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West Virginia Democratic Candidate Hauled From Legislative Hearing for Listing Off Corporate Donors to Fossil Fuel-Friendly Lawmakers
Photo: Howie McCormick/AP WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE HAULED FROM LEGISLATIVE HEARING FOR LISTING OFF CORPORATE DONORS TO FOSSIL FUEL-FRIENDLY LAWMAKERS LISSA LUCAS IS a Democrat running for a state House seat in West Virginia’s District 7. Part of her campaign’s goal is to challenge the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry on the state’s politics. So […]
Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?
Photo: Alexander Utkin/AFP/Getty Images Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia? EVERY EMPIRE NEEDS a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of […]
The Stock Market Swings Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Our Rigged Economy
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images THE STOCK MARKET SWINGS TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR RIGGED ECONOMY KARL MARX USED to say that unemployed people were capitalism’s reserve army. Though he didn’t invent the term, he meant that capitalism drew its strength from this army, standing at the ready to take a worker’s […]
Donald Trump Wants to Make It Easier to Start a Nuclear War. This Should Petrify Us.
Photo: Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto/Getty Images Donald Trump Wants to Make It Easier to Start a Nuclear War. This Should Petrify Us. SHE DID TRY and warn us. “Imagine, if you dare … imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis,” Hillary Clinton said in her speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2016, referring […]
Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N.
Photo: Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive/ Getty Images LIE AFTER LIE: WHAT COLIN POWELL KNEW ABOUT IRAQ 15 YEARS AGO AND WHAT HE TOLD THE U.N. COLIN POWELL DELIVERED his presentation making the case for war with Iraq at the United Nations 15 years ago, on February 5, 2003. As much criticism as Powell received for this — […]
Blowback: How a CIA-Backed Coup Let to the Rise of Iran’s Ayatollahs
BLOWBACK: HOW A CIA-BACKED COUP LED TO THE RISE OF IRAN’S AYATOLLAHS WHY CAN’T IRAN have a secular, democratic government? It’s a question Americans often ask of their longstanding Middle East adversary — especially when they see images of anti-regime protesters taking to the streets of major Iranian cities and towns to demand greater freedom. […]
EPA Division That Studies the Health Risks of Toxic Chemicals is in a Fight For Its Life–Against the EPA
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images EPA DIVISION THAT STUDIES THE HEALTH RISKS OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IS IN A FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE — AGAINST THE EPA A SMALL BUT vitally important program within the Environmental Protection Agency is in a fight for its life. The Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is the only division of […]
EPA Orders Testing for GenX Contamination Near Chemours Plant in West Virginia
EPA ORDERS TESTING FOR GENX CONTAMINATION NEAR CHEMOURS PLANT IN WEST VIRGINIA The Teflon Toxin DuPont introduced GenX in 2009 to replace PFOA, also known as C8, a chemical it had used for decades to make Teflon and other… THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY has asked Chemours to test water near its plant in West Virginia […]
Facebook Will Trust Its Untrustworthy Users to Rank the Trustworthiness of News
Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images FACEBOOK WILL TRUST ITS UNTRUSTWORTHY USERS TO RANK THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF NEWS FACEBOOK USERS, BY and large, are not very good at differentiating between what’s fact and what’s false. Many users will eagerly share both reliable news and the fake stuff without any hesitation. It happens because users either want the falsehoods […]
Justice Department Helped Washington State Prosecutor Target Facebook Records of Anti-Pipeline Activists
Photo: Ty Campbell via The Red Line Salish Sea JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HELPED WASHINGTON STATE PROSECUTOR TARGET FACEBOOK RECORDS OF ANTI-PIPELINE ACTIVISTS NINE MONTHS AFTER pipeline opponents in Washington state staged a protest that blocked freeway traffic, Facebook ended a protracted legal standoff with a county prosecutor, turning over detailed records on the indigenous-led group behind […]
“We Don’t Consider You a Legitimate Journalist”–How I Got Blacklisted by the Pentagon’s Africa Command
Photo: Natalie Jidovanu “WE DON’T CONSIDER YOU A LEGITIMATE JOURNALIST” — HOW I GOT BLACKLISTED BY THE PENTAGON’S AFRICA COMMAND CONVERSATIONS WITH MILITARY spokespeople can be curt, even confrontational, but they are not supposed to go this way. “Nick, we’re not going to respond to any of your questions” Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, the head […]
The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers
Photo: Mark J. Terrill/AP The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers LEADING CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power. Over the last several months, they have […]
Five Spills, Six Months in Operation: Dakota Access Track Record Highlights Unavoidable Reality–Pipelines Leak
Photo: Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg News/Getty Images FIVE SPILLS, SIX MONTHS IN OPERATION: DAKOTA ACCESS TRACK RECORD HIGHLIGHTS UNAVOIDABLE REALITY — PIPELINES LEAK REPRESENTATIVES FROM Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, traveled to Cambridge, Iowa, in October to present a series of $20,000 checks to emergency management departments in six counties. The […]
First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News” YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to […]
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror I was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years. The Obama administration […]
