All Views Articles for 2019-10-30

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Americans may snicker when Trump pays homage to an army dog that he says helped to track Baghdadi but they should remember that Bush and Obama and now Trump are responsible for far greater suffering. (Photo: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Margaret Kimberley
The Baghdadi Scam
The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else.
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Nate Silver in 2015. (Photo: Internet Week New York / Flickr/cc) Jacob Bacharach
Nate Silver Is Making This Up as He Goes
One suspects that despite his claims to analytical rigor, at some very basic level, Silver does not actually know what a poll is.
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The wildfires—and the climate crisis that’s making them worse—are public problems. The reliability of our power grid is a public need. (Photo: Shutterstock) Jill Richardson
We Need Publicly Owned Utilities
California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.
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James Dorsey
Popular Protest: Just How Effective Is It?
The uprisings are many, but are they enough?
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Extinction Rebellion protesters in London. (Photo: Jess Nyman, Twitter) Sam Knights
Extinction Rebellion: We Need To Talk About The Future
This year has changed everything.
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Sanders went so far as to say that some of the $3.8 billion that currently goes to Israel every year should be dedicated to humanitarian aid for Gaza. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Juan Cole
Bernie Sanders Says Give Aid to Gaza and That Calling Out Netanyahu's Racist Government Isn't Anti-Semitism
Palestinian rights have entered into an American presidential campaign, virtually for the first time.
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In nation after nation throughout modern history, every time government has been taken over by oligarchs and corporations, democracy has died—usually to be replaced by a strongman form of oligarchy or outright fascism. (Photo:  Stephen Melkisethian/flickr/cc) Thom Hartmann
A Democracy-Killing Duo: How the Supreme Court and the Morbidly Rich Are Ruining Democracy in America
This is not democracy; it’s oligarchy or, at the very least, a corporate state.
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Company executives enjoy virtually a free hand to make decisions about allocating funds for political purposes and those purposes are naturally guided by the executives' own political preferences. (Photo: David Ohmer/flickr/cc) John Aram
Reassessing Corporate Social Responsibility
Neither voluntary nor mandatory social responsibility can substitute for public policies, including business regulation, formulated by representatives whose campaigns are financed by true citizens.
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John Buell
The Lies Corporate Media Tell When Bernie Sanders Is "Extreme" and Trump's GOP Is "Mainstream"
The modern Republican Party is as extreme as any major party in our history.
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