Month: October 2020

The number of Fukushima youth diagnosed with definitive or suspected thyroid gland cancer now reaches 104, according to a Japanese newspaper’s analysis of government data. There were 300,000 total youth in the Fukushima prefecture who were aged 18 or younger at the time of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Of the 104 children whose government-administered…

Denial of food and medical care. Cells and floors soiled with blood, urine, and feces. Excessive force by prison guards. Weeks, months, and years in solitary confinement. These are the conditions found at a “special needs” for-profit prison, the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, which is tasked by the state’s department of corrections with incarcerating 1,200…

The 2016 election served as a wakeup call to pundits, pollsters and all other members of the established media. Both the operations and results of the president election proved how dramatically the standard devices used to communicate one’s message in a political context have changed.    Love him or hate him, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate…

Compared to the average American, most graduates of Harvard Business School are shielded from the economic inequalities that have escalated since the 2008 financial collapse. But a survey (PDF) of 1,947 alums of this elite institution, released Monday, finds that they are nervous about the growing divide between rich and poor, which they say is…

Just hours after roughly 400,000 packed the streets of New York City for the People’s Climate March, a flood of people marched to the city’s financial district to target what they say is the root of the climate crisis: capitalism itself. Demonstrators sporting blue aimed to stage a mass sit-in Monday morning “at the heart…

Some counties have already begun issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the wake of Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision not to review pending marriage equality cases.  By “denying cert” in five same-sex marriage cases from Indiana, Wisconsin, Utah, Virginia, and Oklahoma, the Court let stand the decisions of lower appeals courts—all of which had declared…

The national turn towards a high-stakes testing-based system of education “is leaving millions of low-income students and students of color behind,” charged a coalition of national civil rights groups in a Tuesday letter to President Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Congressional and State education leaders. Putting forth a set of recommendations, the letter urges the…

Agents from New Zealand’s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter, Nicky Hager, recently published in a book that caused a major…

Click:Spearmint Nicotine Pouches Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said the United States is the cause of emerging signs of a new Cold War as a result of the country’s sense of “triumphalism.” The 83-year-old made the comments Monday in an interview with the Russian state-owned news agency TASS. “Now the signs of cold war…

Major League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred Jr. on Tuesday is meeting with President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE. Manfred went up in the…