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‘A Woman, Just Not That Woman’: How Sexism Plays Out on the Trail

Critics called Hillary Clinton “shrill” and “unlikable.” It’s no coincidence that the same words are being used against Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris.

City Councilmember Ruben Diaz Sr. Rejects Calls To Resign Over Recent Anti-Gay Comments

City Councilmember Ruben Diaz Sr. Rejects Calls To Resign Over Recent Anti-Gay Comments

Bronx Councilmember Ruben Diaz Sr. is doubling down on his bigoted comments about the City Council being “controlled by the homosexual community,” despite demands for an apology from a bevy of local elected officials, including his own son, and growing calls for his immediate resignation. [ more › ]

Trump offers socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else | Robert Reich

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To a conservative mind, socialism is getting something for nothing. Yet this is what the president promotes for the wealthy

“America will never be a socialist country,” Donald Trump declared in his State of the Union address. Someone should alert Trump that America is now a hotbed of socialism. But it is socialism for the rich. Everyone else is treated to harsh capitalism.

In the conservative mind, socialism means getting something for doing nothing. That pretty much describes the $21bn saved by the nation’s largest banks last year thanks to Trump’s tax cuts, some of which went into massive bonuses for bank executives. On the other hand, more than 4,000 lower-level bank employees got a big dose of harsh capitalism. They lost their jobs.

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Pompeo in Hungary for Orbán meeting as US reengages in region

Fascists and neo-fascists flock together

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US secretary of state will dine with Hungarian leader before travelling to other countries

The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has embarked on a tour of central European countries aimed at countering the influence of Russia and China, after a decade in which the region has been sidelined by US diplomacy.

“When we’re not here others will show up,” said Pompeo at a joint press conference with the Hungarian foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, on Monday afternoon in Budapest.

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‘Napalm girl’ Kim Phuc receives German prize for peace work

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Activist honoured decades after she was photographed fleeing naked in Vietnam war

Kim Phuc, known as the “napalm girl” after a well-known photo of her from the Vietnam war, has received an award in Germany for her work for peace.

Organisers of the Dresden prize say the 55-year-old, who lives in Canada, is being honoured for her support of Unesco and children wounded in war, and for speaking out against violence and hatred. She received €10,000 (£8,800).

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Hungary gives tax breaks to boost population, stop immigration

Only a male fascist would come up with such a plan – 4 years of being pregnant to “save” money? And how much will it cost to raise the four children – or is the next step to give them over to state nurseries? Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced tax benefits and subsidies to encourage families to have more children. He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians instead of promoting EU-backed immigration.

‘Maduro, our amigo’: loyalists in Venezuela cling to their man

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Protests put Chavista movement in a dilemma – ditch their leader or go down with him

In the final weeks of Hugo Chávez’s life, shattered followers flocked to a palm-dotted square in downtown Caracas to pray for the recovery of “El Comandante”.

Six years on, with Chávez’s leftist Bolivarian revolution seemingly in its death throes, some are returning to appeal for the survival of his successor, Nicolás Maduro. “There are millions of us,” insisted Fernando Andrade, 69, a retired electrician and one of hundreds of mostly elderly Chavistas queuing to sign a pro-Maduro petition in Plaza Bolívar last week. A few hours later, Maduro appeared and was greeted with chants of: “Maduro, amigo! El pueblo está contigo!” “Maduro, our friend! The people are with you!”

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In revering Trump, the religious right has laid bare its hypocrisy | Samuel G Freedman

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The evangelical fortress around the president can look like a problem, but progressives can use that heresy to fight opponents

The annual anachronism known as the National Prayer Breakfast attracted its usual array of clergy, military, and political leaders in Washington on 7 February. Most prominent of all, of course, was Donald Trump, who used the de facto pulpit to call for outlawing abortion, among other positions dear to the Religious Right.

Yet the presidential comment that most typified all that has gone morally haywire with the supposedly moral majority came when Trump praised the “abolition of civil rights”. You can consider that statement an innocent, if embarrassing, misreading of the Teleprompter. Or you can hear it as a Freudian slip.

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