All Views Articles for 2019-01-17

Thursday, January 17, 2019
RoseAnn DeMoro
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
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Barr was also George H.W. Bush’s Attorney General and has been a long-time defender of executive branch lawlessness. (Photo: AP) Ralph Nader
Bar Barr or Regret this Dictatorial Attorney General
There is much more in Barr’s secretive, corporatist, anti-consumer, labor, and environmental record to get the Senate Democrats’ dander up and throw down the gauntlet. But, no, they prefer to be polite and in so doing let the American people down
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This shutdown, then, is a wake-up call for all working women and men–whether organized or unorganized, government or private sector. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Alycee Lane
Trump’s Federal Government Shutdown and Unpaid Dishwashers
Steeped in Trump’s anti-labor practices, this shutdown must be seen for what it is: a war on working people, executed from the Oval Office
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Trump has long supported Steve King. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0) Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
Steve King Stands for Everything MLK Fought Against
On this 90th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, let’s recommit to the eradication of racism and bigotry
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In Nagasaki alone, by the end of 1945 when a first count was possible, 74,000 men, women, and children were dead. Of those, only 150 were military personnel. Seventy-five thousand more civilians were injured or irradiated. (Photo: Getty) Susan Southard
Against Forgetting: Ground Zero Nagasaki
Living the nuclear past—and future
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While borders, just as any lines of definition, have a purpose, I fear that purpose is trivialized, mocked and ultimately obliterated by their militarized overprotection, which comes at a cost that we pay and a cost that we do not pay. (Photo: Reuters) Robert C. Koehler
What About Open Borders?
“The construction of more walls will only worsen the existing human rights catastrophe."
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Bill Bigelow
Tax the Rich, Fight the Climate Crisis
Why we need much more of what solidarity and organizing just accomplished in Oregon
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Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.”(Photo: Noticia al Día) Vijay Prashad
America Has Its Gunsights on Venezuela
It is plain as day that the United States wants to overthrow the government in Venezuela
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Richard Heinberg
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there's never been a challenge like this...
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