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By David Swanson Charlottesville is a diverse, enlightened, and progressive college town in Virginia with its public spaces dominated by war memorials, in particular memorials to Confederate soldiers not from…

The U.S. Military Command in Africa, AFRICOM, is the West’s standing army on the continent, guardian of multinational corporations and the natural and human resources that keep the North America…

Above Photo: From linkis.com As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution. While Hillary Clinton publicly…

By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet From the floor of the Republican National Convention to the online pages of the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community, it is now commonplace for public officials, police and first responders to openly…

By Simon Maloy /  Salon Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump The Democratic National Convention got off to about as rough a start as you could imagine, with the party committee chair abruptly resigning and…

By Andrew Rosenthal Ever since Americans elected their first African-American president, the not-so-hidden racism on the right has steadily slithered its way into the open — enabled most recently by…

By: Yesha Callahan Dan Aykroyd attends the premiere of Ghostbusters on July 9, 2016, in Hollywood, Calif. JB Lacroix/WireImage Dan Aykroyd is joining in with the multitude of Leslie Jones supporters…

By: Ericka Blount Danois Baltimore Police Lt. Brian Rice (center) is escorted from the courthouse to a waiting car after being found not guilty on all charges related to the death…