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Why Did Chuck Schumer Call an Islamophobe His "Principled" Friend?
Rep. Peter King is not a “moderate” Republican.
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan is a former Senior Columnist at The Intercept. He was the host of The Intercept podcast “Deconstructed.” Hasan was also the host of Al Jazeera English’s “UpFront.” He has interviewed, among others, Edward Snowden, Hamid Karzai, Ehud Olmert, and Gen. Michael Flynn. He is also the author of two books: a biography of former U.K. Labor Party leader Ed Miliband and an e-book on the financial crisis and austerity economics. He is based in Washington, D.C.
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Bernie Sanders Says Denying Aid Because of Hamas Is “Part of an Effort to Dehumanize Palestinians”
No other candidate in the U.S. presidential race comes close to Sanders in terms of his willingness to condition aid to Israel.
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Everyone Is Denouncing the Syrian Rebels Now Slaughtering Kurds. But Didn't the U.S. Once Support Some of Them?
It’s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.
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Let’s Be Serious — Trump Doesn’t Mind These Incitements to Kill Journalists
The latest outrage is a video that depicts Trump killing journalists in a church. He hasn’t bothered to condemn it personally.
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Dear Ellen: The Problem With George W. Bush Is Not His Beliefs — It's His War Crimes
George W. Bush is not a “kind, sweet man.” There is nothing “beautiful” about him. He was a monster as governor of Texas and a monster as president.
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Fighting Calls for Impeachment, Trump Intensifies Anti-Semitic Rhetoric. We Cannot Ignore It.
Shamefully, Trump attacked Nadler, Schiff, and Ocasio-Cortez of them as “savages.” How is such rhetoric not racist?
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Democrats, Please Don’t Mess This Up. Impeach Trump for All His Crimes, Not Just for Ukraine.
Impeaching Trump only for Ukraine would give him a clean bill of health on everything else, like his obstruction of the Mueller investigation.
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How the White Nationalists Who Love Trump Found Inspiration in the Group That Gave Us Narendra Modi
The anti-Muslim mass murderer Anders Breivik found inspiration in the Hindu nationalist group where Narendra Modi got his start as a far-right activist.
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Saudi First: Trump Wants to Start a War With Iran When MBS Gives the Order
Why is Trump deferring to Riyadh? Questions need to be asked about his financial ties with Saudis who bailed him out during the 1990s.
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Trump Was Foolish to Invite the Taliban to Camp David but the War in Afghanistan Must End
Afghanistan does not have an easy solution but there is no point in U.S. forces staying in the country to continue their merciless forever war.