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How JFK Saved MLK’s Life And So Won The Presidency
JFK helped save Martin Luther King Jr from a lynch mob, King Jr's father helped him win the Presidency. By Greg Palast.
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Open primaries? Democratic establishment bars anyone who challenges an incumbent from using the party’s Votebuilder database
Denying a modern candidate this database is a hamstringing move, virtually guaranteeing their failure. By Cory Doctorow.
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Socialists Are Winning The Battle Of Ideas
Young people are identifying as socialists, the right has nothing to offer beyond grievance and hate, and the left is actually putting forward serious ideas. By Nathan J. Robinson.
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Donna Brazile’s Story Matters – But Not for the Reason You Might Think
DNC chair Donna Brazile’s much-anticipated tell-all book about the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, ‘Hacks,’ looks at the rigged primary. By Matt Taibbi.
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Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False
Factually false assertions about Donna Brazile, the DNC and WIkiLeaks documents were widely spread this week by U.S. journalists. By Glenn Greenwald.
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Why no-one talks about how “nice” Hillary Clinton is…
Truth will out!
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Corporate Dems Purge Bernie Progressives From DNC
The Jimmy Dore Show
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We Must Make Public Colleges and Universities Tuition Free
Americans face almost $1.5 trillion in debt in the name of higher education. By Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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A Liberal Decalogue
Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency. ‘Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.’ By Maria Popova.
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Are those my words coming out of Steve Bannon’s mouth?
My critique of Washington is distinctly from the left, and its astonishing to hear conservatives swiping it. That’s why we need to look at their actions, not words. By Thomas Frank.
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How Democrats Can Wage War on Monopolies—and Win
Elizabeth Warren and her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, provide a roadmap for the left to make antitrust reform a reality. By Brian Beutler.
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Lectureporn: The Vulgar Art of Liberal Narcissism
Joan Didion began covering political campaigns in 1988. By then, she had switched to being a Democrat, which did little to change her views of the world or change her life in any tangible way… By Emmet Penney. (June 26, 2017)
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How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement?
Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They? By Bruce A. Dixon.
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Reasons for Corbyn
“It is too simple to cast Corbyn as a throwback, but it is undeniable that his appeal and his authority derive partly from his willingness to cast a different, less forgiving light on recent history, so that we don’t have to carry on repeating it.” By William Davies.
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The Democratic Party’s Deadly Dead-End
By playing for centrist and neoconservative votes, national Democrats have left the party floundering with no coherent political message and creating a daunting challenge for democracy, says Nicolas J S Davies.
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Corbyn did the right thing when he chose Glastonbury over Armed Forces Day events
Jeremy Corbyn has been slammed in the right-wing press for choosing to appear at Glastonbury rather than Armed Forces Day events. Nothing sums up more neatly than this the longstanding preoccupation of our country’s majority right-wing press with Corbyn’s refusal to sanction war and violence. And nothing sums up better how out-of-kilter that thinking is. By Lee Williams.
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Who Stopped California's Single-Payer Plan?
Single payer in California faces a political obstacle, not an economic one. By Jason Rhode.
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For The Record, Jill Stein Would Have Made A Great President
Hillary Clinton would have made a horrifying president; as bad as Trump is. I sincerely believe that our species dodged an even deadlier bullet by keeping Clinton out of office. There is no valid reason for any thinking person to believe that Jill Stein caused this to happen, but if she had I would have personally been eternally grateful to her. By Caitlin Johnstone.
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Hodgkinson's Disease: Politics and Paranoia in the Age of Trump
James T. Hodgkinson, the would-be assassin of Republican congressmen, wasn’t a radical. If you look at his published output – a series of letters to his local newspaper in Belleville, Illinois, as well as the majority of his Internet postings – it’s mostly about matters nearly every progressive cares about: taxes (the rich don’t pay … Continue reading "Hodgkinson’s Disease: Politics and Paranoia in the Age of Trump"
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Socialism Strikes Back!
Jonathan Pie
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