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After SCOTUS Upholds ACA, Progressives Set Sights on Medicare for All
"Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. "We must join other major countries in guaranteeing healthcare for all and pass Medicare for All." ...[Read more]
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ICE Discussed Punishing Immigrant Advocates for Peaceful Protests
Internal documents show how ICE surveilled immigrant advocates’ protest activities — and floated retaliating against them for it. ...[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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Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power
Today’s Republican Party is an extremist force that no longer qualifies as a mainstream political party and is surely not interested in participating in “normal” politics. In fact, today’s GOP is so wrapped around extreme and irrational beliefs th ...[Read more]
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Amazon Prime Day Is a Nightmare for Amazon Workers
But if Prime Day means deals for consumers, it has a different valence for the hundreds of thousands of people who work in Amazon’s warehouses. For those people, Prime Day means mandatory overtime, with shifts extended from ten to twelve hours, or extra ...[Read more]
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Boy, 11, referred to Prevent for wanting to give “alms to the oppressed”
An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion. The boy’s teacher asked what pupils ...[Read more]
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Neoliberalism is coming apart and Biden has a real opportunity to transform the everyday world
Liberal economic ideas dominated the political conservation in the United States for almost half a century, starting with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide victory over President Herbert Hoover in 1932. But the New Deal era ended when Presid ...[Read more]
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Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
The explosive footage was obtained by Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s investigative platform, who posed as head-hunters to obtain the information from one of ExxonMobil’s most senior Washington lobbyists. The recordings appear to reveal the secretive behi ...[Read more]
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Canada’s Indigenous Genocide Is Ongoing
The recovery of mass and unmarked graves at former Indian residential school sites in recent weeks has released a deluge of outrage and grief across the settler colony known as Canada. Horrifying truths are being unearthed that reveal the treachery by whi ...[Read more]
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UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence
On June 28, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a stunning 23-page report accompanied by a 95-page conference room paper for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) documenting systemic racism and human rights violations ...[Read more]
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Iran marks 33rd anniv. of US downing of passenger jet in Persian Gulf
Iran commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the downing of its passenger aircraft by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf, which killed 290 people. ...[Read more]
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