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Moscow claims Germany, Denmark, and Sweden are engaged in a U.S.-backed cover-up, as the war to control the narrative — and the evidence — intensifies.

The post Russia Calls for U.N. Investigation of Nord Stream Attack, as Hersh Accuses White House of False Flag appeared first on The Intercept.

An early look at Trump’s speech:

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To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger.

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We've been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.

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Macron’s defense won’t help either The massive street protests in France after President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 should give pause to Republicans considering raising the retirement age to 70 here. But it won’t. “The French are fiercely protective of their universal health care and generous pensions,” NPR’s Lisa Bryant told Morning Edition. “And it’s a choice society has made: Work hard, pay high taxes, but also retire at a relatively young age with a high standard of living.” If only, right? Meantime, Macron is trying to defend his decision. With this amusing hiccup: Macron argues the retirement age must be raised to prevent the pension budget from running a deficit. BBC News: The exact cost of the watch was debated online, with some of Mr Macron’s critics suggesting it was worth €80,000. But the Élysée Palace told French media the president was wearing a Bell & Ross BR V1-92 model, which is personalised with a coat of arms. Prices online for this watch, without the personalisation, are between €1,660 and €3,300 (£1,460 and £2,900).

Holding his first rally near the site of an infamous federal raid could be seen as “a coded message to those on the extreme.”

The post What It Means for Trump’s Campaign to Start in Waco appeared first on The Intercept.

Why is her right to life not protected? Because lefties like to debate … and like to be right … and sometimes enjoy browbeating opponents into submission with their superior command of the facts, we sometimes waste time doing that instead of learning something from dialogue. We debate the question presented instead of addressing an oblique one that is more illuminating. Recent reading on Christian nationalism debunks the “Christian nation” myth and provides a surfeit of ammunition for winning any number of debates on the matter. From the Ten Commandments to where constitutional principles conflict with biblical ones, “The Founding Myth” by Andrew L. Seidel provides a stockpile.

The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.

The post 20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost? appeared first on scheerpost.com.

A new report finds that more than 121,000 people globally were injured or killed by crowd-control weapons since 2015.

The post Police Use “Less Lethal” Weapons to Crush Social Movements Across the World appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Krugman complains that Lerner was too “cavalier” in his discussion of monetary policy since he called for the interest rate to be set at the level that produces “the most desirable level of investment” without saying exactly what that rate should be. It’s an odd critique, since Krugman himself subscribes to the idea that monetary […]

On gender proliferation.

Även i form av en staty ställer fotbollspelaren Zlatan Ibrahimovic till problem för sin omgivning. Efter Zlatans senaste kärleksförklaring till diktaturen Qatar vågar nu inte ens Malmös ledande politiker ta i frågan om den nu tydligen reparerade statyn ska placeras på synbar plats eller inte. De avböjer till och med att kommentera det problem som […]

Recent laws encourage recycling old plastic into new products. But verifying recycled content relies on tricky math.

Sad about the District Court decision in Hachette vs. Internet Archive; not just because of the ruling against the Archive, but because of many people’s reaction to it online. People have strange intuitions, not just about the status of the law, but also of how it progresses. There’s some tut-tutting that an august institution like […]

The media introduction to Michael Hudon's newest book, The Collapse of Antiquity.

By cleverly pushing payments out of one column and into another, federal governments have bamboozled citizens into thinking they are paying less tax, but we're effectively paying more. read now...

The latest Productivity Commission report marks the end of an era That’s the headline for my latest piece in Inside Story I look at the rise and decline of the Productivity Commission as an advocate of radical neoliberal reform. It spans the fifty years from the creation of the Industries Assistance Commission, replacing the old […]

In 1836, a twenty-seven years old Charles Darwin, came back from a five-year, extraordinary survey expedition around the world. In 1839, he published a book that was later given a title The Voyage of the Beagle, bringing Darwin considerable fame and respect. The book was a vivid travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific […]

When an American journo lit up Twitter recently with an ill-conceived attack on the musical ability of Meg White, former drummer of The White Stripes, he got slammed, quick sticks. read now...