By Guest Post on Dec 12, 2019 12:00 pm
 “Every member of Congress who voted to give the most corrupt, unhinged, and unstable president in history $738 billion to fight endless wars…must never tell us that we cannot afford Medicare for All or a Green New Deal.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) More than 180 House Democrats joined a nearly united Republican caucus Wednesday [...]
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By Jack Xiong on Dec 12, 2019 10:00 am
 Roger Ailes launched the careers of TV news figures including Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Megyn Kelly, then resigned in 2016 amid multiple accusations of sexual harassment. He was seen as a de facto leader of the Republican party in the past decade. Bombshell is the latest expose on Fox News and its founder, Roger [...]
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By Jeff Bryant on Dec 12, 2019 07:00 am
 A new report finds “the federal government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never even opened, or opened and then closed because of mismanagement and other reasons.” Earlier this year when members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos about a study finding the federal government’s charter school grant program had wasted [...]
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By Yasmeen Rasidi on Dec 12, 2019 05:00 am
 The recent Pensacola shooting at a U.S. naval base by a Saudi lieutenant is a reminder of the dangers of U.S. Middle East policy. The brutal shooting at a U.S. Naval Base in Pensacola, Florida last week involving a Saudi lieutenant in the Saudi Royal Air Force raises questions, once again, about the U.S.-Saudi Arabian [...]
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By Rami Almeghari on Dec 11, 2019 01:24 pm
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses reporters on June 27, 2016, at Villa Taverna - the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Rome, Italy - between a pair of bilateral meetings between him and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/27830918172_69fcb7146a_k-300x200.jpg) Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career is still barely hanging on as Israel heads to yet another round of parliamentary elections. Israeli political leaders were reported Wednesday to have failed once again to reach a compromise on a unity government that is needed to save the country from a third round of elections [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Dec 11, 2019 09:00 am
 “Pelosi’s reasoning doesn’t make sense—starting a war based on a coordinated public lie is illegal, and therefore more than enough grounds for impeachment.” In a CNN Town Hall last Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the striking claim that despite knowing that the Bush Administration had lied to the public about Iraq’s weapons of mass [...]
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By Rami Almeghari on Dec 11, 2019 06:00 am
 “Once our leadership decides to attack the Zionist enemy, we will be ready to do so.” The Defense Minister of the Yemeni militant Houthi group, Major General Mohammad Al-Atefi, warned over the weekend that Houthis were prepared to attack “the Israeli enemy” for its role in a long series of Saudi-led attacks on the Houthis [...]
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By Vijay Prashad on Dec 10, 2019 02:52 pm
 The recently divulged Afghanistan Papers confirm a harsh truth that many already suspected: no gains were made in the 18 years since the war in Afghanistan began. Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973). The book is made [...]
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By John Bos on Dec 10, 2019 02:00 pm
 Anthropologist Carl Schuster once wrote, “Nobody has the vaguest notion of what this world is really like; the only thing that can be safely predicted is that it is very different from what anybody supposes.”
There are only two climate crisis possibilities. They are that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) projections are either (1) true or (2) false. On which outcome should we act?z
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By Alexis Chapman on Dec 10, 2019 12:35 pm
 Hawaiian gun deaths are the lowest in the nation, but even Hawaii’s strict gun laws couldn’t prevent the shooting at Pearl Harbor last week. On Dec. 4 U.S. Navy sailor Gabriel Romero fatally shot two civilians and wounded a third before killing himself at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii. While gun violence of [...]
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