Americans Are Fleeing Major Cities

The hottest real estate market in the country is Coeur d'Alene, Idaho which the media has historically dubbed "Whitopia." Source / BlackListed News

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The US Needs to Stop Treating Ramadan Like a National Security Issue

Like many Muslims, I remember feeling excited as a child each year when Ramadan came around. Though I didn’t entirely understand the purpose of fasting, I was proud of being Muslim and was eager to emulate my parents. Since I began fasting in second grade, Ramadan has been a core part of my practice of Islam. While there is great diversity among Muslims around the globe, the holy month of Ramadan has the power of uniting the entire Ummah (the Arabic word for Muslim community) in a collective observance of fasting and prayer each year. It is this solidarity in...

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Pharma Breaks Lobbying Record Defending High Drug Prices and Vaccine Patents

The pharmaceutical industry spent a record $92 million lobbying the federal government during the first three months of 2021, putting Big Pharma on track to break its annual spending record for a second year in a row. The intense lobbying comes as countries across the world are demanding access to patented COVID vaccine technology and many Democrats are pushing to expand Medicare and lower prescription drug prices. Big Pharma’s lobbying expenditures represent a 6.3 percent increase in spending over the first quarter of 2020, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Drug companies would go on to collectively spend more...

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A Novel About Racist Police Violence, Rejected in 1941, Has Just Been Published

Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of Native Son, a novel whose searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled The Man Who Lived Underground, but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descriptions of police brutality by white officers against a Black man. His manuscript was largely forgotten until his daughter Julia Wright unearthed it at the Beinecke Rare Book...

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Trump Loyalist Who Attacked the Capitol Blames Fox News

A man who took part in the Capitol breach on January 6 said this week that his actions weren’t 100 percent his fault. Rather, he said, was influenced into being a part of the violence that day by something his lawyer called “Foxmania,” which resulted in him believing false claims about election fraud in the 2020 election. Anthony Antonio surrendered to police in April and was charged with five federal crimes related to the January attack, including violent entry and disorderly conduct while in the Capitol, and impeding law enforcement. One video of Antonio’s actions during the day shows him...

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Dramatic Footage Shows Deadly Crash Of Tesla Slamming Into Truck In China

Dramatic Footage Shows Deadly Crash Of Tesla Slamming Into Truck In China The honeymoon between Tesla and China continue to sour as the Global Times, China's closest major media organization to the state, published a horrifying image of a Tesla vehicle rear-ending a truck in Shaoguan, South China's Guangdong Province on Friday, "killing the electric car's driver on the spot." Tesla can't catch a break in China. If state media wanted to protect the US car company, they would've ignored the report; instead, they're drumming up bad press for Elon Musk. This follows CCTV broadcaster calling for an investigation last month...

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US General Says China Seeking A Military Base On Africa's Atlantic Coast

US General Says China Seeking A Military Base On Africa's Atlantic Coast Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, While the US claims China is the top threat to the so-called "rules-based international order," one thing Beijing lacks is a global military presence like Washington has. In fact, China only has one overseas military base on the east coast of Africa, in Djibouti. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the head of US Africa Command, is warning that Beijing is looking to expand its military presence in Africa and wants to house a military base on the west coast. Via SCMP "They’re looking for a place where...

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Germany Offers Patients Alternatives For AstraZeneca, J&J Jabs Due To Blood-Clot Risks

Germany Offers Patients Alternatives For AstraZeneca, J&J Jabs Due To Blood-Clot Risks In the latest blow to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, intended to be the "workhorse" of the international vaccine rollout organized by Covax, the badly underfunded WHO program to "vaccinate the world", the German government is reportedly planning to offer patients under 40 an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Younger patients are believed to be at higher risk for rare but potentially deadly cerebral blood clots sometimes observed in patients with low blood-platelet counts as a reaction to the vaccine. Some researchers have pointed to issues with the adenovirus...

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Opposition remains high among Volvo Truck workers to the latest UAW concessions deal

With a little over a week remaining until voting begins on May 16 on the UAW’s sellout agreement for workers at Volvo’s New River Valley manufacturing facility, opposition among workers remains high, with many indicating that they plan to vote “no” on the deal. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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US Republicans push ahead with attacks on voting rights

Following Trump’s attempted coup, Republican-led states are enacting anti-democratic measures meant to restrict voting access across the country. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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Australian union chief warns of workers’ pent-up discontent

There is nervousness throughout the union hierarchies that their role in policing unprecedented job and pay cuts has produced such unrest that they will no longer be able to suppress it. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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HVHS students protest at parliament against loss of classrooms because of mould

Report from RNZ About 100 Hutt Valley High School students turned the front lawn of Parliament into a make-shift study space yesterday to protest against the state of their school buildings. Dangerous levels of toxic mould found in classrooms last term have forced the closure of 16 teaching spaces and other facilities and forced about Source / Wellington Scoop

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Getting back control of the buses – the argument for public ownership

Wellington.Scoop report by Jem Traylen Another Wellington regional councillor is calling for the private sector to get out of public transport, but most are refusing to commit either way. This comes in the same week as the government released a discussion paper that explored different potential ownership models, although it stopped short of considering full Source / Wellington Scoop

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Power failure stops trains on Kapiti line

Wellington.Scoop Train services in and out of Wellington on the Kapiti Line were stopped late this morning after a breakdown in the electricity supply. Metlink reported that the 10.00am train from Waikanae to Wellington had stopped at Kaiwharawhara with no power “and we are currently trying to retrieve this service.” The 10.30am service from Waikanae Source / Wellington Scoop

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Foxmania

Guests Trae Crowder and Charles F. Coleman Jr. join Cenk, Jayar and Benjamin Dixon as Denny’s shareholders revolt after top exec concedes that a $15 minimum wage won’t hurt the business. A Maryland county is considering alternative meals for students with lunch debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Source / The Young Turks

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Americans Are Fleeing Major Cities

The hottest real estate market in the country is Coeur d'Alene, Idaho which the media has historically dubbed "Whitopia." Source / BlackListed News

The US Needs to Stop Treating Ramadan Like a National Security Issue

Pharma Breaks Lobbying Record Defending High Drug Prices and Vaccine Patents

A Novel About Racist Police Violence, Rejected in 1941, Has Just Been Published

Trump Loyalist Who Attacked the Capitol Blames Fox News

Dramatic Footage Shows Deadly Crash Of Tesla Slamming Into Truck In China

US General Says China Seeking A Military Base On Africa's Atlantic Coast

Germany Offers Patients Alternatives For AstraZeneca, J&J Jabs Due To Blood-Clot Risks

Opposition remains high among Volvo Truck workers to the latest UAW concessions deal

US Republicans push ahead with attacks on voting rights

Following Trump’s attempted coup, Republican-led states are enacting anti-democratic measures meant to restrict voting access across the country. Source / World Socialist Web Site

Australian union chief warns of workers’ pent-up discontent

There is nervousness throughout the union hierarchies that their role in policing unprecedented job and pay cuts has produced such unrest that they will no longer be able to suppress it. Source / World Socialist Web Site

HVHS students protest at parliament against loss of classrooms because of mould

Getting back control of the buses – the argument for public ownership

Power failure stops trains on Kapiti line

Foxmania

Welcome to Disrupt

D!SRUPT is a curated hub of independent news analysis, aggregated from the far corners of the Web.