Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Thanksgiving through the years:
WTO ruling on dolphin-safe tuna labeling shows the supremacy of trade pacts:
International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country’s own laws.
Case in point: the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled that dolphin-safe tuna labeling rules — required by U.S. law, in an effort to protect intelligent mammals from slaughter — violate the rights of Mexican fishers.
As a result, the U.S. will have to either alter the law or face sanctions from Mexico.
A curious personal history of durag:
But there were rules back then. My parents, like so many black parents, trod the line between teaching their children what they knew was right and teaching them how to survive. For us, the two ain’t exactly the same. Even then, I knew that I should be able to dress as stereotypically as I’d like, but I also felt a drilled-in responsibility to appear respectable for personal and familial safety, social standing, and opportunity. So at first there was no sagging, there were no double negatives at dinnertime, there were no chains or earrings, and there were no durags inside or outside the house.
The urban legends behind Trump's claims of 9/11 cheering:
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been characteristically unapologetic about his claim that “thousands and thousands” of New Jersey residents cheered as the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, even though contemporaneous news reports don’t support it.
And his insistence on that recollection, which has no basis in fact, shows just how expert he is at roping together conspiracy theories, urban legends, and rumors that lurk on the fringes of the Internet and bringing them into the mainstream.
New USDA rule allows tribes to serve traditional foods: Traditional foods are making their way onto table across Indian Country because of a new Department of Agriculture policy allowed by the 2014 Farm Bill. The legislation allows tribes to serve foods such as wild game, marine mammals and plants at public and non-profit facilities that receive federal funds. For Alaskan Natives at a nursing home, that means musk ox meatloaf. For Navajo elderly, it means elk and deer as well as squash and beans.
Man busted for leaving hoax explosive device at Virginia mosque, The device was left at a mosque in Falls Church, Va.:
Members of the Northern Virginia Islamic center have experienced an uptick in anti-Muslim harassment since the terrorist attacks on Paris Nov. 13, [mosque outreach director Imam Johari] Abdul-Malik said, including being insulted on streets and in public places in the area.
Labor Network for Sustainability and 350.org jointly sponsor report showing pathway to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050:
Americans have often been told that meeting scientific climate targets is impossible without threatening jobs and costing a fortune. But a new report shows that the opposite is true.
“The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs and Saving Money,” by the respected economist Frank Ackerman and his colleagues at Synapse Energy Economics, shows that the U.S. could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions and move toward 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 — while adding half a million jobs and saving Americans billions of dollars on electrical, heating, and transportation bills.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin joins host David Waldman to round up the latest in trendy headlines, in which Trump is a liar. Turkey downs a Russian warplane; BLM protesters shot. Armando calls in to discuss Vitter’s backdated refugee letter and how the laggards at CNN continue celebrating the Trumpster fire.
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