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* Trump Attacks Somali Refugees In Minnesota Rally
* Voters Often Parrot the Party Line, Even When Polls Suggest Otherwise
* Why Barack Obama Was Particularly Unsuited to Live Up to the Ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Less Than 24 Hours After Saying ‘Time to Bring ‘Em Home,’ Trump Orders 1,800 US Troops to Saudi Arabia
* Mass Protests Across Ecuador as New IMF Austerity Measures Take Effect
* Google Gives Big Donations To Climate Denialism Groups
* New Nobel Laureate Is A Genocide Apologist
* United Arab Emirates Withdraws Forces from Yemen Port City of Aden
* Richest 400 Americans Pay Lower Taxes Than Every Other Income Group
* Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism
* PG&E’s Forced Power Outage Reveals Flaws in Archaic Power System
* UN Bankruptcy Looms, Funding Set to Run Out in Weeks




** Trump Attacks Somali Refugees In Minnesota Rally ([link removed])
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By Peter Castagno on Oct 12, 2019 01:17 pm
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At a campaign rally in Minnesota, Trump doubled down on his anti-immigration rhetoric and the same divisive tactics that brought him to the White House in 2016. President Trump gave his first official campaign rally since House Democrats began their impeachment inquiry last month, targeting Somali refugees, Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Bidens, and what he […]

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** Voters Often Parrot the Party Line, Even When Polls Suggest Otherwise ([link removed])
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By Guest Post on Oct 12, 2019 11:00 am
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Research shows that political party has more predictive power when it comes to voting than self-professed policy stances. (By Justin Buchler, The Conversation) As the 2020 election approaches, voters will see a variety of polls. Many of them will be misleading. Over time, political science has learned which types of questions are informative and which […]

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** Why Barack Obama Was Particularly Unsuited to Live Up to the Ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize ([link removed])
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By Guest Post on Oct 12, 2019 09:00 am
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(By Nick Lehr, The Conversation) A decade ago, in October 2009, Barack Obama learned that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was uncomfortable with the prize, saying that he didn’t feel that he deserved “to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize.” Nonetheless, […]

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** Less Than 24 Hours After Saying ‘Time to Bring ‘Em Home,’ Trump Orders 1,800 US Troops to Saudi Arabia ([link removed])
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By Guest Post on Oct 12, 2019 07:00 am
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“Remember when Donald Trump tweeted that he was ‘trying to end the endless wars?’ That was yesterday.” (By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Less than a day after President Donald Trump bragged to supporters at a campaign-style rally in Minnesota Thursday that he was working hard to bring U.S. soldiers home from foreign wars, the Pentagon […]

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** Mass Protests Across Ecuador as New IMF Austerity Measures Take Effect ([link removed])
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By Yasmeen Rasidi on Oct 12, 2019 05:05 am
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As Ecuador endures a financial crisis, protesters took to the streets to express their anger at newly imposed IMF-forced austerity measures. An International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed austerity program that cut a decades-long fuel subsidy and came into effect on Thursday has sparked nationwide protests in oil-rich Ecuador, leaving hundreds arrested and wounded. During a nationwide […]

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** Google Gives Big Donations To Climate Denialism Groups ([link removed])
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By Peter Castagno on Oct 11, 2019 03:48 pm
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“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson. The Guardian’s new “Polluters” series, dedicated to uncovering the structures driving the climate crisis, revealed on Friday that Google has made “substantial contributions” to some of the most strident climate change denialism organizations in the […]

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** New Nobel Laureate Is A Genocide Apologist ([link removed])
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By Peter Castagno on Oct 11, 2019 11:30 am
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“More than ever we need public intellectuals who are able to make a robust defense of human rights in the face of the indifference and cynicism of our political leaders. Handke is not such a person.” The Nobel Committee’s decision to name Austrian author Peter Handke as one of the two winners of the Nobel […]

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** United Arab Emirates Withdraws Forces from Yemen Port City of Aden ([link removed])
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By Rami Almeghari on Oct 11, 2019 10:13 am
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On the heels of reportedly successful talks between opposing factions in Yemen, the UAE has withdrawn troops from a key Yemen port city. Yemeni officials, speaking anonymously to Bloomberg, announced they observed the withdrawal of United Arab Emirates’ troops, along with some Sudanese forces, in the Yemeni port of Aden and the Al-Anad military airbase […]

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** Richest 400 Americans Pay Lower Taxes Than Every Other Income Group ([link removed])
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By Peter Castagno on Oct 11, 2019 07:05 am
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As income inequality soars in the U.S., the rich are paying fewer and fewer taxes. Drawing upon data from a new book, “The Triumph of Injustice” by UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt’s Sunday op-ed has drawn attention to how tax rates for the richest Americans have […]

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** Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism ([link removed])
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies on Oct 11, 2019 05:00 am
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As corrosive as neoliberalism has been to working people in the U.S., it has been far more destructive wherever the U.S. and its allies have tried to impose it by military force. This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been […]

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** PG&E’s Forced Power Outage Reveals Flaws in Archaic Power System ([link removed])
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By Peter Castagno on Oct 10, 2019 03:36 pm
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Environmentalists and other proponents of utility reform argue the forced outage is a sign that California should replace PG&E and invest in safer, renewable infrastructure. Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to around 800,000 California residents in parts of 22 counties in a preemptive effort to avoid sparking a wildfire in the face of hot, […]

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** UN Bankruptcy Looms, Funding Set to Run Out in Weeks ([link removed])
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By Yasmeen Rasidi on Oct 10, 2019 01:05 pm
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Despite repeated warnings that the U.N. was underfunded, the international peacekeeping body may be facing a U.N. bankruptcy in a matter of weeks. The United Nations is facing a severe budget deficit of $230 million due to delayed payments from member countries. The organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that the world body would […]

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