DeMarco Morgan | (CBSN) | (Video News Report) | – – “An Idaho lawmaker is facing intense scrutiny after defending the GOP health care bill. During a town hall, Rep. Raul Labrador said that “nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.” CBSN’s DeMarco Morgan has more.” 1. CBS News: “Idaho lawmaker faces […]
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic
By Jane Palmer | Mosaic, the science of life | – – A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world and climate change is making it worse. Jane Palmer meets the doctors who are trying to understand it and stop it. By 10 am in the sugarcane fields outside the town of […]
As Russians Hack, France decides if it Hates Foreigners
Richard Fogarty | (The Conversation) | – – On April 24, the day after her second-place finish in the first round of the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen thundered against her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, declaring, “Nothing in Monsieur Macron’s plan, nor anything in his behavior indicates the least evidence of love for France.” (Update […]
Can Iraq’s Sunni Politicians agree on post-ISIL Future?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – “Iraq’s Sunni Muslims desperately need their politicians to present a united front and act in their interests. But the politicians cannot agree on a vision for the post-Islamic State future.” Last Sunday, Iraqi parliamentarians voted to ban their colleagues from participating in conferences held outside the […]
Trump “Religious Freedom” Order Opens Way for LGBT Bias
Human Rights Watch | – – License for Actions Harmful to Women, LGBT People (Washington, DC) – An executive order issued by President Donald Trump on May 4, 2017, opens the way to overriding regulations that protect women’s health, Human Rights Watch said today. While media attention has largely focused on the order’s efforts to […]
Paying for Facebook? Will Egyptian Social Media Users have to Register With Gov’t?
By Afef Abrougu. | ( Global Voices ) | – – Sixty Egyptian members of parliament recently approved a draft law on “the regulations of using and exploiting social media networks.” If adopted by the parliament, the law would require social media users in Egypt to register with a government authority in order to use […]
Dems to GOP After Trumpcare Vote: hey, hey, say Goodbye (in Next Election)
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – President Trump celebrated with House Republicans in the White House Rose Garden amid growing call to ‘make them pay’ As Republicans joined President Donald Trump for a victory photo op and beer bash at the White House following the passage of the American Healthcare […]
Syria: Rebels denounce De-escalation Zones ok’d by Russia, Iran, Turkey
TeleSur | – – Signatories to the agreement say that there should be a cessation of hostilities in safe zones designated by the three powers by Friday. Russia, Turkey and Iran on Thursday signed a memorandum on creating safe zones in Syria, while a delegation of the armed Syrian opposition walked out and shouted angrily […]
American Amnesia in the Garden of War
By John Dower | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Some years ago, a newspaper article credited a European visitor with the wry observation that Americans are charming because they have such short memories. When it comes to the nation’s wars, however, he was not entirely on target. Americans embrace military histories of the heroic “band […]
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