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Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time nominating potential cabinet members and other members of his second administration. Trump’s selections departed from how he chose cabinet members for his 2017-21 presidency. It is clear he and his advisers are specifically choosing hard-right personal “loyalists” and fascist-minded ideologues, while ignoring many GOP functionaries who joined his…
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Canadian and U.S. postal workers demand a just contract
Home » Editorials » Canadian and U.S. postal workers demand a just contract Roughly 55,000 Canadian postal workers went on strike on Nov. 15. The Canada Post Corporation, the country’s main postal operator, has cut off disability benefits to members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, and all collective bargaining agreements have been canceled.…
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Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power was ignored…
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Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
Back in the dark days of the Soviet Union, dissidents risked being locked up – but not, officially at least, on the grounds that they had committed a political crime. In the Soviet regime’s imagination, treason and mental illness were often two sides of the same coin. Here’s a brief description from Wikipedia of the…
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Mass Psychosis and the Church of Humanitarian Interventionism
Ask any American liberal aged sixty-five and older what they think about Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler and they will vehemently denounce these men as tyrants, murderers, and despots. Ask them what they think about the Vietnam War and they will say it was a tragedy, not only for the Vietnamese, but for the poor American…
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Trump’s cabinet picks are cast of vultures
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time nominating potential cabinet members and other members of his second administration. Trump’s selections departed from how he chose cabinet members for his 2017-21 presidency. It is clear he and his advisers are specifically choosing hard-right personal “loyalists” and fascist-minded ideologues, while ignoring many GOP functionaries who joined his…
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Canadian and U.S. postal workers demand a just contract
Home » Editorials » Canadian and U.S. postal workers demand a just contract Roughly 55,000 Canadian postal workers went on strike on Nov. 15. The Canada Post Corporation, the country’s main postal operator, has cut off disability benefits to members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, and all collective bargaining agreements have been canceled.…
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The heroic armed resistance in Puerto Rico: WW commentary
The only way for a people and a nation to win liberation from white supremacy, American hypernationalism and global capitalism is revolution. This is true for the entire colonized world but especially for the Puerto Rican colony. Logo of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) I am a Puerto Rican who loves her nation,…
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Six Months of Lies and Pressure: How US and Israeli Interference Stalled Netanyahu’s ICC Arrest Warrant
More than six months after the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defense minister, a ruling was finally issued Thursday. In the interim, both Israel and the United States took unprecedented steps to obstruct the court’s decision-making process. In May, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan publicly announced his…