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Venezuela Mulls Suing JP Morgan over De Facto Economic Blockade
The U.S. investment bank claimed that Venezuela's state oil company missed debt payments. The country hasn't missed payments since 2002. Venezuela may take legal action against U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. after the financial institution a ...[Read more]
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The Big Split
Trump was the perfect wrong play, wrong director, wrong cast. And he won. Springtime for Hitler is a hit. But something happened during the last month of this election. I suspect Clinton had it won after the first debate. So, how and why did the DNC clutc ...[Read more]
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Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
[Many of] the angry and disaffected are victims of the neoliberal policies of the past generation, the policies described in congressional testimony by Fed chair Alan Greenspan -- "St. Alan," as he was called reverentially by the economics profession and ...[Read more]
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2009: The year the Democratic Party died
The Democratic Party has been obliterated. Hillary Clinton's narrow loss to Donald Trump was the shock felt 'round the world, but there's been an even deeper decline in the Democratic Party at the state and local level. The Obama administration has overse ...[Read more]
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here
The age of Obama was the last gasp of neoliberalism. Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killin ...[Read more]
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This Election Has Disgraced the Entire Profession of Journalism
We still don’t know the outcome of the 2016 election, in which our “democratic process” has produced two candidates widely despised by the American people, but we do know the race’s biggest loser: reporters and the profession of journalism, which ...[Read more]
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Welcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
The endless snowflake whining – we lost the presidential election because of «rogue» FBI, WikiLeaks, the Russians, etc. – was predictable. Yet among the corrupt-to-the-core DNC it seems like no apparatchik has ever read Guy Debord’s Society of the ...[Read more]
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Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
My organization, WikiLeaks, took a lot of heat during the run-up to the recent presidential election. We have been accused of abetting the candidacy of Donald J. Trump by publishing cryptographically authenticated information about Hillary Clinton’s cam ...[Read more]
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China ‘Marco Polo’ Xi Jinping starts jockeying in post-Obama world
Beijing and Moscow have arrived at the conclusion that President-elect Donald Trump is not an ideologue in the neocon sense of the term; he’s a pragmatist. Therefore, resets are inevitable, as well as surprises. In yet another spectacular chapter of his ...[Read more]
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DNC Headquarters Ambushed by Protesters Claiming Party ‘Sold Out’
Protesters dressed as movers charged the door of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters today, trying to gain entrance to the building. Security fended them off and barricaded the front steps. Protesters drove up in a U-Haul van wearing blue ...[Read more]
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Hillary and Bill sceaming match over blame for her flagging campaign
Bill and Hillary had a vicious fight over the phone over who to blame for her sagging poll numbers, reveals a source close to the ex-president. Hillary blamed FBI Director Comey for reopening investigation based on Anthony Weiner's shared computer with Hu ...[Read more]
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