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Donald Trump
Unlike Houston, only 43% of Puerto Rico has Power 7 weeks on

Unlike Houston, only 43% of Puerto Rico has Power 7 weeks on

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MSNBC | (Video News Report) | – – “Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September. It’s November and power went out again. Velshi and Ruhle speak to San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz about the islands rocky road to recovery.” San Juan Mayor Says Puerto Rico Chances Of Recovery Is ‘Diminishing’ | MSNBC

Climate Change
Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

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By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]

Corruption
Breitbart Goes to Bat for Roy Moore Amid Sex Scandal w/ Teenage Girl

Breitbart Goes to Bat for Roy Moore Amid Sex Scandal w/ Teenage Girl

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Far Right cares more about power than morality

National Security State
Can we turn military spending into a budget for the people?

Can we turn military spending into a budget for the people?

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The People’s Budget would add 2.4 million jobs and increase GDP by 2 percent

Hizbullah
Saudi Arabia pulls Citizens from Lebanon as Beirut charges Hariri Jailed

Saudi Arabia pulls Citizens from Lebanon as Beirut charges Hariri Jailed

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Middle East Monitor | – – 1. Saudi bans Citizens from traveling to Lebanon: Saudi Arabia has advised its citizens against traveling to Lebanon and asked those in the country to leave as soon as possible, the Kingdom’s official news agency (SPA) quoted an official source in the Foreign Ministry as saying. “Due to the […]

China
Will Asia emerge as world Leader, propelled by Green Energy Policies?

Will Asia emerge as world Leader, propelled by Green Energy Policies?

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By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – China and South Korea could be game changers on climate — and create a more peaceful region in the process. There’s been precious little good news from Asia these days. Washington and Pyongyang continue to trade threats of war. Right-wing nationalist Shinzo Abe won […]

Children
Iraq & End of Women's Rights: Girls Marriage age of 9?

Iraq & End of Women’s Rights: Girls Marriage age of 9?

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Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – Proposed changes to Iraq’s personal status law caused protests because they drop the legal age of marriage to 9. Even worse, the changes come at the same time as an ongoing erosion in women’s status in Iraqi society. On October 30, Iraq’s parliament made a decision […]

Denialism
Under Trump, Arctic Refuge to be Ravaged by Oil Drills

Under Trump, Arctic Refuge to be Ravaged by Oil Drills

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By Subhankar Banerjee | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – What happens in the Arctic doesn’t just stay up north.  It affects the world, as that region is the integrator of our planet’s climate systems, atmospheric and oceanic. At the moment, the northernmost places on Earth are warming at more than twice the global average, a […]

US politics
Trumpism Didn’t Just Lose—Progressives Won

Trumpism Didn’t Just Lose—Progressives Won

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It wasn’t just Democrats who won this election, but progressives who didn’t shirk the label.

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