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Historic Colombian Peace Deal Must Include Women, Address Sexual Crimes on Both Sides, Say Advocates; Is an Arkansas Town Operating a “Hot Check” Court as an Illegal Debtors’ Prison? The Criminalization of Poverty: Woman Describes Fines & Arrests After $1.07 Check Bounces; Judge Denies Hepatitis C Cure for Mumia Abu-Jamal, But Finds Lack of Care … Continued
Trump’s Wall is Tantamount to Act of War: Outrage in Mexico as President Peña Nieto Meets with Trump; “Our Culture Will Prevail Against Hatred”: Arizona Activist Responds to Trump’s Immigration Speech; Dilma Rousseff on Ouster: This is a Coup That Will Impact Every Democratic Organization in Brazil; Protests Erupt in San Juan as Obama Forms … Continued
Hero or Murderer? 15-Year-Old Bresha Meadows Faces Life in Prison for Killing Abusive Father; Florida State Attorney Who Oversaw Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander Cases Is Defeated in Primary; Sens. McCain & Rubio Beat Pro-Trump Challengers; Wasserman Schultz Survives Primary; Glenn Greenwald: Obama Has Bombed 7 Nations, But Clinton Claims He Has Not Been Militaristic … Continued
Our Children’s Lives Depend on This Drug: A Mother’s Plea to CEO After EpiPen Price Jumped 400%; Why Are We Paying $300 for an EpiPen That Holds Only $1 Worth of Medicine? Debate: Is Recalling Judge Persky a Victory for Sexual Assault Survivors or a Dangerous Precedent? Could the Presidential Election Be Hacked? FBI “Flash” … Continued
Complete Reversal of Democracy: Glenn Greenwald on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment; As Bernie Sanders Condemns “Coup” in Brazil, Why Have Obama & Clinton Been So Silent? Greenwald: “Why Did Saudi Regime & Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to Clinton Foundation?” Greenwald: Journalists Should Not Stop Scrutinizing Clinton Just Because Trump is Unfit for Office; … Continued
Vijay Prashad: Turkey’s Offensive Against ISIS & Press Crackdown is Really Just War on Kurds; Regime Change in Libya Mirrors Iraq: Both Efforts Led to Failed States & Destabilized Region; Vijay Prashad: Hillary Clinton Shows Dangerous Tendency to Go to War No Matter the Consequences; Yemen & Palestine: Vijay Prashad on the Two “Ruthless” Bombing … Continued
Weapons, Pipelines & Wall St: Did Clinton Foundation Donations Impact Clinton State Dept. Decisions? Debate: Should the Clinton Foundation Be Shut Down If Hillary Clinton Wins? “Our Revolution”? Bernie Sanders Launches New Organization, But Key Staffers Quit in Protest.
Day After Obama Tours Louisiana Flood Damage, Gov’t Holds Massive Gulf Oil & Gas Lease Auction; Climate Study: By 2085 All U.S. Cities Except San Francisco Will Be Too Hot to Host Summer Olympics; Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost Millennials $8.8 Trillion in Lifetime Income; Embracing the Alt-Right: New Trump Campaign Chief “Created an … Continued
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman: Dakota Access Pipeline “Is Threatening the Lives of My Tribe”; Native Activist Winona LaDuke: Pipeline Company Enbridge Has No Right to Destroy Our Future; Hate Crime in Tulsa: Khalid Jabara’s Family Speaks Out After His Murder by Racist White Neighbor; Father of Muslim Women Murdered in Chapel Hill to Jabara Family: … Continued
As Kerry Plans to Visit Saudi Arabia, Activists & NGOs Demand U.S. Stop Funding War Crimes in Yemen; “This is Our War & It is Shameful:” Journalist Andrew Cockburn on the U.S. Role in the War in Yemen; A Shocking Story of How a Chicago Cop Killed a Teen — Then Locked Up His Best … Continued
