Aggregated news and blog articles from around the Web.
By Robert Scheer | 7 June 2019 TRUTHDIG — Shortly after Truthdig columnist Danny Sjursen left the Army, where he spent 18 years on active duty and rose to the rank of major, he sat down with Editor […]
By Kelly Velasquez | 7 June 2019 YAHOO (AFP) — The sign reading “Riace, land of welcome” still hangs in the small town, but its dream of migrant integration is over after the far-right’s “Italians first” […]
By Alex Kane and Nashwa Bawab | 1 June 2019 THE INTERCEPT — On the afternoon of April 19, 2018, a group of Texas Republicans received an email confirming their upcoming all-expenses-paid trips to Israel. An […]
By Morgan Gstalter | 7 June 2019 THE HILL — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been named the grand marshal for Boston’s “Straight Pride” parade. Organizers announced Friday the former Breitbart editor as the parade’s grand marshal after […]
9 June 2019 FRANCE 24 (AFP) — Armed guards, safety assessments and now even a “Tactical Rabbi” to train volunteers on the use of weapons — such is the reality today at synagogues in the United […]
By Michael Snyder | 6 June 2019 END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM — The combination of the wettest planting season in U.S. history, a catastrophic trade war with China and economic conditions that are brutal […]
By David Warren | 7 June 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Texas prosecutor said Friday that investigators have linked more than 60 killings in at least 14 states to a 79-year-old California inmate who may be […]
By Jason Hopkins | 21 April 2019 THE DAILY CALLER — Central American migrants apprehended at the border claimed to have been encouraged by local newspaper advertisements that promised work opportunities and free assistance from the […]
By Arthur Lyons | 5 June 2019 VOICE OF EUROPE — Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Britain’s Nigel Farage have both distanced themselves and their parties – Fidesz and the Brexit Party, respectively – from […]
Publisher claims tapes expose activist as the ‘Harvey Weinstein of civil rights movement’ who had ‘40 affairs’ By Peter Stubley and Chris Baynes | 27 May 2019 INDEPENDENT — The FBI’s attempt to discredit Martin Luther King […]
By Jasper Hamill | 4 June 20190 METRO — The surface of the sun is normally a roiling, super-heated hellscape. But Nasa images have revealed that the face of our star is looking ominously calm right […]
Two Contrasting Commencement Addresses a Half Century Apart By Paul Craig Roberts | 2 July 2019 INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY — On June 1, 2019, American vice president Mike Pence gave the commencement address at West […]
By Tyler Durden | 3 June 2019 ZERO HEDGE — Surreal footage shows a massive riot broke out inside al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Sunday, with Israeli security forces storming Islam’s third holiest site, […]
By Orwell Goode | 3 June 2019 NEW MEDIA CENTRAL — There are no brakes on this wild ride. Now, dodgeball is, apparently, an ‘unethical tool of oppression.’ Anything that involves competition or the possibility […]
US Special Adviser Jared Kushner evades backing two-state solution but says Palestinians ‘deserve self-determination’. 3 June 2019 AL JAZEERA — White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner has said that the Palestinians deserve “self-determination,” but stopped […]
2 June 2019 RUSSIA TODAY — German historian Marie Sophie Hingst, famous for her blog about family members who perished in the Holocaust, has been caught in a lie. The revelation also put the media, which […]
By Jonathan Stempel | 30 May 2019 REUTERS — Los Angeles County sued Monsanto Co on Thursday, seeking to force the unit of Germany’s Bayer AG to help pay for reducing PCB contamination in dozens of […]
1 June 2019 RUSSIA TODAY — It’s been a busy few days for American diplomacy, with three dozen nations ending up at the receiving end of threats, ultimatums and sanctions this week alone. And it’s only […]
By Tyler Durden | 1 June 2019 ZERO HEDGE — President Trump has a victory present for newly re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi — and it’s the economic equivalent of a flaming bag of shit on […]
By Brian Lada and Kevin Byrne | 1 June 2019 ACCUWEATHER — Residents in several communities located near the swollen Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas rivers were forced to flee their homes on Thursday and Friday […]
By Susan Edelman | 25 May 2019 NEW YORK POST — In controversial “implicit bias” training, New York City’s public-school educators have been told to focus on black children over white ones — and one Jewish […]
By Robert Johnson | 28 May 2019 LETS RUN — Over Memorial Day weekend, everyone who cares about the future of women’s sport saw their worst fears become a reality. Transgender woman CeCe Telfer, who was born […]
By Timothy Benton | 21 May 2019 0 CENSOR — In a move that is both troublesome and could set up a confrontation with the federal government had declared war on ICE, threatening any fuel […]
By Maj. Danny Sjursen | 28 May 2019 ANTIWAR — Time was that a stint, or even a career, in the military did not necessarily translate into any serious combat duty. That may seem hard to […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 25 May 2019 MEDIUM — After posting a video of a young recruit talking to the camera about how service allows him to better himself “as a man and a warrior”, the […]
By Tyler Durden | 25 May 2019 ZERO HEDGE — Months after releasing an ad shaming all men for being ‘toxic’ pigs (while curiously cutting out a scene from the original ad featuring a booty-grabbing fake rap video), […]
A look at the symbolism found throughout the finale of Eurovision 2019 and an analysis of Madonna’s extremely symbolic and controversial performance. 22 May 2019 VIGILANT CITIZEN — Eurovision is an annual international song competition with […]
By Tyler Durden | 23 May 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The National Retail Federation (NRF) has warned that President Trump’s escalating trade war with China could be devastating for consumers and lead to at least one million job […]
By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Landay | 23 May 2019 REUTERS — The U.S. State Department failed to meet a deadline on Thursday to provide information to three congressional committee chairmen looking into whether an annual […]
By Jennifer Kabbany | 23 May 2019 THE COLLEGE FIX — The recent decision by the Scholastic Aptitude Test to add a so-called adversity score to test takers’ results for college admissions’ officials to weigh has been almost […]