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White Supremacy Set the Stage for Texas’ Miserable Disaster Response
Ted Cruz’s “let them eat cake” vacation to Cancun was a visible reminder of the cruelty of our political system — a system that rewards politicians propped up by corporate money, right-wing lies, and racist ideologies for blaming others and evadin ...[Read more]
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Biden Is Doubling Down on Trump’s Anti-China Cold War Policy
Beijing has accused the U.S. of perpetuating a Cold War mentality as President Joe Biden and senior administration officials shore up alliances in the Pacific region to counter China’s growing influence and increasingly describe the country as a geop ...[Read more]
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‘The Time Is Now to Go Forward’: Sanders Says Dems Can’t Waste Time Catering to Obstructionist GOP
Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Saturday that amid the immediate emergencies of climate change, Covid-19, mass unemployment, and homelessness, congressional Democrats cannot afford to dampen their infrastructure ambition ...[Read more]
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ACLU Urges Biden to Shut Down Detention Facilities ‘Used to Abuse and Traumatize Immigrants’
The ACLU is urging the Biden administration to shut down over three dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in light of decreasing numbers of people detained and human rights concerns. "The Biden administration was elected with a ma ...[Read more]
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The Nakba Continues
The both-sides-have-their reasons-but-Israel-is-the-victim stories follow an expected pattern. Israeli Jews, still living in the shadow of the Holocaust, return to their rightful homes and then fight for every inch of what is justly theirs. They are repea ...[Read more]
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Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election as Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
We get an update from Peru, where socialist candidate Pedro Castillo has pulled ahead of his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country's presidential election on Sunday. Castillo is the son of peasant farmers, and a union leader who led a nationwide ...[Read more]
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Noam Chomsky: To Retain Power, Democrats Must Stop Abandoning the Working Class
In this interview, Noam Chomsky, an esteemed public intellectual and one of the world’s most cited scholars in modern history, discusses the current shape of the Democratic Party and the challenges facing the progressive left in a country governed by a ...[Read more]
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Trump rages at his former Republican allies in an off-the-rails interview
No matter how much a Republican has done for Donald Trump, the former president can easily turn against them if he feels they have let him down in some way — and that includes former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr a ...[Read more]
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Warning of Covid disaster in Japan as cases explode
Health experts in Japan have said the country is confronting a coronavirus “disaster” and urged the government to take immediate action to stem a surge in infections. The warning came as local media reported that spectators will be banned from almost ...[Read more]
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Intelligence Contract Funneled to Pro-War Think Tank Establishment
The Center for Strategic and International Studies received a hefty sum from Alion Science as part of a military-related contract. ...[Read more]
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The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation
Presence of cameras, sharing, internet and technology changes and shapes the future of protests, and puts the law enforcement claims to rightfulness to the test. Read more on slashdot how internet and technology is already shaping politics of protest. ...[Read more]
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