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Marco Rubio

Admitting Trump's Actions Are Worthy of Impeachment, Rubio Nonetheless Declines to Support Removing President From Office

Amid China Trade Tensions, Pentagon Eyes Toxic Rare Earths Development in US

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A vast expanse of toxic waste fills the tailings dam on April 21, 2011, frequently whipped up by strong winds dumping mllions of tonnes of radioactive materials toward surounding villages where farmers blame the state-owned giant Baogang Group, China's largest producer of rare earths and a major iron ore miner and steel producer, for poisoning their fields and ruining their livelihoods near Baotou city in Inner Mongolia

Processing of rare earths has unleashed environmental catastrophe in China

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Trump's Use of Emergency Loophole to Export US Bombs to Saudis, Critics Warn, Will Only Intensify World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Yemen

"Every bomb sold to Saudi Arabia is another bomb for Saudi bomber jets to drop...

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Biden Sides With Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo in Backing Coup Effort in Venezuela

Jon Queally, staff writer

Democratic frontrunner characterizes effort to overthrow elected goverment of...

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"If This Isn't an 'Armed Coup,' Then What the Hell Is?" US Denounced for Backing Attempted Overthrow in Venezuela

'The Moment Is Now': Clashes Erupt After US-Backed Guaido Calls for Military Uprising in Venezuela

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry

If You Cannot Trust Saudis With Bone Saw, Says US Lawmaker, 'You Should Not Trust Them With Nuclear Weapons'

Venezuelan Government Bars Guaidó From Office for 15 Years Amid US-Backed Coup Attempt

Rubio's 'Explosion at Germán Dam' Error Exposes Deeper Dishonesty of US Venezuela Policy

Aid trucks burn on Venezuelan-Colombia border, February 23, 2019. Media around the world got it wrong. The Panama Post headline: "Police forces loyal to Maduro burnt trucks with humanitarian aid; The dictatorship's repressive authorities allowed three trucks of humanitarian aid to cross the border, only to set them on fire once they were over the bridge."

US Blamed Venezuelan President for Burning AID Trucks. Wrong.

As Guaidó Returns to Venezuela, Pence Threatens 'Swift Response' If Opposition Leader Arrested

Warning 'Every Option Is On the Table,' Pompeo Stokes Fears of Military Force in Venezuela

As Trump Pushes for Overthrow in Venezuela, Sanders Warns Against Repeating History's Mistake

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez

Warning of US Military Intervention in Venezuela, Cuban Foreign Minister Denounces 'Failed Imperialist Coup'

With Trump Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela, Critics Warn News Outlets Failing US Viewers Once Again

Miguel Díaz-Canel & Nicolás Maduro

Cuba Warns US Moving Special Forces Closer to Venezuela Under Guise of 'Humanitarian Intervention'

Further

To Marco Rubio's Lame Sign of Our Times: Fuck You and Your Fake Fucking Outrage Over People Being Fucking Shot By Fucking Lunatics That You Motherfuckers Keep Allowing to Possess Fucking Firearms

As America grieved more gun carnage and the heroic - yes - journalists at the Capital Gazette proved true to their staunch word that "we're putting out a damn paper" Friday, Marco 'Shameless NRA Toady' Rubio took to social media to denounce, not dead journalists or students or black men, or kids in cages or Nazis in the White House or Putin or trade wars or ecological ruin or our fraying social contract - but the F bomb. An enraged internet replied with stunning unanimity: "Go fuck yourself."

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Jubilee USA Network

Senate Bill Tackles Tax Evasion, Secrecy and Money Laundering

American Sustainable Business Council

Businesses Criticize Sen Rubio Paid Leave Bill as Too Limited and Not Funded Responsibly

Patriotic Millionaires

Rubio Admission on Corporate Tax Cuts "Too Little, Too Late"...

American Federation of Teachers

AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Passage of the GOP Tax Bill

Corporate Accountability

GOP Tax Plan Is Of, By and For the Corporations

Americans for Tax Fairness

Worst Features Of The Trump-Ryan Tax Plan

Views

Mark Weisbrot

What Does the Future Hold for US-Bolivia Ties?

Eugene Robinson

On the Bootlicking Cowardice of Republicans

Kathleen Romig, Kathleen Bryant

Cutting Social Security to Offset Paid Parental Leave Would Weaken Retirement Security

Lucas Koerner

NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela

Manar Waheed, Kate Ruane

With the Right to Boycott Under Attack, Some Members of Congress Are Pushing Back

Ralph Nader

Will Even One Disgusted Republican Mount a Serious Primary Challenge to Trump?

Thom Hartmann

How a Trojan Horse Project to Rewrite Our Constitution Could Actually Happen if Trump Wins in 2020

Michael Arria

Why Are Progressive Democrats Backing an Anti-BDS Bill That Was Introduced at an AIPAC Conference?

Tom Engelhardt

If Donald Trump Is the Symptom... Then What’s the Disease?

Janine Jackson

Big Media Get Big Things Wrong on Venezuela