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U.S. trade embargo has cost Cuba $130 billion, U.N. says
A United Nations agency said on Tuesday an “unjust” U.S. financial and trade embargo on Cuba had cost the country’s economy $130 billion over nearly six decades.
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Breaking the Iran nuclear deal means trouble for the U.S.
This week President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the nuclear international agreement under which Iran agreed to halt its nuclear program. So why…
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The results are in: Corporate criminals are the big winners
The reality of the tax cut that was supposed to help even distressed communities: “The nation’s six biggest banks posted record, or near record, profits in the first quarter 0f 2018,…
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How U.S., Facebook are ‘complicit in censoring non-western media’
Contemporary social media giants and politicians have been complicit in the censorship of media coverage that opposes that of mainstream news, with the justification that such outlets…
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Jeff Weaver: “Bernie Would Have Won. Period.”
Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, has written a tell-all book obtained early by VICE News. This one is written with the future in mind. Namely, a possible 2020 presidential…
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A murder of crows
Who is the most despicable character in the Trump administration? Trump... That is obvious but still remarkable. Donald Trump has assembled around him a whole army of Darth Vaders, and…
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Bernie Sanders has conquered the Democratic Party
A large portion of the Democratic Party dismissed Bernie Sanders as an interloper, a naive radical, or even just another entitled white male during his presidential run in 2016. Which…
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The Trump effect
Call it the Trump effect, that giant sucking sound we have been hearing for the last 15 months. It is the sound of all the air being sucked out of the room where democratic politics,…
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Former First Lady Barbara Bush dead at 92
Barbara Bush, the widely admired wife of one president and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died Tuesday evening. She was 92.
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Donald Trump and the philosophy of ‘making things worse’
“The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals,” wrote Donald Trump in his first book, "The Art of the Deal." A whole theory of American political science is…
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