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https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/59721-climate-change-is-breaking-open-americas-nuclear-tomb

The Marshall Islands is a collection of 29 atolls across 1,156 islands. More than 50,000 people live on the islands. From 1946 to 1958, it was a proving ground for America’s nuclear arsenal. On March 1, 1954, the Pentagon conducted C…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/59722-saudi-arabia-authorities-kidnapped-lawyer-activist-in-switzerland

On 15 October 2018, Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud, who was based in Germany at the time, accused his country of trying to kidnap him. His revelation came just two weeks after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went…[Read more]

https://www.blackagendareport.com/obama-condemns-call-out-culture-despite-being-its-biggest-beneficiary

Obama’s cynical analysis of youth activism was yet another dog whistle to the wealthiest and most conservative sections of white America. His first dog whistle to racist elites occurred during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It was h…[Read more]

https://www.blackagendareport.com/race-central-both-revolution-and-reaction-latin-american

The events in Bolivia lay bare the central role that racial subjugation has always played in the “New World,” a hemisphere whose “discovery” by Europeans resulted — within the span of only 50 years — in the death by genocide and pandemic of fully a fifth…[Read more]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29740312/anonymous-white-house-book/

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Anonymous can bite me. I have no intention of shelling out a dime to read about how someone almost ran into the burning house to save the baby, or about how someone almost gave up their seat in the lifeboat when the great…[Read more]

https://crosscut.com/2019/11/signs-turbulence-boeing-existed-long-737-max-tragedies

n 1997, Boeing acquired the still ambulatory corpse of McDonnell Douglas for about $12 billion in stock. That gave the company the added expense of maintaining the aging fleet of McDonnell Douglas jetliners still in the air, and produced little more in the way of…[Read more]

Oklahoma cop arrested for murdering police chief

An Oklahoma police officer was arrested Monday morning and charged with murdering his police chief at a hotel in Florida. According to officials, deputies responded to a report of a physical altercation at the hotel and discovered the police chief dead…[Read more]

Fidel, Three Years Later

In 1953, at trial, Castro said, “To those who will say I am a dreamer let me quote the words of [José] Martí, ‘A true man does not seek the path where advantage lies, but rather the path where duty lies, and this is the only practical man . . . because he who has looked back on th…[Read more]

Updates on Bolivia – Actualizaciones sobre Bolivia

This news feed is for activists who want to know about resistance to the US-backed coup in Bolivia. We will publish the stories and videos directly from the front lines in Bolivia that the corporate press doesn’t want you to k…[Read more]

https://newrepublic.com/article/155684/quickest-way-reduce-airplane-emissions

In 1944, in the thick of World War II, representatives of 54 nations convened in Chicago for the first Convention on International Civil Aviation. At the time, the majority of plane power was used for military goals, like moving soldiers or cargo. The job of the…[Read more]

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/bernie-sanders-occupations-donations-workers-busytown

This is the appeal of the Busytown books by children’s author and illustrator Richard Scarry. The series features little bustling scenes of anthropomorphic cats, rabbits, hippos, lions, and other animals, all hard at work, keeping Busytown productive and s…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmj9gx/nothings-happening-to-the-officer-who-misidentified-bird-shit-as-cocaine-in-the-arrest-of-a-young-black-man

But the $2 test that cops administered on the side of a dark road without wearing gloves was horribly wrong. In the past, similar tests have flagged powdered milk as cocaine, cotton candy as meth,…[Read more]

In other news, water is wet, and babies, puppies and kittens are cute.

https://theoutline.com/post/8245/car-loans-are-designed-to-screw-you?utm_source=NL&zr=qdu6osgw&zd=1&zi=t33p7btr

In order to explain all of this, let’s compare houses and cars, two things that are very different but are very similar when it comes to getting a bank to help y…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/12/bernie-sanders-has-more-diverse-support-you-think

Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist and consultant, isn’t so sure. “This is bad news for Biden, it shows he’s got a problem with the female vote,” he told Fortune, regarding the new data about suburban women. “And when you look at the polls, women are…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/12/thats-ridiculous-says-billionaire-after-sanders-campaign-returns-her-470-donation

After reviewing federal filings, Forbes reported that it “could not find any other billionaire or spouse of a billionaire who has donated to the Sanders’ campaign” aside from Hall, who also gave $505 to Sen. Kamala Harris…[Read more]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222907-ai-can-predict-if-youll-die-soon-but-weve-no-idea-how-it-works/#ixzz657VIdEMz

An ECG records the electrical activity of the heart. Its pattern changes in cardiac conditions including heart attacks and atrial fibrillation.

The team trained two versions of the AI: in one, the algorithm was only given…[Read more]