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[ad_1] Earlier this week, I thought the Judge Ross scandal had reached its terminus. Indeed, I had to give Judge Ross credit. She conned her colleagues so many times, yet they kept giving her more chances. She brazenly and repeatedly had sex in her offices within in moaning distance of her law clerks. None of her colleagues knew. When confronted, she lied about it repeatedly. She tried to obstruct the investigation by blaming her law clerk, who had the courage to blow the whistle. But after Judge Ross was caught–and she certainly knew she would be caught–she was given a…

[ad_1] Catholic bishop Raúl Vera celebrating mass at Camp El Siete in December 2023. Photo: Paulina Rocío del Moral González. The struggle of the United Front of Pueblos of La Laguna in Defense of Life, Land, and Water in Durango – birth state of the legendary revolutionary, Pancho Villa– against the transnational corporation Chemours, a spin-off of DuPont de Nemours, since 2017, has reached a climax due to thuggish armed repression organized by economic, political, municipal and state authorities, aided by the Army and the National Guard, against 28 farmers, of both sexes, and factory workers jailed in March and…

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[ad_1] In 2023, Steven Hicks was stopped by Detective Mitchell Ramsey, an officer in the Baltimore Police Department’s Group Violence Unit. After seeing a handgun “physically printing” through Hicks’ shirt, Ramsey conducted a stop-and-frisk search, despite Hicks repeatedly telling officers before and during the search that he had a license to carry. After police found cocaine on his person, Hicks was indicted on multiple drug and firearm offenses. He filed a motion to suppress the evidence, arguing that the arresting officers lacked “probable cause or reasonable suspicion” to stop and frisk him since he was licensed to carry a firearm.…

[ad_1] The current Ebola outbreak is worsening, alarming most health officials. The outbreak of the Bundibugyo virus has caused rulers to impose travel restrictions and emergency responses as suspected cases continue to grow. The outbreak has revived international concern not only because of Ebola’s deadly reputation, but also because of other situations that are making it difficult to track and contain.  The involvement of the rare Bundibugyo strain is the primary cause for concern, although violence and displacement are also playing a role in the spread. According to a report by Forbes, frontline health workers are said to be “risking…

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[ad_1] Given the recent success of Backrooms, a movie based on a YouTube series that was itself based on a meme, it’s tempting to view Steven Spielberg’s often crackling but frequently frustrating Disclosure Day in the same light. This is the beard’s riff on the old “ancient aliens” meme, the popular-on-the-internet History Channel freeze frame featuring a zap-haired “expert” who somehow always seemed to be conveying the same amusingly crazy idea: I’m not saying it was ancient aliens—but it was ancient aliens.  History Channel/Know Your Meme Spoiler alert: In Spielberg’s movie, the aliens aren’t quite ancient; they’ve only been around…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump disputed the reported terms of a U.S.–Iran deal Friday— one day after cancelling planned strikes and declaring discussions had been “brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved”—as the conflict entered its 105th day. On Friday morning, as rumors circulated on social media of a U.S.–Iran deal seemingly favorable to Tehran, Trump signaled frustration with the Islamic Republic in a post on Truth Social. The president wrote,  The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing. What they said, including…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When we were fighting the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment or austerity programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us thought that we were up against a strategy that had been formulated mainly as a response to the social democratic compromise with capital in the Global North and to state-led developmentalist initiatives in the Global South. Of course, we knew that the intellectual inspiration for neoliberalism came from nineteenth-century classical free-market-oriented economics. What few of us realized at the time was that the neoliberal counterrevolution that took off in the late 1970s…

[ad_1] Following Israel’s attack this week on Beirut’s southern suburbs that sparked a new round of conflict between Israel and Iran, President Donald Trump suggested that Syria could get involved in taking action against Hezbollah. “I’d like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah,” Trump told Meet the Press when asked whether he had reservations concerning recent Israeli actions in Lebanon. “We can help them with that, or we can recommend Syria. Syria is doing a very good job of cleaning up their act. They have a very good leader… and he would love to help.” This is not…