Новости за 28.06.2017

Fifty years after the Glassboro Summit between President Johnson (pictured right) and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, we should question the wisdom of leaders averse to any U.S.-Russia detente.

By Erica Werner and Alan Fram, Associated Press The proposal crafted by Republican senators has many critics and few outspoken fans on Capitol Hill, and prospects for changing that are uncertain.

By Jon Queally / Common Dreams The president singles out Caitriona Perry from a group of reporters, calls her “beautiful” and summons her to his side while he is on the phone with Ireland’s prime minister.

By John Pilger The veteran investigative reporter and founder of Consortiumnews.com is honored for a career of truth-telling and dissidence.

Marco Verch / CC BY 2.0 A newly developed material could relieve what has been a constant nuisance for cellphone users and help significantly reduce our carbon footprints, according to The Independent: ... you may be able to charge your phone just once every three months in the future. Scientists have engineered a new material which allows processors to function using 100 times less energy. Researchers at the Universities of Michigan and Cornell have created a new magnetoelectric multiferroic material. Читать дальше...

On the 2016 campaign trail the democratic candidate railed against Russia’s involvement in Syria, raising fears that a Clinton presidency could lead to conflict with the second largest nuclear-armed nation.

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Democrats would be wise to seize the moment. They shouldn’t just defend the Affordable Care Act but also forge ahead to create a universal single-payer system.

By Julia Angwin / ProPublica, and Hannes Grassegge A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms the site’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate expression.

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt Let’s face it: There is no way the U.S. is ever going to pay back a $20 trillion federal debt. Maybe the government should consider selling some of it to our central bank.

Shutterstock The White House said Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared to be preparing another chemical weapons attack, and it warned that Assad would “pay a heavy price” if an attack took place. As of Tuesday afternoon, White House press secretary Sean Spicer had not offered any evidence to back up the claims he made the day before. His Monday statements have perplexed members of several camps, including State Department officials. The Associated Press reported: Several State... Читать дальше...

The radiation-monitoring system at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant (pictured), closed since the April 1986 disaster that became synonymous with its name, was hit by Tuesday’s cyberattack. (Pawe? ‘pbm’ Szubert / Wikimedia Commons)(CC-BY-SA) PARIS — A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May, the fresh cyber-assault paralyzed some hospitals, government offices and major... Читать дальше...

By Medea Benjamin and Kate Harveston The president is slashing the U.S. domestic budget and putting money into a war machine that only continues to inflame tensions around the world.

Democrats in Congress and other party leaders are starting to face an emerging reality: The “winning issue” of Russia is a losing issue.

The first thing that occurred to me when the reality of a Trump presidency became apparent was, “How am I going to explain this to my 9-year-old?” [This is a repost of an article for which Sonali Kolhatkar was honored Sunday by the Los Angeles Press Club.]

By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams The Senate majority leader is putting off the vote until after the July 4 recess, a move viewed by many as a testament to the strength of the bill’s critics.

By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press She will be Serbia’s first female prime minister, as well as the country’s first out LGBTQ leader to hold elected office, but with her early Cabinet picks, Ana Brnabic is sending a strong message about her political alliances with other nations.