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Blurred lines: Trump's UN choice and her coal magnate spouse
The email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter. But the acknowledgment email the EPA got back a few hours later wasn’t from the ambassador. By Ellen Knickmeyer.
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After Standing Rock, protesting pipelines can get you a decade in prison and $100K in fines
The push to punish pipeline protestors has spread across the U.S. By Naveena Sadasivam. (May 14, 2019)
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Who Will Be the American Justin Trudeau?
With a restless Democratic base leaning left, party centrists are looking for their Justin Trudeau — a candidate who will seem progressive while preserving the status quo. By Luke Savage.
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This is how Republicans lost the House
Here’s the inside look at the moment that solidified the House’s fate in the 2018 midterm elections. By Katie Glueck, Alex Roarty, Adam Wollner.
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Time to Wake Up: the Neoliberal Order is Dying
Despite its best efforts, neoliberalism is increasingly discredited in the eyes of large sections of the electorate in the US and UK. Its attempts at concealment have grown jaded, its strategy exhausted. It has reached the end-game, and that is why politics now looks so unstable. By Jonathan Cook.
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Becoming Serfs
The global rich have demolished institutions that once protected the working class and dismantled our democracy to orchestrate the largest transfer of wealth upward in over a century. By Chris Hedges.
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Trump, Corporate Media Are Both Enemies of the People
The mainstream media should be taken to task, but not for the same reasons the president uses in his attacks on the press. By Paul Street.
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Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump?
The deal for an obscure $10 billion Pentagon contract suggests the extent to which Bezos is gobbling up the Swamp—without the guy in the White House even batting an eye. By May Jeong. (Aug. 13, 2018)
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The Shadow Rulers of the VA
How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. By Isaac Arnsdorf.
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How the World Elites are Going to Betray Us: Lessons from Roman History
Emperor Honorius had run away from Rome, settling in Ravenna, with ships ready to take him to safety in Byzantium if things were to get really bad. By Ugo Bardi.
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'Putin's War on America' Is Nothing Compared With America's War on Democracy
In the wake of Helsinki, missing from "Russiagate" media hysteria is the question of who will protect us from the influence of U.S. oligarchs. By Paul Street.
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Why 55 U.S. Senators Voted for Genocide in Yemen
To their credit, Senators Murphy and Lee and Sanders were very clear that a vote to table, rather than directly vote on, their resolution to end the war, would be a cowardly vote not to have a debate and not to obey the U.S. Constitution. By David Swanson. (Mar. 21, 2018)
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Kochs and ALEC Behind Criminalization of Dissent Bills in Five [U.S.] States
Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma,Wyoming, Minnesota and Louisiana have introduced or passed legislation to criminalize environmental dissent. There is evidence that bill mill organizations such as ALEC and the bipartisan group Council of State Governments (CSG) had their hand in shaping these bills says investigative journalist Steve Horne. By Sharmini Peries.
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Big Companies Are Getting a Chokehold on the Economy
Even Goldman Sachs is worried that they're stifling competition, holding down wages and weighing on growth. By Noah Smith.
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Why the Right doesn’t understand Trump either
From the beginning of his political career, Donald Trump has shown an uncanny ability to bring out the worst in people, often to his own advantage. By Julius Krein.
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Billionaire Pinera Regains Chile Presidency on Growth Pledge
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera swept to victory in the second round of Chile’s presidential election, putting him back in charge of Latin America’s wealthiest country after four years of anemic growth that drew millions of voters to his pro-business agenda. Stocks posted the biggest intraday gain in six years. By Philip Sanders, Javiera Quiroga.
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This Poisonous Cult of Personality
Donald Trump’s election last year exposed an insidious politics of celebrity, one in which a redemptive personality is projected high above the slow toil of political parties and movements. This may be hard to admit but the path to such a presidency of spectacle and vicarious participation was paved by the previous occupant of the White House. By Pankaj Mishra.
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Republicans Are Looting the Treasury While They Still Can
Republicans know a backlash is coming, and they’re making the most of their power while they have it. By Joshua Holland.
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Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened
The project of making planes secure from terrorist attacks is an inescapable nonsense... By Cory Doctorow.
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Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers
Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, clinches a deal in an cash transaction valued at nearly $3 billion. By Sydney Ember and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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