After incidents in the Alagniers district on Friday and the Duchère district on Thursday, violence erupted on the streets of Bron, outside of Lyon, on Saturday evening, shortly before a curfew. Police were pelted with numerous projectiles as they responded to several vehicle fires – their own vehicles were damaged …
Read More »Ragebait backlash continues after Journal of the American Medical Association tweets that ‘no physician is racist’
The ill-advised, offending tweet from the Journal of the American Medical Association boldly stated: “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The promoted podcast in question was produced by two white doctors, a deputy journal editor and a physician who runs a New …
Read More »No-show Joe? VP Harris continues high-level talks without Biden, speaks to Israeli PM Netanyahu
Harris spoke to Netanyahu on Thursday, with a White House readout of the call saying she “underscored the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to the US-Israel partnership,” and affirmed her opposition to the International Criminal Court prosecuting Israeli soldiers for alleged war crimes. Nothing about the call was surprising, as unwavering support …
Read More »At least two reported dead, multiple injured as Myanmar continues crackdown on anti-coup protests (VIDEOS)
Law enforcers shot at protesters in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon on Sunday, according to local media reports backed up by multiple videos circulating online. One man was brought to a hospital after the shootings, where he succumbed to a bullet wound to his chest, an unnamed doctor told Reuters. …
Read More »Healing bombs? CNN’s love affair with airstrikes continues, as network gushes over Biden attack on Syria
Delivered on Thursday by two F-15 fighter jets, Biden’s airstrikes knocked out several facilities the Pentagon says were used by Iranian-backed militias in Syria. The Pentagon described the strikes as “defensive” in nature, and as a response to rocket attacks on US and coalition troops in Iraq. A militia spokesman …
Read More »Flu gets the cold shoulder: Influenza now virtually non-existent in US as Covid-19 spread continues
The ongoing pandemic has had an unexpected effect on the US healthscape, with the conventional flu being almost completely wiped out. Figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show a sharp drop in influenza cases occurred last April – and the figures remain extremely low ever …
Read More »‘The war continues’: Small investors up in arms after GameStop stock trades halted amid price surge & reports of Reddit outages
$GME was up by nearly 104 percent when trading stopped on Wednesday, more than doubling its value over the last 24 hours, but the surge was stopped in its tracks by a trading halt imposed some 15 minutes before markets closed. Observers online noted that while halts are typically short-lived …
Read More »Biden declares ‘major disaster’ in Texas as state continues to battle power outages amid extreme cold
His action allows for federal funding to dozens of Texan counties affected by the cold, the White House said. The money may be used for temporary housing, home repairs, low-cost loans and other assistance to residents and business owners. Biden had previously authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden continues Trump’s war on the press
Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, Washington has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden continues Trump’s war on the press
Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, Washington has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government …
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