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In a statement released Monday, Lebanon's State Security department said Frakes was at the scene of the protest near the parliament building, a location from which someone was broadcasting live to the Israeli paper. State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat referred him to Military Intelligence for questioning and investigation, the department said. … [Read more...] about American Journalist Freed in Lebanon After Questioning

The overclass most important in the hubs of and the the many native divisions working- between class voters in the heartland is the clash over immigration policy. Like trade policy in today’s era of transnational production, immigration policy is essentially labor policy. Immigration has always been a flash point in the class war between employers and workers. Members of the mostly white overclass elite in the U.S. often personally benefit from lax enforcement of immigration laws. The Pew Research Center reports that in the U.S., immigrants make up nearly half of all household servants, who are employed by a relatively small number of affluent households. As Lynn Stuart Parramore writes for the left- leaning Alter­ Net, “In the U.S., nearly half of maids and housekeepers are not native-born, with Latin Americans dominating. (A big chunk of the wealthy is happy to support mass immigration of cheap labor so that these workers can continue to be underpaid.)” … [Read more...] about Hubs And Heartlands: The Battlegrounds Of The New Class War

Many opioid overdose victims are getting lost in the official count due to incomplete cause-of-death reports, a study from the University of Pittsburgh published Wednesday in the journal “Public Health Reports” suggested. Unspecified drug-overdose deaths jumped from 2,255 in 1999 to 29,383 in 2015, an increase of 220 percent, reported Gizmodo. … [Read more...] about Study: States Might Be Undercounting Opioid Deaths By As Much As 70,000

The World Drug Report, released Tuesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), reveals that nearly 6 percent of the global population ages 15 to 64 consumed some form of drugs in 2016, with roughly 31 million people suffering from a drug use disorder, reported CNN. … [Read more...] about Global Opium And Cocaine Production Has Never Been Higher

“Its power is immediate and death can be immediate, unlike anything we have seen from any other drug,” Newtown Police Chief Tom Synan told Cincinnati.com. “Fentanyl and similar synthetic opiates have produced overdoses and deaths in not only unprecedented numbers but previously unimaginable.” … [Read more...] about Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Surge 1,000 Percent Across Greater Cincinnati Region