• ‘Egregious Handout’ to Corporate Polluters as Trump EPA Moves to Accelerate Pipeline Approvals With Attack on Clean Water Act
• Ohio Man Charged After Threat To Shoot AOC
• Epstein Allegedly Commits “Suicide” Despite Previously Being Put On Suicide Watch
• Trump Administration Reauthorizes ‘Cyanide Bombs’ to Kill US Wildlife
• ICE Raids Focused On Company Whose Hispanic Workers Won Discrimination Lawsuit
• Under Gaza’s Worsened Economy, Eid al-Adha Is Just Another Day
• ‘Huge Victory for Press Freedom’: Brazil Supreme Court Bars Bolsonaro From Investigating Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept
• U.N.: Seven Countries Selling Arms to Myanmar Military Despite Rohingya Genocide
• Trump’s ‘Diplomacy’ in Iran Is a Cynical Farce

‘Egregious Handout’ to Corporate Polluters as Trump EPA Moves to Accelerate Pipeline Approvals With Attack on Clean Water Act

“This attempted power grab at the expense of state-based clean water oversight is the epitome of hypocrisy.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Environmentalists on Friday denounced the Trump administration for once again attempting to boost fossil fuel industry profits at the expense of public health after EPA chief Andrew Wheeler proposed a rule to expedite approval […]

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Ohio Man Charged After Threat To Shoot AOC

An Ohio man was charged on Friday after writing on Facebook that Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “should be shot.” “She should be shot. Can’t fire me, my employer would load the gun for me,” the man, Timothy James Ireland Jr., 41, wrote on his Facebook page. Federal agents carried out a raid on Ireland’s Toledo […]

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Epstein Allegedly Commits “Suicide” Despite Previously Being Put On Suicide Watch

“We need answers. Lots of them.” Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly killed himself in a Manhattan jail early Saturday morning, according to multiple media reports. The news comes a day after a trove of unsealed documents from a pending case against the financier revealed the elaborate system he used to operate a child sex trafficking […]

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Trump Administration Reauthorizes ‘Cyanide Bombs’ to Kill US Wildlife

Conservation groups say the devices are indiscriminate killers that should be banned. (By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Brushing off overwhelming public opposition, the Trump administration this week re-approved the use of so-called “cyanide bombs” to kill wild animals on public lands. Known officially as M-44s, the devices “can’t be used safely by anyone, anywhere,” said Collette […]

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ICE Raids Focused On Company Whose Hispanic Workers Won Discrimination Lawsuit

“The workers alleged that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday activities at work, such as using bathrooms, taking leave or requesting job transfers.” The largest single-state ICE raid in US history was carried out in six Mississippi poultry […]

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Under Gaza’s Worsened Economy, Eid al-Adha Is Just Another Day

As the Muslim world marks Eid al-Adha, the Palestinian residents in Gaza face economic hardships that make it difficult for them to observe the occasion smoothly or normally. Eid al-Adha or the “Festival of Sacrifice” is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year. The four-day celebration marks the remembrance of the willingness […]

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‘Huge Victory for Press Freedom’: Brazil Supreme Court Bars Bolsonaro From Investigating Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept

Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept, applauded the court for protecting journalism against “repressive, retaliatory acts threatened by the Bolsonaro government.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The Brazilian Supreme Court delivered a major victory for press freedom on Thursday by barring President Jair Bolsonaro from investigating journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept for reporting that exposed unethical and possibly unlawful behavior by Justice […]

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U.N.: Seven Countries Selling Arms to Myanmar Military Despite Rohingya Genocide

“Israel, in particular, allowed the transfer of arms covered by the ATT (Arms Trade Treaty) at a time when it had knowledge, or ought to have had knowledge, that they would be used in the commission of serious crimes under international law.” A United Nations fact-finding mission called for an arms embargo following its report […]

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Trump’s ‘Diplomacy’ in Iran Is a Cynical Farce

“The United States has walked into a corner. By sanctioning Iran, it has suggested that it is not interested in diplomacy.” Word of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif did not seem to rattle the government in Iran. Zarif’s own reaction—that the U.S. is “isolating itself”—suggested the tone. Iran […]

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