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20 January 20
Charles Pierce | Of Course Trump's Impeachment Defense Features Alan Dershowitz and ... Ken Starr
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "This team is something to behold."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "This team is something to behold."
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A striking Atlanta sanitation worker kneels at the grave of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after a rally by Southern Christian Leadership Conference supporting the strike in Atlanta on April 4, 1970. (photo: AP)
Dr. King Understood the Power of Unions
Lee Saunders, The Root
Saunders writes: "There is an often-overlooked aspect of his work: Dr. King was one of his era's most fearsome champions of working people coming together to organize, build power and improve their lives."
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Lee Saunders, The Root
Saunders writes: "There is an often-overlooked aspect of his work: Dr. King was one of his era's most fearsome champions of working people coming together to organize, build power and improve their lives."
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Sen. Chuck Schumer. (photo: Getty Images)
Schumer on Senate Impeachment Trial: 'We Will Force Votes' on Witnesses and Documents
Paul LeBlanc, CNN
LeBlanc writes: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday night he is prepared to 'force votes for witnesses and documents' in the Senate impeachment trial if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not call for it in his proposal."
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Paul LeBlanc, CNN
LeBlanc writes: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday night he is prepared to 'force votes for witnesses and documents' in the Senate impeachment trial if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not call for it in his proposal."
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Gitmo. (photo: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum)
Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel | How This Became a Gitmo World
Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, TomDispatch
Excerpt: "Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of that offshore facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002."
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Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, TomDispatch
Excerpt: "Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of that offshore facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002."
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The Stewart Detention Center is seen through the front gate, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. The rural town is about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta and next to the Georgia-Alabama state line. (photo: David Goldman/AP)
Journalists Visited Immigration Courts Across US and Found Nonstop Chaos
Associated Press
Excerpt: "In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits - and stalls."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits - and stalls."
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A rally in Colombia. (photo: Reuters)
One More Social Leader Killed in Colombia, 21 So Far in 2020
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Cordobexia Social Foundation denounced Saturday the assassination of social leader Luis Dario Rodriguez, the second activist killed in the northwestern department of Cordoba this week and the 21st so far in Colombia this year."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Cordobexia Social Foundation denounced Saturday the assassination of social leader Luis Dario Rodriguez, the second activist killed in the northwestern department of Cordoba this week and the 21st so far in Colombia this year."
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A Chinese labourer sorting out plastic bottles on the outskirt of Beijing. (photo: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)
China Moves to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics
Reuters
Excerpt: "China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country's biggest environmental problems."
Reuters
Excerpt: "China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country's biggest environmental problems."
Plastic bags to be banned in all major cities by end of 2020, says state planner
hina is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.
Vast amounts of untreated plastic waste are buried in landfills or dumped in rivers. The United Nations has identified single-use plastics as one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.
The national development and reform commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which issued the policy, said plastic bags would be banned in all of China’s major cities by the end of 2020 and banned in all cities and towns in 2022. Markets selling fresh produce will be exempt from the ban until 2025.
Other items such as plastic utensils from takeaway food outlets and plastic courier packages will also be phased out.
By end of this year, the restaurant industry will be banned from using single-use straws. By 2025, towns and cities across China must reduce the consumption of single-use plastic items in the restaurant industry by 30%.
Some regions and sectors will also face restrictions on the production and sale of plastic products, although it is not yet clear which geographical areas.
China also banned the import of all plastic waste, and the use of medical plastic waste in the production of plastic.
The production and sale of plastic bags less than 0.025mm thick will be banned, as will plastic film less than 0.01mm thick for agricultural use.
China is already boosting recycling rates and is building dozens of “comprehensive resource utilisation” bases to ensure more products are reused as part of its war on waste.
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