Thursday, May 09, 2019

When a person dies, No More Deaths/No Más Muertes volunteer Scott Warren believes, some extra-physical element of them remains, dwelling in the place where they passed. In the last six years, Warren has communed with the dead no fewer than 16 times in the desert outside Ajo, the tiny Arizona border town he calls home.
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes activist Scott Warren was charged with three felony counts of harboring and conspiracy for providing food, water, and a place to sleep to two undocumented men over three days last year. He could serve up to 20 years in prison. interc.pt/2DP9B7D (video: Laura Saunders)


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Scott Warren Worked to Prevent Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert. The Government Wants Him in Prison.
Thousands of migrants have died crossing the desert in Arizona. The U.S. government is prosecuting activists who try to save lives and recover bodies.

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As in so many other episodes involving Erik Prince over the last decade, his involvement in the Trump-Russia scandal is a result of his relentless ambition, combined with his snake-oil salesmanship and his ability to gain entry to rooms with genuine power.

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How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
Erik Prince now offers a complete mercenary supply chain: anything from military hardware to social media manipulation in partnership with Project Veritas.

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Decades after Dupont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes could be transmitted from mothers to babies, millions of women around the world are passing dangerous amounts of these toxic compounds to their children.



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High Levels of Toxic PFAS Chemicals Pollute Breast Milk Around the World

Studies are showing high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in breast milk that far exceed U.S. drinking water health advisory limits.



Glenview Capital CEO Larry Robbins is shorting Chemours and 3M on legal risks


Glenview Capital's Larry Robbins speaks at the Sohn Conference on his insurance picks and the stocks he's shorting.



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The forgotten history behind Cinco de Mayo is fascinating and remains extremely relevant today. It shows international politics is always and everywhere about money, writes Jon Schwarz.
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The Forgotten History of Cinco de Mayo: It’s Not About Beer, It’s About Rich Countries Strangling Poor Ones
Cinco de Mayo shows international politics is always and everywhere about money.

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Documents show that the Virginia-based firm LookingGlass Cyber gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country, information that was then shared with the Department of Homeland Security and state-level law enforcement agencies.
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Homeland Security Used a Private Intelligence Firm to Monitor Family Separation Protests
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.

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ALL THOSE FORENSIC SHOWS ARE BS
A 2009 National Academy of Sciences study questioned the scientific basis for virtually every forensic discipline used to convict people and send them to prison. Some in the forensic science community simply resist the report and what it stands for.
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Ten Years After a Landmark Study Blew the Whistle on Junk Science, the Fight Over Forensics Rages On
Forensic practices used to convict people and send them to prison still lack meaningful scientific underpinning.

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There’s an important subtext running through “The Virtue of Nationalism,” by the conservative Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony: Hazony’s anger over international criticism of Israeli human rights abuses.
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Some dairy companies have begun to include a list of suicide prevention hotlines in the envelope with farmers’ checks.
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Obama’s Agriculture Secretary, Now Working for the Dairy Industry, Urges 2020 Democrats to Be Nice to the Dairy Industry
Some dairy companies have begun to include a list of suicide prevention hotlines in the envelope with farmers’ checks.

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We remember Salvadoran and Latin American revolutionary Farabundo Marti on the 126th anniversary of his birth. 

Martí remains a martyr figure for El Salvador’s Left. His legacy is invoked in the name of the Salvadoran political party Frente Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, or FMLN, which fought, during the 1980s, against the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military government.

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The US 'can't afford' universal healthcare, but Bolivia is vaccinating it's citizens for free.
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CAPITALIST CRISIS IS CLIMATE CRISIS
“They take care of the white communities,” said Diana Burdette, a first generation Guatemalan American who developed health problems after moving into a home one mile from a Medline plant emitting ethylene oxide. “But what about our black and brown communities? What about us?”


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Air Pollution Crisis Exposes More Environmental Racism in Illinois
Wendy Abrams is known for her environmental philanthropy, but her family’s company Medline is polluting the air with a known carcinogen, ethylene oxide.


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