All Views Articles for 2019-11-01

Friday, November 1, 2019
Despite taking some steps to address the issue of child soldiers, the TIP states that the South Sudanese government “continued to use and recruit child soldiers… at times by force,” and did not fully implement its own action plan to demobilize children from security forces. (Photo: Charles Lomodong/AFP via Getty Images) Brett Wilkins
For 9th Straight Year, US Grants Waivers to Countries Violating Anti-Child Soldier Law
The White House recently announced the US was granting full or partial waivers to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) to Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
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Zuckerberg is not a political philosopher concerned about the public good. There is a zero evidence he is a deep thinker of any sort. He is a Harvard boy who stumbled into a good idea and had the necessary connections to get very rich from it: end of story. (Photo: Getty) Dean Baker
Mark Zuckerberg Is a Rich Jerk
There is no reason to waste any effort trying to convince Mark Zuckerberg what is good for democracy. We just have to tell him, and make him a pay a very big price if he is too lazy or dumb to "get" it.
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Protest outside BlackRock's headquarters in New York City. (Photo: Amazon Watch) Moira Birss
BlackRock's Ghoulish Lack of Action for the Amazon
BlackRock's continued silence on this crisis—both in the public space as well as its continued failure to engage with civil society stakeholders—is alarming.
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and opposition Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn walk through the Commons Members Lobby during the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster on October 14, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool / Getty Images) Reese Erlich
Boris, Brexit, and the British Election
Brexit has deeply split British society and presents a serious conundrum for left and progressive forces.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House June 20, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Robert Edwards
Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and the Rise of the 'Shallow State'
Pompeo nauseates me almost more than any other member of the president's inner circle, even though there are far more despicable characters to be found there.
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Remember groups that are likely to come to the defense of the employer-based insurance system that Warren wants to dramatically reform, like the Chamber of Commerce, may (again) be receiving tens of millions of dollars from industry. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images) Wendell Potter
How Health Insurance Industry Allies Are Going to Lie and Attack Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All Plan
The health insurance industry believed it was marching Warren into a trap, and now they’re scrambling to come up with a response to preserve their treasured but failing cash cow: the employer-based health insurance system.
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A regular talking head and host on MSNBC, marketing executive Donny Deutsch angered many progressives over a recent combined attack on Bernie Sanders and the country of Denmark. (Photo: Screenshot/MSNBC) Djaffar Shalchi
Dear Mr. Donny Deutsch: Please Come to "F***ing Denmark."
I invite you. Come and see for yourself a happy and healthy society, funded in part by hefty taxes on millionaires like you and me.
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PG&E is resorting to mass power outages to protect itself from liabilities during fire season, plunging millions of Californians into darkness. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Sonali Kolhatkar
California Must Take Back Its Power—Literally
The idea of wresting the power grid out of the hands of private investors and making it a publicly owned utility has grown more and more appealing.
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Ten years into AGRA, Global Hunger Index scores remained in the "serious" or "alarming" categories for 12 of the 13 AGRA countries. (Photo: Global Justice Now/cc/flickr) Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise
The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa
Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers.
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President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Melania Trump and President Trump during the opening of an "anti-extremist" center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2017. (Photo: Saudi Press Agency) Juan Cole
Looming Impeachment Puts Trump in Company of Corrupt Mideast Leaders
Only because the masses turned against their guy did military elites step in to insist they step down. Think about that.
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