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The Intercept THE DECISION BY Pacific Gas & Electric to declare bankruptcy in January did not prevent the utility giant from continuing to spend big on political influence in California’s Statehouse. The investor-owned utility’s transmission lines...

Middle East Eye On Sunday night, Iraqi security forces fired tear gas canisters and live ammunition at hundreds of protesters who were attempting to set fire to the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Karbala. Witnesses said protesters scaled the walls surrounding...

The Nation As the impeachment inquiry continues, important political battles continue to play out on other terrain. There’s a lot of Signal out there at the moment. On the immigration front, Trump keeps throwing red meat to his base, and the lower courts keep putting...

The Ghion Journal If you’ve paid any attention whatsoever to the national political discourse in the last week, you undoubtedly know at least one thing: Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard do not like one another. The reasons for this could theoretically stretch...

The Grayzone American taxpayers are now paying the salaries and expenses of dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures who have created a “shadow government” inside Venezuela and abroad. On October 8, USAID signed a bilateral agreement with the faction of the Venezuelan...

The Real News Network MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Good to have you all with us today. Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has been grilled by the House Financial Services Committee pretty intensely. ALEXANDRIA...

CounterPunch With Bernie Sanders the people’s choice for winner of the Democratic primary in terms of political organizing and campaign contributions, the powers-that-be in the DNC are putting out a call for establishment figures like Hillary...

Democracy Now! In a Democracy Now! special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States. California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian disaster, with growing encampments in Los Angeles...

Truthdig There are just 15 vaquita porpoises left in the Gulf of California, and in just a few months, that number could plummet to zero. The earth’s most endangered whale has become a victim not only of the usual environmental suspects, but, due to the fact that its...

FAIR It’s all kicking off everywhere in 2019. Haitians are revolting against a corrupt political system and their President Jovenel Moïse, who many see as a kleptocratic US puppet. In Ecuador, huge public manifestations managed to force President...