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'Historic' Verdict as Jury Orders Monsanto to Pay Record $2 Billion to Couple in Roundup Cancer Trial "We've been fighting cancer for nine years. It was caused by Roundup. We can't do the things we used to do and we really resent Monsanto for that." Read more |
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'Disturbing': Trump Reportedly Reviewed Bolton Plan to Threaten Iran by Sending 120,000 Troops to Middle East "If you are worried about a new war in the Middle East, you are in good company. In fact, you are probably not worried enough." Read more |
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To Force 'Congress to Do Its Job,' Capitol Hill Sit-In to Demand Immediate Impeachment Inquiry for Trump "This really requires the American public to lead...we can't expect that anyone is coming to save us." Read more |
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Cozy Visit With Far-Right Autocrat Denounced as Trump Praises "Tremendous Job" of Hungary's Viktor Orban "Donald Trump is giving tacit approval for his racist, misogynist, 'soft fascism,'" says Sen. Markey Read more |
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So-Called "News Division" at Fox Has Not Had One Misinformation-Free Day So Far This Year: Study "There wasn't a single day in which these 'news' shows didn't air misinformation or lies. Not one day." Read more |
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Denouncing DeVos, Warren Vows to Appoint Education Secretary With 'Real Teaching Experience,' Not Conflicts of Interest "Betsy DeVos is a terrible secretary of education. But that shouldn't be any surprise. She doesn't really believe in public education." Read more |
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What Did Deepest Submarine Dive in History Find in Mariana Trench? Plastic Garbage "Our waste is finding its way into the planet's most remote environments." Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders Join Sold-Out Final Stop of Sunrise Movement's Road to a Green New Deal Tour "Making certain that future generations have a planet that is healthy and habitable is a moral imperative," says Sanders Read more |
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Fears for Roe V. Wade After Supreme Court Issues Decision Overruling a 40-Year Precedent "Today's decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the Court will overrule next," wrote Justice Breyer in dissent Read more |
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San Francisco Poised to Make History With Law Banning Use of Facial Recognition Technology "The harms of unchecked surveillance are very real and they often impact immigrant and communities of color disproportionately." Read more |
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Liz Cheney and Right-Wing Outrage Machine Lie About Rashida Tlaib's Comments. Corporate Media—and Trump—Do the Rest "This is another transparent attempt to sow division between minority communities and distract from your own criminal behavior by smearing a Muslim woman." Read more |
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World 'Not on Track" to Curb Global Warming to 1.5°C Threshold: UN Chief "The paradox is that as things are getting worse on the ground, political will seems to be fading." Read more |
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Indigenous Australians File Landmark Human Rights Claim With UN Over Government's Inaction on Climate Crisis "The Torres Strait Islands have been settled for millennia, but if the Australian government continues on its present course they may not last the century." Read more |
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'We Don't Know a Planet Like This': CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years "How is this not breaking news on all channels all over the world?" Read more |
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Chelsea Manning Warns the Trump Administration 'Clearly Wants to Go After Journalists' "Whenever a journalist makes a misstep, I think that they're put on notice now that the FBI and the Department of Justice are going to go after them, on the administration's behalf." Read more |
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'For the Love of Our Children': Mothers Rise Up in Global March for Climate Action "We are inspired by the young people who are striking for climate action, but we can't leave it to our children to fix the mess that past generations have created." Read more |
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Juan Guaidó Makes Open Plea for US Military 'Coordination' in Venezuela After Failed Coup Attempt Guaidó's call came as Trump administration officials continue to suggest military intervention in Venezuela is a possibility Read more |
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Lawsuit by 44 States Accuses Pharma Giants of 'Multi-Year Conspiracy' to Hike Drug Prices by Over 1,000% "We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people." Read more |
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'Stop Arming Israel, Stop Bombing Gaza': Thousands March in London Demanding Justice for Palestinians "Palestine has the right to exist but sadly that is a right that is increasingly threatened. Palestinians should be able to live free from ever expanding settlements on stolen land." Read more |
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Staffers for Top Democrats Reportedly Attended 'Luxury' Retreat Hosted by Lobbyists Fighting Medicare for All "This event wasn't about fixing the healthcare system. It was about protecting the healthcare industry, no matter the cost to patients, families, workers, or employers." Read more |
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'One More Reason to Refuse to Give Defense Department $733 Billion' as Pentagon Shifts Funds to Trump Border Wall "Obviously they don't need it because they keep diverting billions, without congressional authorization, to Trump's vanity wall," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal Read more |
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'If Mnuchin Doesn't Comply, Throw Him in Jail': House Democrats Subpoena Trump Tax Returns "The American people deserve the truth about Trump's deeply concerning conflicts of interest and his profiting from the presidency." Read more |
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'The President's Obstruction Continues': White House Reportedly Asked Key Witness to Say Trump Didn't Obstruct Justice "The White House knows Trump hasn't been 'totally exonerated.' They asked McGahn to lie because they know there's overwhelming evidence of obstruction." Read more |
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In Show of 'Breathtaking Cruelty,' Trump White House Unveils Plan That Would Evict Tens of Thousands of Children From Public Housing "Another despicable action by the Trump administration to disrupt communities and separate families." Read more |
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'Victory': Saudi Ship Leaves Port Without French Weapons France is among the Western countries fueling the Saudi-led coalition's bombing of Yemen Read more |
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187 Countries Just Took 'Crucial' Step to Stop Rich Nations From Treating Global South as Dumping Ground for Plastic Waste "Today's decision demonstrates that countries are finally catching up with the urgency and magnitude of the plastic pollution issue." Read more |
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Sanders Says Biden's "Middle Ground" Approach to Climate Crisis Would "Doom Future Generations" The Vermont senator and 2020 presidential candidate said the U.S. must commit to "fully transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels" Read more |
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After Applause for Ireland's Climate Emergency Declaration, Climate Campaigners Say: 'Now Act' "Declaring an emergency means absolutely nothing unless there is action to back it up. That means the government having to do things they don't want to do." Read more |
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Biden's Middle-of-the-Road Climate Plan Condemned as "Stunningly Un-Ambitious" and a "Death Sentence for Livable Planet" "A 'middle ground' policy that's supportive of more fossil fuel development is a death sentence for our generation and the millions of people on the frontlines of the climate crisis," said co-founder of the Sunrise Movement Read more |
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'Huge Moment for Justice': Landmark Verdict as UK Jury Acquits Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Who Argued Necessity Defense "Ordinary people, unlike the judiciary, are able to see the broader picture." Read more |
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If 'Constitutional Crisis' Is Here, Say Progressives, Democrats Must 'Act Like It' and Impeach Trump "It is incoherent to argue that Trump constitutes an existential threat to the Constitution, and that Congress should wait to use the Constitution's primary defense against such a threat." Read more |
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To Galvanize Graduates in US, 'Class of 0000' Campaign Demands Zero Emissions and Zero Excuses From Lawmakers "Our diplomas may say Class of 2019, but marked in history, we are the Class of Zero. Zero emissions. Zero excuses. Zero time to waste." Read more |
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Chelsea Manning Released From Jail, But Fresh Subpoena Means 'She May Have Just Over a Week of Freedom' "Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony," said Manning's legal team Read more |
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Trump Nominates 'Embodiment of the Military-Industrial Complex' Patrick Shanahan to Lead Pentagon Shanahan worked at Boeing, one of the world's largest defense contractors, for more than 30 years before joining the Trump administration Read more |
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200+ Groups Demand Senate Kill Bill That Would Pour 'Fuel on Fire of Climate Crisis' "At a time when we should be leading the global mission to rapidly quit fossil fuels, the notion of seeking new and deeper fossil fuel codependence between America and Europe is patently absurd." Read more |
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'Alexa, Stop Spying on My Kids': FTC Complaint Charges Amazon's Echo Dot Violates Child Privacy Law "Amazon markets Echo Dot Kids as a device to educate and entertain kids, but the real purpose is to amass a treasure trove of sensitive data that it refuses to relinquish even when directed to by parents." Read more |
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'A Hellfire Missile With F***ing Swords Attached to It': Pentagon Unveils New Weapon " This knife missile seems like something ACME Corporation would design to kill Road Runner." Read more |
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'We Are in a Constitutional Crisis': Groups Deliver 10 Million Petitions to Congress Demanding Trump Impeachment "On behalf of a growing movement of 10 million, we ask Democratic leadership to be bold in standing up for democracy." Read more |
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Silence From Press Industry Group As Trump Administration Purges White House Reporters "Now, the White House has a structure in place that could allow it to remove whoever it wishes to remove." Read more |
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'Dangerous and Appalling': US Defenders of Venezuelan Embassy Demand Secret Service End Illegal Water and Power Shutoff What is happening at the embassy, said one activist, is "a microcosm of the what is taking place in Venezuela as the U.S. continues to try and orchestrate a coup." Read more |
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Citing 'Unprecedented' Power of Zuckerberg, Facebook Co-Founder Says: 'Time to Break It Up' Chris Hughes, the CEO's former college roommate and colleague, says powerful company's vast monopoly must be destroyed Read more |
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To Tackle Greed of Wall Street 'Loan Sharks,' Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders Plan Would Cap Outrageous Credit Card Rates "Today's loan sharks wear expensive suits and work on Wall Street, where they make hundreds of millions of dollars in total compensation by charging sky-high fees." Read more |
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New Study Suggests Late-Stage Capitalism Stripping Humanity of Simple Joy: Frequent Sex "Juggling childcare, work and responsibilities to parents who are getting older," says lead researcher is factor behind many adults having less sex than previous generations Read more |
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As Sanders Calls for Nationwide Fracking Ban, Inslee Signs Bill to Prohibit Destructive Drilling Practice in Washington "This is great news, but as a presidential candidate, in order to show real national leadership on climate and clean energy, Inslee must endorse a ban on fracking across the country." Read more |
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'Unhinged, Insensitive, and Lying': Trump Uses Bar Graph to Spread Falsehood About Puerto Rico Hurricane Aid "His racism knows no boundaries," said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Read more |
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'Historical Step': Bernie Sanders's 2020 Campaign Staffers Ratify Union Contract "Our overall campaign will be much stronger with the protections we were able to win for the workers." Read more |
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Pledging to Treat Opioid Epidemic 'Like the Public Health Crisis That It Is,' Warren Unveils CARE Act "This crisis has been driven by greed, pure and simple. It's about money and power in America — who has it, and who doesn't." Read more |
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New York State Senate Passes Bill to Make Trump's Tax Returns Available to Congress "We must ensure that Congress can't be blocked in their attempts to hold even the highest elected officials in the land accountable to the American people." Read more |
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'Bombshell' Report: Internal Memos Show Trump EPA Ignored Agency Scientists' Calls to Ban Asbestos "If Administrator Wheeler and the Trump administration won't act, then Congress must." Read more |
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#CaravanToCanada: Facing Insulin Prices 10X Higher in US, Group Heads Across Border "We should not have to drive five hours to Canada to be able to afford #insulin!" Read more |
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With Protest Outside Big-Dollar Fundraiser, Healthcare Union Members Call on Biden to Back Their Fight Against Kaiser "Joe Biden's statements about mental health will ring hollow if he can't make them directly to giant HMOs like Kaiser." Read more |
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'Genuinely Really Scared for Women and Girls': Busy Philipps Shares Personal Abortion Story In Viral Video "I can not sit idly by while women's rights are stripped away." Read more |
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As Trump Goes 'Full Nixon,' Democrats Vote to Hold Attorney General Barr in Contempt "If allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction means the end of congressional oversight." Read more |
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US Public Among the Most Likely in the World to Deny Climate Crisis, Global Survey Shows "The Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry have put billions of dollars into lying to the American public...It's clearly working." Read more |
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March For Our Lives Demands End to 'Generation Lockdown' Following Latest School Shooting "We must save lives. We must act now." Read more |
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Healthy MOMMIES Act Introduced to Tackle 'Unconscionable' US Maternal Mortality Crisis The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. Cory Booker, follows a CDC report revealing that black and Native American women are three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes Read more |
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Iran Urges Diplomacy as Trump White House Ramps Up 'Wildly Reckless' Threats of War "Iran is acting on its warnings that it cannot uphold the agreement unilaterally. As such, Trump has initiated a chain reaction that will make America and the world less safe." Read more |
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It 'Was Sport' to Dodge Taxes, Admits Trump, After NYT Details Epic Business Failures "As these records make clear, Trump was perhaps the worst businessman in the world. His entire campaign was a lie." Read more |
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'This Kind of Obstruction Is Dangerous': Ahead of Barr Contempt Vote, DOJ Threatens Executive Privilege to Block Full Mueller Report "The department's decision reflects President Trump's blanket defiance of Congress's constitutionally mandated duties," said House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler Read more |
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Protesting 'Poverty Wages' and Exploitation, Uber and Lyft Drivers Go on Strike Across the Globe "The gig economy is all about exploiting workers by taking away our rights. It has to stop." Read more |
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Sanders Campaign Unveils 'Gold-Standard' Blueprint for Combating Sexual Harassment and Discrimination on 2020 Campaign "Campaigns should live their values and align their campaign's goals for a better economy and society with their own campaign culture and workplace." Read more |
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'No One is Taking Any Chances': US Mosques Hold Active Shooter Drills Ahead of Ramadan "We want to do everything we can after putting our trust in Allah that we take the means necessary for people's safety as well." Read more |
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'We Will Fight This': Rights Advocates Warn Georgia's Six-Week Abortion Ban Poses National Threat "This is actually something that's happening in state after state with a very specific purpose of overturning Roe v. Wade. " Read more |
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Insects Are 'Glue in Nature' and Must Be Rescued to Save Humanity, Says Top Scientist Rapidly falling insect populations, said Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, "will make it even more difficult than today to get enough food for the human population of the planet, to get good health and freshwater for everybody." Read more |
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Pompeo Cheers 'Opportunity' in Arctic From Climate Change as America Blocks Resolution Language "The latest data shows that after a month of record temperatures in the Bering Sea, ocean ice in the Arctic is at an all-time record low for the date, crushing the record set … last April." Read more |
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'They Underestimate Me at Their Own Peril': Sanders Says GOP Will Regret Hoping for His Nomination in 2020 "There's a long history of the establishment and GOP underestimating Bernie Sanders," said Sanders speechwriter David Sirota Read more |
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'Big Attack on Working People': Trump Moves to Redefine Poverty in Order to Slash Social Programs and Services for Millions "A novel way to take healthcare, etc., away from people AND make it look like there are fewer poor people." Read more |
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'Presidential Endorsement of Murder': Trump Pardon of US Soldier Who Tortured, Killed Iraqi Prisoner Spurs Outrage "This pardon from Trump is just another part of his white supremacy tour." Read more |
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New Report Exposes 'Widespread Failure' of US Police to Protect and Serve Transgender People "Police departments must evolve to meet the needs of the communities they have sworn to serve." Read more |
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Though It 'May Seem Nuts,' Experts Say Trump Endorsement of Two-Year Extension of His Term Should Not Be Ignored "Even if this is just another absurd trial balloon, it is the latest sign that the president may have little intention of leaving office no matter the circumstances." Read more |
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Rebuking DCCC Blacklist, Progressive Groups Endorse Campaign to Oust 'Anti-Choice, Anti-LGBTQ' Democrat "Dan Lipinski is dangerously out of touch, and has time and time again refused to stand up for basic values like reproductive freedom, LGBTQ equality, and economic opportunity for every family." Read more |
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Mnuchin Refusal to Hand Over Trump Tax Returns Called 'Blatant Affront to Rule of Law' "The American people can and will hold Donald Trump and the corrupt officials in his administration accountable—no one, not even the president, is above the law." Read more |
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"The Pact for a Green New Deal": Visionary Roadmap From Canadian Coalition Launched "A #GreenNewDeal is not a radical vision. It's a rational one. It works for everyone, not just big corporations and the fossil fuel industry." Read more |
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Treating Gun Violence 'As the Epidemic That It Is,' Cory Booker Wins Praise for Sweeping Gun Control Plan "If you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to own a gun," the 2020 presidential candidate said Read more |
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400+ Former Federal Prosecutors: Trump Would Face Obstruction Charges If He Weren't President "The Mueller report describes several acts that satisfy all of the elements for an obstruction charge." Read more |
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Ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince Makes a Comeback Under Trump Selling Mercenary Armies Around the World "Erik Prince travels the world almost weekly going to capitals, meeting with countries’ leaders, selling a mercenary concept, a paramilitary arm." Read more |
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'We Want Action': Group Disrupts Pa. Statehouse in Bid to End Legalized Bribery "As long as money is speech and bribery is legal, the voice of the people will not be heard." Read more |
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Democrats Demand White House Hand Over Documents on Trump's "Abominable" Hurricane Response in Puerto Rico House Democrats also requested records and communications from FEMA "regarding mass graves found in Puerto Rico." Read more |
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Critics Condemn 'Double Dehumanization' of Palestinians by Corporate Media as Headlines Focus on Israeli Casualties "Palestinian deaths are primarily viewed as 'retaliation' by international media outlets, while Israeli deaths would never receive that kind coverage." Read more |
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Pompeo, in Finland, Calls China Claims to Arctic 'Lawlessness' Pompeo likened the situation to the South China Sea: "fraught with militarization and competing territorial claims." Read more |
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#NotInvisible: Groundbreaking Legislation Tackles Epidemic of Violence Against Indigenous Women "Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act," said Rep. Deb Haaland Read more |
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'Equity-Centric' Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Introduced by Illinois Dems The legislation would expunge roughly 800,000 cannabis-related convictions and create a $20 million loan program for people with expunged records to get involved in the licensed industry Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Takes on Monsanto, Big Ag Monopolies With Plan to 'Revitalize Rural America' "What you want, and what I want, are more family farms in America, not more factory farms." Read more |
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'Ominous' UN Report Warns Human Activity Has Pushed One Million Plant and Animal Species to Brink of Extinction "Nature is collapsing around us and it's a real wake-up call to humanity." Read more |
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'Itching for a War,' Bolton Threatens Iran With 'Unrelenting Force' as US Bombers Deployed to Middle East "The latest indication that this administration is running full speed directly into a major war with Iran." Read more |
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Trump Says It Directly: "Mueller Should Not Testify" "No redos for the Dems!" the president bizarrely declared in a tweet Read more |
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Biden 'A Good Friend of Mine,' Says Sanders, But Not Much 'Question About Who's More Progressive' "I'm not here to attack Joe," said Sanders when asked about the former vice president's claim, but indicated their records speak for themselves Read more |
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Despite International Law Which Would Make It Illegal, Pompeo Claims US Attack on Venezuela "Would Be Lawful" "Attacking [Venezuela] for any reason," warned one legal expert, "would violate the most fundamental of all international law." Read more |
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In Venezuela, Trump Administration Content to Support a Military Coup But Not Nation's Refugees "What this administration has demonstrated again and again over the last several years is that crises and vulnerability … have not been the factors that have moved them." Read more |
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Landmark UN Report to Show 'Transformational Change' Urgently Needed to Save Humanity and Natural World From Nightmarish Future "Anyone who denies that we are in a human-induced extinction crisis is either lying or not paying attention." Read more |
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Biden Chided for Calling Trump a GOP 'Aberration' as Opposed to Symptom of Party's Disease "There aren't many views I think should be outright disqualifying for a potential nominee, but this is definitely one of them." Read more |
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Back in Iowa, Sanders Says Big Ag's Stranglehold a Key Part of 'Major Crisis' Facing Rural America With a major speech on Sunday, 2020 candidate will set forth policy vision to save small farmers and rural communities Read more |
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TransCanada Can Change Its Name, Say Opponents, But Keystone XL Will Never See 'The Light of Day' "They can change their name, but they can't hide from the power of our movement that has successfully blocked Keystone XL for a decade." Read more |
