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It's not often that a senator is forced to resign, and two years ago, we saw just that in the case of Al Franken. Now while many at the time were focused on the accusations against him, a few years down the road has given some clarity to the process surrounding...
The Ghion Journal I write a lot about how important it is for political dissidents to research and understand cognitive biases, the large number of well-documented logical glitches in the way human brains process information. I do this because the...
The Grayzone The Grayzone reports from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution that ousted a US-backed dictatorship. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has just arrived here from Caracas, Venezuela,...
The Real News Network MARC STEINER Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Good to have you with us. Around five or six hundred Palestinians have lost their homes. On Monday, hundreds of Israeli troops descended on the village of Wadi Hummus on the...
CounterPunch Sometime between 2070 and 2099, assuming “business as usual” between now and then as regards the use of fossil fuels, the following will occur: + For the equivalent of a week or more each year, about 120 million people across the U.S.A. will be...
Democracy Now! As Puerto Ricans celebrate the imminent departure of disgraced Governor Ricardo Rosselló, we speak with Intercept reporter Ryan Grim about how Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez benefited from what’s been described as a “coup” within the...
Truthdig Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a Guardian article, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science. The author explains: As trees grow, they...
FAIR “The Democratic Party,” a new column by Thomas Edsall (7/24/19) declares, “Is Actually Three Parties.” Fascinating! Tell us more, New York Times columnist on “politics, demographics and inequality.” Well, based on data from a CBS poll of...
The Intercept ON WEDNESDAY, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asking “what steps ICE has taken to document and justify the use of segregation.” The letter was spurred...
Middle East Eye Turkish military and intelligence forces have killed the alleged plotters behind the assassination of diplomat Osman Kose, who was shot dead in a restaurant in Iraq’s Erbil last week, an official has confirmed to Middle East Eye. Intelligence...