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French police unleashed tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators Tuesday as tens of thousands packed the streets of Paris in an outpouring of opposition to the government’s anti-labor agenda. The CGT labor union, which helped organized the march, hoped Tuesday’s mobilization would be the largest since protests launched over new labor standards, which allow…

More than a dozen U.S. senators are launching a campaign to call out the powerful industry of climate denial and demanding Congress take action against the back-door blockading of environmental policy that they are calling the #WebOfDenial. Tweets about #WebOfDenial #TimeToCallOut Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkeley (D-Ore.), Al…

In his first televised interviews since Friday’s release of internal DNC emails by Wikileaks and Hillary Clinton’s choice of Sen. Tim Kaine as running mate, Bernie Sanders responded Sunday morning by saying he was troubled, though not at all surprised, by what the leaks reveal and refused to call Kaine “progressive” while explaining he would…

Three years and thousands of deaths later, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama late Friday finally made public its guidelines for conducting lethal drone strikes. The release of the Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG), also known as “the Playbook,” came in response to a lawsuit filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)…

Proponents of her ouster argued that former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was targeted and ultimately booted from office for budgetary wrongdoing or, ironically, corruption. But fresh comments by new, unelected president Michel Temer himself back up claims that her impeachment was politically motivated, specifically, that Rousseff wouldn’t enact the austerity-promoting, welfare-slashing economic platform Temer unveiled…

Kid Rock, the musician who has been teasing a potential Senate bid in Michigan, is lashing out at the media, “the extreme left,” and Al Sharpton. “They are trying to use the old confederate flag BS, etc. to stir the pot, when we all know none of this would be going on if I were not…

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon celebrated Roy Moore’s victory in Tuesday night’s GOP Senate primary runoff in Alabama as the beginning of a “revolution” for insurgent Republicans looking to challenge incumbent senators.  In remarks introducing Moore before his victory speech, Bannon recalled his comments at a pro-Moore rally on Monday night. He pointed to Moore’s victory and Tuesday’s announcement by Sen. Bob…

The Pentagon on Monday announced that 15 men would be transferred from Guantánamo Bay to the United Arab Emirates, in the largest single detainee shuffle under President Barack Obama’s administration. The transfer means there are now just 61 people left in the U.S. military prison in Cuba. The 15 men include 12 Yemenis and three…

Progressives worldwide are celebrating a whopping $14 billion tax bill slapped on Apple, Inc., by the EU for the multinational’s evasive tax practices in Ireland—so why is the Irish government up in arms about the windfall? The European Commission on Tuesday issued a sweeping ruling against Apple demanding that the company pay Ireland $14 billion…

Israel and Facebook will team up to delete content the country views as inciting violence, the Associated Press reports Monday. “The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation,” Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept. The development follows a meeting in Tel Aviv between…