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To find Trump’s real base of support, just follow the money
October 9, 2019The press treats the overwhelmingly white, working-class audiences at Trump’s rallies as his “base.” But the anonymous wealthy donors in California have a far better claim to be the base that he serves.
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As Trump spins out of control, support for impeachment swells
October 8, 2019Desperate to hold his base, the president embarks on Orwellian push to render useless even the words used by his opponents and other defenders of democracy.
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Why Wall Street red-baits Bernie Sanders
October 7, 2019The Wall Street Journal, mouthpiece of high finance, is still trying to take down Bernie Sanders.
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China: 70 years of building socialism in the People’s Republic
October 1, 2019Though the era of Mao may be long over and his legacy at least selectively repudiated, the revolution in China continues.
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Jewish Americans and Israel/Palestine: Pressures and fissures heading toward 2020
September 30, 2019The idea of a return to Biblical Zion has been perverted into an idolization of land acquisition by any means in Israel, but Jewish Americans don't want to be pressured into complicity with Israel’s deeds.
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