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Cassandra Stubbs Keith Tharpe’s Scheduled Execution Tests Our Tolerance for Racial Bias in Executions There are two types of Black people, the juror said, and Tharpe wasn’t a “good” one. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Anti-Fascist Heroines Then and Now “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Read more |
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Paul Street Capitalism: The Nightmare The gross injustices of the American dream. Read more |
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Basav Sen The Brutal Racial Politics of Climate Change and Pollution Trump administration policies are systematically making natural disasters more harmful for the poor and people of color Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Empire of Madness: Tweeting While the World Burns Fiddling through smoke and ashes in the year 2025 Read more |
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Bernie Sanders The World's Common Humanity and US Foreign Policy 'A sensible and effective foreign policy recognizes that our safety and welfare is bound up with the safety and welfare of others around the world.' Read more |
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Tharanga Yakupitiyage A Trump Doctrine of Hypocrisy As nuclear tensions continue to escalate, Trump’s threats of war bring security to no one. Read more |
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Alice Pettway Equal Pay for Women Supported by the U.N.—Trump, Not So Much. "As much as 40 percent of the pay gap may be attributed to discrimination." Read more |
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John Feffer It’s Time to Make a Deal With North Korea If the U.S. made a deal with Maoist China in the 1970s, it can surely cut one with North Korea today. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Trump Pushes US Closer to War Bombastic and self-absorbed narcissists throughout history have meant what they said. And yes, they have gotten many millions killed. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Reclaiming the Truth About Vietnam Buried with the massacred victims of senseless wars. That's were our values are kept. Read more |
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Leslie Cooper Same-Sex Couples Are Being Turned Away From Becoming Foster and Adoptive Parents in Michigan. So We’re Suing. Despite the 13,000 children in the foster care system, religious objections are deemed lawful in rejecting prospective same-sex parents. Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer The Man Who Saved the World An ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing. Read more |
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Josh Bivens, Hunter Blair Graham-Cassidy: Maybe the Worst Republican Health Proposal Yet The completely cynical bill is Trumpism in a nutshell. It is a raw negative-sum redistribution of resources to those currently in power, one that lacks any policy depth at all and simply repeals the ACA and slashes Medicaid. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Censorious Vortex of the “Flash News” Barons Soundbite journalism is phasing out comprehensive reporting in mainstream media. Read more |
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Bob Lord Trump’s Tax Plan: A Billion or Three for Guys Like Him If the president's tax plan passes, it'll be like he's cutting himself a check from the Treasury. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner A Negotiated Curbing of North Korea's Nuclear Capabilities Is Good, But Not Good Enough Fortunately, there is an alternative to living on the brink of nuclear catastrophe: abolishing nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard After the Storms: Defeating Trumpism, Rebuilding America The present crisis long pre-dates Donald Trump. Read more |
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Nick Turse Afghanistan: A Military Mission That Never Fails to Fail How the U.S.-backed media masks the abject failures of American occupation. Read more |
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Thomas S. Harrington Urgent: Forced Takeover of Catalan Government Institutions by Spanish Police The people of Spain's Catalan region are in the streets as the Spanish government suspends autonomy and seizes ballots ahead of upcoming referendum Read more |
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Tom Fowdy We Cannot Go on Like This. It Is Time to Talk to North Korea Though negotiations would certainly not be easy, they remain the better option compared to Trump's threats and the risk of war Read more |
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Eoin Higgins Media’s Instinct to Rehabilitate the Powerful Has Not Changed Under Trump Disregarding Moral Rules in Entertainment Media. Read more |
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Ann Jones Afghanistan Again? The American Military’s Repetition-Compulsion Complex "Oh, when will they ever learn?" Read more |
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Vignesh Gowrishankar , Amanda Levin Clean Energy Is America’s Next Frontier & Path to a Safer Climate The Revolution Towards a Green Economy. Read more |
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Robert Kuttner The Trump Nightmare: How It Ends A scenario that becomes more likely by the day. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Trump’s Response to Climate-Related Disasters: Open America’s “Crown Jewels” to Oil Drilling "Instead of pushing for clean technology and to end our oil addiction, the Trump Administration is quietly pushing to open up one of America’s great last wilderness areas." Read more |
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Cain Burdeau Don't Expect the Insurance Industry To Protect You From Climate Change Insurance companies understand how to make handsome profits from large-scale disasters. Read more |
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Julie Chinitz New Health Repeal Shows GOP’s Reckless Disregard for Our Lives Tens of Millions Could Lose Health Care. Read more |
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Harry Blain What Happened to the Arms Trade Treaty? Four years ago, the U.S. and the UK signed a landmark treaty to restrict the sale of arms to rights abusers. So why are they still profiting off the atrocities in Yemen? Read more |
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John Atcheson Still Getting It Wrong: How Media Pundits Keep Steering Democrats into the Shoals What's missing? An agenda that inspires the millions who currently decide to just stay home. Read more |
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James Zogby The House That Bibi Built The unholy alliance between US neoconservatives and Netanyahu is no accident. Read more |
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Benjamin Dangl How Top Food Companies Fail to Protect Environmental Activists in Supply Chains The Deadly Consequences of Defending Indigenous Lands. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Single-Payer Movement Shows: Life After Trump May Not Suck The flip side of the Trump phenomenon is that Democrats may finally be ready to offer voters something real Read more |
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Trita Parsi Netanyahu Is Meeting Trump To Push For War With Iran Killing the nuclear deal with Iran will put the U.S. back on a path to war and that is exactly what the Israeli leader has sought for the past twenty-five years. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Beyond Harvey and Irma: Militarizing Homeland Security in the Climate-Change Era Even if no one else in Donald Trump’s Washington is ready or willing to deal with climate change, the U.S. military will be. Read more |
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Danielle Martin Canadian Doctor to U.S.: Try Single-Payer Health Care Instead Of Trashing It I see the cracks in our system just as U.S. doctors see the cracks in yours. But we don’t believe the solution lies in dismantling universal care. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The 3 Americans Who Should Pay for Medicare-for-All While anticipating inevitable resistance from monied interests, it can nevertheless be accurately demonstrated that three Americans—or, rather, groups of Americans—have received the most benefits from years of national productivity, and should provide most of the initial funding. Read more |
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Amal De Chickera When Is a Genocide a Genocide? Why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered? Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer America’s Slow-Motion Military Coup Trump's ability to rely on "his generals" for guidance shouldn't be seen as comforting Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner World Citizenship Is More Popular Than You Might Think Trump's nationalist rhetoric may not have as firm a hold on Americans as it might appear Read more |
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John Atcheson This Is How Change Happens It's called leadership Read more |
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Keri Leigh Merritt Why We Need a Universal Basic Income America is in desperate need of both a universal basic income and a federal jobs guarantee Read more |
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Robert Reich The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth In a few generations, if current trends continue, almost all of the nation's wealth will be in the hands of just a few thousand families Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Kobach and Windmills Kris Kobach has embraced the impossible task of proving the president right in his belief that the 2016 popular vote was stolen from him Read more |
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Adam Johnson Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster Wall Street Journal's glib snark over Harvey completes its Fox News-ification Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Betsy DeVos’s Back-To-School Message At Odds with What Parents Want Education secretary devotes her Back-to-School bus tour to promoting her vision for "rethinking" America's public schools—while the majority of parents and students are happy with the public school system and want to support it Read more |
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Cecillia Wang President Trump Is Poised To Slash the Number of Refugees In the U.S., Replaying the Worst of Our History While other countries are resettling people displaced by current refugee crises, the president may cap the number of refugees in the U.S. at 50,000, lower than it's since 1980 Read more |
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Peter Dreier Where Are All the Monuments to the Progressive Americans? The organizers, activists, artists, writers, and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country often go unacknowledged. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Harvard Kennedy Succumbs to CIA Pressure, Revokes Chelsea Manning's Fellowship It is remarkable that any former CIA director would oppose someone for "long-standing efforts" to "legitimize" their "criminal path." Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Robert Jay Lifton "A Duty to Warn" and the Dangerous Case of Donald Trump Renowned psychiatrist says despite "Goldwater Rule," mental health experts have unique responsibility when someone in power may be dangerous Read more |
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Jeremy Lent The Climate Catastrophe We’re All Ignoring As fossil fuel-based economies continue, millions are suffering around the world. Read more |
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Greg Coleridge With Democracy So Sick, Medicare for All Will Be Uphill Battle Why a massive social movement will be required to humanize and democratize our health care system Read more |
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Bob Burnett The Aftermath of Hurricane Donald The long-term consequences of Trump's ideology. Read more |
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Valerie Wilson, Janelle Jones This Year’s Poverty Data Look a Lot Different When You Break Them Down by Race Nowhere in the current agenda is there discussion of a just minimum wage and a real jobs plan that would target those who continue to struggle at the economic margins—disproportionately people of color—doing low-wage or unpaid work. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Demanding Climate Justice in the Wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma The price we pay for a fossil fuel-powered civilization. Read more |
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Will Bunch Let's Be Honest About Something Else with Trump: He's a Male Supremacist How Trump was empowered by his open contempt for empowered women Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Why Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Push Is Great Policy and Even Better Politics A few important things to be clear about. Read more |
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Sarah Jones Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Get It "What Happened" is proof that she doesn't understand the lessons of the 2016 election. Read more |
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Ariel Dorfman How to Read Donald Trump On Burning Books But Not Ideas Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Clinton Book Tour Is Largely Ignoring the Vital Role of Endless War in the 2016 Election Result Why ignoring the former secretary of state's advocacy of multiple wars that resulted in disaster is a glaring omission if one wants to understand her presidential defeat Read more |
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Richard Eskow Medicare For All Can Reshape the ‘Art of the Possible’ The goal must be to take over Congress, not surrender to a hostile one, so that the “possible” is redefined. This bill can help make that happen. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The Flynn Family Appears to Be a Major Piece of Robert Mueller's Puzzle Some interesting news out of the Russia investigation. Read more |
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John Feffer Hurricane Donald Hits the Republican Party If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of nukes and an underfunded state — and no one but China to keep us afloat. Read more |
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Adam Johnson In Month After Charlottesville, Papers Spent as Much Time Condemning Anti-Nazis as Nazis The media’s “both sides” fetish is uniquely unsuited for the Trump era. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Destructive Stock Buybacks—That You Pay For Presently, hordes of corporate lobbyists are descending on Washington to demand deregulation and tax cuts. Here's why. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder 90 Companies Helped Cause the Climate Crisis—They Should Pay For It The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Sometimes the Poor Make It Big. Usually They Stay Poor We'd be a better country if we didn't rig the game against those whose only mistake was to be born to poor parents. Read more |
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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class As our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it's also becoming poorer. Read more |
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Bill Quigley Warning Letter to Harvey and Irma Survivors from Katrina Survivor Above all, watch out for one another and care for one another Read more |
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Robert Kraig Walker and Trump’s Foxconn Deal May Be Worst in American History It’s like paying $900,000 for a $150,000 house you might not get to live in. Read more |
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Robert Reich It’s Now Time for Medicare for All Democrats are wise to seize the moment. Read more |
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RoseAnn DeMoro Sen. Sanders Medicare for All Act – The Time Has Come Today Today’s bill introduction is the crest of a wave, but it’s also a new beginning. Read more |
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Symone D. Sanders It’s Time to End the Myth That Black Voters Don’t Like Bernie Sanders As Democrats work to craft our message to voters for upcoming elections, we cannot allow this narrative to continue unchallenged. Read more |
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John Atcheson What Really Happened... And Why It Could Happen Again If Democrats don't embrace progressive policies, the future is a predictable mess Read more |
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Elizabeth West On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It's Not All About Us The devastating consequences of human superiority over nature. Read more |
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John Buell Naomi Klein and the Quest for Environmental Justice No Is Not Enough. A book to be read and shared with everyone you know. Read more |
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Matthew Hoh The Divine in the Resistance The fight to end racism, greed and militarism that foster America’s wars at home and abroad. Read more |
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William Astore The American Military: Out Everywhere and Winning Nowhere The superpower that fought itself... and lost Read more |
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Les Leopold Hillary Clinton's New Book Attacks Bernie. But Why? So much for sowing party unity in a time of deep peril Read more |
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David Bacon Don’t Punish the Dreamers—Punish the Corporations Driving Forced Migration The perpetrators of the "crime" are those who wrote the trade treaties and the economic reforms that made forced migration the only means for families to survive. Read more |
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Dr Jason von Meding, Heidi Harmon Show Up, Stand Up and Step Up: Bold Action in the Wake of Storms Bad politics got us here. Only good politics will get us out. Read more |
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Richard Eskow What Matters Is What Happens Next, Not ‘What Happened’ “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.” Read more |
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Brian Tashman Kris Kobach Pushes Voter Fraud Lies While Meeting With Fellow Suppression Activists Incidentally, there are more people on Kobach’s commission than people the Kansas secretary of state has convicted of voter fraud. Read more |
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Maha Hilal The War on Terror Has Targeted Muslims Almost Exclusively The war on terror was supposed to be about making our country safer. As a Muslim American, I don’t feel safer at all. Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren We Can’t Fight the Opioid Crisis Without Adequate Health Care "I believe we can beat this epidemic." Read more |
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Naomi Klein Irma Won’t “Wake Up” Climate Change-Denying Republicans. Their Whole Ideology Is on the Line. Some have speculated that seeing the reality of climate change hit so close to home this summer — Houston underwater, Los Angeles licked by flames, and now southern states getting battered by Irma — might be some kind of wake-up call for climate change-denying Republicans. Nope. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce What Steve Bannon's 60 Minutes Interview Proved The cap off to a sordid weekend of elite political journalism. Read more |
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Juan Cole On 9/11: How We Slighted the Real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism Instead of invading and occupying Iraq, we should have created an army of scientists and engineers to invent better solar panels and better wind turbines and better batteries. Read more |
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Alfred W. McCoy The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Great Flood "We are entering this final phase of civilization, one in which we are slashing the budgets of the very agencies that are vital to prepare for the devastation ahead." Read more |
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Eladio Bobadilla The 'Alt-Right': We Need Courage and Truth, Not False Equivalencies We are living in an extraordinary moment in history, and this is no time to blame “both sides” for the chaos that has engulfed our country. Read more |
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Cynthia Barnett Nature Isn't On a Rampage. That Would Be Us. By putting the evil eye on nature, we take it off the humans who have science in their hands, but hold it behind their backs. Read more |
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Daniel C. Maguire Climate Change: When the Military Makes More Sense Than the Politicians Maybe the generals can be our Paul Revere’s. Maybe. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Nuclear Weapons, Natural Disasters, Bullies and Your Doctor 'Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or a worldwide celebration' Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Watching the Hurricane’s Path Stop finding reasons why you really don’t have to change or prepare. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Canada Abandons Proud History as ‘Nuclear Nag’ When Most Needed It’s not too late for the country to play leadership role in global struggle to abolish nuclear weapons and outlaw them forever. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Deep Shame on Suu Kyi and Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi should have her Nobel Prize revoked. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli DACA: Dreams Become Nightmares The lives of 787,000 people (as of March 2017) will be affected when the program is ended. Read more |
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Marin Kirk Slow and Unsteady: The Path to Justice for Victims of 9/11 On September 11th, 2017, a rally will be held at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC. Read more |
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Charise Johnson Recovery After Hurricane Harvey: Will There Be Justice for All? What will happen when the less financially secure, mostly minority communities try to rebuild? Read more |