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'Extremely Disappointing': New Analysis Offers Scathing Critique of Top Democrat's CLEAN Future Act "This framework should really be called the Dirty Future Act. In every way possible, Pallone's proposal fails to address the climate crisis." Read more |
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New Program Set to Fight for 'Electricity Future That Works for People and the Planet' The new effort will focus on utilities' monopolies and reliance on fossil fuels. Read more |
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'Time for Him to Do His Job': Public Urged to Press Chief Justice Roberts to Subpoena Witnesses Amid GOP 'Cover-Up' "Roberts' job is to preside over a fair trial, where relevant witnesses are heard from and jurors actually listen to the evidence. Right now, he's helping Republicans break the rules and cover for Trump. That has to end." Read more |
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'The Facts Are Just the Facts': Sanders Campaign Hits Back After Biden Claims He—Not Bernie—Has Consistently Protected Social Security The former vice president says he advocated for cuts to the safety net program "20 years ago," but his track record shows otherwise. Read more |
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'Investing in Humanity': British Medical Journal Praised for New Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign The journal rolled out a "stellar set of ambitions," said climate group Divest Parliament. Read more |
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'The Rich Have Class Solidarity': Bezos Party Features Billionaires Rubbing Shoulders With Trump Admin Officials, Journalists "This town, man." Read more |
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Snowden Warns Targeting of Greenwald and Assange Shows Governments 'Ready to Stop the Presses—If They Can' "The most essential journalism of every era," says the NSA whistleblower, "is precisely that which a government attempts to silence." Read more |
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'Like a Kleptocracy': Investigation Details How GOP Lawmakers Cashed In on Trump Tax Cuts "It's bad enough that President Trump's and congressional Republicans' GOP tax scam betrayed workers—it's even worse that they're lining their own pockets off it." Read more |
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Leading by 9 in New Iowa Poll, Sanders Says His Campaign Is 'Worst Nightmare' of Trump and Billionaire Class "We got Wall Street nervous. We got the insurance companies nervous. We got the drug companies nervous. We got the fossil fuel industry nervous. We got the military-industrial complex nervous." Read more |
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Medicare for All 'Is What Patients Need': New Harvard Study Shows Even Those With Private Insurance Can't Afford Care "When so many people can't get the care they need even when they have insurance coverage, it says that insurance is not doing what it is supposed to do: ensure that healthcare is affordable when you need it." Read more |
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Trump Told Bolton Ukraine Aid Contingent on Probe Into Democratic Rivals: NYT "There is no pretense left. There are no excuses remaining," said Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). Read more |
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"A Who's-Who" of People Against Progressive Agenda: DNC's Perez Under Fire for Convention Committee Picks Former Congressman Barney Frank, who wrote a 2015 op-ed entitled "Why Progressives Shouldn't Support Bernie," is among those nominated. Read more |
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'Big-Monied Interests Are Getting Very Nervous': Sanders Leads in New Hampshire Poll "They're looking at recent polls," the Democratic candidate said, "and they're saying, 'Oh my God, Sanders can win.'" Read more |
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'The Only One I Didn't Want Her to Pick': In Secret Recording, Trump Admits Fear of Clinton Picking Sanders as VP in 2016 Leaked 2018 audio recording of president was released by legal team of Lev Parnas, close associate of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. "You know, [Sanders] basically says we're getting screwed on trade," said Trump. "And he's right." Read more |
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Pompeo Denounced for 'Insulting and Contemptuous' Statement Lashing Out at NPR's Mary Louise Kelly The secretary of state's statement was framed as "a shameful assault on press freedom." Read more |
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Up Six Points as Buttigieg and Biden Stall, Sanders Takes Commanding Lead in New Iowa Poll The new Times poll showed Sanders with 25 percent of the Iowa vote and 40 percent of support from those under 30 in the state. Read more |
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Rep. Jerry Nadler: Trump a 'Dictator' Whose Behavior 'Has No Analog' in US History The New York Democrat's accusation came a day after he said Trump's behavior "puts even President Nixon to shame." Read more |
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'We Apologize' for Trump's Reckless Aggression, US Peace Advocates Say in Open Letter to Iranian People The letter, from activist group CodePink, comes ahead of peace demonstrations scheduled Saturday in 200 cities around the world. Read more |
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Law Professor: Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations, and Corruption "The Democratic managers, the House managers, have laid out a meticulous case for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress." Read more |
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Outrage as GOP Lawmakers Push Trump to Intensify Attacks on Women With Broadened Global Gag Rule "This proposal by a group of infamously anti-woman, anti-choice Congress members is egregious to say the least." Read more |
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#MarchForLies: Reproductive Justice Advocates Counter Trump's "Dangerous Rhetoric" at Anti-Choice March "We didn't need any more confirmation that the sitting president of the United States is dead-set on doing all he can to end access to safe, legal abortion in this country." Read more |
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In Open Letter to Brazilian Authorities, 40+ Rights Groups Condemn 'Attempt to Intimidate and Retaliate Against' Glenn Greenwald "If these tactics are allowed to stand, it would jeopardize all Brazilians' freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom to participate in democracy." Read more |
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35 Million Under Lockdown in China as Coronavirus Spreads, Illness Confirmed in Chicago There have been two confirmed cases of the disease in the U.S. so far, and a number of further samples are being tested. Read more |
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'Take Her Out': Recording Reveals Trump Demanding Ouster of Yovanovitch Directly to Parnas—Man He Claims Not to Know "Why is POTUS, who has the power to remove ambassadors, conspiring with goons to do so?" Read more |
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'If Truth Doesn't Matter, We're Lost': Watch Rep. Adam Schiff's 9-Minute Closing Argument on Why Senate Must Remove Trump "You know you can't trust this president to do what's right for this country. You can trust he will do what's right for Donald Trump. He'll do it now. He's done it before." Read more |
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'We Have So Much More to Do,' Youth Climate Activists Declare as Global Elite Close Out Davos Forum "It is time to get out of our comfort zones." Read more |
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'Iraq for Iraqis': Hundreds of Thousands Flood Streets of Baghdad to Demand US Military Leave Country "We want to see Iraq with full sovereignty." Read more |
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Indigenous People in Brazil Vow to Defeat Bolsonaro After "Perverse" Attack Claiming Tribes Are Still "Evolving" Into Human Beings The Association of Indigenous Peoples filed a lawsuit against the president after he claimed tribes are "evolving" and vowing to "integrate" them. Read more |
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'Breathtaking Assault on Our Rights': Privacy Advocates Decry London Police Plan to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras "This decision represents an enormous expansion of the surveillance state and a serious threat to civil liberties in the U.K." Read more |
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'Cruelty Is the Point': Trump Takes Aim at Medicaid With Plan That Could Harm Millions "The president's war on healthcare knows no bounds." Read more |
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Ahead of Iowa Caucus, 2020 Candidates Urged to Back Moratorium on Factory Farms "Any agricultural platform that does not adequately address the worsening factory farm crisis we're facing across the country, is half baked and majorly flawed." Read more |
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Come 'Say This to My Face,' Says Ayanna Pressley After Betsy DeVos Compares Being Pro-Choice to Being Pro-Slavery Democratic congresswoman and chair of the House Abortion Access Task Force said she "would welcome the opportunity to educate" the Education Secretary on reproductive rights. And maybe U.S. history of chattel slavery? Read more |
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'More Lies,' Says Sanders as Trump Vows to 'Save' Social Security Just One Day After Threatening Cuts "As a candidate, Trump said he'd protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now he has an obligation to tell the American people: 'I was lying. It was all just a campaign ruse.'" Read more |
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Gun Control Advocates Slam Trump's "Reckless" Decision to Loosen Firearm Exports Regulations "Once again, the Trump administration chose gun industry profits over public safety." Read more |
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Netanyahu to Join Trump Next Week to Announce 'Deal of the Century' Peace Plan Giving Israel 'Everything it Wants' "A lethal diversionary tactic at the expense of Palestinian rights and international law." Read more |
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As Financial Institutions Grow Concerned About Economic Impacts of Climate Crisis, Activists Target Funders of Fossil Fuel Industry As one 350.org volunteer put it, if we don't #StopTheMoneyPipeline that finances climate destruction, "it could blow up the economy." Read more |
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New Report Offers Blueprint for a 'Clean Slate' for Workers to Fight Economic Inequality and Strengthen Labor Unions "Democracy at work should be a right, not a fight." Read more |
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Ancient Viruses Trapped in Glaciers for Thousands of Years Could Be Released By Climate Crisis: Study "We've opened up a Pandora's box with climate change." Read more |
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'He Gave Away the Game': Doctors Condemn Trump Threat to Slash Medicare Funding "We've long suspected he would try to gut Medicare in a second term." Read more |
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Trump to Issue New Rule Restricting Visas for Pregnant Women in Latest Attack on Most Vulnerable "If you think this won't be used to blatantly discriminate against immigrants based on gender and age, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you." Read more |
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'Haters Gonna Hate and Deniers Will Deny': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg Hit Back at Mnuchin "It doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that our remaining 1.5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don't add up." Read more |
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'The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced': Doomsday Clock Now 100 Seconds to Midnight Citing the worsening nuclear threat and inaction on the climate crisis, scientists issue a historic warning about the risk of global catastrophe. Read more |
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Sanders Takes Double-Digit Lead in New Hampshire Poll After 14 Point Jump Since December "Prepare for establishment meltdown." Read more |
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Mocking Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment, 'Foreclosure King' Steve Mnuchin Tells Greta Thunberg to Go Study Economics "Here's what Mnuchin learned from economics studies: he ran a company that booted elderly residents from their homes due to onerous loans and technicalities." Read more |
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South Carolina Democrat Who Endorsed Biden Said She's Switching to Sanders Because He Fights 'For the Least, the Fallen, the Left Behind' In a tweet thanking Dalhi Myers for her endorsement, Sanders wrote, "Together, we will defeat the most dangerous president in modern history." Read more |
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'Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen': Trump Guts Safeguards for US Streams and Wetlands "This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the water we drink." Read more |
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Krystal Ball Explains to CNN That Bernie Sanders Popular 'Precisely Because DC Hates Him' As the corporate and Democratic Party establishment lash out at the progressive 2020 candidate, #ILikeBernie and #IEndorseBernie show Sanders movement's ability to fight back. Read more |
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New Ad Campaign Ties Biden to 'Heartless' GOP Efforts to Cut Social Security "Why did Joe Biden join Republicans to attack benefits for seniors?" Read more |
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To Open Congress to Working People, Georgia Democrat Petitions FEC to Use Campaign Funds for Healthcare "This could help open the field to candidates who live like the majority of Americans." Read more |
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Planet Just Had Costliest Decade for Global Natural Disasters: Insurance Industry Report The Mississippi Basin floods were among the disasters with a massive price tag. Read more |
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Brazil's Greenwald Prosecution Evokes Assange's Continued Imprisonment in UK, Say Advocates "Shame on everyone including many journalists and Trump supporters who tried to defend the indictment of Assange." Read more |
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Humanity Risking 'Global Disaster' as Material Consumption Passes 100 Billion Tons Annually "Governments must urgently adopt circular economy solutions if we want to achieve a high quality of life for close to 10 billion people by mid-century without destabilizing critical planetary processes." Read more |
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Warning of 'Environmental Ruin and With It a Human Tragedy,' Report Details Triple Threat to Coral Reefs These marine ecosystems "are under imminent risk of destruction" because of the human-caused climate crisis, pollution, and overfishing. Read more |
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Advocates Express Fears Logging Industry Behind Disappearance of Mexican Monarch Butterfly Defender Homero Gómez The butterfly sanctuary manager went missing January 13. Read more |
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'An Absolute Red Alert': Snowden Joins Journalists and Rights Advocates Worldwide Rallying to the Side of Glenn Greenwald "It should be clear to anyone—no matter their political persuasion—that the Bolsonaro administration is taking these actions in a purely retaliatory manner in an attempt to criminalize journalism." Read more |
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UN Report on Saudi Prince's Hacking of Bezos's Phone Raises Questions Over Other Potentially Compromised Elites "If the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally hacked Bezos's phone via malicious files sent over text, it seems extremely likely he's hacked heads of state the same way." Read more |
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'Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,' Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage." Read more |
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'Stop This Sale': 11 NGO Leaders at Davos Warn Against Pending Private Equity Takeover of .Org Domain "The security of civil society should not be entrusted to private equity." Read more |
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2020 Dems Called On to Follow Warren in Supporting 'No Big Ag Money Pledge' Supporting the pledge commits candidates to prioritizing "the health of our families, farmers, food chain workers, our planet, and our democracy." Read more |
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CNN Poll Shows Sanders Surging Into First as Biden Continues to Drop—But Network Emphasizes Statistical Tie in Headline " CNN still cannot fathom stating the obvious here: Sanders is leading in their own national poll." Read more |
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After GOP Rejects Measures to Subpoena Witnesses and Evidence, Democrats Decry Impeachment Trial 'Designed to Protect Trump' "What are Republicans afraid of?" asked Sen. Bernie Sanders. Read more |
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#TelltheTruthJoe Trends as Sanders Video Detailing Biden History on Social Security Viewed Nearly 2 Million Times "Let's be honest, Joe," said Sanders. "One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us didn't. But don’t take it from me. Take it from you." Read more |
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Amid Years of Funding Cuts to Public Health, First US Case of China's Coronavirus Detected Public health advocates say state, local, and federal agencies are underprepared to cope with the spread of a new infectious disease. Read more |
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We Risk Living in an 'Empty World' If Assault on Nature Not Stopped, Warns UN Biodiversity Chief "If our support systems are gone, there will be no humans." Read more |
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In Response to Oxfam Inequality Report, Sanders Calls for Global Movement to Counter 'Greed of Billionaire Class' The White House hopeful emphasized the need to bring people across the globe together to work for "a world of economic, social, political and environmental justice." Read more |
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After Spain Declares Climate Emergency, Activists Demand 'Concrete and Immediate' Action "Now it's time to see... if there will really be major changes that take us away from the catastrophic path we find ourselves on." Read more |
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'Critical Moment' as Two Key Architects of CIA Torture Program Testify Under Oath in Guantanamo Bay "Torture is never justified and anyone who uses it must be held to account." Read more |
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'A Fact-Free Sham Trial Perpetrated in the Dead of Night': McConnell's Trump Cover-Up in Senate Begins "If the president is so confident in his case, if Leader McConnell is so confident the president did nothing wrong, why don't they want the case to be presented in broad daylight?" Read more |
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While Establishment Erupts Over Anti-Corruption Expert Pointing Out Biden's Troubling Record, Progressives Say: Look at the Troubling Record "Here's the thing: nominating a candidate like Biden will make it far more difficult to defeat Trump." Read more |
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If Democrats Want to Honor Legacy of Dr. King, Says Ocasio-Cortez, "We Have to Be Dangerous Too" Congresswoman from New York said Martin Luther King Jr. would disagree with establishment Democrats who believe "we can capitalism our way out of poverty." Read more |
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Earth Defenders March on Davos as Global Financial Elite Targeted for Funding Climate Destruction "The banks, insurers, and pension funds here at Davos are culpable for the climate emergency." Read more |
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'We Will Not Be Intimidated': Journalist Glenn Greenwald Defiant After Being Charged With Cybercrimes By Right-Wing Bolsonaro Brazilian Government "This is despicable, dangerous, and a crime against journalism." Read more |
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'Inexcusable': Hillary Clinton, Who Lost to Trump in 2016, Won't Commit to Helping Bernie Sanders Win in 2020 Former secretary of state claims "nobody likes" Vermont senator, currently a leading presidential Democratic candidate and the most popular elected politician in the country. Read more |
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'Act as if You Loved Your Children Above All Else': Greta Thunberg Demands Davos Elite Immediately Halt All Fossil Fuel Investments "I've been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do, but don't worry—it's fine—I've done this before and I can assure you: it doesn't lead to anything." Read more |
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Gun Control Advocates Counter Pro-Gun Richmond Rally, Lobbying for Regulation and Calling for Nonviolence "We're advocating today, and everyday, honoring Martin Luther King's legacy with actions that would have been impossible if not for his dedication to justice and nonviolent protest." Read more |
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In Historic Shift, Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It's Medicare for All "Major changes are needed," declares the 159,000-member American College of Physicians, "to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little." Read more |
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'Welp, Glad That's Settled:' Global Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good The majority also said they believe they won't be better off five years from now. Read more |
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'Sit This One Out': FBI Slammed for Social Media Shoutout to Martin Luther King Jr. "FBI, translated: Of all the people we have wiretapped, blackmailed, and tried to drive to their deaths through suicide, there are none we think more highly of than Dr. King." Read more |
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'Love Letter to Capitalism and War': Progressive Scorn Follows New York Times Endorsement The newspaper's endorsement of both Warren and Klobuchar, said one critic, reveals "so much about the liberal reaction to a resurgent left, a reaction that holds Trump as an aberration and polite, well-mannered centrism as the greatest virtue." Read more |
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'Global Precedent' Set as UN Rules Climate Refugees Cannot Be Sent Back to Life-Threatening Conditions Advocates praised the ruling as an "excellent step forward in refugee rights." Read more |
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Countering Annual Whitewash of His Legacy, Progressives Remember the 'Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist' Martin Luther King Jr. King "saw racial injustice, economic injustice, and war as three of the world's great evils." Read more |
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Blaming 'Flawed and Sexist' Capitalist System, Oxfam Report Finds 2,153 Billionaires Wealthier Than 4.6 Billion of World's Poorest "Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Has Been Getting It Right for 40 Years. Now, Says His Movement: 'We Are Going to Win' "We've never ever in our lifetimes had a true champion of social, economic, and climate justice this close to the White House." Read more |
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Because 'I Can Feel Bernie Beating Trump,' Pramila Jayapal Endorses Sanders for President The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus "has led the fight against Trump's racism, sexism and xenophobia," Sanders said responding to the news. "Together, we will defeat Trump and build a working class movement and transform this country so it works for all." Read more |
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A 2020 Reminder: 55% of US Women Between 18 and 54 Would Rather Live Under Socialism Than Capitalism Not raving Marxists clamoring for state-run economy, evidence shows four in 10 Americans overall would rather live in country that provides "universal health care, tuition-free education, and a decent day's wage for a decent day's work." Read more |
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'Naked, Unapologetic and Insidious' Corruption: Democrats Respond to Trump's Official Statement on Impeachment Charges "Though the President describes this conduct as perfect," said the House Managers assigned to prosecute the Senate trial, "the Founders had a different word for it: impeachable." Read more |
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'The Facts Are Very Clear': Sanders Team Hits Back After Biden Claims Social Security Video Was 'Doctored' "Biden not only pushed to cut Social Security—he is on tape proudly bragging about it on multiple occasions," said Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir in response to accusations by the former vice president. Read more |
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'This Is Why No One Trusts the Media': MSNBC Slammed for Featuring 'Body Language Expert' Who Calls Sanders a Liar While the Sanders campaign demanded an apology from the network, critics of Joy Ann Reid's morning show said the segment was "fraudulent garbage" and a "disgrace." Read more |
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'The Government Can't Airbrush History': National Archives Denounced for Blurring Out Anti-Trump Signs in Women's March Photos "It is the job of the National Archives to document history, not alter it to serve the president's ego." Read more |
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'Our Planet Is Seriously Burning and the Adults Keep Letting Us Down': Ninth Circuit Throws Out Youth Climate Case "Seeking to quash this suit, the government bluntly insists that it has the absolute and unreviewable power to destroy the Nation," wrote Judge Josephine Staton in a scathing dissent opinion. "My colleagues throw up their hands, concluding that this case presents nothing fit for the Judiciary." Read more |
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'Pete Takes Money From Fossil Fuel Billionaires': Climate Activists Disrupt Buttigieg Rally in New Hampshire "We are really concerned about candidates who have taken money from fossil-fuel executives. So that includes Joe Biden as well as Pete Buttigieg." Read more |
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"Let's Be Clear About Who Is Rigging What": Bernie Sanders Denounces Trump Effort to Divide Democrats 2020 candidate says only reason for impeachment trial is president's effort to "use the power of the federal government for his own political benefit." Read more |
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Biden Accidentally Makes Case for Medicare for All by Admitting Employers Can Take Away Your Insurance—Even If You Like It "No you don't have the choice, but you had the choice to — that's why — I'm not saying, I said, if you like your plan, you can keep it, assuming — I should add the obvious — if your employer doesn't take it away from you. OK?" Read more |
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For Abuse of Office and Covering for Trump, Watchdog Group Files Formal DOJ Complaint Against AG William Barr "The attorney general has acted in biased ways and violated Justice Department norms, standards, and rules to protect President Trump at the expense of fulfilling his responsibilities to provide fair and impartial administration of justice." Read more |
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IMF Head Gives 'Stark Message' of Looming Inequality-Fueled Global Financial Disaster Further fueling the potential threat are "climate-related shocks." Read more |
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Trump's Racist Demagoguery Only Works, Says Sanders, Because Too Many Americans Feel Establishment Has 'Failed Them' "Bernie Sanders teaches Demagoguery and Fascism 101 to a very skeptical New York Times editorial board." Read more |
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Millions Expected to Join Global Women's March to 'Act as a Catalyst for Political and Social Change' "Together, we will inspire change and launch women and their allies into a new decade of activism." Read more |
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'Let Her In': Outrage Swirls After Six-Year-Old Girl With Downs Syndrome and Heart Condition Turned Away at US Border "Every child has a right to safety, protection, and future." Read more |
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Canada's Top Court Rejects BC Bid to Halt Trans Mountain Tar Sands Project "We are at a pivotal moment in human history, and we can do better than banking on a future that continues to rely on fossil fuels." Read more |
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'Cruel to Its Core': 15 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over Effort to Strip Food Assistance From Nation's Poor The new rules threaten to strip SNAP benefits away from nearly 700,000 Americans. Read more |