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in title, tags, annotations or urlDonald Trump 45th President of America - 0 views
'Armed in America' asks exactly what the Founding Fathers intended with the Second Amendment - CSMonitor.com - 0 views
The Man Who Argued With Dictators - POLITICO Magazine - 0 views
This State Shows Us What A Future With A Hobbled EPA Could Look Like | The Huffington Post - 0 views
HOW TO BOOST PROFIT MARGINS OF A LAW FIRM? - 0 views
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What are some unique and interesting facts about Narendra Modi? - 0 views
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Narendra Modi, who is the fourteenth and present prime minister of India, decided to demonetize those notes for freeing India from black money and corruption.
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Narendra Modi is the first politician to use social media for propagating his election campaign. He is the regular user of social media. He keeps in touch constantly with the people by using the accounts of social media.
Hillary Clinton May Win US Presidential Election 2016 With Wide Margin - 0 views
10 reasons why #DemExit is serious: Getting rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not enough - 10 reasons why #DemExit is serious: Getting rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not enough - 0 views
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The fact that the party even has superdelegates is a sign of its anti-democratic, pro-oligarchy stance. As Branko Marcetic of In These Times reports the superdelegate system was created specifically to challenge the will of voters. According to Marcetic, “When a Sanders supporter criticized superdelegate Howard Dean for sticking with Clinton despite Sanders’ landslide victory in Vermont, Dean tweeted back: “Superdelegates don’t represent the people.”
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The DNC created a debate schedule designed to make it hard for candidates to challenge Clinton’s status as the “presumptive” nominee. Debates were held on weekends, at times that conflicted with other events, and were generally slotted to attract fewer viewers.
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Fox News offered to host one. Fox News wrote that, “the race is still contested, and given that you sanctioned a final trio of debates, the last of which has not yet been held, we believe a final debate would be an excellent opportunity for the candidates to, as you said when you announced these debates, ‘share Democrats’ vision for the country.’” There never was a California debate set up. Not on Fox News or any other venue.
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Bernie Sanders is the best-known independent and "democratic socialist" in US politics - Bernie Sanders 2016: a primer - Vox - 0 views
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democratic socialist
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Since the term "socialist" is generally considered an epithet in US politics, and since the two-party system is so powerful, no other prominent politician in recent decades has a similar background
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He said that in those countries: "Health care is a right of all people and their systems are far more cost-effective than ours." "College education is virtually free." "People retire with better benefits." "Wages that people receive are often higher." "Distribution of wealth and income is much fairer. " "Their public education systems are generally stronger than ours." "By and large, their governments tend to represent the needs of their middle class and working families rather than billionaires and campaign contributors."
Bernie Sanders Flirted With 100% Marginal Tax on the Rich, Maximum Wage - Bloomberg Politics - 0 views
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“No. That's not 90 percent of your income, you know? That's the marginal.”
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Sanders is described as wanting to “make it illegal to amass more wealth than a human family could use in a lifetime.” He would do that, the article said, with “a 100 percent tax on incomes above this level ($ one million per year)” and “would recycle this money for the public need.”
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he still had the issue on his mind while serving in the House in 1992, entering into the Congressional Record a Los Angeles Times op-ed written by Sam Pizzigati, the author of The Maximum Wage. In that piece, Pizzigati details President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposal for a “100% war supertax,”
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Flowchart: Should you vote for Barack Obama? - 11 views
The Greatest Threat to Global Food Security: Capitalism - 0 views
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Certainly one of our most fundamental of human needs is our ability to grow and procure adequate nutrition.
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Giant multinational corporate entities like Cargill, Nestle, Monsanto, ConAgra and Archer Daniels Midland
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US Agribusiness spent $137 million on lobbying efforts to promote corporate interests through the purchase of favorable legislation
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The root cause of war is oligarchic capitalism | Middle East Eye - 0 views
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After World War Two, Britain and the USA pressured the United Nations into confiscating Arab land to form the state of Israel, making the Arabs pay for the crimes of the Germans. In addition to providing a nation for the Jews, Israel would be a forward base for Western economic and military power in the Middle East. To the Arabs it was another European invasion of their territory.
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In the early 1950s, the USA and Britain overthrew the government of Iran because it tried to nationalise its oil industry, which was under Western control.
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In the mid-1950s, Egypt decided to nationalise the Suez Canal and use the income from it to help their people out of poverty. They were willing to pay its British and French owners the full market value for their shares, but Western governments and Israel responded violently, invading and bombing Egypt into submission.
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