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On behalf of women, Michelle Obama tears into Trump: ‘enough is enough’

‘This is not something we can sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season,’ First Lady says in New Hampshire, by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams In an impassioned and personal speech…

Medea Benjamin: “Nonviolence is the only path”

During the International Peace Bureau World Congress in Berlin we have interviewed Medea Benjamin, US activist for peace and human rights. Here below the link to the complete interview

Donald Trump’s Implied Assassination Threat, Fox News and the NRA

Donald Trump is giving new meaning to “bully pulpit,” ratcheting his irrational campaign rhetoric to new and dangerous lows. In North Carolina Tuesday, he said: “Hillary wants to abolish—essentially, abolish—the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to…

Clinton & Trump: Peddling “Solutions”

By Arturo Ignacio Sanchez – Queenslatino.com The packaging and marketing of the 2016 Democratic and Republican conventions has much to teach us about U.S. presidential politics and failures in public imagination. Both conventions were structured as political spectacles that delivered…

Classic Authoritarianism: In a Speech Filled with Fear & Xenophobia, Donald Trump Accepts Nomination

In a scene few would have predicted 12 or even six months ago, real estate mogul Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination. In an hour-and-15-minute speech, Trump warned the nation was facing an imminent crisis at home and…

Time to rethink NATO

This article is republished with kind permission of Alice Slater.  Credit goes to the Hill’s Congress Blog and the original article can be found here. Donald Trump angered the D.C. establishment when he said that NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty…

Shooter at Pulse Nightclub Purchased Guns, Including AR-15, Legally

One of the guns used by Mateen at the Pulse nightclub was an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. The gun was also used in the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School; the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater; and at the Inland Regional Center…

Sanders Draws Big Crowds at Southern California Rallies

Bernie Sanders on Saturday crisscrossed Southern California with rallies at Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and at the Kern County Fairgrounds. Aiming to speak to more than 200,000 Californians during the month before the June 7 presidential primary election, Sanders already…

#BernieOrBust: Sanders Fans Debate Whether to Vote for Clinton If She is Democratic Nominee

As Democratic challengers Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton press on in the Democratic primary, Sanders trails in the pledged delegate count by more than 300. Add in superdelegates, and Clinton is just under 200 delegates shy of the number needed…

How empathy, not protest, can defeat Trump and right-wing extremism

By George Lakey In Orson Scott Card’s great 1985 strategy novel “Ender’s Game,” a boy named Ender enters a training school where students learn skills for outwitting an opponent. They play computer games that become ever more challenging. The stakes…

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