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“We can provide robust voting rights, decent jobs, and secure incomes, housing, healthcare, education, peace, and a clean...
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This is the gravest assault on press freedom in my lifetime Source: The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange | Common Dreams...
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Hell-Bent On Isolating And Suffocating Iran, The Trump Administration Derailed Japan’s Historic Talks By Accusing Tehran Without Any...
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In the last week, the realities of US foreign policy have been exposed by a leaked audio tape, a leak about a US attack on the...
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“Trump Heights is such a great name for the colony built on theft, since Trump’s whole life has been about being wealthy...
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Steve Ellner debunks the myth (systematically promoted by Washington) that the Venezuelan “crisis” preceded the implementation of...
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The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in...
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Republicans in Congress are focusing climate legislation on innovation and carbon capture—two procrastination methods also...
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The overwhelming majority of Americans have not read the 400-plus-page report from special counsel Robert Mueller. It’s become a...
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The Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed the long-established precedent that allows both state and federal authorities to prosecute a...
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The Supreme Court dismissed the challenge to a lower court’s findings that some of Virginia’s legislative districts were racially...
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Calling the former vice president the “most formidable” or safest candidate is misguided pseudoscience. Source: Joe Biden and the...
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…we resolved that settler-colonialism, racial colonialism, apartheid, refugeehood, and military occupation are key systems that...
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Pregnant women don’t get x-rays. There’s a reason Source: Why women should oppose nuclear power | Beyond Nuclear...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) started a petition Saturday seeking to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of...
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There are better ways to organize big multi-candidate debates. Going forward, Democrats ought to consider them. Source: The First...
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In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage...
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On September 21st, thousands of young Iraqis will crowd a park along the Tigris River to celebrate the eighth annual Baghdad City of...
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“The federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr is a starvation wage. Every worker deserves a living wage of at least $15 an hour,”...
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Whoever takes the presidency after Trump will have to grapple with the political illusions he shattered about the right and the left...
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“The Pennsylvania Public Bank Project’s … mission is ‘the creation of a network of public/partnership banks in the Commonwealth of...
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Why should we listen to zillionaires who want to abandon ship? Source: The Case for Staying on Earth—With or Without Musk and Bezos |...
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Baby Constantin spent five months of his first year in a foster home. His family got a painful look at America’s experiment with...
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Officers in law enforcement agencies across the country have joined private hate groups on Facebook, participating in the spread of...
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A young woman from Birmingham, Alabama was raped and impregnated four times by her uncle. She was just 12-years old when the raping...
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A proposed exception to the celibacy requirement would apply only in remote areas of the Amazon, but it is a significant shift in...
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“Fracking presents clear threats to our drinking water, our air quality, and to the health and safety of residents in these...
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Newly empowered Democrats are trying to address concern over housing costs that is helping to drive the debate over inequality....
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One group says making the run across the border is safer than rationing the medication. Source: As price of insulin soars, Americans...
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Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam will “indefinitely suspend” a contentious extradition bill that would allow Hong Kong citizens...
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“This is the last frontier in voting rights.” Source: Racist Laws Took the Vote Away From Prisoners. After Serving Time,...
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Gavin Newsom’s move comes as the Trump administration blocks U.S. embassies from flying the LGBTQ banner. Source: California Joins...
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Claiming executive privilege, President Donald Trump has vowed to resist all subpoenas issued by Democrats in the House of...
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A public memorial is a reminder that the present is traceable to a past when people tortured by law enforcement in this country...
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By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S....
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The breach of two Florida election systems during the 2016 elections are a lesson in how not to handle election interference. Source:...
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Relatives are demanding clarity and believe they should be consulted on when or if the 737 Max flies again Source: Profit over...
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A Guardian report from 11 countries tracks how US waste makes its way across the world — and overwhelms the poorest nations...
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“Children belong in school and with their families, not caged in detention centers.” Source: Teens in Cage Protest Trump...
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Despite the fact that insects make up most of the species on Earth, and much of the planet’s biomass, they are significantly...
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Heeding the right lessons of 1998, a Trump impeachment would ensure that no future president considers him a proper precedent. While...
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He will end it playing a pivotal role in two of the most politically consequential decisions the court has made in years.One...
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We are (almost) ready to move beyond criticism of neoliberals and the world they have wrought to an affirmative alternate vision,...
read moreAlmost two dozen Democratic candidates are vying for the party’s nomination to take on Trump in the 2020 race. Here’s where they...
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The ruling elite have no interest in making sure our voices are heard. If they sought to have our voices heard, we would have paper...
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With clear evidence that the Trump administration wants the question added purely for political advantage, it’s hard to imagine how...
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Appeal filed against International Criminal Court’s rejection of war crimes probe Source: Denouncing US Bullying of ICC, Rights...
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A GOP organization accuses the president of violating his oath and says “the remedy” is for Congress to act. Source: Republican Group...
read moreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government is increasingly turning to allies Cuba, China and Russia to offset a health crisis...
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One study in April, co-authored by US economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, blamed sanctions for causing more deaths and...
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India said it will on Sunday impose higher tariffs on 28 US products, including almonds, apples and walnuts, in response to...
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If there were any lingering hopes that the corporate media learned from its role in perpetuating the lies that led to the 2003...
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The Intercept has acquired a massive leak of information that is rocking Brazil’s political and legal world. The materials include...
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Google’s hefty profits at the news industry’s expense will likely renew calls in progressive circles to smash Big Tech. Sen. Bernie...
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A Sludge investigation has uncovered the sources of millions of dollars behind advocacy efforts to pass a slew of state abortion bans...
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Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu and Republican Rep. Justin Amash introduced a resolution Wednesday that would keep the Trump regime from...
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Senate Republicans and the Trump administration are struggling to reach an agreement on a path forward on critical budget and...
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Despite accusations from Washington, Iran has no motive for instigating the attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, analysts told...
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For all of us who rely on our roads and public transit, and our water, sewage and power systems, the agreement reached by President...
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Narendra Modi Expected To Join Xi Jinping And Vladimir Putin At Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit To Express Support For...
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Chief executive of Japanese company operating Kokuka Courageous says ‘flying objects’ were cause of damage to vessel...
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Failing to curb the U.S. military’s fossil fuel use, Costs of War Project co-director warns, “will help guarantee the...
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The Universal Basic Income is now a 2020 campaign issue. Longshot candidate Andrew Yang, a New York businessman, is getting...
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On the evening of June 3, 2019, the City Council of Charlottesville, Va., voted to divest the funds in its operating budget from...
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In the United States, we do not have a justice system — we have a legal system. That system has been designed to follow the letter...
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For over three decades, Jones has insisted he didn’t kill Guillermo Rodriguez in a Brockton parking lot in 1985. But Jones...
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US officials charged with resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have demonstrated ever more blatant bias, such as the recent...
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The federal minimum wage was established in 1938, as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), to help ensure that all work would...
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Flint Taylor’s “The Torture Machine” is a personal history of the legal battle to expose Chicago’s human...
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The family of a transgender asylum-seeker who languished in federal immigration custody and was transferred to a hospital only after...
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*** The resolution doesn’t mention Netanyahu by name, but is a direct rebuke to his April election promise that he will annex...
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A number of lawmakers have come out in support of legislation that seeks to end Israel’s military detention practices against...
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“The child mortality rate here dropped to 7 percent from 17 percent in five years thanks to Mais Médicos,” said Dr. Dalva. “I told...
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As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator/organizer Bayron...
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It simply was an agreement to enter into further talks with the United States about a potential deal that would force Mexico to...
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A German boat captain who claims to have rescued more than 1,000 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea could face up to 20 years...
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In the hallway after Stewart’s testimony, the first responders who appeared with Stewart before Congress surprised the former talk...
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The Idea That The DNC Email Disclosures Were Produced By A Hack — Not A Leak —Makes Less And Less Sense Source: Why...
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Less than a day after newly emboldened Democratic lawmakers announced bills that would significantly tighten tenant protections,...
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The state issued a draft 2019 Energy Master Plan with seven strategies for eliminating all carbon emissions from its power sector,...
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“Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more...
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Fifty-nine House Democrats and one Republican support launching impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Source: Warren,...
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Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a complaint with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of...
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Chelsea Manning was recently jailed for refusing to testify in a grand jury investigation against Julian Assange. Her refusal is an...
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The president’s move to deny lawmakers access to the material comes the same day as the House Oversight Committee is set to vote on...
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Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill Wednesday that would grant the state’s electoral college votes to the winner of...
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The health care industry feeds corporate media a steady diet of “alternative facts” about Medicare for All. Source:...
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“Our grassroots progressive movement has an opportunity to build a more accountable Democratic Party by unseating one of the...
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The Office of Special Counsel, a civil service watchdog, has determined that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway repeatedly...
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Rep. Kevin Brady, who wrote the Republican tax bill of 2017, admits it’s “hard to know” whether the tax cuts will...
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Gomez writes: The American Medical Association (AMA) – one of the nation’s most powerful health groups – is warming...
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Meet the public defender who is shaking up the Queens DA race. Source: Revolt of the Outsiders: First AOC, Now Tiffany Cabán |...
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Four candidates did not make the cut. Source: DNC releases names of 20 candidates who qualified for first debates...
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The nascent activist movement has continued to expand across the world, and politicians are taking notice. Source: The Youth Climate...
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Peace activists Noof Assi and Zain Mohammed hope to rectify the skewed representation of Iraq in the U.S. Source: As Trump...
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All That’s Left, delegations from the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and other groups made up of international activists demonstrate...
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If the U.S. is worried about nuclear test ban violations, it should ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Source:...
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It’s the first step in what could be a lengthy legal battle over whether the WikiLeaks founder should face prosecution for espionage...
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“It is of fundamental importance that Russia and the United States calm the rest of the world and adopt a joint declaration at...
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“The Supreme Court can no longer be trusted to enforce due process. If Congress doesn’t put a stop to this...
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