Is the US Facing a More Serious Population Problem Than China? ( www.youtube.com )
The United States Tortured 8,000 People at Abu Ghraib; 70% to 90% of Them Were Innocent. 20 Years On, Still No Accountability for US Government Abuses. ( www.hrw.org )
http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/us/doc/icrc-prisoner-report-feb-2004.pdf
Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn on Katherine Maher and expanded FISA surveillance powers ( www.racket.news )
The civil liberties stans try to make sense of Katherine Maher, the new president of NPR, ex-CEO of Wikimedia, ex-Atlantic Council, ex-State Department, and current member of the Council of Foreign Relations. But as usual their liberal ideology doesn’t quite get them there. They see that Maher has a relationship with the...
Delaware, Florida cancel primaries to deny ‘uncommitted’ challenge to Biden ( www.workers.org )
Given the growing enthusiasm for the “uncommitted movement,” which has drawn well over half a million voters in nearly two dozen states since February, there is little doubt that turnout in Delaware, whose primary would have been April 2, would have mirrored, or even surpassed the average of 10% to 19% voter support for...
Coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine ties up traffic in multiple cities ( www.workers.org )
Yet another 100 activists met at City Hall before marching to Broad and Vine streets where they tied up the entrances to the I-676 Expressway for 30 minutes. They followed up with a march to the offices of Day & Zimmermann. That company provides M67 fragmentation grenades, new XM111 offensive grenades, training grenades and...
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits ( www.nola.com )
Philadelphian workers unite for Palestine ( www.workers.org )
Flan, with the PPC, opened by reading demands from Palestinian unions. On October 16 over 30 Palestinian unions and worker organizations called for concrete solidarity from workers around the world. A May Day appeal from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions reiterated this message....
Arizona’s abortion ban: ‘Control and upholding white supremacy’ ( www.workers.org )
Arizona’s Supreme Court ruling upheld a Civil War-era total abortion ban. This ruling ignores the will of the people in Arizona and denies their bodily autonomy....
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden ( cointelegraph.com )
Gov. DeSantis signs bill requiring teaching of history of communism in Florida schools ( www.usatoday.com )
The F-35 fleet can only perform the full range of its combat roles 30% of the time. This unreliability renders the entire program ineffective. ( www.pogo.org )
US Navy can't hide its flagging fleet ( asiatimes.com )
Boeing Whistleblower Reportedly Claims 787 Planes Could Break Apart Mid-Air Due to Construction Flaws ( ca.news.yahoo.com )
Fed Chair Powell says there has been a 'lack of further progress' this year on inflation ( www.cnbc.com )
US House votes to re-authorize law that allows warrantless surveillance of citizens ( www.theguardian.com )
Redfin Survey: Half of U.S. Homeowners and Renters Struggle to Afford Their Housing Payments ( www.businesswire.com )
US Army to adopt "modern software development and acquisition practices" ( armypubs.army.mil )
I came across this document while screwing with google trying to look for IJAGSTO Directive No 11. It might be of interest because the US war machine could get more potent
To protest Zionism’s neocolony, seven anti-Zionist Jewish artists pull out of California Jewish museum’s exhibit ( web.archive.org )
In her own statement, one of the artists, Kate Laster, wrote: “As Jews, we refuse to allow any justification, any weaponization of our generational trauma, or to give our consent to normalize apartheid. There is power in refusal — it’s a form of honoring rebellion and imagining what cultural arts ecosystems could be like...
Millennials and Gen Z's trendy new splurge: groceries ( www.businessinsider.com )
CNBC's headline gloats about 303K jobs increase in March while full time jobs decreased by 6K, part time job increased by 691K, and people with multiple jobs increased by 217K. ( www.cnbc.com )
CNN doing some casual gaslighting ( www.cnn.com )
Stock market has record gains, and housing prices are through the roof, why are you not happy! ( www.cnbc.com )
World's tallest 'mega jail' will rise 300ft into the sky and have 1,040 beds ( metro.co.uk )
