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Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou challenge the administration’s narrative and invite listeners to reconsider the assumptions behind the “state sponsor of terrorism” label. Iran says that its support for resistance groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, framed as threats and terrorists by Israel and the West, is not part of the deal the U.S. and Tehran are expected to sign this Friday, though it had long been a point the U.S. and Israel insisted on. U.S. negotiators may still try to raise it. The following interview illuminates the view put forth in this recent CN piece:  Who Is the Aggressor? Turning…

I know I promised inflation talk, but I forgot to check the timing of the release of the Import Price Index, which will not be out until Tuesday. So, I’ll talk abundance today. The immediate motivation is an American Prospect piece about how big buck Silicon Valley types are tossing huge money at Democratic politicians who will back their abundance agenda. This seems to be largely about reducing or eliminating zoning and environmental restrictions on building and attacking public education, and especially teachers’ unions. As I have said in the past, I am sympathetic to at least part of this…

Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them. Source link

A short excerpt from Monday’s long decision of the Colorado Supreme Court in Moreno v. Circle K Stores, Inc., written by Justice Maria Berkenkotter: Seventy-two-year-old Mary Ann Moreno … sued her employer, Circle K Stores, Inc. … for wrongful termination. She asserted that she was fired for lawfully exercising her right to self-defense after she was cornered by an armed robber during one of her shifts and that her termination violated Colorado public policy…. This court first recognized a public-policy exception to the at-will employment doctrine in There, we identified a number of circumstances under which an at-will employee may…

Mapped: The World’s Most and Least Corrupt Countries See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways: The global average Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) score fell to 42 out of 100, the first decline in more than a decade. Only five countries now score above 80, down from 12 a decade ago. The U.S. ranks 29th with a score of 64, its lowest-ever result in the index. Corruption perceptions are worsening globally, according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index…

Trump in Defeat Source link

Obama's Legacy Is the Trump Presidency Source link

Joshua Scheer As the Trump administration moves toward a second ceasefire agreement with Iran and officials in Washington attempt to declare the conflict a success, new reporting suggests the human cost of the war remains far higher than the Pentagon is willing to admit. According to investigative journalist Nick Turse, the official U.S. military casualty count from the war with Iran has quietly climbed again. Yet even the latest figures appear to exclude hundreds of known casualties, raising serious questions about transparency, accountability, and whether the American public is being told the truth about the real cost of the…

Recruiting station for the British Army in London. (No lines evident.) Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Over the breadth of the ocean and all the way from a noisier Murica, politics in Cuppaland once ran on instantly recognisable machinery. You could hear the engine from streets away and know precisely what was coming. Ever since Doomchoice ten years ago—though not entirely because of it—Cuppaland has looked increasingly like a place that has lost its political bearings. The sort of spectral figure you might pass in a gloomy corridor and fail to recognise, despite once knowing them well. Not enough people take…

Sam Bankman-Fried's Prison Experiment Source link