Myanmar’s junta announces 3-week ceasefire to facilitate quake relief efforts

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday announced a three-week ceasefire across the war-torn country to help facilitate recovery efforts in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake that killed nearly 3,000 people. The ruling junta’s statement, broadcast on state-run MRTV, said the…

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Reform the USDA

April 4, 2025 Jim Hightower Harvey Washington Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture’s Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff in 1883 – Public Domain Harry Truman once proclaimed: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That might explain the calamitous mess that President Trump and Elon Musk…

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