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Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn
‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say
 *"Everybody loses" if [oil extraction] supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say.* This is likely to push civilization over the climate cliff.
Free-Range Kids
It's Safe to Look Back! The Worst Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025 - Free-Range Kids
Free-Range Parents may recall 2025 as a year that brought them arrests, investigations, and solid proof that helicopters are still swarming over ch...
 *It's Safe to Look Back! The Worst Free-Range Kids Stories of 2025.*
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With Trump’s military action in Venezuela, the US has made every other country less safe | Volker Türk
This weakens the only mechanism we have to prevent world conflict, namely the UN. The international community must stand up for the rule of law, sa...
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Trump’s lawless actions in Venezuela demand a resolute response | Letters
Letters: International law cannot be selective, writes Hannah Walker, while Celia Cashman calls for an alliance to challenge to US actions in Venez...
 *With [the would-be emperor's] military action in Venezuela, the US has made every other country less safe.* *[His] lawless actions in Venezuela demand a resolute response.*
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/migrants-largest-us-detention-camp-face-foul-water-rotten-food-congresswoman-2025-11-11/ In the largest deportation prison in the US, the prisoners are given rotten food and bad water.
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US pledges $2bn in new UN model for delivery of humanitarian assistance
Gaza not covered in announcement and will be handled on separate track, says US state department official
 The US has restored part of the foreign aid budget that had canceled early in 2025.
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Ørsted files legal challenge against US government over windfarm lease freeze
Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer seeking to overturn White House decision to suspend work on a $5bn wind farm project
 The Danish contractor being paid to finish the Cape Wind offshore generators is suing to make the US government resume paying for that.
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Ralph Nader
Eight New Year
The reasons Congress created NPR (National Public Radio) under the Nixon Administration were to fill the yawning gaps of commercial radio in local,...
Symbolic Bigotry
 Ralph Nader's criticism of public radio in the US starts with their practice of being funded mostly by payment from businesses which buy lots of advertising. Then he calls for various changes. One of his criticisms is that NPR focuses on injustices of discrimination, but not enough on "indiscriminate injustice" which falls on the poor
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‘This is their attempt to silence him’: Umar Khalid reaches five years in Indian jail without trial
Held since 2020, India’s most prominent political prisoner has become a symbol of repression under the Modi regime
 People unidentified massacred Muslims in Delhi, so Modi's government (Hindu-nationalist) charged Umar Khalid, a leftist political activist who is Muslim, with being behind the massacre. This is a priori implausible, but they have kept him in jail for 5 years while the prosecution drags slowly on.
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Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
 *Google [LLM] Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice.* The article gives examples and explains them.
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Iran officials warn Trump of red line after his threat to ‘rescue’ protesters
Foreign minister says Iranian military is on standby after US president said he would act if demonstrators were killed
 Ironically, the persecutor is threatening to attack Iran for persecuting Iranian protesters much like the way he persecutes American protesters that criticize him. Sometimes he will find it convenient to support, on some issue, the side that we defenders of human rights will agree with. It never represents real support for