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When Sen. Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.) introduced the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, which legalized hemp nationwide, he claimed the legislation would allow states to “conduct their own oversight plans” and “give the hemp industry the tools” to “create jobs and new opportunities” across the nation. McConnell neglected to mention that those jobs and opportunities had to align with his narrow definition of acceptable hemp uses. Last November, McConnell codified his disapproval of the hemp industry’s success with an amendment to the government funding bill passed that month. The provision bans the sale of any “hemp-derived cannabinoid product” with more than…

That is the most important question today that we strive everyday to answer. U.S.-Israel biennial command post simulation and training exercise, October 2010. Then IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and Deputy EUCOM Commander U.S. Lt. Gen. John D. Gardner (IDF/Flickr) By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News If you understand who the aggressor is, you are on your way to understanding the mad and perilous times we live in. Once you get that, what you’ve been taught all your life starts to lose its hold on you.  Establishment education and media try to confuse you. Independent media…

Photo by Alexandru Acea Is war simply part of human nature? It’s been absurdly “ordinary” throughout my lifetime, and continually expanding its power and psychological reach. And unless you’re in the middle of it – unless you’re digging for a dead child beneath a bombed building – war is just an abstract horror. It’s necessary. It’s what keeps us safe. Glory, glory hallelujah. “You ask: What is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against…

When the Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act earlier this year, my stated view was that the bill was, like many bipartisan pieces of legislation, imperfect. The challenge in a deeply divided Washington is always whether “perfect will be made the enemy of the good,” and by extension, getting lawmakers to take a shot at a legislative solution to big problems. In a rare show of legislative hustle, Speaker Mike Johnson brought an amended version of ROAD to the floor, and it passed. The House version is simply better than the Senate bill – not perfect –…

Graham Platner made history on Tuesday, becoming the first vanity oysterman and Nazi-tattooed Hotchkiss attendee to win a major party’s nomination for U.S. Senate while facing credible allegations of domestic abuse. Barring another unforeseen setback or two, Platner will square off against longtime Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) in the general election.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

As a new phase of the US-Israeli war on Iran begins, both Netanyahu and Trump face political crises at home and the likelihood of a global economic crisis. Chris Hedges and Conflicts Forum The US-Israeli war has heated up again as Iran launched “Operation Victory” in response to Israel’s continued attacks on Southern Lebanon and attacks on Iranian infrastructure, and the United States bombing islands in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend. In this episode, Chris Hedges speaks with former British Diplomat Alastair Crooke of the Conflicts Forum Substack, who explains that given the failure of diplomatic negotiations, Iran has entered a…

Don’t suffer alone, the Daily Grail understands what haunts you… Why more doctors are validating near‑death experiences. First human receives experimental therapy to reverse cellular aging. Evidence of alchemy discovered at Gnandstein Castle in Germany. Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fiction. We might finally know how the pyramids were built: New research suggests the answer was hiding inside the structure all along. Scientists propose spraying chemicals into Earth’s magnetic field to protect us from powerful solar storms. An explorer vanished searching for a ‘lost civilization’ in the Amazon – now archaeologists think they may have…

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Jonathan Cook Substack War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad I am old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the wave of excitement it unleashed. With the Soviet Union consigned to the history books, the world was going to become a better, safer place. Liberals crowed that the West’s superior, democratic values had won out. Intellectuals like Francis Fukuyama wrote about the “end of history”: the triumph of free-market capitalism and…