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Ethnic cleansing lite, or how to Make America White Again
First, throw out of the country as many black, brown, Muslim, and Spanish-speaking people as possible. Then, prevent others from coming in, with walls and blanket bans barring all…
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Puerto Rico needs aid, not new taxes
Puerto Rico lacks the right to declare bankruptcy for a fair process to restructure its debt. Instead, an undemocratic Control Board stocked with conservative ideologues was created by…
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U.S. agriculture benefiting from trade with Cuba
According to new figures released by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, U.S. agriculture is benefitting from trade with Cuba. Exports of food and agricultural products from the…
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Shutting down government a piece at a time or all at once
It is fitting that the U.S. government shut down a year to the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump. The Trump administration and its Republican accomplices in Congress have been…
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Straight talk about Trump
It’s time the news media called President Donald Trump's behavior for what it is rather than try to normalize it. Words matter. It’s important to describe Trump accurately. Every…
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355 days, 2001 lies, and a million insults
Apologists for the president will cite studies that show everyone lies every day. Yes, but Trump’s lies are different: they are not common lies about things such as why you didn’t turn…
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Donald Trump’s national security strategy
In December 2017, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy. In it Donald Trump expresses a return to the idea of "preserving peace through strength," which…
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‘Remaining awake through a great revolution’
Monday, Jan.15, we celebrate the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. We bring our readers one of Dr. King's speeches delivered at the National Cathedral,…
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Haitian government claims ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier laundered stolen money through Trump Tower
More than a fifth of Trump’s condominiums in the U.S. have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive cash transactions that fit a Treasury Department definition of suspicious…
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Donald Trump proves he’s a racist — again
Instead of worrying so much about the use of the word ‘SHITHOLE,’ headlines should have read: Donald Trump, president of the United States, proves he’s a racist — again. Editorials…
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