All Views Articles for 2019-08-29

Thursday, August 29, 2019
Response by the ideologically leftwing government of Evo Morales has been forced, instead, largely due to domestic pressure by Bolivians that increasingly view the response as not only as too little too late, but also directly blame Morales’ pro-development policies for ongoing destruction of the Amazon. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) Devin Beaulieu
No Refuge for the Amazon in Evo Morales' Bolivia
Evo Morales has carefully cultivated his image on the world stage as an indigenous defender of the "Pachamama (Mother Earth)," but his domestic policies belie another reality.
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Bernie will lead our country to enact the Green New Deal and bring the world together to defeat the existential threat of climate change. (Photo: Shutterstock) Ronnie Cummins
Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal is a Game-Changer for Food and Farming
Finally, we have a true Declaration of War against fossil fuel pollution and global warming, a radical legislative program that can head off climate catastrophe and supercharge a just transition to a 21st Century Green Commonwealth
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We need drastic reductions in the use of fossil fuels and to accelerate our global transition to carbon neutral societies. But to fight climate change we also need healthy oceans. (Photo: NOAA/Flickr/cc) Jennifer Morgan
Tackling the Climate Emergency and Protecting Our Oceans Go Hand-in-Hand
Scientists are clear that we need to protect at least 30% of our global oceans by 2030 if we are to safeguard wildlife and to help mitigate the impacts of climate change
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Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after a 15-day journey crossing the Atlantic. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) Rebecca Solnit
Welcome to the US, Greta. With Your Help We Can Save the Planet and Ourselves
Even in such a divided and troubled country, there is hope. Between us we can beat the climate destroyers.
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Boris Johnson thinks he can trample over the little people in the country like he’s falling out of an Oxford Union bar trussed up in full Bullingdon gear, giddy with the power he has always expected to wield. (Photo: BackBoris2012/cc/flickr) Eloise Todd
A Pro-Democracy Movement Against Boris Johnson Has Been Born—Are You With Us?
Throughout the land people are sharing stories of why democracy is important to them. Together we can bring down Johnson and end this farce.
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The world is currently divided into national and corporate interests that have the power to ignore and dismiss not only the rights of the tribal peoples who live in the rainforest, but also the rights of the planet at large, to breathe, to survive in eco-diversity.(Photo: Rene Rivers/fickr/cc) Robert C. Koehler
We Are All Indigenous
How can indigenous wisdom—the understanding that everything is connected—transcend the power to exploit this planet and continue to shrug off the consequences of doing so, pushing them off on future generations?
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Devote your time and energy to getting others organized and mobilized. It’s going to take a grassroots movement of Americans to take our country back from those who seek to divide us. (Photo: Screenshot) Robert Reich
9 Ways to Stay Sane During the Primaries
We’ve been through dark times before, but we have come out stronger on the other side. We will do so again.
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Netanyahu leads the most militarily powerful state in the Middle East, but is dedicated to further settler colonialism in the Palestinian West Bank, and needs the bogey man of Iran to wag the dog of international diplomacy in favor of Israel. (Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) Juan Cole
The Saudi Axis and Israel’s Drone War on the Shiite Crescent
The new drone war is largely symbolic.
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We’ve seen what happens when huge corporations, and the politicians beholden to them, wield all the political power. (Photo: Shutterstock) Christine Owens
Democracy Needs Unions
When workers don’t have a voice in their workplace, they eventually lose their voice at the ballot box, too.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico/USA in July 2019 (Photo: © Osvaldo Olmos / Shutterstock) Carlos Figueroa
The Puerto Rico Crisis: A Reflection of a Flawed US Democracy
The recent resignation of Governor Rosselló should be understood within the larger framework of a flawed US democratic state that continues its economic stranglehold over Puerto Rico.
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Norman Solomon
With Sanders and Warren Surging, Is Wall Street's 2020 Nightmare Coming True?
The very biggest fear among corporate elites is that Warren or Sanders could win—and then use the presidency to push back against oligarchy.
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A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) Osprey Orielle Lake
Indigenous Women of the Amazon Send a Call: The Fight for Mother Earth Is the Mother of All Fights
The lives of every future generation and our species as humans depends on the collective effort to generate new development models. Humanity has no Plan B for the Earth. Our fight is so urgent that we must all get together right now. The fight for Mother Earth is the mother of all fights.
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