Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Between 1999 and 2013, white middle-aged men and women in the United States, especially those with only a high school education, began dying at a s... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Each of the Republican candidates for the presidency declared last week that we should deal with school shootings by providing aggressive tr... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The reason Sanders is unlikely to win the nomination for president is because only 31% of Americans “react positively” to the word socialism... Read more
“The most important thing each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbors’ eyes. To imagine what it is like to walk in their shoes, t... Read more
“Instead of raising the bar in pursuit of objectivity, the current working group doubled down on its 2007 summary: It unfurls a series of distortions designed to magnify the threats, i... Read more
“People believe what they want to believe because the guy who made this was so good that it’s real to everybody. Now who’s the master, the painter or the forger?”... Read more
“One of the most remarkable things about us is also one of the easiest to overlook: each time we collide with the real, we deepen our understanding of the world and become more fully a part... Read more
For preventing the poor, wage workers, the un-gentrified and Mother Nature from being a burden on the Alpha class of the country and for making them beneficial to the publick. “I have... Read more
Published on http://www.truth-out.org The closer your political platform gets to allowing everyone to do as they want and at the same time pointing out and berating what’s interfering... Read more
The New Treasure Island for Investors “This government’s [England] whole strategy for higher education is, in the cliché it so loves to use, to create a level playing field that... Read more
NY Times – Politics

The episode followed a fatal collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet in January, and prompted concern and outrage among officials. [...]

College athletes have signed deals worth millions of dollars since the N.C.A.A. allowed student-athletes to become paid endorsers. [...]

The Army said the celebration was in honor of its 250th birthday but did not mention that the president’s birthday happened to be the same day. [...]

Staffing shortages at an air traffic control center have added to the effects of a runway closure, prompting United Airlines to cut flights at the hub. [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced the agency was “shifting its scientific expertise.” [...]

The agency plans, for now, to use attrition, including retirements and voluntary resignations, to reduce the size of the C.I.A. instead of more mass firings. [...]