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July 2016[edit]

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25Snopes can't cope: there are so many conspiracy theories popping up, David Mikkelson says "the bilge keeps coming faster than you can pump."
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17Why Russia's Communist party is resurging.
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13Obama is set to send billions in aid to Israel as it prospers.
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18How Netenyahu is crushing Israel's free press.
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28The Munich shooter was a Neo-nazi, no wonder the media has moved on.
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-6The media narrative that détente with Russia is treacherous is McCarthyite.
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-5Glenn Greenwald talks Brexit, Trump, and info leaks.
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5Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the anarchist bringing encrytion to us all,
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14The Curious Rise of Scientology in Taiwan.
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11Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
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-27The 1 percent's useful idiots.
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11Taking back control.
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-6Clinton writes off the Left. (The American Conservative)
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25 reasons almost everyone was wrong about Trump. (Cracked)
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10How the other half protests.
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14What happened to the pink tide in South America?
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2"Banning the box" may actually hurt POC.
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9The world is addicted to debt.
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21Neoliberalism is a political project.
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13Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People (The American Conservative)
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9We Are the Left? Yeah, Right…
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21How Alex Jones uses people's fear of the government to sell dietary supplements.
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17An inside look at Reddit's alt-right community.
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11Air conditioning is a human right.
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13I have seen both worlds, and the naturopathic one is terrifying.In particular, comments section.
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20Police shootings bring into spotlight the 2006 FBI report about white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement.
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11Want police reform? Charge rich people more for speeding tickets
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17The LED Quandry: Why there's no such thing as built to last.
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14Here's why Blue Lives Matter is a racist hate group.
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16The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people.
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11Renowned hacktivist "Phineas Fisher" gives an interview to Vice about the complicated relationship between law enforcement around the world and hackers... as a puppet.
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11It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin
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16Ending the violence.
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20The Shadow Over Cleveland: Donald Trump as Supernatural Horror. A semi-tongue-in-cheek but also-completely-serious argument for Trump-as-eldritch-abomination by way of Harry G. Frankfurt's On Bullshit and the horror philosophy of S. T. Joshi and Thomas Ligotti.
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12Stephen Colbert on the word "trumpiness". Hello, nation! (YouTube link)
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16Melani's speech reveals how vapid political speeches are.
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9Rudy Giuliani's history of racist rants. (Cato)
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13Drug users are being slaughtered right now and no one cares. (Cracked)
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7What happened in Turkey?
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10The world is taking its revenge against elites. When will America's wake up?
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16"Sixty years ago, the Republican Party was advocating for civil rights and gender equality, a stronger welfare state, and environmental protection. This is the story of the Republican Party that once was."
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20Roger Ailes, Bullshit Mountain CEO and Chairman, is set to be ousted as a result of an internal probe into sexual harassment allegations made against him. No news yet whether or not Carrie Fisher will reprise her role.
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7Why Japan (National Review) and South Korea may be slipping from liberal democracies into fascist dictatorships.
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21Three bystanders who filmed and shared videos of killings by cops say they've been targeted by police ever since.
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15Report confirms UK media's bias against Jeremy Corbyn
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10Karen Armstrong, Lawrence Krauss, and Greg Epstein discuss whether religion is responsible for violence.
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14Anti-Semitic Trump supporters go after David Harris Gershon, here are his thoughts on the matter.
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20How Western media would cover Baton Rouge if it happened overseas.
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13Obama says Black Lives Matter. But he doesn't ensure they do.
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-16Is My Intolerance of Your 
Intolerance Intolerant? How Islamists and their allies among the Western left smear their critics as Muslimophobes.
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18How technology disrupted the truth.
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25"But from both a strategic and moral perspective, the worst thing that could be done in response to the horror of incidents like Nice would be to give ISIS what it says it wants: polarization and communal hatred." "Far-right parties hostile to minorities are growing in popularity in Europe, while in the United States, polls show significant public support for once-unthinkable measures like banning non-citizen Muslims from the country."
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0Obama has failed victims of racism and police brutality.
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16Dear #WeAreTheLeft, you are not the Left.
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19The near certainty of anti-police violence.
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6Gun Deaths: Putting gun-related fatalities in the news into perspective.
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20A neuroscientist explains the unconscious racial biases behind deadly police shootings.
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1The Clintonite Democrats are now to the right of Bush on Palestinian rights.
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7How AIPAC is using black leaders to erase Palestinian suffering from the DNC platform.
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23The religious cult secretly running Japan.
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7Barret Brown writes about his life in federal prison.
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21I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.
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13Legalizing certain illegal jobs: a way to end police harassment. From Reason.
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24A lovely analysis of the politicians behind the Brexit - "one Etonian backstabbing another"
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15Economist William K. Black explains how white collar crime kills and maims more people than blue collar crime.
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13Despite rampant comparisons, 2016 is nowhere near as bad as 1968.
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11Death in Black and White.
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21It’s more than just the killings and the racism, it’s the extortion too.
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13Abu Zabaydah describes his years of torture by the CIA.
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28America: a very class-divided society - the example of "white trash".
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11The Chilcolt Report reveals two things: Iraqi lives don't matter and that Western aggression causes terrorism.
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18Why modern America scares me: By an internment camp survivor.
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11The Dallas PD's decision to use a remote control device to deliver lethal force raises serious legal quetions on a new era of policing.
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-15After Dallas shooting, it's not Us vs. the Cops
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11Why Marwan Barghouti may be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela.
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13Here are 8 white people who pointed guns at police officers who didn't get killed.
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14Inside the deadly world of private prisoner transport.
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-24Jimmy Dore catches an awkward tweet by Elizabeth Warren. Oops!
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7Sarah Lyall of the New York Times on the Brexit aftermath: British Politics Gives a Sense of Government by Old School Chums
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18You know those cheap roadside narcotics tests -- the ones where a cop puts a mysterious white substance in a plastic blister pack and it changes color if it's cocaine or opioid? It turns out that they may be no more accurate than if the cop and the accused had instead played rock-paper-scissors to determine the outcome.
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17Clinton’s Emails, GamerGate, and How the Word “Corruption” Became Meaningless
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16Everything the British media have misreported about the EU since 1992
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13Economic Theorists: The high priests of Capitalism.
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18Liberals need to stop writing off non–college educated workers.
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11How the U.S. military promotes its weapons arsenal to the public.
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14Beware the ‘empathy-washing’ of self-proclaimed caring capitalists.
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8The coup against Corbyn was planned to stop him calling for Blair’s head after Chilcot.
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5Inside the Kuweires air base in Syria after its 2-year siege.
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13The terrorists the Saudis cultivate in peaceful countries.
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14Policing the police. (Documentary by PBS)
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9Confessions of a former internet troll: "Trolling as an impulse has always been largely the domain of white men. They — we — are all anxious."
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7Poe's Law and the Brock Turner case.
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14The right-wing populism that drove Brexit can only be fought with a genuinely radical alternative.
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15Ending the racist prison system begins with telling the truth about its injustices.
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20When prosecutors withhold information, innocent people go to prison — or worse. (Video by Reason)
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20Corporate fraud demands criminal time.
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14Arresting America: Are your police really protecting you?
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9An alternative to the madness of proving police injustice.
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10Netanyahu’s bloody incitement.
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26Chinese mining companies have effectively taken over Bitcoin, leading to the American libertarians backing it for ideological reasons begging them ineffectually for their desired changes. Unscrupulous actors motivated by short-term profit dominating a market in the absence of regulation? Say it ain't so!
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21When your joke online petition goes nuts: I have accidentally founded an independence movement.