All Views Articles for 2019-09-03

Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere of our world is changing rapidly, and that atmospheric change is producing record heat. (Photo: YES! illustration by Jennifer Luxton) Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
"It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us."
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If we truly want to stop the Amazon from burning we must immediately focus on building internationalist solidarity, through new and existing institutions, with indigenous movements in Brazil, the Amazon basin and across the global south.(Photo: Catedral Verde - Floresta Amazonica/Wikimedia) Daniel Willis
Amazonian Communities Need Solidarity, Not Saviours
The Amazon is not ours to save with prayers and clicktivism; it is their homeland to defend (with our solidarity) against the global corporations and free trade deals which would open up the Amazon to more risk.
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You want to decode Bill’s brain? Look at his family’s wealth. Look at his upbringing. Look at his medical records. (Credit: flickr / cc / world economic forum) Steven Singer
Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again
New Gates documentary is a cry for oligarchy in an age of idiocracy; a love letter to neoliberalism in a time of neofascism.
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Abortion rights supporters in Missouri take part in a protest, after state lawmakers passed rules aimed at closing Missouri’s only abortion clinic, May 30, 2019. (Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Gretchen E. Ely
When Religious Ideology Drives Abortion Policy, Poor Women Suffer the Consequences
Studies show that abortion rates across countries are similar regardless of legality.
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There’s no discounting the heavy hand of time, and no underestimating the impact Ginsburg’s departure—whenever it takes place—will have on the future of the Supreme Court and American law.(Photo: Flickr/National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institute) Bill Blum
If Ruth Bader Ginsburg Can't Hold On
The weight of the Constitution in no small sense rests upon Ginsburg’s slender shoulders.
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Michael Winship
Please Shut Up, Mr. President, and Read Some Books
EB White and James Thurber could teach Trump—and us—a thing or two.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn making a keynote speech at The Landing in MediaCityUK in Salford on 2 September. (Photo: Danny Lawson/PA Wire/PA Images) Mathew Lawrence
The Financial Times Is Right—Labour’s Ownership Funds Will Transfer Wealth and Power
Democratising the corporation and empowering workers is an essential part of moving beyond neoliberalism.
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When Greta told the UN that “real power belongs to the people”, she couldn’t have known the extent to which that sentiment would define the next year of climate activism. (Photo: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images) Sophie Yeo
The Rise and Rise of the Global Climate Movement
Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject.
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When workers are unionized they can negotiate better wages, which in turn spreads the economic gains more evenly and strengthens the middle class. (Photo: Screenshot) Robert Reich
5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions
Don’t believe the corporate lies. Today’s unions are growing, expanding, and boosting the wages and economic prospects of those who need them most.
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The Trump administration has quietly proposed rolling back emissions standards for coal- and oil-generated power plants in a move that could alter how and whether the government monitors and controls air and water pollution. (Photo: Dreamstime/TNS) Jesse Jackson
As Climate Crisis Thrashes Planet, Never a Leader So Divorced From Reality as Trump
President Donald Trump not only denies the threat posed by manmade climate change, he consciously, purposefully and perversely works to accelerate it.
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"The goal must be to address head on the anger, disappointment, alienation, and loss of control of those who feel left out of the national discussion," writes Zogby. "What is needed is a message that speaks to voters across the spectrum, telling them that they are being heard and their needs will be addressed by proposals for economic and social progress that will include and benefit everyone." (Photo: Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images) James Zogby
Addressing Those Who Have Been Fooled All of the Time
What don't we understand about Trump supporters? How have the political experts continuously been so wrong about this president and those who believe in him?
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