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William Rivers Pitt | Naked Politics: Sanders, Clinton and How to Win When You’re Losing
MSNBC — the ha “liberal” news network — went to work on the Sanders campaign as if Bernie had shot Rachel Maddow's dog.
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Why a GOP Challenger Is Unlikely to Beat Trump
With five of the last seven Republican nominees refusing to endorse Trump, the GOP is facing its biggest rift since 1912.
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Electoral Boycott as a Revolutionary Tactic
The potential for radical change is widely recognized, but prevailing reformist ideas remain insufficient.
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Five Refugee Camps in Mud on the Greek-Macedonian Border
Neither the Greek nor Macedonian governments have bombed people, but they are dealing with huge numbers of refugees.
Millions of Us Are Affected by Draconian Prison Penalties
We are at such a turning point right now with mass incarceration, which is the Number 1 public health crisis.
The Term “War Crime” Is Obsolete
If war crimes are defined as military actions that harm great numbers of civilians, then all wars today are crimes or the term is meaningless.
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Trump Card: The Bully Who Exposes Our Bully Nation
Donald Trump's bullying reflects the centrality of coercive power in US culture, society and establishment politics.
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LGBTI Latin Americans Still Fighting for Their Lives
LGTBI people in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to be criminalized and killed because of who they are and who they love.
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Privatizing Public Land: How the Raid on Malheur Concealed a Future Raid on the Commons
Behind the latest right-wingers of the American West lie corporate interests that might someday take part in one of the great land grabs of modern times.
What’s Killing the US Middle Class?
It's true that the middle class is dying, but not from natural causes. It's being killed. What is responsible for its slow death?