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The Real Winston Churchill
Churchill, as a liberal Tory, ought perhaps to have been alarmed by the rise of fascism in Europe. Yet he was overwhelmingly sanguine. He believed Mussolini to be a good ruler for Italy, and fascism a useful bulwark against Communism. His nationalism, mil ...[Read more]
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Big Pharma’s ‘Appalling’ $26 Billion in Shareholder Payouts Could Fund Vaccines for All of Africa: Report
Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca—three of the world's top coronavirus vaccine manufacturers—have paid out a combined $26 billion in dividends and stock buybacks to their shareholders over the past year, a sum that could fully fund the cost o ...[Read more]
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Why is Bezos flying to space? Because billionaires think Earth is a sinking ship
It is not a coincidence that the richest people in America are funding a new space race. They are not motivated by a love of technology, or even a belief in the universe as a business opportunity. Let’s call this what it is: they are making plans to get ...[Read more]
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Trumpists live in an alternate reality but they believe in it, and that’s terrifying
I had not seen my mother for two years, for reasons we all understand too well. Several weeks ago, I was finally able to journey home.It was wonderful to see my mother again. Blessed are those who can experience unconditional love, even if for only a few ...[Read more]
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Gun Manufactures Quietly Target Young Boys Using Social Media
Companies like Smith & Wesson have "influencers" and "sponsored shooters" to connect with younger audiences. ...[Read more]
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Progressives to Put US War Crimes on Trial and Demand Freedom for Julian Assange
"At the Belmarsh Tribunal, we will turn the world the right way up," participant Jeremy Corbyn says, "placing crimes of war, torture, kidnapping, and a litany of other gross human rights abuses on trial." ...[Read more]
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Ammon Bundy has amassed an army of over 50,000 as he looks for his next battle in a religious war
Ammon Bundy, right-wing malcontent behind the 2016 armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge and now a western anti-mask movement, believes he's doing God's work.Coming from a long line of religiously inspired men who have been "called" to defend ...[Read more]
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Why are CEOs of U.S. firms paid 320 times as much as their workers?
Last August, Jamelle Brown, a technician at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, contracted Covid-19 while on the job sanitizing and sterilizing rooms in the facility's emergency department. Luckily, his case wasn't severe, and after having q ...[Read more]
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Starving Yemen
Yemen is starving to death. More accurately, Yemen is being starved to death.  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf States, has deliberately chosen to weaponize starvation in its war against Yemen’s Iran-backe ...[Read more]
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DOJ Threatened MIT Researchers With Subpoena in Collaboration With Bolivian Coup Regime
A justice department trial attorney repeatedly contacted Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers asking, eventually under threat of subpoena, about research they had conducted on the 2019 Bolivian presidential election, according to emails obtai ...[Read more]
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Americans Who Say They Pay Taxes Are Probably Lying
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center recently released a report saying that 61% of U.S. households had paid no federal income tax in 2020, up from 44% in 2019, as the pandemic led to high unemployment and loss of income. Although the number will likely r ...[Read more]
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