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The phrase “Fake News” has exploded in usage since the election, but the term is similar to other malleable political labels such as “terrorism” and “hate speech”: because it lacks any clear definition, it is essentially useless except as an i ...[Read more]
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ohn Kerry offered yet another tough-love speech to Israel at the pro-Israel conference, the Saban Forum yesterday. He said that the United States gives Israel more than half of the aid that we give “the entire world,” and Israel simply ignores us when ...[Read more]
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Nancy Pelosi just gave Republicans another reason for celebration.
The newly elected House minority leader insisted Sunday that Dems aren’t looking for a “new direction” even after the bruising Election Day defeats and a GOP monopoly in Washington.
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They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors an ...[Read more]
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The Iraqi army, backed by US-led airstrikes, is trying to capture east Mosul at the same time as the Syrian army and its Shia paramilitary allies are fighting their way into east Aleppo. An estimated 300 civilians have been killed in Aleppo by government ...[Read more]
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When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn't the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill's shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seed ...[Read more]
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In the wake of Donald Trump's election victory over Hillary Clinton, some progressives are now pushing a shake up of the Democratic Party's leadership in efforts to reform the party. But Dr. Cornel West says he doubts the Democratic Party can be refor ...[Read more]
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hese two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. More here ...[Read more]
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If Jill Stein and die-hard Democrats get their way, recounts in three key states will take the presidency away from Donald Trump and hand it to Hillary Clinton. While this effort is probably doomed to failure, the attempted do-over prompts a question: wha ...[Read more]
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When we talk about Castro’s critics, it is worth pointing out that we are talking people who live in societies where poverty has been unofficially criminalized and the poor demonized, despised, and abandoned to a fate of destitution and despair.
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In the wake of the passing of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, there has been no dearth of discussion of the island nation’s human rights violations.
For starters, it is the definition of hypocrisy for such criticisms to come from the United ...[Read more]
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