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Tulsi Gabbard Smears Debunked
The Establishment Tulsi Gabbard smears have already begun, and they are bogus… The Jimmy Dore Show is a hilarious and irreverent take on news, politics and culture featuring Jimmy Dore, a professional stand up comedian, author and podcaster. With over 5 million downloads on iTunes, the show is also broadcast on KPFK stations throughout the country. It is part of the Young Turks Network-- th [...]
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Economic boom for whom? Keiser Report examines America’s disappearing middle class (VIDEO)
The US economy is booming – but fewer and fewer are reaping the benefits. The Keiser Report crunched the numbers behind America’s dwindling middle class, and warned that the country’s young are in for a rough, debt-ridden future. [...]
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Ocasio-Cortez Makes Cuomo Look Dumb For ‘How Do You Pay’ Question
For anyone triggered by my criticism of Cuomo, here’s a different video (linked at the end of my comment) where I give him credit. This issue with Cuomo’s questioning to AOC is the context - he never presses on politicians about “how can we afford to cut taxes for the wealthy,” “how can afford to pump even more into military spending,” “how can we afford to cut the corporate tax r [...]
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Chinese investment in US plunges 83% amid simmering trade war
Chinese investments in North America and Europe fell by 73 percent last year as a result of tightened US scrutiny of foreign takeover deals and Beijing’s restrictions on outbound investments. Data from law firm Baker & McKenzie showed that Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into the United States have also turned negative, falling to the lowest in seven years. [...]
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US Coast Guard tells employees to babysit & hold garage sales to survive government shutdown
The cash-strapped US Coast Guard has quietly removed a “tip sheet” it had posted on its website suggesting that employees hold garage sales, babysit, or take up other odd jobs to make ends meet during the government shutdown. [...]
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‘Putin puppet’ vs ‘Assad shill’: Dems & Reps unite in panic over Gabbard challenging Trump in 2020
With Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) entering the 2020 presidential fray, establishment figures on both Right and Left are scrambling to smear the anti-war congresswoman with impeccable identity-politics bona fides. [...]
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‘Nobody is Winning’: Trump Gov’t Shutdown Now Longest Ever in US
The current shutdown of the US government has become the longest in the nation’s history, as unpaid federal employees walk off the job in increasing numbers. An estimated 800,000 federal workers employed by the US government are starting to feel the pinch as Friday paychecks were missed and key travel security sectors — particularly in airports — are seeing walkouts, according to multiple re [...]
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‘US Has Become a Banana Republic’ – Former Republican US Congressional Candidate
The US House of Representatives has endorsed legislation terminating a partial government shutdown in spite of President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall financing. Radio Sputnik has discussed the recent developments surrounding the government shutdown with Shane Hazel, a former US congressional candidate from the GOP. [...]
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Open Letter From US Pilots to Trump: End Shutdown Due to Airspace Safety Threat
Over 61,000 professional aircraft pilots are telling Trump to end the government shutdown, warning of security threats in US skies. With US President Donald Trump hunkered down in the White House tweeting his new "presidential harassment" slogan regarding the growing political opposition on Capitol Hill at the hands of a newly Democratic House of Representatives, US airline pilots have released on [...]
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Pentagon: US Military Logistics Systems Not Fit for Conflict With China, Russia
The United States Department of Defense’s supply chains have deteriorated, and they now require significant modernization – and taxpayer funding – if Washington wishes to make war with Russia or China, according to an internal Pentagon report. [...]
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Chris Hedges: Americans Are Living a Fantasy – The Illusion of Love, Wisdom, Happiness
A postliterate society is a hypothetical society in which multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read or write, is no longer necessary or common. The term appears as early as 1962 in Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy. Many science-fiction societies are postliterate, as in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Dan Simmons' novel Ilium, and Gary Shteyngart's [...]
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Cash for Cache: Hackers Reveal First Batch of 9/11 Files in Blow to ‘Deep State’
The hackers that have allegedly stolen gigabytes of so-far-unknown and potentially sensational information about the 9/11 attacks have urged governments and individuals to come and get what they have. They tease that the most hard-hitting part of the documents, which they estimate at $2 million, would eventually "bury" the deep state. [...]
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‘An Economy In Extreme Difficulty’: US Jobs Report Hides Economic Truths
Although the latest US jobs report did indicate that 312,000 new non-farm jobs were added to the economy in December of 2018, it should by no means suggest that the US economy is functioning in a perfect manner, Richard Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told Sputnik. [...]
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Pro-war ‘Trump circus’: Veteran reporter quits NBC with biting critique of corporate newsroom
NBC News has given endless war and ‘destructive’ intelligence agencies a free pass, all while fixating on around-the-clock Trump hysteria, a veteran national security reporter wrote in a biting farewell message to his colleagues. [...]
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Boom Bust inequality special
Wealth inequality is becoming one of the fastest growing problems facing the US. As the nation gets richer, who benefits? Richard Wolff helps break down all the different facets as he and Bart dissect why people are finding it harder and harder to afford the basic needs of life. Wealth inequality can also extend to nations; Hilary Fordwich breaks down the situation as certain countries grow while [...]
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Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted for Hillary Clinton Email Hack – Trump Lawyer
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer and a former NYC mayor, insisted that the media is allowed to publish hacked classified information for the purpose of informing the public. He drew parallels with the case of Hillary Clinton, who WikiLeaks claim received questions for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary debate with Bernie Sanders. [...]
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Google wins lawsuit, can continue to use facial recognition tech on users without consent
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that alleged Google’s nonconsensual use of facial recognition technology violated users’ privacy rights, allowing the tech giant to continue to scan and store their biometric data. [...]
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Avoid US stocks: Emerging markets is where to put your money in 2019, says Morgan Stanley
Stocks in emerging markets have had a rough year but are tipped for a turnaround, according to Morgan Stanley, which predicts stable growth in those economies in 2019. [...]
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‘He did nothing wrong’: Giuliani defends Assange’s decision to publish Hillary campaign emails
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange did nothing wrong by publishing Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails, just like the US mainstream media wasn’t punished for publishing the Pentagon Papers, ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani said. [...]
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Top 5 countries opting to ditch US dollar & the reasons behind their move
The past year was full of events that inevitably split the global geopolitical space into two camps: those who still support using US currency as a universal financial tool, and those who are turning their back on the greenback. Global tensions caused by economic sanctions and trade conflicts triggered by Washington have forced targeted countries to take a fresh look at alternative payment systems [...]
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Chinese Admiral Says Sinking US Carriers Would End South China Sea Spat – Report
Tensions between Washington and Beijing have escalated in recent months amid a growing number of US Navy "freedom of navigation" missions in the South China Sea and Chinese efforts to beef up its military presence in territories over which several Asian powers have overlapping claims. [...]
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Outrage in WH as Fox News Host Attacks Trump Over ‘Refounding’ Daesh
On Friday morning, Fox & Friends host addressed President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria after declaring victory over Daesh. [...]
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