By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams —
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden says the “global technological consensus is against the FBI.”
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In a letter to The Guardian, a reader looks at the dark legacies of “economic hardship and social deprivation” and sees in Bernie Sanders, who lost several family members in the Holocaust, a presidential candidate who grasps that social security and empowerment can protect a population from the potentially deadly “seduction of scapegoating” minorities and the underrepresented.
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An association of activists, including a founder of Black Lives Matter, published a letter claiming that the civil rights of minorities could be abused if the FBI gains the power to force a technology company such as Apple to undermine its users’ activities.
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By Juan Cole — A just-released Pew Forum poll reports a startling statistic about the current state of affairs in Israel.
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By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet —
The renowned activist and linguist warns of the systematic threat Donald Trump would pose, from human rights to the environment.
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She has a successful career, a supportive wife and a transgender sister, but when it came to going public about her own transition, Lilly Wachowski didn’t have a choice.
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NAFTA did not increase opportunities in Mexico. Instead, the agreement imposed neoliberal policies on the Mexican people. In this week’s edition of teleSUR’s “Days of Revolt,” Chris Hedges and Mexican activists discuss what is being done to counter NAFTA’s repressive impact.
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President Obama has vowed to present his pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia before leaving office, but one of the rumored candidates on Obama’s short list—Attorney General Loretta Lynch—has taken herself out of the running.
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By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams —
On International Women’s Day, activists honor the assassinated Berta Cáceres and other females fighting against oppression and global capitalism.
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“This week, the Republican Party, home to more than a century of great statesmen, died ... violently, tearing itself in half,” the “Full Frontal” host announces.
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The Washington Post’s March 6 onslaught advances the narrative that the Vermont senator is a clueless white man incapable of winning over people of color or speaking to women, according to the progressive media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Perhaps the paper is going through the “7 Stages of Establishment Backlash.”
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By Charles Ornstein and Terry Parris Jr. / ProPublica and Mike Hixenbaugh / The Virginian-Pilot —
Neither the Navy nor the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive list of which ships went where during the Vietnam War. As a result, veterans themselves often have to prove their ships served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed.
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By Juan Cole — The fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu functions as a U.S. Republican even as he heads a foreign state disturbs many prominent Democrats, including strong Israel supporters.
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By Eugene Robinson — How’s this for poetic justice? Donald Trump’s favorite scapegoats could end up having the satisfaction of blocking him from the White House.
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By Juan Cole — Islamic State has claimed credit for a truck bombing in the largely Shiite city of Hilla that killed 60 people on Sunday and is considered one of the worst terrorist attacks in that city.
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By Sandy Tolan — The good doctor’s foreign policy gaffes made for some great political satire, but his ignorance on the Middle East made him a frightening presidential candidate.
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Vote for Bloomberg? Not in 2016. He doesn’t want to give Donald Trump an advantage in the general election, so the former New York City mayor won’t enter this year’s presidential race.
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A cross-generational conversation with a Black Lives Matter founder and a trauma doctor, who is trying to redefine public health in terms of human wholeness, deals with the culture and society the movement is trying to create.
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A nephew and a longtime friend of Berta Caceres tell “Democracy Now!” about the Honduran environmental and indigenous activist, who was assassinated Thursday.
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U.S. industry added 242,000 jobs in February—but the major gains were in low-wage industries, and average hourly earnings dropped 3 cents. And unemployment rates remained far higher for minorities than for whites.
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By Mattea Kramer / TomDispatch —
The crowd that gathered in an airplane hangar in the desert roared with excitement when the man on stage vowed to murder women and children.
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
As temperatures rise with climate change, the earth’s natural capital will change too—but there may be few winners, even among the wealthy.
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