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Key witness in MH17 downing released from jail in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine A Ukrainian court on Thursday unexpectedly released a key witness in the case of the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, just minutes before Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was optimistic about an impending prisoner swap with U…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Feudalism

World Systems and Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy

The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system. So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal tones of …

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Recycling

It’s crunch time for California’s plan to phase out single-use plastics by 2030

With pressure mounting to address the state's recycling crisis, California lawmakers are close to deciding on three far-reaching pieces of plastics legislation, including one that would phase out non-recyclable single-use packaging containers by 2030. All th…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Putin

Putin slams Italy’s arrest of Russian executive at U.S. request

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin complained on Thursday about Italy's arrest of a Russian state executive on suspicion of industrial espionage at Washington's request, saying the move would harm ties with the United States. Al…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

‘Fox & Friends’ dumps on one of Donald Trump’s biggest election pledges – AOL

Could President Donald Trumps feud with Fox News soon be back on? Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade risked sparking the fury of the president on Thursday morning when he admitted Trump should not have campaigned in 2016 on the promise that Mexico would p…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Riots

South Africa’s Ramaphosa says at least 10 killed in riots

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday at least 10 people have been killed, two of them foreigners, in a wave of riots and attacks. “Over the past few days our country has been deeply traumatized and troubled by a…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Chinese Economy

Envoys from U.S. and China Will Meet in October for More Tariff War Talks

(BEIJING) — U.S. and Chinese envoys will meet in early October for more talks aimed at ending a tariff war that threatens global economic growth. Stock markets rose on Thursday’s announcement but there has been no sign of progress since Presidents Donald Tru…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Animal Protection

Wild horses will ride out Dorian, as they have for centuries

The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. "Ships were drove from their anchors far within land, particul…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

“Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade: Trump “never should have said” Mexico would “pay for the wall”

Brian Kilmeade, one of the three co-hosts of "Fox & Friends," declared Thursday that President Donald Trump was wrong to promise his supporters that Mexico would pay for a wall along the nation's southern border. "The president never should have said Mex…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Putin

Putin says Russia will make new missiles, warns of arms race…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United Sta…

bubmagSeptember 5, 2019

Key witness in MH17 downing released from jail in Ukraine

World Systems and Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy

It’s crunch time for California’s plan to phase out single-use plastics by 2030

Putin slams Italy’s arrest of Russian executive at U.S. request

‘Fox & Friends’ dumps on one of Donald Trump’s biggest election pledges – AOL

South Africa’s Ramaphosa says at least 10 killed in riots

Envoys from U.S. and China Will Meet in October for More Tariff War Talks

Wild horses will ride out Dorian, as they have for centuries

“Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade: Trump “never should have said” Mexico would “pay for the wall”

Putin says Russia will make new missiles, warns of arms race…

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