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GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski Explains 'No' Vote on Kavanaugh

October 5, 2018

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) speaks on the Senate floor about her vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Movie: Vice

October 5, 2018

VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

Trump Takes a Stand for the Real Victims: Men

October 5, 2018

Stephen performs a monologue from Donald Trump's new one-man show, 'Downfall of the Fictional American Man.'

Willie Nelson - Vote 'Em Out (Texas Rally for Beto)

October 5, 2018

Willie Nelson's live premiere of Vote 'Em Out performed 9/29/18 at the rally for Beto O'Rourke.

A Conversation on Consent

October 5, 2018

Isobel Yeung and Jackie Jesko talk about VICE's HBO special report on Consent.

October 5, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | October 5, 2018

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A Conversation on Consent. Willie Nelson - Vote 'Em Out (Texas Rally for Beto). Trump Takes a Stand for the Real Victims: Men. Movie: Vice. GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski Explains 'No' Vote on Kavanaugh.

October 4, 2018

Tidbits - Oct. 4, 2018 - Reader Comments: Rage, Resistance to Kavanaugh, Rape, War on Women; Reconstruction White Terror; Iran; Laundry Workers; Broadway Stands Up; Socialism vs. Capitalism; more...

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Reader Comments: Rage and Resistance to Kavanaugh, Rape, War on Women; Immigrant Children Still Kept, Moved in Dark; Reconstruction; Workers Struggles in Iran; Announcements: Laundry Workers; Broadway Stands Up; Socialism vs. Capitalism; and more...

October 4, 2018

Missing the Dark Satanic Mills

Deborah Cohen The New York Review of Books

After three centuries, giant factories remain sites not only of production for use but of exploitation, class warfare and environmental degradation. The book author writes of how the factory still effects our dreams and nightmares.

October 4, 2018

UN Human Rights Council Adopts Landmark Declaration of Peasants’ Rights

Pavan Kulkarni People's Dispatch

Despite opposition from agribusiness, the UN Human Rights Council Declaration adopted a declaration of peasant rights. This can provide a legal basis for peasant organizations to challenge neo-liberal austerity measures.

October 4, 2018

The Christian Right is Looking to Putin's Russia to Save Christianity From the Godless West

Tom Porter Newsweek

Why is the US Christian nationalist right looking to Russia? The thought shatters old notions as odd indeed. It's supposed to be the left that's cozy with Russia. Since 1990 it's a new world. Newsweek gives a peek into it...