Why State Borders Are so Much Better Than National Borders
Does it make a difference whether US borders are state borders or national borders? You bet.
Does it make a difference whether US borders are state borders or national borders? You bet.
(TMU) — After Maxine Feldstein’s boyfriend was jailed, the pair hatched a plot akin to something out of a Bonnie and Clyde movie. While in jail, Nicholas Lowe suggested to his girlfriend that she pose as a Ventura County sheriff deputy in an attempt to trick employees into releasing him into her care. And so she […]
By Peter Bolton | CounterPunch | May 17, 2019 With the attempted coup in Venezuela now nearing its four-month mark, commentators in the corporate-owned Western press are scratching their heads as to why Washington’s plan for its proxy, Juan Guaido, to topple the government of Nicolas Maduro has so far failed to materialize. Of course, […]
(ZH) — A letter written by He Tingbo, president of HiSilicon, a semiconductor company owned by Huawei, was published on Friday in China. In the letter, which the Global Times described as “touching and which has won public support,” He said that employees of the company embarked on the “most stirring journey in technology history in recent years” to […]
Every student who takes the SAT will receive an adversity score, according to the Wall Street Journal, but students and parents won’t know what it is.
By Renee Parsons – Global Research – May 17, 2019 There was little pretense that when former UN Ambassador John Bolton became President Trump’s National Security Adviser and former Rep. Mike Pompeo moved into the Secretary of State position, that either would bring a professionally credible and respectable presence to world diplomacy or foreign affairs. […]
(CD) — Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ron on Thursday urged the Trump administration not to hand over the country’s embassy in Washington, D.C. to leaders of an attempted coup after U.S. law enforcement forcibly removed peace activists who have lived there for since last month as guests of President Nicolás Maduro’s government. “We denounce these arrests, as the […]
While reducing steel tariffs back to the level they were before the Brunson affair, when Trump doubled the tariff’s to pressure Turkey.Reuters.com
(MEE) — With tensions once again ratcheting up in the Gulf, the international community has held its breath as a long-feared conflict between the US and Iran appears to inch increasingly closer. The US has blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf and President Donald Trump warned on Monday that if the Islamic republic […]
Yesterday, in the post about polls, we saw how 45% of Democrats say they are more likely to vote for Biden in the primary because of "his role in passing sweeping crime legislation during the 1990s." Presumably they are unaware of the controversy around the horrible legislation Biden wrote in the '90s.
(MEMO) — Germany today voted to define the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic, becoming the first major European parliament to do so. The German parliament – known as the Bundestag – this afternoon voted to accept a motion defining BDS as anti-Semitic. The motion, “Resist the BDS Movement – Fighting Antisemitism,” was sponsored […]
(CJ Opinion) — The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has begun responding to queries by the press about a leaked document which contradicts official OPCW findings on an alleged chemical weapons attack last year in Douma, Syria. The prepared statement they’ve been using in response to these queries confirms the authenticity of the document. […]
Like most politicians, Joe Biden has some rather bad ideas. However, the former veep deserves credit for taking on a sacred cow of Big Labor.
La meuleuse d’angle est un appareil très apprécié par les bricoleurs, fussent-ils amateur ou professionnels. Cette appétence pour le produit se comprend facilement : permettant de brosser, tronçonner, découper, poncer, la meuleuse d’angle se révèle être un appareil de bricolage polyvalent, qui le place rapidement parmi les indispensables du bricoleur. Afin de vous aider à acheter une meuleuse d’angle qui corresponde à vos besoins, nous vous présentons dans notre comparatif notre sélection avant de nous plonger dans le guide d’achat.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss report from top Tory backbenchers, that claim UK Prime Minister Theresa May will resign from her post in June, after she give her failed Brexit plan a fourth go at passing Parliament.
Earlier this week failed and discredited UK PM May announced she would bring her hated Brexit withdrawal plans back for a fourth vote in the House of Commons.
Via Zerohedge…
Soaring tensions of the past nearly two weeks paving the way for a potential direct military clash in the Persian Gulf between the US and Iran could be de-escalating as rapidly as they began as the president attempts to reign in hawks in his own administration, per a new report in FT:
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Four presidents, 14 governments and eight Seimas have changed in Latvia over the past 20 years. The country joined the European Union and NATO, and then switched to the euro. But have Latvians become better off? Has their quality of life improved? Statistics shows that the general well-being of population remains very low. Political turbulence only worsens the situation.
The United States has raided the premises of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. The aggressive act violates all related international laws. Media reports said: Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela, has rejected and repudiated the storming of its embassy by U.S. police officers Thursday. “The U.S. has raided the premises of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, a brutal act against international law and lack[Read More...]
The US plans to illegally give Guaidó’s Gang access to at the least part of the US$30 billion stolen from the Venezuelan people so these US-trained Venezuelan criminals could buy US weapons to help the US invade and plunder Venezuela. Brilliantly criminal! The US administration believes to be above the Venezuelan constitution, above the Venezuelan people, above the UN Charter[Read More...]
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Palestinians today are left with a scorched earth policy: no functioning economy while 70% live on less than two US dollars per day, with few agricultural resources since Israel has destroyed more than one million olive and fruit trees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 1967.
The Persian Gulf region has become a veritable powder keg with the United States taking a more aggressive position on Iran, while Saudi Arabia, UAE and other regional powers keep lining up behind Washington with an equally aggressive mood. The unfolding strategic scenario in the Gulf flashes multiple narratives, events and interventions. It all started when the US pulled out[Read More...]
Via Zerohedge…
In the latest sign of Beijing’s frustration with the US, the Chinese leadership have reiterated their opposition to American sanctions against Iran. After a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Chinese Foregin Minister Wang Yi reiterated Beijing’s ‘firm opposition’ to unilateral US sanctions against Iran.
The United States government authorizes itself to be the dictator of the world, and this couldn’t happen if it didn’t have allies who accept this type of humiliating treatment. An insatiable US military is essential in order for such a regime to be able to have any success at all.
‘King can do no wrong’ days have gone, and the RBI is not a king. Despite noticing wilful defiance of the RBI, the apex court was very kind to it in contempt cases, but if the later does not withdraw this anti-transparency policy again, it might face the ire of people and courts. The RBI should explain why it wants[Read More...]
At the time of the establishment of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) on May 17, 1934 in Patna, under the chairmanship of the patriarch of the Indian Socialist Movement, Acharya Narendra Deva, two goals were clear: to achieve the independence of the country and to enhance the pace of the organised efforts towards establishing a socialist system. To achieve both[Read More...]
The FDA has been regulating the frozen cherry pie market since 1977.
Strategic Culture Foundation | May 17, 2019 As the old saying goes, it’s good to talk. US Secretary Mike Pompeo was cordially received this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Pompeo spoke of repairing the frayed bilateral relations and of finding “common ground” […]
“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbour’s roof, when your own doorstep is unclean.” – Confucius Prime Minister Narendra Modi mounted at Kushinagar, Deoria in UP, a furious attack on BSP supremo and former UP Chief Minister Mayawati for “shedding crocodile tears” over the incident of gang-rape of a dalit woman in Rajasthan’s Alwar and demanded her party’s withdraw[Read More...]
"Monsanto wants a report; EPA brings it" – lawyer in Roundup cancer litigation highlights regulatory capture by industry
University of California President Janet Napolitano has halted the use of glyphosate on all ten of its campuses, which serve over 200,000 students
The mark of last five years has been to make consistently inconsistent and unscientific statements. The difference between science and non-science has been reduced. Exploration of truth through investigation of natural, social and economic phenomenon, understanding the basic laws of science and social processes has been done away with. This is being replaced by an imaginative truth which does not[Read More...]
As the election season is winding down and the nation is anxiously looking forward to the results, one cannot escape but witnessing India’s slide towards complete polarization based on the politics of religion. Prime Minister Modi’s ascension to power has resulted in growing Hindu intolerance of Christianity and Islam. Radical elements within his party are pushing an agenda to marginalize[Read More...]
RT | May 17, 2019 Kim Dotcom has slammed the US for hypocrisy over its Huawei ban given America’s history of “abusing technology” and “turning its entire tech sector into a spy machine.” The Megaupload founder took to Twitter in the wake of the ban to highlight that the abuse of technology for mass surveillance […]
Colonel Ann Wright reports on the life in limbo for people along the southern border who are applying for refuge in the U.S. By Ann Wright Roots Action The U.S.-Mexico border at the Pacific Ocean is composed of two very…Read more →
It should come as little surprise that politicians see the answer to the problem caused by government meddling in functional markets as more meddling in those same markets.
Good news vegetable-lovers: research shows that vegetables like kale, cabbage, and broccoli contain chemicals that may prevent colon cancer. [1]
Knife crime: myth and reality
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
6 May 2019
Fuelled by the right-wing media, a number of myths have grown up around the topic of knife crime. With the number of knife offences (39,818) and homicides committed with a knife (285) reaching record highs in 2018, according to the Home Office, it’s worth interrogating these falsehoods, and considering interventions which might help.
Among the close supporters of Julian Assange is Canadian actor Pamela Anderson, who recently visited him in prison in super-max Belmarsh Prison in southeast London.
The intimidation tactics by the pro-coup embassy besiegers not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they left Venezuela’s D.C.-based opposition with a serious PR problem. After a week of hateful outbursts, a handful of marketing strategists emerged as de facto spokespeople for the mob.
Jeb SPRAGUE, Alexander RUBINSTEIN
After a rough and revealing start, the reins of the campaign to seize Venezuela’s embassy in Washington are being taken over by a group of well-connected marketing and online strategists.
At this point Trump is fighting a war with everyone not named Israel and Saudi Arabia. Even allies are not to be spared Trump’s wrath for all of their slights against his beloved United States.
In the greatest television series of the 1990’s, Babylon 5, one of the main characters, Londo, a weak and venal man, makes a deal with the devil and unleashes his dying empire’s worst impulses, to restore it to its former glory.
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Portuguese footballer and Juventus striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, has donated US $1.5 million to people of Palestine during the holy month of Ramadan.