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Interview With One of Brazil's Leading Presidential Candidates, Ciro Gomes
Brazil's October 7 presidential election is rapidly approaching, and perhaps its most remarkable aspect is the utter lack of clarity about the likely outcome.
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MSNBC's Joy Reid Claims Her Website Was Hacked and Bigoted Anti-LGBT Content Added, a Bizarre Story Liberal Outlets Ignore
The key issue is not Reid's old, repudiated bigotry. It is the veracity of her current denials of authorship and hacking claims.
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Noor Salman, Widow of Pulse Killer Omar Mateen, Is Found Not Guilty of All Charges
The rarest of events has just occurred: justice is served in a terrorism case involving a Muslim defendant.
At Trial of Omar Mateen's Wife, Judge's Questioning Reveals a Huge Hole in Prosecution's Case and Deceit by Prosecutors
The decision to prosecute Noor Salman was very odd from the start. Today, the case against her all but fell apart.
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Just as U.S. Media Does With MLK, Brazil's Media Is Trying to Whitewash and Exploit Marielle Franco's Political Radicalism
Brazil's most influential media outlet is trying to turn Marielle into an unthreatening symbol of political clichés — much like how the U.S. portrays MLK.
As the Trial of Omar Mateen's Wife Begins, New Evidence Undermines Beliefs About the Pulse Massacre, Including Motive
The view that Mateen deliberately targeted the LGBT community is almost certainly false. Yet it may play a large role in sending a potentially innocent woman to prison.
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Centrist Democrats Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Transgender Woman, All to Keep an Old, Straight, White Man in Power
Why are establishment Democrats so determined to prevent the first transgender woman from becoming a U.S. senator?
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In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints
If hate speech laws existed in the U.S., their prime targets would be pro-Palestinian groups, Muslims, atheists, Black Lives Matter activists, and antifa.
As Putin Looks On, Macron Says Russian State News Channels Spread Lies About Him
The French president suggested the Russian government had tried to prevent his election by spreading rumors about him through state-owned news networks.
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Chelsea Manning Is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistleblowing
One could almost say that Chelsea Manning’s 2010 leaking to WikiLeaks has faded into the background when assessing her true impact as a human being.