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Roaming Charges: Nowhere Men

CounterPunch 

When Joe Lieberman arrived in the US Senate in 1989, Strom Thurmond greeted him by saying, "I understand we think a lot alike in the way we do things." "Yes, sir, I think we do," admitted Lieberman. Strom probably learned about this reassuring profile of Lieberman’s center-right political beliefs from his weekly lunch dates in the Senate cafeteria with Joe Biden who, like Lieberman, was one of the founding nowhere men of the Democratic Leadership Council, whose mission was to keep the Democratic... Читать дальше...

Crucifixions and whippings in the Philippines on Good Friday

France24.com (en) 

While most Filipinos went to church or spent the holiday with family, hundreds gathered in villages around San Fernando city, north of Manila, to watch men punish themselves in a bid to atone for their sins or seek miracles from God. Dozens of bare-chested flagellants wearing black shrouds and crowns made of vines walked barefoot through dusty, narrow streets, rhythmically flogging their backs with strips of bamboo tied to ropes, their blood soaking the top of their trousers and spattering onlookers. Читать дальше...



Carbon Capture, too Little too Late?

CounterPunch 

Will carbon capture technology bail society out of the latest version of greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 suddenly doubling its rate of increase when compared to the past decade, in breathtaking fashion, thus overheating the ocean and the Arctic and Antarctica and hammering Greenland? The relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and carbon capture technology is best More

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The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree

CounterPunch 

Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of Congress called for radically curtailing those nullifications of Americans’ More

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Macron open to new EU-Mercosur deal

EurActiv 

On a three-day official visit in Brazil, Emmanuel Macron proposed building a "new agreement" between the EU and Mercosur, which his Foreign Minister imagines to be broader than just trade. Critics and supporters of the original deal are now awaiting further details.

Trump’s Commercial Pleasures

CounterPunch 

At 9:58 am on March 25th, former president Donald Trump, decked out in a navy suit, red tie and white shirt, appeared in a New York court seeking a further delay in a case involving a commercial tryst he had with the porn star, Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford). He claimed, “This is a witch-hunt and a hoax.” The trial is More

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Why America Needs a Commercial Shipbuilding Industry

CounterPunch 

James Crawford served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps maintaining the radar systems on super-sophisticated warplanes built to fend off enemy attacks from air, sea, and land. But not once during his time in numerous ports as far away as Asia did he see a U.S. commercial vessel plying the seas, a sign, he More

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What’s So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy

CounterPunch 

Renewable energy comes from matter that nature produces and replenishes constantly. The power generated through this source does not significantly threaten the environment, especially in comparison with fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which take more than millions of years to developand cause severe harm to our planet and climate when burned—fossil More

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