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News & Views | 2/26/20
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'Taking a Page From His Dictator Friends Around the World': Sanders Hits Trump Over NYT Libel Lawsuit
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
The 2020 Democratic frontrunner said the president is "trying to
dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the
New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous
relationship with Russia."
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WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Reads Full Green New Deal Resolution on House Floor to Help Improve GOP Comprehension
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor Wednesday to call
out some of her Republican colleagues for failing to read the Green New
Deal resolution she introduced over a year ago—and then read the entire
14-page proposal into the public record.
'A Scourge of Biblical Proportions': UN Leaders Sound Alarm on East Africa Locust Crisis in Call for Global Response
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Top United Nations relief officials warned Tuesday that millions more in
funding is needed to combat East Africa's worst outbreak of desert
locusts in decades, arguing that "acting now to avert a food crisis is a
more humane, effective, and cost efficient approach than responding to
the aftermath of disaster."
'We Are Not That Stupid': Rev. Al Sharpton Says Black Voters Won't Be Fooled by Red-Baiting Attacks on Sanders
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The civil rights movement always was targeted by those that would use
the Red Scare. They accused Dr. King of being a communist. We've been
down that road before."
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Presidential Candidates Should Declare Their Stance on "Costly Failure of the NSA's Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance Program," Says Snowden
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The whistleblower's call follows reporting by the New York Times showing
the agency's sprawling photo data collection effort came with a $100
million pricetag and nearly no success.
'Watershed Moment': Joining Warren and Sanders, Centrist Democrats Klobuchar and Buttigieg Agree to #SkipAIPAC
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Two days before IfNotNow members were set to protest at Sen. Amy
Klobuchar's presidential campaign headquarters in Minneapolis to demand
the senator skip this year's AIPAC conference, the senator and former
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg both announced that they would
not attend the Israel lobby's meeting this year.
'In Chile, In Guatemala, In Iran': Sanders Applauded for Highlighting US Record of Overthrowing Governments Around the World
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Nobody on the debate stage except Bernie has the guts to say the truth
about the legacy of U.S. foreign policy."
"Fire Chris Matthews," Women's Rights Group Says After MSNBC Host Grills Warren Over Discrimination Claims Against Bloomberg
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Women's advocacy group UltraViolet called on MSNBC to fire host Chris
Matthews Wednesday after he deployed what critics called typical tactics
aimed at sowing doubt about discrimination allegations against former
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, following Tuesday evening's Democratic
debate.
Approximately 120 Years Too Late, US House Passes Law to Make Lynching a Federal Crime
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Today, we send a strong message that violence—and race-based violence,
in particular—has no place in America."
'Audience Full of Rich People'? $1,750+ Ticket Prices for Democratic Debate Spark Disgust
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I think it speaks to the fundamental, endemic corruption of the
Democratic Party establishment that you had to pay... multiple thousands
of dollars to get into that room."
'Horrifying': AOC, Green Groups Criticize Debate Moderators for Asking Zero Climate Questions
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
It's "honestly shocking that CBS , in the final Democratic debate before
Super Tuesday, didn't ask a single question about the defining issue of
our lives," said the Sunrise Movement.
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Five Ways William Barr Is Helping Trump Turn US Into a Dictatorship
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by Robert Reich
What occurred under Nixon is happening again. Trump has usurped the
independence of the Department of Justice for his own ends.
Even Wall Street Plutocrats Can't Burn Bernie
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by Jeffrey D. Sachs
America's plutocrats and their media allies are certain that US
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is unelectable, or that, if
somehow elected, he would bring about the collapse of the republic. This
disdain is both telling and absurd.
How Bernie Sanders Is Reviving the Promise of FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights
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by Sophie Vaughan
There are deep parallels between what Bernie Sanders is proposing and
what Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised.
Chris Matthews and the Twilight of the Boomer's Pro-Corporate Establishment
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by Jacob Bacharach
This ineffectual effort to red-bait Sanders and smear his supporters as
wannabe Stalinists or violent revolutionaries, are absurd on their face.
Why I Protested Costco, Topless
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by Eva Hamer
We don't have the space to rescue ever piglet that dies on the floor of
a Costco animal warehouse, but we do have the truth.
'Not Looking to Keep Pelosi': Why Susan Sarandon Is Endorsing Berniecrat Shahid Buttar for Congress
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by Brett Wilkins
"He is the leader that we need right now to take on the influence of
money in politics, the environment, criminal justice reform and labor
rights, which will not survive or tolerate any more centrist inaction."
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Immigrant Rights Groups Sue ICE for Immediate Release of Information Concerning the Continuing Retaliation Against Immigrants in Sanctuary
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Washington Bottled Water Extraction Ban Testimony Proves It Will Protect Local Communities and Local Jobs
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