Trump, Iranian Leaders, Threaten War As Tensions Mount In Iraq

“…We are not afraid of any war and we tell America to speak correctly with the Iranian nation. We have the power to break them several times over and are not worried,” The United States and Iran appear to be on a collision course towards an all-out armed conflict in the Middle East as tensions [...]

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‘Entire Species Are Being Wiped Out’: Ecologists Say Half a Billion Animals May Have Been Killed by Australia Wildfires

“The fires have burned so hot and so fast that there has been significant mortality of animals in the trees, but there is such a big area now that is still on fire and still burning that we will probably never find the bodies.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Ecologists at the University of Sydney [...]

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Critics Blast Ivanka Trump For Hypocrisy On Paid Parental Leave

In an interview criticized for its softball questions, critics say Ivanka Trump took unwarranted credit for a new federal worker parental leave policy. In an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday, Senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump spoke about the new policy of paid parental leave for federal government workers as a result of [...]

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Are Income-Share Agreements the Answer to Ballooning Student Debt?

Supporters of ISAs argue income-share agreements have the benefit of relieving the taxpayer burden of financing students, but should student debt be forgiven altogether? Student loans are a hot topic in today’s political climate, particularly with Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warrant and Bernie Sanders pledging to forgive loans and make higher education free if they are [...]

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Federal Judge Blocks NC’s Voter ID Law, Citing State’s ‘Sordid History’ of Racist Voter Suppression

Judge Loretta Biggs said the law’s provision preventing voters from showing public assistance ID cards to vote was “particularly suspect.” (By Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Civil rights advocates on Tuesday praised a federal judge in North Carolina who struck down the state’s new voter ID law, saying in her ruling that there was likely “discriminatory [...]

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Australia Fires Rage As Coal-Controlled Government Fails To Act

Despite multiple warnings that Australia would face “catastrophic fires,” Australia consistently ranks as one of the worst countries on climate change policy. Australia’s worst bushfire season on record intensified on Tuesday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate to beaches as dozens of fires ripped across the country’s east coast. “Apocalyptic scenes like these in Mallacoota, [...]

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Defiant Voices Combat Militarization and State Repression Worldwide

Despite heightened militarization and oppressive tactics by states, people across the world refused to give in and fought back for their rights to life and dignity. (By Anish R, Umer Beigh and Abhijan Choudhury, Peoples Dispatch) Under neoliberal capitalism and its extreme right-wing manifestations in various countries, militarization and occupation are no anomalies. The combination of extreme [...]

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Interview: On the Future of the BDS Movement with BDS Palestinian Coordinator

Citizen Truth spoke with the Gaza representative for the BDS movement following recent moves by the Trump administration criticized for targeting growing support for BDS. On December 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting anti-Semitism on college campuses by using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to declare his administration would [...]

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