All Views Articles for 2019-10-01

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
The mass incarceration system has relied on the same kind of dehumanizing language to sustain and legitimize its abuses. (Photo: http://organizingcatholicsforjustice.org) Erin George, Ravi Mangla
How Dehumanizing Language Fuels Mass Incarceration
Projects to dismantle the system of mass incarceration must exist alongside a concerted effort to restore the humanity of incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, and other justice-involved people.
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Part of the pushback against these deals is the continued growth in rural communities of controversial factory farms (operations with thousands, if not tens of thousands, of animals producing large amounts of manure) primarily to feed exporting agribusiness companies. (Photo: KOMUnews/cc/flickr) Ben Lilliston
Trump’s Japan Deal Another Win for Global Meat Companies
The Trump administration is building quite a record of favoritism for these multinationals that now rivals its well-known allegiance to the fossil fuel industry.
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Hypersonic weapons are just the most recent manifestation of the urge to engage in an “arms race,” even if, as a sports metaphor, it couldn’t be more off base. (Photo: Reuters) Rajan Menon
Hypersonic Weapons and National (In)security
Why arms races never end.
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A demonstrator dressed as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with blood on his hands protests with others outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2018, demanding justice for missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) Medea Benjamin
One Year After Khashoggi's Brutal Murder: Business as Usual?
Who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince responsible for the journalist's gruesome assassination and the murder of tens of thousands of Yemenis, or the mendacious world leaders and businesspeople who continue to give MbS their support?
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Saudi Arabia continues to insist that the September 14 attack on its oil facilities came from Iran, and not from Yemen. This is despite the fact that both the civilian and the military authorities in Iran have denied that they conducted the successful raid on the Saudi airfields. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Vijay Prashad
Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice
Such a scenario means that the entire region—from the Mediterranean Sea to the Hindu Kush mountains—will be plunged deeper into war.
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Supporters cheer for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses an audience on the campus of the University of Chapel Hill during a campaign rally on September 19, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Sanders spoke to college students on the working people's rights, among fair wage and health care. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images) Richard Eskow
Bernie’s Student Debt Plan Creates a Million More Jobs Than Warren’s—She Should Embrace It
Full student debt cancellation, of the kind Sanders is proposing, would create at least a million more jobs than the plan Warren has put forth. Why, then, would progressives oppose it?
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We now know #Shellknew, but carried on drilling. (Photo: Fossil Free Deutschland) Andy Rowell
Despite Climate Emergency, Shell Boss Still Thinks It's "Legitimate to Invest" in Oil
Shell still cares more about its shareholders than it does about society. It cares more about profit than it does people. It cares more about cash than a safe climate.
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Climate activists gathered outside the CNN studios in New York, where a Town Hall on Climate Policy was held on September 4, 2019. The activists demanded that leading Democratic presidential candidates commit to meaningful climate action. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images) Sarah Myhre
Why Women’s Climate Leadership Is Vital
Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place.
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Header from the Kushner "peace plan." Joshua Cho
In Media Newspeak, a 'Peace Plan' for Israel/Palestine Is Anything US Proposes
That Jared Kushner or this administration cares about "peace" for the Palestinians has always been a farce.
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A protester dressed as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and another dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump stand outside the White House in the wake of the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 19, 2018. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Juan Cole
On the Anniversary of Khashoggi's Grisly Assassination, Are Trump's Calls With Saudi Prince Also on Top Secret Server?
Besides Ukraine, it appears likely that the White House may have also put conversations U.S. president had with Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
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Mitch McConnell said Monday that Senate rules would require him to take up any articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump if approved by the House. (Photo: Getty Images) Jesse Jackson
McConnell's Republican Senate Is a Roadblock to Progress in America
The Majority Leader and his GOP allies will block reforms our nation desperately needs until voters move them out of the way.
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US President Donald Trump talking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Robert Reich
The Real Lesson of Ukraine Gate Is That Trump's 2020 Reelection Campaign Will Be Ruthless
The real value of the formal impeachment now underway is to put Trump on notice that he can't necessarily get away with abusing his presidential power to win reelection. He will still try, of course.
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