All Views Articles for 2019-09-26

Thursday, September 26, 2019
Today the US military support for Saudi Arabia is connected to the US fossil fuel industry’s determination to control access to the world’s oil. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images) Medea Benjamin
10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined
To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put "ending war" at the top of the "must do" list.
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Supporters rally for universal health care in Chicago. (Photo: Shutterstock) Negin Owliaei
No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
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Thomas Neuburger
Bernie Sanders, Medical Debt, and the Proposal for a Public Credit Agency
Families that are in trouble due to medical debt are in trouble now , and the relief they need is also now . This plan offers it.
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Trump relishes the role of an underdog, persecuted by the powerful. (Photo: Shutterstock) John Feffer
For Trump, Regime Change Begins at Home
Trump has been enlisting foreign leaders in his fight against the U.S. state. Is impeachment a moral necessity or political trap?
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Trump went on to withhold $250 million in military aid from Ukraine, which Congress appropriated, and many suspect the suspension of aid was a way of pressuring Zelensky to look into Hunter Biden. (Photo: Screenshot) Juan Cole
Annals of Impeachment: From Nixon’s "Smoking Gun" Tape to Trump Zelensky Summary
Trump and his cronies are so far gone that they actually thought that staffers’ summary of his July conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky would exonerate him. Instead, it has so many Nixonian smoking guns that it single-handedly provoked a smog alert on Capitol Hill.
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Former U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (R) and incumbent U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L) share a moment during a mock swearing-in ceremony for U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) at the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol January 3, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Norman Solomon
To Joe Biden, Trump's Potential Successor Mike Pence "Is a Decent Guy"
That the former vice president could say such a thing about his successor—who has loyally served as Trump's highest-ranking henchman—illuminates a lot about Biden's style and his substance.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to the media at the Capitol Building September 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry today after allegations that President Donald Trump sought to pressure the president of Ukraine to investigate leading Democratic presidential contender, former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, which was the subject of a reported whistle-blower complaint that the Trump administration has withheld from Congress. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Ima John Atcheson
In the End, Trump Left Pelosi No Choice on Impeachment
If we must impeach, we must target the fundamental nature of the crimes, not the criminal.
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"There can be good lives for all people if we abandon the goal of infinite energy growth. Our guiding principle needs to be that the only form of truly clean energy is less energy." (Photo: Bryan Minear/Unsplash) Robert C. Koehler
Climate Change and Consciousness Shift
Perhaps it takes a climate crisis to get us to understand that our home is the whole planet and we’re all in this as one.
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The rights of nature represents necessary legal and cultural shifts in which we understand ourselves as part of nature, and not, as Colombia’s Constitutional Court explained, "a ruler of nature." (Photo: Jim Liestman/Flickr/cc) Mari Margil
Legal Rights of the Natural World: Beyond Personhood
By becoming a bearer of rights, nature is now being thrust into the murky realm of legal personhood.
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Two children drinking water outdoors. An estimated 110 million Americans are potentially exposed to PFAS through drinking water. (Photo: Shutterstock) Michael Green
Trump Threatens to Veto First-Ever Congressional Action on "Forever Chemicals"
PFAS are "forever chemicals": They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades.
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