All Views Articles for 2019-05-30

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Donald Trump is, put simply, expressing and enacting an overtly racist agenda. (Photo: Screenshot) George Cassidy Payne
Harriet Tubman Snub Is a Reflection of Trump’s Worldview
When his racist views are converted—often haphazardly and maliciously—into national and foreign policies, people suffer
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 U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden sit during a meeting with Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, and Trade Representative Michael Froman in the Oval Office of the White House December 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. According to the White House, Obama was meeting about trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). ( Thom Hartmann
If Democrats Want to Beat Trump, They Better Not Nominate a ‘Free Trade’ Candidate
If the Democrats promote pro-corporate trade policies in 2020, get ready for four more years of Donald Trump gloating at us all from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to recognize the rights of nature in its constitution, which was rewritten to acknowledge that nature in all its life forms "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution."(Photo: Jeronimo Zuniga) Reynard Loki
How Indigenous Peoples Won a Landmark Victory Protecting the Amazon From Oil Drilling
The Waorani people of Ecuador won a historic lawsuit to save their homes—and the planet—from destruction
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) leaves the Senate Floor following a vote on April 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. Robert Schlesinger
Donald Trump Has Done Less to Destroy Democratic Norms Than Mitch McConnell
McConnell is the living, breathing, calculating face of everything that is wrong with our current politics
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A firefighter walks near a pool as a neighboring home burns in the Napa wine region in California. David Suzuki
Climate Change and Biodiversity Should Be Top Headline News
"We can't turn away from reality if we want to avoid catastrophe."
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The monetary imbalance is especially jarring when it comes to hawks who beat the drums of war. (Photo: Gillam/ Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lithograph, NY, 1883) Ralph Nader
Society Is In Decay–When the Worst Is First and the Best Is Last
If you want to see where a country’s priorities lie, look at how it allocates its money
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This repugnant attempt to swindle the public will not go unnoticed by the people whose lives and health Wheeler is jeopardizing. (Photo: iStock) Mary Anne Hitt
Trump Administration and EPA Anti-Science Work Will Cost Lives
Undermining the Clean Power Plan and mercury air toxics standards and ignoring the way these and any future safeguards affect our health are direct attacks on the health and development of millions of our most vulnerable friends and neighbors
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There is no magic bullet that can reverse the damage done by decades of neoliberalism. (Photo: Getty Images) Joseph Stiglitz
After Neoliberalism
For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the only question is what will—and should—come next
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As mayor of Burlington back in the 1980s, he attacked the foreign policy of the Reagan administration in Latin America, and even briefly toured Nicaragua in support of its Sandinista government. (Photo: Illustrated | AP Photo/Donna Light, AP Photo/Pat Hamilton, Wikimedia Commons) Ryan Cooper
Americans Should Be Very Concerned About Bernie Sanders' Record of Opposing Mass Murder
Is the U.S. supposed to obey international law like some kind of peasant country? The very idea shocks the conscience.
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President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Melania Trump and President Trump during the opening of an anti-extremist center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2017. Danny Sjursen
The Real 'Troika of Tyranny' is Made Up of U.S. Allies
A threesome that just happen to be President Trump's best buddies in the Middle East
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Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Robert C. Koehler
Assange Indictments Hide the Context of War
We can't depend on large institutions to stand up for democracy
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One of the reasons investors still have confidence is because of political inaction on climate, especially by the Trump Administration. (Photo: Tony Webster/flickr/cc) Andy Rowell
Climate Denying Trump Administration Rebrands Fossil Fuels as "Freedom Gas"
If people thought the first two plus years of the Trump Administration were bad for those fighting climate change, the worst is seems yet to come
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