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Plastics industry heats world 4 times as much as air travel, report finds
Plastics industry heats world 4 times as much as air travel, report finds Greenpeace activists display a giant art installation called ‘Perpetual Plastic Machine’ ahead of Global Plastic Treaty talks Saturday, May 27, 2023 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) Pollution from the plastics industry is a major force behind the heating of the planet, according […]
US Embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country
US Embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country The U.S. Embassy in Russia is urging Americans in the country to leave and warning U.S. citizens to not travel to Russia after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a call-up of 300,000 reservists to aid depleted forces in Ukraine. The embassy said in a security alert on […]
Department of Transportation declares regional emergency following BP refinery fire in Indiana
Department of Transportation declares regional emergency following BP refinery fire in Indiana Kirklareli / Turkey – Aug, 30, 2021: Lighted Sign Board with Large British Petroleum, BP Logo Placed on a poll in the highway gas station. A Department of Transportation agency declared a regional energy emergency for four Midwestern states on Saturday after a fire at […]
The end of the dollar as we know it
The end of the dollar as we know it Current uncertainty and worries are clearly reflected in the financial markets. Investors are fleeing into assets that are deemed safe, such as gold, U.S. Treasuries and the dollar. They still flock to the U.S. on a massive scale, whereas a lot of the current insecurity derives […]
Former MSNBC Reporter Spills Details On Pro-Establishment Bias In Media
Former MSNBC Reporter Spills Details On Pro-Establishment Bias In Media The ridiculous corporate media freakout over Senator Bernie Sanders’ entirely legitimate accusations of pro-establishment bias continues today, with shrill, absurd new headlines like “Sanders campaign continues attacks on journalists” and “Bernie Sanders isn’t sorry” featuring hysterical MSM drama queens rending their garments over the suggestion that plutocrat-owned media […]
DOJ, Rosenstein Working To Better Spy On Journalists, Target Leakers
DOJ, Rosenstein Working To Better Spy On Journalists, Target Leakers Over the past few months, the Department of Justice has been quietly engaged an effort to revise its guidelines governing the rules for seizing records from journalists – especially when it comes to leak cases, reports The Hill‘s John Solomon. The effort has the potential to […]
CIA’s ‘surveillance state’ is operating against us all
CIA’s ‘surveillance state’ is operating against us all © Getty Images Maybe you once thought the CIA wasn’t supposed to spy on Americans here in the United States. That concept is so yesteryear. Over time, the CIA upper echelon has secretly developed all kinds of policy statements and legal rationales to justify routine, widespread surveillance […]
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism Trump is for nationalism. So the “Resistance” is predictably for . . . wait for it . . . the right kind of nationalism — or nationalism worn properly, as The Week advises. The problem isn’t nationalism, The Hill informs us, it’s phony nationalism and spurious nationalism, or […]
Hollywood hoopla ignores media’s history of servility
Hollywood hoopla ignores media’s history of servility © Getty Much of the media nowadays is portraying itself as heroes of the #Resist Trump movement. To exploit that meme, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out “The Post,” a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. But regardless of whether Spielberg’s latest wins the […]
America’s News Media Foment Hate
America’s News Media Foment Hate Like was shown in the movie 1984, in its two-minute section “Two Minutes of Hate,” the US-installed Ukrainian regime on Russia’s doorstep, will soon be debating a bill to make hate of Russia obligatory to be inculcated into all Ukrainian children. The Hill, on 9 November 2017, had the extraordinary courage to publish an opinion-piece […]
Bitcoin isn’t the bubble — the global financial system is
Bitcoin isn’t the bubble — the global financial system is © Getty Images Pretty much every article you read about bitcoin in the mainstream press ends up in the same place. You may not hear it until the seventh or eighth paragraph, but eventually you’ll be told that the whole thing is nothing more than […]
The Great Recession 10 years later: Lessons we still have to learn
The Great Recession 10 years later: Lessons we still have to learn © Getty Ten years ago this month, a recession began in the U.S. that would metastasize into a full-fledged financial crisis. A decade is plenty of time to reflect on what we have learned, what we have fixed, and what remains to be […]
How many Americans are swept up in the NSA’s snooping programs?
How many Americans are swept up in the NSA’s snooping programs? © Getty Images Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper famously (or infamously) told Congress the National Security Agency did not “wittingly” collect data on Americans. That turned out to be false. More recently, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked the current director of national […]
