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Michael Bloomberg’s Blatant Lies About Terrorism Show That He’s a Mainstream Politician
His response to the attempted 2010 Times Square attack shows that Michael Bloomberg harbors the same illusions about terrorism as other politicians.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Merry Christmas, America! Let’s Remember the Children Who Live in Fear of Our Killer Drones.
This Christmas, let’s tell the truth about America’s killer drones and the new form of terror they bring to children around the world.
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The Defenders of the Wine Cave Are Missing the Point
Legal or not, most Americans think that the campaign finance system is inherently flawed and needs to be rebuilt.
The Supreme Court Case That Made Michael Bloomberg's Campaign Possible — and Doomed Kamala Harris
Hint: It's not Citizens United.
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David Duke and His Twitter Nazis Got Mad at Me. Twitter Took Their Side.
Twitter doesn’t care when its users are abused by Nazi accounts. But what happens when the feelings of the Nazis get hurt? Then Twitter springs into action.
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All of America’s 607 Billionaires Must Run for President
For all intents and purposes, the United States is already run by its billionaires. They should care about us enough to make things official.
For Some Reason, We Can’t Find a Single Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to His Dinners With Pundits From “Across the Spectrum”
We asked The Nation, Mother Jones, Jacobin, Black Agenda Report, Chapo Trap House, and more: They all said their invitation from the Facebook CEO never arrived.
What I Learned From the Debate: Democrats Still Can’t Level With Voters About the American Empire
No one on stage Tuesday night in Ohio was willing to tell Americans the awful truth.
The U.S. Is Now Betraying the Kurds for the Eighth Time
Nothing in this world is certain except death, taxes, and America betraying the Kurds.
All the President’s Crimes
Nixon’s Revenge: This Time, Republicans Are Ready to Fight Impeachment
The right has patiently spent decades creating a system to make sure no Republican president is ever forced from office again, no matter what he does.