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Facebook Board Announces Trump Remains Banned. Trump Starts His Own “Platform”
“The Board has upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account,” the board said in a much-anticipated statement this morning. The decisio ...[Read more]
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Among World Superpowers, US Poses Biggest Threat to Democracy: Global Poll
Almost half of respondents from 53 countries are worried that Washington threatens their democracy, and nearly two-thirds think economic inequality poses the biggest risk to popular rule. Results of the Democracy Perception Index survey (pdf), conducted b ...[Read more]
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Amazon Is Dictating the Personal Hygiene of Contract Drivers including Fingernail Length
Amazon is dictating the hygiene and monitoring the social media posts of drivers that it’s contracting from other small companies, new documents show. The policies are part of a litany of strict guidelines that recent reporting has found Amazon workers ...[Read more]
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‘This Is How Fascists Operate’: DeSantis Signs Anti-Voting Bill Behind Closed Doors for Fox News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday barred local media outlets from covering his signing of S.B. 90, the latest state-level voter suppression law which makes voting by mail—which millions of Floridians have done for years—more difficult and discoura ...[Read more]
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Boris Johnson’s Lies Don’t Harm Him Because the UK’s Political System is More Corrupt Than He Is – CounterPunch.org
Britain’s corporate media are suddenly awash with stories wondering whether, or to what extent, the UK’s prime minister is dishonest. Predictably in the midst of this, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is still doing her determined best to act as media b ...[Read more]
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Jailed Ahead of Sentencing
Daniel Hale, a former Air Force intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to sharing classified documents about drone strikes with a reporter, has been arrested ahead of his sentencing in July. In March, Hale pleaded guilty to one charge under the Espionage ...[Read more]
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EU ready to discuss waiver on Covid vaccine patents
The head of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has said the bloc is “ready to discuss” a US-backed proposal for a waiver on the patents for Covid-19 vaccines and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he was “absolutely in favour” ...[Read more]
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Rejecting Bayer Appeal, Top EU Court Upholds Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides
The European Union's top court ruled Thursday in favor of the European Commission's partial ban on three pesticides hazardous to bees, much to the chagrin of Bayer—the German pharmaceutical and biotech company that merged with agrochemical giant Monsant ...[Read more]
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Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties
Biden and many of his appointees have links to drug companies trying to delay and weaken the COVID vaccine waiver he’s now promising to negotiate. ...[Read more]
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‘From drug cartels and human traffickers to Russian oligarchs and African kleptocrats’: How America became the #1 choice for money-laundering
Money laundering has long been a major issue in the United States but over the last several years, the evolution of technology has made the laundering threat far worse. Last fall, BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ...[Read more]
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‘This Was a Massacre’: Brazilian Police Kill Two Dozen in Deadliest Favela Raid in Rio’s History
More than 100 heavily armed Brazilian police officers stormed a sprawling Rio de Janeiro favela Thursday and killed at least two dozen people, a raid that human rights activists, researchers, and journalists described as the deadliest such police atrocity ...[Read more]
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