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June 2, 2017

Scientists Discover How the Brain Recognizes Faces – By Reading Monkeys' Minds

Hannah Devlin The Guardian

Using brain waves researchers were able to make almost perfect replicas of human faces shown to monkeys – raising prospect of thoughts being accessible to exploration

June 2, 2017

America’s Broken Democracy

Jeffrey Sachs Project Syndicate

Behind the formal structures of a once-functioning democracy is a political system run by corporate interests with the cynical aims of cutting taxes on the rich, selling weapons, and polluting with impunity. In Trump, they have found a shameless frontman.

Trump Tells Earth to Go F**k Itself

June 2, 2017

President Trump withdraws from the Paris climate accord, making the U.S. one of three nations on earth to not participate in the deal.

Elián | Documentary

June 2, 2017

The remarkable story about Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida coast in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for simmering US and Cuban tensions. Review.

Macron Explains Paris Accord

June 2, 2017

French President Macron slams President Trump for withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord. It's not renegotiable.

Donald Trump vs Global Warming | Music Video

June 2, 2017

The science and the politics of climate change, explained to a beat.

Anderson Cooper Reads Best 'covfefe' Tweets

June 2, 2017

CNN's Anderson Cooper reads some of the "covfefe" tweets that popped up after Donald Trump tweeted "despite the negative press covfefe."

June 2, 2017

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Anderson Cooper Reads Best 'covfefe' Tweets. Donald Trump vs Global Warming | Music Video. Macron Explains Paris Accord. Elián | Documentary. Trump Tells Earth to Go F**k Itself.

June 1, 2017

Beyond Optics, Towards Politics: A Report Back From CLC Convention

Joel Harden RankandFile.CA

Thanks to grassroots organizing, the CLC, for the first time, took a clear position of solidarity with a Palestinian-led human rights campaign. The convention also showed progress on Indigenous rights, racism, queer or trans rights, mental health, and environmental justice. The potential of that progress, however, is limited by a "business-as-usual" approach by too many union leaders. What matters now is how union members act on the progress made.

June 1, 2017

Tidbits - June 1, 2017 - Reader Comments: Trump, Sessions, Pence, Impeachment - Readers Debate; Resistance Ballot Box Victories; Lynching, Slavery, Removal of Confederate Symbols; Israel; Palestine; People's Summit; more...

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Reader Comments: Trump, Sessions, Pence, Impeachment - Readers Debate; Resistance Ballot Box Victories; Racism, Lynching, Slavery, Removal of Confederate Symbols; Israel; Palestine; Saudi Arabia; Puerto Rico; 2017 People’s Summit; New Resource to Protect Medicaid and Health Equity; Great News from Workers Independent News; and more...