• NJ School District Bans Students With Lunch Debt From Prom, Field Trips
• How Turkey Scored the American Green Light to Occupy an Area in Syria the Size of Greece
• HUD Officials Knowingly Stalled Puerto Rico Aid
• Cities With More Black Residents Rely More on Traffic Tickets and Fines for Revenue
• Elijah Cummings Signed Subpoenas Hours Before His Death
• Sorting Facts From Fiction About the US Withdrawal From Syria
• Feds Find an Additional 1,250 Immigrant Children Separated From Parents
• Gabbard Blasts Clinton ‘Queen Of Warmongers’
• Despite Damning Scientific Evidence, EPA Dismisses Link Between Parkinson’s and Exposure to the Herbicide Paraquat
• Where is the Fire Department?
• Major Voting Rights Victory in Florida as Judge Rules on Felon Voting Rights
• ‘Super Saturday’ Bust for Johnson, UK Parliament Delays Brexit Vote
• Does This State Have the Worst Drug Polices in America?
• Hospital Industry Leading Fight Against Medicare for All
• Brexit Has a New Deal! But Will UK’s Parliament Approve?
• Biggest Protest in Years as Lebanese Demand ‘Fall of the Regime’
• ‘Most Overt Corruption to Date’ as Trump Resort to Host 2020 G7
• US Senator Introduces Legislation to Grant Kurds Visas
• New Report Finds Evidence Of Fraud In Trump’s Property Taxes
• New CDC Report Finds Disturbing Rise in Suicide Rates For Young People
• The Top Ten Whistleblowers You Never Heard Of But Should Know
• How the ‘Vaping Crisis’ is a Wakeup Call to Legalize Cannabis Nationwide

NJ School District Bans Students With Lunch Debt From Prom, Field Trips

“In the U.S. in 2017, around 17% of children lived in food-insecure homes where at least one family member was unable to acquire adequate food due to insufficient money or other resources.” A New Jersey school district is facing criticism after approving a policy that will bar students with lunch debt from extracurricular activities like […]

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How Turkey Scored the American Green Light to Occupy an Area in Syria the Size of Greece

If the U.S. policy in Syria in recent years promoted the Kurdish identity, it has now swung to the other extreme of stoking the fires of Turkish revanchism. The extraordinary U.S. overture to Turkey regarding northern Syria resulted in a joint statement on October 17, the ramifications of which can be rated only in the […]

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HUD Officials Knowingly Stalled Puerto Rico Aid

HUD officials purposefully withheld funds allocated for Puerto Rico aid after Hurricane Maria claiming the island was too corrupt to appropriately manage the full amount of funding. Two years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the island has received only a third of the roughly $43 billion Congress allocated for recovery efforts. Last week, top […]

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Cities With More Black Residents Rely More on Traffic Tickets and Fines for Revenue

How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly a decade ago and it’s a pretty unremarkable story: I was on my way back to Columbus, Ohio, from a […]

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Elijah Cummings Signed Subpoenas Hours Before His Death

“As I was paying my respects to our forever Chairman, his staff told me that in his final hours he signed subpoenas to USCIS and ICE” – Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Rep. Elijah Cummings. Rep. Elijah Cummings signed subpoenas investigating the Trump administration’s immigration policy hours before his death last Thursday, according to Congresswoman Ayanna […]

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Sorting Facts From Fiction About the US Withdrawal From Syria

If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and history that explain why. (By Rick Sterling, MPN.com) The foreign policy elite is in an uproar. They claim we have […]

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Feds Find an Additional 1,250 Immigrant Children Separated From Parents

The federal government admitted an additional 1,250 kids have been separated at the U.S. border, though the ACLU suggests that number may be as high as 2,000. On Friday, a Health and Human Services official told a federal judge that an additional 1,250 immigrant children were likely separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border […]

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Gabbard Blasts Clinton ‘Queen Of Warmongers’

Tulsi Gabbard’s fierce opposition to regime change wars is ruffling the feathers of the Democratic Party establishment. While Gabbard’s bid for the presidency is a longshot, the spotlight on her campaign continues to bring uncomfortable questions to the foreign policy establishment. Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard condemned Hillary Clinton as the “queen of warmongers” and the […]

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Despite Damning Scientific Evidence, EPA Dismisses Link Between Parkinson’s and Exposure to the Herbicide Paraquat

While paraquat has been banned in the European Union since 2007, millions of pounds are still being imported into the U.S. from other countries. (Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is downplaying the connection between exposure to the herbicide paraquat and the development of Parkinson’s disease, per registration review documents released by the agency […]

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Where is the Fire Department?

Greta Thunberg has inspired a new world-wide generation of young climate activists. As an effective communicator on climate change, the young Swedish schoolgirl is currently in a league of her own. “In a way,” Naomi Klein writes, “she is asking those of us whose mental wiring is more typical – less prone to extraordinary focus and more capable of living with moral contradictions – to be more like her.”

Most of us do have the capacity to rationalize, to compartmentalize, and to be distracted easily. “All three of these mental tricks,” writes Klein, “help us get through the day.” But then she adds that these traits are also “proving to be our collective undoing” when it comes to rising to the reality of our climate crisis.

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Major Voting Rights Victory in Florida as Judge Rules on Felon Voting Rights

The ACLU celebrated a judge’s ruling Friday in Florida on felon voting rights stating, “The court’s decision is clear: the right to vote cannot be denied to anyone based on their inability to pay.” In a major victory for felon voting rights advocates, a judge ruled on Friday that Florida can not block people with […]

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‘Super Saturday’ Bust for Johnson, UK Parliament Delays Brexit Vote

What was billed as a ‘Super Saturday’ has turned into a super disappointment for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson as his fellow legislators voted to extend the Brexit withdrawal deadline. In the first Saturday session of the U.K. Parliament since 1982, legislators voted 322-306 to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request an extension from […]

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Does This State Have the Worst Drug Polices in America?

Drug testing toddlers, felony ingestion charges, overcrowded jails and prisons, racial disparities–this state has it all. (StopTheDrugWar) With endless miles of farmland shading into ever higher and drier terrain as one moves west, crossing the Missouri River and then on to the Badlands and the Black Hills, South Dakota has a certain austere beauty. Not […]

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Hospital Industry Leading Fight Against Medicare for All

Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system. (By Andrew Perez, MapLight) Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings reviewed by MapLight. Tenet Healthcare, the nation’s third-largest investor-owned operator of hospitals, has donated nearly $630,000 to the Partnership for […]

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Brexit Has a New Deal! But Will UK’s Parliament Approve?

Both the U.K. and the E.U. have reportedly agreed on new terms for Britain’s exit from the E.U. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the E.U.’s commission president Jean-Claude Juncker announced the new Brexit deal is a fair outcome for both sides. With the Brexit deadline of October 31st fast approaching, Juncker added that there […]

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Biggest Protest in Years as Lebanese Demand ‘Fall of the Regime’

“The people want the downfall of the regime” chant Lebanese protesters in a second consecutive day of popular unrest. Tens of thousands of Lebanese residents continued protests for the second day in a row, on Friday, demanding economic reforms and a change of government. The demonstrations are being reported as the largest in years as […]

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‘Most Overt Corruption to Date’ as Trump Resort to Host 2020 G7

“It’s point blank, a violation of the premier anti-corruption provision of the United States Constitution, the emolument clause, because it will involve payments and benefits, and promotion, to the president’s property.” White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced on Thursday that White House has chosen President Trump’s private company, Trump Doral golf resort, […]

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US Senator Introduces Legislation to Grant Kurds Visas

The US Senator’s legislation is the latest manifestation of Western opposition to the Turkish operation on Kurdish forces in Syria. (By MEMO) A US Senator introduced legislation on Thursday in the Senate to provide US visas to Syrian Kurds who have served in the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) and alongside US forces throughout the Syrian […]

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New Report Finds Evidence Of Fraud In Trump’s Property Taxes

“It really feels like there’s two sets of books — it feels like a set of books for the tax guy and a set for the lender.” A new ProPublica investigation of Trump Organization property tax documents establishes fresh evidence of fraud and support for a claim made by the president’s former personal lawyer, Michael […]

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New CDC Report Finds Disturbing Rise in Suicide Rates For Young People

“Just looking at these numbers, it’s hard not to find them completely disturbing. It should be a call to action.” An alarming new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that suicide rates among children and young adults have sharply risen over the past decade. “Not only is suicide trending upward, […]

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The Top Ten Whistleblowers You Never Heard Of But Should Know

Ordinary people do extraordinary things all the time, some become whistleblowers and blow the whistle on some of the U.S.’ biggest scandals. Whistleblowers have long been a part of American history, though depending on what the whistleblower is revealing society’s acceptance and willingness to protect them has varied widely. One of the first incidents of […]

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How the ‘Vaping Crisis’ is a Wakeup Call to Legalize Cannabis Nationwide

The vaping crisis sweeping the nation is a reminder of the dangers of a lack of national uniform cannabis regulation and decriminalization. Both e-cigarettes and cannabis vaping related illnesses have recently hit the news with force in the U.S. An outbreak of hundreds of vaping related lung disease and 26 deaths correlated with the use […]

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