All Views Articles for 2019-06-06

Thursday, June 6, 2019
U.S. sanctions against Venezuela have already killed 40,000 people between 2017 and 2018, according to a report by Mark Weisbrot and Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs. (Photo: Courtesy of the authors) Justin Podur
Sanctions Are Genocidal, and They Are the US’s Favorite Weapon
Far from precision-guided munitions, sanctions are weapons of starvation, which target the most vulnerable civilians for slow and painful death by deprivation of food and medicine
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These exculpatory views survived even amidst the elevation of Elliott Abrams, the war criminal architect of brutal Central American policy late last century. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) John Buell
From Guatemala to Moscow to Washington, Neoliberalism and Privatization Driving Our Crises
Neoliberal privatization and austerity, backed by the hard fist of militarization, have an ugly track record of which we must remind citizens early and often
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If the crime is big enough—like creating or countenancing a U.S. torture archipelago that stretched from Thailand to Poland to Guantánamo Bay, or lying to the world to justify launching an aggressive war on Iraq—the risk of trial is nonexistent. No pardons required. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images) Rebecca Gordon
Clemency for the Lowly, Free Passes for the Mighty
Of crimes and pardons in the Trump era
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"These raids are all about intimidating journalists and intimidating whistle blowers so that mistakes made by the Government, including potential crimes, by the military, remain covered up, remain secret, and don’t fall in to the public domain." (Photo: Shutterstock) Joe Lauria
After Assange’s Espionage Act Indictment, Police Move Against More Journalists for Publishing Classified Material
Less than two months after the arrest of journalist Julian Assange, and two weeks after his indictment under the Espionage Act, emboldened governments have sent the police after journalists who’ve challenged the state
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The problem of journalistic demarcation is no less ideologically motivated and, through their effort to discredit Assange and WikiLeaks, corporate media have snugly aligned themselves with the contemporary brokers of US imperial power against a journalistic movement. (Photo: Matt Dunham / AP) John O'Day
Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts About Exiling Julian Assange From Journalism
One might have thought that, when drawing a line between Pulitzers and prison, corporate media would instinctively err on the side of caution and go to bat for Assange
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Uber drivers are supporting families with children, yet 40% depend on Medicaid and another 18% on food stamps. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Robert Reich
The Gig (Economy) Is Up
The jobs problem today isn’t just stagnant wages. It’s also uncertain incomes.
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We are being cooked by his policies, and our children will be drowned. (Photo: Screenshot) Juan Cole
Hey, Psst, Prince Charles: Here are Some Graphs on Global Heating That Maybe Even Trump Could Understand
Prince Charles may as well have saved his breath. There are nothing but squirrels running around inside Trump’s brain.
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Immigration activists rally on April 23 outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP) Sonali Kolhatkar
The GOP's White Supremacy Now Has a Smoking Gun
The racism of the citizenship question should at least be apparent to the American public—if only mainstream media outlets covered the story with the gravity it deserves
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"I'm expecting a gold watch from Boeing at the end of my presidency because I know I’m on the list of top salesmen at Boeing." (Photo: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Russell Mokhiber
Boeing, Obama, a Gold Watch, and 346 Dead
During his time as President of the United States, Barack Obama promoted the sale of Boeing planes—including the 737 Max 8 planes—around the world
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Johnstone describes this debate as "fighting to control the position of an on/off switch that isn’t connected to anything." (Photo: flickr/cc) Robert C. Koehler
The Quiet Killer at the Core of Patriotism
Doesn’t it make sense, in this land of 357 million guns, that our national glorification of war will have some unintended consequences here at home
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