Border Wall Construction Destroying Sacred Native American Burial Grounds

“They’re our ancestors. They’re our remnants of who we are as a people, throughout this whole area. And it’s our obligation, it’s our duty to do what is necessary to protect that.” Construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall in Arizona has led to the disruption of a UNESCO ecological preserve containing Native American burial [...]

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Can the World’s Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of 20 Years of War?

A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine. February 15 marked the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive that the New York Times called world public opinion “the second superpower.” But the U.S. ignored it and invaded Iraq anyway. [...]

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Don’t Let Michael Bloomberg Buy the Democratic Party Nomination

Mike Bloomberg is trying to buy the Democratic Party nomination. What’s worse, the Democratic Party establishment appears content to let him do so.

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Citing Hostile “Bernie Bros” Shadowy Group Launches Beat Bernie 2020 PAC

The Beat Bernie 2020 PAC is insisting on keeping its members’ and donors’ identities a secret, due to what they call “a credible fear of threats and backlash from ardent Bernie supporters.” (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) A shadowy new PAC calling themselves the “Beat Bernie 2020” movement has launched what it calls a “massive grassroots fundraising [...]

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11 States Where You Might Be Voting on Major Marijuana Reforms This November

“While there are serious prospects for legalization at the statehouse in a handful of state this year—think Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Rhode Island—a number of other states are seeing marijuana legalization or medical marijuana initiative campaigns get underway, and several states in each category have already qualified for the ballot.” Last year wasn’t a great one [...]

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Lawmakers Who Used Food Stamps Ask Trump Not To Cut Program

Nine U.S. lawmakers sent the president a letter asking him to forgo further cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) after the Trump Administration proposed $15 billion in cuts to the $71 billion program in its budget proposal this week. The newest cuts would add to tightened eligibility requirements the administration finalized for the [...]

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As Household Debt Hits $14 Trillion, Economists Say Fed Quantitative Easing Solution for Next Recession Insufficient

“For most people, these policies will further increase in their cost of living, while their wages remain stagnant.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) On the heels of reports that U.S. household debt hit $14 trillion for the first time in history, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers Wednesday that the central bank would use [...]

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Could Corporations Take Over Control of What Public Schools Teach?

Corporations came to Virginia schools offering career and tech training—but local teachers and parents are wary that they put profits before students. The national discussion about the movement to privatize America’s public schools has mostly focused on the issues of charter schools and school voucher schemes. But a growing number of parents, teachers, and public school advocates, [...]

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Despite Iowa Caucus Fiasco, Nevada Democrats Plan to Use New Software “Tool” T

Though the fallout from the Iowa Caucus is still fresh, it appears that the technology-driven chaos and corruption seen in Iowa have not served as a warning to the Nevada Democratic Party. LAS VEGAS – (By: Whitney Webb, Mintpress News) Even while the chaos of the recent Iowa Caucus remains fresh in voters’ minds, the [...]

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Kansas Man Facing 25 Years for Cannabis That Stopped Chronic Seizures

“I don’t want to think about it.” A Kansas resident is facing 25 years in prison for growing a single marijuana plant. Larry Burgess, a cancer survivor, turned to marijuana when prescription drugs failed to alleviate his seizure disorder.  No Cannabis Love in Kansas “No seizure medication helped. In fact, my seizures got progressively worse [...]

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How the UN’s Middle East Peace Plan Was Trounced by Its Own Members

Israeli-Palestinian talks are still on hold. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has delivered a dramatic condemnation of the U.S.-drafted Middle East peace plan. No country, except Israel, has approved of the proposals at any public forum. Still, several nations around the world want the Palestinians to use the plan as a means of reopening negotiations with [...]

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‘Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes’: Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Further Than Previously Known

“Time to get off fossil fuel and on to renewables.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Ten years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster sent hundreds of millions of gallons of oil across the Gulf of Mexico, researchers say the reach of the damage was far more significant than previously thought. In a study published Wednesday in Science, Claire Paris-Limouzy [...]

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As Protests Rage On, Lebanon Asks IMF for Assistance

“The IMF is anyway very predictable when it comes to their policy recommendations. It’s almost always a combination of austerity, privatizations, revisiting the currency regime.” On Wednesday, the Lebanese government requested the International Monetary Fund offer technical help to shore up the country’s economy in the face of the current economic crisis and looming debt [...]

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