Nobody yet can tell whether Donald Trump is an agent of change with a specific policy in mind, or merely a catalyst heralding an as yet undetermined turning point. His first month in the White House saw him melting into…
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DEA approves synthetic marijuana for big pharma company against legalization
Submitted by: ButtCracker — A synthetic marijuana product could be available for commercialization after the DEA gave a newly approved drug a schedule II classification. On Thursday, Insys Therapeutics announced that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an interim final…
Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. ― Hannah Arendt People living in the United States…
How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Climate) Bomb
Submitted by: ButtCracker — President Donald Trump is poised to eviscerate his predecessor’s legacy on climate change with executive actions as early as this week, even though the world is throwing up increasingly alarming signs of dangerous warning and key…
Border Agents Need A Warrant to Search Travelers’ Phones, EFF Tells Court
The Border Isn’t a Constitution-Free Zone Richmond, Virginia—Border agents must obtain a warrant to search travelers’ phones, tablets, and laptops, which contain a vast trove of sensitive, highly personal information that is protected by the Fourth Amendment, the Electronic Frontier…
America Has Lost Its Guiding Light, Its Citizens’ Bill of Rights
Two events conspired this past week to force us to reassess if America can ever find its way home; (home being a nation that honors its citizens’ Bill of Rights — the amendments to the U.S. constitution that preserve the…
Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America
First published in 2012. Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression “teaching about the birds and the bees” to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not…
Second State In Less Than A Month Challenges Fed, Passes Bill To Treat Gold And Silver As Money
By Justin Gardner The second state in less than a month has made a direct challenge to the Federal Reserve monopoly on money, by forwarding a bill that would “eliminate capital gains taxes on gold and silver specie.” The Idaho…
Stocks Sink On ‘Quad Witch’ As Dollar Suffers Worst Week In 8 Months
One. Big. Squeeze… It was quite a week for ‘uncertainty’ as Europe’s VIX crashed to record lows, and FX and Rate vols plunged after the Fed move and Dutch elections.. benefits. Discover the strength of Legg Mason…
Convicted CIA Leaker John Kiriakou’s Got Some Opinions About WikiLeaks and Trump
Submitted by: ButtCracker — John Kiriakou knows a lot about leaking classified information. He went to prison for it. A former CIA agent who said too much about the Bush-era torture program, he’s also the first CIA leaker to go…
The Politics Behind ‘Russia-gate’
Exclusive: The hysteria over “Russia-gate” continues to grow – as President Trump’s enemies circle – but at its core there may be no there there while it risks pushing the world toward nuclear annihilation, writes Robert Parry. There may be…
Trump’s Refugee Ban – Made in Israel?
President Trump has issued an executive order suspending entry to the U.S for people from Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, and Yemen (the order is called “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”). These same…
Cash No Longer King: Europe Accelerates Move To Begin Elimination Of Paper Money
In the shadow of Donald Trump’s spree of controversial actions, the European commission has quietly launched the next offensive in the war on cash. These unelected bureaucrats have boldly asserted their intention to crack down on paper transactions across the…
Senate votes to repeal transparency rule for oil companies
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The Senate voted strictly along party lines Friday morning to repeal a regulation requiring disclosures for the payments that energy companies make to foreign governments. The measure passed 52-47 in a pre-dawn vote. The Securities and Exchange…
Tulsi Gabbard: The US Politician Who Could Become A Second Abraham Lincoln
There are several reasons why the progressive Tulsi Gabbard stands an extraordinarily good likelihood of repeating the extraordinary achievement of the progressive Abraham Lincoln. The electoral defeat of a liberal Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the widespread recognition of the…
In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states’ rights
Submitted by ButtCracker — President Donald Trump looks up while signing an executive order to advance construction of the Keystone XL pipeline at the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Five years ago, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, now President…
In Beijing, and Washington, a Breath of Foul Air
The scene in a Beijing park in December. The city’s air quality is routinely rated “very unhealthy.” Credit Wang Zhao/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When friends cautioned me about Beijing’s notorious air pollution recently, ahead of my first visit there,…
India – Crime of the Century – Financial Genocide
A Financial genocide, if there was ever one. Death by demonetization, probably killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, through famine, disease, even desperation and suicide – because most of India’s money was declared invalid. The official weak…
8 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world – Oxfam
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The wealth of the 8 richest people on earth equals that of the poorest 3.6 billion, according to a report by Oxfam presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This vast wealth gap is a…
Mad As Hell
Why the public is so pissed off Fair warning, my family just received a 61.5% increase in our healthcare insurance premium of 2017, on top of last year’s 24.8% increase, so I am quite annoyed at the moment. For my…