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Vice President Joe Biden, right, laughs as he is introduced by DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., at the DNC Women's Leadership conference in Washington, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Un-Democratic Party: DNC chair says superdelegates ensure elites don’t have to run “against grassroots activists”

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Bernie Sanders, at the Democratic debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Feb. 11, 2016, in Milwaukee. (AP/Morry Gash)

Sanders proudly declaring “Kissinger is not my friend” totally destroys notion that Clinton’s better on foreign policy

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Syrian refugee children at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016. (Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)

“Cruel” deportations of kids: U.S. and U.K. are sending child refugees back to where they may be killed

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump (AP/Reuters/Nir Elias/Brian Snyder/Majdi Mohammed/Salon)

Netanyahu says he’ll surround Israel with walls to keep out “wild beasts,” leading to Trump comparisons

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Children in the town of Boda, Central African Republic in April 2014, where just 13 percent of 1-year-olds have received full immunization coverage, and where MSF is working (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

Pharmaceutical corporations rake in billions on pneumonia vaccines while millions in poor countries go without

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Libyan boys walk near the wreckage of a school bombed by NATO forces in August 2011 (Reuters/Caren Firouz)

Obama “on verge of” launching another bombing campaign in Libya, after dropping 23,144 bombs on six countries in 2015

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Palestinians walk through the rubble of their homes in October 2014 in Shuja'iyya, Gaza, after Israel's U.S.-backed bombing (AP/Adel Hana)

74% of Gaza homes destroyed by Israel in summer 2014 war have not been rebuilt, as violent repression escalates

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(AP/Kathy Willens)

“21st-century McCarthyism”: NY bills would make a blacklist of those boycotting Israel over human rights violations

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Israeli cleaning company charges based on race and characterizes Arabs as a security threat, according to flier

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Constance Malcolm, mother of fatal police shooting victim Ramarley Graham, left, stands with protesters in front of the U.S. Attorney's office, Dec. 19, 2014, in New York. (AP/Jason DeCrow)

“Miscarriage of justice”: A story that’s gotten too familiar — 4 years after innocent teen’s shooting by cop, family demands action

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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (L) listens as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Democratic presidential candidates debate sponsored by MSNBC at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RTX25IVB (Reuters)

Bernie and Hillary’s tension-filled face-off: Wall Street, health care, Flint crisis and progressive cred highlight latest Democratic debate

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Hillary Clinton (AP/David Goldman)

In debate, Hillary Clinton boasted that she is supported by Henry Kissinger, accused war criminal who oversaw policies that led to millions of deaths

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Bernie Sanders (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton clash on what it means to be a progressive: Democratic debate quickly gets heated

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Activists shout slogans during a protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Monsanto in Santiago, Chile on January 22, 2016. The sign reads "TPP is death." (Reuters/Pablo Sanhueza)

“Gambling away our future”: Activist groups warn of disaster as nations sign pro-corporate TPP deal in lavish casino

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a meeting with volunteers at Iowa State University, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Bernie Sanders slams Hillary Clinton on Twitter for being two-faced: “You cannot be a moderate and a progressive”

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An activist handing out the fake New York Times edition outside of the real newspaper's building (NYT-IP/JVP/Jews Say No!)

Progressive Jewish groups make New York Times parody issue to protest newspaper’s “biased Israel-Palestine coverage”

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(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/AP/Jim Cole/Photo montage by Salon)

Sanders’ supporters cry foul over “Coingate”: Controversy over coin tosses that made Clinton “winner” in Iowa

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Hillary Cllinton, Bernie Sanders (Reuters/Brian Snyder/Jim Young/Photo montage by Salon)

With a virtual tie between Clinton and Sanders in Iowa, Bernie’s campaign proves it has serious grassroots power

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U.S. militarism escalates: Despite promises of no boots on the ground, we have thousands of troops in Iraq and Syria

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A Palestinian protester standing in front of Israeli soldiers holds the picture of imprisoned journalist Mohammad al-Qiq, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Jan. 22, 2016. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)

Palestinian journalist imprisoned by Israel without trial on verge of death, entering third month of hunger strike

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A Yemeni girl cries at a school sheltering people displaced by Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen's Saada province, in the capital Sanaa on August 27, 2015 (Reuters)

“A forgotten crisis”: Mass starvation in Yemen as U.S.-backed Saudi war & blockade push millions to brink of famine

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The ruins of Benghazi today, in the wake of the U.S.-backed NATO war, as Libyan pro-government forces fight the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries and extremist group Ansar al-Sharia (Reuters)

Endless war will destroy us all: The U.S. military is the imperial hammer that sees every problem as a nail

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Noam Chomsky (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Giving Noam Chomsky the platform he deserves: Media only pays attention when he’s uncontroversial, not when he talks about what really matters

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B.o.B. (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

“Flat Earth” rapper B.o.B has even more extreme, dangerous views: He promotes Holocaust denial

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