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Richard Eskow How Trump's Grift Gave Government to the 0.01 Percent Trump was always a Trojan horse for the 0.01 percent. And now he’s forming a government of, by, and for the very elites he campaigned against. Read more |
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Dean Baker How to Gain Support for Trade: Stop Rigging It to Redistribute Upward The NYT had an article presenting the comments of several people genuflecting over the lack of public support for current trade policy (wrongly referred to as "free trade"). The obvious reason for... Read more |
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Pratap Chatterjee Publish, Punish, and Pardon Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving Office to Reveal the Nature of the National Security State Read more |
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Michela Zonta, Sarah Edelman 6 Reasons Why HUD Deserves a Leader Who Is Actually Qualified for the Job Earlier this month, when rumors of erstwhile presidential candidate Ben Carson’s role in a future Trump administration started flying, Carson made it clear that he wasn’t interested in an agency... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites We still don’t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting “The List” -- the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper’s fawning coverage... Read more |
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Vandana Shiva People's Economies vs Corporate Control: First Commodification, Then Financialization, Now Demonetization Ever since the Corporate Form was "invented" - in its earliest avatar as the collective East India Companies - those who have ruled via corporation have found innovative "means" new to extract wealth... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Temer and Trump Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people. . . . — Abraham Lincoln, 1837 Speech in Illinois Legislature Herewith some remarkable similarities between... Read more |
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Gretchen Goldman The Internet Can’t Get Over the House Science Committee’s Climate-Denying Tweet—and That’s a Good Thing On Thursday the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology tweeted some good ole fashioned climate denial—you know, the old tired long discredited nonsensical claim that cold weather negates... Read more |
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Sarah Aziza IfNotNow Leads 'Jewish Day of Resistance' Against Trump and Appointees This article was originally published by Waging Nonviolence on November 30. Demonstrators are gathering in over 30 U.S. cities today as part of a “Jewish Day of Resistance” against President-elect... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Overpaid Oil CEOs for Top Diplomat? Donald Trump is reportedly vetting ExxonMobil’s current and former CEO for the job of Secretary of State. Both are poster boys for executive excess. Read more |
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John Atcheson No, Dr. Dean, Democrats Do Need to Fight It Out While he was bowing out of the contest to head up the Democratic National Party, Howard Dean said the election of the next chair should not become a fight between Hillary supporters and Bernie... Read more |
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Melanie Benesh A Pro-Industry EPA Could Undermine New Chemical Safety Law By releasing the first 10 chemicals to be reviewed under the new federal chemical safety law, the Environmental Protection Agency reminds us of what’s at stake – and how decisions made by the... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump and His Betraying Makeover Attention workers who voted for Trump, either eagerly or as a vote against the hawkish, Wall Street favorite, Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump, less than a month after the election, has already begun to... Read more |
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Andy Rowell Kinder Morgan Pipeline Might Be Canada’s DAPL In the end, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for all his suave talk of being a new progressive politician, who would era in a new type of politics, turned out disappointingly to be like all... Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn The Remarkable Legacy of Fidel Castro When Fidel Castro died on Nov. 25 at the age of 90, we lost one of the most remarkable leaders of the 20th century. No other head of state has so steadfastly stood up to the United States and... Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Three Men in a Room: The D.C. Edition For years, New York’s dysfunctional state government has been derisively called “ Three Men in a Room .” The three men were the Governor, the New York State Senate Majority Leader and the New York... Read more |
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Ilana Solomon, Ben Beachy After the TPP, Here’s a Progressive Vision for Trade This op-ed was originally published on the Sierra Club's Compass blog on November 16, 2016. Opposition to status-quo trade deals has reached unprecedented heights. The entire 2016 election cycle... Read more |
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Jamie Williams The Problem of Our Surveillance Laws: Report Exposes Deeply Rooted Governmental Secrecy—Underscoring Why Obama Should Act Now Kafka wrote in his parable The Problem of Our Laws , “It is an extremely painful thing to be ruled by laws that one does not know.” By this standard, America has long been in pain. Secret law runs... Read more |
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Karin Kamp As Hate Incidents Rise, Rights Groups Urge Trump to Denounce Bigotry The Southern Poverty Law Center reveals a "national outbreak of hate" since Donald Trump's election. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan How the Media Iced Out Bernie Sanders & Helped Donald Trump Win We hadn’t seen Bernie Sanders in Philadelphia since last July, when he watched his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, win the Democratic Party’s nomination. Sanders joined the “Democracy Now!” news... Read more |
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Carl Takei, Joanne Lin In Stunning Reversal, Law Enforcement, Military, and Security Advisors Urge Homeland Security to Shift Away from Private Prisons In a surprise development, the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), an expert panel of law enforcement, national security, military, and other experts who advise the secretary of the Department... Read more |
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Shefali Sharma The CETA Vote: Will the European Parliament Learn From BREXIT and Trump? Our tour across Europe on Selling Off the Farm Corporate Meat’s Takeover Through TTIP and its links to the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) launched on November 29 at the... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited ‘Fake News’ Blacklist? The Washington Post ( 11/24/16 ) last week published a front-page blockbuster that quickly went viral: Russia-promoted “fake news” had infiltrated the newsfeeds of 213 million Americans during the... Read more |
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Nele Marien Mainstreaming Biodiversity: A Real Solution to the Devastation of Nature? 4 December marks the start of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP). While not as well-known as the climate COPs, this conference responds to a complex... Read more |
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Kenvo Esquivel, Diane Fager Clean Energy Victory In IL Shows We Can Still Win In The Age of Trump With the election of Donald Trump to the presidency this November, many on the left are rightfully frightened about what the next four years portend for the fight against climate change, when even... Read more |