Sanders Top Recipient Of Donations From Military

The Sanders’ campaign cites the senator’s promises to “end the endless wars” and his years of work on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee as reasons for his popularity with military employees. A new analysis from Foreign Policy finds that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the favorite presidential candidate of the military, in what critics argue is the [...]

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Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps

The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A new congressional bill would deliver heftier IRS bills to corporations that overpay their top executives at the expense of their workers. Institute for [...]

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Spain Struggles to Leave Fascist Past Behind

Is Spain’s exhumation of Francisco Franco’s body a sign the country is confronting its fascist history or merely a political move intended to win votes and election seats? After more than 40 years of democracy, Spain is still struggling to leave the legacy of its fascist past behind despite the government’s recent exhumation of former [...]

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To Understand Bolivia Coup, Look to Venezuela

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign after a Bolivian coup that has shaken the country and resulted in violent and deadly protests. Bolivia is currently wading through what exiled former Bolivian President Evo Morales has dubbed “the most cunning and disastrous” Bolivian coup in history. Morales is in Mexico, while Senate leader [..]

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Venice Floods A Warning For Coastal Cities

According to a new climate report, rising sea levels will make extreme flooding that used to happen in Venice once every 100 years occur every six years by 2050. Venice’s famed historic sites are at risk of irreparable structural damage after a series of floods engulfed the city over the past week, in what experts [...]

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Trump Issues War Crimes Pardons Despite Pentagon Opposition

“The grand American tradition of immunizing its war criminals – while preaching morality to the world – continues with these vile pardons by Trump.” President Trump issued pardons in three cases involving war crimes accusations on Friday, overriding the military justice system and opposition from some Pentagon officials in a move critics argue will embolden [...]

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Guys, Stop Being So Mean to the Billionaires

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty sick and tired of billionaires telling us what we can and can’t do in a political sense and why taxing them “to the hilt,” to borrow their verbiage, is so blatantly unfair.

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The Bolivian Coup Is Not a Coup – Because US Wanted It to Happen

Morales was the first indigenous president in his majority indigenous nation – one that has been ruled by a white European elite since the days of the conquistadors. (By Alan Macleod, FAIR) Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example [...]

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