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Reporters Without Borders 2021 World Press Freedom Index The United States moved up one spot in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, from 45th to 44th. That's 45th out of 180. What an achievement!…
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned Senate Republicans the nation faced a “calamity” unless Congress raises or suspends the debt ceiling. “I think there would be a financial crisis, and a calamity”, said…
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Afghan Taliban Catching Up To American Taliban   Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan The future of girls and female teachers, stuck at home since Taliban took control, not addressed. The Taliban…
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Joe Biden won the 2020 election with over 81.2 million votes; by far the most votes cast for any presidential candidate in U.S. history. That's great. So, how come President Biden and his administration…
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Mark Twain. Dalai Lama. Isaac Asimov.   In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the…
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Since 2004, 1800 newspapers have closed in the US, 1700 are weeklies. There are hundreds — if not thousands — of communities at risk of becoming isolated news deserts. There are almost 200 of…
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  "While hunger was already a massive, systemic problem in all 50 states before Covid-19 hit the U.S., domestic hunger surged during the pandemic." Joel Berg, Hunger Free America.   Nearly 40 million Americans…
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America celebrates Labor Day – but are US workers winning? Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, says increased worker bargaining power could last longer-term. Dube says that numerous factors have…
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On 24 August in the year 410, Rome was overrun for the first time in almost 1000 years. Visigoths led by Alaric I sacked Rome completely. Shocked cable news pundits at the time opined…
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Attacks by Republican fundamentalists on women’s human rights in the US have accelerated over the past five-plus years. These attacks, obviously, are based on fear. Much like their brethren in countries such as Iran,…
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Close Your Eyes And See   After 20 years, over $2 trillion spent, mountains of dead. What was it all for? On 1 October 2001, three weeks after the 9/11 attacks and six days…
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If This Was Scratch And Sniff You Would Smell The Horseshit   Rightwing Republicans and their media leaders have been quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies. In the…
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The Blame Game, of course, has begun. Media outlets could not wait. They were forming at the mouth, ready to sell headlines and bylines, eager to forget what came before. And then they pounced.…
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Philip Pullman. Zadie Smith. Giannina Braschi. Wendell Steavenson.   The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again. When everything in public life has a logo attached to it,…
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“It’s not about comparing them. It’s more about seeing what happened before in history and what’s happening now or in the last few years”. A new documentary takes a deep dive into the historic…
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"I will fight like hell for you every single day" Well, Thanks Gov. Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul officially will be New York's first female Governor, in 13 days or sooner. Yesterday, as the world…
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Sandra Sealy. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Jessica Valenti.   Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the…
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Signs That Gulf Stream Is At Risk Of Collapse A shutdown of the currents would have devastating global impact and must be prevented, say worried scientists. Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around…