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Growing U.S. military Footprint In Guam Intensifies Concerns Over Environmental Damage And Sovereignty

Independent Journalism

[ad_1] Gaea Cabico Prism In Yigo, the northernmost village in Guam, there is a well that cannot be shut down.  Known as Y-15, the well sits atop the island’s northern aquifer, which supplies around 80% of the island’s drinking water. Even if contaminants are detected, Y-15 has to keep pumping. There is simply no alternative.  The well also sits just below a hill near Upi Elementary School—attended by around 400 children—and just outside the back gates of Andersen Air Force Base, which hangs over the community like a permanent shadow. Generations of Indigenous CHamoru families have called Yigo home,…

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It Looks Like Nick Reiner Killed His Mother and Father, and Now He Wants Their Money. No Way

Propaganda & Narrative

[ad_1] Austin Sarat ScheerPost The history of American law is filled with interesting and often quirky stories. Courts have heard cases about whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable (the Supreme Court ruled it was a vegetable), about the legal status of baseball, and about chickens scared by low-flying military planes. The list could go on. Some of those strange cases are funny; others are tragic. A case unfolding in California is surely one of the latter.   It involves Nick Reiner, who allegedly murdered his father, Rob Reiner, and his mother, Michelle Singer Reiner. On July 20, he…

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