Gene-editing using the groundbreaking CRISPR technology is about to be put to the test in the first-ever clinical trial of the treatment in humans. CRISPR is a protein in bacteria that can be used to manipulate genetic material to, according to Jennifer Doudna, who...
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When Murray Rothbard Predicted the Menthol Ban
by Murray N. Rothbard | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Murray Rothbard wrote the following article in August 1994. Quick: Which is America’s Most Persecuted Minority? No, you’re wrong. (And it’s not Big Business either: one of Ayn Rand’s more ludicrous pronouncements.) All right, consider this: Which group has been...
Remembering Reese Erlich, Pillar of Independent Journalism
by Norman Solomon | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Reese Erlich died in early April, we lost a global reporter who led by example. During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media. When people in the United...
Conservatives Created the War on Terrorism, and Are Now Its Victims
by Tho Bishop | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The security walls around the U.S. Capitol may be removed, but the federal response to the January 6 protests has only just begun. The Democrats in Washington are determined to treat the incident as on par with the events of September 11, which may explain a troubling...
Don’t Stop with Chauvin: A List of Unprosecuted Killer Cops
by Matt Agorist | Apr 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On Tuesday former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin was seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd — who was handcuffed and not resisting —...
The U.S. Coast Guard Caught Sailing…Along the Russian Coastline
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the first time since 2008, a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter entered the Black Sea amid heightened tensions with Russia. The U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet said the USCGC Hamilton entered the waters on Tuesday. The Sixth Fleet said the Hamilton made the transit “in support of...
The Reverse Side of Turkish ‘Aid’ to Syria
by Armen Tigranakert | Apr 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
From the beginning of its illegal invasion of Syria, Ankara has been trying to put right its crimes with international community by thinking up arguments and suitable excuses while at the same time veiling real motives for its presence and military actions on the...
When Did You Lose Faith in the War in Afghanistan? (If You Had Any)
by Peter Van Buren | Apr 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Biden announced he will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. That will end 20 years of a war that has killed some 2,300 Americans, an unknown number of Afghans, and cost trillions of dollars to accomplish nothing. Biden speaks more plainly...