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The massive growth of the wine industry has led to a very real problem-wine monocultures that transform ecologically complex places such as the hills of Napa County into carefully manicured landscapes that leave no room for the wild. That a lot of wineries require hillsides makes this worse, as many species exist on a pretty strict elevation level.
This detail from Amy Chozick's story is just confirming something we could already have inferred, but I think it's important to have it on the record: A few weeks before Election Day, I was stuck in my cubicle poring over John Podesta's emails. I wanted to be on the road.
Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are raising concerns about allegations involving Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the department of Veterans Affairs and are reviewing them to determine if they are substantial enough to upend his nomination.
Nick Cunningham at Oilprice.com points to the dilemmas implicit in the rumored Saudi plan to engineer a return to $100 a barrel oil. That price level translates into an average gasoline price in the US of $3.57, though in California, with a population of about 40 million.
Puerto Rico has made history by becoming -- briefly -- the largest US territory or state to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy. The rising grassroots movement to totally rebuild Puerto Rico's electric supply system with renewable energy and locally owned micro-grids poses a serious threat to the centralized, fossil-based corporate elite.
These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad. He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love to hate.
Corporate media outlets were glad that the US, France and Britain bombed Syria in violation of international law , but lamented what they see as a dearth of US violence in the country. In The Atlantic , Thanassis Cambanis described the war crime as "undoubtedly a good thing," and called for "sustained attention and investment, of diplomatic, economic and military resources"-though the latter rubbed up against his assessment in the same paragraph that "a major regional war will only make things worse."
Protesters gather outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia, where two black men were arrested April 13 after Starbucks employees said the men were trespassing. We are here again.
"General George Washington Resigning His Commission": The 1824 painting by John Trumbull depicts a 1783 scene. Washington was among the American elites who had doubts about commoners' ability to govern themselves.
NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks the votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have his nomination to be Secretary of State be favorably reported out of committee on Monday night. Democrats on the committee have expressed fears that Pompeo, a warmonger, will reinforce the worst tendencies of Trump.
Wall Street Journal: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has urged the White House not to fire his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, adding that he would consider resigning himself if President Donald Trump moved to do so.
A mother of four from Indiana is sharing how she became involved with ISIS -- and why she and her children are now being held in a Syrian-Kurdish jail. Samantha Sally spoke to CNN about how her "romantic" second marriage to Moroccan-born husband Moussa Elhassani resulted in an unexpected move to Syria in 2014.
As we wait for 3:00 PM EDT to roll around and begin the Friday afternoon news breakening, we could use a new thread. And since commenter Lizzie's question deserves some broader exposure than the few folks who've seen it buried in the comments to the previous thread , here it is: Since it's an open threada .sorry in advance for the long post, especially by a lurker who rarely posts! But there are a lot of knowledgeable animal lovers here and I'd love some advice about whether to pursue adopting two dogs.
"Every night on CNN they're talking about Stormy. The most pornographic thing that's happened in this country is the illicit relationship between the Supreme Court and big business that created Citizen's United," said Rev.
Former FBI director James Comey, fired by President Donald Trump last year, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Thursday night to discuss his new book.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an authoritarian ruler who maintains the facade of democratic legitimacy. This week, Turkey's president announced the country would hold snap elections on June 24. The outcome of these elections is hardly in question: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will win.
Post-modernism does not go far enough. It has not overturned all meta-narratives and fully established its essence, that is, a multiplicity of micro-narratives, achieved through a radical "incredulity toward metanarratives".
Steve is making sure I am doing alright and taking care of myself. He's a good boy like that. I just wanted to again thank you all. Also, I have no idea where the hell the rest of the front pagers all went.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed Wednesday to grant voting rights to tens of thousands of paroled felons, arguing that they've paid their debt to society and should have the ability to cast a ballot. Cuomo, a Democrat, signed an executive order that would provide conditional pardons to upward of 35,000 felons who have completed their jail sentence but remain out on parole supervision.