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January 25, 2024

Color of Law

Republican Governors Are Fine With Letting Poor Children Starve

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Roughly half of these states are former confederate states with large Black populations, a long record of treating people poorly and a history of not regarding Black people as human beings.

Once again, the Republican Party is showing that they really don’t care about children. For all their talk about family values — empty and self-righteous talk…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

The MAGA Crowd Longs for a Strong Powerful White Man To Rule the Country With an Iron Fist

By Desi Cortez Columnist

MAGA yearns to reclaim their nation and its cherished pastimes and make them both Alpine snow White again.

America’s national pastimes, “Sports,” reflect and embody all of America’s broad societal ills and woes. With that noted, It’s “interesting” to observe Trump’s cult, which is…

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Guest Commentary

Let’s Control All Drug Prices

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Pharmaceutical companies are resisting public scrutiny and suing over modest drug price regulations. It’s past time to regulate their profiteering.

Major pharmaceutical companies in the United States are battling with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over an issue that is at the heart of whether we value…

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Guest Commentary

Do We Value Anything Else As Much as Military Spending?

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

All of the top 27 nations in per capita military spending are U.S. weapons customers.

The 2020 Democratic Party Platform said that Democrats would reduce military spending: “We can maintain a strong defense and protect our safety and security for less.”…

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Corporation

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Corporation

By Doug Minkler

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