The Trump administration plans to loosen constraints on the use of nuclear weapons and develop a new low-yield nuclear warhead for US Trident missiles, according to a former official who has seen the most recent draft of a policy review.

Jon Wolfsthal, who was special assistant to Barack Obama on arms control and nonproliferation, said the new ( Read more... )

OP note: I just wanted to make a post about this because it's so horrible and yet, will things *ever* change?

The article is behind the cut in case it might be triggering.

( Trigger warning: violence (mass shooting)... )

Chelsea Manning says she has been barred from entering Canada

Former US soldier and one of the most prominent whistleblowers of modern times posts letter to Twitter saying she is ‘not authorized to enter Canada’


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Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?

Exclusive: in America, the world’s richest country, hookworm, a parasitic disease found in areas of extreme poverty, is rampant, the first study of its kind in modern times showsChildren playing feet away from open pools of raw sewage; drinking water pumped beside cracked ( Read more... )

On a Saturday night in Venice, California, light spills from an open door on an otherwise dark street. The space appears to be an art gallery or studio: blank walls, cubbies for shoes and personal items and cushioned mats and pillows lining half of the room's hardwood floor.

Twelve individuals filter into the room - dressed in pajamas, yoga attire ( Read more... )

Ankara has attacked the US's decision to issue arrest warrants for Turkish security guards who assaulted protesters during President Erdogan's trip to Washington in May. The violence has been widely condemned.

"What kind of law is this, what kind of justice?" Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency. "If ( Read more... )

OP: The 'Dust Bowl' refers to "the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the 'Great Plow Up,' followed by a decade-long drought in the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation". (More on the history of this is below.) Canada was also affected (i.e. in Saskatchewan, one of the ' ( Read more... )

Meanwhile Capitalism Continues to Screw American Workers, Endanger Our Slaves Cheap Workers Grateful Refugees, And Turning Our Nation into Selfish Cretins.

Labour is right-Karl Marx has a lot to teach today’s politicians
The shadow chancellor's comment provoked scorn. Yet Marx becomes more relevant by the dayAN UNOFFICIAL rule of British elections ( Read more... )

In the 1890s, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois noticed something disturbing about how Americans viewed the plight of blacks in Philadelphia who had suffered through unsanitary living conditions, high rates of consumption and back-breaking labor ( Read more... )

When 60-year-old Owen Golay talks about the two Confederate flags he flies in his front yard, he sounds like many Southern defenders of such symbols.

"It stands for heritage; it's a part of our history," Golay said.

But it's not really his history. Golay lives in rural Pleasantville, Iowa, about 40 miles from where he was born. He still carries a ( Read more... )