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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual dist ...[Read more]
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A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The UN’s Philip Alston is an expert on deprivation and he wants to know why 41m Americans are living in poverty. The Guardian joined him on a special two-week mission into the dark heart of the world’s richest nation ...[Read more]
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IFJ Urges Paris to Ignore Demand to Withdraw RT France’s Licence
The French authorities should not give in to the demand of prominent French personalities to stop RT France from broadcasting, which is "an insidious form of censorship," Philippe Leruth, the president of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), ...[Read more]
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An ER visit, a $12,000 bill — and a health insurer that wouldn’t pay
Cloyd came in after a night of worsening fever and a increasing pain on the right side of her stomach. She called her mother, a former nurse, who thought it sounded like appendicitis and told Cloyd to go to the hospital immediately. The doctors in the eme ...[Read more]
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Israel Detains 10 Ahed Tamimi Relatives, Teen Who Was Shot in the Face
Mohammed Tamimi was hit by a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli soldier which was the cause of Ahed’s altercation with the Israeli troops. Nearly 10 Palestinians, including five minors, were abducted and detained by the Israeli forces, during a raid in t ...[Read more]
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US visa applications may soon require five years of social media info
The State Department wants to require all US visa applicants, both immigrant and non, disclose their social media handles to the US government, CNN reports. In documents that the department will file to the Federal Register tomorrow, it proposes that near ...[Read more]
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US co-opted Cuba’s hip-hop scene for regime change
For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba’s underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The idea was to use ...[Read more]
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UK company behind La Stampa article claiming Russian aid to Italy useless — diplomat
The diplomat stressed that separate dealers are trying to use Italy’s tragedy for their own benefit ...[Read more]
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Illinois Governor arranging secret flights from China to bring millions of masks and gloves to Illinois
Gov. J.B. Pritzker is planning to obtain millions of masks and gloves from China and bring those supplies back to Illinois on charter jets — but he’s keeping the details secret out of fear the Trump administration might seize the cargo for the federal ...[Read more]
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How U.S. Financed ‘Human Rights’ Organizations Create Anti-Chinese Headlines
US keeps creating fake narratives through 'human rights' organizations which continually keep reporting fake news about China in various matters of importance. In this article you can find out who, when, how, where, financed by whom, telling what fake new ...[Read more]
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Chinese internet stocks soar as phony tech war fades
Inaction against China’s largest internet companies with a combined market value of $1.3 trillion follows a recurring pattern in Washington’s phony war against China. ...[Read more]
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