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The Intercept ON WEDNESDAY, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asking “what steps ICE has taken to document and justify the use of segregation.” The letter was spurred...

Middle East Eye Turkish military and intelligence forces have killed the alleged plotters behind the assassination of diplomat Osman Kose, who was shot dead in a restaurant in Iraq’s Erbil last week, an official has confirmed to Middle East Eye. Intelligence...

The Nation Al Franken is a walking ghost. Though politically dead, the former Minnesota senator now haunts the Democratic Party with his claim that he was pushed out of office without due process. Franken resigned from the Senate in December 2017, after eight women...

The Ghion Journal Remember when Bill Clinton ran as an outsider and vowed to restore hope? Remember when Barack Obama campaigned against the establishment and promised “hope and change”? Remember when George W. Bush professed to be a “compassionate conservative?...

The Grayzone Last year’s failed coup in Nicaragua erupted when student protests against social security reforms quickly turned into an armed attempt to bring down the government of Daniel Ortega. The regime-change attempt was a battle for people’s minds as...

The Real News Network ERIC GARNER I told you the last time. Please just leave me alone. NYPD OFFICERS [inaudible] ERIC GARNER Take – left what? I didn’t sell anything. BYSTANDER You tell him fam. ERIC GARNER I did nothing. We sitting here the...

Counterpunch Throughout the last century, socialists have faced an uphill battle within the United States. Unlike other similarly high-income countries, the U.S. has largely remained a bastion of deeply individualist attitudes and unregulated capitalist policies. Yet,...

Democracy Now! Close to 100,000 Puerto Ricans took to the streets Wednesday chanting “Ricky Renuncia!” as they called for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló, following the leak by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism of hundreds of misogynistic,...

Truthdig The U.S. news media’s coverage of the Iran nuclear issue has been woefully off-kilter for many years. Now, however, those same outlets are contributing to the serious crisis building between Washington and Tehran. Iran has responded to Trump’s...

FAIR The 2020 presidential candidacy race is in full (absurdly early) swing, and there is a clear and obvious internal battle currently raging for the soul of the Democratic Party. One faction is attempting to pull the party in a more populist, social-democratic...