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The Intercept DEAR MEMBERS OF THE DNC: Your meeting in San Francisco this weekend takes place against a backdrop that is literally on fire. You are gathering one month after the hottest month ever recorded in human history. You are meeting on the same week...
Middle East Eye With the grief came a call for action. As more than 100 people gathered at a community centre north of Detroit to mourn the death of a Michigan man who died after he was deported to Iraq, advocates and officials vowed to fight back against...
The Nation About 25 years ago, I asked Paul Begala, then an adviser to Bill Clinton, how the Democrats failed to pass a health care bill when they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. Begala identified the party’s fatal mistake as follows (I...
The Ghion Journal The story of how America became a global superpower is one in which a group of ambitious and egotistical men rationalized the implementation of a governing model that would lead to massive death and suffering. The main forerunner of this drive to...
The Grayzone Venezuela has been reeling for years from the effects of a suffocating blockade by the United States. This August 5, US President Donald Trump tightened the noose when he declared a total economic embargo of the country. Hundreds of thousands of...
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. After canceling hundreds of flights on Monday and Tuesday, the Hong Kong airport, one of the world’s busiest, has been returned to normal, more or less. Protesters...
CounterPunch As a college student, after reading Lord of the Flies for the second time (I’d first read it as a young teenager), I asked the professor in my philosophy of literature class if he thought humans were inherently evil. He responded by asking if I...
Democracy Now! Questions are mounting surrounding accused serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide in his New York jail cell over the weekend. Epstein was found dead in his jail cell on Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Correctional Center,...
Truthdig On April 4, 1968, the night Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death, Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for the presidency, climbed up on a flatbed truck at a rally in an African American section of Indianapolis. “Do they know about Martin Luther King?” he asked...
FAIR Bernie Sanders has taken to calling out corporate media for their anti-progressive bias, and their feathers have gotten quite ruffled. In a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire, Sanders told the crowd: We have pointed out over and over again...