News & Views | Sanders Rips Trump-Putin Presser as 'Embarrassing Spectacle'

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Should It?](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AucZKkJ9is) ["The Vietnamese can’t find the bombed and scattered body parts of literally hundreds of thousands of their own, let alone ours." (Photo: Vietnamfulldisclosure.org)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AucZKkJ9is) by Doug Rawlings If Americans are convinced that their stiff-upper-lip brand of silence in the face of collective murder is the true face of patriotism, then we are condemned as a nation to follow the path of empires that preceded us --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AucZKkJ9is) ["Within that top 20 percent, well over half the benefits have gone to the top 5 percent, and over half those top 5 percent benefits have gone to the top 1 percent." (Photo: Fight Back! News/Kim DeFranco)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AucZKkJ9is) by Sam Pizzigati America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored inequality since 2000. 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