By Vijay Prashad on Feb 13, 2020 11:00 am
 On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup [...]
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By M.K. Bhadrakumar on Feb 13, 2020 09:00 am
 “There is much angst in the American mind that Mohammed Allawi, once confirmed as prime minister by the Iraqi parliament, may not only restructure U.S.-Iraqi relations, but eventually take the wind out of the sails of the so-called protests that Washington and its regional allies have inserted since October 2019.” In happier times, Washington and [...]
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By Leonard C. Goodman on Feb 13, 2020 07:00 am
 The party is using different tools to achieve the same goal as 2016—sidelining Sanders. Yogi Berra, the great Yankees catcher, had the memorable line, “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Bernie Sanders supporters might have been thinking the same thing after the fiasco of the Iowa caucuses. It was just four years ago that [...]
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By Ed Orazem on Feb 13, 2020 05:00 am
Candidates Sanders and Warren routinely engage in pure and simple demagoguery, singling out billionaires, wall street and insurance and drug company executives.
Is the targeting of such a small group based on their wealth and position really any different from targeting a group for their immigration status, color, or religion?
Unless democrats reject this language, they will continue to polarize the audience and impede progress.
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By Guest Post on Feb 12, 2020 02:00 pm
 Upon his return to Venezuela, Juan Guaido was greeted by an enraged mob hectoring, jeering and manhandling him, kicking his car and covering him in water and other liquids. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Self-declared Venezuelan “Interim President” Juan Guaido may have been given a hero’s welcome at President Trump’s State of the Union Address last week, [...]
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By Catherine Shakdam on Feb 12, 2020 12:00 pm
 “Both the far right and Islamist extremists benefit when their professed enemies engage in a terror attack or do anything that confirms their narratives. They want to see more rifts and more chaos in society. When communities are scared, when they’re driven apart, they’re vulnerable to the extremist narratives.” News resurfaced this February of political [...]
The post Convenient Bedfellows: Why The MEK Backs Spanish Far-Right In Tactical Relationship appeared first on Citizen Truth.
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By Daniel Davis on Feb 12, 2020 09:00 am
 “No one should be harassed and forced to spy on their religious community. The FBI agents knew I was vulnerable and that I needed to fly to see my family.” The US Supreme Court will hear a case this spring on whether Muslim men can sue FBI agents—not the organization, but individual employees—for being placed [...]
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By Charles Laverty on Feb 12, 2020 08:03 am
 The Centers for Disease Control says 85 million adult Americans are not getting enough sleep and it is contributing to many of our largest healthcare problems. With healthcare remaining highly politicized, the sleeplessness pandemic is a bipartisan opportunity for us to slow the growth of coronary disease, stroke, obesity and other major health problems.
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By Guest Post on Feb 12, 2020 07:00 am
 “This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) After refusing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the state of Israel, the state of Georgia shut down [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 12, 2020 05:00 am
 “Presidents and attorneys general cannot put their thumbs on the scales of justice for any reason—including to aid friends associates—or we cease to be a nation of laws.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Government watchdog groups and Democratic members of Congress late Tuesday accused President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr of abusing the [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Feb 11, 2020 04:00 pm
 “No one should ever use our nation’s security as a political weapon, let alone the commander in chief” – New York Attorney General Letitia James The Department of Homeland Security recently stopped accepting enrollments by New Yorkers in its trusted-traveler programs and the state will now sue over it, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. [...]
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By Jack Xiong on Feb 11, 2020 02:00 pm
 The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York is now reviewing the investigation of the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X that could potentially open a re-investigation of the case. The new documentary series, “Who Killed Malcolm X?”, premiered on Netflix on Friday and has already sparked authorities to reopen the case on [...]
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