Month: October 2020

President Obama’s comments on Wednesday that U.S. military spending is under threat of “draconian” cuts were met with immediate rebuke from analysts, who say the poor are bearing the brunt of austerity while the war budget remains largely untouched. That the president’s comments came in the midst of the expansion of the costly U.S.-led war against Iraq and Syria sparked concern that the president could be signaling further escalation to come. “The fact that President…

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We must reduce global carbon emissions and we must do it now, concludes a landmark report released in Copenhagen on Sunday by the United Nations climate science body, the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Said to be the official word on climate change from the world’s top climate scientists, the final summary report (pdf) underscores three major facts about climate change: it’s man-made and already having dangerous impacts across the globe; if the world community…

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A federal judge has given the Obama administration less than two additional months to make its case why photos of abuse and torture by U.S. military forces against detainees captured following the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan should not be released to the public. As The Guardian‘s Spencer Ackerman reports, Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Tuesday told government lawyers they must present a written argument for keeping more than 2,100 photographs secret even as many of…

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In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a team of Greenpeace activists has boarded an Arctic-bound drilling vessel owned by the Shell oil company. “I’m just one voice out here, but I know I’m not alone, and millions if not billions of voices demanding the right to safe and healthy lives will have a huge chance of changing things.” —Johno SmithApproximately 750 miles north-west of Hawaii, the team of six campaigners intercepted the ship—which they’ve…

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Mood is at an all-time low for the citizens around the globe currently grappling with the wide-sweeping effects of COVID-19. Social distancing and lock down orders have separated families, canceled celebrations, and exacerbated loneliness and anxiety. While high unemployment rates and an impending recession are causing many consumers to tighten their belts on spending, there still remains a value proposition for brands looking to capture consumer attention—the mood boost. In the past decades countless retail…

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While Congress may soon debate the ongoing US wars in Iraq and Syria, a new FAIR study shows that at the critical moments leading up to the escalation of US military action, mainstream media presented almost no debate at all. The study of key TV news discussion programs from September 7 through 21 reveals that guests who opposed war were scarce. The study evaluated discussion and debate segments on the Sunday talk shows (s ,…

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A group of United Nations human rights investigators has written to President Obama to urge him not to yield to the CIA but to release in the most transparent way possible the still-classified Senate torture report on post-9/11 abuses. The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), has been in negotiations with the administration over redactions to the report, thus continuing to delay its release. As David Firestone wrote at the New York Times…

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Chanting “No to the canal!” thousands protested in Nicaragua’s capital on Wednesday over a plan that threatens an environmental and land rights catastrophe. The 173-mile, $50 billion canal would link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, passing through Lake Nicaragua. Construction for the canal, which would be bigger than the Panama Canal, is slated to begin Dec. 22. Impacted communities have held a series of protests over the project, but Wednesday’s action was the first to…

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Click:Flexographic Printing Manufacturer Click:发稿 The National Security Agency quietly released a heavily redacted report late Wednesday night showing that its mass surveillance program targeting U.S. citizens went on for more than 10 years. The documents, which are made up of annual and quarterly reports filed since 2001, were published to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the ACLU. They note numerous instances in which U.S. citizens…

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Click:wps官网 According to the nation’s richest people, the poor have it easy. Fifty-four percent of survey respondents categorized as the most financially secure said “poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return,” newly released findings by the Pew Research Center show. Of the next most financially secure group, 57 percent agreed with that sentiment, while just 29 percent of those categorized as the least financially secure…

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