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Middle Class
Poll: Most Americans Want Redistribution Of Wealth

Poll: Most Americans Want Redistribution Of Wealth

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Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Now that Bernie Sanders knows that people will show up and vote for him in large numbers, the attacks from the mainstream and right have begun. But it turns out that his ideas are incredibly popular. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola […]

Bernie Sanders
Let’s Talk About Bernie Sanders and the Middle East

Let’s Talk About Bernie Sanders and the Middle East

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By Derek Davison | Lobelog | Foreign Politicy in Focus | – – On foreign policy, the Vermont independent’s “political revolution” hasn’t done much to distinguish itself from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Foreign policy has taken a backseat to domestic issues in the Democratic primary thus far. There are two explanations for this. One […]

Foreign Policy
Pentagon, running out of Smart Bombs, will Double anti-ISIL Budget

Pentagon, running out of Smart Bombs, will Double anti-ISIL Budget

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TeleSur | – – Despite the deep social and economic issues President Barack Obama is confronted with, military expenditure was conceived as a priority. The Pentagon plans to spend four more times in [Europe] defense in 2017 than in 2016 in order to have sufficient military capability to support to its European NATO allies, the […]

Health
Israel Continues to Spray Crop-killing Chemicals on Gaza Farmlands; Cancer Fears

Israel Continues to Spray Crop-killing Chemicals on Gaza Farmlands; Cancer Fears

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By IMEMC | – – Israeli planes have reportedly sprayed chemical substances on farmlands across the besieged Gaza Strip, killing off the crops in the already impoverished Palestinian territory. Several farmers informed that Israeli planes had sprayed their lands with pesticides, in the area between (Kissufim, and Srij) east of al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan […]

Bernie Sanders
Is the future Socialist?  Bernie Sanders swept 84% of the Youth Vote in Iowa

Is the future Socialist? Bernie Sanders swept 84% of the Youth Vote in Iowa

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TeleSur | – – Sanders captured the youth vote in Iowa. However, youth voter turnout was down 4 percent from when President Barack Obama ran in 2008. In what the Iowa Democratic Party is calling its closest-ever vote, there is one demographic that was far from close: young voters. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders swept the […]

Featured
The Final Breakup of Iraq?  Barzani calls for Kurdistan Referendum

The Final Breakup of Iraq? Barzani calls for Kurdistan Referendum

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masoud Barzani, has called for an immediate non-binding referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan over whether its people want to secede from Iraq and form an independent Kurdish state. A delegation from the KRG visited Baghdad yesterday, as well, headed by […]

Displaced and Refugees
Canada offers world example in integrating Syrian refugees

Canada offers world example in integrating Syrian refugees

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By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EurActiv.com ) | – – While EU politicians are still bickering over their share of the burden of refugees in Europe, Canada is seeking ways to rapidly integrate 25,000 Syrians into its society. Speaking to journalists in Brussels last week, David Manicom, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees and […]

Russia
Could Saudi Arabia's grip on oil prices bring Russia to its knees?

Could Saudi Arabia’s grip on oil prices bring Russia to its knees?

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James Henderson | (The Conversation) | – – When Saudi Arabia led an OPEC decision to end a restraint put on oil production in November 2014, it marked the beginning of a new era in oil economics. It has given us a tumbling oil price, prompted huge losses and job cuts at oil firms like […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Need a Strategy & it must Achieve their Rights

Palestinians Need a Strategy & it must Achieve their Rights

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By: Amal Ahmad | al-Shabaka | Ma’an News Agency | – – The Palestinian people began the New Year facing a bleak political situation, with a weak and compromised leadership, a geographically and administratively fragmented people, and a civil society increasingly marked by individualism and loss of political anchor. The state-building project that promised so […]

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