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Donald Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton and Abrams

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has appointed notorious neoconservative hawk, Elliott Abrams, as the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela.

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Washington (Common Dreams)-- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries to "pick a side" on Venezuela, urging them to back opposition leader Juan Guaido in a Saturday speech at the UN Security Council in New York. "Now, it is time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games. Either you stand with the forces

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Climate Change Could Prompt Tens of Thousands of Suicides in the US and Mexico by 2050

“A main hypothesis is that hotter temperatures have a direct effect on human emotion and impulsivity.”

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New research found a link between rising temperatures and suicide, indicating that unchecked climate change could lead to additional 9,000 to 40,000 suicides across the United States and Mexico by 2050. The findings by researchers at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley were published Monday in Nature Climate Change. "We've

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The Relationship Between Racism and Capitalism

Revulsion is building towards the smokescreens of hypocrisy, racism, and nationalism barely masking capitalism’s ongoing failure to provide the jobs and incomes people need.

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In the wake of W.E.B. DuBois’s 150th birthday, his works offer a lens through which to assess US capitalism’s relationship to racism today. He famously wrote: “Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction,” while adding that in the US, race would be a key issue in that process. Thus he would have had much to say when, around

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Mexico’s Own ‘Bernie Sanders’ Elected President in Historic Landslide Victory

Progressive anti-Trump candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday.

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Progressive anti-Trump candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been elected president of Mexico on Sunday in an apparent landslide victory. Exit polls gave AMLO, as his supporters call him,  ­a huge lead over his two closest competitors, and both of them conceded the race shortly after polls closed on Sunday night. Official results were due to

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‘There’s a Special Place in Hell’ for Those Who Defy the President, Trump Adviser Warns

“You can’t make this stuff up. The collapse of U.S. governance before our eyes.”

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President Donald Trump walks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau along the Colonnade to the Oval Office at the White House on Oct. 11, 2017. (AP Photo)

After President Donald Trump drove the U.S. into an all-out trade war with Canada on Saturday with his Twitter outburst threatening to hit America's northern neighbor with even more punitive tariffs, Trump's top trade adviser Peter Navarro placed blame for soaring tensions entirely on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an interview on Sunday

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Trump’s Reckless Decision Puts US on Path to War with Iran

Trump has taken a functioning arms control deal that prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb and turned it into a crisis that may very well lead to war.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd after speaking during a rally opposing the Iran nuclear deal outside the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 9, 2015. (AP/Susan Walsh)

In anticipation of President Donald Trump's announcement that he will withdraw the U.S. from its commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Tuesday, the following is a statement from Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC): Donald Trump has committed what will go down as one of the greatest

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Pope Francis Appeals For Peace Amid Conflicts Supported and Inflamed By Trump

“As the winds of war are blowing in our world,” Pope makes appeal for an end to conflicts that impact the world’s children.

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Pope Francis and Bolivia's President Evo Morales pray upon arrival to El Alto International airport in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The pouch Francis is wearing around his neck was given to him by Morales. It's woven of alpaca with indigenous trimmings and traditionally used by people in the Andes to hold coca leaves, which they chew to ward off the ill effects of extreme altitude. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

With a focus on the impact of war, conflict, and inequality on the world's children, Pope Francis delivered a Christmas Day sermon in Rome's St. Peter's Square on Monday that catalogued a multitude of concerns with policies pushed by President Donald Trump as well as previous U.S. presidents. The Pope restated his support for a two-state

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