By Karen Shiebler on Jan 26, 2020 07:00 am
 What Senate Democrats really need right now is talented orator. Someone who could say something like this.
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By Catherine Shakdam on Jan 25, 2020 02:00 pm
 Turkey’s ruling party is attempting to introduce a law that would grant amnesty to rapists as long as they marry their victim, four years after a similar bill ignited domestic and international backlash. At the express request of President Recep Erdogan, Turkey’s strongman and long-standing advocate for Islamic conservatism, the legislature will soon introduce to [...]
The post Turkey Offers Legal Cover To Sexual Predators, Uses Religion To Underwrite Violence Against Women appeared first on Citizen Truth.
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By Guest Post on Jan 25, 2020 12:00 pm
 The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may be shaping America’s new Mideast strategy. (By: Whitney Webb, Mintpress News) Since the U.S. killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and [...]
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By Dennis Broe on Jan 25, 2020 08:00 am
 Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities as those with capital in cities such as Munich, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are borrowing at no cost and buying up apartments that are then being used as tourist rentals in partnership with Airbnb and other services. Along with this trend [...]
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By Phillip Smith on Jan 25, 2020 07:00 am
 As we welcome the new year, it’s worth taking a look back at last year to ponder how far the world has come on marijuana law reform—and how far it has to go. The wall of marijuana prohibition continued to crumble in 2019, albeit at an achingly slow pace. A lot of the activity was [...]
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By Kate Walter on Jan 25, 2020 06:00 am
 Brandon Lipps, an Under-Secretary at the USDA, announced a rule change in the federal school lunch program, changing the requirements in place since The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The rule changes allow that portions of whole grains, fruits and vegetables be replaced by processed and prepackaged foods. When Michelle Obama was the presidential First [...]
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By Vijay Prashad on Jan 24, 2020 11:00 am
 “In Bolivia, if the armed forces are shooting the people, killing the people, the people have the right to organize their security.” – Evo Morales It was a curious exchange. Frustrated by the attacks on his party—the Movement for Socialism (MAS)—former president of Bolivia Evo Morales made an audio recording in which he called upon [...]
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By Dennis Broe on Jan 24, 2020 08:01 am
 Time magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its person of the year last December but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to counter the effects of an ever more rapacious neoliberal capitalism, the real person of the year who epitomizes this moment [...]
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By Guest Post on Jan 24, 2020 07:00 am
 “This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the water we drink.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The Trump administration is set to continue its corporate friendly assault on [...]
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By Karen Shiebler on Jan 24, 2020 06:00 am
 Although I was once a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton, I followed my progressive heart and felt the Bern in 2016.
Now I struggle with the pressure to "Vote Blue No Matter Who."
Hillary Clinton's recent comments about her former rival have finally set me free.
Thanks, Hillary!
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By Daniel Davis on Jan 24, 2020 05:00 am
 The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a tranche of documents implicating Africa’s richest women in mismanagement of Angola’s state oil company. Newly-leaked documents revealed Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, allegedly siphoned government money into private, offshore accounts. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published 92 of 715,000 [...]
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By Paul Abela on Jan 23, 2020 02:33 pm
 With the right incentives, you can change people's behavior.
We require transformative societal change. This article discusses the challenges as well as how people can be incentivized to change to solve the climate crisis.
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By Alec Pronk on Jan 23, 2020 02:00 pm
 The seven countries that would reportedly be included in the expanded travel ban are Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. President Donald Trump announced at the World Economic Forum that his administration is planning to expand his controversial ‘travel ban’ which targeted Muslim-majority countries in 2018. The Wall Street Journal first reported the [...]
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