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Julian Assange

Dropped Investigations: Julian Assange, Sex and Sweden

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish to police it. In the case of whistleblowers, claims of aberrant, unlawful sex serves the purpose of diminishing cr…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Air Pollution

Various Initiatives undertaken by Government for mitigation of Air Pollution

Government is taking all efforts for the mitigation of air pollution in the country. Central Government has taken a number of regulatory measures for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution in the country. Action Plans for Improvement of Air Quali…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Big Data

Big Data: 331 Deaths

This years Trans Murder Monitoring report counted 331 killings of trans and gender-diverse people between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019. The annual count was released on Nov. 20 on International Trans Day of Remembrance. Since the count began in 2008, it h…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Nukes

The Navy Is Ready To Kill China’s Aircraft Carrier On The Open Sea

Key point: The U.S. Navy, it seems, is optimized for the blue-water conflagration thats least likely to occur. Ah, yes, the carrier-killer. China is forever touting the array of guided missiles its weaponeers have devised to pummel U.S. Navy nuclear-powere…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Iran Liberalism

An Iranian crisis of representation

The 2017-18 uprisings changed the Iranian political landscape for good. Since then, the Islamic Republic has entered into an organic crisis par excellence. Introduced and described by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci a century ago, it is a comprehensive ec…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Monsanto

Monsanto pleads guilty to using banned pesticide on research crop

Biotech giant Monsanto on Thursday agreed to plead guilty to illegally using a banned and highly toxic pesticide on research crops at one of its facilities on the Hawaiian island of Maui and to pay $10 million in fines. The company admitted in court document…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Donald Trump

Chris Cuomo calls out GOP’s fealty to Trump

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bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Orangutan

Two critically endangered elephants found dead in a week in Indonesia

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities suspect a Sumatran elephant found dead in a palm oil plantation may have been poisoned or electrocuted, marking the second time in a week a carcass of the critically endangered animal has been discovered, officials s…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Korean War

Otto Warmbier’s Parents Target North Korean Assets in Bid to Hold the Government Accountable

(SEOUL, South Korea) — The parents of a former U.S. hostage who died after being released from North Korea in a coma in 2017 say they are committed to finding and shutting down illicit North Korean business assets around the world in efforts to hold its gover…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Parents of Otto Warmbier want to shut down North Korean assets

SEOUL, South Korea The parents of a former U.S. hostage who died after being released from North Korea in a coma in 2017 say they are committed to finding and shutting down illicit North Korean business assets around the world in efforts to hold its governmen…

bubmagNovember 22, 2019

Dropped Investigations: Julian Assange, Sex and Sweden

Various Initiatives undertaken by Government for mitigation of Air Pollution

Big Data: 331 Deaths

The Navy Is Ready To Kill China’s Aircraft Carrier On The Open Sea

An Iranian crisis of representation

Monsanto pleads guilty to using banned pesticide on research crop

Chris Cuomo calls out GOP’s fealty to Trump

Two critically endangered elephants found dead in a week in Indonesia

Otto Warmbier’s Parents Target North Korean Assets in Bid to Hold the Government Accountable

Parents of Otto Warmbier want to shut down North Korean assets

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