Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Blackwater and the Corporate Mercenaries Who've Changed the Rules of War
The UN asserts that mercenarism is against international humanitarian law, but this hardly seems to matter. By exploiting legal loopholes along with some creative lawyering, the modern mercenary now operates with impunity.
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Richest 1% Captured 82% of Wealth Created Last Year – While Poorest Half of the World Got Nothing
A new Oxfam analysis shows that one new billionaire was created every other day in 2017.
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A Powerful Economic Justice Movement Is Brewing, Even in This Dark Time
Today’s dire threats to our democracy did not arise out of nowhere.
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Far-Right Reichsbürger Movement Aims To Delegitimize the German State
The extremist “Citizens of the Reich” is a cluster of German and Austrian fringe movements that refuse to recognize German borders after 1937, when Adolf Hitler secured territories that Germany had lost in World War I.
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive and left-wing sites, have given the corporate state the power to destroy freedom of speech.
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After "Grad Tax" Success, Graduate Students Find Their Voice – and their Power
Women's March organizers would do well to look to one of the most successful grassroots political groups to seize the stage in 2017: graduate students. Last year's successful campaign against the “grad tax” may be their most significant victory yet.
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American Democracy Is Failing. The Courts are Finally Starting to Notice.
There is something profoundly wrong with the United States of America’s system of government.
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Disaster Capitalism in Action as Puerto Rico Governor Announces Plan to Privatize Power Utility
"Whether it's water or energy, privatization helps Wall Street at the expense of the wellbeing and health of communities."
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Resurgence of Protests In Catalonia As Spain Continues to Hold Political Prisoners
You would think three months prison without trial for organizing peaceful protests is something that happens in an authoritarian state, but this reality now faces two Catalan men who were jailed in Spain for sedition last fall while calling for public
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"World Economic Fiasco": Thousands March Ahead of Trump's Davos Arrival
"The discussions between the richest one percent of the world and a man who fuels an aggressive atmosphere towards women and minorities has no place in Switzerland."
