All Views Articles for 2019-03-28

Thursday, March 28, 2019
“The scale of this meddling by U.S. extremists is shocking, but sadly no surprise to us. (Photo: Getty) Claire Provost, Mary Fitzgerald
Trump-Linked Christian Fundamentalists Are Pouring Dark Money Into Europe, Boosting the Far Right
The rise of far-right movements in Europe aligns with a significant increase over the last five years in spending by Christian groups here in the United States
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Medicare for All would mean that the proverbial “pigs at the trough” of the $3.5 trillion health care system each have something (in the form of stock prices and paychecks) to lose. (Photo: National Nurses United/Flickr/cc) Salomeh Keyhani
It’s the For-Profit Health Care Industry Telling Us We Can’t Afford Medicare for All
We have a more expensive health care system because many of our political leaders across party lines are not serving us, but rather the health care industry
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All other foot soldiers of racism and hate will continue to fail because tragedy often unites us. (Photo: Screen shot / YouTube) Ramzy Baroud
On My Visit to New Zealand: Can Christchurch Heal Our Collective Wounds?
Collective pain helps us see each other as human beings first, where our differences, however great, can never be enough to justify or even explain why 3-year-old Mucad Ibrahim had to die, along with 49 other, beautiful and innocent people
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“You see people harmed by our system—patients going without needed care, skipping doses of medications because they can’t afford copays, avoiding tests." (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock) Roqayah Chamseddine
A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death
On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations
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Norman Solomon
Pelosi and McConnell: Cranking Up Bipartisan Madness for NATO
When anyone challenges the continued expansion of NATO in the United States, innuendos or outright smears are likely
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Just days after Scott Walker announced that he was the new head of CSNDS, he announced that he also would be working for a group whose primary focus is to defend Republican state legislatures that have gerrymandered their states. (Photo: H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY) Jud Lounsbury
Scott Walker to Head ‘Slow Moving Coup’ to Repeal-and-Replace U.S. Constitution
Hiding behind the goal of a “balanced budget,” is a movement about using constitutional change to destroy the power of the federal government
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The resulting horrors foreshadow the dangers faced by those subjected to DHS’s new policy known as “Remain in Mexico,” technically called the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP). (Photo: Flickr) Cynthia Pompa, Shaw Drake
The Department of Homeland Security's Attack on Asylum Seekers at the Border Continues
DHS’s attacks on asylum seekers at the border have only gotten more sinister, resulting in inhumane conditions for those looking for protection
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The mass murders continue. When an ideology of separation rules, the killing never stops. (Photo: mathiaswasik/Flickr/cc) Robert C. Koehler
Our Wounded Planet
This is a revolution—nonviolent, uncompromising, spiritual
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In the end, Donald Trump clearly cares about nothing but himself (and perhaps his family as an extension of that self). (Photo: AP) Tom Engelhardt
Donald Trump Naked as a Jaybird: The 47-Minute Presidency
The reign of King Toot
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‘The United States has been addicted to excessive military spending at the expense of true security at home for decades.’ Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
Trump Wants to Give 62 Cents of Every Dollar to the Military. That's Immoral
A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech, or political slogan
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Should someone now invade the US and Israel because they are defying the UNSC on Golan?(Photo: Screenshot) Juan Cole
How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel
Trump’s policy is Nazi law, as so many of his policies are
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Kathy Kelly
‘Every War Is a War Against Children’
We, in the United States, have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war even as we develop, store, sell, and use hideous weapons. The number of children killed is rising.
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