On this Fourth of July, while American violence continues to rain down on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, as we continue to support violent
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Canadians stand apart in their warm embrace of refugees
The New York Times explains how Canadian hockey moms, poker buddies and neighbors are adopting Syrians, a family at a time.
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Brexit “Leave” campaign wipes its homepage amid accusations of false promises
“Prominent Brexiters have been backtracking on key promises made during the referendum. Now the campaign’s homepage has erased links to those claims,” CNET reports.
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Among young Britons, fear and despair over vote to Leave E.U.
Truly gutted that our grandparents have effectively decided that they hate foreigners more than they love us and our futures. — Dan Boden, condemning England
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Doom, gloom and unease: London’s tech scene reacts to Brexit
I’m devastated, I think this is a complete disaster. Capital raising just moved from tough to impossible. The older generation voted with their hearts and
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Guardian writers weigh in on the Brexit vote
Several writes for The Guardian have penned responses to the question, “The British people have voted for Brexit. What does this mean, and what happens next?”
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Fed up with Donald Trump, President Obama blasts his bigotry and Republicans’ inaction
President Obama today took direct aim at Donald Trump today, denouncing the man Republican voters have picked to be their nominee for his bigotry and worthless talking points. “If there’s anyone out there who thinks we’re confused about who our enemies are, that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who we’ve taken off the battlefield,” the President said. “There’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It’s a political talking point — it’s not a strategy.” Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders echoed his denunciations in their own speeches.
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Shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub: Injuries severe, hospital official says
Many of the gun shot wounds were fairly severe… Many trunk, abdomen and extreme gun shot wounds. Our operating room has been quite busy all
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The TPP is ‘disastrous for working families’ and central to the 2016 campaign
“The popular fury over trade policies that have devastated American communities is rarely taken seriously by the political and media elites that keep trying to narrow the national political discourse into an endless loop of empty discussions about personalities and tactics. But trade is a huge issue on the ground in states where Americans actually vote,” writes The Nation’s John Nichols.
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Watch President Obama hold a press conference live from Vietnam
At around 11:05 PM Pacific Time, President Barack Obama is scheduled to hold a press conference with President Quang of Vietnam at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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NPI’s Gael Tarleton: Scale back U.S. nuclear weapons and stop a new arms race
The United States should reduce its nuclear force by a third to maintain an effective deterrent while making the world safer, writes NPI’s Gael Tarleton in a Seattle Times op-ed. “With that number, we could still keep 1,000 warheads at sea, more than enough for any conceivable military mission. Kitsap would continue to have a mission and the thousands of jobs that come with it.”
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Six maps that will make you rethink the world
“We don’t often question the typical world map that hangs on the walls of classrooms — a patchwork of yellow, pink and green that separates the world into more than 200 nations. But Parag Khanna, a global strategist, says that this map is, essentially, obsolete,” writes Ana Swanson.
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Ruined Chernobyl nuclear plant will remain a threat for 3,000 years
We don’t have the technology to fix the problem… We don’t have the process to develop the technology to fix the problem, and we don’t
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European leaders, take heed: The Islamic State group *wants* to be at war with you
There is a realization that this is not a war you can bomb or shoot your way out of, but you have to deal with
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Must-see TV: Cubans marvel at rare questioning of Raul Castro
“Cubans were glued to their televisions on Monday, many watching in a state of shock as President Raul Castro faced tough questions from American journalists who challenged him to defend Cuba’s record on human rights and political prisoners,” the Associated Press reports.
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Millennials flee Canada’s Vancouver for more affordable cities
The cost of living in British Columbia’s largest city has gotten so high that many millennials and startups are choosing to leave, Bloomberg Business reports. British Columbia’s capital and second largest city, Victoria, has been the primary beneficiary of this trend
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Private jets: This is how much Google, Facebook and other US companies spent on free flights for their business executives
Vitally important reporting by David Crow, Robin Kwong, Caroline Nevitt and Jennifer Bissell: “The Corporate Jet Files, an analysis of 1,000 securities filings by the Financial Times, has found that a significant number of corporations are still footing the bill for their executives to take personal flights on corporate jets, sometimes accompanied by family and friends.”
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U.S. airstrike kills more than 150 at Somalia terrorist camp, military says
The Republican presidential candidates probably won’t talk about it or give Barack Obama credit for it, but a U.S. airstrike has just resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred terrorists at a camp in lawless Somalia, the Pentagon says.
LaunchNova Scotia isle lures those vowing to move to Canada if Trump elected
“The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency has sparked a flood of interest in a Nova Scotia island where a local booster is beckoning American Trump haters to live if the Donald is elected,” writes Adam Kovac.
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Countries sign the TPP… Whatever happened to the ‘debate’ we were promised before signing?
TechDirect’s Mike Masnick reacts to the news that the twelve nations involved in the gargantuan Trans-Pacific Partnership have “signed” the pact. The TPP has been called a trade deal, but most of the TPP’s provisions actually have more to do with creating rules favorable to multinational corporations that could trump national laws intended to protect important things like individual privacy and manufacturing jobs than lowering barriers to trade.
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Pam Roach booted off sex-trafficking panel for ‘victim-blaming,’ other insults
“Pam Roach has been kicked off a legislative task force on human trafficking after complaints that she belittled and verbally abused victims of sex trafficking at a meeting last month,” The Seattle Times reports.
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