“No amount of sugar coating can cover up the reality of what we have done at Guantánamo Bay,” said the “Last Week Tonight” host in a clip dedicated to advocating for the permanent closure of the controversial detention center.
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By Paul Brown / Climate News Network —
Researchers say agroforestry systems offer a solution to helping combat climate change, feeding the world and increasing farmers’ profits.
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By Ginger Thompson and Alejandra Xanic / ProPublica —
A new report finds that the Mexican government failed to stop a door-to-door campaign of killing that went on for weeks along the United States border.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
I think that the men who back the Republican candidate no matter what are doing so because the celebrity real estate speculator and name-licenser provides them with an opportunity for ego inflation.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton field questions about issues that have rocked their campaigns in recent days. By showing some discipline in his performance, Trump may have staved off political disaster.
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By Christian Christensen / Common Dreams —
A serious discussion is in order regarding the role of the media in creating the hostile, sexist environment where Trump’s grotesque worldview can flourish.
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Alec Baldwin is really getting the most out of his impression of the Republican presidential candidate.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The de facto criminalization of being Muslim or speaking Arabic is proceeding apace despite being contrary to every core American value and contradicting the First Amendment.
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By Scott Tucker — I am 61 years old and cannot recall the front page of The Gray Lady being so spicy.
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By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org —
If Hillary Clinton is elected president, hopefully Elizabeth Warren will challenge her in the 2020 Democratic primaries if Clinton isn’t sufficiently progressive and bold during her first term.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
There is news on the solar energy front, with the price of panels and installation falling rapidly and popular adoption for novel purposes on the increase.
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Why is Haiti so vulnerable to disaster? In addition to geography, there’s a legacy of debt, poverty, political instability, foreign exploitation and negligence, corruption and violence.
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With pressure from the likes of Watson, a sleeping public may awaken to and act upon the imminent dangers of climate change.
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By Michael Dirda — A new book on ancient Egypt is full of fascinating material, including a re-examination of Cleopatra’s death, a look at the fluidity of sexual identity, and a tale about being carried off by a hippopotamus.
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By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch —
Thanks to perhaps trillions of words expended on him by nonstop commentators, pundits, talking heads, retired generals and admirals, former intelligence chiefs and ex-Bush administration officials, Donald Trump and his remarkable ego have become the wallpaper of our lives.
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By Bill Boyarsky — Potential vulnerabilities in the voting system raise alarms about what could happen when American citizens cast their ballots Nov. 8.
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By Sonali Kolhatkar — Since 2001, the U.S. has spent more than $103 billion on the Asian country—more than it spent on the entire European continent after World War II. And there is no end in sight for the debacle that George W. Bush began and Barack Obama continued.
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By Eugene Robinson — Tim Kaine and Mike Pence established themselves as national political figures and avoided harming their respective candidates’ chances. But the benefit for voters was harder to discern.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The United Nations’ Staffan de Mistura (pictured) has addressed the Levant Conquest Front, whose leader has pledged allegiance to an al-Qaida leader. For reasons that remain extremely mysterious, the CIA ignores this group, with which some of its own favorites have sometimes formed battlefield alliances.
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By Paul Brown / Climate News Network —
Cities and towns across Europe are being warned to adapt to the battering they face from intense storms as extreme weather events become more frequent.
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