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Vanishing jaguars

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Ecuador's Vanishing Jaguars: the big cat vital to rainforest survival.

PISSI foreign fighters

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Turkey has captured many of PISSI's foreign fighters, and is sending those prisoners to the countries they came from.

I think this is legitimate, but it runs into difficulties when those countries have terminated their citizenship as a punishment. I think it is wrong to punish people with denial of citizenship.

Urgent: Popeyes should pay a living wage

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Popeyes to pay staff more money.

To me, it doesn't matter whether the staff are black, white, purple or paisley. Companies should pay them a living wage.

Economic freedom

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Chile and Hong Kong are considered model societies by right-wing think tanks for "economic freedom", code words for allowing the rich to do whatever they like. It is no coincidence that they are also models of inequality, and models of popular protest.

The proponents of "economic freedom" have come to recognize that it is incompatible with democracy, and some have concluded they don't want democracy.

FBI suggests crime to white supremacist

mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 01:00

The white supremacist recently arrested by the FBI in Colorado was a real would-be terrorist. He was looking for ways to commit an act of anti-semitic violence before the FBI contacted him.

Still, suggesting a crime he couldn't have tried to commit on his own is a dangerous practice for the state to engage in.