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@hexbear.nethttps://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230821-guatemala-dark-horse-bernardo-arevalo-wins-presidential-election
Surprise favorite Bernardo Arevalo was swept to victory in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, with his anti-corruption message firing up weary voters.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20230820-baghdad-advertising-screens-turned-off-after-porn-screening
Iraqi authorities on Sunday ordered the shutdown of LED advertisement screens installed across Baghdad after a hacker managed to show a pornographic film on one, security forces said, announcing the…
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/understanding-belated-rise-portugals-new-far-right
In Part 2 of our interview, Left Bloc leader Jorge Costa discusses the recent rise of the far-right Chega (Enough) party in Portugal, with Green Left’s Dick Nichols.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202308/1296340.shtml
https://grist.org/health/pennsylvania-fracking-study-lymphoma-asthma/
A study suggests children near fracking wells are 5-7 times more likely to develop lymphoma.
https://www.theroot.com/uh-ohhh-the-fbi-just-put-some-antioch-cops-in-handcuf-1850752000
A slew of Antioch and Pittsburg officers were arrested following an FBI probe into civil rights violations and investigation tampering.
https://jalopnik.com/stop-robbing-the-little-delivery-robots-1850751762
Food deliveries and grocery runs have been stolen from delivery robots operating in California and North Carolina
https://jalopnik.com/police-arrested-10-year-old-peeing-behind-his-moms-car-1850752223
He was only arrested after multiple officers showed up to the scene.
https://news.yahoo.com/vivek-ramaswamy-wants-putin-whatever-143940725.html
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a reckless plan for achieving U.S. global dominance: giving away other countries’ territory.Ramaswamy is already under fire for his objectively terrible plan to let China invade Taiwan after 2028 if he were elected. Now, the presidential hopeful thinks that Russia should be allowed to keep the parts of Ukraine it currently occupies. “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose. Our goal should be for America to win,” Ramaswamy told CNN Thursday
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/08/18/libertarian-partys-far-right-leadership-worries-takeover-turning-disaster
A year after the far-right Mises Caucus took over the Libertarian Party, its membership and financial numbers are down. Some state parties, including New Mexico, Virginia and Massachusetts, have splintered or disaffiliated from the national party. Leaked documents Hatewatch obtained show the Libertarian National Committee is squabbling and worried that their takeover is “turning into a disaster.”