US & GLOBAL POLITICS: The Middle Road

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  JOHN JOSEPH

  

  10 hours ago

  Trump's 'ultimate grift' was getting himself Nobel Peace Prize nomination for 'fake nuclear deal': reporter

  Raw Story - Brad Reed

  New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser revealed to The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes this week what she believed to be former President Donald Trump's "ultimate …

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  JOHN JOSEPH

  

  22 hours ago

  Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

  grist.org - Joseph Winters

  Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. A report released …

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  JOHN JOSEPH

  

  16 hours ago

  Analysis Exposes Taxpayer Billions 'Wasted' on Dead-End Carbon Capture Schemes

  commondreams.org - Jake Johnson

  "What the fossil fuel industry hopes you won't find out is carbon capture is already a failure of an experiment, funded with taxpayer money."

• $22 MILLION PER MILE! To bad everyone didn't listen for former Republican congressman Will Hurd who was in the CIA who had a lot of ideas about using technology instead of physical barriers that can easily be overcome.

  

  JOHN JOSEPH

  

  14 hours ago

  Texas awards $307 million in contracts for 14 miles of new border wall

  texastribune.org - by Uriel J. García

  The two companies awarded contracts on Thursday will erect border barriers in Del Rio and the Rio Grande Valley. State officials awarded two contracts …

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  JOHN JOSEPH

  

  17 hours ago

  Research shows oil field flaring emits nearly five times more methane than expected

  NPR - Laura Benshoff

  Flares, or fires lit at oil and gas wells to burn off excess gas that cannot be transported and sold, are a common sight at oil fields around the world. Some are even visible from space. But a new study published in the journal Science Thursday found that the process is not eliminating nearly as much …

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  JOHN JOSEPH

  

  18 hours ago

  Trump pushes BACK against special master demanding he declare the list of 200,000 pages of documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid is accurate - in move that would force him to state if the FBI planted evidence

  dailymail.co.uk - Geoff Earle

  Donald Trump's legal team complains in a new legal filing about the pace of sorting through 200,000 pages of material seized from Mar-a-Lago – and is …