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Uh, oh: French Left can't bring itself to Vote for Macron

Uh, oh: French Left can’t bring itself to Vote for Macron

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TeleSur | – – TeleSUR spoke with two French voters to discuss Sunday’s second-round presidential election in France and lesser evil voting. French voters are confronted with a difficult choice on Sunday’s runoff presidential election: Emmanuel Macron, a neoliberal former investment banker who served as an economy minister in the current — and historically unpopular — government, and […]

Donald Trump
Top 3 Ways the People can build a Trump-Free, Carbon-Free Future

Top 3 Ways the People can build a Trump-Free, Carbon-Free Future

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By Jeremy Brecher | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – As the thousands of foot-weary protesters look back on the Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C. — and its scores of sister marches around the country — one question will no doubt be foremost on their minds: How can a march, or indeed any […]

Investment
Iran Committed to Nuclear Deal, Opens Bonanza to European Investors

Iran Committed to Nuclear Deal, Opens Bonanza to European Investors

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EurActiv | euroefe.es | translated by Sam Morgan | – – The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency (AEOI) said on Saturday (29 April) that his country will honour its commitments to the nuclear agreement regardless of who wins the presidential election on 19 May. EURACTIV Spain reports. Ali Akbar Salehi insisted Iran would […]

Iraq
Power, Water, Music:  Mosul comes back to Life

Power, Water, Music: Mosul comes back to Life

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Special Correspondent | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Locals in the parts of Mosul, from which extremists have been pushed out, are celebrating small signs of returning life: For one thing, the chance to pour a glass of water in a well-lit room. Some hope is returning to the locals in Mosul, after several […]

Authoritarianism
Trump Empire-Dynasty Expands via White House Ties

Trump Empire-Dynasty Expands via White House Ties

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By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – President Trump, his children and their spouses, aren’t just using the Oval Office to augment their political legacy or secure future riches. Okay, they certainly are doing that, but that’s not the most useful way to think about what’s happening at the moment. Everything will make […]

Donald Trump
Kimmel Tearfully pleads for Affordable Care Act in wake of Son's Heart Defect

Kimmel Tearfully pleads for Affordable Care Act in wake of Son’s Heart Defect

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Jimmy Kimmel | (ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live) | (Video Clip) | – – “Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family. Jimmy opens up about his son’s birth […]

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas in new charter accepts 1967 borders for Palestinian state

Hamas in new charter accepts 1967 borders for Palestinian state

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Hamas movement announced its new charter Monday evening, presenting an acceptance of a Palestinian state along the 1967 “Green Line” border, while rejecting any legitimacy of “the Zionist entity,” in reference to the state of Israel. “Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete […]

Authoritarianism
Priebus: Trump Could Amend Constitution to Abolish 1st Amendment

Priebus: Trump Could Amend Constitution to Abolish 1st Amendment

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TeleSur | – – A constitutional amendment to stem negative coverage of any administration would require a supermajority in both houses of Congress. U.S. President Donald Trumps’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, announced Sunday that the administration is reviewing the country’s libel laws in a bid to prosecute journalists. Priebus told ABC News’ This Week […]

Far Right
Coultergate and the Truth About Campus Speech

Coultergate and the Truth About Campus Speech

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David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – The cancellation of human outrage machine Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of California-Berkeley has generated yet another round of pearl-clutching and hand-wringing about safe spaces and campus free speech. Also: it has generated lawsuits. And once again, we’re having the wrong argument. The Coulter imbroglio, like […]

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