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Tamasin Cave Donald Trump, the US Private Health Giant, and Top NHS Officials—Special Relationships? US private healthcare firm Optum has been ‘planting seeds’ in the English NHS for a decade, new research exposes. Read more |
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John Feffer Inside the Battle for Another World Understanding how the new right went global—and how to stop it—is key to keeping our planet habitable. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? For me, it’s a gateway to pain relief. For others, its prohibition is a gateway to mass incarceration. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon What’s Wrong With the Republicans? Fruits of the twin roots of evil: Slavery and imperial expansion. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Envisioning a United World A global insanity: the alleged sovereignty of nation states to decide who matters and who doesn’t, what matters and what doesn’t. Read more |
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Shawn Fremstad Modern Family Progressive Values Put Conservatives to Shame Progressives rightly embrace family diversity and egalitarian, solidaristic relationships. Read more |
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David Solnit A Few Things From the WTO Shutdown I Carry Into the Future There is an incredible opportunity to use street theater—art, dance, music, giant puppets, graffiti art and theater—and nonviolent direct action to simplify and dramatize the issues of corporate globalization and to develop and spread new and creative forms of resistance. Read more |
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Gwyneth Bernier The New Stateless Peoples: Confronting US Culpability in the Climate Refugee Crisis If floods and wildfires can take lives as surely as bombs and bullets, why has the United States adamantly denied entrance to climate refugees? Read more |
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Lee Camp The Left Is Finally Winning the War of Ideas Simply take a look at the ideas that are dominating the Democratic presidential race, even though the corporate media has tried to ignore these solutions, attack them, dispute them, and then ignore them all over again. Read more |
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John Nichols Ukraine? Yes. But Trump Must Also Be Impeached for Obstruction This is about the specifics of a constitution that can only work if the president cooperates with congressional investigations. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe What the U.K. Election Tells Us About Universal Health Care Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea. Read more |
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Ilana Novick Bernie Sanders Has the Backing of Leftists Worldwide Sanders’ support for international far-left leaders, Politico explains, "are a clear mark of distinction from Warren in a race in which their domestic agendas are viewed as very similar." Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Watergate Teaches Us That Democrats Should Broaden the Impeachment Charges The Democrats are now in the midst of an impeachment. And there is no going back. So why be moderate or cautious in the leveling of entirely legitimate charges against this terrible and entirely illegitimate president? Read more |
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Will Bunch Reagan’s Forgotten Iran-Contra Escape May Reveal More About Trump’s Fate Than Watergate The principles first laid bare in Iran-Contra—a deference to the raw exercise of power, including a willingness to overlook the rule of law—have become America’s cruel guiding spirit in the 21st century. Read more |
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Chris Winters Can We Get the Money Out of Politics? Many of the problems we have in the U.S. system, such as the Electoral College trumping (ahem) the popular vote, are institutional problems, and they are preserved by the high standards we set to amend the Constitution. Read more |
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Don Fitz Dammed Good Questions About the Green New Deal Here are 10 potential problems with dams. Read more |
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Emily Beament The Hottest Years The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the warmest in records dating back to the 19th century. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Middle America: The Danger for Democrats To insist that not coming on too strong is what’s needed in 2020 is to miss the whole lesson of the rightwing populist rise of Trump. Read more |
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Erika González, Sriram Madhusoodanan Meet the Big Polluters Sponsoring COP25 Whether it’s subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel industry continues to hamper our policymaking to face the ecological and climate crisis. Read more |
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Jeff Crosby WTO Shutdown: The Kids Are Alright This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Moral Injury and America’s Endless Conflicts A legacy of a new kind of war. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction Collective delusion—reflected in the populist, rightward, authoritarian global political wave—might just spell the end of organized human life on this planet. Read more |
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Michael Felsen Deporting Workers Makes America Less Safe We need workers to speak out about potentially unsafe and unlawful conditions at work, without fear of deportation. Read more |
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Ace Saturay WTO Shutdown: 'Victory Belongs to the People' "I salute all the activists who continue to intensify our resistance against monopoly capitalism." Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The Unfinished ‘Coup’: The End of Netanyahu’s Era and the Political Earthquake Ahead While it remains true that a fundamental change in Israel’s political system will neither deliver peace and justice to Palestinians—or stability to the region—it could potentially constitute the equivalent of a political earthquake within Israel itself, the consequences of which are yet to be seen. Read more |
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Laura Bannister, Ruth Bergan Threat to Our Digital Rights Revealed in US-UK Trade Talks Leak Leaked records of US-UK trade negotiations suggest the US is targeting our digital rights—and the UK seems alarmingly willing to play ball. Read more |
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Coalition of Climate Justice Movements COP25, Social Movements and Climate Justice A declaration on climate crisis, energy transition and extractivism in Latin America. Read more |
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Robert Reich Who Is Worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell? Even if Trump is gone, if the Senate remains in Republican hands and McConnell is reelected, America loses because McConnell will still have a chokehold on our democracy. Read more |
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Juan Cole Turning Point in Climate Activism? Germans Block Coal Mines With Their Bodies As the horrific effects of carbon pollution become more and more apparent in fire and flood, drought and pestilence, the general public will mobilize to pressure governments and offset the energy lobbies that now often have a lock on policy decisions. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The New 'Black Codes' The elites are acutely aware that without police terror and the U.S. prison system, which holds 25% of the world’s prison population, there would be intense social unrest. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Trump Was Right Before He Was Wrong: NATO Should Be Obsolete In an age where people around the world want to avoid war and to focus instead on the climate chaos that threatens future life on earth, NATO is an anachronism. Read more |
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William Astore American Exceptionalism Is Killing Planet Earth On the many abuses of executing endless war on a finite planet Read more |
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Norman Solomon Corporate Media's Mantra Is 'Anyone But Sanders or Warren' The mainline media are generally quite warm toward so-called "moderates," without bothering to question what's so moderate about such positions as bowing to corporate plunder, backing rampant militarism and refusing to seriously confront the climate emergency. Read more |
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LaLa B. Holston-Zannell Reducing HIV Transmission Requires Decriminalizing Sex Work This World AIDS Day we are fighting to end the criminalization of trans bodies and those living with HIV. Read more |
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John Atcheson Why We Need a Green New Deal and Half Measures Won't Work It's too late to rely on the market to solve the crisis we've put ourselves in. No politically acceptable tax or fee will foster the magnitude of change we need, in the time we need it. Read more |
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Julie Hollar We're Still Waiting for 'Early and Often' Climate Debate Questions Across all the debates thus far, questions on the climate crisis have accounted for 7% of all questions. Read more |
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Michelle Bachelet Hong Kong's Leaders Have Only One Way Out of the Protest Crisis It is now time to listen directly to people from all walks of life, to work together with sincere resolve to address their concerns and grievances. Read more |
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Kate Oh It's Past Time Congress Reined in the President's Emergency Powers The ARTICLE ONE Act, as recently amended by a Senate committee, would give the National Emergencies Act a crucial update. Read more |
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Juan Cole Back to Jim Crow Under Trump: 'Lynch Her' Is Republicans' Big Idea to Deal With Rep. Ilhan Omar The Twitter account of Danielle Stella, the Republican challenger to Omar, has been shut down. Read more |
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David Suzuki Failure to Address Climate Crisis Puts Children at Risk We need to kick our fossil fuel addiction now, for our sake and the children's. Read more |
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Elizabeth C. Tippett 2020 Race Shows the More Women Run, the More They're Treated Like Candidates—Not 'Tokens' It seems possible that this time might be different. Not because sexism has left the building, but because the critical mass of women candidates may have changed the dynamic. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Show Mercy for Animals It's time for us to set the animals free and accord them their natural rights. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson A Corporate Tax Even Republicans Should Love Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other congressional progressives want to tax companies that overpay their CEOs. Most Republicans would go even further. Read more |
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Jacqueline Keeler Preparing Native Youth to Steward Ancestral Lands The Tribal Steward Program introduces young people to land conservation and restoration in Northwest tribal communities. Read more |
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Juan Cole Iraqi Crowds Erupt in Joyous Celebrations as PM, Elected Under Bush Constitution, Offers to Resign Demonstrators have been demanding an end to corruption and the provision of services. Read more |
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Reese Erlich What's Next for Bolivia After Military Coup? "Morales was the glue that held everything together." Read more |
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Chris Borte & Julia Steele Allen WTO Shutdown: This Is What Democracy Looked Like Democracy must be more than one meeting, more than a process, more than a day of action or a tactic. It must include deep deliberation, a commitment to intersectional justice, creative and compassionate shared leadership and governance. Read more |
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Stephanie Guilloud WTO Shutdown: What Now and What Next Imagining our collective futures 20 years after Seattle and 20 years from today Read more |
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Julia Schöneberg Development: A Failed Project It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead. Read more |
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William Cohn The House Is Not a Home: A Common Sense Impeachment Proposition Don’t vote in the House of Representatives, but rather ask the people of the country to vote their verdict on November 3, 2020. Read more |
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Nicolas J S Davies Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of "Made in the USA" Corruption Many of this new generation of Iraqis who have grown up amid the ruins and chaos the U.S. occupation left in its wake believe they have nothing to lose but their blood and their lives, as they take to the streets to reclaim their dignity, their future and their country's sovereignty. Read more |
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Nancy Haque WTO Shutdown: I Was Jane Doe #520 The baptism by tear gas for my generation of activists has made us warriors—and, judging from my experience, loving warriors. Read more |
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Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer Why We Strike Again After more than a year of grim scientific projections and growing activism, world leaders, and the public alike are increasingly recognizing the severity and urgency of the climate crisis. And yet nothing has been done. Read more |
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Bill Blum Now Is Not the Time for Democrats to Waver No matter what happens in the Senate, the Trump impeachment should and must move forward. Read more |
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Tara Tabassi, Mariam Iskajyan On This Day of Thanks and Mourning, a Call to Demilitarize the US Border Deploying troops to the border is inhumane and potentially illegal. We are fighting back. Read more |
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Kumar Venkat Eating Well Without Destroying the Climate After years of studying the climate impacts of foods, I can’t think of anything more impactful than our choice of proteins, followed by waste reduction. Read more |
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Yue "Stella" Yu Retail Giants Gear Up for Black Friday—And Political Giving The companies are still demonstrating substantial influence in the political realm. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Eating Is Profoundly Political. Which Food Future Will You Choose? Wherever it began, and whatever the purists claim is "official," Thanksgiving today is as multicultural as America. So let's enjoy! Read more |
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Megan Giovannetti How the International Media Greenlights Israeli Aggression Toward Palestine "How terrifying is it that when someone points out the violations that Israel commits, they risk their job like Marc Lamont Hill?" Read more |
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Maggie Mills I Have Multiple Sclerosis. Here's Why I Am Fighting for Medicare for All I may not have access to the healthcare I need to sustain my health or my life. Think about that. This is an untenable amount of stress for any person to live under. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Dear DNC, What Happened to All Those 'Early and Often' Climate Debate Questions? It's not just climate activists that want to hear the environment discussed in the debates—it's the public. And both the media and the party establishment are failing them. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump's Climate Recklessness Is Grounds for Impeachment Despite the clear warning signs the worse is yet to come, Trump is shredding regulatory standards designed by law to curb the emission. His monarchical tyranny is of the kind that the nation's founders feared most. Read more |
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James Haslam Bernie Sanders Is the Movement Candidate We Need It is time we acknowledge the political realities before us, and align on the candidate who will not only win, but build the kind of multicultural, multiracial and working class movement that will enable the next President to take on corporate power and deliver justice for all. Read more |
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Mark Dudzic If Medicare for All 'Too Risky,' How Would NYT Have Reported Push for Social Security, Abolition, or the Overthrow of King George III? If this is how they cover the effort to secure health care as a human right, I began to wonder how the Times editorial staff cover other momentous changes in American history. Read more |
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Nick Dearden Leaked US Trade Talks Show How Trump Is Dictating Johnson's Approach to a Hard Brexit Far from taking back control, Britain has clearly entered into a relationship where we hold none of the cards. Read more |
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John Feffer Will Impeachment Affect Trump’s Reelection Chances? The Democrats’ impeachment strategy might backfire at the polls, but so might Trump’s polarization strategy. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati For Billionaire Bloomberg, Trying to Buy the Presidency Is Just a Sound Investment America’s wealthiest billionaires buy a national election at $100 a vote—and still make money. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson If Democrats Don’t Go Bold With Social Reform Right Now, Then When? We can afford these things. With inequality reaching new extremes, and corporations and the wealthy rigging the tax code to their benefit, we can pay for them without raising taxes on middle- and low-income Americans. Read more |
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John E. Peck How the Food Sovereignty Movement Helped Bring Down the World Trade Organization (WTO) Twenty years on, the "Spirit of Seattle" continues to inform and inspire many activists today, and clearly points the way to another world being possible. Read more |
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David A. Love Why Obama Is Just Plain Wrong About Democrats Moving 'Too Far Left' The former president is mistaken if he believes that in appealing to the electorate, Democrats must tamp down their message and advocate for tweaks in the system rather than systemic reform. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Media Wonder: Why Can’t Venezuela Be More Like Bolivia? FAIR has documented how corporate media consistently criticize the success of left-wing political agendas pursued abroad in countries like Venezuela and Bolivia—in defiance of US imperialism—because they are afraid of the threat of a good example. Read more |
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Jimmy Carter, Karin D. Ryan How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis We cannot solve this complex problem as long as women and girls, half of the world’s population, have unequal access to education and decision-making bodies at all levels and are largely excluded from local, national, and global efforts to respond to this challenge. Read more |
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Peter Certo End the Wars, Win the Antiwar Vote Hard data shows ending our wars would be smart politics—and the first step toward repairing a moral calamity. Read more |
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Leland Nally Obama Is Wrong to Push Democratic Party Centrism Obama’s recent comments highlight an important division in the Democratic Party, one that’s prompted the recent emergence of two new candidates: Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts and personal friend of Obama, and Michael Bloomberg. Read more |
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Ady Barkan, Bonnie Castillo Medicare for All Will Take a Movement, Not a Politician Two prominent single-payer activists—one who backs Elizabeth Warren and another who back Bernie Sanders—explain why winning Medicare for All us going to be one epic battle. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Which Witch Are We Witch Hunting? What does the Trump phenomenon really represent? And far more important, what lurks behind all the attention paid to him (other, of course, than a climate-changed planet)? Read more |
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Ari Paul Bloomberg Scandals Don't Bother the Billionaire's Punditry Class Cheerleaders If the media are going to celebrate Bloomberg’s achievements as a private and public executive, they need to address his baggage in those roles as well. Read more |
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Alison Bodine Chile Despertó! Chile Has Woken Up! The Rising Fight Against Neo-Liberalism in Chile Today in Chile the working class and oppressed people are under brutal attack, economically, politically and socially, by the Sebastian Piñera government and imperialist exploitation. Read more |
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Simon Whalley The Choice Is Ours: Extinction or Rebellion? Due to capitalism’s rapaciousness, our species is hurtling towards ecocide at a frightening pace. Read more |
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Jim Page WTO Shutdown: "Shut It Down. Didn't We. Don’t Let Them Tell You That It Can’t Be Done." People say, "Why do you sing political songs?" And I say that’s the wrong question. The correct question is, "Why don’t you sing political songs?" Read more |
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Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs. Read more |
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Bama Athreya Twenty Years After Seattle, Is There a New Race to the Bottom? Technology will continue to transform industries, but it's actually weak labor protections eroding the quality of work. Read more |
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Rupert Read, Frank Scavelli Sanders' Green New Deal: A Realistic Response to the Emergency That Will Define Our Lifetimes Contrary to what the New York Times recently suggested, Bernie's plan is the only one put forward by a major candidate that represents a level of ambition that matches the scale of the unprecedented crisis in which humanity now finds itself deeply entangled. Read more |
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James Zogby Netanyahu's Real Crimes In today's Israel Netanyahu can't be found guilty of his most serious crimes—treason, incitement, destroying peace, hate crimes, and war crimes. Instead, he will be asked only to answer for his narcissistic appetites and corruption. Read more |
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Chris Dixon Remembering for the Future: Learning from the 1999 Seattle Shutdown Who could have guessed that this was going to happen? Even those of us who had spent months planning to "shut it down" were stunned when our rhetoric became reality. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino Bearing Witness to the Costs of War On being a military spouse and writing about our post-9/11 wars. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The End of the Rule of Law: The 12 Impeachable Offenses Committed By Trump "If we take a narrow approach to impeachment, that will mean that all the more egregious violations will be viewed as having been endorsed and not rebuked and successive presidents will feel they have a green light to emulate Trump on everything except a Ukrainian shakedown." Read more |
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Juan Cole In Expelling Human Rights Watch Director, Israel Joins Burundi, Uzbekistan and Other Authoritarian States It is the slow ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and the settling on their property of Israeli squatters that Tel Aviv did not want Human Rights Watch to observe. Read more |
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Norman Solomon When Progressives in Congress Let Us Down, We Should Push Back Rolling back key aspects of the military-industrial-surveillance complex cannot be accomplished without putting up a huge fight. Read more |
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Jenny Ricks Inequality Is Rising, But So Is the Global Movement Fighting Back Despite the often-bleak picture we find ourselves in, the energy and dynamism of the movement that the report reveals is inspiring and cause for hope. Read more |
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Jim Hightower How Trump's Poverty Subsidy Enriches the Rich This is how corporate and political elites conspire to rig the system, blatantly ripping off money meant to help poor people to make the rich richer. Read more |
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Yara Hawari It Is Time to Stop Lecturing Palestinians and to Start Listening Palestinians were not shocked by the reversal of U.S. policy on Israeli settlements and they know worse is yet to come. Read more |
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Joshua Cho After Al-Baghdadi's Death, Media Failed to Ask Where 'War on Terror' Is Going The circumscribed coverage of al-Baghdadi's death represented yet another artful evasion of any critical discussion of imperial foreign policy. Read more |
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Fran Quigley How to Win the Holiday Healthcare Debate With Your Conservative Relatives Like 99% of Americans, Uncle Joe would benefit from the change if he only knew the truth. Read more |
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Michael Winship Donald Trump and His Insane Clown Posse The GOP thinks its Ukraine fantasies are one more rung up the fool's gold ladder of chaos. Read more |
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Julie Hollar False Equivalence in the Age of Trump As the election nears, genuine truth-telling—as opposed to disingenuous false equivalence—is more urgent than ever, but it's just as unlikely as ever that corporate media will be up to the challenge. Read more |
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Raed Jarrar What Do Iraqi Protesters Want? The protests were initially sparked by everyday frustrations: widespread unemployment, lack of access to public services, and rampant government corruption. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Myth of Voter Fraud—And the Truth About What's Threatening Our Elections The next time you hear Trump and his enablers claim widespread voter fraud, know the truth. Their lies are intended to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, while they ignore the real threats to our democracy. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Tale of the Whistleblower Why is it so important for people like Jim Jordan to be able to talk to the whistleblower to discover what happened? Read more |
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Juan Cole What Does Fraud and Bribery Trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu Tell Us About Trump Impeachment? Both came to power in part through the backing of billionaires and their fake news organs. Both men are being investigated for corruption. Both have decried the investigations into their criminal activities as "a coup." Read more |