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Norman Solomon Bernie Sanders' People-Powered Campaign Is on Fire The Bernie 2020 campaign is a crucible of broader activism from the grassroots that can spark uprisings of heat and light. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Disease of Contempt: When Will the PBS Public Editor Pick Up the Phone? For too long, PBS has been afflicted by a disease of contempt for its viewers. Corporate sponsors come first. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Dr. King Called On Us to Express the Better Angels of Our Souls Dr. King’s commitment provides a wonderful example for all of us, but particularly for the young. By the wisdom of his teaching, the justice of his cause, the intensity of his commitment, he helped transform America. Read more |
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Dr. Wanda Wyporska Don’t Listen to Davos. We, the People, Have the Solutions to Inequality The UK, a nation of food banks and Ferraris, ranks as the world’s sixth-richest economy. Advocates are demanding change. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen 7 Pointed Questions for Corporate Media About Their Anti-Progressive Biases Over the last year, corporate outlets have continuously portrayed progressive reforms as scarily left-wing despite poll after poll showing they are broadly popular. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Dr. King's Radical Revolution Of Values Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel Guantánamo's Indelible Legacy Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of Gitmo have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002. Read more |
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Brian Gibbs Teaching War So That It Matters Students need to be taught a more nuanced and complete narrative on the endless wars America has been involved in. Read more |
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Nikola Alexandre Why Mother Nature Is the Key to Reforestation Planet Desperately Needs While mass planting of trees is absolutely necessary, assisted natural regeneration simply supports and accelerates the natural process of forests which yearn to grow. Read more |
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Juan Cole Despite Trump Vows, Coal Industry Falling as Wind Power Surges in US and Worldwide Trump is one of a handful of significant trans-generational genocidal maniacs whose policies will kill millions in the future. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Why Americans—and the World—Ought to Be Concerned About Julian Assange's Extradition Case The indictment of Assange is recognized by many free speech groups as the most important press freedom case of our time. Yet, with mainstream media blackout and utter silence of political leaders on this important issue, criminalization of journalism goes on without much of the public being aware... Read more |
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Sameena Mustafa, Arti Walker-Peddakotla Hindu Fascism: An All-American Threat We, as Muslim and Hindu women of color, have watched in horror as both the country of our ancestors, India, and the country of our birth, the United States, have devolved into nationalism and fascism. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Voters in Iowa Care More About Key Issues Than Warren-Sanders Unity "What people are talking about on the doors is nothing like what's on social media." Read more |
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Josh Bivens Of Course There Is a Class War, David Brooks Though absolutely wrongheaded and naive, his latest New York Times column is very useful. Read more |
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Tara Lohan How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry—and Won Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand mine that threatened the region’s aquifer. Read more |
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Ashley Pratt , Susan Nahvi Presidential Candidates Must Promise to Rein in Use of Force The American people need presidential candidates who will vow to use peaceful, constructive means to solve diplomatic disagreements. Read more |
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Claudia Lefko That This Doctor Cannot Even Afford Computer Shows Iraqis Still Paying Price of US Invasion No one can be in good health when they are living in a war/post-war zone such as Iraq. Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Why Advocates for the Homeless Are Forced to Repeat Themselves Again and Again Homelessness, at its root, is not about lack of housing. It is about systemic poverty and the instability our tattered social safety net creates. Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Here's the Truth: Trump's Economy Is an Absolute Disaster for People and the Planet It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Read more |
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Emily Folk Environmental Changes in our Food System Consumers are calling for greater sustainability across the board, and the agriculture industry is no exception. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Three Reasons Why Trump Ordered Soleimani’s Killing Trump killed Soleimani because he could, because he wanted to reassert American military dominance—and because he thinks it can help his chances of reelection. Read more |
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Tiffany Muller As Citizens United Turns 10, We Need Candidates Who Will Fight to Get Money Out of Politics In the decade since this disastrous Supreme Court ruling, just 11 wealthy people have made 20 percent of super PAC donations. Read more |
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Ralph Nader, Louis Fisher, and Bruce Fein Let Chief Justice John Roberts Cut the Gordian Knot of Trump's Impeachment Trial The Chief Justice serves for life shielded from partisan pressures. As a way to dispel combustible suspicions of bias, life tenure makes him the optimal choice for presiding over—and setting the rules for—the trial. Read more |
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Bill Blum Trump’s Unprecedented Attack on Iran and the Rule of Law It’s time to demand an end to the madness once and for all. Read more |
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John Feffer Trump's Space Force Means Trump Not Satisfied Being Terrible Only on This Planet The U.S. military is creating an imaginary "space gap" to pour money into closing, wasting funds while increasing the risk of conflict. Read more |
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Eunice Cho The Trump Administration Weakens Standards for ICE Detention Facilities The new immigration detention standards set by the Trump administration weaken critical protections and lower oversight requirements. The consequences for the health and safety of people who are detained could be disastrous. Read more |
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Robert Reich Should Facebook and Twitter Stop Trump’s Lies? We can’t do anything about Trump for now. But we can and should take action against the power of these two enablers. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas, Julie Hollar The Biggest Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation One really does get the impression that if CNN were holding a debate on the Titanic, the first question would literally be about rearranging the deck chairs. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The Warren-Sanders Squabble is Foolish The real issues in this campaign have nothing to do with who said what in 2018. Read more |
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David Armiak , Arn Pearson Group Behind Wisconsin Voter Purge Lawsuit Has Strong GOP Ties This case has thrust Wisconsin to the forefront in this year’s voter suppression wars and reflects a larger Republican strategy to tilt the playing field by making it harder for low-income, student, and minority citizens to vote. Read more |
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William deBuys The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall Making America great again in a new wild west. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Nuclear Hubris If an attack of any sort kills "hundreds of thousands or even millions" of people—their deaths are instantly belittled if they aren't Americans. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Not Bernie, Us. Not Warren, Us. In a sense, this moment calls for Sanders and Warren supporters to be better than their candidates, who've descended into an avoidably harsh conflict that hugely benefits corporate power and corporate Democrats. Read more |
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William Grover It Is Clear the Establishment and Corporate Media Would Prefer Trump Reelection to President Bernie Sanders Sanders is likely to face two strikes—one in the capitol and one from capital —if he wins the Democratic nomination and later the White House. Read more |
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Abaki Beck To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All? We live in a nation where food is plentiful but millions of children experience hunger and food insecurity. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff In Iowa Debate, Progressives Resist Efforts to Divide Them The moderators did all they could to start a fight, but Sanders and Warren refused to bite. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Cory Booker's Halt on Factory Farms Would Help the Climate Data from the EPA shows a steady increase in agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions, much of it linked to industrial systems of crop production and the rise of factory farms over the last two decades. Read more |
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Cari Hernandez On the Politics of 'Believing Women' What we've seen as a result of Warren's statement is further perversion of the language of abuse and victimhood in a context it was never meant to be used. Read more |
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Ari Paul Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment If sanctions can be invoked by a social media network to take down certain content, what is next? Read more |
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Jessica J. González We Must Remedy Discrimination in Our Media System If we’re going to foster journalism that actually meets community needs, we must address how the foundation of the U.S. media system is built on racism and sexism. Read more |
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Sam Husseini It Is Remarkable—and Dangerous—How Little Scrutiny Biden Has Received for Supporting Iraq War Maybe there's a reason nobody who voted in favor of that war—excluding George W. Bush—has won a presidential election. Read more |
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Basav Sen Nearly All Americans Want to Get Off Fossil Fuels The vast majority of people in the world’s largest fossil fuel producing country want to phase them out. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre Learning from King’s Last Campaign Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Making America Dread Again! Trump Is an Unparalleled Threat to Safety and Security You were willing to start an undeclared war with Iran last week, had their missile attack taken one American soldier’s life, but when American lives are threatened by crony capitalism, you do nothing. Read more |
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David Goodner In Iowa, Rashida Tlaib and the Sunrise Movement Push the Green New Deal—and Bernie Sanders Ahead of the critical Iowa caucus, climate organizers are stumping for bold action and a presidential candidate they believe will get it done. Read more |
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Scott Goodstein Has Facebook Learned Nothing? Facebook should be subject to the same rules and responsibilities as any other publisher; it’s not enough to call itself a gateway to other people’s content and wash its hands of the consequences. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The 'Deep State' Does Not Mean What Trump Thinks It Means For Trump the deep state is the government—or at least those parts of it that frustrate him in any way. Read more |
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Michael Winship A Brutal Trump Makes Culture War on Iran—and Everyone Else Civilization gets sucker punched. Read more |
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Ilana Novick Joe Biden Has a Serious Problem With Social Security The Biden campaign says the candidate is committed to defend and even expanded the program. But a look at his record offers a troubling picture. Read more |
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Blair Reeves Bring Democracy Back to North Carolina Finally, there's good news. Read more |
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Allegra Harpootlian Droning the World: The Assassination Complex From Bush to Obama to Trump How the U.S. presidency became a killing machine. Read more |
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Robert Reich Why I'm Still Hopeful and Not Done Fighting for a More Just Society If climate change, nuclear standoffs, assault weapons, hate crimes, mass killings, Russian trolls, near-record inequality, kids locked in cages at our border, and Donald Trump in the White House don’... Read more |
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Chris Hedges How Democracies Die The U.S. suffers from an epidemic of nihilistic violence. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump's "WMD" Scandal? Was the Charge of "Imminent" Soleimani Attack Just Made Up? The “intelligence” on which Trump and Esper and secretary of state Mike Pompeo made their decision to off Soleimani was likely raw and cherry-picked. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Biden, Buttigieg, and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren 'Trash Talk' Narrative to Take Hold It would be a serious error for progressives to buy into corporate media portrayals of the Sanders and Warren campaigns as destined to play a traditional zero-sum political game. Read more |
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Reese Erlich "Would the American Public Tolerate US Soldiers Defending Trump Hotels?" Iran has focused on military targets, but Soleimani has "millions of followers all across the region from Yemen to Lebanon who will be seeking revenge from the United States. Iran cannot control them." Read more |
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Jackie Smith We Need to Fight for a World That Prioritizes People Over Economic Growth and Endless Consumption By supporting human rights globalization as a counter-movement to corporate globalization, we can advance people-centered policies and build upon earlier work of transformative movements worldwide. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam American Impotence: Trump's Assassination of Soleimani Masks Broad Retreat No amount of propaganda can paint the assassination of Soleimani as more beneficial than damaging to American interests. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola To Make Sense of Soleimani Assassination, Media Turn to Disgraced Iraq War Gen. David Petraeus Soleimani and the militia groups he led played a key role in defeating the Islamic State in Iraq, but Petraeus denies this reality. Read more |
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Skye Wheeler UN Peacekeeping Has a Sexual Abuse Problem Survivors of violence, displacement, and poverty shouldn't have to fear that those charged with protecting them will contribute to their suffering. Read more |
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Kate Kizer Congress's Work to Prevent War With Iran has Only Just Begun Congress must go further in this moment and deeply examine the structures and groupthink that has convinced so many in power that war is the only viable tool to address conflict. Read more |
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Eric Margolis How the US Runs Iraq The murder of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani shone a strobe light on 'independent' Iraq, and what we saw was not pretty. Read more |
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Mindy Isser Climate Activists Can't Afford to Ignore Labor. A Shuttered Refinery in Philly Shows Why The people most affected by climate change will be in the working class. Read more |
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Juan Cole All the Times the US Allied With Soleimani Against Common Enemies, Giving Him Air Support at Tikrit Soleimani played a key role in helping defeat ISIL in Iraq, where he was a de facto and even tactical U.S. ally. Read more |
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Abdi Soltani Iranian Americans Have Rights, Too—No Matter What's Happening Abroad Military action abroad does not justify discrimination at home. Read more |
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Lucas Koerner For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó For the corporate press, it would appear that the only "coup" is that perpetrated by Maduro in insisting on serving out his elected mandate. Read more |
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Brent Patterson Canada, the RCMP, and Human Rights Obligations to the Wet'suwet'en Nation "International human rights law requires governments to respect, protect, and promote the right of Indigenous peoples to make their own decisions about their lives and futures according to their own customs and traditions." Read more |
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Bishop Thomas Gumbleton Bishop Thomas Gumbleton Issues Call to Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War All Catholics should refuse to kill and should refuse cooperation with United States wars. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Ukraine Airliner Tragedy Evokes Memories of US Iran Air Shootdown, Cubana Flight 455 Attack On July 3, 1988 the US guided missile destroyer USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 flying in Iranian airspace and carrying 290 civilians from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, killing all aboard. Read more |
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Cathy Breen Why Do We Allow This Madness To Continue? "What right does your president have to attack us, to ruin our country?" Read more |
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Robert Edwards The Assassin's Creed in the Age of Endless War and Trump This is the world in which we now live, one of endless war, where victory is not only impossible but undesirable, and where a mad king can run amok, and we the people just nod and go about our day. It will remain so until the American public decides that we have had enough Read more |
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Allen White The People of the World Need a Much Better Way to Curtail the Power of Multi-National Corporations The seeds of a transformative corporate governance redesign movement, already sown, have sprouted and are ready to spread across the world. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs America’s Dangerous Iran Obsession The US, seemingly with no awareness of its recent history with Iran, and led by an emotionally unbalanced president who believes he may commit murder and get away with it, is still acting out a 40-year-old psychological trauma. As usual, it's others who are most at risk. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies 10 Ways Trump's Actions Against Iran Hurt the US, the Region, and the World We, the American people, must rise up to overcome the power of the military-industrial complex and take our country's destiny out of the hands of warmongers and monsters. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod From Resistance to Assistance: Corporate Media's Pathetic Pushback to Trump's Iran Assassination While corporate media like to present themselves as holding the current administration to account, in reality they offer little meaningful resistance to its foreign policy adventures. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Steady Hand Joe? Biden's Foreign Policy Instincts Are Exactly What We Don't Need Turning Biden's support for Iraq War into foreign policy 'experience.' Read more |
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Harry Blain We Need More Than the Relatively Useless War Powers Resolutions By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop funding wars. Read more |
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Ben Spielberg On Both Politics and Policy, "For All" Beats "For Some" On the most commonly cited rationale for each position—sustainability for universalists and resource constraints for means testers—proponents of universalism have the upper hand. Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian We Must Stop War With Iran. Here's What You Can Do Today. War with Iran would be bloodier and costlier even than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We can't afford another war. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democrats Need to Rip Off the Mask of Timidity and Impeach Trump on All Counts Only a full accounting of Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors will shake the Republicans from backing McConnell's kangaroo court Read more |
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Assal Rad There Are No Winners in a War With Iran Now more than ever, anti-war voices are crucial to end the madness of our ineffective policies. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Global War of Error No, that's not a typo. Read more |
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Juan Cole Provoked by Trump’s Crazed Attack, Shiite Militias Threaten US Military In an angry Tweet, al-Khazali said that Iraqis were a courageous and competitive people, and their response to the US will not be of less severity than that of Iran. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Trump Is a Reckless and Dangerous Warmonger, But Too Many Democrats Continue to Work Against Peace Much has changed during the last five decades, but deception remains central to the state of perpetual war that funnels mega-billions in profits to the military-industrial complex. And Democrats continue to play a central role in this costly destruction. Read more |
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Tim Gray What If Limiting New Fossil Fuel Supply Is More Important Than Reducing the Emissions Produced When We Burn Them? If the world uses all the oil and gas from the fields and mines already in production, it will push us beyond 1.5°C of warming. Read more |
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John Feffer The Endless War With Iran The current crisis might be averted, but the longer U.S. war with Iran continues. Read more |
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Kirk Freudenburg The Spotted Trump Hoax, and Other Mythical Creatures By conjuring these illusions, Donald Trump dodges responsibility. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe After a String of Antisemitic Attacks, a Choice Confronts all Jews A surge of antisemitism has left us wondering where we can turn, to induce the feeling that rather than exercising solidarity, we should turn inward. Read more |
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Khury Petersen-Smith We Need a Strong Anti-War Movement—Yesterday As we spiral toward a confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it’s worth reflecting on the failures to rein in U.S. aggression along the way. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Congress: War Profiteering Is Real. We Need to End It. Surging stock prices for military contractors gave several CEOs an early payday after Trump’s Iran aggression. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Will the US Always Be This Hungry for War and Carnage? The people do not want war, but right now we have almost no say in the matter. Read more |
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Barbara Garson Now We Know for Certain Trump Will Do Anything to Win in 2020—Even Start a War Though a failed realtor, Trump was a successful reality show star. And he knows how to entertain people with fake conflict. Read more |
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Gerard Boyce The Dubious Moral Justification for a Nuclear Second Strike The aim of presenting the case for the continued possession of these terrifying weapons that hold the potential to destroy all life on earth this way seems to be to convince citizens that nuclear weapons are morally justifiable and thus somehow 'acceptable.' Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Wake Up, Democrats. Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won’t Help Impeachment Would Bolton, a leading advocate of bombing Iran, suddenly decide to help bring Trump down, at the very moment when Trump is taking action that could lead to the fulfillment of Bolton’s greatest aspiration, a regime-change war with Iran? Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Has Conducted a War on Iran for 19 Months; Iran Finally Hit Back Trump’s blockade on Iran has not the slightest legitimacy. If you blockade a country and prevent its trade with naval ships, that is an act of war in international law. Read more |
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Adil Ahmad Haque Iran’s Unlawful Reprisal (and Ours) Given the abject failure of unilateral force to achieve anything of lasting value, collective security measures seem worth trying. Exchanging armed reprisals can only lead to ruin. Read more |
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Annelle Sheline The U.S. Military Should Take the Iraqi Parliament’s Advice and Leave The on-going presence of American troops in the region does not enhance U.S. or regional security; it makes Americans more vulnerable to attack and further mired in endless wars in the region. Read more |
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Ilana Novick Are Establishment Democrats Running Out of Ways to Sabotage Bernie Sanders? The moderates of the party can't stand what Bernie is and what he stands for, but they apparently can't find a way to beat him. Read more |
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John Fleming In Australia's Nightmare, a Vision of the Planet's Terrifying Future What’s happening Down Under is a dark preview of the kind of chaos and destruction that’s awaiting the rest of the world in this rapidly unfolding climate crisis... It sounds dramatic because it is. Read more |