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FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union

President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was filled with several repeat claims about the economy, tax cuts and immigration that we’ve fact-checked before, as well as new false

January 31, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak

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The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in shootings

January 31, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Tillerson’s Promise of More War in Syria Gets Warm Reception From Corporate Media

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In a speech at Stanford this month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared that America intends to keep military troops in Syria indefinitely, in pursuit of the US’s “key end states for Syria,” including “post-Assad leadership

January 30, 2018
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Puerto Rico's New Power Struggle: Privatization

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Four months after Hurricane Maria and with close to half of its residents still without power, Puerto Rico has announced it will privatize its debt-ridden public electric utility, PREPA. We speak to Petra