CIA CIA Paid Millions to Jordan's King HusseinThe Washington Post - By Bob Woodward andThe Central Intelligence Agency for 20 years has made secret annual payments totaling millions of dollars to King Hussein of Jordan, The Washington Post has learned. The payoffs were reported last year
Wellness This Yoga Flow Will Balance Your Blood Sugar (Yes, Seriously)mindbodygreen.com - By Claire Grieve Stress and anxiety may cause changes in your body that affect how you regulate emotions, your eating and sleeping habits, and create an imbalance in …
Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky takes ten minutes to explain everything you need to know about the Republican Party in 2019boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Amy Goodman from Democracy Now interviewed linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky and asked him to explain Donald Trump; in a mere 10 …
Israel I co-founded the BDS movement. Why was I denied entry to the US?The Guardian - Omar BarghoutiLast Wednesday, as I was preparing to depart for the United States for a series of speaking engagements, I was abruptly stopped and prevented from boarding my flight at Ben Gurion airport. The US consulate
Fax Machine What Makes The Greek Alphabet So Fascinating?Forbes - QuoraWhat makes the Greek alphabet so beautiful and fascinating? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
Donald Trump Donald Trump’s Ilhan Omar Tweet Might Be the Worst Tweet in Historyslate.com - Ben Mathis-Lilley Let’s review everything that's wrong with it.
Israel Scoop: Trump warns Netanyahu Israel's China ties could harm security cooperationAxios - Barak Ravid of Israel's Channel 13 news President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the White House on March 26 that if Israel doesn't limit its …
Opinion (UK) Many Democrats and liberals are cheering Assange's arrest. That's foolishThe Guardian - Nathan RobinsonThe attempted extradition and prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by the United States should be an obvious outrage. It’s a very clear effort by the US government to punish those who expose
Bill Gates Bill Gates: These 5 books are so good, 'they kept me up reading long past' bedtimeCNBC - Tom Popomaronis, Contributor We all know that the world's most successful millionaires, from Jeff Bezos to Tim Cook, prioritize their sleep. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates tries …
Sudan Protesters in Sudan and Algeria Have Learned From the Arab SpringThe Atlantic - Isma'il KushkushThe demonstrations have their own local characteristics, but there are several parallels. A photograph has been floating around on social media recently featuring six Arab leaders at a summit meeting 2010,
WikiLeaks The Kenyan roots of Julian Assange’s WikiLeaksQuartz - Abdi Latif DahirBritish police this week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in response to a US extradition request on charges that he helped hack Pentagon computers in 2010.
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Gave Libyan Strongman Millions for Offensive Against U.S.-Backed GovernmentThe Daily Beast The Saudi government offered Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar “tens of millions” to march on the U.S. and U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, according …
Israel Pompeo flounders on why annexation is good for the Golan but not for CrimeaGuardian US - Julian Borger in WashingtonUnder intense questioning about why the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights was good but the Russian seizure of Crimea was bad, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, told senators that there was
Identity Mary Magdalene review: a reverent take on a woman most movies get wrongVox - Alissa WilkinsonRooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix star in a reenvisioned version of the traditional Jesus narrative. I don’t mean this as a slight in the least, but it’s true: Most Jesus movies are almost exclusively about
Opinion I Didn’t Write This Column. I Spoke It.The New York Times - By FARHAD MANJOOA few months ago, I stumbled onto a new way of writing. I don’t mean an unusual literary or textual style; I mean a new physical method for the painstaking task of chiseling the formless geologic schists
Science Why Doesn't the Black Hole Image Look Like the One From Interstellar?Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum No one knew what a black hole looked like before today. Sure, we thought we knew, thanks to simulations and the now-famous black hole featured in the …
Science Answer to Irritable Bowel Syndrome is in the mind, study showsThe Telegraph - By Henry BodkinIrritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is partly psychological and can be controlled better through mental training than with mainstream drugs, a new trial shows. Hope of better treatment is at hand for thousands
Science Believe in Atlantis? These archaeologists want to win you back to sciencesciencemag.org - Lizzie Wade In February, the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience referred to an idea made famous by some books and TV shows: that an image of the Mayan King …
Science A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Without Ever Knowing Her Organs Were in the Wrong PlacesGizmodo - Ed Cara A 99-year-old woman in Oregon lived a long life with one of the world’s rarest and often fatal conditions: a body in which most of her major organs …
Interest Rates The west must avoid falling into the trap that stifled JapanThe Guardian - Mohamed El-ErianNot too long ago, the conventional wisdom held that “Japanification” could never happen in western economies. Leading US economists argued that if the combined threat of weak growth, disinflation and low
Environment Hunter who has killed at least 5,000 African elephants and hippos says he has no regretsindependent.co.uk - Jane Dalton A hunter who has killed more than 5,000 elephants and 50 hippos has said he is “10,000 times” unrepentant. Zimbabwean Ron Thomson has been identified …
Science Memory of older people improved to level of a 20-year-old thanks to electric treatmentThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonThe memory of older people has been returned to the state of someone in their 20s for the first time by applying electrical stimulation to the brain to reconnect faulty circuits. Scientists at Boston in
World Economic Forum From horror to health: How Rwanda rebuilt itself to become one of Africa's brightest starsThe Telegraph - By Sarah NeweyIt was one of the great horrors of the last century. On 7 April 1994, the small central African country of Rwanda descended into an orgy of slaughter and genocide. On the orders of government ministers,
High Blood PressureBlast to kidney can end high blood pressure for good: How revolutionary 60-minute therapy could slash the risk of heart anddailymail.co.uk - Pat Hagan A revolutionary 60-minute therapy for high blood pressure could allow patients to throw their tablets away for good. The unlikely remedy involves …
Okinawa The Land of Immortals: How and what Japan's oldest population eatsCNN - By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent(CNN) — You have probably heard that Japan consistently has among the highest life expectancy in the world and that the island of Okinawa has the greatest concentration of centenarians (people who live
Social Work The World Economy Is A Pyramid Scheme, Steven Chu SaysForbes - Jeff McMahonThe world economy is based on ever-increasing population, said Nobel laureate Steven Chu, a scheme that economists don’t talk about and that governments won’t face, a scheme that makes sustainability and
Hedge Funds Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager Warns a “Revolution” Is ComingVanity Fair - By Bess LevinRay Dalio is extremely worried there’s about to be an uprising in America. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio lives a pretty comfortable life, on account of the $16.9 billion to his name. But there’s
Liberal View Secret Service 'threw Trump under the bus': National security expert blames Trump for Mar-a-Lago breachrawstory.com - Dominique Jackson On Wednesday, former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem explained how President Donald Trump has set low standards for security at his …
News DOJ: Alabama prisoners exposed to horrifying violence, rape; murders a 'regular' occurrenceUSA TODAY - Kevin Johnson andWASHINGTON – Prison inmates in Alabama are routinely subjected to horrifying violence and sexual abuse within "a broken system" where people are murdered "on a regular basis," according to a Justice Department
Technology Review: The Keychron K1 and K2 are the wireless mechanical keyboards I’ve been waiting forTNW - Napier LopezIf you spend most of your day typing, you need a good keyboard. Thankfully, there are good keyboards aplenty nowadays. Entire forums and YouTube channels are dedicated to mechanical keyboards, and people
