Новости за 22.03.2017

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel inspires a group of women to wear the book’s signature red robes to a Texas Senate meeting.

Supplying the rich with hair from poor women and children is not “meeting a need” but creating a demand.

People fleeing outside the British Parliament in London. (Screen shot via The BBC) Editor’s note: This is a developing story. A police officer was stabbed to death, an attacker was fatally shot, two people died and at least 20 others were injured Wednesday afternoon in London, in what British police fear may be a terrorist attack. The BBC reports: A woman has died on Westminster Bridge in central London in what police are treating as a terrorist incident. A police officer was also stabbed... Читать дальше...

By Henry A. Giroux / Truthout The repressive state and market apparatus of the 19th century have returned with a vengeance, producing new levels of aggression and violence in U.S. society.

A member of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. (Visual Research / CC BY-NC 2.0) The indigenous resistance group from Chiapas, Mexico, known as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), will sell colorfully named “100 percent Zapatista coffee, cultivated in Zapatista lands by Zapatista hands” to raise funds for a cause sure to get under Donald Trump’s thin skin. From TeleSUR’s piece, titled “How Zapatistas Will Help Trump Victims with ‘Fuck You’ Coffee”: EZLN ... announced Saturday... Читать дальше...

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In an illustrated clip for Al Jazeera English, “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman explains the renowned linguist’s theory on the five filters of the mass media machine that manufacture Americans’ consent.

By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network If anything, it’s worse than expected.

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org The country is rudderless and leaderless, and there’s only one way out of this crisis.

Andrew Hart / CC BY-SA 2.0 The World Meteorological Organization—a United Nations agency that studies climate changes and other geophysical phenomena—released a climate assessment Monday confirming reports that 2016 was the hottest year on record. WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas says the organization can now prove the clear “existence of links between man-made climate change and many cases of high impact extreme events[,] in particular heat waves,” according to the Express. A natural climate cycle known as El Niño... Читать дальше...

By Annie Waldman / ProPublica Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (pictured) cited ProPublica’s reporting and requested more information on Taylor Hansen’s role. He resigned that day.

The Truthdig team will sit down with Jessica Gonzalez, deputy director and senior counsel for the independent organization Free Press, on Thursday, March 23, to discuss the issue of equal access to internet content.

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams Supporters of Medicaid are worried that the upcoming vote on the GOP American Health Care Act will result in the gutting of the program that helps pay for care for the needy.

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