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Time for a Congressional Hearing With Lt. General Charles A. Flynn
Reading Time: 6 minutes With little public notice, just six days after Donald Trump pardoned his disgraced, but loyal, former
Scientist Sheds New Light on Darwin’s Flowering Plant Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Look Inside Biden’s Oval Office (Dan) The author writes, “President Biden has filled the Oval
Operation Snail Speed
Reading Time: < 1 minute The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Anthony Fauci caricature
This Week in Pandemic: Where Did SARS-CoV-2 Come From?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The year 2020 was the Year of the Rat, and the horoscope was really quite prescient:
Indigenous Women Engage Feds To Combat Violence in Alaska
Reading Time: 8 minutes “You people take death too seriously.” Those words, from a commander with the Alaska State Troopers,
Teachers Union Berated Trump for Reopening Schools, Now It’s Praising Biden For Doing the Same
The same teachers’ organization that roundly condemned Donald Trump’s attempts to prematurely reopen schools are now applauding Biden’s decision to
Elephants Counted From Space for Conservation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fact-Check: Would Trump Lose Post-Presidency Benefits If Impeached? (Reader Steve) From the Austin American-Stateman: “If the
Don’t Panic: Health Passports Are Already a Thing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Questions continue to circle around the idea of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for international travel after a
Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout from COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself
The very first executive order Joe Biden signed upon becoming the forty-sixth President of the United States was the national
Biden Signs Order for US to Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
Reading Time: 3 minutes Senate Trial of Former President Trump Depends Largely on 145-Year-Old Case (Reader Steve) From the San
Biden’s Diverse Cabinet Will Matter to America
Reading Time: 7 minutes President Joe Biden is in the midst of creating an administration that resembles the public. He’s
Revealed: Israeli Settler Groups With Ties To the US Are Evicting Palestinians in Mass
Occupied East Jerusalem — Nearly 20 Palestinian families face homelessness amid a raging pandemic and cold, wet winter in occupied
Unusual Confirmation Delays Dangerous for America
Reading Time: 4 minutes At noon on Wednesday, January 20, current Cabinet secretaries and agency heads are scheduled to step
New CDC Director to Make Sure Voices of Science Are Heard Again
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Money Goes Towards Power’: Trump Is Exiting the White House With His Brand in Tatters (Dana)
Biden Picked a Lot of Obama People. Here’s Why It’s OK.
Reading Time: 4 minutes President-elect Joe Biden finalized his Cabinet picks on Thursday, naming US Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland
Military Insiders Reveal Their Inauguration Nightmare
Reading Time: 17 minutes NEWS ANALYSIS The final countdown has begun, but the military is worried about what Donald Trump
Native Activists File Suit After Trump Officials Hand Sacred Land to Foreign Mining Firm
The land swap deal between the U.S. government and British-Australian corporate mining giant Rio Tinto and its subsidiary, Resolution Copper,
The Execution of Dustin Higgs and the Tradition of Capital Punishment
Dustin Higgs, an African American man from Poughkeepsie, New York, became the thirteenth federal inmate to meet his end at
Trump’s Storm Troopers: First Blood
Reading Time: 6 minutes ANALYSIS January 6, the day the Capitol building was sacked by Visigoths, happens to be the
Humans Won’t Be Able to Control Artificial Intelligence, Scientists Warn
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How They Did It (Judy) From Vice: “With Twitter’s permanent
Amid Charges of Election Fraud, Uganda Reelects Museveni
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Donald Trump was preparing to scuttle out of Washington a few hours before Joe Biden’s
Biden May Hit A Manchin Roadblock
Reading Time: < 1 minute The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Joe Manchin caricature
Big Tech Giveth and Big Tech Can Taketh Away
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Switzerland Risks Becoming Beijing’s Security Satellite
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China Tech Ban Mirrors 1980s Attempts To Destroy Japanese Competition
With just days left in office, the Trump administration has blacklisted an additional nine Chinese companies, adding them to a
This Week in Pandemic: New Flavors of Coronavirus
Reading Time: 4 minutes First, the bad news: There are new variants of the coronavirus. But, good news: The new
A Bill Gates Venture Aims to Spray Dust Into the Atmosphere to Block the Sun. What Could Go Wrong?
Reading Time: 2 minutes National Guardsmen Sleep on Capitol Building Floors Amid Threats of Violence (Dan) The author writes, “Hundreds
Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump’s Coup Attempt With Brian Becker
As more details of the apparent conspiracy headed by President Donald Trump to storm the U.S. Capitol building and
Biden Presidency a New Era for Disability Rights?
Reading Time: 4 minutes –OPINION– President-elect Joe Biden is no stranger to disability. Biden not only survived a brain aneurysm
A Record of Hawkish Intervention: Biden Picks Samantha Power to Head USAID
President-elect Joe Biden has selected longtime Democratic insider Samantha Power to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “There
Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the Web, Prepares ‘Do-Over’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Parler Users Breached Deep Inside US Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows (Dana) The author writes, “At
Virginia Braces for Armed Protests on MLK Day
Reading Time: 8 minutes As the FBI warns of violent pro-Trump actions across the country following the attack on the
Oak Flat: Trump’s Final Middle Finger to the Environment
Buried deep in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2015, section 3003 calls for the expeditious facilitation of a
Giuliani’s Trial By Combat
Reading Time: 3 minutes Donald Trump famously used to ask, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” — the snarling pitbull of a
Insects Are Vanishing at an Alarming Rate — but We Can Save Them
Reading Time: 3 minutes Domestic Terrorism: A More Urgent Threat, but Weaker Laws (Reader Steve) The author writes, “In the
As US Sanctions a Starving Yemen, Iran Asks Interpol to Arrest Trump
Outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that the United States will be designating Yemen’s Houthi rebels a terrorist
Could the Rioters Have Breached the Capitol’s Cybersecurity?
Reading Time: 3 minutes January 6, 2021: A Day That Will Live in Infamy (Dan) From the Daily Hampshire Gazette:
Azerbaijan Celebrates a Victory Made Possible by Turkey
Reading Time: 5 minutes This was the first military parade ever to celebrate one ex-Soviet nation’s victory over another. Thousands
This Week in Pandemic: To Travel or Not to Travel?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is a fascinating thing that one year into this pandemic, we still do not understand
Looking for Trump Tweets? They’re Not Entirely Gone
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Goodbye Twitter” is trending on the social media site after Twitter permanently suspended the account of
Ex-Monk Takes on the Thai Sex Mafia
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A Manufactured Crisis: How Saudi Arabia Uses Oil to Bring Yemen to its Knees
HODEIDA, YEMEN — Yemen’s oil is in thrall to a complex, intertwined network of elites that control the smuggling of
Did We Just Witness Our Fort Sumter?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Normally it’s only at the end of year when we rerun a podcast. However, events today
Trump Extremists Emboldened by Lack of Crackdown
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trump-inspired riot on Capitol Hill could be just the beginning, with more violence on the
‘Shifting Baselines’ Are Changing What Normal Climate Means
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mob Attack on US Capitol Dominates Overseas News, Unnerves World (Reader Steve) The author writes, “News
When the Commander in Chief Encourages Insurrection
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump had tried to
Georgia Dems Relied Heavily on Massive Corporate War Chest to Cinch Historic Election
In order to beat GOP incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate elections, Democrats had to spend