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November 2016[edit]

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10American labor unions are about to die.
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13A Moroccan ex-Muslim on being branded a "native informant" by American liberals.
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7'FGM happened to me in white, midwest America'.
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6The mothers in US prison.
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3A still-shameful harvest: The fight goes on for New York's farm workers.
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6Why Israeli leaders are welcoming rise of anti-Semitism in US.
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4Turkey has become a destabilizing force in the Near East.
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3When borders close.
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2Amazon's take over of the economy is the real threat to American jobs.
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-1How a Syrian White Helmets leader played Western media.
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4Amid government ignorance and equivocal science, Flint residents mold their lives around perpetual crisis and endless unanswerable questions.
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3Donald Trump’s looming mass criminalization.
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1How David Patraeus avoided felony charges.
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3Arrests of journalists at standing rock test the boundaries of the first amendment.
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1The Washington Post's blacklist story is shameful and disgusting.
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9Donald Trump's victory has legitimized the alt-right and we know that their agenda is that of White nationalism. If we continue to call this agenda "alt-Right", we will end up normalizing it with this euphemism so here are some ways you can write about them.
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3There is no conflict between identity politics and class politics.
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8Ben Shapiro has a broken clock moment vis-a-vis the nature of the Alt-right, its relationship to Breitbart as an organisation and Steve Bannon personally. Really worth a read!
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8Obama created a deportation machine. Soon it will be Trump's.
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13No, Trump has not changed his mind about torture.
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-11Why the world needs Wikileaks.
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9Curing fake news by encouraging corporations to censor their user's news feeds is worse than the disease.
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29Gin and Tacos: "Nobody gives a shit about Hillary Clinton, and the fact that we are in the current predicament casts that fact in high relief. But we wanted to believe that our neighbors, our families, our fellow citizens were better than this, and now we can't."
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13Michael Flynn’s radical anti-Muslim group.
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29"...human beings are not going to follow and obey the exact people they most blame for their suffering. They’re going to do exactly the opposite: purposely defy them and try to impose punishment in retaliation. Their instruments for retaliation are Brexit and Trump."
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19On Donald Trump's rise to power: "Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue."
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13Trump's plan to repair our infrastructure is a scam that gives massive tax breaks to large companies & billionaires.
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2A guide to spotting fake news.
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8Inside the murky world of DIY abortions.
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1Appalachia has always given more to America than it has received.
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-24Dear American liberals, I would love to share in your incredulity.
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-18The White working class narrative is nothing but a racist dog whistle.
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12Lashing out at Identity Politics, pundits blame Trump on those most vulnerable to Trump.
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11HyperNormalisation: Adam Curtis explains why global geopolitics appear to be FUBAR. (Video)
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6Betrayed, surveilled, but not giving up: Arab and Muslim Americans after Trump.
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-7The end of identity liberalism.
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6Michael Flynn’s warped worldview and Trump’s foreign policy.
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-40Is Jeff Sessions really a racist?
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7When the Devil enters: Article covering trying to find a cause for multiple unexplained fires hitting a small Italian town over the course of a decade.
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5The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence.
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12How Bannon flattered and coaxed Trump on policies key to the alt-right.
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-30Give Steve Bannon a chance.
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15Why private prison stocks are soaring after Trump win in the election.
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8The rise of the police state in India.
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10What so many people don’t understand about the U.S. working class.
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11Inside the Koch brother's war on climate science.
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14Mike Pence, Trump's Vice President, may be the most powerful Christian supremacist in US history.
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10The Nazis kept a list of powerful American friends in Los Angeles.
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7A critique of Vox.
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32Autocracy: rules for survival.
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13Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans.
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14The true scandal of 2016 was the torture of Chelsea Manning.
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-28The closing of the liberal mind.
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23"Welcome to Many People Have Been Asking Me": A 21 minute Cracked video about Trump's 2011-14 vlog that seemingly nobody analyzed after he announced his candidacy on 16 June 2015 (which Cracked didn't post until 36 hours before the polls closed in the Pacific Time Zone.)
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17Today’s understanding of the British Empire has been shaped by state secrecy and the destruction of historical records.
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5A constellation of influencers: Behind the curtain at Teneo.
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5Forced to divorce by Israel.
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6How Robert Caruso conned the Washington press.
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1My 22-year-old daughter died because she told the ER she didn't have health insurance.
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15What Trump’s Golf Course Management Tells Us About How He’d Be President
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6How the US judicial system is stacked against the poor and non-English speakers.
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0The case for medical reparations.
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4How the Workers’ Project in Indiana has been uniting undocumented immigrants with White union workers despite the xenophobic rhetoric of the 2016 election.
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-3On immigration, the road to the noxious nativism of Donald Trump was paved by centrist Democrats and moderate Republicans.
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2At Trader Joe’s, good cheer hides complaints.
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2Debating escalation of the war in Syria.
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8Charter schools are full of fraud, lack transparency, exclude unwanted kids, and fire teachers for switching schools.
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7Three new scandals show how pervasive and dangerous mass surveillance is in the West.
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16Even pro-Trump fake news is foreign-made now
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16The internet is actively destroying the truth
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-17Western journalists can’t admit that Venezuela’s opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful.
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56 reasons why a new civil war in the US is possible and terrifying.
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10Too Smug to Jail: The Economist issues a myopic defense of the white-collar criminal.
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12The ACLU has put out a warning on “How Unchecked Spying Corrodes Democracy Around the World” which provides a collection of cases from around the world, including from where democracy is taken for granted.
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-25Without even asking about him at all, a study finds that many British scientists dislike Richard Dawkins, thinking that he misrepresents science and his views on religion are too extreme. (Keep in mind that this study involves religious scientists and is funded by the Templeton Foundation, which opposes the works of Dawkins.)
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9Syria and the reemergence of McCarthyism.