All Views Articles for 2019-09-12

Thursday, September 12, 2019
It is a false logic that turns workers into idlers, imagines welfare abusers when in fact immigrants sustain the care economy with their labor and their taxes, and sees the victims of neocolonial trade policies as invading criminals. (Photo: Stephen Melkisethian/flickr/cc) Sarah E. Parker, Jorge Majfud
The Latin American Migration Crisis Was Born Out of Greed and Myths About Race
In Unwanted People , historian Aviva Chomsky’s essays explore the roots of this violent history.
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Although broadcast TV news generally does a subpar job of covering climate change, ABC has fared considerably worse than its counterparts, airing less climate coverage than CBS and NBC every year since 2013, according to a Media Matters study. (Photo: Ceci Freed / Media Matters) Evlondo Cooper, Ted MacDonald
ABC's History of Poor Climate Coverage Doesn't Bode Well for the Next Presidential Primary Debate
Good news: There are a few easy ways the moderators can make the climate crisis a substantive and informative part of the debate.
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It’s time to talk about democracy. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) David Daley, Adam Eichen
It’s Time to Talk About Our Broken Democracy. Will Tonight's Democratic Debate Moderators Step Up?
We need a candidate to push for protecting democracy as fiercely as Jay Inslee did for addressing climate change.
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Art at Friendship Park on the Tijuana-San Diego border. (Photo: Judy Rohrer) Judy Rohrer
"The Stakes for Asylum Seekers Could Not Be Higher"
Wednesday's ruling by the Supreme Court underscores the need for stories about the experiences of real people at the border.
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If he can be made to look hesitant, frail, and confused, that is likely to spark some fear in Biden supporters that he simply wouldn't be able to handle a gruelling campaign and presidency. (Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE/Rex) Ryan Cooper
Can Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Dent Biden's Electability Edge?
Somebody better lay a glove on him, and soon.
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Those who are without power—the poor, the indigenous, the uprooted—are at the mercy of heartless authority, no matter that the authority has global limits. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) Robert C. Koehler
Altruists of the World Unite!
We have managed to divide the planet into a bunch of nation-states that, with a very few exceptions, maintain standing armies to protect themselves from other nation-states and view national sovereignty as their highest, and perhaps only, political value.
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Not only do corporate media credulously assume that the US has always been interested in peace, conveniently forgetting that the US rejected offers from the Taliban to hand Osama bin Laden over and surrender soon after the invasion. (Photo: US Marine Corps/Sgt. Mark Fayloga) Joshua Cho
On 18th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Worry About ‘Premature’ End to Afghan War
The Afghans are one of the least happy populations ever recorded. Yet corporate media’s propagandistic coverage discourages the US from doing the one thing that might help change that: get out.
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The rest of the mainstream media, which can often be lazy, has adopted this framing of abolishing private insurance or not as the biggest issue when it comes to healthcare. It only scares voters for no reason, and helps Trump’s reelection chances. (Photo: Screenshot) Miles Mogulescu
Can Debate Moderators Stop Parroting GOP Talking Points?
Let’s hope that tonight’s moderators from ABC and Univision for the third debate—this means you, George Stephanopoulos, Jorge Ramos, Linsey Davis, and David Muir—will ask more more honest questions which clarify the issues, instead of ginning up false controversy.
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We're in a climate emergency and we must resist. (Photo: Greenpeace) Piper
Why I'm Currently Blocking the Largest Oil Export Channel in the U.S.
"I don't want to see every single corner of this country be exploited for fossil fuels while communities are being torn apart by oil spills, chemical fires, and more extreme floods, fires, droughts, and storms."
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Under the prodding of Mike Pompeo, the White House increasingly views the Arctic as a key arena for future great-power competition, with the ultimate prize being an extraordinary trove of valuable resources, including oil, natural gas, uranium, zinc, iron ore, gold, diamonds, and rare earth minerals. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Michael Klare
The Pompeo Doctrine: A Formula for Catastrophe in the Arctic
How to seize the Arctic’s resources, now accessible due to climate change (just don’t mention those words!)
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A climate activist holds a sign reading 'Youth strike 4 climate' in front of a banner reading 'Climate justice' during a Fridays For Future strike for climate protection that is part of 'SMILE for Future' event. More than 450 young climate activists from different European countries gathered to attend the summit 'SMILE for Future', that stands for Summer Meeting in Lausanne Europe. The aim of the summit is to reinforce the links between the participants of the European Youth Climate Strike movement and to d Rosa Pavanelli
Unions: We Must Back the Climate Strike!
Now is the time to show the next generation that unions are the force for progressive change in the 21st Century.
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