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February 18, 2019
Report from NYC
In New York City. Robert is spending this Sunday morning asking for spare change from the ladies going into the bodega. He’s supplementing his part time job washing patients’ food trays at the hospital. But now, at least, he won’t have to worry about getting exploited in a job at Amazon.
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February 8, 2019
In Venezuela, White Supremacy is a Key to Trump’s Coup
On January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaidó, former speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself president. No voting. When you have official recognition from The Donald, who needs elections?
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February 5, 2019
Trump’s Regime Change in VenezuelaPalast on The Scott Horton Show
Palast explains the situation in Venezuela, where the Trump administration has recently been signaling for U.S.-backed regime change. Although the claim is that
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Avoiding Regime Change in VenezuelaPalast on The Scott Horton Show
Palast explains the situation in Venezuela, where the Trump administration has recently been signaling for U.S.-backed regime change. Although the claim is that
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January 31, 2019
Colorado dumps Crosscheck
Colorado dumps Crosscheck, urges other states to flee the program. The newly elected Secretary of State Colorado, Jena Griswold, slammed the voter list cleansing program controlled by Kris Kobach of Kansas, for taking away the rights of eligible voters.
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January 26, 2019
Roger Stone Indictment: My Friend, “Person 2”
The unnamed “Person 2” in the Roger Stone indictment is my friend: comic and journalist Randy Credico. I’ve been in constant contact with Credico for two years as Stone tried to bully him into perjury.
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January 24, 2019
The REAL Immigration Fight
While the two parties are playing games with slats on the border, Trump has allowed the backlog of citizenship applications to nearly double to over 730,000. In other words, he’s winning the real immigration battle.
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January 23, 2019
Illinois Drops Interstate Crosscheck Purge Program – but our Suit Continues
On an 8-0 vote, the Illinois Board of Elections on Tuesday, January 22 dropped the Interstate Crosscheck voter purge program. Greg Palast and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Illinois over the use of Crosscheck, a racially biased and
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Illinois Drops Interstate Crosscheck Purge Program — but our Suit Continues
On an 8-0 vote, the Illinois Board of Elections on Tuesday, January 22 dropped the Interstate Crosscheck voter purge program. Greg Palast and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Illinois over the use of Crosscheck, a racially biased and
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January 20, 2019
The Son My Father Sent To Birmingham
My dad called me over and said, “I want you to listen to this.” It was 1965 and Martin Luther King was speaking about the three kinds of love as defined by the Greek philosophers. King’s philosophy lesson was given in a church surrounded by angry white men who changed their white sheets for police uniforms and were prepared to burn down the church as they had done before.
King was on a march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery.
My father told me, “You’ll do that,” meaning I’d go down South, I’d join the Freedom Riders, become a lawyer for King, a knight for justice in an unjust world.
But why didn’t he go himself? Why didn’t he join the march, join the fight? I know: kids, responsibility, furniture. He was a furniture salesman. Furniture didn’t march. It sat there. It was sat upon. And the rich farted into the mattresses he sold them. The furniture store was locked from the inside by a poisonous fear of leaving life to chance.
So he put the burden of his quest on
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