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LNG is an intelligence operation
TC Energy has spies, soldiers, even a former CIA director pushing pipelines and fracking in B.C. But they’re not invincible.
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The Horrible Truth About Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases
Junk science has put people on death row.
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Markets and the Law
Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.
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Market Forces and Malpractice
James Meek on the housing crisis
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Should We Kill Some Wild Creatures to Protect Others?
Two new books take up the ethics of killing some animals to protect others. By Elizabeth Kolbert
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Guantánamo Bay Has Shattered the Illusion of a 'Fair' Justice System
Guantánamo stands out as one of the most extreme examples of how people’s lives can be totally ruined not because they actually did anything wrong, but because it was simply not politically advantageous for anyone to care what happened to them.
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Biden’s Gaza Double Talk with Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Another [Long Reads] special episode about the Israeli war on Gaza
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State Department Official Says She Quit Over Biden Admin 'Twisting The Facts' On Gaza
"In the end, I know the difference between right and wrong," Stacy Gilbert told HuffPost in her first interview since resigning. By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Michael Hudson: The Truth about the Destruction of the Palestinians
What Michael Hudson learned about Palestinians from the Mossad 50 years ago: "The aim all along has been to kill them."
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Big Business’ Plan to Block Biden’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements
THE CHAMPIONS OF the “free market” are frantically lobbying to block the Federal Trade Commission’s imminent ban on noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from seeking better-paying jobs or starting new businesses. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby in the country, touts itself as the voice for “competition in the marketplace,” a principle it says is vital for innovation and dynamism in the economy. Despite its rhetoric, the Chamber is mobilizing against a major reform proposed by the FTC to liberate workers from so-called noncompete clauses.
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The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new LGBTQ rights case
303 Creative v. Elenis, a case about a website designer who refuses to design wedding websites for same-sex couples, could potentially become one of the most consequential anti-discrimination cases in the Supreme Court’s recent history. It asks whether the First Amendment’s free speech protections give at least some anti-LGBTQ conservatives a constitutional right to violate civil rights laws.
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U.S.' chip ban to hurt Korean facilities in China, TSMC: Report
The U.S. government's recent decision to impose new restrictions on the sale of semiconductors and chipmaking equipment to China could hurt the Chinese foundries of South Korean chipmakers and the sales of TSMC, information advisory firm Trendforce Corp. has concluded. The measures announced by the United States on Friday included the requirement that advanced computing chips, including those used in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC), and production equipment cannot be sold to China without a license.
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Indigenous peoples call on the world to act urgently to save the Amazon
The call is to act against the threats that are destroying the largest tropical forest on the planet. From September 5 to 9, the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), will bring together delegates and representatives of the nine countries that make up the Amazon to present their threats and solutions and call for the union of peoples, states and international organizations in order to preserve the great lung of the planet.
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You may qualify for over $10,000 in climate incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here's when you can claim them
The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law Aug. 16, offers tax credits and rebates to consumers who buy clean vehicles and appliances or take other steps to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition
A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right.
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How one senator’s broken hip puts net neutrality at risk
One of the strange features of American government is that an 82-year-old’s broken hip can cause a sea change in telecom policy. The 82-year-old in question is Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who had surgery after a fall on Thursday and is said to be resting comfortably. But, while Leahy recuperates, he won’t be able to cast votes, and Democrats won’t be able to flex their razor-thin Senate majority — which could cost the administration its last chance to institute net neutrality rules.
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Beyond the official clichés: The Texas school shooting reveals the advanced sickness of American society
The mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers, and the wounding of 17 more people, at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday was a genuinely horrific event. The students killed were 9, 10 and 11 years old, in the second, third and fourth grades. The adults killed, both women, were fourth-grade teachers. The perpetrator of the crime barricaded himself inside a classroom and opened fire with a lightweight semi-automatic rifle that he had obtained a day after his 18th birthday, one week earlier.
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Why we can’t record mobile phone calls — and why we should be able to
Several years ago, I had to deal with a situation that may be familiar to a lot of people: I was slammed with a series of high medical bills that had been denied by the insurance company. The doctor was in network, but according to the insurance company, his bills were coded wrong. Or wait, his facilities weren’t in network or… well, you get the idea. It took over a year and many phone calls to iron out the issue — and I wouldn’t have gotten through it had I not been able to record each phone call I made with the insurance company and the various medical facilities involved.
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The governor of Missouri still doesn’t know how websites work
Mike Parson, Governor of Missouri, does not understand how websites work. He held a press conference earlier this week in St. Louis to once more reiterate his desire to prosecute a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist for looking at the source code of a state-run website.
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Ontario passes new rules aimed at work-life balance for employees
The Ontario government has passed new laws it says will help employees disconnect from the office and create a better work-life balance.
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