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Subhankar Banerjee Protecting Indigenous Languages Is Protecting Biodiversity With Indigenous languages, we can turn from a narrative of apocalypse—toward multispecies kinship, care, stewardship, protection, and love for the living Earth. Read more |
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Robert Freeman The Economy Isn’t Working. That’s Exactly the Plan. Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything, and everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers Something has to be done to heal the rupture in the sickened body of our nation. Read more |
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William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger The Pandemic of Pentagon Spending Will the Biden administration dare cut military spending? Read more |
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Norman Solomon Some Liberals and Arms-Control Experts Are Cheering for War Profiteers to Be in Biden’s Cabinet What does all this praising and access-drooling amount to? Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Supreme Court's Scientifically Illiterate Decision Will Cost Lives Pope Francis: The common good takes precedence over simplistic appeals to "personal freedom" in protests against justified public health measures. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Three Turkeys Only time will tell whether Trump is prosecuted or pardoned for the multitude of offenses for which he could properly be charged. Read more |
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César Chelala Soccer’s God has Died Death of a giant Maradona has died, and with him died one of the greatest soccer players of all time. Daniel, a manager at Ground Support, a legendary coffee house in Soho, Manhattan, expressed it... Read more |
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Joel Wendland-Liu Trump Was Wrong About China 'If the Biden administration lulls itself with a mantra of “Trump was right,” it will also prove unable lead.' Read more |
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Scott Ritter Israel’s Gift to Joe Biden, 52 Days Before He Even Takes Office: War with Iran By killing Fakhrizadeh, Israel is doing its best to ensure that, for Biden, that military action is the only viable option available Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist? 'US and Israeli efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program “have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President' Read more |
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Tony Norman The Annual White House Festival of Death Pardon me? This is all a precursor to what is expected to be the most outrageous and brazen presidential pardon in American history — Mr. Trump’s pardoning of himself of all federal crimes Read more |
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Robert Crawford Trump’s Damage to US Elections Could Be Long-Term We should be extremely concerned about the damage the refusal to concede inflicts on democratic culture. Read more |
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Thomas Palley Diego Maradona (1960-2020): Some Bittersweet Reflections Maradona was more than just an extraordinary footballer. He was also a complicated social icon. That further distinguishes him from other footballers, though Pele also has some of that… and it is... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Biden Needs To Report Trump’s Wreckage in Executive Branch as Markers They must not let the Trumpster outlaws escape and become immune fugitives from justice Read more |
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Michael Winship Shoving Donald Trump Out the Oval Office Door Now is the time for all good Americans -- and coyotes -- to come to the aid of our country. Read more |
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Ella Hopkins Why the G20’s Failure on Debt Cancellation Is Bad News for Women World leaders have put wealthy creditor interests before debt justice, further jeopardising women’s rights. Read more |
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Bernadette Demientieff As Gwich'in, We Will Never Stop Fighting for Our Land We are mothers and grandmothers. And we are not asking for anything but the ability to live and thrive off the land that the Creator blessed us with. Read more |
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Luis Feliz Leon Black and Latinx Voters Helped Deliver the Nation To Joe Biden—Now, He Owes Them. The stage is set for a power struggle over what direction the incoming Biden Administration should take, between the party's left flank seeking a transformative agenda and moderates pining for a "return to normal" after Trump. Read more |
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Ari Paul NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump NPR, in this instance, trivialized the outcry against not just this instance of voter suppression, but the context of historic voter disenfranchisement in the South. Read more |
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Juan Cole Hyper-Patriarchal Saudi Arabia Equates Mild Feminism With Terrorism, as Sen. Murphy Calls on Biden To Review Ties With Kingdom There is nothing in Islam that forbids women to drive, and all the 900 million Muslim women have all along driven except in Saudi Arabia. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Rich Are Cheering Wall Street's Latest Records. Americans of Modest Means Are Draining 401(k)s. The nation's woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures. Read more |
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Robert Reich How Mitch McConnell's Do Nothing Republicans Are Killing You To them I ask: How much death and suffering must the American people endure before you act? Read more |
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Chuck Collins It's a Billionaire's Thanksgiving: Wealth of Richest Surges Past $1 Trillion Since Pandemic Hit The combined wealth of U.S. billionaires has grown 34 percent since March 2020. Read more |
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Tara Ritter Why Agricultural Carbon Offsets Can't Play a Role in International Climate Action Putting the responsibility of mitigation on farmers lets companies off the hook for reducing emissions along the entire supply chain. Read more |
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Krissy Kasserman, Amanda Claire Starbuck As We're Giving Thanks, Let's Resolve to Change Our Food System for the Better It's a time of year to reflect not just on what we're grateful for, but how we can make the abundance and blessings go around. Making our food system fairer is part of that. Read more |
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Winona LaDuke Thanksgiving Is Time for Reparations "Though lives cannot be brought back, the only compensation for land is land." Read more |
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Howard Mansfield The Covid-19 Pandemic Helps Tell the True Story of Thanksgiving At the time the Pilgrims landed, the Wampanoags and their neighbors had been tested by the years they called the Great Dying. An epidemic from 1616 to 1619—which may have been smallpox (there are other theories)—had killed as many as 9 out of 10 coastal Indians. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Defeat Trump. OK, Now Comes the Hard Part. We must seize the moment. The vision driving these movements, so long mocked and marginalized, must enter the political mainstream and begin to change the world. Read more |
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Ben Tippet For Biden, ‘Building Back Better’ Should Be a Global Challenge U.S. economic recovery efforts will not succeed if the global economy remains weak and serves only a small rich minority. Read more |
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Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar, & Eleni Macrakis What Thanksgiving and the Coronavirus Pandemic Share: As Seen from Boston Perhaps more than any other day, Thanksgiving embodies the underlying embrace of endless growth and voracious consumption: normally the year’s biggest travel day, its reliance on massive amounts of fossil fuel makes the holiday a climate changing event. Read more |
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Renée Graham Rahm Emanuel Doesn’t Deserve a Job in Biden’s Administration The president-elect often speaks of this nation’s 'better angels.' The former Chicago mayor isn’t one of them. Read more |
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Tom Weis Radical Climate Centrists? Say It Ain't So, Joe Come on, man. For someone who talks so much about the need to be guided by science, why isn't Joe Biden’s climate thinking guided by the scientific consensus. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Trump Was No Fluke: George W. Bush Blazed the Trail His lies and incompetence created epic disasters that may yet sink America. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare Biden's Hawkish Foreign Policy Picks Are a Very Bad Sign Biden’s incoming team helped shape some of the most militaristic policies of the Obama administration. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly The Unending War in Afghanistan Is America's Shame People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Millions Will Lose Unemployment Benefits in December Unless GOP Senators Act Unemployment claims rise for second week in a row. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman, Linda Benesch Social Security: Something to Give Thanks For in 2020 Our Social Security system is government at its best. Without it, the consequences of COVID and the resulting economic fallout would be far worse. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Is Trump's No Concession Endgame a "Stab-in-the-Back" Gambit Which Helped Bring the Nazis to Power? The post-World War I claim in Germany was as big a lie as the American "Biden stole the election" claim, but it came to be believed by a sizable proportion of the German population and helped lead to the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Read more |
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Bill Kitchen Will a Tar Sands Pipeline Become a Covid Super Spreader? From a climate perspective, a clean water perspective and a Covid perspective, Line 3 is nuts. Read more |
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Mike Pappas, Luigi Morris Capitalist Competition Is Sabotaging the Race for a Vaccine The global race for a Covid-19 vaccine appears to be in its final leg. The research was publicly funded. But Big Pharma stands to make enormous profits, at the expense of people the world over. Read more |
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Assal Rad Why Biden Must Ignore Sen. Coons' 'Caveats' and Stay on Course to Return to the Iran Deal In restoring the Iran deal, Biden can successfully correct the conflict-laden course he is inheriting from Trump, repair U.S. credibility, and prove once again that the administration he served as vice president was right to choose diplomacy. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Get Ready for Donald Trump’s Shadow Government—via Twitter and Fox News Other Republicans, in fear of the wrath of Trump’s supporters, will obstruct Joe Biden at ever. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Facing Holiday Rush, Frontlines Retail Workers Urge Billionaire Bosses to Share the Wealth This essential workforce is hustling to help holiday shoppers while also organizing for hazard pay and other Covid-19 protections. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Yes, It's Time to Come Home—Now Actually ending the war in Afghanistan. Read more |
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Robert Freeman When They Had to Kill the King. Learnings for the Post-Trump Age. The U.S. will never be at peace so long as Trump is free to create mischief and mayhem. He needs to prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Here's the Truth: The Oligarchy Loves This Democratic Decay and Politics of Lies American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Read more |
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Michael Beer, Mohamed Brahim US Must Halt Renewed War Between Morocco and Polisario We must act swiftly to prevent war and further conflict, end the occupation, and allow Sahrawis to make their decision on union with Morocco or independence. Read more |
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Daniel J. Jones, Scott Roehm Message to Joe Biden: No Torturers in the Next Cabinet Biden and Harris must eschew anyone complicit in torture or who frustrated oversight. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen What If They Called an Election and Nothing Changed in the War State? Foreign policy, sacred cows, and the U.S. Military. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Pentagon in Your Hands? The pernicious and lucrative aspects of military madness are personified in the favorite to be Biden’s Defense Secretary. Read more |
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Robert Reich Profiles in Cowardice Most elected Republicans in Washington are failing the test by refusing to stand up to Trump. Their cowardice is one of the worst betrayals of public trust in the history of our republic. Read more |
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Peter Bohmer The 2020 Election and What We Should Do Now We shouldn't give Biden any breathing room and wait to see what he does before acting. We need to build campaigns and social movements and mass action in the streets for progressive policies. Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers Black Voters Saved Our Democracy Black voters waited in 10-hour lines to show up for Joe Biden. Now Biden needs to return the favor. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade What could be better than a drug that can stop Covid? A society that doesn’t let some make billions off a drug millions can’t access Read more |
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Isabella Breda How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Smart Commentators Must Stop Minimizing Trump's Ongoing Threat To This Election How far will Donald Trump go to stay in power, and how far will enough of his supporters—in Congress, in the military and police, and in the street—go to keep him in power? Read more |
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Juan Cole At G20, Only India Is On Track to Meet Goals for Keeping Global Heating to 3.6° F Although most of India's electricity and heating now comes from carbon-intensive coal, the country has big plans to transition to renewables. Read more |
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Ted Snider When Coups Come Home "As the solution to every foreign election that didn't turn out the way the American government wanted it to was a coup, so when the American election didn't turn out the way the American government wanted it to, the solution was an attempted coup." Read more |
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Riva Enteen Don't [Mourn] Celebrate, Organize! "That Biden's win against the unstable racist was close is damning enough. What is more damning is that he's promised that "nothing will fundamentally change," so the utter bankruptcy of the Democrats will be glaring." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump's Massive, Lawless, and Immoral Legacy to Our Country Will Continue Unless... "It is difficult to overestimate the continuing harm to our beleaguered democracy and its people, should Trump and his cohorts not be brought to justice." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Dreams "Just 10 days after the trump learned that his lease on the White House would not be extended beyond January 20, 2021, a federal court ruled that the trump efforts to reduce the number of DACA recipients in the country was invalid." Read more |
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Andy Rowell Crisis, What Climate Crisis? Oil Majors Still Sitting on Tens of Billions of Barrels of Undeveloped Reserves If these are developed we will face more hurricanes ripping communities and lives apart as our climate emergency intensifies. It did not have to be this way. It should never had to be that way. Read more |
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Faiz Shakir Democrats Must Commit Themselves to the Needs of Non-College Educated Workers Now is the time to show the working class that a Democratic agenda can deliver real change. Read more |
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Jonathan B. Kotch, Jonathan Michels Biden Ran on a Return To Normalcy, but There's Nothing Normal About the American Health Care System In poll after poll, Americans have indicated their preference for a universal, single-payer health care system. Compromise and half-measures are not acceptable. Medicare for All remains the goal. Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn On the Current Status of Trump's Coup Attempt—and Its Future It may look like this is one frivolity and absurdity after another—and it is. But if this electoral clash reaches the Supreme Court, all bets are off. Read more |
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Renée Graham If Biden Wants Unity, He Must First Hold Trump Accountable America’s typical hit-and-run approach to its most troubling eras won’t work now. Read more |
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Bill Blum Unequal Justice: The Treachery of Samuel Alito His record of arch-conservatism makes him more closely akin to a Fox News host than a Supreme Court Justice. Read more |
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Rosa Pavanelli Tax Losses Are Lives Lost There is more than enough money available. But it has been redirected away from our public services and into the offshore bank accounts of multinationals and the mega-rich. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg The Real Plan? To Make America Ungovernable Neither party is equipped to reach across the divides that separate Americans, and the political system is set up to make it nearly impossible for a third party to take root. Read more |
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Erin Brockovich Dear Joe Biden: Are You Kidding Me? The president-elect has tapped a former DuPont consultant to join his Environmental Protection Agency transition board. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Joe Biden Can Fix on Day One So much vital work to be done—that must be done—for a more a peaceful world. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Long-Term Care Fiasco a Warning About Private Ownership The private sector almost always does things to make a profit, and that can leave the rest of us paying a high price—in dollars and deaths. Read more |
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Cassandra Stimpson, Holly Zhang A Washington Echo Chamber for a New Cold War A rising China is also guaranteed to lift all boats (submarines, aircraft carriers, and surface ships) as well as fighter planes aiding the military-industrial complex on a planet increasingly at war with itself. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Beyond Simplistic ‘Peace’ My God, if complexity were brought into the news—e.g., bombs kill, people suffer, no one ever wins, wars never end—the trillion-dollar annual military budget would be in danger. Read more |
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Pip Hinman Scientists Say Net Zero by 2050 Is Too Late This means unions and the climate movement need to be bold and step up the pressure on all parties for serious climate action. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Petty Revenge of a Soon-to-Be-Ex-President With their pitiful plots to overthrow election results, Trump and the GOP are the lowest. Read more |
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Rebecca Chowdhury Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Trump Team Seeks to 'Delay the Inevitable' In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, the Republicans' false claims of voter fraud are becoming undone. Read more |
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Robert Reich Georgia Runoffs: How You Can Help Flip the Senate The stakes couldn’t be higher. Let’s bring this home, flip the Senate, and usher in the transformative change this nation requires. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Senate Runoffs in Georgia Offer a Clear Choice The races will be determined by whether Georgia’s voters choose to embrace and build a New South coalition or revert to the Old South. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis With the Election Over, Congress Must Remember the Rest of the World Even a lame-duck Congress must remember their actions have global consequences too. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Why We Must Protect Essential Workers From Billionaire Pandemic Profiteers We are witnessing a criminal tragedy as wealthy billionaires, sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets, are dispatching essential workers into the line of infection fire with inadequate shields and protections. Read more |
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is. When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no clue why this is how we choose our president. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook I Am Greta Isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World We can listen to Greta, without fear, without reproach, without adulation, without cynicism. Or we can carry on with our insane games until the bubble explodes. Read more |
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Kari Hamerschlag, Christopher D. Cook Biden’s Agriculture Secretary: Heitkamp Is the Wrong Choice We cannot afford an old-school agriculture secretary who maintains today’s disastrous status quo when the job calls for a bold change agent. Read more |
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Christine Ahn, Yifat Susskind Biden Should Embrace an Anti-Imperialist Feminist Foreign Policy to Heal Wounds Abroad—and at Home Women of color should be the ones remaking U.S. foreign policy. Read more |
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Adrienne Pine More Humane Cages? Prospects for Immigration Justice Under Biden Appear Dim In stacking not just his DHS team but all of his transition teams with neoliberals and hawks, Biden has sent the world a clear signal that despite the cage-free fantasies of liberal Democrats, his immigration policy will be more of the same. Read more |
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Roy Eidelson With the Win-Win Machine, Most of Us Actually Lose If Biden now selects only corporate-friendly, status-quo-defending advisors and Cabinet members, and if he touts watered-down bipartisan "solutions" as stunning successes, it will further cement a betrayal. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis Grappling With a Divided Nation The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen President-Elect Biden: Time for YOU to Follow the Climate Science Big corporate media outlets are great at policing progressive Democrats who "go too far." They're not so watchful over Democratic presidents who cling to a go-slow, corporate-friendly "middle ground." Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich, Adam Weinstein Trump Demands Afghan Withdrawal and Washington Panics. But It’s Time To Leave, Now. No serious person believes that the war is winnable in any meaningful sense. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump's Requested Strike on Iran Could Kill More People Than Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Any US military action against Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities would be a massive war crime. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Drawing All the Wrong Lessons From Media’s Election 2020 Failures By repeatedly conferring legitimacy on a fundamentally antidemocratic president and his actions, media paved the way for the dangerous place we find ourselves in today, and hobbled their ability to protect our democracy. Read more |
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Zoe Weil Want to Save Democracy? Reduce the Voting Age Let’s teach 16-year-olds to be election-savvy and help them register to vote. Read more |
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Laura Flanders The Media's Quadrennial Eclipse We need coverage of people as active citizens, not just as consumers. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann This Election Was Rigged If any governor wants to take away your vote, they don’t even have to tell you, they just kick you off the voting rolls, because right now voting is not a right in America, it’s merely a privilege. Read more |
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Christian Christensen It's 2020 But the Dangerous Myth About the So-Called "Liberal" Media Still Going Strong Legitimizing this myth only serves the interests of those opposed to the critical analysis of current events in the United States. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Corporate Democrats Are to Blame for Congressional Losses—So Naturally They’re Blaming Progressives When Rep. Rashida Tlaib talks about "pushing the Democratic Party to represent the communities that elected them," she actually means what she says. Read more |
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Udi Ofer 50 Years After the Start of the War on Drugs, Americans Have a Chance to Fix the Harm It Created Today, policymakers and the public alike are increasingly adopting approaches that treat substance use as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice one. Read more |