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Rasmus: The Trump-Ryan Healthcare Act: Some Economic Consequences
March 16, 2017
The repeal is every dollar and cent that the Obamacare Act taxed the rich and their corporations
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Benjamin: Why Is Donald Trump Lunching With a Saudi War Criminal While Yemenis Are Starving?
March 16, 2017
In addition to countless casualties, Saudi bombing has destroyed civilian infrastructure, from water facilities to sewage treatment plants to hospitals
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Yee: As deportations escalate, lawyers ramp up defense for immigrants in rural Georgia
March 16, 2017
Having legal counsel is a critical factor in the outcome of immigration cases — and for those who would face violence and persecution in their native countries, it can be a life or death issue
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Swanson: The Problem With the CIA and Drones
March 16, 2017
Trump and his subordinates are using drone missiles at a faster pace even than Obama did
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Cole: Hawaii Judge: Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 still Violates the Constitution
March 16, 2017
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Prashad: US Deploys More Troops to Syria to Fight ISIS
March 16, 2017
Interview on why US troops will be fighting alongside a coalition of opposing allies to retake Raqqa
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Contributors: Trump budget: president to ask Congress for deep cuts to domestic programs
March 16, 2017
Military spending would get the biggest boost in Trump’s proposed budget, with the environmental and state departments facing the greatest reductions
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Guevara: Interviewing Harriet Lennon
March 15, 2017
In the year 2042, an oral history of the then 25 year-old ongoing Revolutionary Participatory...
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Nader: “Making America Great” at Americans’ Expense
March 15, 2017
The tower of contradictions, being constructed by Trump and the most extreme Republican Party in its history, won’t be camouflaged or distracted for long by provocative, prevaricating 3:00 am tweets from the White House
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Knight: As Climate Alarm Bells Ring, Trump Poised to Decimate Regulations
March 15, 2017
Denier-in-chief prepares to pull back Obama-era climate policies while new research reveals frightening signs of accelerating crisis
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Feffer: The cyberwar of all against all
March 15, 2017
The political theorist Thomas Hobbes warned in the 17th century that without the modern state...
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Pearlstein: How Effective a Weapon Is Satire Against Tyranny?
March 15, 2017
For comedians in trying times such as these, the secret may be to keep their elbows sharp and aim them where they count
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March 15, 2017
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made a return trip to McDowell County Sunday afternoon, telling a...
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March 15, 2017
In a town hall televised by MSNBC Monday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the pharmaceutical industry...
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Giroux: Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
March 14, 2017
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist,...
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Klare: Trump’s Military Nostalgia (or Victory at Sea All Over Again)
March 14, 2017
Rebuilding a Last-Century Military to Fight Last-Century Wars
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Machtinger: Communing with Dr. King on the 50th Anniversary of his Beyond Vietnam Speech
March 14, 2017
Delivered to an overflow crowd at the Riverside Church in New York City on April...
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Levine: Leading Psychiatrists Follow Top-Dog Bankers’ Guide to Career Advancement
March 14, 2017
It should not be surprising that cynicism is increasingly the U.S. national pastime, as we...
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Ruiz-Grossman: ACLU Launches Massive Local Resistance To Trump’s Agenda
March 14, 2017
The organization is looking for people ready to act in their own communities
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Guevara: Interviewing Andrej Goldman Part One
March 14, 2017
Working people were furious at their plight yet anti capitalists had little connection to and often even little empathy for workers' rising fury.
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Dudzic: Six Ways Trumpcare Makes Healthcare Worse (and one way to make it better)
March 14, 2017
Our mission is to promote a vision of healthcare justice based on what Americans really want–Medicare for All
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Cockburn: Yemen is a complicated and unwinnable war. Trump should stay out
March 14, 2017
Yemen may soon join Afghanistan and Iraq as wars in which the US wishes it had never got involved
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Yoder: New Anti-Protesting Legislation: A Deeper Look
March 14, 2017
We must continue to organize and to keep a close watch on these bills as they emerge in state and federal legislatures, and to push back at every level
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Radack: Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?
March 14, 2017
As we learn more about the Vault 7 source and the disclosures, our focus should be on the substance of the disclosures
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Chaffee: Listings of Activist Events
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Barrington-Bush: Solidarity Ecosystems
Over time, you notice that beneath VIO.ME’s sometimes mundane veneer, a series of radical changes are taking place. These are changes that offer alternatives to how we organize work, community and society at large.
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Rasmus: Despite Scrapping TPP, Donald Trump is a Dedicated Free Trader
Trump is a dedicated free trader. He just rejects multilateral, multi-country free trade deals like TPP and NAFTA. He wants even stronger, pro-U.S. business free trade deals and intends to renegotiate the existing multilateral treaties—to the benefit of U.S. multinational corporations and at the expense of the U.S. trading partners
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Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) states that the right to health care is indeed a human right. Yet, it is estimated that close to 30 million Americans remain uninsured even with the ACA in place.
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Brana: Campaign Calls on Bernie Sanders to Lead a New Party
March 12, 2017
It's time to give up expecting progressive change from the Democratic Party
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Hedges: Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
March 9, 2017
For the first time in modern history, a fringe wing of Christian extremists have obtained the highest seats of power in the US government-from Mike Pence to Betsy DeVos
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Goodman: NOAM CHOMSKY – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
March 5, 2017
The media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy
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Harel: Israeli TV Host Implores Israelis: Wake Up and Smell the Apartheid
March 3, 2017
In Last Monologue, Israeli Comedy Show Host Implores Israelis to Wake Up and Smell the Apartheid.
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Green Time TV Food Sovereignty in Missouri, US and the...
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March 14, 2017
This is a very sensible reply Tom London made to Owen...
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Emersberger: Lasso’s version of “lock her up” combined with appeals to Ecuador’s fake Left
March 12, 2017
El Comercio, a right wing newspaper in Ecuador, published a...
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March 11, 2017
The cancellation of a lecture by journalist Rania Khalek, who...
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March 3, 2017
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Frank: Intolerance of the left
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Porter: New Cold Warriors
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The U.S. Election
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Venezuela
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