How a Brazilian Town Took a Bet on Basic Income
The seaside town of Maricá, Brazil, was struggling, but it had oil revenue. So the local government started a basic income program based on a local alternative currency.
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jeudi 26 mai
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How a Brazilian Town Took a Bet on Basic Income
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Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it. The post Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence appeared first on The Intercept. -
War in Ukraine may ramp up pollution in US oil and gas towns
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Cops Didn't Stop the Uvalde School Shooting
And they won’t stop the next. The post Cops Didn’t Stop the Uvalde School Shooting appeared first on The Intercept.
mercredi 25 mai
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In Response to Texas Massacre, Right-Wingers Want More Guns and Cops in Schools
The right continues to echo the baseless idea that "good guys" with guns will stop gun violence.
mardi 24 mai
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Pregnant People May Be Under Intensified Tech Surveillance in Post-“Roe” US
A new report forecasts a possible future where "antiquated abortion laws are enforced with cutting-edge technology."
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Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise
Fascist fashion items can help promote and provide funds for extremist groups. In some instances, it appears, their sale relies upon key services provided by prominent businesses that have policies against promoting racist organisations and hateful content. An investigation by Bellingcat has (...) -
Far-right conspiracy theories are now embedded in the UK mainstream
And no wonder, when British journalists promote conspiracy theories and government politicians embrace extremist rhetoric
lundi 23 mai
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Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos
The state’s new ban is the most extreme in the country, going further than Texas’s notorious S.B. 8 by banning abortion after fertilization. The post Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos appeared first on The (...)
vendredi 20 mai
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Vulture Capitalists Want to Flood the Health Care System With Cheap Medical Labor
A private equity–owned emergency room staffing firm cofounded by a wealthy Republican congressman has been openly hailing a coming “oversupply” of doctors, promising prospective investors that a surplus of emergency physicians — soon projected to reach nearly ten thousand — will drive doctors’ (...) -
Oklahoma Just Took Abortion Bans to a New Extreme
On Thursday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill banning nearly all abortions in the state. Like a recent ban passed in Texas, which barred abortion after six weeks, the law will be enforced through private civil action. And Oklahoma’s bill takes things even further by banning abortion beginning at (...)
jeudi 19 mai
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After Buffalo, Great Replacement Theory Isn’t Going Anywhere
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, killing ten people. The eighteen-year-old alleged gunman, Payton S. Gendron, is said to have scrawled racial slurs onto the barrel of his gun and to have published a racist manifesto that runs into the (...)
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How Do We Stop White Supremacists From Killing People of Color?
In the wake of the Buffalo massacre, scholar-activist Rosa Clemente worries that communities of color will be more heavily policed while White supremacists will continue to access guns freely.
mardi 17 mai
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The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point. The post The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care appeared first on The (...)
lundi 16 mai
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Racist Attack in Buffalo Was Crafted to Terrorize Us. Here’s How We Fight Back.
We must counter racist attacks with a diversity of tactics from community protection to deradicalizing white Americans.
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British Police Have Disturbingly Deceived Many Activists Into Romantic Relationships
“As far as I was concerned, I’d met someone, and they were going to be my partner for life. I was going to marry them and have children with them.” In her new memoir Small Town Girl: Love, Lies, and the Undercover Police, activist Donna McLean writes of her boyfriend, known to her then as (...)
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Unravelling the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent Palestinian-American journalist working with Al Jazeera, was killed by a gunshot to the head on the morning of May 11, 2022 while reporting from Jenin, a Palestinian city in the West Bank. Abu Akleh was covering a raid that was being conducted by the Israeli (...)
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Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It Must Be Held Accountable.
The world, including the United States, has rightfully been in an uproar over the callous killing of the Palestinian American fifty-one-year-old veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military. The Al Jazeera journalist was shot while covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin (...)
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The Buffalo Shooter’s Manifesto Relied on the Same White Supremacist Conspiracy Pushed by Tucker Carlson
The mass shooting inside a crowded, Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday, which killed 10 people and injured three more, is renewing fierce condemnation of the racist conspiracy known as the “great replacement theory,” after a racist manifesto believed to have been written by the gunman was (...)
dimanche 15 mai
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Northern Ireland’s new political terrain
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White Supremacist Massacre in Buffalo Shows Alt-Right Ideology Leads to Murder
The horrific shooting in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo stems from a long history of anti-Black violence in the U.S.
jeudi 12 mai
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To Solve Its Economic Crisis, Sri Lanka Must Demilitarize
Sri Lanka is in crisis. This week, the houses of government-aligned MPs have been set on fire and vehicles across the island left overturned. Several people have been killed, hundreds injured. Anti-government protesters are continuing to clash with supporters of the Rajapaksa clan, and the (...)
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Colombia’s Left-Wing Presidential Candidate Is Facing Vicious Right-Wing Opposition
Normality has seemingly returned to Colombia. Streets are buzzing, restaurants and salsa clubs are open, masks are rarely seen — the pandemic appears to have receded into the past, becoming one topic among others. But the economic effects of COVID-19 linger on. The hardship experienced as people (...)
mardi 10 mai
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Resigns Following Protests Over Economic Crisis
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's government is cracking down: Hundreds of protesters have been injured and at least five are dead.
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Real Estate Predators Tried to Cash In on the Pandemic. Then Tenants Fought Back. – Mother Jones
“I feel sometimes that we’re up against this faceless money monster.”
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Reversing Roe v. Wade Is All About Minority Rule
This is about minority rule. And it always has been. That’s what I found myself thinking as I watched my feeds fill with the breaking news of the Supreme Court leaked draft decision to overrule Roe v. Wade last week (and I’d love to hear how you’re processing the news—share your thoughts here). I (...)
lundi 9 mai
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Congress “Certainly Could” Ban Abortion Nationwide, McConnell Says
Since Politico published a draft Supreme Court opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade will likely be struck down, Republicans have been reluctant to take the usual victory tour, instead focusing their attention on just how the opinion leaked. But late last week, Sen. Mitch McConnell hinted at (...)
vendredi 6 mai
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If Abortion Is Illegal, Will Every Miscarriage Be a Potential Crime?
On a humid morning in early October, Brittney Poolaw sat in an Oklahoma courtroom waiting on a verdict. Instead of the jail uniform she’d donned over the past 18 months, she wore a yellow and white blouse. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury returned with their decision: Poolaw (...)
jeudi 5 mai
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Companies Like Amazon and CVS Have Donated Millions to Anti-Abortion Politicians
These donations come despite claims that these companies support reproductive freedom.
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Abortion Bans Are Imminent Unless Democrats Change Course Fast
Abortion looks set to be illegal in half the country within weeks. Politico obtained a leaked draft of the upcoming Supreme Court decision in which Justice Samuel Alito argues that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision found a right to abortion in the constitution that was never there. The decision (...)
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We Need a Fighting Abortion Rights Movement Now More Than Ever
According to an initial draft majority opinion that was leaked on Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority decided in a preliminary vote to strike down the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade in 1973. It’s a crushing blow to the abortion rights movement, but it’s (...)
mercredi 4 mai
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Nearly Half of All Americans Live in States Where Abortion May Soon Be Banned
Almost half of all Americans could lose access to abortion in their states if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, an outcome that seems all the more likely after a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion was published on Monday, sparking protests and calls to enshrine the landmark ruling in (...)
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In Photos: Rallying for Roe
After a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion signaled the court’s intention to overturn the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, advocates for reproductive justice took to the streets in cities nationwide.
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The End of Roe v. Wade Is the Culmination of Years of Right-Wing Efforts
The Right is on the verge of achieving what it has promised to accomplish for decades: the destruction of a federal, constitutional right to an abortion. Democrats have for years raised small donor cash off of the perpetual conservative threat to reproductive rights and then evaded (...)
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Bypassing sanctions
EU imposed sanctions on selected goods shipped to Russia and Belarus. Few transport companies found a way to transport them anyway, despite restrictions. Border Guard maintains that our borders are shut tight. We have decided to verify that claim, and found a company that agreed to transport (...) -
“Living in Hell” as Heatwaves Cook India and Pakistan
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past few weeks, Nazeer Ahmed has been living in one of the hottest places on Earth. As a brutal heatwave has swept across India and Pakistan, his home in Turbat, in (...)
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In a Post-Roe America, Expect More Births in a Country Where Maternal Mortality Continues to Rise
by Robin Fields and Adriana Gallardo ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. If the U.S. Supreme Court does as its leaked draft opinion says and strikes down Roe v. Wade, researchers expect that (...)
mardi 3 mai
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Roe v. Wade Will Be Struck Down by the Electoral College
Four of the justices voting to overturn Roe were appointed by presidents initially elected while losing the popular vote. The post Roe v. Wade Is About to Be Struck Down by the Electoral College appeared first on The Intercept.
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Abortion Would Be Immediately Prohibited in 24 States If SCOTUS Overturns “Roe”
A recent study estimated that a total abortion ban would lead to a 21 percent increase in pregnancy-related deaths.
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Drought in Ethiopia Is Fueling a “Dramatic” Rise in Child Marriage
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia are seeing “dramatic” increases in child marriage as the worst climate-induced emergency for 40 years pushes people to the brink, the head of (...)
jeudi 28 avril
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Trump Conspiracy Theorists Made 8 Attempts to Breach Voting Systems in 5 States
All attempts involved Republican officials or party activists who have pushed false claims about Trump's election loss.
mercredi 27 avril
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Map of Conflict : a decade of violence and land injustice in Brazil’s Legal Amazon
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The war in Ukraine has caused a housing crisis. Here’s how to combat it
With seven million Ukrainians internally displaced, the search for empty buildings to repurpose isn’t enough
vendredi 22 avril
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Narendra Modi’s Government Is Using False Charges of Terrorism to Repress Its Opponents
Under the rule of Narendra Modi, the Indian state has launched a sweeping authoritarian clampdown on political dissent. One of the manifestations of this onslaught has been the jailing of opponents on trumped-up charges of terrorism and conspiracy. The authorities refer to the victims of these (...)
jeudi 21 avril
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The growing threat of French fascism: Where next for the left?
Le Pen's vote is now more geographically spread than ever before. An insular left needs to look beyond itself to respond, reports Selma Oumari
mardi 19 avril
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We Need Public Housing, Not Affordable Housing
“Ownership affordability.” This is the conceptual lodestar for the stories we tell ourselves about the housing crisis at the family dinner table, in news media, and in legislatures. The noble losers in this tale are the people who did all the right things — those would-be homeowners born at the (...)
vendredi 15 avril
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Russia’s Kramatorsk ‘Facts’ Versus the Evidence
On April 8, 2022, a Tochka-U short-range ballistic missile struck the main railway station in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of government-controlled Ukraine. The missile killed at least 50 people, including five children. Civilians had gathered at the station to flee the approaching Russian (...)
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No, Imran Khan Isn’t an Anti-Imperialist Hero
On April 9, tensions were running high in Pakistan’s National Assembly as legislators gathered to vote on the future of Imran Khan’s government. Khan’s supporters made fiery speeches, accusing their opponents of being part of US-sponsored regime change. The opposition benches retorted by (...)
jeudi 14 avril
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Women and Journalists Are Targets of Violence in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, Report Says
Violence between the Taliban, the Islamic State, and other armed groups is also on the rise, according to the report from two NGOs. The post Women and Journalists Are Targets of Violence in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, Report Says appeared first on The (...)
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Amazon’s Union-Buster Consultants Are Also Consultants for Major Labor Unions
A recent union drive at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island didn’t just deliver the first labor victory anywhere in the online retailer’s US operations when workers voted to unionize there. The bitter fight over the unionization effort has also provided a rare glimpse into how Democrats’ (...)
