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Trump's Truly Awful Pick for Secretary of Education
19 Jan 2017
Right wing billionaire Betsy DeVos sponsored pro-privatization initiatives with millions of her own money in Michigan.
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Donald Trump's Secretary of Tax Avoidance
19 Jan 2017
by the Real News Network Trumps nominee for Secretary of Commerce is mainly an expert at avoiding taxes.
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Trumps HHS Nominee to Cut Medicare, Medicaid After Repealing Obamacare
19 Jan 2017
by the Real News Network Dr. Adam Gaffney of Physicians for a National Health Plan explains how the inadequacies of Obamacare opened the way for Republicans to repeal it, says Single Payer healthcare is the only solution
Haitian People’s Court Will Put 100 Years of U.S. Occupation on Trial
25 Jan 2017
by AlterPresse Since 1915, the United States has directly or indirectly occupied Haiti, smothering the nation’s sovereignty and corrupting its institutions. This year, a People’s Court will begin hearing testimony from Haitians on the crimes of the U.S. occupiers. The tribunal is a response “to the…
Eric Draitser
Obama’s Legacy In Africa: Terrorism, Civil War and Military Expansion
25 Jan 2017
by Eric Draitser No American president has done more to destroy African independence than Barack Obama. “Within two years of his pledge to let Africans resolve their own problems, U.S.-NATO jets were dropping bombs on Libya in support of al-Qaida-linked terrorists who would topple and brutally…
Paul Bermanzohn
“Fake News” Crisis Covers Deeper Crisis of Legitimacy
25 Jan 2017
by Paul C. Bermanzohn The deepening crisis of an illegitimate system that only serves the rich has caused a section of the ruling class to charge a sitting president -- one of their own! -- with the political crime of illegitimacy. The “fake news” imbroglio is phony excuse for keeping the United…
Good Journalism Requires Openness to Foreign Sources of Information
25 Jan 2017
by Steve Cunningham  Since when has journalistic ethics prohibited accepting accurate and valuable information from foreign sources? Wikileaks has done the American public a great service by exposing corruption among high officials, including a would-be president, and in the workings of a major…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Women’s March in Washington D.C., as Broadcast
25 Jan 2017
by Ann Garrison If you watched it on TV, the Women’s March on Washington seemed to be a Democratic Party, Hillary-Is-My-President affair. “It was all about protection and equal opportunity for women and all racial and religious minorities, but that didn’t include protection from predatory…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cuba and Our Common Future
25 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong With the Left in the U.S. in such obvious disarray, it is more critical than ever to examine the experience of the Cuban revolution. “It was power in the hands of the working class and oppressed that gave Cuba the ability to assist national liberation struggles in Angola…
Kali Akuno
Build and Fight: Beyond Trump and the Limitations of the United Front
25 Jan 2017
by Kali Akuno and Doug Norberg At this time of great crisis, there are fevered calls for the Left to forge a “united front.” However, “these calls rarely take into account the inequality or lack of political parity of the ‘uniting’ forces,” or the difference between strategic alliances and the…