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David Armiak More Staff Flee the Republican Attorneys General Association After It Doubles Down on Insurrection The group and its members will be forever tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection, especially now that they have apparently doubled down on fanning the flames of Trump’s Big Lie. Read more |
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John Feffer Around the World, Immigrants Are Coming to the Rescue For countries facing a demographic crisis, immigrants are the answer. Read more |
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Sonja Scherndl, Adam Parsons Let's Finally End the Insanity of Colossal Military Spending During a Global Health Emergency Imagine what could be achieved if just a portion of the money spent on military expenditures were pooled into a global fund, and redirected towards ending hunger and massively investing in public health systems. Read more |
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Robert Reich The United States a 100 Days Into Biden's Presidency and 100 Days Without Trump Biden's plans might be the antidote to Trumpism—creating enough decent-paying working class jobs, along with benefits such as childcare and free community college, as to forestall some of the right-wing dyspepsia that Trump whipped into a fury. Read more |
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Joan Steinau Lester Cariol Horne, Social Justice Hero Her persistence reminds me of the impact one determined person can make. She never gave up her fight, even when it looked hopeless, and saw her faith ultimately rewarded. Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt Calls for Biden to Stop Enbridge Line 3 Continue Unabated The Canadian oil company is feeling the heat as Indigenous groups, environmental organizations, and other activists are demanding that the President pull the plug. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Apocalypse Must Be Near. I Agree With Henry Kissinger—About Cold War With China The US is waging an economic, propaganda, and military cold war against China, heightening tensions and increasing the risk of future confrontations. And it's getting worse. Read more |
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Ann Wright, Gerry Condon Golden Rule Peace Boat Sets Sail from Hawai'i for California "We are sailing for a nuclear-free world and a peaceful, sustainable future." Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Why Human Rights Watch Designating Israel's Crimes as Apartheid Is a Very Big Deal The report reflects the power of decades of work in defense of Palestinian rights. Read more |
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C.J. Polychroniou Why the Future Belongs to the Left As long as the barbarism of neoliberal capitalism defines the present, the future can only belong to the left. Read more |
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Abdulkerim Said None of Us Are Safe From Covid-19 Until the Global Population Has Access to the Vaccine I and many other Mainers have relatives and friends in countries around the world, and we can’t disconnect from those people. But when it comes to this pandemic, we’re all connected—and not just by our common humanity. None of us are safe until we’ve reached a worldwide critical mass of vaccination. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg Will America's Forever Offshore Prison Ever Be Closed? Can Guantánamo ever be shut down? Read more |
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Timothy Karr World Press Freedom During the US Tech Boom Free Press believes that creating a diverse and thriving news sector in the United States can be achieved by imposing a tax on online-advertising revenues that fuel the platforms and the attention economy. Read more |
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Peter Arno, Philip Caper Covid-19 Vaccinations: A Shot in the Arm for Universal Healthcare? The national vaccination program has all the features of a single-payer health care system including no copays, no premiums, no insurance company blocking payment, and universal, affordable healthcare for all. Read more |
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Steven Stone World Must Move From Pledges to Actual Green Recovery Spending In the wake of a once-in-a-generation pandemic and economic crisis, spending on green recoveries is less than an average year's worth of subsidies on fossil fuels. Read more |
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Daniel Sherrell Biden Is Flirting With a Better Economic Paradigm. Young People Need Him to Commit. If Biden genuinely wants to serve as a "bridge" to a new "generation of leaders"—as he stated repeatedly during his campaign--then he must leave behind outmoded deficit politics and embrace the THRIVE Act. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman The System Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis Without a Push: That’s Where You Come in This is an all hands-on-deck moment where civil society, that means you and I, need to throw everything we have into changing the politics of business as usual. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Want Fewer Police Shootings? Get Armed Cops Out of Traffic Enforcement Removing armed police officers from traffic enforcement and turning it over to civilians should be a major goal of the racial justice movement. Read more |
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John Buell Big Pharma Patents on Covid-19 Vaccines Must Be Waived to Save the World In the long term we must treat public health as a common good, a good upon which all of our virtues depend Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd The Squad and Their Allies Should Unite to Block Biden’s Massive Military Budget This is the moment to put a stop to runaway spending on war and the nuclear arsenal. Read more |
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Azadeh Shahshahani, Amith Gupta More Domestic Spying Power Is Not the Answer We are told by some opponents of the far-right that supporters of equality and civil liberties should not be worried about expansions of U.S. surveillance and counterterrorism capabilities. They are wrong. Read more |
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Jason Nickerson, Adam Houston Why Canada Must Support the WTO Waiver on Covid-19 Vaccines Expanding access to life-saving medical technologies during this pandemic is exactly what the world needs. Read more |
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Timothy A. Wise Bayer Goes After Mexico for Glyphosate Ban The pressure by the agribusiness industry continues, but we will keep up our fight. Read more |
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Sanaa Khalil Oppression in the Form of Israeli Dates It is imperative that we follow in the footsteps of the revolutionaries’ tea boycott, the historic Delano Grape Boycott, and boycott the Israeli date industry, too. Read more |
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People’s Vaccine Alliance Who's Controlling the COVID Vaccine: 10 Myths and Misdirections The only way these big pharmaceutical corporations and rich governments will move is by being shamed into it. Read more |