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The leftist government of Honduras is on the defensive since its diplomatic dustup with Washington. Our investigation reveals a network of US government-backed regime change assets is driving the attacks, and using lawfare tactics to manufacture scandal ahead of next year’s elections in Tegucigalpa. The Honduran government has slammed the US for attempting to initiate a “coup d’etat” in the Central American country, after the media outlet Insight Crime released decade-old footage appearing to show the current president’s brother-in-law negotiating […]

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Despite the ongoing excessive whining in the press about Vice President Kamala Harris not doing interviews and MAGA’s laughable insistence that Trump won the debate (and also that it was rigged), the truth is that Harris is running an exceptional campaign. At every important juncture, she has met the moment and surpassed it. Personally, I never understood the widely (but not deeply) held belief that she was a mediocre politician. As a Californian I have followed her career pretty closely from the time she made a name for herself as the San Francisco district attorney and then Attorney General. I happily voted for her for the Senate. She always struck me as a talented politician who was very likely headed for higher office if the breaks came her way. She took a shot for president in 2019 and had a bad primary run, but she’s hardly the first presidential aspirant to flame out in their first run. Joe Biden ran twice before he finally got the nomination. Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts.

Trump always wants to cast himself as a victim. Delaying his sentencing until after the election makes that harder.

The post It’s Good Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election appeared first on The Intercept.

Laughter is good medicine The New York Times(?) provides readers needed comic relief: On Tuesday night, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris spent 90 minutes trading blows in a fierce debate. Out of duty to a weary electorate eager for change, we enlisted the musical talents of the Gregory Brothers and a special guest, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, to provide the debate recap you didn’t know you needed. Take it in, friends. We’ve got a long way yet to go and more work to do.

As the TUC passes a motion warning of the “existential crisis” in British journalism, Peter Jukes asks for your help to deal with the dual threats of legacy media monopolies and big tech

In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

The post U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets appeared first on The Intercept.

In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.

The post U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets appeared first on The Intercept.

Weeks on from the riots, as communities of colour across the country recover, there is an emerging ‘community cohesion’ agenda which is being posed as the panacea to the problems the riots exposed. This must be challenged. Romanticising the power of ‘community moments’ to provide a social glue to the damage of racism and austerity […]

Spinning madness into reason Just yesterday, I argued that “so much of what Donald Trump does and says is not strategy so much as pathology. And feral instinct. His fanboys handle strategy.” That’s still true this morning. Among the reasons the press and some of the left’s own have trouble coming to grips with his lunacy is, as children of the Enlightenment, we put so much stock in reason. Unreason does not compute.* We all want to make a steak out of hash. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is perhaps the quickest and sharpest Democrats have to carry its message. Yet, here he is attempting to paint Donald Trump’s unhinged cats-and-dogs rant during this week’s debate as a distraction strategy. It may be instinct. Distraction may be someone else’s strategy. But it’s not Trump’s. He doesn’t think with his atrophied frontal lobes. Piers Morgan’s guests did the same this week, offering what Trump needs to do differently and how he needs to reconfigure his campaign. He needs to fire his advisors and get new ones who will help him present himself as more presidential in coming days. Rep.

Our parties have totally realigned. Democrats are conservative now. Kamala Harris made not one but several references to the American military in her DNC acceptance speech. That’s not what Democrats used to be about. According to pop culture, they used to be about soft, fuzzy things, like dust bunnies.

And Republicans are the new liberals. Donald Trump is pro-choice, haven’t you heard? Well, before he was pro-life, which happened before he was pro-choice originally, which was before he was pro-life that other time, which was before he was pro-choice for those forty-five minutes. Anyway, he tried to kill Mike Pence. Doesn’t sound pro-life to me.

These days, Democrats are into freedom. In fact, it’s literally Kamala’s walk-on song, “Freedom.” You know freedom? That thing Reagan used to talk about all the time? I’m all turned around—if Harris uses the same word as Reagan, have the parties totally realigned?

The Labour-linked TSSA transport union faces an uncertain future say staff and activists, as a week-long strike by union employees is set to kick off

The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on how journalism is still failing to challenge the structural forces of patriarchy and misogyny

In one seventeenth-century panoramic drawing of London, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is mistakenly labeled “Beere-bayting.” The mistake is understandable—the arena in which live animals were tormented was cheek-by-jowl with the one in which epic history plays were staged. A few centuries from now, those looking back on the TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris […]

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Kamala Harris portrays herself as a progressive champion of working-class causes, but her career shows her remarkable ease with bucking those values for political gain.

What is it to behold the delicate beauty of a flower? The paper mosaics of the 18th-century artist Mary Delaney meet an AI

- by Psyche Film

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W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?

- by Joanna Pocock

Read at Aeon

FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.

The post They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects. appeared first on The Intercept.

The Prime Minister's view of Brexit remains stuck in the past. It's time he embraced the opportunities of Europe, argues Richard Barfield

PINK Silks Trust has donated $27,000 worth of equipment to Coffs Harbour Health Campus’ loan pool for palliative care patients. It includes two electric nursing care beds, two bedside rails, four wheelchairs, two foldable walking frames, two mobile shower chairs, two commode seats, two commode accessories, two commode pans, two pressure-relieving mattresses and two air...

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AROUND 500 public sector nurses and midwives in Coffs Harbour joined a statewide twelve-and-a-half-hour strike for improved pay on Tuesday. The renewed strike action comes after demands for a fifteen percent wage increase were knocked back by the State Government. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....

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