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[ad_1] Palestinians are not leaving their villages in the West Bank because of “tensions” or “clashes.” They are being driven out through a calculated campaign that weaponises sexual terror, military impunity, and land bureaucracy to make life unlivable. This article lays bare an illegal project of forcible transfer, enabled by the Israeli state and met with open international complicity through inaction. A Palestinian family does not abandon its home in darkness because life has become merely difficult. A mother does not send her daughter away because conditions are unpleasant. A shepherd does not give up the land that fed his…

[ad_1] Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] One of the beneficiaries of Virginia’s aggressive attempt to gerrymander the state for Democratic advantage could be a former federal prosecutor whose campaign for Congress hinges on his efforts [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photo by Brad Ritson The source of Russia’s global power derives not from sophisticated technology, an advanced service sector, or a cadre of entrepreneurs. Russia’s power is almost entirely backward-looking. Its geopolitical position rests on a base of prehistoric vegetation. That vegetation, of course, has ended up as Russia’s reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal. About one-quarter of the country’s government revenues comes from fossil fuel sales. Those revenues ensure that Russia’s superpower status can’t be boiled down simply to its possession of nuclear weapons. Russia is not “Upper Volta with nukes” as the Soviet Union was famously dismissed. Petrodollars give…

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[ad_1] An IPO could value it at close to $2 trillion. Whether it’s worth that depends on how you value Elon Musk’s chances of transforming civilization, writes Patrick McGee. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. One crazed man holds the fate of the world in his hands and his name is Donald Trump. Can his administration, the U.S. system, the War Powers Act, Russia or anybody else stop him? asks Joe Lauria. Joe Lauria for Consortium News Donald Trump “indefinitely” extended the ceasefire with Iran on April 21 and over the last 12…

[ad_1] Last week news headlines from outlets across the globe announced that a mundane explanation had been found for haunted houses: infrasound (ie. sounds of a frequency beneath the typical threshold of conscious human hearing, which roughly spans 20Hz to 20KHz). The titles of these articles were convincing: “Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings” (Ars Technica); “Haunted by Ghosts? New Study Provides a Surprising Explanation” (Gizmodo); “Spooky feelings in old houses may be caused by boiler sounds, study suggests” (The Guardian). Which is weird, because if you read the articles – including quotes from the researchers involved…

[ad_1] My Reason colleague Nick Gillespie recently sat down with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for a conversation about Gorsuch’s new children’s book, Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, coauthored with Janie Nitze, plus other topics more directly tied to Gorsuch’s day job. The whole interview is well worth watching, but I wanted to focus today’s Injustice System newsletter on two points that particularly caught my attention. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. Americans are increasingly unhappy with the actions of…