‘Money Is Not Speech and Corporations Are Not People’: Sanders Unveils Plan to Get Corporate Money Out of Politics
“You can’t take on a corrupt system if you take its money.”
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Nathan J. Robinson: The Prospect of An Elizabeth Warren Nomination Should Be Very Worrying
The differences between Warren and Sanders are critically important…
Edward Snowden’s Julian Assange is an Unfamiliar Julian Assange
There is an unquestionable contradiction between Snowden’s opposition to Assange’s arrest and the rhetorical games he plays with Assange’s character in his memoir, Permanent Record.
Bernie Sanders: There Should Be No Billionaires
Senator Bernie Sanders introduces his latest ambitious plan to tackle wealth and income inequality.
DeVos Threatens to Cut Funding for Middle Eastern Studies Programs for ‘Portraying Islam Too Positively’
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called on University of North Carolina and Duke University to amend the curriculum of their joint Middle Eastern studies program, claiming it does not include enough positive material about religions other than Islam.
The NED Strikes Again: How Neocon Money is Funding the Hong Kong Protests (VIDEO)
The West has more to do with the Hong Kong protest movement than it would like us to know. It’s the ugly face of Washington’s long-standing foreign policy directed at destabilizing one of its long-standing economic foes: China.
Western Regime-Change Operatives Launch Campaign to Blame Bolivia’s Evo Morales for Amazon Fires
As Brazil’s Bolsonaro allows elite landowners to incinerate the Amazon, professional regime-change operatives like Jhanisse V. Daza seek to redirect blame for the fires onto the leftist government of Bolivia, whose President Evo Morales faces elections in October.
Hong Kong Crisis: Made in America
A look at the organizations directly involved in leading the unrest and those supporting it reveals unequivocally that it originates in Washington DC – not organically from within Hong Kong itself.
Long Before Epstein: Sex Traffickers & Spy Agencies
Elizabeth Vos reviews the unsavory history of intelligence agencies providing protection to child sex-trafficking rings.
Google Insider Reveals Media Bias By Tech Giant, Whom He Claims Called The Police on Him After Leaking Documents (VIDEO)
A former Google engineer has spoken on the record to say the web giant does blacklist certain news sites and has an ‘editorial agenda’. Whistleblower Zachary Vorhies decided to go public after claiming the tech giant called police in San Francisco to perform a ‘wellness check’ on him when he originally leaked files on their activity.
Here’s the Evidence of WaPo Media Bias Against Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders has taken to calling out corporate media for their anti-progressive bias, and their feathers have gotten quite ruffled. In a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire, Sanders told Read More…
Third Way Democrats Are Bought and Sold by The Kochs
When George Soros and Charles Koch announced in July that they are partnering to create a think tank dedicated to ending the United States’ forever wars, Steven Kinzer of The Read More…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Deepens Multiple Lingering Mysteries (VIDEO)
Jeffrey Epstein’s death — in what prison authorities say was a suicide — only deepens the many mysteries surrounding his case.
ROBERT PARRY: More Second Amendment Madness
Robert Parry, the late founder of Consortium News, exposed in this Jan. 2013 article the dangerous & false idea that the Constitution Framers wrote the 2nd Amendment so an armed population could fight the government the Framers had just created.
The End of a Cocaine-Fueled Presidency? Juan Orlando Hernandez Faces Regime Change in Honduras
Honduras has been the epicenter of the Central American exodus and northward migration since the U.S.-backed coup 10 years ago and the ultra-violent repression by President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s regime, as well as its ultra-neoliberal policies.