By Guest Post on Jul 23, 2020 12:00 pm
 The National Priorities Project has put together a list of ten better uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The majority of House Democrats joined with the Republican colleagues yesterday in voting down progressive legislation that would have cut the Pentagon budget by [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Jul 23, 2020 11:00 am
 The Kentucky Attorney General’s lawsuit not only targets Wall Street’s predatory pension-management practices, but singles out Blackstone CEO and top McConnell and Trump donor Steve Schwarzman. In a surprise move on Wednesday, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron intervened in a lawsuit alleging that the state’s pension system has been exploited and mismanaged by top Wall [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Jul 23, 2020 08:00 am
 “The order to close the consulate, one of six China operates in the US in addition to its Washington embassy, came directly from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.” In the latest escalation of tensions with Beijing, the Trump administration on Wednesday ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston. Beijing warned it will respond, [...]
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By Will Bacha on Jul 23, 2020 06:00 am
 “Reparations have been paid out to several groups in the United States in the past so it’s not something that’s unheard of and it’s definitely not something that’s a radical idea.” Many Americans are dismissive of the fact that the United States is a country built on a foundation of slavery, oppression and racism. They [...]
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By Guest Post on Jul 22, 2020 01:02 pm
 “This shows clearly that Israel doesn’t care about Palestinian lives…They can’t even give us our basic rights to healthcare so we can treat our people from the coronavirus.” –Tayseer Abu Sneineh, Mayor of Hebron (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The Israeli decision to bulldoze a newly built COVID-19 field hospital and testing center in Hebron [...]
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies on Jul 22, 2020 10:30 am
 In an article in Foreign Affairs in March titled, “Why America Must Lead Again,” Joe Biden claimed that “the world doesn’t organize itself,” and promised to “put the U.S. back at the head of the table” among the nations of the world. But the premise that the world can only organize itself under the direction of the United [...]
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By Alexis Chapman on Jul 22, 2020 09:00 am
 Florida’s large population and its status as a swing state means that the prohibition on felons’ voting has national impacts. On July 16 the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, which will likely prevent hundreds of thousands of Florida citizens from voting. The case was a challenge to a 2019 law the bans people [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Jul 22, 2020 07:30 am
 Video shows Trump supporters with a Confederate Flag on their truck attack Black Lives Matter protesters Counter-protesters and President Trump supporters attacked Black Lives Matters protesters in Teller County, Colorado on Friday. Video evidence shows the counter-protesters approaching a car and punching a man resulting in a skirmish. In Teller County, #Colorado, following a Facebook [...]
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By Adrienne Jones on Jul 22, 2020 06:00 am
 The state’s Republican leadership did nothing to prevent this democratic disaster from happening, even though it had happened before, just two years ago. (Common Dreams) As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman and lifelong advocate of voting rights, the mayhem in his home state’s most recent election serves as another egregious [...]
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By Guest Post on Jul 21, 2020 02:00 pm
 “Neal is one of the most powerful members of Congress, and it’s clear he’s using that power to benefit Wall Street fund managers instead of regular Americans.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Rep. Richard Neal, the powerful Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, is coming under renewed criticism from his primary opponent [...]
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