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You wouldn’t know it from listening to corporate Western coverage, but thousands of Iranians live on Kharg Island, which Trump is currently threatening to occupy. The US simply renders them invisible.
As soon as the state House passed a bill which would raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $15, the Employment Policies Institute began reaching out to the media. Their address, and staff, are the same as Berman and Company, known as the food and beverage industry’s “weapon of mass destruction.”
The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will convene a rare meeting tomorrow of the Endangered Species Committee, who could roll back existing environmental protections by exempting companies from the Endangered Species Act, paving the way for oil and gas projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with plotting to firebomb Kiswani’s home. Investigators say he was a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, a New Jersey-based group that describes itself as a revival of the Jewish Defense League, a pro-Israel group designated as a terrorist organization.
Trump bragged about Corinthian columns he has chosen for his $400 million gilded ballroom as Goldman Sachs found that the U.S. will lose 10k jobs a month through the end of the year due to high energy prices caused by the war.
The U.S. hit a school and sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, on the first day of its war on the country, using a new, untested weapon made by Lockheed Martin that unleashes an explosive barrage of metal pellets on its target, new reporting finds.
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Locals on the Kharg Island said that the targets the U.S. bombed hit deep inside the city of Kharg, where most of the population resides, that “the island doesn’t really have a military base,” and that following the bombing of Kharg Airport, there was now no way to evacuate.
The EPA is failing to put warnings on pesticides linked to cancer — even when the agency itself determined a product’s ingredients are carcinogenic, according to two new analyses of federal data.
Israeli forces killed 3 journalists who were reporting on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. They were in a clearly marked press car when Israel bombed them. Israel then openly admitted to using a photoshopped picture of one of the journalists as supposed evidence that he was affiliated with Hezbollah.
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The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.
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The Employment Policies Institute is tied to a PR firm that represents food and restaurant industry interests.
