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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They didn't want to make you look so tough," the president told a room full of cops on Monday. "They didn't want to make you look like you're a threat."

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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Former Vice President Joe Biden came under fire from progressives Monday as video footage circulated online showing his condescending response to a young woman who questioned him about abandoning his opposition to super PACs in the face of a cash-strapped presidential campaign.


Syrian children walk past a damaged van at the site of helicopter gunfire which reportedly killed nine people near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha in the Idlib province along the border with Turkey, where "groups linked to the Islamic State (IS) group" were present, according to a Britain-based war monitor with sources inside Syria, on October 27, 2019. The helicopters targeted a home and a car on the outskirts of Barisha, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, after US media said IS leade

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Nobody is better than the U.S. at killing terrorists. Nobody is better than the U.S. at creating terrorists."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A survey released Monday revealed that 70 percent of American millennials and nearly two-thirds of young people between the ages of 16 and 23 say they would support a socialist candidate for president—a result which a number of progressives viewed as an outgrowth of the damage unregulated capitalism has done.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our rage as a nation has to burn as fiercely as every fire we witness — for the retiree who's lost their entire life savings, for the family forced to evacuate from a home they may never come back to, for the child suffocating in smoke miles away."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"After years of horrifying footage of people wildly cheering Trump's deranged rambling at his rallies, it's reassuring—restorative, even!—to know that the rest of the country hasn't forgotten how to greet tyrants."


climate activists occupied Canada's House of Commons

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Over two dozen youth activists were arrested Monday for occupying the floor of Canada's House of Commons to demand the nation's lawmakers prioritize combating the climate emergency a week after voters elected a squad of Green New Deal supporters to Parliament.

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Along with the abuses of prisoners in places like Camp Bucca, FOB Mercury, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo, U.S. warfare predictably led to the buildup of ISIS and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi's commitment to "an eye for an eye." (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Kathy Kelly
We can work to abolish war, mourn the deaths of Al-Baghdadi's children and question how conditions inside U.S. military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.


Corporate-led development has contributed to spiraling housing costs and undermined people’s right to affordable and safe housing. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Jackie Smith
National network of cities files report to UN Human Rights body on corporate power and local human rights challenges.


Tzipi Livni (pictured) is the former Israeli foreign minister who has been the subject of arrest warrants and a lawsuit in three countries for her alleged role in war crimes committed during the 2008-09 Cast Lead invasion of Gaza. (Photo: Stefano Montesi/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins
"Hosting [Livni] for a lecture minimizes the lives and deaths of her victims while encouraging future reproductions of her crimes."


Al-Baghdadi and his movement did enormous damage to the image of Islam in the world, and committed genocide against Muslims, as the term is defined in the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court.(Photo: Screenshot)

by Juan Cole
People in eastern Syria were brutalized and then suffered enormous damage as the US bombed their towns and villages to defeat ISIL, which had taken them over.


Celebrations on the Berlin Wall after the government announced people could cross the border freely in Germany on Nov. 12, 1989. (Photo: Chute Du Mur Berlin / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

by James Carroll
And the return of war-as-the-answer.


Asylum-seekers inside the Leona Vicario Federal shelter in Ciudad Juarez, October 9, 2019. (Photo:Guillermo Arias for the ACLU)

by Ashoka Mukpo
How will we respond to their suffering? Wil we allow the most hateful and uncaring among us to write our history, or will we fight back and demand better?

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