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Climate Change Could Prompt Tens of Thousands of Suicides in the US and Mexico by 2050

“A main hypothesis is that hotter temperatures have a direct effect on human emotion and impulsivity.”

July 25th, 2018

Climate Change Could Prompt Tens of Thousands of Suicides in the US and Mexico by 2050

New research found a link between rising temperatures and suicide, indicating that unchecked climate change could lead to additional 9,000 to 40,000 suicides across the United States and Mexico by 2050. The findings by researchers at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley were published Monday in

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The Relationship Between Racism and Capitalism

Revulsion is building towards the smokescreens of hypocrisy, racism, and nationalism barely masking capitalism’s ongoing failure to provide the jobs and incomes people need.

July 19th, 2018

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The Relationship Between Racism and Capitalism

In the wake of W.E.B. DuBois’s 150th birthday, his works offer a lens through which to assess US capitalism’s relationship to racism today. He famously wrote: “Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction,” while adding that in the US, race would be a key issue in that process. Thus he would have had much to say when, around

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Mexico’s Own ‘Bernie Sanders’ Elected President in Historic Landslide Victory

Progressive anti-Trump candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday.

July 02nd, 2018

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Mexico’s Own ‘Bernie Sanders’ Elected President in Historic Landslide Victory

Progressive anti-Trump candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been elected president of Mexico on Sunday in an apparent landslide victory. Exit polls gave AMLO, as his supporters call him, a huge lead over his two closest competitors, and both of them conceded the race shortly after polls closed on Sunday night. Official results were due to

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‘There’s a Special Place in Hell’ for Those Who Defy the President, Trump Adviser Warns

“You can’t make this stuff up. The collapse of U.S. governance before our eyes.”

June 11th, 2018

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‘There’s a Special Place in Hell’ for Those Who Defy the President, Trump Adviser Warns

After President Donald Trump drove the U.S. into an all-out trade war with Canada on Saturday with his Twitter outburst threatening to hit America's northern neighbor with even more punitive tariffs, Trump's top trade

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Trump’s Reckless Decision Puts US on Path to War with Iran

Trump has taken a functioning arms control deal that prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb and turned it into a crisis that may very well lead to war.

May 08th, 2018

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Trump’s Reckless Decision Puts US on Path to War with Iran

In anticipation of President Donald Trump's announcement that he will withdraw the U.S. from its commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Tuesday, the following is a statement from Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC): Donald Trump has committed what will go down as one of the greatest

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Pope Francis Appeals For Peace Amid Conflicts Supported and Inflamed By Trump

“As the winds of war are blowing in our world,” Pope makes appeal for an end to conflicts that impact the world’s children.

December 27th, 2017

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Pope Francis Appeals For Peace Amid Conflicts Supported and Inflamed By Trump

With a focus on the impact of war, conflict, and inequality on the world's children, Pope Francis delivered a Christmas Day sermon in Rome's St. Peter's Square on Monday that catalogued a multitude of concerns with policies pushed by President Donald Trump as well as previous U.S. presidents. The Pope restated his support for a two-state

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North Korea: Trump ‘Begged for a Nuclear War’ During Visit to Korean Peninsula

While Trump is greeted by protesters across the continent, North Korea says he has “laid bare his true nature as destroyer of world peace and stability”

November 11th, 2017

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North Korea: Trump ‘Begged for a Nuclear War’ During Visit to Korean Peninsula

As protests continue across the continent while U.S. President Donald Trump travels Asia, North Korea on Saturday called Trump a "destroyer of world peace and stability" who "begged for a nuclear war" during his visit to South Korea earlier this week. "Trump, during his visit, laid bare his true nature as destroyer of world

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