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FILE - This June 23, 2020 file photo shows Jamaal Bowman speaking to attendees during his primary-night party. The former middle school principal has toppled 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in New York’s Democratic congressional primary. Many votes cast by mail in the race have yet to be counted, but an AP analysis of absentee ballots returned so far indicated Friday, July 17, that Bowman’s lead was too large for Engel to overcome. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, FIle)
FILE - This June 23, 2020 file photo shows Jamaal Bowman speaking to attendees during his primary-night party. The former middle school principal has toppled 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in New York’s Democratic congressional primary. Many votes cast by mail in the race have yet to be counted, but an AP analysis of absentee ballots returned so far indicated Friday, July 17, that Bowman’s lead was too large for Engel to overcome. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, FIle)
29 Apr 2021

Jamaal Bowman Explains How Progressives Will Make Biden’s Presidency Even Bolder

By John Nichols April 29, 2021 photo above: yourbasin.com; Jamaal Bowman topples US Rep. Engel in NY Democratic Primary WN:…
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - OCTOBER 31: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Deltaplex Arena October 31, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With just eight days until the election, polls show a slight tightening in the race. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - OCTOBER 31: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Deltaplex Arena October 31, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With just eight days until the election, polls show a slight tightening in the race. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
27 Oct 2020

Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda

Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda By Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman March…
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U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listens as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler speaks about articles of impeachment against Preisdent Donald Trump during a news conference with other Democratic committee chairs to announce articles of impeachment against the president on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC2ESD9I0Q6D
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listens as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler speaks about articles of impeachment against Preisdent Donald Trump during a news conference with other Democratic committee chairs to announce articles of impeachment against the president on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC2ESD9I0Q6D
11 Dec 2019

When the Facts Are Not Debatable

The House’s two charges against Trump get right to the point, are easy to prove, and precisely describe the threat…
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Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., prepares to pay his respects to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who lies in state during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. The Maryland congressman and civil rights champion died Thursday, Oct. 17, at age 68 of complications from long-standing health issues. (Melina Mara/Pool via AP)
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., prepares to pay his respects to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who lies in state during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. The Maryland congressman and civil rights champion died Thursday, Oct. 17, at age 68 of complications from long-standing health issues. (Melina Mara/Pool via AP)
27 Nov 2019

“Hate is too heavy a burden to bear,” Lewis tweeted last year. “Love is the better way.” – John Lewis

 “Hate is too heavy a burden to bear,” Lewis tweeted last year. “Love is the better way.” - John Lewis…
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Ranking Member Devin Nunes (L), Republican of California, speaks with Representative Jim Jordan (C), Republican of Ohio, and Republican Counsel Stephen Castor (R), during the first public hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, with witnesses Ukrainian Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent testifying, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., November 13, 2019. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS - RC2HAD9JPDQ7
Ranking Member Devin Nunes (L), Republican of California, speaks with Representative Jim Jordan (C), Republican of Ohio, and Republican Counsel Stephen Castor (R), during the first public hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, with witnesses Ukrainian Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent testifying, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., November 13, 2019. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS - RC2HAD9JPDQ7
14 Nov 2019

The Exposure of the Republican Party

The Exposure of the Republican Party The GOP will not be a great or good party until those who lead…
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Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
27 Feb 2019

TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL D. COHEN COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 27, 2019

  photo above: CNN Politics WN: I've spent a 40-year career working with prisoners and ex-prisoners. Many were clearly cons.…
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Assam Hadhad, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Canada last year, displays a tray of chocolates at his shop, Peace by Chocolate, in Antigonish, N.S. on September 21, 2016. The one-time Syrian refugee who founded a thriving Nova Scotia chocolate company has announced plans to hire and mentor other refugees. Peace by Chocolate of Antigonish, N.S., has committed to hiring 50 refugees by 2022, and to mentor 10 refugee-run start-ups over the next few years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Assam Hadhad, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Canada last year, displays a tray of chocolates at his shop, Peace by Chocolate, in Antigonish, N.S. on September 21, 2016. The one-time Syrian refugee who founded a thriving Nova Scotia chocolate company has announced plans to hire and mentor other refugees. Peace by Chocolate of Antigonish, N.S., has committed to hiring 50 refugees by 2022, and to mentor 10 refugee-run start-ups over the next few years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
17 Feb 2019

Nova Scotia Chocolatier Peace by Chocolate Pledges To Hire 50 Refugees By 2022

Nova Scotia Chocolatier Peace by Chocolate Pledges To Hire 50 Refugees By 2022 The now-famous company will also mentor 10…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
06 Jan 2018

And the Trumpie goes to . . .

By Dana Milbank Opinion writer January 5 at 7:48 PM WN: despite what the article highlights below, there is someone…
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - OCTOBER 31: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Deltaplex Arena October 31, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With just eight days until the election, polls show a slight tightening in the race. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - OCTOBER 31: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Deltaplex Arena October 31, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With just eight days until the election, polls show a slight tightening in the race. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
17 Feb 2017

Trump’s anti-press conference would be funny – if it weren’t so scary

Friday 17 February 2017 15.09 GMT Richard Wolffe If Donald Trump is qualified for any job – and that’s a rather…
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, the largest far-right party in France, speaks to reporters at a political meeting in Perpignan, France, Feb. 15, 2014. Under Le Pen, the daughter of the party's founder, the National Front has moved from the fringe to the center of French politics by softening the party's xenophobic image. (Pierre Terdjman/The New York Times)
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, the largest far-right party in France, speaks to reporters at a political meeting in Perpignan, France, Feb. 15, 2014. Under Le Pen, the daughter of the party's founder, the National Front has moved from the fringe to the center of French politics by softening the party's xenophobic image. (Pierre Terdjman/The New York Times)
12 Nov 2016

Rising European Fascists Welcome Trump Victory

Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Ryan Harvey, Truthout | Report photo above: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the…
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Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. A report on Friday showed the economy created only 120,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October. The unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, but largely as people gave up the search for work. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR30NJI
Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. A report on Friday showed the economy created only 120,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October. The unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, but largely as people gave up the search for work. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR30NJI
09 Aug 2016

The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today

Just as past public policies created the racial wealth gap, current policy widens it. By Joshua Holland AUGUST 8, 2016 WN:…
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030325-D-9880W-079 President George W. Bush (right) announces his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request in the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz look on. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with the senior defense leadership and to announce the supplemental request which, once appropriated by Congress, will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the global war against terror. DoD photo by R.D. Ward. (Released)
030325-D-9880W-079 President George W. Bush (right) announces his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request in the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz look on. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with the senior defense leadership and to announce the supplemental request which, once appropriated by Congress, will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the global war against terror. DoD photo by R.D. Ward. (Released)
09 Aug 2016

The Neocon Project for a New Democratic Party

photo above: White House Monday, 08 August 2016 08:45 J.P. SOTTILE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT an excerpt: Unlike Hillary Clinton,…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
08 Aug 2016

The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism

Posted on Aug 8, 2016 By Chris Hedges an excerpt: College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage…
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A light from the crowd is seen past Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, during a goodbye reception at the Westin Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, July 22, 2016. A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in a speech that signaled a more serious turn heading into the general election, Trump ripped into former primary competitor Ted Cruz, revisiting their ugly feud over Cruzs wife and father. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A light from the crowd is seen past Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, during a goodbye reception at the Westin Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, July 22, 2016. A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in a speech that signaled a more serious turn heading into the general election, Trump ripped into former primary competitor Ted Cruz, revisiting their ugly feud over Cruzs wife and father. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images
05 Aug 2016

Dear Donald Trump: This Is Why Nuclear Weapons Are Bad

Wired: Author: Issie Lapowsky  Business Date of Publication: 08.03.16. Donald Trump is incredibly dangerous! PERIOD. an excerpt: This morning on…
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The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, the medical charity has warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, the medical charity has warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
17 Jul 2016

Lawless Drone Killings

By Stephen Lendman Global Research, October 25, 2013 Obama and his advisors are obscene serial killers - with impunity. an…
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In this photo released by Guatemala's Presidency on Monday May 31, 2010, a sinkhole covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City, Monday May 31, 2010. A day earlier authorities blamed the heavy rains caused by tropical storm Agatha as the cause of the crater that swallowed a a three-story building but now say they will be conducting further studies to determine the cause. Last April 2007, another giant sinkhole in the same area killed 3 people.(AP Photo/Guatemala's Presidency, Luis Echeverria)
In this photo released by Guatemala's Presidency on Monday May 31, 2010, a sinkhole covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City, Monday May 31, 2010. A day earlier authorities blamed the heavy rains caused by tropical storm Agatha as the cause of the crater that swallowed a a three-story building but now say they will be conducting further studies to determine the cause. Last April 2007, another giant sinkhole in the same area killed 3 people.(AP Photo/Guatemala's Presidency, Luis Echeverria)
31 May 2016

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, America’s Sinkhole Wars

an excerpt: We have it on highest authority: the recent killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a…
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030325-D-9880W-079 President George W. Bush (right) announces his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request in the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz look on. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with the senior defense leadership and to announce the supplemental request which, once appropriated by Congress, will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the global war against terror. DoD photo by R.D. Ward. (Released)
030325-D-9880W-079 President George W. Bush (right) announces his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request in the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz look on. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with the senior defense leadership and to announce the supplemental request which, once appropriated by Congress, will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the global war against terror. DoD photo by R.D. Ward. (Released)
30 Mar 2015

Who Are the War Criminals?

WN: Another now-and-then article. An excerpt: In Errol Morris’ 2003 film, The Fog of War, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S.…
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