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On the day Turkey’s authoritarian leader was welcomed at the White House - also the day public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump began - we thought it only proper to add Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
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So, last month, 9 October to be exact, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham demanded House committees release all impeachment transcripts from their closed-door depositions. And, said Graham, if refused he would call persons involved before…
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Over two dozen House Republicans stormed a closed-door House Intelligence Committee deposition where Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia was to be interviewed by members of three committees involved…
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Republican Sycophant U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham Defends Donald Trump’s Vile Rant That The Constitutionally Legal Impeachment Inquiry Is A Lynching: “This is a lynching in every sense” The South Carolina Republican Once Again Shows…
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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. and second in line of presidential succession) released a “fact sheet” breaking down Donald Trump’s “shakedown” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a “pressure campaign”…
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Marie Curie. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Buddha.   Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie…
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Betrayal for the Kurds. Appeasement for Erdogan. Donald Trump will draw down U.S. military presence in northern Syria to make way for Turkish troops to wipe out the Kurds. Trump’s policy of appeasement toward…
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Mona Eltahawy. Abigail Adams. JoeAnn Hart.   Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us…
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On 1 October 1974, five of Richard Nixon’s cabinet went on trial for conspiring to derail the Watergate investigation: U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Kenneth Parkinson, Robert…
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 John Pilger. Simone Weil. John Adams. The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.…
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Mitch “Moscow Mitch” McConnell, Senate Majority leader (Republican-KY), said during a radio interview that people who gave him the nickname “Moscow Mitch” are not-nice hard-left people who just want to smear him. Hey Mitch,…
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Donald Trump likes to boast about his deal-making genius, about how he always comes away with the best deals in the history of deals. Well, as we have all witnessed over the past couple…
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Five Year Anniversary Today. Remember When Republicans and Their Buddies In Corporate Media Went Bat-Shit Crazy and Tried To Create An End-Of-The-Republic Scandal Because President Obama Wore A Tan Suit To A Pressor? And…
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This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him. Tom Morello
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H.L. Mencken. George Eliot. John Kenneth Galbraith.   The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins,…