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'This Is Just Cruelty and Exclusion': Amid Trump's Attack on Poor, One Million Fewer Kids Receiving Medicaid and CHIP "This is not people reaching self-sufficiency," warned Rep. Pramila Jayapal. Read more |
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'The Revolution Is Lit': Jubilant Lebanon Uprising Fueled By Music, Dancing, and... 'Baby Shark' "Only in Lebanon would a song like 'Baby Shark,' which is now being played at every crowd gathering, become the anthem of a revolution." Read more |
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As Trudeau Clings to Power, Progressives in Canada Celebrate Victory of 'Green New Deal Squad' Now, said Naomi Klein, his Liberal party "will be pushed by a new squad of climate champions—on the inside and outside—demanding a #GreenNewDeal." Read more |
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'Do Us a Favor': 4-Page Pelosi Fact Sheet Uses Trump's Own Words to Make Case for Impeachment The document comes as polls show growing public support for impeaching and removing the president. Read more |
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'What the Hell Is Wrong With You?': Outrage Erupts After Racist Trump Calls Impeachment Inquiry 'A Lynching' "Do you know how many people who look like me have been lynched, since the inception of this country, by people who look like you?" asked Rep. Bobby Rush Read more |
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Global Millionaires—Just 0.9% of Population—Now Own Nearly Half of World's $361 Trillion in Wealth, Study Shows The bottom 56 percent of the population owns just 1.8 percent of the world's wealth Read more |
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'So Awful': Military Returns to Streets in Chile as Unrest Simmers The president's suspension of the public transporation fare hike has not stopped protests. Read more |
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In 'Bow to Reality,' Trump Scraps 'Stunningly Corrupt' Decision to Hold G7 at His Doral Resort "His reversal does not change how astonishing it was that he ever thought that it was appropriate, or that it was something he could get away with." Read more |
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backs Bernie Sanders at Packed NYC Rally "With Alexandria, with Ilhan, and others on board, we're going to put together a coalition that is going to win and win big," Sanders said ahead of the event. Read more |
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The Pro-Trump Super PAC at the Center of the Ukraine Scandal Has Faced Multiple Campaign Finance Complaints Randy Perkins donated $500,000 to America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC, a day after his company won federal money as part of a contract. The same PAC was dubbed “Committee 1” in a federal indictment alleging illegal donations from two Rudy Giuliani associates. Read more |
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'A Real Movement Boost': Sam Waterston and Jane Fonda Among Those Arrested Demanding Green New Deal in DC This was Waterston's first-ever time being arrested. The climate crisis, he said, is "worth it." Read more |
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Demanding 'Education Justice and Equality,' Striking Chicago Teachers Call on Mayor to Put Campaign Promises In Writing "We mean business. It's got to be about shifting and transforming the infrastructure of inequity." Read more |
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Jill Stein Challenges Hillary Clinton to Debate After 'Russian Asset' Smear "It's past time to give the American people the real debate they deserved in 2016." Read more |
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Blasts in Afghan Mosque Kill 62 as UN Says Violence Across Country Causing 'Unprecedented' Level of Civilian Casualties "Civilian casualties are totally unacceptable, especially in the context of the widespread recognition that there can be no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan." Read more |
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House Democrats Demand Probe Into 'Suspicious' Stock Trades Surrounding Economy-Shifting Statements by Trump "Multiple large trades, resulting in billions in profit, occurred shortly before geopolitical events or statements by the president of the United States that moved the markets significantly." Read more |
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To Combat Dishonest Marketing, New 'Farm vs. Factory' Website Contrasts Industrial and Sustainable Agriculture The educational website was launched by U.S. nonprofit Food & Water Watch, which campaigns to outlaw factory farming nationwide. Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg Backs Anti-Nuke Activists Now Facing 25 Years in Prison for Acting to 'Avert a Much Greater Evil' "The sign they displayed during their action on the base—'The Ultimate Logic of Trident is Omnicide'—is exactly right." Read more |
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As Zuckerberg Defends False Trump Ads as Free Expression, Critics Say Facebook's Assault on 'Foundations of Democracy' Must Be Stopped "To save democracy and the free press, we must eliminate Google and Facebook's control over the information commons." Read more |
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It's Not the End of the Fight, Say Justice Advocates, as New York City Passes Plan to Close Notorious Rikers, Open New Jails "We should be fighting mass incarceration and all cages." Read more |
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Sallie Mae's Hawaii Retreat While Millions Struggle to Repay Loans Bolsters Argument to 'Cancel All Student Debt,' Sanders Says "When we talk about Sallie Mae celebrating its 'profits,' we are actually talking about the company's success in creating a business model and payment terms that exploit borrowers." Read more |
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Extinction Rebellion Faces Backlash Over 'Self-Defeating' Disruption of London Public Transit "Everyone can relate to the annoyance of a delayed commute, but the people who suffer the worst consequences are society's most vulnerable." Read more |
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As Trump Downplays Attack on Kurds, Amnesty Details Turkish War Crimes and 'Utterly Callous Disregard for Civilian Life' "Killing defenseless people in cold blood is utterly reprehensible and a blatant war crime," said Amnesty International secretary general Kumi Naidoo Read more |
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'Absolutely No Respect for Human Life': Trump Compares Turkish Assault on Kurds to Two Kids Fighting in a Parking Lot "The president is talking about genocidal slaughter and hundreds of thousands of war victims like it's a playground squabble." Read more |
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House Hearing Highlights How Corporate Stock Buybacks Enrich the Wealthy While Rigging Economy Against Workers "The biggest American companies are clearly making enough profit to spend these record amounts giving raises to their shareholders via stock buybacks, and yet average workers aren't getting any raises." Read more |
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'What a Disgrace': Bernie Sanders Slams Trump Administration for Saying Climate Crisis Excluded From G7 Agenda "Not only is Trump using the powers of the presidency to enrich himself, which is blatantly unconstitutional. He is ignoring a massive international crisis that threatens humanity." Read more |
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Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want "Proposals to fund Medicare for All have focused on raising taxes. But what if we could imagine another way entirely?" Read more |
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'It Is Really Sad': Sanders Rips Biden for Deploying Insurance Industry Talking Points Against Medicare for All "Joe must know that we currently spend twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people of almost any other major country and that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs." Read more |
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Critics Denounce Turkey's Ceasefire Demand Announced by Pence as 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Syrian Kurds President Trump, meanwhile, said Kurdish homeland had to be "cleared out" or Turkey would have had to "kill millions of people." Read more |
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'The Most Overt Corruption to Date': Mulvaney Confirms Plan to Host G7 Summit at Trump Golf Resort "There's no universe in which anyone could believe that, in a country as big as ours, the selection of Trump's resort was anything but a product of the worst kind of corruption." Read more |
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'We Do That All the Time... Get Over It': Mulvaney Openly Admits Trump Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine "Mulvaney just straight up admitted that this administration sees no difference between using U.S. aid to advance national policy goals and using it to advance Trump's personal political goals." Read more |
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'A Far Worse Deal Than Theresa May's Deal': Labour Vows to Defeat Brexit Plan Agreed to by EU "This sell-out deal won't bring the country together," said Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. "The best way to get Brexit sorted is to give the people the final say in a public vote." Read more |
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John Yoo, Infamous Bush-Era Author of Torture Memos, Dunked on for Claiming US Founders Would Oppose Trump Impeachment "Yoo also says torture is good for America, so take that into consideration when estimating the value of his legal opinion." Read more |
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'Very Damning': Sondland Testifies Trump Directed US Diplomats to Follow Giuliani's Lead in Ukraine Rep. David Cicilline said Sondland's testimony was further confirmation that Giuliani was running "shadow State Department effort" on the president's behalf. Read more |
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Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools "Fanatical Zionists are pushing U.S. state legislatures to pass sweeping new restrictions on free speech." Read more |
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For Supporting Medicare for All, Biden Accuses Sanders and Warren of "Playing Trump's Game and Trying to Con the American People" Biden's attack comes as he is falling in the polls and being heavily outraised by his more progressive 2020 rivals Read more |
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'Huge Loss for Baltimore, Maryland, and the Nation': Rep. Elijah Cummings Dies at 68 "This is just such sad news. Rep. Cummings was a force to be reckoned with." Read more |
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Demanding 'Pay and Benefits That Give Us Dignity,' 25,000 Chicago Public School Teachers Go on Strike "Our children deserve the best that this city has to offer. They do not deserve broken promises." Read more |
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'Is This Real? This Can't Be Real': Stunned Reaction to Unhinged Trump Letter to Erdoğan "Trump wrote a letter to the Turkish president written like a child... We cannot keep going like this." Read more |
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Pelosi Emerges From Trump Meeting, Says: 'What We Witnessed on the Part of the President Was a Meltdown' Trump told the Democratic congressional leaders, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, that "some of ISIS were communists and you would be happy with that." Read more |
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In Twist of Climate Crisis, Study Finds Extreme Arctic Snowfall in 2018 Caused Near 'Complete Reproductive Failure of Plants and Animals' "2018 may offer a peep into the future, where increased climatic variability may push the arctic species to—and potentially beyond—their limits." Read more |
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FactCheck.org Ridiculed for Claiming Sanders Use of 'Existential' Misleading Because Climate Crisis May Not 'Obliterate All People From the Planet' "Looking forward to Democratic candidates describing climate change precisely as 'something short of a literally existential threat' so that they can finally debate the issue in good faith." Read more |
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Critics Warn 'Consumers Will Pay the Price' After GOP-Controlled FCC Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger "The good news is that attorneys general from more than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have joined a lawsuit to block the merger." Read more |
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Extinction Rebellion Making Things Inconvenient? Actually, Says Naomi Klein, the Climate Crisis 'Is Really, Really Inconvenient' "There is nothing more inconvenient than being hit by a Category 5 hurricane, by having a wildfire raze your town." Read more |
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Media Outlets Use Study of Healthcare Plan That Is Not Sanders' Medicare for All Bill to Fearmonger Cost of Medicare for All The plan assessed in a new study by the Urban Institute, said Matt Bruenig, "uses hospital reimbursement rates that are 15 percent higher than the rates in the M4A legislation, meaning that its cost estimates are much higher than the actual costs of M4A." Read more |
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'An Ecological Abomination': Trump Moves to Open Largest Protected Forest in US to Logging Industry "This ecologically rich landscape and critical wildlife habitat will be lost forever if industry is allowed to clear-cut our national forest." Read more |
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With Babies in Tow, Mothers With Extinction Rebellion Target Google HQ Over Its Funding of 'Climate Deniers' "Its company motto is 'do the right thing,'" a mother of two said of Google. "The right thing to do could not be more obvious: stop funding climate deniers." Read more |
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WATCH: With Endorsement, Ilhan Omar Says Bernie Sanders Building Movement That Envisions Country 'I Dreamed About' "Sanders is the only candidate that has built a movement and continues to build a movement that transcends gender, ethnicity, religion." Read more |
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Buttigieg Denounced for Spouting 'Pack of Lies' About Medicare for All While Swimming in Insurance Industry Cash "Mayor Pete sounds like he's on the payroll of the Republican National Committee." Read more |
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CNN Host Faces Backlash for Pondering Whether Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar Endorsements Are 'Too Urban' to Help Sanders "Campaign just went from too white to too urban. That's U R B A N for those who couldn't hear the whistle from the back." Read more |
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'An Absolute Joke': Debate Moderators Condemned for Asking About Ellen and George Bush After Completely Ignoring Climate Crisis " CNN thought it was more important to use Ellen hanging out with a war criminal as a jumping off point to ask about bipartisan friendships than ask about the largest existential threat facing humanity." Read more |
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'Huge Moment in the 2020 Race': Ocasio-Cortez to Endorse Bernie Sanders for President "This is a huge moment and Sanders cannot, and should not, be ignored any longer by those who continue to erase him, his candidacy, and his supporters." Read more |
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If Democrats 'Don't Have the Guts' To Battle For-Profit Healthcare Industry, Says Sanders, 'We Should Be Ashamed' "I get a little bit tired," 2020 candidate declared during debate, "of people defending a system which is dysfunctional, which is cruel." Read more |
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'Every Child Deserves to Eat': Sanders and Omar Bill Would Provide Universal Free Public School Lunches in US "In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, no child should be turned away from a meal if they cannot afford it," said Rep. Ilhan Omar. Read more |
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Women Leaders Call On Candidates to Address the #MeTooVoter Ahead of Democratic Debate "Sexual violence is a national problem that deserves a national response." Read more |
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'Arrest and Detain Giuliani Right Now,' Say Critics, After Trump Lawyer Refuses Congressional Subpoena "Oh! I had no idea that law was optional." Read more |
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Human Rights Leaders Arrested at US Capitol Protesting 'Cruel' Trump Plan to Slash Refugee Cap "We are sending a strong message to the administration that the country we want to live in is one where we take care of people who need safety and we are not afraid to be silenced." Read more |
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'Swamp Is Anything But Drained': Report Details 281 Lobbyists in Trump Administration Over First Two Years "The swamp is Trump hiring 281 lobbyists in just a couple years of his administration." Read more |
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'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy': Snowden Condemns US, UK, and Australian Push for 'Backdoor' Into Facebook Messaging Apps "Should they succeed in their quest to undermine encryption, our public infrastructure and private lives will be rendered permanently unsafe." Read more |
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Despite Obstruction by Capitol Police, Progressive Groups Deliver 2.2 Million Petitions to Democrats Still Not Backing Medicare for All "Healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and our members will continue to push for it until we get it over the finish line." Read more |
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WATCH: IfNotNow Demonstrators Confront Rep. Scalise Over GOP's Racism and Anti-Semitism "Donald Trump calls me a disloyal Jew and you say nothing. You stay silent." Read more |
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MSNBC Anchor Chris Hayes Praised for Denouncing 'Path of Least Resistance' Taken by Network Executives "Chris Hayes is modeling exactly where our journalism should be in 2019. Too many outlets bend to the powerful when the very institutions they represent are supposed to operate as a check on that power." Read more |
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After Shell CEO Claims 'We Have No Choice' But to Invest in Fossil Fuels, McKibben Says, 'We Have No Choice But to Try and Stop Them' With "overwhelming evidence that we are on the brink of climate and ecological collapse," executive's comment elicits intense rebuke Read more |
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US State Dept. Under Fire for Using Official Website to Promote Pompeo's "Christian Nationalist Talking Points" "The Department of State looks more like it should be representing the Republic of Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale than an America that respects religious equality under the law." Read more |
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Advocacy Group Calls On Democratic Candidates to Share How They Would Remake Judiciary to Work for All Americans—Not Corporations "While Democrats play by the rules, Republicans are shredding the rule book, and the result is a partisan Supreme Court that works for corporations and the Republican Party and against everyone else." Read more |
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Acting 'On Behalf of Life,' Extinction Rebellion Defies Blanket Ban on Climate Protests in London "They take these actions to protect an establishment that is criminally negligent in its inaction on ecological and climate breakdown. We rebel against a broken system." Read more |
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Testimony of Ex-Trump Aide Exposes Mulvaney Role in Coordinating Giuliani's "Rogue Operation" in Ukraine "The truth will keep coming out. And Trump cannot stop it." Read more |
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As Democrats Head to Debate Stage, Buttigieg Attacks Warren and Sanders—Who Have Outearned Him—for Small-Dollar Donations "This 'pocket change' comment is a good example of how centrist Democrats demobilize the base. It's telling 95 percent of people (those who can't make big donations), 'No, you can't.'" Read more |
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'Too Little, Too Late': Critics Pan Trump Plan to Sanction Turkey "Trump's statement on hitting Turkey with sanctions over the military operation in Syria does not mention the Kurds once." Read more |
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Majority of Democrats in Early Voting States 'Think Donald Trump Belongs in Prison, Not the Oval Office,' Poll Shows The survey found majority of likely 2020 Democratic primary voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina agree that "Trump should not only be impeached, but also imprisoned." Read more |
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'Demand Justice in Her Honor': Outrage After Police Fatally Shoot Atatiana Jefferson in Her Own Home "Black people shouldn't have to live every day with the pain of knowing we are not safe even in the comfort of own homes." Read more |
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No 'Artwash' for Bush's Crimes, Says CodePink in Protest of Exhibit of Former President's Paintings of Veterans in War He Started "Why are we celebrating the guy who took these people to war?" Read more |
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Newest Nobel Economics Laureates Praised for Experimental Research Into Poverty—and Their Work's Real-World Impact The work of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer "has great potential to further improve the lives of the worst-off people around the world," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Read more |
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Citing 'Moral Duty to Take Radical Action,' Over 700 Scientists Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience to Fight Climate Crisis "We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and nonviolent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law." Read more |
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Doctors Demand Trump Close 'Inherently Immoral' Immigrant Detention Centers Ahead of Mass Protest on Capitol Hill "We are here to say that it is not enough to ask to improve the conditions in the detention centers. We must demand that they be closed altogether." Read more |
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In Victory for People's Movement, Ecuador Protests End With Government Capitulation on Fuel Subsidies "We want peace for our brothers and sisters in this country. We don't want more repression." Read more |
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'Our Voices Together Will Transcend Barriers': At 'Powerful' US-Mexico Border Choral Event, Participants Sing The Beatles "Such an important message to the world!" Read more |
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'Stop Funding Ecocide': Extinction Rebellion Protesters Target London Financial District "The city of London is a preeminent nexus of power in the global system that is killing our world." Read more |
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To Tackle Ills of 'Unfettered Capitalism,' Sanders Plan Would Give Workers Seats on Corporate Boards and Reverse Trump Tax Cuts "The establishment tells us there is no alternative to unfettered capitalism, that this is how the system and globalization work and there's no turning back. They are dead wrong." Read more |
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'Vile and Dangerous': Edited Video Showing Trump Gunning Down Media and Political Opponents Shown During Conference at President's Resort "This is not the first time that supporters of the president have promoted violence against the media in a video they apparently find entertaining—but it is far and away the worst." Read more |
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Kurds Strike Deal With Syrian Government to Battle Turkey's Offensive After Trump Orders Evacuation of Remaining US Troops "About 130,000 people have been displaced in Syria... with at least 60 civilian casualties in Syria and 18 dead in Turkey." Read more |
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Sanders Distinguishes Himself From Warren by Noting That She Has Said 'I Am a Capitalist to My Bones' By contrast, "I'm not," Sanders explained. "We need a political revolution." Read more |
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Rescue Operations Underway in Japan After Typhoon Hagibis Kills Dozens and Causes 'Immense Damage' "How many more extreme weather events like this should happen til all governments & corporations act seriously on the #climatebreakdown?" Read more |
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Warren Challenges Facebook's Political Advertising Policy—With Ad That Falsely Claims CEO Zuckerberg Endorsed Trump "Facebook holds incredible power to affect elections and our national debate," said the presidential hopeful. "They've decided to let political figures lie to you." Read more |
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'We Will Not Forget His Cruelty,' Declare Rights Advocates After DHS Chief Kevin McAleenan Resigns "McAleenan has caused tremendous suffering in our communities." Read more |
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'Terrifying and Totally Predictable': Pentagon Confirms US Forces in Syria Came Under Turkish Artillery Fire Noting Turkey's claims that this was a mistake, the U.S. peace group CodePink declared that "this is what happens when a country goes into a war of expansion so callously and rapidly." Read more |
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Yes, Reporting Confirms, Rudy Giuliani a Subject of Criminal Investigation "Man, Rudy Giuliani is bad at crimes." Read more |