New poll reveals 57 percent of likely voters want Trump removed
The poll found that 57 percent support a Senate vote for removal, and just 37 percent oppose. Pro-and-con views were much closer...
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Sanders Takes Double-Digit Lead in New Hampshire Poll After 14 Point Jump Since December
“Prepare for establishment meltdown.” Source: Sanders Takes Double-Digit Lead in New Hampshire Poll After 14 Point Jump...
read moreTrump Brags About Withholding Evidence as Impeachment Trial Proceeds in Senate
President Trump tweeted more than 140 times, from the Davos Forum in Switzerland, dismissing the trial as a hoax. Source: Trump Brags...
read moreTrump admits he will seek to cut Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare after ‘hobnobbing with billionaires in Davos
“It’ll be toward the end of the year,” Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. “And at the right time, we will...
read moreNaomi Klein: How the Transformative Power of Solidarity Will Beat Trump
Sanders is right to ask his supporters to avoid attacks on political rivals that feel ad hominem, personal, or just nasty .Attacks...
read moreOxfam Report Contains Dire Warning for Global Capitalism
“Extreme wealth is a sign of a failing economic system.” Source: Oxfam Report Contains Dire Warning for Global Capitalism...
read moreInternational Court of Justice orders Myanmar to prevent genocide against the Rohingya
The ruling at the top United Nations court represents the first international reckoning against Myanmar over its alleged atrocities...
read moreWarning: US drinking water contamination with ‘forever chemicals’ far worse than scientists thought
Highest levels of PFAS in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, Environmental watchdog report finds Source: US drinking water...
read moreClinton Says Sanders Achieved “Nothing.” My Community Clinic Shows She’s Wrong.
Bernie Sanders’s push to expand community health centers has touched millions of lives, including mine. Source: Clinton Says Sanders...
read moreAs Financial Institutions Grow Concerned About Economic Impacts of Climate Crisis, Activists Target Funders of Fossil Fuel Industry
As one 350.org volunteer put it, if we don’t #StopTheMoneyPipeline that finances climate destruction, “it could blow up...
read moreAlert: ‘Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen’: Trump Guts Safeguards for US Streams and Wetlands
“This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever...
read more5 reasons why US-Europe tensions will grow in the 2020s — and how to stop it
From Iran to trade with China to climate change, the two sides of the Atlantic disagree: the West is split. Source: 5 reasons why...
read moreDon’t Expand the Travel Ban
The current travel ban has no merit, and expanding it makes no sense. Source: Don’t Expand the Travel Ban | The American...
read moreA Goldman Sachs Insider Previews CEO Solomon’s New Plan for World Domination
With a long-running scandal and fierce big-bank competitors, Goldman has slipped. But its new CEO is rolling out a new...
read moreWarning: WHO warns of 13 emerging health threats including possible pandemics
Climate change, infectious diseases and epidemic threats, socioeconomic inequalities, and conflicts are some of the 13 urgent...
read moreWikiLeaks editor: US is saying first amendment doesn’t apply to foreigners in Assange case
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson gave a brief statement to the press after the latest court hearing for Julian Assange’s...
read moreWarning: Doomsday Clock Changed: It Is Now 100 Seconds From Midnight – Twin Threats of Nuclear War, Climate Change Seen as Worsening
The iconic Doomsday Clock symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind is now closer to midnight than at any point since its...
read moreIvanka Trump was involved in inauguration’s inflated payments to family business — and so was the president: lawsuit
Then-President-elect Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka were warned in 2016 that the family business was overcharging the nonprofit...
read moreOperation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation
Behind the scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn mystery — whether officials from Saudi...
read more‘Targeted and governmental terrorism’: Iran slams US for threat against Soleimani successor
Iran’s Foreign Ministry slammed the US’ policy of “targeted and governmental terrorism” after an American diplomat threatened...
read moreSouth Carolina Democrat Who Endorsed Biden Said She’s Switching to Sanders Because He Fights ‘For the Least, the Fallen, the Left Behind’
In a tweet thanking Dalhi Myers for her endorsement, Sanders wrote, “Together, we will defeat the most dangerous president in...
read moreHow One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand...
read moreFlorida to Purchase 20,000 Acres of Everglades Wetlands to Prevent Oil Drilling
“The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will purchase 20,000 acres of wetlands in the Everglades in an effort to...
read moreFinland’s Prime Minister calls for a four day work week to increase productivity and family time
The Prime Minister of Finland feels that a 4-day workweek could have an overall benefit for the citizens of her country. Previous...
read moreArizona’s biggest utility says it will get all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050
The biggest utility in Arizona, where the desert sun provides great opportunity for solar power, has pledged to stop using fossil...
read moreGroup of parents deported without their kids by Trump admin return to U.S. following court ruling
Nine parents who were deported without their children after being separated by the Trump administration in 2017 and 2018 returned to...
read moreN.J. Becomes First State to Mandate Severance For Workers If They Are Part of a Mass Layoff
New Jersey will become the first state in the country to force employers to pay severance to laid-off workers, as Gov. Phil Murphy...
read moreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg hit back at Steve Mnuchin: ‘Haters gonna hate and deniers will deny’
After U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday dismissed youth climate activist Greta...
read moreAlert: Wisconsin’s Contested Voter Purge Is a Sign of Things to Come
If right-wing organizations like Judicial Watch have their way, thousands could be removed from rolls in several crucial swing...
read moreEzzard Ellis has been granted a new trial in California because of his attorney’s “extreme” racist views
“Ames was disloyal and entirely indifferent to the fate of his non-white clients, convinced that they were all stupid and...
read moreMigrant teens abused at detention facility gain powerful new allies in ongoing litigation
A 2018 state investigation into a Virginia detention facility found that, yes, staff did strap migrant teens to chairs and sometimes...
read moreAlert: Kentucky Bill Would Make It Harder For Formerly Incarcerated People To Vote
The bill would disproportionately affect the 140,000 people whose voting rights were recently restored. Source: Kentucky Bill Would...
read moreSteven Mnuchin said Greta Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate change proposals. So we talked to an economist.
And he agreed with Thunberg. Source: Steven Mnuchin said Greta Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate change...
read moreHow We #ShutDownDC In September, And How We Can Do Something Even Bigger This Spring
Last September, when young people called for global climate strikes, organizers in DC answered that call in a big way. On September...
read moreA ‘perfect storm’ of injustice: Philadelphia man freed after 28 years as DA condemns ‘decades’ of misconduct
On Tuesday morning, after 28 years in prison for a triple murder he did not commit, Theophalis “Bilaal” Wilson heard the words he had...
read moreRevealed: top official did special favors on guns for NRA at interior department
Powerful gun lobby group has used connections in Trump administration to influence decisions, messages show Source: Revealed: top...
read moreRevealed: Immigrant Kids Were Restrained to Chairs With Bags Over Their Heads at a Juvenile Hall in Virginia
The purpose of their detention, a group of district attorneys argues, should be “protect them from harm, not to punish...
read more‘Ahlan Simsim’ brings ‘Sesame Street’ joy and trauma-inclusive care to displaced refugee kids
Ahlan Simsim, which translates to “Welcome Sesame” in Arabic, is the newest program to launch from Sesame Workshop, the same...
read moreVladimir Putin Is Planning a Partial Retirement From the Kremlin
The Russian president may never leave the political stage—but he’s now ready to take a step back. Source: Vladimir Putin Is...
read moreCNN Poll Shows Sanders Surging Into First as Biden Continues to Drop—But Network Emphasizes Statistical Tie in Headline
“CNN still cannot fathom stating the obvious here: Sanders is leading in their own national poll.” Source: CNN Poll Shows...
read moreFor the First Time, Majority of US Wants the Senate to Remove Trump From Office
Republicans remain firmly behind Trump. Only 8 percent think he should be removed from office, according to CNN. Source: For the...
read moreTulsi Gabbard Sues Hillary Clinton Over ‘Russian Asset’ Comments
The 2016 Democratic nominee is accused of spreading lies about Gabbard to harm her 2020 presidential campaign. Source: Tulsi Gabbard...
read more‘A tragedy’: Noam Chomsky slams Democrats for narrow focus of Trump’s impeachment trial
In an interview with Law & Crime, the 91-year-old Chomsky asserted, “I think the impeachment process, which avoids Trump’s major...
read moreBernie Sanders Is Much More Than a Presidential Candidate
The Vermont senator is not just committed to winning an election but building a political movement. That’s why he’s...
read moreKrystal Ball Explains to CNN That Bernie Sanders Popular ‘Precisely Because DC Hates Him’
As the corporate and Democratic Party establishment lash out at the progressive 2020 candidate, #ILikeBernie and #IEndorseBernie show...
read moreGlobal Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good
A global survey out Monday ahead of the World Economic Forum summit in Davos shows that over half of respondents believe capitalism...
read moreAssange And Manning The Most Important Free Press Stories Of 2019
The Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, a website that publishes official documents exposing the crimes and lies of world leaders....
read moreWashington Post issues a startling warning: Senate GOP is ‘laying the groundwork’ to sabotage democracy
The Washington Post’s Editorial Board declared that Senate Republicans are “laying the groundwork for a truncated trial of President...
read more#TelltheTruthJoe Trends as Sanders Video Detailing Biden History on Social Security Viewed Nearly 2 Million Times
“Let’s be honest, Joe,” said Sanders. “One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us...
read more2020 Dems Called On to Follow Warren in Supporting ‘No Big Ag Money Pledge’
Supporting the pledge commits candidates to prioritizing “the health of our families, farmers, food chain workers, our planet,...
read moreUN Report on Saudi Prince’s Hacking of Bezos’s Phone Raises Questions Over Other Potentially Compromised Elites
“If the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally hacked Bezos’s phone via malicious files sent over text, it...
read moreAlert: Kentucky Bill Would Make It Harder for Formerly Incarcerated People to Vote
The bill would disproportionately affect the 140,000 people whose voting rights were recently restored. Source: Kentucky Bill Would...
read more10 Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, A Crossroads
For decades, Haitian capitalism has let the country’s poor barely survive, or die in the earthquake rubble of the slums, while its...
read moreArchitect of C.I.A. Interrogation Program Testifies at Guantánamo Bay
Appearing for the first time at the military war court, James Mitchell was defiant, saying he was there for the benefit of the...
read moreWhat is coronavirus and how worried should we be?
Experts fear latest strain of virus from Wuhan may spread across world Source: What is coronavirus and how worried should we be? |...
read moreAlert: The Empire’s war on oppositional journalism continues to escalate
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to...
read moreThe Trump Impeachment and the Question of Precedent, Part II: The Trouble With Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Constitutional Argument’
Alan Dershowitz and Sen. Mitch McConnell are helping each other set an impeachment precedent in which there would be no room for...
read moreNew Jersey Takes On Vestige Of Three-Fifths Clause: Prison Gerrymandering
The most productive solution would be to allow prisoners and formerly incarcerated people to vote, but until that happens, the least...
read moreImmigrant Detention Centers Really Are Inhumane. This Trial Will Prove It
Last week, several individuals subjected to degrading detention conditions in southern Arizona took the government to trial. In the...
read moreDistrict Of Columbia Sues Trump Inaugural Committee Over Misuse Of Funds
Washington D.C. is suing Trump’s inaugural committee and companies controlling the Trump International Hotel for misusing funds to...
read moreAlert: The Many Ways the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder
The arms industry, which has the biggest seat at the table when war spending decisions are made, goes unchecked by Congress and the...
read more‘Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,’ Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare
“It’ll be toward the end of the year,” Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. “And at the right time, we will...
read moreWashington Post editorial board issues a startling warning: Senate GOP ‘laying the groundwork’ to sabotage democracy
In a piece published in the paper’s Opinion section this Tuesday, the Washington Post’s Editorial Board declared that Senate...
read more‘An Absolute Red Alert’: Snowden Joins Journalists and Rights Advocates Worldwide Rallying to the Side of Glenn Greenwald
“It should be clear to anyone—no matter their political persuasion—that the Bolsonaro administration is taking...
read more23 Corporate Media Headlines Obscure Biden’s Social Security Lies
Headlines like “Joe Biden Falsely Claims that Bernie Sanders Is Spreading a ‘Doctored Video'” were nowhere to be...
read moreWe’re Still Living In Guantánamo’s Shadow
The detention camp has helped enshrine indefinite detention, secrecy, and rogue justice in American life. Source: We’re Still Living...
read moreMalaysia Sends Plastic Waste Back to 13 Wealthy Countries, Says It Won’t Be ‘the Rubbish Dump of the World’
The Southeast Asian country Malaysia has sent 150 shipping containers packed with plastic waste back to 13 wealthy countries, putting...
read moreAlert: Far Right Groups Are Rallying Virginia Counties to Form Militias
One Virginia county has already said it will form an official county militia and create a sheriff’s posse. Source: Far Right Groups...
read moreDeadly Silence: What Happens When We Don’t Believe Women
Not listening to women’s experience of abusive men — and of other areas from health to the economy — harms all of society...
read moreLouisiana Tribes File Complaint With United Nations Over U.S. Inaction On Climate Change
Four coastal Louisiana tribes that claim the U.S. government has violated their human rights by failing to take action on climate...
read moreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Admits America Has No ‘Left Party’
At a Martin Luther King Day event in New York, the congresswoman and democratic socialist takes aim at the country’s...
read moreThe great diabetes lie
Conventional wisdom tells us that sugar consumption, lack of exercise, and obesity are behind the surge in diabetes. While these are...
read moreAlert: U.S. Deports Iranian Student With Valid Visa, Despite Judge’s Ruling
The removal raises renewed concerns that Iranian students are being targeted amid increased U.S. tensions with Tehran. Source: U.S....
read moreA court tossed 2 N.J. men’s murder convictions after 25 years. So why are they still locked up?
A panel of state appellate judges in December tossed their convictions after a legal group dedicated to freeing the wrongly convicted...
read moreWarning: USDA Organic Now Allows Glyphosate in Organic Hydroponic Food Production
The National Organic Program (NOP) is now allowing the cancer-causing herbicide, glyphosate, in “organic” hydroponic production....
read moreFisheries management is actually working, global analysis shows
Nearly half of the fish caught worldwide are from stocks that are scientifically monitored and, on average, are increasing in...
read morePuerto Ricans Call on Governor Wanda Vazquez to Resign Amid Disaster Aid Scandal
Puerto Ricans hope to oust another governor. Source: Puerto Ricans Call on Governor Wanda Vazquez to Resign Amid Disaster Aid...
read moreBlack Alliance For Peace – Baltimore Demand End To Policing “Surge
Baltimore City is one of 7 cities, including Detroit, Albuquerque, Cleveland, Kansas City, Memphis and Milwaukee, selected for the...
read moreAmerica’s Radioactive Secret
Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick...
read more‘Inexcusable’: Hillary Clinton, Who Lost to Trump in 2016, Won’t Commit to Helping Bernie Sanders Win in 2020
Former secretary of state claims “nobody likes” Vermont senator, currently a leading presidential Democratic candidate...
read moreAlert: Amid Years of Funding Cuts to Public Health, First US Case of China’s Coronavirus Detected
Public health advocates say state, local, and federal agencies are underprepared to cope with the spread of a new infectious disease....
read moreThe Worst Thing About Trump’s Answer to the Impeachment Articles
The arguments [of Trump’s lawyers] are wrong on the facts and wrong on the law, but that’s not the worst part. At its...
read more‘Middle Class’ Joe Biden has a corruption problem – it makes him a weak candidate
A lot of the voters we need — independents and people who might stay home — will look at Biden and Trump and say:...
read moreIn Response to Oxfam Inequality Report, Sanders Calls for Global Movement to Counter ‘Greed of Billionaire Class’
The White House hopeful emphasized the need to bring people across the globe together to work for “a world of economic, social,...
read moreIn Historic Shift, US’s Second-Largest Physician Group Endorses Medicare for All
The American College of Physicians represents 159,000 doctors of internal medicine nationwide. Source: In Historic Shift, US’s...
read moreJeffrey Sachs Endorses Bernie Sanders for President – YouTube
“We need to get our country back on track, and Bernie is the leader to do it. Bernie refuses to give in to the big money and corporate power.” -Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and U.N. adviser
read moreVirginia pro-gun rally: Despite anger, threats of insurrection, massive rally is carried out peacefully outside state Capitol
Live updates from the massive gun rights rally outside the state capitol in Richmond, Va. Source: Virginia pro-gun rally: Despite...
read moreSpain’s New Left-Wing Socialist Government Offers Hope In Dark Political Times
“Corbynism has come to Spain” leaving business leaders “trembling,” wrote the Telegraph last week in response to news that the...
read moreLindsey Graham Newly Implicated By Lev Parnas In Ukraine Plot – YouTube
Lindsey Graham Newly Implicated By Lev Parnas In Ukraine Plot
read moreReport: Six Banks Reaped $18 Billion Last Year from Trump Tax Cuts
A new Bloomberg analysis shows that six banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and...
read moreThe PPC Demands National Debate on Poverty
When 250,000 people die every year from poverty, it is time for the presidential candidates to make good on the promises they made...
read more‘Act as if You Loved Your Children Above All Else’: Greta Thunberg Demands Davos Elite Immediately Halt All Fossil Fuel Investments
“I’ve been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do, but don’t...
read moreIs Hillary Clinton Running for President Again? Sure Seems Like It.
Is Clinton hoping for a brokered convention so she can offer herself up as the “reasonable” compromise candidate? Source: Is Hillary...
read moreIran says it will quit global nuclear treaty if case goes to U.N.
Iran said on Monday it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N....
read moreIn Venezuela, Reactionary Guaidó Humiliated By Assembly Defeat
The US coup with their puppet Guido has become a tragic comedy. US media reporting on what occurred in the National Assembly election...
read moreWarning: Upcoming SCOTUS Ruling Could Starve Public Schools in Favor of Religious Ones
Detractors argue that the ruling could result in a mandate for religious voucher programs in every state. Source: Upcoming SCOTUS...
read moreAlert: Israel Is Systematically Poisoning One Million Palestinian Children
Sara Roy of Harvard University’s Centre for Middle Eastern studies…has written that “innocent human beings, most of them...
read moreHow Accountants Took Washington’s Revolving Door to a Criminal Extreme
Hundreds of people have passed through the revolving door between the Big Four audit firms and their regulator, the Public Company...
read moreWarning: Oil-and-Gas Industry’s Toxic Waste Is Radioactive
Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick...
read moreNorth Korea abandons nuclear freeze pledge, blames ‘brutal’ U.S. sanctions
North Korea said on Tuesday it was no longer bound by commitments to halt nuclear and missile testing, blaming the United States’...
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