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Thomas Linzey Rights of Nature: One Big Step for Nature, One Small Step for Humankind We must consume less. We must change everything we know. Read more |
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Asadullah Haroon 'Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death': 13 Years Without Trial at Guantanamo, My Hunger Strike Is All I Have Left I am prepared to die, if it comes to it. I look ahead, and all I see is suffering. But what is the point of good health in life, if I cannot be home? Read more |
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Jon Rynn A New Eco-Economic Paradigm The coronavirus has exposed the failures of the global economic system. Here’s a post-pandemic alternative. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Media Continue to Ignore That Both Parties Almost Always Agree That More War Is Good How the House Armed Services Committee, in the middle of a pandemic, approved a huge military budget and more war in Afghanistan. Read more |
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Andy Rowell As Arctic Temperatures Soar, Trump Lavishes Fossil Fuel Industry With Billions in Bailouts We should not be propping up a dying industry. Read more |
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Steven Singer Do Not Play Russian Roulette With the Lives of Our Children and Teachers Every day with this virus in the physical classroom is like spinning the cylinder and pulling the trigger. Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump's Bull Destroys the China Shop–And Our Role in the World The notion of "America First" hasn't protected us but instead has wrecked national security. Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram, Dr. MarkAlain Déry Protecting Our Vulnerable Front Line Workers Protecting frontline workers and their families is a matter of both economic justice and racial justice. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores Biden and Trump on Venezuela: Two Sides of the Same Coin Biden’s policies are the same policies and exact rhetoric used by the Trump administration. Read more |
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Lily Eskelsen García NEA President: Trump's Plan to Reopen Schools Is Dangerous for Students and Teachers The White House pressure campaign presents a false choice between the health of our students and the health of our economy. It's appallingly reckless. Read more |
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Daniel Jenks, Ernesto Castañeda Defunding the Police Is an Immigrants' Rights Issue, Too Black and brown lives are under attack by law enforcement. Read more |
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Ted Glick A Climate Movement Turning Point? May more and more of us join this so-desperately-needed political and cultural revolution and keep the victories coming. Let’s seize the time! Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Undercover Patriots Trump, Tulsa, and the rise of military dissent. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler When All the Protesters Have Guns As soon as we pull the trigger, we’ve dehumanized the enemy and gone to war. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The West Bank Is Already Annexed The truth is that Israel rarely behaves as an 'Occupying Power', but as a sovereign in a country where racial discrimination and apartheid are not only tolerated or acceptable but are, in fact, 'legal' as well. Read more |
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Varshini Prakash Let's Keep Organizing: An Inside Look at the Biden-Sanders Task Force on Climate We've moved the needle a lot, especially on environmental justice and upping Biden's overall ambition. But there's still more work to do to push Democrats to understand and embrace the scale of the climate crisis, and towards the promise of a truly just society we envision through a Green New Deal... Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt Environmental Justice Wins, Pipelines Lose Three pipelines were stopped in a twenty-four-hour period after years of opposition led by Indigenous and Black environmental justice groups. Read more |
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Camila Escalante NYT Acknowledges Coup in Bolivia—While Shirking Blame for Its Supporting Role The fatal flaws in the report the OAS used to subvert a member government, long obvious, are now undeniable even to the New York Times. Read more |
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Juan Cole UN Special Rapporteur: US Drone Strike Killing Iranian Gen. Soleimani Was Unlawful Not only was Soleimani’s killing unlawful, it set a very bad precedent. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann To Keep Americans Safe, We Have to Get Billionaires Out of Politics Billionaires and the super rich have spent 40 years, since the beginning of the Reagan Revolution, telling us how wonderful America would be if only rich people ran the show. That's called oligarchy, not democracy. Read more |
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Alec Connon What Do the Racial Wealth Gap, Police Brutality, and the Climate Crisis Have in Common? Wall Street The biggest banks, it turns out, are every bit as complicit in the climate crisis as they were in the slave trade. Read more |
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Heidi Peltier The 'Camo Economy' Hides Military Costs and Exacerbates Inequality Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin exploit their political connections to maintain a system that generates huge corporate profits and executive pay at taxpayer expense. Read more |
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Robert Reich Beware the 21st Century Robber Barons This great shift in bargaining power from workers to corporate shareholders has created an increasingly angry working class vulnerable to demagogues peddling authoritarianism, racism, and xenophobia. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Sacrificing People to Corporate Profit While millions of workaday families have lost jobs, income and their future financial security, corporate bosses and billionaires are surreptitiously building new channels into the system for looting an even greater share of America's wealth. Read more |
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Jonathan Coopersmith Racism at the Polls: It Takes a Long Time to Vote One way to encourage people to vote during the work day could be for employers to give workers paid time off to go to the polls. Read more |
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Adam Carlesco Why Trump Wants To Kill The Biggest Environmental Law You've Never Heard Of NEPA is one of the biggest federal policies ever enacted to protect our environment. But Trump is out to gut it—here's why. Read more |
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William Hartung Police, Prisons, and the Pentagon Defunding America's wars at home and abroad. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House’s Military Spending Bill There is simply no logic to it—other than the inexorable logic of war profiteering and global control. Read more |
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Chris Oestereich Pandemic Capitalism Pervasive inequality is a chosen catastrophe. It’s time for a rethink. Read more |
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David Bacon Will the New NAFTA Make the Pandemic Worse for Mexicans? For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch. Read more |
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Walden Bello The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Protests We Should Be Having to Make the Super-Rich Very Afraid If we understand our history and consider strategies for the present that might combat greed in a practical way, perhaps we can anticipate what is possible if the super-rich refuse to step away from their yachts, bunkers, and lofty Wall Street pedestals. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Shrink Wall Street to Guarantee Good Jobs A new House proposal would ensure that all Americans in hard-hit areas could have a job. A tax on Wall Street windfalls would pay for it. Read more |
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Nicolas J.S. Davies Key US Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme As the web of lies spun by Clinton and Albright has unraveled, and the truth behind their lies has spilled out piece by bloody piece, the war on Yugoslavia has emerged as a case study in how U.S. leaders mislead us into war. Read more |
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Bianca Mugyenyi Why Canada—and the World—Deserve a Better Foreign Policy in Ottawa Why are Canadians so confused about their country’s place in the world and how do we overcome the stark democratic deficit in international affairs? Read more |
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Nima Gerami To Defeat Systemic Racism, America Must End Endless War As we look inwards to dismantle America's legacy of racism that pervades the law enforcement and national security apparatuses, we must also recognize that racism and militarism are mutually reinforcing. Read more |
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Todd Cronan, Charles Palermo Take It Down!: Symbolic Politics Is Just That No one can right the wrongs perpetrated in the past and yet we must address the injustices of the present. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump and the GOP's Handling of Covid-19 Is Sheer Lunacy The economy isn't roaring back. What's roaring back is Covid-19. Until it's tamed, the economy doesn't stand a chance. Read more |
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Sandrine Dixson-Declѐve, and Bas Eickhout To 'Build Back Better,' We Must Ditch Public Financing of Fossil Fuels An open letter to Emmanuel Macron and Rémy Rioux on the existential dangers of continued funding of coal, oil, and gas. Read more |
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David Hart As ‘Annexation’ Looms, Let’s Expand Our Compassion to Include Palestinians Since we are able to accept the suffering of others when we dehumanize them, we must start with the simple recognition that Palestinians are fully human. Read more |
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Jorge Majfud Hitler’s Ideologues: The U.S. Racism that Bore Fruit in Mein Kampf “If you are a blond, you belong to the best people in the world, but it’s all over with you! Your forebears committed the fatal mistake of intermingling with inferior brunettes, and as a result the... Read more |
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Linda McQuaig How Ottawa is Driving Up the Cost of Infrastructure by Listening to Wall Street The Trudeau government is gearing up to spend billions on new infrastructure as part of its post-pandemic economic plans. What a terrific idea! — except that it plans to do so in a way that will... Read more |
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Robert Shetterly White Men in Suits, Original Sin, and Rumplestiltskin As a kid growing up in Ohio in the 1950s and ‘60’s I was taught to admire and respect—frankly, be intimidated by—white men in suits. They were the priests of the High Holy Church of How the World... Read more |
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Tony Norman The Day They Tore Old Dixie Down “In the winter of ’65, we were hungry, just barely alive/ By May the 10th, Richmond had fell/ It’s a time I remember, oh so well.” — from “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” Fifty-one years ago,... Read more |
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Elana Sulakshana Who’s Insuring the Trans Mountain Pipeline? A new campaign is demanding these companies respect Indigenous rights and drop their coverage Read more |
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Ravi Mangla Policing is Not a Public Good From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change. Read more |
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Gwyneth Bernier This Independence Day, Generation Z Celebrates Its Moment of Radical Hope In the two decades Generation Z has been alive, we have experienced an entire lifetime of crises. Within the first few months of my life, my parents fled the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack... Read more |
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Jessica A. Siegel, Jessica Hodge What George Floyd and Breonna Taylor Can Teach Us About the History of the War on Drugs and Needed Police Reforms The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor ignited calls for major police reform. One important question to surface is the role of policing drug use and the militarized way the War on Drugs has... Read more |
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Joan Steinau Lester Why Defund the Police? A Story On my way down Central Park Drive into Berkeley’s Tilden Park yesterday, I saw a white man of about sixty—twenty years my junior—standing by a black car. I paused to see if he needed help. He made a... Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Don't Let the Corruption of the Powerless Bring Down the Democrats In politics, moral purity is just a fashionable way of being morally indifferent. Read more |
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Jeffery Robinson This Fourth of July, Time To Tell the Truth About the Confederacy and Its Symbols The decision to retire the Mississippi state flag is not erasing history, it is telling the truth about it. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Politicians of Color Should Not Be Immune From Criticism As progressives in a country with a long, grim history of racism continuing to the present day, it's our responsibility to fight racism everywhere we see it. Read more |
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Liz Watson Trump and the GOP Are Sacrificing Working People for Political Gain Instead of protecting people, Senator Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy—backed by the White House—are working hard to impose corporate immunity—ensuring negligent employers can't be held responsible for failing to follow basic safety rules. Read more |
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Nikola Mikovic What Do Russian Analysts Make of the Charge Moscow Offered Taliban Bounties on US Troops? The history of outside forces helping wage war within Afghanistan—including the U.S. establishment of the mujahideen forces to fight the Russians in the 1980s—is a bloody history indeeed. Read more |
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Neil deMause What the Corporate Media Isn't Telling You About the Risks of Reopening Putting worker safety and public health first means picking and choosing carefully, not just which activities are the safest, but which are the most urgent for a functioning society—which, it bears emphasizing, is not the same thing as what’s best for businesses' bottom lines. Read more |
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Stephen Miles The Democrat's Hawkish, Dead-End Foreign Policy Is Also Very Bad Politics Is the party finally willing to recognize the failures—both morally and politically—of its pro-war stance? Read more |
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Michael Galant Why We Need a Global Green New Deal Right Now The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The People Must Rise Up and Remove Trump-Pence From This Horror Show Handling of the Pandemic The citizenry must quickly mount irresistible pressure for Trump and Pence to step aside. Read more |
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Tim Karr #StopHateforProfit: What Pundits Get Wrong About the Facebook Ad Boycott To stop profiting from hate—and align the company more closely with its mission—Facebook would have to rewire the technology that drives its multi-billion-dollar advertising enterprise. Read more |
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Lawrence Weschler A True American Monument to Trumpian Times Chief justice John Roberts auditions for a spot on Mount Rushmore 2.0 Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt Ende Gelände: 'When Laws Fail, It Is time for Blockades!' "If ever there was a state of emergency, climate change would be it." Read more |
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Jared Trujillo Vulnerable LGBTQ+ Sex Workers Targeted Again by Politicians With EARN IT Act The EARN IT Act, which the Senate could advance tomorrow, is dangerous. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard, Kyle Pope The Climate Emergency Won't Wait for the Press to Play Catch-up Ahead of the 2020 US elections, the public sees the urgency of the climate crisis and wants more media coverage now. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins New ICC Complaint Filed Over US-Israel War Crimes in Palestine Prominent international critics have called the ongoing Zionist colonization of Palestine an act of ethnic cleansing and the exclusively Jewish settlements a form of apartheid. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Is the Nation Opening Its Soul? Change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power, as our ignorance shatters and we wake up. Read more |
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Kelly Trout IEA Report Misses the Mark on 'Sustainable Recovery' by Sidelining 1.5°C The decisions made over the next three years will set our course to 2030. To be a useful authority on a sustainable recovery, the IEA needs to choose a side. Read more |
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Isaiah J. Poole Progressive Populism and a 21st Century Challenge Grassroots activists are re-defining populism for a new era. Read more |
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Alex Lawson Blood on His Hands: The Nursing Home Covid-19 Crisis is Donald Trump’s Fault The president is desperate to deflect from the truth: Over 54,000 nursing home residents and workers are dead. Those deaths were preventable. Their deaths are his fault. Read more |
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Zoe Weil What Makes Us Crack How sorrow breaks us and rage fuels us. Read more |
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Carl Gibson Booker's Loss Was Devastating. But We Can't Lose Sight of Defeating McConnell Only by ousting obstructionists like McConnell and freeing the Senate from Republican control can a progressive vision be achieved. Read more |
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Josue De Luna Navarro The Victory of DACA Is a Reminder that Nothing Will Put Us Down The passion organizers poured into DACA galvanized me and many others to keep organizing—and to aim for the collective liberation of all. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies A New Anti-War Mobilization Must Topple Trump—and Challenge Biden Building a new anti-war movement that is connected to the domestic anti-police struggle is the only thing that can rein in US militarism. Read more |
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Daria Solomennikova In Russia, a New Generation of Activists are Taking on Climate Crisis Against a hostile media—and a powerful fossil lobby, young people in Russia are coming out to build a safe climate future. Read more |
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Michael Winship Covid-19 and the Masque of the Red States Now that the pandemic is raging in the south and west, Trump’s governors finally are face-to-face with reality. Wear your damn mask. Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Phyllis Bennis The Police and the Pentagon Are Bringing Our Wars Home We need to end systemic racism and the militarism that makes it even deadlier—from Kabul to Atlanta and Baghdad to Minneapolis. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump Doesn't Believe in Democracy—Here's His 25-Step Reelection Plan The president's opponents are limited because they believe in democracy. Trump has no limits because he doesn't. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The GOP's Grotesque Response to a Pandemic Will Never Be Forgotten With nearly 130,00 US deaths and 2.6 million infections—gosh, what to do now? Of course! Let's take away the health care coverage of some 23 million Americans! Read more |
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Anjana Samant TikTok Teens and the Trump Campaign: How Social Media Amplifies Political Activism and Threatens Election Integrity If it’s this easy for a group of teens to influence turnout in a campaign rally, how easy would it be for a foreign actor to interfere in the election process? Read more |
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Greg Palast Killer Lines, Killer Cops, and Trump's Vote-Heist Dress Rehearsal The hidden, ugly story of the new Jim Crow tactics tested in the recent primaries—and coming soon to a state near you. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee Could Defy "the Madness of Militarism" as Co-Chairs of the Democratic Convention’s Biggest Delegation Khanna and Lee have a tremendous—indeed, historic—opportunity. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Failed State: The Sudden Descent of the United States Can making Black Lives Matter rescue a failing state? Read more |
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Juan Cole Iran Seeks Interpol Red Notice on Trump for Soleimani Murder Trump unilaterally whacked Soleimani on Iraqi soil without the permission of the Iraqi government, violating the terms under which US troops operate in Iraq as well as committing murder against Soleimani and those with him. Read more |
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Gordon Mosser The Case for Medicare for All Has Grown Stronger Than Ever Despite an ever-present flood of misinformation from those making huge profits from the status quo, almost all reputable research and projections about M4A indicate that Americans overall would pay significantly less than we do now. Read more |
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Sara Bakhtiar How to Reverse the US’s Shockingly Low Global Peace Index Ranking The GPI measures peace in three domains: Societal Safety and Security, Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict, and Militarization. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Bombing People Is Not Feminist, No Matter How You Spin It That this structure still exists, reaping untold violence across the world, only it is now headed by women, is hardly a step forward for feminism. Read more |
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Rachel Stohl Defense Industry Cheers as the Trump Administration Is Poised to Loosen Restrictions on Drone Exports In light of the U.S. decision, Congress must step up and exert its oversight role. Read more |
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Gleb Tsipursky "Back to Normal" Thinking and Why Trump's Anti-Mask Stance Has Been So Deadly Understanding why some people continue to disregard the best advice of public health officials, means understanding why how dangerous the president's behavior has become. Read more |
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James Zogby What Jamaal Bowman's Historic Win Represents for the Palestinian People For decades, the pro-Israel lobby was able to carry the day in Congress because Members feared the repercussions of criticizing Israel. That tide is turning. Read more |
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John Buell Amid Pandemic and BLM Protests, Why Minimum Wage Must be Defended and Expanded Decades of research have shown that businesses are generally able to absorb higher minimum wages without any meaningful negative impact on jobs. Read more |
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Chris Hedges My Student Comes Home In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder. Sunday, thanks to the dogged work of his laywer, he was freed. Read more |
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Mandy Smithberger Covid-19 Means Good Times for the Pentagon Or how to vaccinate the military-industrial complex. Read more |
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer An Interview With Mimi Soltysik, 1974-2020 "I feel allied with most anyone who seeks the overthrow of capitalism." Read more |
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Shahid Buttar, Rebecca Parson 'If You Like Your Insurance, You Can Keep It'–Until You Can't Lack of healthcare is a death sentence. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid. The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit for providing fire blankets. Read more |
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Robert Scheer, Meagan Day For Many Young People, Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie Bernie Sanders may never make it to the White House, but, just when we need them most, socialists like "Bigger than Bernie" co-author Megan Day have picked up his torch. Read more |
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George O'Connor, Daniel G. Newman 'Electing a President': Exclusive Excerpt From New Graphic Novel on the US Elections System Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy is out July 7. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Environment, the Trump and Bolsonaro "[A] great empire and little minds go ill together."—Edmund Burke, 2d Speech on Conciliation with America (1775) Read more |
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Michael Arria Palestinian Members of Israeli Parliament Call on Democrats to Oppose Annexation "Democrats have a decision to make. Will they keep wringing their hands and expressing 'concern,' or are they going to do something about it?" Read more |
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David Suzuki Multiple Crises Signal the Need to Change Course People are calling for change. It's time. Read more |
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Freddie Stuart, Aaron White From the Streets to the Ballot Box: New York's Political Revolution Alongside a wave of insurgent progressive candidates, New York's primary elections ushered in a mandate for radical change. Read more |