By Robert Parry / Consortiumnews —
The president earned neocon applause for his hasty decision to strike a Syrian airfield after a poison-gas incident, but his rash act has all the earmarks of an attention-diversion ploy.
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Making the former NSA chief and CIA director the go-to expert on Trump’s relationship with intelligence agencies is misguided; Harvard students are developing an anti-Trump “Resistance School”; why octopuses are “aliens living on earth.”
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
New research indicates that weather patterns are becoming more volatile and extreme, so farmers must find new ways to adapt.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
Muqtada al-Sadr also calls on Donald Trump to stop taking frivolous positions that damage the world community.
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By Timothy Karr / FreePress Blog —
It’s hard to defend legislation that undermines essential privacy rights. But that hasn’t stopped the broadband industry and its many friends in Washington from trying.
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By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams —
The Campaign for Guaranteed Healthcare, a coalition that believes access to health care is “basic to human dignity,” coordinates events.
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By Donald Kaufman — Many residents of Woodburn are living in fear since raids in February by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resulted in the detention of 11 men.
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The Truthdig columnist explains how “the corporate media has presented precisely the narrative and the images that the deep state wants,” and the deep state in turn manipulates President Trump’s foreign policy decisions.
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By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org —
We’re likely to be left with the worst of both worlds: Stephen Bannon’s brand of anti-establishment populism alongside Jared Kushner’s oligarchical Republicanism.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
President Vladimir Putin accuses the Trump administration of “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law.”
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By Marcelo Rochabrun / ProPublica —
Fees to expedite worker visas pay for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ efforts to digitize. But the agency can’t keep up with demand, forcing it to suspend its cash cow.
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By Donald Kaufman — The surveillance was uncovered after a protester filed a Freedom of Information request about demonstrations in 2014 and 2015.
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By Sam Husseini —
Some see a covert U.S. policy—under both Obama and Trump—to keep the war going and then, one day, to “pick up the remnants.”
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By Janice Raymond — I thought graphic novels were kid stuff—and there is no better book to prove me wrong than this turbulent memoir of a Vietnamese family.
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By Emma Niles — California’s 34th Congressional District went for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, but voters overwhelmingly choose establishment Democrats over “Berniecrats” in a special election.
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