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Clearly “neither human rights nor a nuclear program have been the real concern of the U.S.,” says Javad Zarif Source: US...
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Fugitive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been issued with a new Australian passport after lengthy negotiations. The new passport...
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“If the US had a major state TV network it would sound exactly like this. 100% pure, uncritical cheerleading.” Source:...
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has set a deadline of February 23 for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to bow down to the U.S. U.S....
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California Rep. Ro Khanna, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner and Ben Cohen, a co-founder of Ben...
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Half of the leading Democratic candidates accepted six-figure amounts from corporate political action committees during their most...
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The Democratic Party is having an internal battle over Israel and the BDS movement — and the 2020 contenders are paying attention....
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What separates him in this race are his well-defined foreign policy views and his synthesis of domestic and international concerns....
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, which took off with the election of President Hugo Chavez in December 1998, frequently and...
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Journalism is based on judgment and on deciding which stories to cover and which stories to downplay. This week, lots of national...
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Unable to sell any oil, the Venezuelan government could quickly run out of cash. The result could be a humanitarian catastrophe, a...
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The Democratic Party is slowly losing African-American voters. I’ve listened, watched, and read about/from many black people who felt...
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he Justice Department and Democratic lawmakers are bracing for a fight over access to the evidence uncovered by special counsel...
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In recent years, Chomsky has turned his prodigious mind to the existential threat of global warming, a ‘threat to the...
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The prologue to Adam McKay’s film about Dick Cheney, which has a fair shot at winning Best Picture on Oscar night, includes a telling...
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Netanyahu, leader of the far right Likud Party, faces a challenge from the coalition of a center-right general, Benny Gantz, and a...
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The laws don’t seem to do what critics fear or proponents hope. Source: Study: voter ID laws don’t reduce voter fraud — or voter...
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The senator privately reached out to Omar after she was criticized by both parties for trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes while...
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Across the U.S., Republicans control 30 statehouses and the Democrats control 18. That is the largest number of one-party controlled...
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Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR)...
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In April of 2018, Donald Trump pushed the Qatari sovereign wealth fund—the same fund that had recently bailed out Jared...
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Reproductive rights groups decry Trump’s latest announcement, saying it further restricts women’s rights. Source: Trump...
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Every year foreign governments pour tens of millions of dollars into those very institutions and, though many think tanks are...
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The New Jersey state Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill that would keep presidential candidates off the state’s...
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“It has nothing to do with the needs of the Venezuelan people. It has nothing to do with democracy. It has nothing to do with...
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Gen. Michael Flynn and then Jared Kushner pushed a scheme that required breaking US law, which forbids technology transfers that...
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President Donald Trump promised he’d always hire the “best people” during his presidential campaign, but not only has that turned out...
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Already, the 69-year-old Manafort faces a potential sentence of 19 to 24 years in his Virginia financial fraud case. The sentencing...
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In my research as an economist studying corporate welfare, I have reviewed much evidence on the effectiveness of tax and other...
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Supreme Court justices—whose decisions are often irreversible and have the widest impact—are the only judges in our...
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The transcript of the interview was unpublished up until yesterday when Newsweek reported on Khashoggi’s belief that the only...
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The Trump administration’s crackdown on documented immigration moved one major step forward Wednesday, when the Department of...
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Former Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur has been an active foot soldier in the right’s decades-long assault on journalism....
read moreSunrise Movement says California senator reacted with ‘smugness and disrespect’ to their campaigning for New Green Deal Source:...
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the editor of the yearbook and designer of the page containing the blackface photo was none other than Nicole Carroll, USA Today’s...
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The holy city of Varanasi, also the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is all set to become the first city...
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Weak, isolated, and beset by scandals, Jair Bolsonaro, his inner circle, and his presidency are mired in chaos. Source: Jair...
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If you sometimes make food choices based on your values rather than your pocketbook or fancy, you should know that those small,...
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Southwest Airlines’ announcement today of an “operational emergency”, in which the company grounded and cancelled a huge number of...
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A new Arizona school textbook is an interesting study in dark money advancing libertarian propaganda. Source: Koch Network Pushes...
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People from all hues of the political spectrum are recognizing that having local transparent control over the creation of credit...
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The weekend of February 23 – the 1 month anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup attempt in Venezuela – will be marked by internationally...
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If the Left allows itself to be fractured between Sanders and Warren, a joint Biden/Beto ticket could win the Democratic primary and...
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“This is a fight for our generation’s survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in...
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“The United States has a very bad record of intervening in Latin American countries and that must not happen again,” said...
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There is a growing split between liberal US politicians and South Korean progressives on the peace process. Source: Why Are Democrats...
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Julian was gagged on March 28th, 2018 and had no access to the internet, visitors or the telephone. Ecuador President Lenin Moreno...
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The company nearly doubled its profits to $11.2bn in 2018 from $5.6bn the year before and, for the second year running didn’t pay a...
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Today, in a period of de’jà vu, the Donald Trump administration has embarked on a Reaganesque policy of covertly shipping arms...
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China’s Academy of Space Technology is working on an orbital power plant that would capture solar energy in space and beam it...
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He’s challenging American exceptionalism in a far more radical way than his 2020 competitors are. Source: It’s Foreign Policy...
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As the pool of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president continues to grow, so does a “sustained and...
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Harris is a pastor and a Religious Right favorite who was supported by Karen Pence, “historian” David Barton, Christian...
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Though the phenomenon of Central American caravans isn’t new, never before have thousands of people decided to flee from criminal...
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Some rules of engagement for Democratic candidates and their supporte Source: How Democrats Can Avoid Turning Their Presidential...
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Mueller could issue his report as early as next week, per media outlets Source: Congress to subpoena full Mueller report if AG Barr...
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Chances are you, and everyone else you know, paid more in taxes than Netflix did thanks to the Republican tax plan. The Institute on...
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Gizmodo’s Dell Cameron obtained leaked investigation data linking many of the bogus comments to several Trumpland-linked...
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Unfortunately, the inertia over regime change in Venezuela bears a striking resemblance to what happened in the lead-up to the U.S....
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House Democrats have introduced a resolution to block President Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund his border wall,...
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But it was those trillions of dollars — The Donald claims seven trillion of them — that the neocons began sinking into...
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We talk with the ProPublica reporter who helped uncover the Trump administration’s plan to bring nuclear technology to the Saudis....
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Sanders has become one of the strongest critics of Israeli government policy, reflecting a debate that continues to grow and has...
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A federal judge overseeing the reunification of nearly 3,000 separated families said the Trump administration may need to reunite...
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The oil, gas and coal industries’ donations heavily favor the lawmakers who have so far refused to back the only climate policy to...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting some negative reviews in her home city. Fresh off helping drive Amazon’s planned...
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According to an article published by Bloomberg last week, Facebook may soon take steps to reduce or remove access to any content it...
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The president has so far refused to take pardoning his former campaign chairman off the table. Source: New York Prosecutors Will...
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The arrest of a heavily armed white nationalist in Maryland on Wednesday follows another year of deadly far-right extremism. Source:...
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The way McCabe decided to structure the cases had both practical impact and, in retrospect, symbolic importance. Symbolically, it...
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“Today we witnessed an organized law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the American legal system,” the statement read. “The...
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Here are the 10 wealthiest families in the world. Source: These Are The Richest Families In The World –...
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American farm exports are expected to plunge $1.9 billion in fiscal 2019, compared to the previous year, largely due to President...
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Teacher unions are not always — and not often — the leaders of broader social justice movements. Now that’s changing due...
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The publisher, who had called for the Klan to “ride again,” also said his critics can “go to hell.” Source:...
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Both men are powerful reminders that true “Alpha males” are those who provide, who nurture and who are comfortable with themselves. A...
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“This lady is so radical, this lady embraces Islamic jihad,” McDonald said. “It would not be surprising to me if this lady don’t...
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In the spirit of a few Black athletes before him, Kaepernick has used his status to elevate an issue that white America continues to...
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Activating a provision that allows rich exiles to sue in American court for property lost during the 1959 revolution would raise...
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Yet another Manhattan condo association has decided that living in a Trump-branded building is no longer desirable. A Riverside...
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End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles reacted angrily on his “TruNews” program last night to the news that the Trump administration is...
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We will see what impact the Pledge/Agenda will have on the 2020 political debate. The multiple-candidate field will create a dynamic...
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This report marks the fifth year As You Sow has provided these research results. What has changed the most over these years is that...
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Supporting freedom of movement isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s a political winner for the left.. When President Donald...
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Republican House candidate Mark Harris is now calling for a new election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. In the 2018...
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While trillions of dollars in military spending have gone unaccounted for, a record number of Pentagon whistleblowers have been...
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US President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisor John Bolton appears dead set on resuming his decades-long stand-off with...
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Sarah Isgur Flores was the leading spokeswoman at the Justice Department under former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Source: Former...
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Dominated by those hawkish against Iran, the Trump Administration has a sizable contingent that has been itching to start a war with...
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The 2020 presidential candidate has a long track record of opposing lobbyists, billionaires, the Republicans—and her own party....
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“The Green New Deal is our generation’s last and best hope at avoiding climate catastrophe in our lifetimes. Any...
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A US appeals court has reopened a billion-dollar lawsuit against Jewish-American tycoon Sheldon Adelson, which seeks to hold him and...
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Sanctions against Venezuela are real and palpable mechanisms of destruction of the State, its identity and, with it, of Venezuelan...
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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s effort to bring the ultra-right, extreme racist Otzma Yehudit (‘Jewish Power’) party...
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“Clearly, this legislative body through criminal means intends to seize national powers,” Attorney General Tarek William Saab said....
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These small island states know the great peril of allowing the anachronistic Monroe Doctrine (1823) to be fully revived. The idea...
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States cannot ignore the Constitution when imposing fines or confiscating people’s property in civil or criminal cases, the...
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A Maryland man called for ‘focused violence’ to ‘establish a white homeland’ and created a target list that included journalists and...
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The four European Parliamentarians who went to #Venezuela to confer with #Guaidó acted unprofessionally in not respecting the...
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The reality is that the WASP power Douthat remembers longingly was enriched by Jim and Jane Crow, redlining, housing segregation and...
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