October 11, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Democratic strategist and Fox News analyst Jehmu Greene is entering the race for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Greene announced her candidacy late Thursday in an email to DNC members, Politico reported. “After a historic year and devastating losses up and down the ballot, it is women who are stepping up to protect the rights […]
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UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23 2015 (IPS) – When the East African nation of Somalia, once described as a “lawless state”, ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) early this week, it left two countries in splendid isolation from the rest of the world: South Sudan and the United States. South Sudan? “The […]
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John Kiriakou, the CIA agent who was jailed for blowing the whistle on the United States’ torture program, was released from Loretto Prison in Pennsylvania on Tuesday under orders to finish the remainder of his 30-month sentence at home. Though glad the whistleblower was finally able to return to his wife and five children, supporters […]
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On Saturday, the Wisconsin AFL-CIO is rallying thousands of workers from around the state at the state capitol against the impending adoption of the law that would ban private sector workers from being required to join a union or pay dues. The Wisconsin AFL-CIO says the protesters will also demand an apology from Governor Scott […]
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Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation’s senior law enforcement officer, said on Tuesday that he is “opposed to the death penalty” and said a national moratorium would be appropriate while the U.S. Supreme Court reviews a pending challenge to the practice brought by death row inmates in Oklahoma. During an event at the National Press […]
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In a determination that could have far-reaching implications for the agro-chemical giants like Dow Chemical and Monsanto, the research arm of the World Health Organization has declared that glyphosate—the key ingredient of widely-used herbicides such as Roundup—should now be categorized as a “probable carcinogen” for humans. In a report published on Friday in The Lancet […]
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