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House Approves $700B Cash Cow for Weapons Companies €”But Single Payer Too Expensive
In a bipartisan show of support for endless war and out-of-control military spending, the House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the nearly $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2018 that aims to boost war outlays by $80 ...[Read more]
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GOP Tax Bill Would Trigger $25 Billion in Cuts to Medicare, Warns CBO
Progressives on Tuesday urged Trump critics to voice their opposition to the tax bill that House Republicans are hoping to push through, after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the legislation could put billions of dollars in Medicare sp ...[Read more]
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The Secret to Progressive Electoral Success?
You build political power by beginning at the bottom. That’s one of the hopeful lessons of the elections on Tuesday that saw progressives, socialists, and other leftists sweep into office at the local and state level all over the country. It was an elec ...[Read more]
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Resort Tycoon Says He’s Ordered Dem Leaders To Adopt Pro-Billionaire Platform
There’ve been a lot of important revelations in the last week, but one of the most significant has gone obscenely under-reported in the shuffle. In a recent interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, timeshare tycoon and top Democratic party donor Steph ...[Read more]
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€˜Moral crisis:Gates, Buffett & Bezos richer than poorest half of America combined
The three richest people in the United States – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett – have a total wealth that exceeds the savings of America’s poorest 160 million, a new study shows. The three billionaires are sitting on a combined $248.5 b ...[Read more]
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Washington orders RT America to register as foreign agent by Monday
Washington will apply its Foreign Agents Registration Act to RT America, the channel has announced. The Department of Justice has given the broadcaster until Monday to register as a foreign agent, otherwise the channel’s head faces arrest and its accoun ...[Read more]
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Soviet Russia Had a Better Record of Training Women in STEM Than America Does Today
Russia and the United States have long been trying to one up each other, whether by way of weaponry, space travel or social policies. While Soviet Russia was, by most accounts, a pretty miserable place to live, the Soviets did beat the Americans at one th ...[Read more]
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The NSA’s Porn-Surveillance Program: Not Safe for Democracy
Let's think through the troubling implications of the latest surveillance-state news. "The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the ...[Read more]
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Sanders campaign slams Clinton-DNC fundraising agreement
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign on Monday accused Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign of possibly violating campaign finance laws through its joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee. Brad Deuts ...[Read more]
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Donna Brazile Confesses that DNC Rigged Primaries
On November 2, Donna Brazile published an excerpt from her upcoming book, “Hacks,” in Politico. In the passage, Brazile outlines how she first discovered the joint fundraising agreement between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC that created the H ...[Read more]
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Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a mont ...[Read more]
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