The Intercept IT’S HARD TO imagine things going much worse for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2019. As he preps for the election he has long hoped will make him the majority leader, his prized recruits across the country have spurned him. In Texas,...
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Rashida Tlaib’s family disappointed but not surprised by Israeli ban
The Middle East Eye In the yard of her home in the central occupied West Bank, built in 1976, 85-year-old Muftiya sat wearing a traditional embroidered Palestinian thobe, drinking coffee with her son Bassam and discussing plans for a much-awaited visit by her...
Media Companies Are (Still) Failing When It Comes to Diversity
The Nation The media deathwatch never stops. Even while I was in Miami at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention over the weekend, discussing the future of our business, the news came that Pacific Standard—a 10-year-old California-based...
Why Protesting Straight Pride Won’t Help Anyone: A Materialist Analysis
The Ghion Journal There is a proposed Straight Pride Parade planned for the end of August in Boston. Rather than see this as a sign that they’re actually winning the culture wars, or as an unusual opportunity to organize, or even as something worthy of little more...
‘You don’t have any rights’: CBP agents interrogate US citizen and seize his phone after Venezuela solidarity trip
The Grayzone A US citizen has told The Grayzone that the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service detained him on his way home from Venezuela and violated his privacy. Sergio Lazo Torrez, a 31 year-old Nicaraguan-American, said the CBP forced him to...
We Must Change Land Use to Save Humanity
The Real News Network DHARNA NOOR: The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading climate science body, just wrapped up discussions in Geneva, Switzerland on a new special report on Climate Change and Land. And honestly, it’s...
Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and Finally Ban the Bomb
CounterPunch August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Now, with the US decision to...
Emergency Doctor to Trump: You Are Wrong, Mental Illness Is Not to Blame for Gun Violence Epidemic
Democracy Now! President Trump went to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, where he was met by hundreds of protesters condemning his presence after the mass shootings over the weekend, which killed at least 32 people. Prior to his visits, Trump hinted at the...
Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
Truthdig When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week, commentators were asking why. According to official data, the economy was rebounding, unemployment was below 4% and gross domestic product growth was above 3%. If anything, by the Fed’s own reasoning, it...
NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
FAIR The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration’s Orwellian propaganda outfit...