All Views Articles for 2019-10-18

Friday, October 18, 2019
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle sits after shortly landing Nov. 12, 2015, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Cory W. Bush) Brian Terrell
The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National "Black Eye"
There is no lie that can cover the black eye of US complicity in genocide.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes an appearance prior to the start of play during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Blue Monster Course on March 6, 2016 in Doral, Florida. (Photo: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) Robert Weissman
The Antidote to Trump's Corrupt G7 Deal? Impeachment and Conviction
This is a president who believes the powers of the presidency are bestowed on him to advance his own personal interests—political and profit-seeking—rather than those of the American people.
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Obama was not a progressive leader. (Photo: Cumbre de Líderes de América del Norte 2016/flickr/cc) Siddak Ahújá
Obama’s Endorsement of Trudeau Highlights Class Unity of the 1 Percent
If Barack Obama truly cared about endorsing a progressive economic leader, or even a leader of colour just like him, he could have chosen Jagmeet Singh of the left-wing New Democratic Party. But he didn’t.
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Jim Kim may have abandoned the pursuit of sustainable, human-centered development in order to pursue private profit. But we must not. (Photo: Ryan Rayburn/World Bank/Flickr) Michael Galant
The World Bank Must Put People Before Profit
The World Bank's Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) agenda is a coup for global capital—steamrolling the poor and vulnerable to pave the way for private profit.
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Kurdish Syrian civilians flee the town of Kobane on the Turkish border on October 16, 2019 as Turkey and its allies continue their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria. - Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria today as US President Donald Trump dispatched his deputy Mike Pence to Ankara to demand a ceasefire. (Photo: Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images) Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
Trump’s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War
Despite his endless promises to end these wars, Trump has instead been dropping more bombs and missiles on other countries than Bush II and Obama put together—a terrifying feat.
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The national security state and politicians should not be the sole gatekeepers of what information circulates in the public sphere. (Photo: Shutterstock) Hannah Gurman, Kaeten Mistry
The Ukraine Whistleblowers and the Rise of Partisan Whistleblowing
This moment should spark a conversation about the place of national security whistleblowing in a democratic society.
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The Green New Deal may come to embody a future more humane and liberating than what its ancestor imagined possible. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc) Steve Fraser
The Greening of the New Deal
The great depression and the climate crisis, new deals then and now.
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Sanders has been calling himself a socialist for decades, and he most recently distinguished himself from Warren’s self-proclaimed capitalist label in an interview. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Sonali Kolhatkar
No, Warren and Sanders Are Not the Same
Do progressives want the candidate who may be feeling pressured to move to the left or the person whose candidacy is setting the progressive standard?
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