This week Donald Trump has had a lot to say about foreign policy—raising concerns within the Republican Party and bolstering arguments that Hillary Clinton is a better choice for conservatives.
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By Jon Queally / Common Dreams —
An appropriate progressive response to an inadequate choice, one Democratic delegate says, “would be expressions of outrage and nonviolent protest, from the convention floor in Philadelphia to communities across the country.”
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The former “Daily Show” host briefly took over “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Thursday to expose the hypocrisy of conservative pundits who support a presidential candidate who embodies much of what they claimed to despise about President Obama.
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By Allen Barra — If you’re looking for answers to our most baffling political problems (How can so much wealth go to the top 1 percent without a massive uprising? Why is the U.S. paralyzed in combating global warming?), then grab this book before amnesia on these issues becomes even more acute.
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
Serious tree loss and stunted growth caused by repeated droughts in the Amazon Basin have damaged the rainforest’s vital ability to store atmospheric carbon.
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In an interview on The Real News Network, Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks about neofascist rhetoric and how third-party candidates are preferable to Clinton or Trump.
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Donald Trump and archnemesis Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts actually agree on this banking policy proposal.
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By Eric Ortiz — The GOP presidential nominee closed the circus in Cleveland with his trademark pledge: I will make America great again. Do you believe him?
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“Brother Bernie ... was the standard-bearer for truth and justice during the primary at a national level, at a highly visible level,” but then he endorsed “hawk” and “militarist” Hillary Clinton, West says in an interview.
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By E.J. Dionne Jr. — The Donald Trump Family Reunion, formerly known as the Republican National Convention, illustrates how a once-great political party now sees its main purpose as harnessing opposition to the devil.
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan —
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, a large contingent of Indiana State Police, riot cops and police on horseback was deployed to contain 15 women and one man from Code Pink and their 500 tennis balls.
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By Paul Brown / Climate News Network —
Scientific reports released for a conference on disaster risk reduction warn that people are already dying and economies being hit by climate change—and that the dangers are growing.
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By Bill Boyarsky — The crisis over racism in America calls for something bolder and more single-minded than the laundry list of good ideas being tossed about by the Bernie Revolution.
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President Erdogan is now cracking down on academics, government and civil service workers, and establishments perceived to support his opposition. He believes Fethullah Gülen, a self-exiled cleric who lives in the U.S., was behind last week’s revolt.
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By Nathan Fisher —
The fundamental premise of Sanders’ campaign—that his “political revolution” can be accomplished within the confines of capitalism—is incorrect. That will soon be clear.
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By Michael Nigro —
Protesters calling attention to Donald Trump’s proposed immigration plan attempted to “Wall Off Trump” by forming a long human barrier. It was one of many acts of civil disobedience in Cleveland.
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If the enchanting Mike Pence helps Republicans recapture the White House this fall, don’t say Thomas Frank, Robert Scheer and other progressive journalists didn’t warn you.
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By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet —
The 2016 GOP platform would make Christianity the official American religion, replace sex education with abstinence-only advice for teenagers, privatize almost all areas of federal services, cut taxes and regulations for the rich and titans of industry, and more.
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Trump crossed the threshold of 1,237 delegate votes Tuesday to become the party’s nominee.
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By Adam Hochschild / TomDispatch —
Tarzan’s remarkable foresight in vanquishing the Belgian evildoers before the worst of King Leopold II’s reign of terror opens the door for his future films, where our hero stops historical catastrophes in their early stages.
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