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https://www.rsn.org/001/why-the-kyle-rittenhouse-verdict-doesnt-matter.html

We should start by recognizing that a not-guilty verdict was inevitable, not because of racism but because of the law. Sure, the judge seemed a bit biased at times and of the 20 jurors only one was a Person of Color. But, from what we were able to piece together through…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/bernie-sanders-is-facing-down-corporate-democrats-on-taxes.html

For months, our reporting has warned that a repeal of the $10,000 cap on such deductions would be a massive tax cut for the superrich, including for key Democratic lawmakers who are championing the measure. The GOP has been hammering Democrats over the…[Read more]

How unaccountable institutions are shaping your life

The Supreme Court
Start with the high court. These nine unelected individuals – all appointed for life – are about to revolutionize America in ways the majority of Americans don’t want. This court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 repro…[Read more]

Vigilantes on Parade: Rightwing Extremism and the Threat of National Implosion

A dangerous precedent has been set in this ruling, empowering vigilantes who believe they are deputized to enforce “the law” against perceived political enemies. Rittenhouse traveled to a city that he didn’t live in, to a state…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/24/wild-turkeys-us-cities-havoc-hunting

The wild turkey has lived in what is now North America for more than 10,000 years, and was branded a “bird of courage” by founding father Benjamin Franklin in 1784.

Chris Bernier, a biologist for the Vermont fish and wildlife department for the last 27 yea…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/23/florida-doctors-covid-coronavirus-bruce-boros

“I have been on ivermectin for 16 months, my wife and I,” Dr Bruce Boros told the audience at the event held at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, adding: “I have never felt healthier in my life.”

The 71-year-old cardiologist and staunch anti-va…[Read more]

Scientists observe brightest star explosion ever seenhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-observe-brightest-star-explosion-supernova-ever-seen/

The team used a number of telescopes to study the aftermath of the explosion, which they called SN2016aps, for several years as it faded to a fraction of its peak brightness. They determined it…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/the-new-inflation-scare-is-the-dumbest-thing-since-voodoo-economics.html

The spur for this new campaign is a handful of cherry-picked, transitory changes in particular prices. On the most basic level, there is a widespread misunderstanding of what “inflation” really is. Inflation is a continuous increase in prices, mor…[Read more]

What China Learned From U.S. Capitalism’s Development

The 1929 stock market crash and the 1930s Great Depression were the exceptions that proved the rule. U.S. capitalism then broke down, as did its promises of prosperity and growth. Fearful of a collapse, the U.S. employer class—via former U.S. President F…[Read more]

Five Crises of Capitalism: The Challenges Facing the Left Today

There are several interacting crises in this new epoch. The Bible had only four horsemen of the apocalypse—Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. Today, we have five. The first is the global economic crisis. The Great Recession of 2008 ended the l…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/nov/22/female-imam-california-mosque

Women aren’t even allowed to pray in many mosques across the world. In some mosques in the US, women may enter, but are often forced pray in separate rooms – leading some to call it the “penalty box”. Spiritual leaders who have pushed boundaries – by running mixed con…[Read more]

https://www.neowin.net/news/alphabet-plans-to-roll-out-robots-at-its-offices-to-perform-mundane-tasks/

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is working on bringing Robots to perform everyday tasks into its offices. This is driven by X – Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory, a specialized team focusing on solutions for next-gen problems. Since its inc…[Read more]

https://www.livescience.com/milky-way-alien-life-map.html

That’s the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of intelligent life in time and space across the Milky Way. Their results amount to a more precise 2020 update of a famous…[Read more]

The high stakes of the U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine

The People’s Republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR), which declared independence in response to the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014, have once again become flashpoints in the intensifying Cold War between the United States and R…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/becerra-defends-hhs-rules-aimed-at-reining-in-surprise-medical-bills.html

The law — set to go into effect Jan. 1 — shields patients from those bills, requiring providers and insurers to work out how much the physicians or hospitals should be paid, first through negotiation and then, if they can’t agree, arb…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8z5/people-in-minneapolis-are-calling-each-other-instead-of-the-cops

What emerged from the chaotic uprising was an initiative called Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP), an abolitionist, Black liberatory project that organizes communities to resolve conflicts and help each other—and hopes to make police i…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/22/momentous-day-portugal-becomes-europes-4th-country-quit-coal

While cheering Portugal’s fossil fuel milestone, climate campaigners warned of the dangers of converting the Pego plant to burn wood pellets, with Zero’s Ferreira warning that the country’s accomplishment is “soured by the prospect of the…[Read more]

https://www.rsn.org/001/cia-continues-to-conceal-jfk-assassination-files-but-heres-what-we-do-know.html

The delay struck me — and University of Texas Professor James Galbraith, among others — as a smoking gun in itself. The CIA’s slow-walking tactics are not quite definitive proof of a JFK conspiracy. They do, however, demonstrate that the CIA d…[Read more]