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Fan-Owned Clubs Can Help Democratize Football
The European Super League fiasco has sparked a heated debate about money in football, with many pointing to Germany’s fan-owned clubs as an alternative. Fan ownership is an important step — but it’ll only work if fans are organized and thinking poli ...[Read more]
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Lifting IP Restrictions Could Help the World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, overwhelming hospitals and crematories, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to stop hoarding excess supply of COVID-19 vaccines and to loosen intellectual property restrictions preventing more countr ...[Read more]
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Opposing PRO Act, Uber and Other Gig Companies Spend Over $1 Million Lobbying Congress
Even as President Joe Biden called for Congress during his joint address last week to pass labor reform legislation, a slate of gig companies has spent over $1 million lobbying Congress to influence the PRO Act and other related issues in 2021 alone, acco ...[Read more]
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How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the Unit ...[Read more]
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Biden’s Defense Budget Is a Big Win for Hypersonic Weapons Contractors
The US' largest defense corporations can breathe a sigh of relief: President Joe Biden’s first budget proposal not only continues his predecessor’s commitment to hypersonic weapons, but it’s also seeking a major increase in government spending. Whil ...[Read more]
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Harvard historian explains why Trump’s Jan. 6 insurrection was a ‘turning point’ in American history
In this conversation, Gordon-Reed explains how Donald Trump's coup attempt and his followers' attack on the Capitol represent a much older struggle in America over multiracial democracy and "white freedom." She warns that the events of Jan. 6 pose a funda ...[Read more]
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Before 2001 Invasion, Bush Admin Declared Taliban an Ally in the War on Drugs
Just months before the Taliban became an enemy in the war on terror, President George W. Bush’s administration declared the fundamentalist rulers of Afghanistan an ally in the global “war on drugs.” In early 2001, narcotics officials in the United S ...[Read more]
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Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11
In the 20 years since 9/11, far-right extremists killed more people in the US than did American-based Islamist fundamentalists – but that’s often hard to discern from the way the federal government has treated domestic terrorism. Earlier this year an ...[Read more]
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Here’s why the media is ignoring the violent Republican crime wave that no one is talking about
A teacher in California was attacked by a parent over masks. The same thing is playing out in schools across the country. A man was stabbed and a reporter assaulted in Los Angeles during a vaccine protest. An Iowa man was sentenced to a decade in prison o ...[Read more]
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UK: Democracy is dead in Keir Starmer’s Labour
Criticism of the leader is forbidden, while thousands of members have been expelled or left in disgust, says film director Ken Loach ...[Read more]
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Nearly a Third of Republicans Surveyed Are Ready to Support Violence
The same survey found two-thirds of Republicans claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. ...[Read more]
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