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from CommonDreams
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, U.S. based progressive news website
A new report (pdf) released Monday morning by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that during the 2020 election cycle alone, U.S. corporations donated $22 million to Republican architects of voter suppression bills that are advancing through state legislatures nationwide. "AT&T [since 2015] has given the most, $811,000," Public Citizen found, citing data from The National Institute on Money in Politics. "AT&T is followed by Altria/Philip Morris, Comcast, UnitedHealth Group, Walmart, State Farm, and Pfizer. Household names that fell just out of the top 25 list... include Nationwide ($182,000), Merck ($180,000), CVS ($174,000), John Deere ($159,000), and Caterpillar ($157,000)."
from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Notwithstanding London’s status as a global financial centre, the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) inflexible listing rules constrain the city’s ability to attract high-growth tech companies. In contrast with NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the LSE Main Market remains dominated by traditional industries—such as financial services, mining, and energy—that have experienced sluggish growth in recent years.
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from The Hill
LEAST BIASED, MOSTLY FACTUAL, News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.Sen. Rand Paul: We must resist the latest COVID-era power grab: the 'vaccine passport'
Since Day One of the coronavirus pandemic, I have been warning and resisting of government control. Others, especially the left and their allies in the media, have criticized and castigated me for it. But time after time, I’ve been proven correct, both on the science and the danger to our freedom. A Democrat politician famously said, “never let a crisis go to waste.” Boy, did this pandemic really see them put their shoulder into that old axiom. From mask mandates to business shutdowns, from church closings to schools shuttered, there was very little in American life that was not impacted by the decisions made by local petty tyrants and their accomplices in the federal government.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The New Old Frontier Of Islamist Terror
Largely ignored for years, the hyper-violent Islamist terror in northern Mozambique has begun to receive international attention—now that Western oil and gas projects are threatened. As long as only impoverished locals suffered, years of beheadings and other atrocities registered only on the most avid observers. Now, as the Islamist extremists pledged to ISIS have captured Pemba, Cabo Delgado’s energy boomtown, and held it for a week, we’re interested. And, once again, we’re missing the deep story. While the terrorists certainly want to expel the foreign presence, that’s a secondary goal. The local population remains the target. Thousands have died, with hundreds decapitated, because their version of Islam is impure. Yet again, the Middle East has exported its inextinguishable tyranny and ferocious intolerance to Africa.
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from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
Democrats still haven’t used the Congressional Review Act to undo Trump regulations.
Congressional Democrats are running out of time to undo many regulations finalized by the previous administration during former president Donald Trump’s last weeks in office. By this time in 2017, Republicans had started the process of nullifying more than a dozen rules finalized in the closing weeks of the Obama administration. So far, Democrats have introduced only six resolutions, but passed none. But the time window is closing. According to an analysis by the good-government group Public Citizen, Sunday was the deadline for introducing a resolution of disapproval under the law’s complex “lookback period” provisions, and Congress has until mid-May to approve resolutions that have been introduced.
from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Liberal ideas are beginning to gain traction on the world's poorest continent.
Economic nationalism has plagued Africa since decolonization. In 2021, that is set to change. On January 1, the long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came into effect. Aside from the economic benefits that the arrangement will bring to the continent, Africa’s newfound support for free trade and liberalization marks a clear rejection of the socialist ideology that has tormented African politics for decades. As it stands, 36 of the 55 African Union (A.U.) nations, including the regional economic powerhouses of Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt (which together make up a third of the continent’s economy), have ratified the free trade area. Another 18 nations have indicated their support by signing the trade agreement and are expected to become full members soon. So strong is the appetite for free trade in Africa that Eritrea—often dubbed “Africa’s Hermit Kingdom”—is the only nation on the continent that remains reluctant to support the agreement.
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from Indian Country Today
Fond du Lac Band wins halt to copper mine
Fond du Lac Band wins halt to copper mine
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is breaking new ground in its fight against a planned $1 billion PolyMet copper mine in northern Minnesota. Asserting its rights as a “downstream state” under the Clean Water Act, the Fond du Lac Band filed a federal lawsuit in 2019 against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Army Corps of Engineers responded by issuing a decision temporarily halting wetlands permits the agency previously provided to the Polymet Mining Corporation that had allowed it to move ahead with the mine project. “This is the first time that any downstream tribe has successfully exercised their rights under the Clean Water Act in order to object to a federal permit,” said Paula Maccabee, director and counsel for WaterLegacy. “Scientists have found that there is likelihood that mercury from Polymet’s NorthMet project will increase mercury content in fish found in the St. Louis River which flows through reservation lands.”
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
The government tried to stabilize the nation's food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.
Just as pandemic lockdowns and COVID-driven shortages reshaped food culture in 2020, government rationing and food restrictions during World War I and World War II changed how Americans shopped, cooked, ate, and thought about their meals for a century after. For better or worse, the same is happening today.
from Rolling Stone
Half of Republicans believe the lie that the January 6th attack on the Capitol was “mostly peaceful” and “largely a non-violent protest,” according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. Delusional Republican respondents also told pollsters that left-wing activists were to blame for the insurrection and were “trying to make Trump look bad.” Eighty percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Independents, however, rightly believe that Trump and his mob were responsible for the attack that left five dead and dozens injured.. ... “Republicans have their own version of reality,” John Geer, an expert on public opinion at Vanderbilt University, told Reuters. “It is a huge problem. Democracy requires accountability and accountability requires evidence.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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