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Saudi Arabia is shutting down half of its oil production after drones attacked the world’s largest oil processing facility in the kingdom, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The closure will impact almost five million barrels of crude production a day, about 5% of the world’s daily oil production, the WSJ reported, citing sources familiar with the…[Read more]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has attempted to brush off concerns about his age and health by asking a reporter who had questioned if he would release his medical records: “you want to wrestle?”

The 76-year-old former US vice-president pledged to provide evidence of his fitness for leadership.

But in the exchange with jou…[Read more]

In a special episode of the Useful Idiots podcast, Sanders talked about fighting corporate talking points, his “huge” differences with Joe Biden, and his thoughts on how best to take on Donald Trump.

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Former national security advisor John Bolton — recently fired by President Trump — has been wrong about a lot.
After 18 years of fighting and no end in sight, Bolton wanted America to double down on the war in Afghanistan, where the Taliban controls the same area of land they did a decade ago. Meanwhile, in a far cry from the false huma…[Read more]

Bill Maher says Amy Klobuchar would be solid ‘compromise’ choice for Dems’ 2020 nomination

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Singer Eddie Money, best known for his songs “Two Tickets to Paradise,” “Take Me Home Tonight” and “Baby Hold On,” died at the age of 70 on Friday.
He had been battling stage 4 esophageal cancer.
Money’s family said in a statement to Fox News: “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with…[Read more]

by DAVID SWANSON

I had hoped to make the above statement after electing a president whom I did not consider a vile mass-murderous warmongering climate-destroying threat to humanity. I’m saying it early. I’m saying it while Trump is president.

But I’m not saying it because I’ve come to share any of the common views of the matter. I do not think…[Read more]

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

+ What I learned at the debate last night….

+ We’re going to be stuck in the middle with Klobuchar…

+ Booker: such fancy rhetorical skills in the service of nothing.

+ The common theme seems to be that the Democrats will “unify” America. Is a “unified America” a 54-46 split?

+ Bernie’s voice may not make it through the d…[Read more]

by PAUL STREET

The contemporary global neofascistic right has become adept at seizing power through legal and parliamentary coups that do not involve military units dramatically taking over government headquarters and radio and television and rounding up opponents.

Turkey’s Elective Dictatorship

In 2017, in the wake of a failed military p…[Read more]