Christopher D. Cook
Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning journalist and author of "Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis" (2006). Cook has written for Harper's, The Economist, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, Common Dreams and elsewhere. See more of his work at www.christopherdcook.com.
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Views Thursday, April 02, 2020 Where’s the Money for Health Care and Saving the Planet? Well, We Clearly Have It. With an unprecedented $2 trillion economic stabilization package at last finalized , and a flood of cash and credit emanating from the government to stem the dual crises of pandemic and economic meltdown—now more than $3.5 trillion and counting—America’s priorities and vast resources are being... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 03, 2020 On Super Tuesday and Beyond, 10 Reasons to Vote for Bernie Sanders In the fiercely heated run-up to Super Tuesday, as corporate Democratic centrists began to coalesce around Joe Biden, many progressives remained split and undecided between senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The divide threatens to force a brokered convention at which the Democratic... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 28, 2020 Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate As a Bernie Sanders nomination and presidency become increasingly viable (if not downright likely), his widening popularity signifies something bigger—a palpable yearning and movement across America for a unifying politics based on universal needs that can bring Americans together around common... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 30, 2020 2020 Election Must Focus on Voter Needs and Future One of the few things most voters agree on is that political campaigns too commonly devolve into personality feuds rather than substantive, issue-driven debates. That’s unfortunate, because most voters have concrete needs and issues propelling their votes in 2020. Perhaps they are among the 28... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 12, 2019 Centrists Don’t Want "Party Unity"—They Want to Defend the Wealthy As the Democratic caucuses and primaries hurtle ever closer, Democratic centrists ranging from billionaire Michael Bloomberg to former President Barack Obama are waging a frantic war to stifle more progressive candidates, i.e. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. If the Democratic establishment’s... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 14, 2019 The Problem With the Blue Angels Each October, a couple weeks before the faux frights of Halloween, the Bay Area is treated to a truly terrifying aerial bombardment. Air force jets shred and scream through the sky and dive-bomb in acrobatics that come perilously close to buildings, neighborhoods, and thousands of people. In an era... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 09, 2019 Only Bernie’s Green New Deal Answers Greta’s Call for Action In a bit of reverse parenting, the young climate strikers are teaching the rest of us an embarrassingly obvious lesson in moral clarity and courage. Mobilizing more than 7 million people across 185 countries September 20–27—with about 1,000 actions in the United States alone—youth struck a... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 The Democrats Need a Clear Economic Vision. Here's Where to Start As the newly Democratic-controlled House of Representatives enters office in January, the People's Budget presents an immediate opportunity for Democrats to support a bold, concrete plan for creating living-wage jobs and rebuilding America's corroded and unsustainable infrastructure. Read more |
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Views Friday, December 07, 2018 The Mean, Rough Legacy of George H.W. Bush The triumphal and counter-factual celebrating of President George H.W. Bush as an “honorable” leader who evoked kindness and “civility” raises a potently crucial question: What does it mean to be civil and kind in person and in word, yet brutal in policy and deed? Despite the gentlemanly veneer,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 22, 2018 Protesters Take to the Streets to Demand Green New Deal From Democrats Donning particle masks in the smoke-fogged air Tuesday morning, dozens of protesters urged Bay Area congressional representatives Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee to endorse a Green New Deal select committee that could create millions of jobs combating the climate crisis. Read more |