Politics - Part 12

New report reveals details of the federal criminal investigation of Rudy Giuliani
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was once a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York; now, he is facing a criminal investigation from the Southern District. And journalists Asawin Suebsaeng and William Bredderman, in an article pub ...[Read more]
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Democrats finally ditch the carrot and pick up the stick
President Joe Biden "echoing the feelings of millions of Democrats who worked their butts off to elect Democrats, only to see all hope of real progress crash on the shores of the Senate filibuster " seems like he's had enough with the do-nothing nature of ...[Read more]
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How Stephen Miller inadvertently provided the playbook to fight white supremacy
The Nation has dissected Miller's playbook and highlighted ways the Biden administration could actually use it to combat the United States' decades-long white supremacy problem. "What Biden's team must understand is that the radicalized Republican Party i ...[Read more]
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Groups That Aid Israel’s War Crimes Can’t Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes
Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist – antisemitic, if you prefer – to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel’s crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel’s war crimes, even if the Israel ...[Read more]
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‘Cognitive contagion’: Behavioral scientist explains how far-right fearmongering suppresses your higher brain function
Norman, who leads the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, opens his piece by discussing the QAnon conspiracy cult — noting that in 2020, thousands of QAnon supporters "were fed a ludicrous story about Satan-worshipping, 'deep state' pedop ...[Read more]
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Bitter about being abandoned by Trump, Proud Boys’ chats reveal preparations for ‘absolute war’
If anyone held out hope that the Proud Boys—with 18 members awaiting trial for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection—might eventually wither and blow away in its aftermath, they should read through the Telegram messages Ethan Nordean and his ...[Read more]
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‘They’ve turned into raging monsters’: Noam Chomsky links GOP lies to Nazi propaganda
"The majority of the population gets by paycheck to paycheck," Chomsky told Masciotra. "Real wages have stagnated for 40 years. The gains of productivity growth concentrate in very few pockets. This leads to…. unfocused anger. Is it surprising? People a ...[Read more]
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How Bill Gates set the stage for Modi’s COVID-19 disaster in India
While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis, its performance has been far worse on the vaccine front. The BJP-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which seems to b ...[Read more]
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GOP Wants Tax on Middle Class Instead of Rich for Infrastructure, Sanders Says
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said on Wednesday that Republicans are “insistent” upon taxing the working class in order to pay for the upcoming infrastructure bill in lieu of raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations. In an interview on CN ...[Read more]
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‘I got one!’ New bodycam video shows terrified cop violently attacked, tased by Capitol rioters
A new video was released from DC cop Michael Fanone that came from his bodycam during the Jan. 6 attack. Revealed on CNN Don Lemon's Wednesday show, the horrifying scene unfolds as some in the crowd ask others not to hurt Fanone. At one point, when he is ...[Read more]
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It’s Not American aid to Israel. Its tribute
In the wake of the recent Human Rights Watch report on Israeli apartheid and persecution and the ongoing Israeli brutalities in Jerusalem, a slowly growing handful of brave American politicians is daring to defy President Biden's publicly proclaimed asser ...[Read more]
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