Good news from a left-wing perspective
It appears that the House will complete the business of impeaching Trump before the Christmas break. It’s likely that the House...
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“We are convinced that, as the time of possible impeachment approaches, Donald Trump has the real potential to become ever more...
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In latest #BernieBlackout example, Sanders’ deputy campaign manager notes it took major newspaper “three paragraphs to...
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“If Congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning,” UNC law professor Michael Gerhardt told...
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Derek Johnson, executive director of Global Zero, the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons, issued the...
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Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler drew a link between the current hearings and the Mueller report. Source: Democrats Hint...
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“Democrats made a strategic error in not engaging more with Turley,” Amash posted. “They need to persuade people in the middle and...
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Three constitutional scholars summoned by Democrats testified Wednesday that President Trump’s conduct toward Ukraine rises to...
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North Korea on Wednesday lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for hinting at the use of force against the communist state,...
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Obama made me feel hopeful … until he didn’t. That’s why when Kamala Harris announced her race, I had to look carefully at what she...
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Lawyers with the environmental legal nonprofit ClientEarth filed a groundbreaking complaint against BP for greenwashing in their...
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Meanwhile, the democratic-socialist Nordic countries of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden enjoy the top spots in detailed...
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Trump has cynically weaponized the USDA as a blunt political instrument, flying in the face of the department’s stated mission to “do...
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“We have gone from the United States government’s war on whistleblowers to now a war on journalism,” Snowden says. Source:...
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This important film shines a light on an important story in recent history: the torture of detainees kept as forever prisoners in...
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Drawing down our conflicts abroad is not only a moral imperative but new research from Brown University suggests it’s smart...
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Democratic frontrunner goes viral with video that ends with the message: ‘We need a leader the world respects’ Source: Joe Biden...
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have collectively dodged over $100 billion in global taxes so far this...
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Russia has consistently opposed the idea of space militarization, but the actions of the US and its allies force Moscow to...
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“We have one of the best pension systems in the world, if not the best. Yet the president has decided, purely out of ideology,...
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The UN’s Torture Rapporteur (lead researcher and reporter) says that Julian Assange is being tortured and his life is at risk.Nils...
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The president’s lawyer should probably get a lawyer. Source: FOCUS: Hugely Incriminating Phone Records Suggest Rudy Giuliani Is...
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Contrary to claims by Border Patrol, “they didn’t take him to the hospital. They didn’t release him. They...
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In the Dec. 12 general election, the U.K. must decide between a humane future or an ethnonationalist lurch toward the right. Source:...
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Israeli-based group uses Facebook to spread disinformation to more than a million followers around the world, singling out Muslim US...
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Mark Ruffalo told “The View” on Thursday that his new film, “Dark Waters,” which is based on an environmental...
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Billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week proposed handing over the federal government’s $1.5 trillion student loan...
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An international organization published two false reports and got caught in the act. But as the false reports are in the U.S....
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The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.” His adversary, Hillary...
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The U.S. and Iran have a decades-long history of legal dispute, with both countries largely ignoring one another’s domestic...
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Milo Runkle founded Mercy for Animals when he was 15 years old. Over the last 20 years, that organization has become an important...
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“We’re on the cusp of sending every single case involving mere possession of drugs to diversion,” Krasner said. “We want to get...
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The Army quietly re-opens its infamous Germ Warfare Lab. The Fort Detrick Laboratory experiments with Ebola, plague, other deadly...
read moreThe troubling truth, according to a new book, is that the story that Giuliani has told, and that the press has repeated, about...
read moreUS president cancels press conference after video captured group of leaders apparently ridiculing him Source: Trump cuts short Nato...
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her Department of Education (DOE) violated a court order which prohibited the agency from...
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Michigan’s second-highest court rules in favor of township in case that could damage company’s effort to privatize water Source:...
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The chair of the American Bar Association’s committee on the federal judiciary said Pitlyk’s “experience to date has a very...
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The Safe Abortion app was created to offer a way for people to learn about their medical options safely and discreetly. Source: As...
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The small nation island knows exactly what to do to avoid total collapse. Just look at how it handled the 2008 banking crisis....
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Leftist leaders from the United Kingdom to South America have a clear ally in the U.S. presidential election. In a crowded...
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A guide to watching the impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee. Source: Who to know and what to look for as...
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Nearly 400 protesters have been killed since hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets at the beginning of October. Human...
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In court filings, former Bloomberg employees say the billion-dollar company failed to protect them from discrimination, harassment,...
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Global coalition pressures decisionmakers to hold polluting industries liable for the damage they’ve caused to help pay for real...
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If floods and wildfires can take lives as surely as bombs and bullets, why has the United States adamantly denied entrance to climate...
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Daniel J. Jones, former Senate investigator on the CIA torture program and Iraqi activist Raed Jarrar are this week’s guests. Source:...
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Critics charged that the attorney general’s speech was an attack on minority communities that have demonstrated against police...
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Information in the House Intelligence report vividly illustrates why Nunes should have recused himself from the House Intelligence...
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The New York Times has issued yet another damning report, which this time accused Russia of bombing what it called a ‘refugee camp’...
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A new report held a few silver linings, however, as the growth was slower than in recent years and the use of coal declined. Source:...
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A massive trove of documents, data, and recorded phone calls showing how British company Formations House works to hide money for the...
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“The type of attitude that Mayor Pete Buttigieg is exhibiting here is in fact elitist in itself.” Source: Progressives...
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The law-and-order-loving nationalist’s case for Elizabeth Warren’s tax policies. Source: If You Can’t Have Wealth Taxes, You Don’t...
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There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, but none have so far...
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Donald Trump is secretly working with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to work out a post-Brexit deal to privatize...
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“For decades, big polluters have gone to any lengths to block, weaken, and delay policy. That time is over.” Source: Big...
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Ahead of the 2020 caucuses, the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) Action Fund announces it is backing the Vermont...
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When an announcement of a ‘Moral Injury Symposium’ turned up in my email, I was a bit startled to see that it came from...
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As the Judiciary Committee drafts its articles of impeachment, it will have to decide how much of the special counsel’s findings it...
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“People want to see an end to tech companies trampling over our right to privacy.” Source: ‘A Damning...
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This is about the specifics of a constitution that can only work if the president cooperates with congressional investigations....
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It’s hard to avoid concluding that Buttigieg’s “illusion” about desegregation is the same willful sort indulged by white people the...
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More than 140 people have been exonerated in murder cases involving jailhouse informant testimony since the U.S. Supreme Court signed...
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The Nordic nation’s PM says modern governments need to value green energy and family welfare more. Source: Iceland puts...
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“When it came to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump felt the nation’s finances were firm enough to give up...
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“Imagine killing an unarmed child and then suing his parents.” Source: ‘Disgraceful Sham’: George Zimmerman...
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Now, in the course of the occupation and the blockade, there have been several incidents as they are called in international law...
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Prosecutors said Tuesday that 25 Maryland corrections tactical unit officers have been indicted on hundreds of counts related to...
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Rather than being a strong alliance with a clear purpose, NATO, this 70-year-old organization that is meeting in London on December...
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We should shut down these institutions, end the suffering they cause and redirect the money. Source: Opinion | Abolish Immigration...
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The Department of Defence has announced Fisher Sand and Gravel Co, from North Dakota, will build new barriers in Arizona following...
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President Donald Trump abruptly exited the NATO summit after canceling his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and...
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The film exposes the cruelty of capitalism and urges us to keep imagining new futures. Source: “Parasite” Reaches Toward a Classless...
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Solar power is increasingly available around the clock as energy storage become more affordable. Source: Cheap at Last, Batteries Are...
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George Nader, a key Mueller witness, allegedly conspired to conceal more than $3 million in illegal campaign contributions, the...
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Crispr remains an imperfect tool because it can lead to unwanted or “off-target” edits, making its use in humans hugely...
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Democrats acknowledge “that the decisions to privatize pieces of WMATA have been made with an eye toward financial stability,”...
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Today, lawyers and advocates from Puente, Mijente, Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance, Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro, the...
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The loss of high-paying, union manufacturing jobs to Mexico was exactly the result NAFTA was designed for. Source: Moving Jobs to...
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The reports are in and the conclusion is unavoidable—a number of American citizens are stating they have been tortured by their...
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A truly great dealmaker negotiates his exit package: No public humiliation, no jail time for you or your children, burnish your...
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“Remember that Sanders has been #1 in two out of three recent New Hampshire polls, and is currently second in Iowa, ahead of...
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The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn’t approve of. Source: The...
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Progressives need a new doctrine, championing the interests of the global 99% against a transnational oligarchy Source: Traditional...
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To insist that not coming on too strong is what’s needed in 2020 is to miss the whole lesson of the rightwing populist rise of Trump....
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By treating as no big deal the fact that basically half the country supports removing the president of the United States from office,...
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The imperial fantasy of endless war for perpetual peace continues to thrive. Source: Complicity With Imperialism Is Holding Back the...
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The statement came as North Korea continues to dial up pressure on Washington and Seoul ahead of leader Kim Jong Un’s...
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Progressives on Monday criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for reportedly leaving a broadly popular bill boosting union membership...
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The former vice-president and 2020 presidential hopeful backed a 2005 bill that stripped students of bankruptcy protections and left...
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states continue to carry out executions in the face of serious questions about the influence of racism, mental illness, or...
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As the report states, Defense Secretary Mark Esper still hasn’t handed over documents that detail emails sent to Deputy Assistant...
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A new analysis from the U.K.-based Fair Tax Mark exposes the greed of tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and...
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Over the last decade, more than 30 district attorneys nationwide have established conviction integrity units. The standalone teams of...
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BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller’s team kept secret. We published the second...
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That’s where the Democrats appear to be taking us. At this point, no one knows how it will turn out, and I long to be wrong in my...
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Whether it’s subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel...
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Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released their report outlining impeachable offenses committed by President Donald...
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Today’s politics combine technology with propaganda, disinformation and corruption. But there is an alternative Source: The only...
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