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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
Voters won’t feel significant pain from tariffs before November vote, and the president is relishing rising approval ratings amid his brazen disregard for orthodoxy. Bipartisan efforts to crimp Trump’s power to impose tariffs without congressional oversight are taking shape.
‘It would be the end of freedom of navigation and overflight if it went unchallenged,’ analyst predicts. China may begin to exert control over the wide swath of territory it claims in the South China Sea within a year.
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from CNN
LEFT BIAS
The Justice Department announced indictments against 12 Russian nationals as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, accusing them of engaging in a "sustained effort" to hack Democrats' emails and computer networks. All 12 defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian federation intelligence agency within the main intelligence directorate of the Russian military, who were acting in "their official capacities."
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Ain't No Way Norway Is a Model for Democratic Socialism
If America is “capitalism run wild,” then so is Norway. If Norway is “socialism,” then so is the United States.
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from Medium Community
I do not believe the establishment Russia narrative. I do not believe that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election. I do not believe the Russian government did any election rigging for Trump to collude with. This is not because I believe Vladimir Putin is some kind of blueberry-picking girl scout, and it certainly isn’t because I think the Russian government is unwilling or incapable of meddling in the affairs of other nations to some extent when it suits them. It is simply because I am aware that the US intelligence community lies constantly as a matter of policy, and because I understand how the burden of proof works.
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
The attack began with a single burst of machine gun fire, followed by a score of rocket-propelled grenades. For the next 90 minutes, a platoon of U.S. soldiers and a handful of reinforcements would fight off a wave of more than 100 Taliban fighters. A decade ago, the men of Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade came under attack near the end of a brutal and demanding deployment in the Kunar and Nuristan provinces of Afghanistan. When the guns finally went silent at Wanat, nine U.S. soldiers had been killed, 27 were wounded, and at least dozens of Taliban fighters lay dead. The fight and the preceding deployment resulted in the battalion being the most decorated to date in the Global War on Terror.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Alternative milk sounds healthy, but it really is just fake
A one-word substitution – from “fake” to “alternative” – in last Saturday’s print edition of this column launched a lively social media discussion on fake foods. Many favorite fakes have been well-marketed to develop brand loyalty regardless of nutritional value. Nobody reads the dietary label on a Twinkie or a can of Spam before reaching for comfort food. Homemade macaroni with four cheese casserole has a hard time competing with the blue box for kids’ approval. And “alternative milk” rides the aura of good health promoted for a century by images of contented cows and wholesome dairying families. Fake milk does fill a niche for people who can’t tolerate milk but still want to whiten their coffee, enjoy a bowl of cereal or follow a favorite recipe without triggering a health crisis.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Alternative milk sounds healthy, but it really is just fake
A one-word substitution – from “fake” to “alternative” – in last Saturday’s print edition of this column launched a lively social media discussion on fake foods. Many favorite fakes have been well-marketed to develop brand loyalty regardless of nutritional value. Nobody reads the dietary label on a Twinkie or a can of Spam before reaching for comfort food. Homemade macaroni with four cheese casserole has a hard time competing with the blue box for kids’ approval. And “alternative milk” rides the aura of good health promoted for a century by images of contented cows and wholesome dairying families. Fake milk does fill a niche for people who can’t tolerate milk but still want to whiten their coffee, enjoy a bowl of cereal or follow a favorite recipe without triggering a health crisis.
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