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John Buell Students as Debt Slaves It is time for a system that turns students into endentured servants to go Read more |
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Alfonso Saldaña, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap A Cancer on Society: Monsanto Claims Right Not to Speak About Roundup Monsanto doesn’t want the world to know their product is labeled a "probable carcinogen." Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald, Trevor Timm The DNC’S Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks Poses a Serious Threat to Press Freedom The theory of the suit would mean that any media outlet that publishes misappropriated documents or emails (exactly what media outlets quite often do) could be sued by the entity or person about which they are reporting Read more |
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Ralph Nader Bill Curry on the Move Against Public Corruption Legalized corruption is all over Washington, D.C. as trillions of dollars of giveaways, subsidies, bailouts, and no-bid contracts proliferate. Read more |
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Will Bunch Mitch McConnell Gets his Own Chapter in the Story of America's Dying Democracy. And it's Devastating It is Mitch McConnell, more than anyone else in Washington, who has turned the notion of comity into comedy. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Trump Declares ‘Mission Accomplished’ on Syria Attacks — But Whose Mission? The swamp refuses to be drained. Read more |
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Philip Weiss, James North Natalie Portman Says, Enough! The statement is surely a reference to Israel’s killing of nearly 40 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, which have shocked Jews around the world. Read more |
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Bill McKibben 100% Renewable Energy is Within Our Reach America’s twisted politics may slow the transition to renewables, but other countries are now pushing the pace. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too The sad truth is financial austerity that has driven governments at all levels to skimp on education has had plenty of compliance, if not downright support, from centrist Democrats. Read more |
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Orion Danjuma Court’s Ruling Holding Kobach in Contempt is Well-Deserved It is clear that the secretary of state believes he need only answer to himself and not the law. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Public Radio’s McCarthyite Smear of Black Activists Shows Danger of Russia Panic If assumptions about “Country X–backed media” are used to smear those who take a check—or even come close to those who take a check—from Russia, there should be a consistent standard for everyone. Read more |
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Sarah St. Vincent Data Privacy Is a Human Right. Europe Is Moving Toward Recognizing That. Mark Zuckerberg played dumb when Congress pressed him on privacy protections. But he should know better — the EU is already forcing his hand. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Why Are Some on the Left Falling for Fake News on Syria? If leftist and progressive calls to curb American imperialism are to be taken seriously, our analysis of international relations and foreign policy needs to be far more sophisticated. Read more |
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Pat LaMarche For the Many Millions Spent on Bombing Syria, The US Could Have Assisted Syrian Refugees by the Thousands As those who have offered shelter and assistance to victims of war have said, "We were just doing what our mothers taught us." Read more |
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Belle Chesler Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking What happens when a teachers stops and listens to her students. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Serious Questions About Chemical Attack in Douma and US Bombardment of Syria Regardless of what happened in Douma, the United States has no legal or moral right to bomb Syria. Read more |
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Elizabeth Goitein The Corker-Kaine Bill Would Codify, not End, the Forever War The replacement AUMF would formalize a reversal of the Constitution, allowing the president to declare wars and Congress — if it dares — to veto them. Read more |
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James A. Russell The Strike Warfare Chimera Despite the uncertain results and colossal failures, we remain addicted to strike warfare, telling ourselves that we can police the politics on the ground by dropping bombs from on high. Read more |
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James Zogby Gaza Deserves Our Support Attention must be paid to this long-suffering people. Read more |
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Rachel Johnson West Virginia Teachers and the Return of Labor Feminism In struggles led predominantly by women workers—whose labor has historically been both underpaid and undervalued—we’re seeing the return of efforts to build meaningful alternatives to corporate feminism. Read more |
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Paul Street Who Will Protect Elections From U.S. Oligarchs? No other “democracy” in the developed world comes close to the United States when it comes to giving big-money donors unregulated power in their national electoral processes. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler In Syria and Beyond, What Would It Even Look Like If the U.S. Truly Wanted Peace in the World? On playing war in Syria. Read more |
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Peter Certo There Was Nothing Humanitarian About Our Strikes on Syria We fired 105 missiles on April 14. That’s 10 times the number of Syrian refugees we’ve taken all year. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Out of 26 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Zero Opposed The most influential paper in the country, the New York Times, has not opposed a single US war—from the Persian Gulf to Bosnia, to Kosovo to Iraq to Libya to the forever war on ISIS—in the past 30 years. Read more |
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Peter Prontzos Stopping the Doomsday Machine When will we finally have a world free of nuclear weapons? Read more |
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Arshad Khan Of Animals and Bees and Flowers Wild as Earth Day Nears Serious concerns for anyone who cares for wildlife and the planet we inhabit. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Examining the Kochtopus The Koch brothers have used their enormous assets to mount a far-ranging, ultrasophisticated assault on American democracy. Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Trump’s Impotent Rage The window for firing Rosenstein or Mueller, and getting away with it, has closed. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left And who has all the power, in terms of violence? Our means of violence is very little. The government’s means, the right wing’s means, are very great. So, we’ve got to adopt nonviolence. Read more |
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Richard Eskow We Need a Housing Revolution Now Look again at the faces of homeless men and women. They are the victims of injustice. Read more |
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Brett Max Kaufman Who Should Review Michael Cohen’s Files Under the Fourth Amendment? How to manage searches of digital information, like any other evidence, is not a matter of expediency or any party’s good faith — it’s a matter of ensuring that the government complies with the Constitution. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel is a Matter of Policy Western media is actively involved in shielding Israel and enhancing its diminishing brand, while painstakingly demolishing the image of Israel's enemies. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Democrats, Too, Love Trump's Wars The reason Congress hasn’t sanctioned America’s perma-war is because they’re captured, with some notable exceptions, by the same national security apparatus as the past three administrations. Read more |
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Porter McConnell Tax Day is a Real Holiday for Wall Street The tax legislation passed last year gives the financial industry plenty of reasons to celebrate. Read more |
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Conor Friedersdorf The Backlash Against Trump's Syria Strike Members of Congress in both parties have declared his actions unconstitutional. Will Democrats campaign against their illegality? Read more |
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Layidua Salazar I’m an Undocumented Taxpayer. Here’s How My Taxes Are Used Against My Values. The government regularly uses our tax contributions to fund the deportation or incarceration of our family members and to pass laws making health care more difficult to access. Read more |
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Daphne Eviatar Corker’s Proposal Hands Trump A Dangerous, Open-Ended War Authorization It would invite unlawful killings, civilian casualties, war crimes and human rights violations—as well as emulation by other countries. Read more |
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Steve Fraser Class Dismissed: Class Conflict and Teacher Rebellion in Red State America Insurgent teachers are instructing us all about a tale of denial for which we’ve paid a heavy price. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Why Should We Tax the Rich? The conservative take on taxes works wonderfully for sound bites — and totally muddies how our economy actually works. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Robert Fisk’s Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria This report shows that there is a highly credible alternative explanation for what happened in Douma – one that needs to be investigated. Read more |
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap Death By a Thousand Tax Cuts Under the current administration, we are witnessing the deathblows to the economic and social policies of the New Deal Read more |
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Gary Olson Trump’s Attack on Syria: An Illegal Piece of Choreographed Theater The United States once more operates from a position of unmitigated hubris Read more |
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Josh Bivens, Hunter Blair For Tax Day, a Reminder That Economic Arguments for the GOP Tax Plan Have No Theoretical Basis The tax cuts that make up the bulk of the GOP plan—ones for the rich and big corporations—are by far the weakest kind of fiscal stimulus if the goal is to generate aggregate demand in the economy Read more |
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Christopher Anders Don’t Let Congress Give Trump a Blank Check to Declare Worldwide War This proposal would cause colossal harm to the Constitution’s checks and balances, would jeopardize civil liberties and human rights at home and abroad, and would lead to a breathtakingly broad expansion of war without meaningful oversight Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Gunning Down the Easter Bunny: On the Weaponization of Everyday Life Growing up with the threat of pervasive violence Read more |
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Paul Rosenberg Is MSNBC Going Conservative? Supposedly Liberal News Network Loves #NeverTrumpers More Than Leftists Loading up on semi-repentant conservatives and ignoring the activist left, MSNBC is doing the nation a disservice Read more |
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Michael Winship Mob Rule at the White House But while we may not be at the extraction point yet, increasingly there are those who think the endgame for this administration is nigh—and indeed, that would be the righteous outcome. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Taxes, Death, and Nuclear Weapons Every dollar spent on nuclear weapons is a dollar taken from our children and the meeting of the basic needs of our citizens Read more |
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Richard Eskow 7 Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren’t Being Asked The national security establishment and the corporate media have been promoting a confrontational approach, but they’ve been unable to explain how that would lead to a better outcome for the US or the world Read more |
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Will Bunch U.S. Bombs Won't Save the Kids of the Middle East. Here's What We Can Do "The Syrian refugee crisis presented an opportunity for the United States to demonstrate its global leadership...by increasing our then-paltry numbers of Syrian refugees that we accepted here. That’s the response you'd expect from a nation that once defined our exceptionalism as our willingness to... Read more |
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Rebecca Vallas Trump's Executive Order on 'Welfare' Is Designed to Pit Workers Against One Another On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sums up how little he understands about poverty in America. The order, titled “Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting... Read more |
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India McKinney Congress Held Ten Hours of Hearings on Facebook. What’s Next? After grilling Mark Zuckerberg for ten hours this past week, the big question facing Congress is, “What’s next?” The wide-ranging hearings covered everything from “fake news” to election integrity to... Read more |
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Juan Cole Iraq on Syria Strikes: We've Seen This Movie and It Doesn't End Well Iraq’s foreign ministry came out strongly against the US, British and French missile strikes on Syria. In a statement issued Saturday, the ministry called the attacks “an extremely dangerous step”... Read more |
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Ray McGovern Attacking Syria: Thumbing Noses at Constitution and Law It was a sad spectacle to see U.S. brass rubbishing the Constitution and trying to silence critics of the U.S. strike on Syria Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce I'd Like to Offer This Sanity Quiz to All #NeverTrump Conservatives Nicolle Wallace, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Bill Kristol: Step right up. Read more |
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Jon Schwarz Trump Ordered Syria Strike Based on a Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can't See On Friday night, President Trump ordered the U.S. military to conduct a bombing attack against the government of Syria without congressional authorization. How can this be constitutional, given the... Read more |
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John Atcheson Trump Is Cornered - Now Comes the Dangerous Part "As Mueller’s case gets stronger, things get even scarier." Read more |
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Evaggelos Vallianatos Pesticides Are Making Children Aggressive "Pesticides cause a multitude of adverse effects on humans. However, they are especially harmful to children." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Terrible Twos and DJT In a recent tweeted tantrum, President Trump showed "that in his infantile fury, he has chosen to express anger towards China, in the process failing to acknowledge a great benefit that was given him and his family by that country." Read more |
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Norman Solomon Missile Attack on Syria Is a Salute to 'Russiagate' Enthusiasts—Whether They Like It or Not "The latest U.S. air attack on Russia’s close ally Syria was as much politically aimed at Moscow as at Damascus." Read more |
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Adam Johnson Few to No Anti-Bombing Voices as Trump Prepared to Escalate Syria War In the run-up to the president's Friday night airstrikes in Syria, the corporate media inaccurately made it appear as though there was little dissent over military action Read more |
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Trump Urged to Seek Evidence Before Attacking Syria In this memo to the White House, the Veteran Intelligence Professions for Sanity urge President Trump to get the evidence first before deciding to strike Syria. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Major Papers Urge Trump to Kill Syrians, Risk World War III This style of coverage—enthusiastic about the moral need for violence but oblivious to its obvious consequences—inhibits the public’s capacity to make sense of the extremely dangerous moment in which we are living. Read more |
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Briahna Joy Gray Bernie Sanders in the Deep South “It is making sure every American has high quality health care as a right — the right to excellent education. But it is also addressing the special problem of racism, of sexism, of homophobia, etc.” Read more |
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Hunter Blair The Trump Tax Cuts Should be Repealed, Not Made Even Worse by Making Individual Tax Cuts Permanent The corporate tax cuts flow entirely to shareholders — and the top 1 percent holds 40 percent of total stocks. Read more |
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Gretchen Goldman Brace Yourself for Unhealthy Air The Trump Administration just weakened clean air protections. Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer The US Doesn’t Even Care About Syria — But We Keep the War Going According to the logic behind American strategy in the Middle East — and the rest of the world — one of our principal goals should be to prevent peace or prosperity from breaking out in countries whose governments are unfriendly to us. Read more |
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Steven Singer In Trump’s America, You No Longer Need to Pretend to be Against School Segregation How far have we sunk when you don’t even need to feign decency in order to expect having a chance of Congress confirming you? Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Teacher Strikes Are About a Lot More Than Paychecks Educators aren't just fighting for their own salaries. They're fighting to make life better for their entire communities. Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon Ready, Set, Go! New Zealand joins the growing club of first movers tackling fossil fuel production! Who will be next? Read more |
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Karen Hobert Flynn Bust the Budget then Vote to Balance It: GOP's Shameless Bid to Shred Safety Net The balanced budget amendment is a shameless GOP attempt to shred Social Security and the whole safety net after busting the federal budget with massive tax cuts. Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? When politics fails to serve working people, the far right fills the vacuum. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt A Tale of American Hubris Or five lessons in the history of American defeat. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Lynchings Past And Present This buried history of power and dehumanization is still living, still present in our world, still killing African-Americans and others. Read more |
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Peter Dreier Paul Ryan: Charlatan, Hypocrite, and Right-Wing Extremist Scurries for the Exit Ryan successfully bamboozled many reporters and the nation at large, somehow convincing them he was a budget expert and something of a social philosopher. But he turned out to be just a slick talker who must have flunked basic math in high school or college, because his budget numbers never add up. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson A New Poor People’s Campaign Is Gearing Up to Launch on Mother's Day A major new report makes the case for a 'fusion movement' against systemic racism, poverty and inequality, militarism and the war economy, and ecological devastation. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Bill Curry on Corruption in America “Both parties have a perceived self interest in never bringing it up. It’s the bipartisan consensus.” Read more |
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Paul Pillar The Bolton-Pompeo Package Two hazardous peas in a pod. Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne How Privatization Sparked the Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising For more than a decade, state legislators—Democrats and Republicans alike—have marched the state off the proverbial financial cliff, then used budget shortfalls to push privatization. Read more |
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Abir Kopty How Many Palestinians Have To Die For the World to Stop Israel's Crimes In Gaza? Israel knows it will get away with its crimes, and therefore it keeps on committing them. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant What Teacher Strikes Can Teach Democrats About Education Politics Not only have Democratic party leaders ignored the growing discontent among teachers; they’ve been actively complicit with Republicans in spreading a false message about what’s been plaguing public education. Read more |
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Debbie Weingarten Sending Troops to the Border Will Cause More Migrant Deaths “The outcome of border militarization has not been to deter migration, but instead to create more vulnerability.” Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. “Controversial Guy” Gets Stopped, Hassled at The Airport The government’s unsubtle way of letting a critic know that Big Brother is watching. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Republicans Must Be Thinking About a President Mike Pence Right Now He has many of Trump's qualities without some of the obvious baggage. Read more |
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Molly Roberts No One Wants to Listen to the Sex Workers Despite all its repulsive profiteering, Backpage was still sex workers’ best shot at staying safe. Read more |
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Justin Anderson Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? After decades of regulatory neglect, Big Tech is finally coming under the microscope. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Who’s Who Of American War Criminals And Torture Apologists Endorse Gina Haspel For CIA Director “Bloody Gina.” Read more |
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Will Bunch What's a Guy Gotta Do To Get Impeached in Trump's Out-of-Control America? The risk we face is not in normalizing impeachment, which is the tool that the Founding Fathers created to deal with the threat posed by the kind of president that they feared — and that Donald Trump has become. The real hazard is normalizing Trump’s conduct over the last 15 months. Read more |
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Juan Cole Protests Won’t Stop Trump Derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will Going to your town square and protesting will have zero effect if you don’t give money to a candidate, walk the neighborhood ringing doorbells for her, and get out the vote. Read more |
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Gabriela Lemus It’s Time for Equal Pay for Equal Work The problem is that employers continue to engage in pay disparities without real accountability. Read more |
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Nick Hanauer That $4,000 Raise Donald Trump and Paul Ryan Promised You Was a Trickle-Down Lie Take it from a rich business guy, we only give out raises when we have to. Don't count on that $4,000 Donald Trump & Paul Ryan promised from tax cuts. Read more |
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Hamid Dabashi 'Western Media' and Mass Deception What does the coverage of the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza tell us about the truth of 'Western media'? Read more |
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Ben Gubits To End Gun Violence, We Need to Address the Influence of Big Money In Politics Despite overwhelming popular support for stricter gun control laws, Congress has been unwilling to act because of pressure from powerful special interests. Read more |
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Joe Jackson Big Businesses Runs America - But Who's Running Big Businesses? All-male or all-white boards are no longer acceptable and should inspire a push for change. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Creating a Perpetual War Machine What happens when a few volunteer and the rest just watch. Read more |
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Robert Crawford The Senate Should Reject Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo The warning signs of another major Middle Eastern war are flashing red. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Why Israel Feels Threatened by Popular Resistance in Palestine The protest was about reclaiming the agenda, transcending political infighting and giving voice back to the people. Read more |
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Ted Rall The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance Nowhere to be found was a pacifist: someone who opposes war, all war, no matter what. Nor were there any anti-interventionists: people who say Syria is not our business and should be left to sort out its own affairs. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media Word choice is revealing when one considers an indisputable fact: U.S. oligarchs have done far more to undermine U.S. democracy than any Russian ever could Read more |
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Adam Johnson Snipers Shooting Unarmed People at 100 Meters Isn’t a ‘Clash’ The power asymmetry is one of the largest of any conflict in the world, yet Western media still cling on an institutional level to a “cycle of violence” frame, with “both sides” depicted as two equal parties. Read more |