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"Very few in Congress are questioning how the U.S. can afford to spend $7.5 trillion on the military."

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"Instead of regulating the activities of these polluting multinationals,...

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Amazon—and 56 Other Corporations—Took Your Tax Dollars

Kate Aronoff

Ways to Save the World

Michael Winship

Barr Lies Down With Trump, Wakes Up With Fleas

Robert C. Koehler

Hell Mixed With Futility

Joshua Cho

Outlets Denounced as ‘Enemies of People’ Still Promote Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Narratives

Andrea Woods, Alex Rate

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Democrats Battle Over How to Raise the Minimum Wage

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

The Horrors of Israeli Occupation Have Been Laid Bare

Michael Arria

The Stop & Shop Strike Is Showing There’s Still Power in a Union

Paul Rogers

We Already Know Who Will Win the War in Libya – Western Arms Dealers

Jill Richardson

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Holly Miller

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Jessicah Pierre

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Lee Camp

Nearly 100,000 Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced

Ellen Brown

The Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us

Charles P. Pierce

William Barr Is a Complete Tool. It's Time for Robert Mueller to Testify

Brett Wilkins

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This Blessed Plot, This Earth

This week, residents of a village in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula saw this exhausted, emaciated polar bear - a species some consider the poster child for climate change - prowling for food over 500 miles from its native habitat. With the Arctic warming, the ice receding, the seals slowly disappearing and the mindless cretins-in-charge eager to drill, enraged scientists ask, "At what point are we going to take climate change seriously?"