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'We Were Proven Right,' Says AOC After Amazon Expands in New York Without Taking Billions in Public Cash "Maybe the Trump admininistration should focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families." Read more |
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Calling Him Only 2020 Candidate Whose Plan 'Can Save Our Planet,' US Youth Climate Strike Leaders Endorse Bernie Sanders for President As sit-ins targeted establishment Democrats nationwide to demand the Green New Deal, Sanders stood with climate campaigners in Iowa on Friday and applauded striking youth worldwide who are saying: "Hey, we want a planet that we can grow up in and have kids in that is healthy and inhabitable." Read more |
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'Now Let's Do This Everywhere': Kansas City, Missouri Approves Free Public Transit for All Measure championed as "visionary" way to reduce inequality and better serve everyone in the community. Read more |
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Even as 500,000 March in Madrid, Greta Thunberg Warns Climate Movement Has 'Achieved Nothing' Until Emissions Fall "We cannot afford more days going by without real action being taken." Read more |
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Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth At Wednesday’s The Right Livelihood Awards, Amy Goodman interviewed Snowden in front of the award ceremony’s live audience via video link from Moscow. Read more |
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With Support of Just One Republican, House Passes 'Historic' Bill to Restore and Expand Voting Rights "Brings us one step closer to restoring the Voting Rights Act." Read more |
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Trump-Led Shift Away From Multilateralism Risks Survival of Future Generations and Planet, Warn The Elders Former leaders and peace advocates known as the Elders urge countries to continue working together to fight nuclear proliferation, the climate crisis, and global injustice. Read more |
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'Where's the Party? Come On, Man': Biden Claims Democrats Not Down for AOC-Style Progress Like Medicare for All "OK boomer," progressives responded. Read more |
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As Press Swarm Greta, Fellow Youth Activists Stage 'Powerful and Strong' Silent Protest at COP 25 "We need climate action and we need change right now. And the time to act is now." Read more |
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Vowing to Deliver High-Speed Broadband for All, Sanders Plan Would Enshrine Internet as Public Utility "Access to the internet is a necessity in today's economy, and it should be available for all." Read more |
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Demand Grows for Buttigieg to Come Clean About His Time at 'Corporate Greed Machine' McKinsey "The political risk is not that his former employer, a multibillion-dollar corporate entity that promotes fraud across the globe, will be mad at him. It's what he would have to disclose." Read more |
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A 'No-Brainer': Anti-Nuclear Movement Urges Trump to Accept Putin Offer to Renew START Treaty "Losing New START would set the United States and Russia on a path to nuclear anarchy: a state of affairs where legal constraints of nuclear arsenals has ended and norms of voluntary restraint are weak or nonexistent. We'd all be flying blind into a nuclear arms race." Read more |
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Imperiling Progressive Change 'For as Long as We Live,' One in Five Federal Judges Now a Trump Appointee "Without a meaningful plan for court reform any presidential attempts to make needed change will simply be blocked by the courts." Read more |
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Declaring 'Buttigieg Is Wrong,' Bernie Sanders Makes Case for Tuition-Free Public College and Universal Programs "I happen to believe that when you talk about programs like Social Security, like healthcare, like higher education, they should be universal." Read more |
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'Impeach Trump for This': Video Shows Final Hours of Teen's Horrible Death in US Immigration Detention Center Contrary to claims by Border Patrol, "they didn't take him to the hospital. They didn't release him. They didn't even seem to check on him as he was dying on the floor of his cell." Read more |
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Free Speech Groups Tell Court Trump's Mandate for Visa Applicants' Social Media a 'Life or Death' Threat for Journalists, Filmmakers "The government simply has no legitimate interest in collecting this kind of sensitive information on this immense scale, and the First Amendment doesn't permit it to do so." Read more |
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People Who Want to Ban Fracking Immediately, Says Joe Biden, 'Oughta Vote for Someone Else' "Might I recommend Bernie Sanders: the climate candidate," responds Vermont senator's press secretary. Read more |
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'Make America 36th Out of 41 Developed Nations Again': Social Justice Index of Developed Nations Puts US Near Bottom Meanwhile, the democratic-socialist Nordic countries of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden enjoy the top spots in detailed survey of OECD nations. Read more |
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'This Isn't How You End the Endless War': Trump Weighs Plan to Send 14,000 More US Troops to Middle East "Trump ran on ending these endless wars. But he's sending more troops to the Middle East, making yet another war there more likely." Read more |
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'David-and-Goliath Story' as Texas Environmental Activist Diane Wilson Wins $50 Million Judgement Against Plastics Giant Formosa The settlement funds will go to environmental projects and cleanup efforts in the Gulf Coast region. Read more |
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'Victory for the People': Michigan Court Rejects Nestlé's Claim That Privatizing Local Town's Water Provides 'Essential Service' "Allowing a corporation to bottle our water just to sell it back to us is hardly an 'essential service.'" Read more |
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As Impeachment Looms, 350 Mental Health Professionals Warn Congress That Nuclear-Armed Trump 'A Threat to Safety of Our Nation' "We are convinced that, as the time of possible impeachment approaches, Donald Trump has the real potential to become ever more dangerous." Read more |
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Investigation Uncovers Israel-Based Group Behind Bigoted Facebook Smear Campaign Aimed at US Muslim Congresswomen "The goal of these anti-Muslim hate campaigns is clear—they put Muslim lives here and around the world at risk and undermine our country's commitment to religious pluralism." Read more |
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Sanders Scores Highest Mark on Sunrise Movement's Climate Report Card While Biden Told It's "Parent-Teacher Conference Time" Sanders scored 183 points out of 200, followed by Elizabeth Warren with 165 points. Biden landed far behind with just 75 points. Read more |
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"It's On": Pelosi Officially Asks Nadler to Prepare Articles of Impeachment "The president leaves us no choice but to act." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Tops New California Poll—But You Wouldn't Have Known It By Reading This LA Times Headline In latest #BernieBlackout example, Sanders' deputy campaign manager notes it took major newspaper "three paragraphs to mention who is leading." Read more |
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Biden Campaign's "World Is Laughing at Donald Trump" Video Wins Viral Moment "They see him for what he really is: dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership." Read more |
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Denouncing Macron's Neoliberal Pension Reforms, Hundreds of Thousands of Striking Workers Bring France to a Halt "We have one of the best pension systems in the world, if not the best. Yet the president has decided, purely out of ideology, to wipe it out." Read more |
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'Flat-Out Corruption': DeVos Accused of Scheming to Stop Next President From Canceling Student Loan Debt "Normally the rich are moderately more subtle about rigging the system in their favor. They're scared." Read more |
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Trump's Rightward Shift of Federal Courts Advances as Senate Confirms Anti-Choice Sarah Pitlyk "Appalling." Read more |
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'People Here Will Start Dying': Dire Warnings as Stranded Refugees Freeze in Hellish Conditions Near Bosnia-Croatia Border The conditions of the refugee camp are being decried as "not for human beings" as officials demanded immediate relief for those languishing there. Read more |
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Massive Leak of Data Reveals Money-Hiding Secrets of Superrich—and This Is 'Only the Beginning' "It's hard to overstate how notorious and suspicious the firm is." Read more |
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Documents Reveal 'Toxic Trump-Johnson Deal' Post-Brexit Would Allow US Pharma Industry to Send NHS Drug Prices Skyrocketing "A Labour government will stop our NHS being sold off in a toxic trade deal with Trump," Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said. Read more |
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'Another Victory for #MedicareForAll!' Says Jayapal as Fourth House Hearing on Proposal Is Announced The Washington Democrat called the development "proof of the historic momentum we have in our fight to ensure quality, affordable healthcare for everyone." Read more |
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Legal Scholar Points to Sondland Testimony as 'Most Chilling' Evidence Trump Used Power of Office for Private 'Political Benefit' "A candidate for president should resist foreign interference in our elections, not demand it. If we are to keep faith with the Constitution and our Republic, President Trump must be held to account." Read more |
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'Disgraceful Sham': George Zimmerman Sues Parents of Trayvon Martin, Others for $100 Million "Imagine killing an unarmed child and then suing his parents." Read more |
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Progressives Fire Back at Buttigieg's 'Bad Faith' Claim That Tuition-Free College Proposals Are Elitist "The type of attitude that Mayor Pete Buttigieg is exhibiting here is in fact elitist in itself." Read more |
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Big Polluters Must Be 'Held Liable' for Destruction of Climate, Campaigners Say at COP 25 "For decades, big polluters have gone to any lengths to block, weaken, and delay policy. That time is over." Read more |
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'A Damning Indictment': Global Poll Shows 71% Support Regulation of Tech Giants to Protect Data Privacy "People want to see an end to tech companies trampling over our right to privacy." Read more |
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Consulting Giant McKinsey Suggested "Detention Savings Opportunities" That Even ICE Staff Viewed as Too Harsh on Immigrants How McKinsey helped the Trump Administration detain and deport immigrants. Read more |
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'Profoundly Disturbing': William Barr Says Communities That Do Not 'Respect' Police Could Lose Protections Civil rights advocates viewed the attorney general's comments as a threat against communities of color that have protested police brutality and killings. Read more |
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WATCH LIVE: Day 6 of Trump Impeachment Hearings Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the hearing would offer an opportunity to "discuss the constitutional framework through which the House may analyze the evidence gathered in the present inquiry." Read more |
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Feelings Hurt by 'Two-Faced' Trudeau and Laughing NATO Leaders, Trump Leaves Summit Early in a Huff "There is nothing he hates more than important people laughing at him." Read more |
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'What Cruelty Looks Like': Trump Finalizes Plan to Strip Food Aid From 750,000 Low-Income People by 2020 "When it came to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump felt the nation's finances were firm enough to give up more than $1,500,000,000,000. When it's time to spend a fraction of that to help poor people eat, that's when the well has supposedly run dry." Read more |
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'He Has a Lot of Explaining to Do': Call Records Show Devin Nunes Spoke With Giuliani Multiple Times Amid Ukraine Scheme "Hugely incriminating" was how one commentator described the previously undisclosed call records. Read more |
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As Nation Transfixed by Impeachment, Trump Quietly Provides Offshore Drilling Industry 'Sweetheart Giveaway' Former lobbyist turned Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, says critic, probably assumed gift "to his former oil and gas client would slip by unnoticed." Read more |
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Brown University Committee Votes in Favor of Divesting From Companies Complicit in Human Rights Abuses in Palestine The vote comes eight months after 69 percent of student voters supported a referendum to divest from companies profiting from military occupation. Read more |
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Declaring 'No One Is Above the Law,' House Intelligence Committee Releases Trump Impeachment Report Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) tweeted in response to the report that "the House Judiciary Committee should accept the Intelligence Committee report and immediately start drawing up articles of impeachment." Read more |
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'They Want Us Afraid:' Fired Google Workers Fight Back Against Tech Giant With NLRB Complaint "They count on the fear, the sadness, and the anger that we are all feeling to stop us all from exercising our rights. But what they didn't count on is the strength, the resolve, and the solidarity of Googlers and our allies." Read more |
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Critics Decry 'Publicity Stunt With Genuine Consequences' as Trump Deploys 'Surge' of Park Rangers to Patrol Southern Border "Building a despicable wall through our spectacular borderlands isn't enough for Trump." Read more |
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'He's Just...Erased': PBS 2020 Segment Finds Time for Klobuchar, Sestak, and Bullock—But Completely Ignores Bernie Sanders It was like watching "manufacturing consent in action,' said Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson. Read more |
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Kamala Harris to End Her 2020 Presidential Campaign, Leaving Third Way Dems 'Stunned and Disappointed' Harris leaves the race after failing to gain traction with voters. Read more |
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US Navy Places $22 Billion Cyber Monday Order for Nuclear Submarines, But Who Is Asking How We Gonna Pay For It? "$22 billion could fund a lot of kids learning," said Albert Lee, a Democrat running for Congress in Oregon. "We need an education race; not a wasted arms race." Read more |
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'People Are Underestimating the Force of Angry Kids': Greta Thunberg Returns to Europe for Climate Summit At COP 25, Thunberg said, "we will continue the fight there to make sure that within those walls the voices of the people are being heard." Read more |
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'So If You're Poor, You're Dead'? Watch These Brits Gasp When They Find Out Cost of Healthcare in the United States "The cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most British people." Read more |
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After Hottest Decade Since Records Began, WMO Warns World May Face 5°C Rise by Century's End The impacts of the climate crisis "are real and happening now and place huge pressures on communities and countries," climate scientists said. Read more |
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Report Details How Social Security Has Become Rigged for the Wealthy While Leaving Behind Those It Was Designed to Help "The program's become less progressive," said Jim Roosevelt, a former Social Security Administration official and grandson of FDR. Read more |
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'Standing With Bernie Because Bernie Stands With Us': Iowa's Largest Progressive Group Endorses Sanders "We're committed to using this endorsement to lift up our people and planet first demands and take on the corporate power that wants to maintain the 'business as usual' status quo." Read more |
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Trump Ridiculed for Claiming Unnamed 'Legal Scholars' Praised Calls With Ukraine Leader as 'Absolutely Perfect' "Amazing how these people never have names." Read more |
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'Steaming Nonsense': Republican Report Claiming Trump Did Nothing Wrong Panned for Ignoring Facts and Witness Testimony "Republicans are entirely unperturbed by Trump's use of his office to solicit foreign interference in the next election on his behalf." Read more |
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From Crying 'Witch Hunt' to a Guilty Plea, Calls for Trump Ally Duncan Hunter to Resign Immediately The California Republican spent months claiming he was the victim of a "witch hunt" before saying Monday he would plead guilty Read more |
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Pelosi Frustrates Progressives by Stalling Pro-Labor Bill While Pushing Trump's Trade Deal "Grinding my teeth so hard they snap off at the roots." Read more |
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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Dodges When Pressed About Details of White House Dinner With Trump "No better example of Facebook's power than Zuckerberg being asked here whether Trump lobbied him, rather than whether he lobbied Trump." Read more |
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Insurance Industry Is Clearly 'Terrified,' Says Sanders, As Lawmakers Admit Lobbyists Helped Them Write Attacks on Medicare for All "We are taking on the big-money interests who have an army of lobbyists trying to defeat Medicare for All." Read more |
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Green Groups at COP 25 Warn Against Market-Driven Solutions to Climate Emergency "Now is not the time to offer an escape route to polluting Northern country governments and big oil." Read more |
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New Analysis Details 'Aggressive' Tax Dodging of Six Silicon Valley Giants—Totaling Over $100 Billion Among the tech companies studied, Amazon "stands out as the business with the poorest tax conduct," according to the U.K.-based Fair Tax Mark. Read more |
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'For the Grandparents Who Need Money... For the Struggle!': Tear-Gassed Kids in Chile Explain Why They Protest The gas, said one, "doesn't allow us to breathe, so we're only feeling so-so." Read more |
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At COP 25 Kickoff, Spain's Socialist Leader Rips 'Fanatics' Like Trump Who Deny Climate Crisis "No one can escape this challenge by themselves. There is no wall that can protect any country, regardless of how powerful it is." Read more |
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Condemning Inaction of Rich Nations, Oxfam Unveils Report Showing Climate-Related Disasters Displaced 200 Million People Since 2008 "People are taking to the streets across the globe to demand urgent climate action. If politicians ignore their pleas, more people will die, more people will go hungry, and more people will be forced from their homes." Read more |
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'Getting, But Waiving, Due Process': Despite Cries of Unfairness, Trump Refuses Impeachment Hearing Invite "If he has a defense, we on House Judiciary—along with the American people—are eager to hear it," said. Rep. Pramila Jayapal. Read more |
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Maltese Prime Minister Announces Plans to Resign After Protests Intensified Over Journalist's Murder A probe into the 2017 car bombing that killed investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia ensnared government and business figures on the island and provoked calls for the prime minister to step down. Read more |
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Decrying 'Utterly Inadequate' Efforts to Tackle Climate Crisis, UN Chief Declares 'Our War Against Nature Must Stop' "The point of no return is no longer over the horizon," António Guterres warned ahead of COP 25. "It is in sight and hurtling toward us." Read more |
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Thousands of Activists Stage Protests at Three German Coal Mines to Demand Bolder Climate Policies "We're at a critical moment—the window of opportunity to stop the climate crisis is closing rapidly." Read more |
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NHS Staff to Lead Protest Against Trump During His Trip to the UK Amid Rising Privatization Concerns The demonstration plans come as new research reveals that nearly £15 billion in health service contracts have been given to private firms since 2015, casting doubt on Tories' claims that NHS isn't "up for sale." Read more |
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Dozens Arrested for Demanding Food Justice at Jane Fonda's Fire Drill Friday Protest in DC The weekly demonstration coincided with a global youth-led climate strike that aimed to put pressure on governments attending COP 25. Read more |
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Black Friday Protests Across Europe Demand Amazon 'Start Treating Workers Like Humans—Not Robots' "Workers are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious, and being taken away in ambulances." Read more |
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New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Across Political Spectrum Back Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax At rallies, the White House hopeful has criticized billionaires for their complaints about her plan to impose a two percent tax on wealth over $50 million. Read more |
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'We See No Other Options': Youth Activists Lead Global #ClimateStrike Ahead of COP 25 "Countless negotiations have produced much-hyped but ultimately empty commitments from the world's governments." Read more |
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Iraqi Prime Minister to Step Down as Human Rights Defenders Condemn Security Forces' Attacks on Anti-Government Protesters The country's top Shiite cleric called for a change in leadership Friday "to preserve the blood of [Iraq's] children." Read more |
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Progressives Condemn 'Nonsensical and Dishonest' Pete Buttigieg Ad Attacking Free Public College "This is such a disingenuous attack that can be used for literally any universal program." Read more |
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Reversing Pro-Palestinian Stance of Evo Morales, Bolivia's Coup Government Moves to Restore Ties With Israel Morales cut off diplomatic ties with Israel over its deadly 2009 assault on the occupied Gaza Strip and called for top Israeli officials to be charged with genocide. Read more |
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"God Bless Martin O'Malley": Former Maryland Governor Takes Trump Administration Immigration Hardliner Ken Cuccinelli to Task at DC Bar "We all let him know how we felt about him putting refugee immigrant kids in cages." Read more |
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Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance "Instead of doing to settler society what they did to us—genociding, removing, excluding—there's a capaciousness to Indigenous resistance movements that welcomes in nonindigenous peoples into our struggle." Read more |
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'Be on the Right Side of History': Ahead of COP 25, Demand for Govts to Break Free From Fossil Fuels "We expect governments to come to these climate talks to live up to the moral urgency at hand." Read more |
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'An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier': AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People "I see decisions made every day that cost the American public billions of dollars a year for bogus reasons and nobody asks how we pay for it." Read more |
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New Online Tool Aims to Help You Have That Big Medicare for All Talk at This Year's Thanksgiving Feast "Turkey, mashed potatoes, and arguing politics with your family: the holidays are just around the corner! But talking about politics doesn't have to get heated. The vast majority of people are unhappy with our hugely expensive, profit-driven health care system and are ready for a change." Read more |
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EU Lawmakers Declare 'Climate Emergency,' But Campaigners Say Only 'Emergency Action' Will Prove They Mean It "Our house is on fire. The European Parliament has seen the blaze, but it's not enough to stand by and watch." Read more |
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'Existential Threat to Civilization': Planetary Tipping Points Make Climate Bets Too Dangerous, Scientists Warn "I don't think people realize how little time we have left," said one co-author of a new paper warning that the systems of the natural world could cascade out of control sooner than was previously thought. Read more |
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Why Are Drug Prices Rising So Much? Pharma Exec Admits 'No Other Rationale' But Profit-Making "The industry executive said the quiet part out loud," said one outside expert in response. "Price-gouging is central to the industry business model." Read more |
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'The Law Is on Our Side': Extinction Rebellion Celebrates Dropped Charges Against 105 Climate Activists Ultimately, the environmental movement expects the cases of over 1,000 activists arrested in London last month will be discontinued. Read more |
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'Massive Criminal Enterprise': Giuliani Reportedly Sought Ukraine Business Deals as He Worked to Dig Up Dirt on Biden for Trump "Giuliani sought a payments of $200,000 from the recently dismissed prosecutor general of Ukraine earlier this year. So, Mr. President, about that corruption in Ukraine you said you were so worried about..." Read more |
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Just One Week After Trump Rolled Back Safety Measures, Chemical Plant Explosion Rocks Texas Town "This facility has a track record of violating the Clean Air Act." Read more |
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'The Bloodshed Must Stop': Sanders, Khanna, and Schumer Demand Passage of Measure to End US Complicity in Yemen Slaughter "Without U.S. support, the Saudi bombings on innocent civilians could not continue," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Read more |
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'Not Enough to Declare Climate Emergency': Ahead of EU Vote, Demand for Action Not Just Words "When your house is on fire, can you really afford the time to come up with declarations, or do you grab a bucket and do whatever you can to stop everything from burning?" Read more |
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'Both Sad and Funny on a Whole New Level': The President of the United States of America Just Tweeted This Image of Himself Trump, quipped one observer, "just sent this out, as perfectly normal national leaders often do." Read more |
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The 'Climate Crisis Is a Health Emergency': New Report Warns US Fracking Boom Making People and Planet Sick "It is unconscionable that we continue to subject our communities to these risks when we have the technology to make a just transition to renewable energy." Read more |
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Amid National Surge, New Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Top Democrat in New Hampshire "Bernie is in the pocket of #BigUs," supporters are saying. "Pass it on." Read more |
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'Their Secret Agenda Today Is Exposed': Corbyn Says Leaked Trade Docs Show Tory Plan to Privatize NHS With Trump's Help The U.K. Labour leader said the move, if successful, "could lead to runaway privatization of our health service." Read more |
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'Only Did the Right Thing When He Got Caught': Trump Reportedly Knew of Whistleblower Complaint When He Unfroze Ukraine Aid "It was only until he felt that he was being exposed that he actually stepped up and actually released the funds." Read more |
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Without Dialing for Dollars or Lobbyist Meetings, Ocasio-Cortez Raised More Money Than Any Other House Democrat in Third Quarter "While many try to belittle a progressive agenda that centers working people and the public good, in truth it's more powerful than ever." Read more |