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Alabama's population is dwindling for the first time in state's history as a result of COVID-19's deadly spread throughout its residents.
"Our state literally shrunk in 2020, based on the numbers that we have managed to put together, and actually by quit ...[Read more]
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The first Cold War made trillions for the war industry. Profiteers know a new Cold War with China would make many more. ...[Read more]
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Unfortunately Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is substantially less meaningful when analyzed in light of his administration’s pledge to mount “over-the-horizon” attacks in that country from afar even though we won’t have troop ...[Read more]
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Today’s German elections mark the effective end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year rule. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin about how she became Europe’s most dominant peacetime leader — at the expense of Europe itself. ...[Read more]
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The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. ...[Read more]
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By now, it should be abundantly clear that the insurrection of January 6, 2021, was not a spontaneous uprising perpetrated by an angry horde of amped-up Trump supporters. To the contrary, the insurrection was the culmination of an attempted coup designed ...[Read more]
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"The climate crisis is the leading issue of the next government, and that is for us the basis for any talks," said Annalena Baerbock, leader of the Greens. ...[Read more]
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But this is based on a fundamental fallacy: that the U.S. bears no responsibility for the millions of tons of landfill fodder produced in Chinese factories and shipped to its seemingly insatiable consumer market.
The stark truth is that China’s pollutio ...[Read more]
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The estate tax can be easily avoided by exploiting a loophole unwittingly created by Congress three decades ago. ...[Read more]
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Brian Madderson says filling stations are emptied within hours of a delivery as calls grow for the army to step in ...[Read more]
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It's do-or-die time for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. So Bernie Sanders is rightly insisting that House progressives reject the bipartisan infrastructure bill until it's linked to the reconciliation bill's passage. ...[Read more]
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