private security firm TigerSwan, known for its controversial military-style tactics against Dakota Access pipeline protesters, is appealing the decision to deny its application for a license to operate in the state of Louisiana, where Energy Transfer Partners is building the Bayou Bridge pipeline. In November, several environmental groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge pipeline attempted to intervene in this case, saying their members…
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US Occupying Oil-Rich Areas in North Syria to Choke Damascus
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-04-09
Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek says the United States is keeping a military presence in SDF/YPG-held areas in northern Syria to starve the government in Damascus of revenue needed to rebuild…
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Auto Alliance Pushed Climate Denial to Get Trump Admin to Abandon Obama Fuel Efficiency Standards
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-08
(Photo: LanaElcova / Shutterstock) | The Trump administration officially announced Monday that it will scrap fuel economy and emissions targets for cars and light-duty trucks sold in the United States and set new weaker standards, effectively undermining one of the federal government's most effective policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. | As the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times anticipated late last week, the two agencies responsible for auto standards — the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — both claimed that their internal reviews have found the Obama-era standards to be too strict, and that the agencies would go back to the drawing board to revise standards for model years 2022-2025. | The weaker standards, expected to be revealed in coming months and reported to be well below the current…
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Solar Geoengineering 'Too Uncertain to Go Ahead Yet,' Expert Cautions
Staff | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-08
Scientists and others have misgivings about the experimental technology, with many seeing it as at best a strategy of last resort to help avoid calamitous climate change. | The post Solar Geoengineering 'Too Uncertain to Go Ahead Yet,' Expert Cautions appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Trade wars: Trump claims Chinese president 'will take down' barriers harming US economy
RT | RT US News | 2018-04-08
As trade tensions threaten to boil over between the two nations, US President Donald Trump insists his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will scrap barriers to commerce "because it is the right thing to do." | RT.com…
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Republicans Will Double-Down on Trump and Invoke Impeachment Talk in 2018 Campaigns
Martin Cizmar, Raw Story | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-08
One of the candidates employing the strategy is Trump's old foil Senator Ted Cruz. | Republicans running for U. S. Congress have settled on a strategy that may prove brilliant or disastrous, raising the specter of impeachment to scare moderate voters into supporting them reports The New York Times. The idea of what ring-wingers call a "coup"–such as impeaching Trump for his misdeeds after revelations that show his campaign colluded with Russia–was the stuff on conspiracy theorists on the far right a year ago, the story points out, but today appears to be part of the mainline party's talking points. "The appeals have become a surefire way for candidates to raise small contributions from grass-roots conservatives who are devoted to Mr. Trump," the story says. "But party strategists also believe that floating the possibility of impeachment can also act as a sort of scared-straight. . .
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How Standing Rock Is Leading by Example on Renewable Energy
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-07
The protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline may have failed to stop Big Oil for now, but the folks at Standing Rock have taken their fight to other fronts. Water Protectors are taking proactive steps to move the Standing Rock Sioux reservation away from fossil fuel dependency and toward renewable energy.Giant flood lights set up by a pipeline company and law enforcement illuminate a cloudy winter night at the Oceti Sakowin camp just outside of the Lakota Sioux reservation of Standing Rock, North Dakota, on December 1, 2016. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Images) | The Trump administration quickly overturned the December 2016 decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to halt the construction of the infamous Dakota Access Pipeline — almost as quickly as Trump took office. Subsequent challenges in court failed to prevent the pipeline from being completed and…
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Canada's trade union-backed Liberal government clamps down on steel and aluminum imports
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-07
Trudeau's protectionist measures, which help enforce Trump's trade war tariffs, include corporatist initiatives aimed at further integrating the unions with big business and the state.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/07/stee-a07.html
Canada's trade union-backed Liberal government clamps down on steel and aluminum imports
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-07
Trudeau's protectionist measures, which help enforce Trump's trade war tariffs, include corporatist initiatives aimed at further integrating the unions with big business and the state.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/07/stee-a07.html
The Doomsday Machine: 00:00:10 Seconds to Midnight. Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Geopolitics and the Dollar
Jim Miles | Global Research | 2018-04-07
I have lived my whole life under the notifications of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and their Doomsday Clock. It is currently set a two minutes to midnight after many years of variance, some as far away as seventeen …
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Watch This Fox News Host Look Up 'Oligarch' on Her Phone While On-Air
Elizabeth Preza, Raw Story | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-07
She implied the word wasn't in common usage previously. | Fox News conservative political commentator Ainsley Earhardt offered "Fox and Friends" viewers a definition lesson on the word "oligarch," wondering if her fellow co-hosts "have ever used the word before the last few months. "On Friday, Earhardt was discussing a series of sanctions imposted on Russian oligarchs and government officials, including Oleg Deripaska–the Russia oil tycoon who was offered "private briefings" by former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort during the 2016 presidential election. ""We were just saying, have you ever used the word oligarch before the last few months? " Earnhardt asked. "It is a ruler in an oligarchy–which doesn't explain much–but a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence. "Indeed, Deripaska and six other oligarchs linked to Russia President Vladimir Putin, along with 12 companies they control, were sanctioned by. . .
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Donald Trump: The Un-American President
Teodrose Fikre | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-07
The story of America is the story of immigrants. Almost every one of us can trace our bloodlines back to a people who arrived on these shores from other soils. | The tapestry of our nation was woven by the toils of newcomers and dyed by the blood of forced labor. All of us are byproducts of a hope that past generations had for their children. Apple pie and baseball take back seats to the narratives of foreigners who made a new home here–there is nothing more American than immigrants. | Therefore, when Donald Trump takes to the podium to demonize immigrants and spew xenophobia into the public square, he is spitting on the foundation of our nation. A man who got elected president promising to make America great again is vilifying the people who made America great. | There is irony to…
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US Occupying Oil-Rich Areas in North Syria to Choke Damascus
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-04-07
Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek says the United States is keeping a military presence in SDF/YPG-held areas in northern Syria to starve the government in Damascus of revenue needed to rebuild…
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Why 21st Social Movements Are Very Different from the Last Century
Eve Ottenberg, The American Prospect | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-06
A new book from social reformer Jai Sen explores the international age of protest. | In mid-March, a Canadian alliance of First Nation tribes led protests in British Columbia over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. This action followed other indigenous protests in Canada and the United States over the past few years, over Keystone XL, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and the Bayou Bridge. One of the most widely covered of these protests, the anti-DAPL demonstrations at Standing Rock, was led by the Standing Rock Sioux, which unfolded in tandem with their lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers. Under President Obama, the Corps finally denied an easement for the construction of the pipeline. With little apparent care for the Sioux's concerns, President Trump promptly reversed that move. But one defeat could not stop indigenous protesters. From Alaska and. . .
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Degrading Newspapers' Business Sections
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-06
It's alarming that there are far fewer media outlets for consumer protection news and features than there were thirty years ago. Recall the huge Phil Donahue Show, the regional radio show and TV news shows, the television networks and syndicated radio shows that would report and interview consumer advocates about the injustice, rip-offs, and harms…
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Court Rules EPA Unlawfully Delayed Environmental Racism Investigations for Decades
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-06
Father Phil Schmitter and other advocates from a predominately Black neighborhood in Flint, Michigan filed a civil rights complaint with the EPA more than 20 years before the city became a symbol of environmental racism. The EPA finally completed its investigation into the complaint last year, and only after environmental justice groups took the agency to federal court.Darlene McClendon, 62, at her home in Flint, Michigan, on October 11, 2016. (Photo: Brittany Greeson / The Washington Post via Getty Images) | Exposing the wrongdoing of those in power has never been more important. Support Truthout's independent, investigative journalism by making a donation! | A federal court ruled this week that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the Civil Rights Act by delaying investigations into environmental discrimination complaints for years, even decades. For plaintiff Phil Schmitter, a priest and social justice activist…
www.truth-out.org/news/item/44082-court-rules-epa-unlawfully-delayed-environmental-racism-investigations-for-decades
Fox News Is Brazenly Ignoring Its Own Damning Interview With Scott Pruitt
Matt Gertz, Media Matters | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-06
The network is taking extraordinary measures to cover for the president. | Seeking to recover from a storm of ethical scandals with a tour of conservative news outlets, embattled Environmental Protection Agency director Scott Pruitt sat down with Fox News' Ed Henry for an interview yesterday afternoon. Pruitt was surely hoping for the same softballs he has regularly received on the right-wing network. But to his credit, Henry grilled the EPA director, pushing back on Pruitt's defenses of his conduct. Journalists from other outlets have rightfully praised the interview, with MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle commenting, "Ed Henry, good on you," after airing a portion of it this morning. Observers have largely been struck by the dog-bites-man quality of a Fox reporter savaging one of President Donald Trump's top appointees. But a review. . .
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Confidential Shell Oil Report Prompts Lawsuit: They Knew About Climate Change Decades Ago
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-04-06
What Royal Dutch Shell knew about fossil fuel driving climate change and when they knew it is confirmed in Confidential Report published by Dutch source, prompting legal case against oil giant by environmental group Friends of the Earth…
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Shell Suppressed the Dangers of Fossil Fuel Emissions for Decades: Report
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-06
New documents reveal scientists warned the oil giant as early as the 1980s. | Royal Dutch Shell's scientists warned the oil giant about the threat that fossil fuel emissions pose to the planet as early as the 1980s, according to a trove of documents obtained by a Dutch journalist and published Thursday at Climate Files. Environmental advocates say the documents–which bolster an investigative report published last year–demonstrate the "stunning" immorality of oil and gas companies. The records are expected to aid global efforts to hold the industry to account for its contributions to global warming. Okay, vast new trove of documents found by Dutch researcher show Shell too knew everything about climate change back in the 1980s. The basic immorality of these companies is stunning. #ShellKnew t. co/FnAQo7coJ3– Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 5, 2018One such document, a confidential. . .
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Will We Ever See the Results of the Mueller Investigation?
Eugene Robinson | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-06
If you want to make sure you learn whether President Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians and whether Trump himself committed obstruction of justice, there's one thing you must do: Vote in November to take control of Congress away from the Republican Party. | Spoiler alert: We already have evidence that Trump at least tried his best to obstruct justice; and despite the president's frequent all-caps tweets to the contrary, collusion is still very much an open question. For more definitive answers, however, we have to await special counsel Robert Mueller's findings–and there is no guarantee we will learn, in detail, everything that he finds out. | The Washington Post reported this week that Mueller intends to produce a series of reports about the various issues he is probing, with the first likely to be on the obstruction of justice question. | The…
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Louisiana Bill Aims To Hypercriminalize Pipeline Protests (1/2)
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-04-06
Civil rights lawyer Bill Quigley says that the legislation is driven by private oil companies who want to clamp down on environmental activists' First Amendment rights and preserve profits derived at the expense of communities of color…
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Trump orders end of 'catch & release' immigration policy
RT | RT US News | 2018-04-06
President Donald Trump has signed an order ending the so-called 'catch and release' policy, under which US immigration officers allowed the release of 'caught' illegal immigrants back on US soil, pending their immigration hearing. | RT.com…
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#DeleteFacebook? Not in Indian Country
Jenni Monet, YES! Magazine | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-05
For tribal communities, Facebook delivers in times of need. |
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Trump Expresses Confidence in EPA Chief as Questions Linger
Staff | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-05
The president appears to throw embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt a lifeline, even as a review of Pruitt's conduct by White House officials is underway. | The post Trump Expresses Confidence in EPA Chief as Questions Linger appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Outrage over protection of killer cops expressed at Sacramento City Council meeting
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-05
Dozens of speakers denounced the City Council members and District Attorney for their indifference towards the murder of Stephon Clark and the broader social crisis in California's capital.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/05/sacr-a05.html
Top Aide to Embattled EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Tenders Resignation
Travis Gettys, Raw Story | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-05
Samantha Dravis steps down amid a burgeoning ethics scandal. | A top aide to the embattled Environmental Protection Agency head has resigned. Samantha Dravis, associate administrator of the EPA's office of policy, has stepped down from her position amid an ethics scandal involving EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, according to CNN reporters. Samantha Dravis, associate Administrator of EPA's office of policy and close aide to Scott Pruitt, has submitted her resignation, her attorney tells @sganim– Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) April 5, 2018 Related Stories: White House Response Indicates That Scott Pruitt Will Probably Be Fired SoonTrump's EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Caught Living in Prime D. C. Condo Owned by Top Energy Lobbyist's Wife: ReportEPA Head Spends Over $100K in Taxpayer Money to Fly Around the World in First Class…
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Trump Escalates Already-Deadly U.S. Border Policies, Ordering National Guard to Mexican Border
Democracy Now! | 2018-04-05
A new wave of troops could soon be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border, even as border crossings by undocumented immigrants are at their lowest levels since 1971. The move comes as a caravan of Central American migrants and asylum seekers in Mexico has prompted a series of threats from President Trump. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is requesting that the U.S. military build walls for at least one military base along the U.S.-Mexico border. We go to Tucson, Arizona, for an update from Todd Miller, a border security journalist and author of "Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security."
www.democracynow.org/2018/4/5/trump_escalates_already_deadly_us_border
Trump administration axes Obama-era clean car standards
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-05
The EPA's decision is the latest in a series of efforts aimed at gutting environmental regulations, particularly related to climate change.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/05/epaf-a05.html
Climate Truth: a Plan for Sustainability
Roy Morrison | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-05
There is a practical path for tackling climate change, for organizing from your house to your neighborhood, city, state and beyond. It's clear. It's simple. It's 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year as a goal and a measure for global sustainability. 3 tons is the basis for personal and collective action…
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How the Wireless Industry Convinced the Public Cellphones Are Safe & Cherry-Picked Research on Risks
Democracy Now! | 2018-04-05
Ninety-five out of every 100 American adults owns a cellphone today. And worldwide, three out of four adults now have cellphone access. The wireless industry is one of the fastest-growing on Earth, raking in annual sales of $440 billion in 2016. But are cellphones safe? A new investigation by The Nation suggests that's a question that cellphone giants prefer you don't ask. We speak with Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation's environment correspondent and investigative editor. His report, co-authored with Mark Dowie, is headlined "How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe."
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America's Gun Problem is a Police Problem
Albert Gustafson | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-05
In the wake of a crisis, proposals for reform are often radical and ill-conceived. Seattle radio host John Carlson's gun reform proposal, outlined in theWall Street Journal, boils America's violent crime problem down to one issue; people who shouldn't have guns do. But Carlson's proposals ignore the role of police violence in criminals' decisions to use…
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Oil Firms' Multimillion-dollar Bribery Racket Bringing Death to the Streets of Iraq's Basra
Suadad al-Salhy | Global Research | 2018-04-05
Driving pick-up trucks, the hit squad prowled the streets of Basra in southern Iraq, searching for the oil contractor it had been sent to kill. When the gunmen finally cornered Kadhim Wattban near his home, just before midnight, the married …
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Nuclear Power Firms Woo Middle East
Staff | Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists | 2018-04-05
Nuclear power firms are scrambling to sell reactors to countries in one of the most troubled parts of the world, the Middle East. Many lack domestic customers and see this new market as a potential lifesaver. | A report last year by the US-based Center for Climate & Security included the Middle East in a list of what it called "potential crisis regions where combining security, climate, and nuclear risks must be addressed urgently." | The biggest prize is the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has announced plans to build 16 nuclear plants over the next 25 years at a cost of US$80 billion, part of an effort to diversify away from fossil fuels. South Korea, China, France, Russia, Japan and the United States are all bidding to build them. | In a region where renewables are half the price…
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Louisiana Bill Aims To Hypercriminalize Pipeline Protests (1/2)
TRNN | The Real News Network | 2018-04-05
Civil rights lawyer Bill Quigley says that the legislation is driven by private oil companies who want to clamp down on environmental activists' First Amendment rights and preserve profits derived at the expense of communities of color…
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Atmospheric Burnings: The Re-entry of China's Tiangong-1.
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
The precipitous demise of China's prototype space station, Tiangong-1, was the sort of event that took earthbound discussions to more heavenly matters. Human beings, as is their wont, tend to follow the rules of colonisation with a certain automatism. In doing so, they have a distinct habit of leaving debris, a junking phenomenon that has seen…
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Most Likely to Succeed
Meredith Anton | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
Oh very young, what will you leave us this time? You're only dancing on this earth for a short while. -Cat Stevens I heard these lyrics the other night while making dinner and realized it was one of those songs that has left a permanent imprint on me, the kind of song that intertwines with…
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Atmospheric Burnings: The Re-entry of China's Tiangong-1
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
The precipitous demise of China's prototype space station, Tiangong-1, was the sort of event that took earthbound discussions to more heavenly matters. Human beings, as is their wont, tend to follow the rules of colonisation with a certain automatism. In doing so, they have a distinct habit of leaving debris, a junking phenomenon that has seen…
counterpunch.org/2018/04/04/atmospheric-burnings-the-re-entry-of-chinas-tiangong-1/
Most Likely to Succeed.
Meredith Anton | counterpunch.org | 2018-04-04
Oh very young, what will you leave us this time? You're only dancing on this earth for a short while. -Cat Stevens I heard these lyrics the other night while making dinner and realized it was one of those songs that has left a permanent imprint on me, the kind of song that intertwines with…
counterpunch.org/2018/04/04/most-likely-to-succeed/
Trump's Trade War With China Will Roil Economies of Many 2018 Election Battleground States
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet | AlterNet.org | 2018-04-04
Trump just handed voters another reason to vote for Democrats in some of 2018's most important races. | President Trump's escalating trade war with China is poised to roil key economic sectors of numerous 2018 political battleground states, where Republican incumbents already are facing a Democratic surge. On Wednesday, China announced tariffs worth $50 billion in retaliation against Trump's just-imposed tariffs on Chinese steel, aluminum and high-tech goods. The Chinese will impose a 25 percent tariff on 106 U. S. products including soybeans, cars and chemicals, it announced. It will also target U. S. corn, cotton, beef, orange juice, whiskey, tobacco, and several lubricants and plastic products. Beyond the boasts by White House National Trade Council director Peter Navarro on Fox Business on March 2 that no country would dare retaliate "for the simple reason that we are the most lucrative and biggest market in. . .
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A Death in Louisiana's Cancer Alley Reinforces a Small Town's Fears of Industry Impacts
Truthout Stories | 2018-04-04
Keith Hunter, long-time resident of St. James, Louisiana, in March 2017, roughly a year before he died. (Photo: Julie Dermansky) | Thirty seconds: That's how long it takes to support the independent journalism at Truthout. We're counting on you. Click here to chip in! | Sixty-year-old Keith Hunter lived in St. James, Louisiana, for roughly 27 years, and during that time, he watched as the sugarcane farms gave way to oil storage tanks and as a railroad terminal was being built down the road, all visible from his front yard. Hunter was an outspoken critic of the industrialization of his neighborhood. And in a similar fashion as some of his neighbors, Hunter died on February 10 following a respiratory illness. | The town of St. James lies in St. James Parish, about 50 miles west of New Orleans. Despite its location…
www.truth-out.org/news/item/44056-a-death-in-louisiana-s-cancer-alley-reinforces-a-small-town-s-fears-of-industry-impacts
Trump proposes to deploy troops to US-Mexico border.
WSWS | World Socialist Web Site | 2018-04-04
The deployment of the military on US soil to arrest or deter immigrants raises the specter of martial law and violates the basic democratic principle of posse comitatus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/04/pers-a04.html
Abortion and Human Rights in El Salvador.
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-04-03
Last August, I had the opportunity to testify before the Constitutional Tribunal in Chile, my home country, in support of a landmark law that decriminalized abortion in three circumstances. In my testimony before the court, I spoke about how Chile's total abortion ban, in effect for 28 years, undermined women's fundamental human rights. | I later was in the packed courtroom to hear arguments from other expert witnesses. Many people have strong, deeply held views on abortion. But the main question before the court was whether Chile's constitutional protection for the embryo or fetus could be reconciled with allowing women to terminate their pregnancies in certain circumstances–for example, when the life of the woman or girl is at risk, or when the pregnancy resulted from rape. This question is a central part of the debate in El Salvador, where the constitution recognizes the…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/03/abortion-and-human-rights-el-salvador
EPA Violated the Law by Failing to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints, Court Rules
Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | 2018-04-03
A court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency violated its duty to respond to civil rights complaints in a timely way. The case involved five organizations that had waited years for the EPA to respond to complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or color. | The law requires the EPA to respond to parties that file civil rights complaints within 20 days, letting them know whether the agency plans to conduct an investigation. After opening an investigation, the EPA has 180 days to either dismiss a complaint or issue preliminary findings and recommendations based on what it finds in the investigation. But in each of the five cases, the groups waited years — in some cases, decades — for responses from the agency. | Among the groups suing…
theintercept.com/2018/04/03/epa-complaints-civil-rights-discrimination-court-ruling/
Abortion and Human Rights in El Salvador
Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch News | 2018-04-03
Last August, I had the opportunity to testify before the Constitutional Tribunal in Chile, my home country, in support of a landmark law that decriminalized abortion in three circumstances. In my testimony before the court, I spoke about how Chile's total abortion ban, in effect for 28 years, undermined women's fundamental human rights. | I later was in the packed courtroom to hear arguments from other expert witnesses. Many people have strong, deeply held views on abortion. But the main question before the court was whether Chile's constitutional protection for the embryo or fetus could be reconciled with allowing women to terminate their pregnancies in certain circumstances–for example, when the life of the woman or girl is at risk, or when the pregnancy resulted from rape. This question is a central part of the debate in El Salvador, where the constitution recognizes the…
www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/03/abortion-and-human-rights-el-salvador