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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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GOP in disarray after historic defeat: ‘Political disaster doesn’t begin to describe how bad this is for Republicans’
A new report from Roll Call details some of the many challenges facing the Republican Party as it looks to an uncertain future following former President Donald Trump's electoral defeat. As the party turns its focus to the 2022 midterms, it remains "divi ...[Read more]
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Biden’s First Days Signal Significant Shift From Trump on Labor and Economy
As President Joe Biden begins rolling out executive orders and legislative proposals aimed at reshaping federal government priorities, when it comes to labor issues, his $15 federal minimum wage proposal, which would increase the minimum wage nationally t ...[Read more]
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DOJ IG announces probe to determine if staff attempted to overthrow the 2020 election
he New York Times recently reported that former President Donald Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, hoped to pressure the U.S. Department of Justice into challenging the election results — and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has ...[Read more]
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Biden Urged to Fire Entire Postal Service Board for Complicity in ‘Devastating Arson’ by Trump and DeJoy
Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey on Monday urged President Joe Biden to terminate all six sitting members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors for their "silence and complicity" in the face of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ...[Read more]
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Doomsday Clock Reveals Humanity Closer Than Ever to the Apocalypse
One hundred seconds to midnight. That's how close humanity is to the apocalypse, and it's as close as the world has ever been, according to Wednesday's annual announcement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group that has been running its "Doom ...[Read more]
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Even under Biden, China faces Trumpism
US policy towards China will continue unchanged under Joe Biden, with a policy of containment overshadowing the urge to co-operate. ...[Read more]
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‘Cry Me a River’: Sanders Hits Back as Billionaire Investor Whines About Potential Tax Hikes Amid GameStop Fiasco
As the ongoing GameStop saga sparked renewed calls for a financial transactions tax and other commonsense redistributive measures to tackle soaring inequality and Wall Street abuses, billionaire investor Leon Cooperman took to the airwaves Thursday to fum ...[Read more]
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Wall Street’s Invisible Hand
The world's largest asset manager has been using workers' savings to help companies block initiatives that would force them to reduce their carbon emissions and disclose their dark money spending. ...[Read more]
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The GameStop Fiasco Exposes the Fantasy That Capitalism Can Be Democratic
When tech platforms, regulatory agencies, and social media companies conspire to swat down share purchases that get in Wall Street’s way, they’re doing us all a favor: they're showing us the ruthlessly hierarchical reality of neoliberalism behind the ...[Read more]
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The woman who bankrolled the Capitol riot MAGA rally
The main donor behind the Washintgon D.C. 'Stop the Steal' rally that sparked a riot on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has been revealed as the heiress to the Publix Super Markets Inc. chain. Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a prominent Trump donor, pledged $300, ...[Read more]
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