All Views Articles for 2019-11-06

Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Jane Fonda and her Fire Drill Fridays are linking social movements across issues, eyeing the connections between the myriad problems we see causing climate chaos, many of them rooted in capitalist consumer culture. (Photo: Twitter/CodePink) Jodie Evans
Avoiding the Climate Catastrophe Starts With Divesting From the War Machine
The time has come to divest from the war machine and withdraw our public dollars from weapons corporations.
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If Chenoweth is right and the million Chileans in the street have breached the tipping point for successful non-violent popular democracy, Chile may be leading the way to a global political and economic revolution. (Photo:  RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP via Getty Images) Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
It is entirely fitting that Chile should be in the vanguard of the protests sweeping the world in this Autumn of Discontent, since Chile served as the laboratory for the neoliberal transformation of economics and politics that has swept the world since the 1970s.
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Communities are taking things into their own hands, advocating for and winning automatic voter registration and same-day registration, upending proposed voter roll purges, and requesting absentee ballots.(Photo: Shutterstock) Robert P. Alvarez
Republicans, Not Russians, Threaten Our Elections
When turnout climbs, Republicans lose. No wonder they're closing polling places and purging voters all over the country.
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Adjusting for inflation inequality in this fashion, they estimate that 3.8 million more people would be counted as poor in 2018, and that the poverty rate would be 1.0 percentage point higher (12.8 percent rather than 11.8 percent) that same year.(Photo: Becker1999/flickr/cc) Shawn Fremstad
Inflation Inequality and the Poverty Measure
Today the United States is the only country in the world that measures present-day poverty by using a poverty line set over half a century ago.
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Meals on Wheels and other HHS-funded community meal programs designed to support older adults could refuse to deliver food to older Americans who are Jewish, Muslim, or LGBTQ. (Photo: Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) Louise Melling
Trump Wants to Allow Discrimination With Billions of Dollars of Federal Funding
Proposal from Health and Human Services would allow discrimination based on faith—including people who are Jewish, Muslim, Catholic—as well as LGBTQ people.
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Keep in mind that such Military Support Sites only begin to scratch the surface when it comes to the Pentagon’s inventory of non-base outposts. (Photo: DefenseTalk.com) Nick Turse
Winter Is Coming
Castle Black, the Syrian withdrawal, and the Battle of the Bases.
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The Massachusetts senator is adamant that her plan would not impose any taxes on the middle class. (Photo: Lori Shaull/Flickr/cc) Ilana Novick
How Warren’s 'Medicare for All' Plan Hurts the Cause
Warren’s funding scheme is getting major criticism from the left.
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren, shown campaigning in Iowa, has released a plan for Medicare for All. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Jesse Jackson
The Medicare for All Debate Is Long Overdue
Medicare for All is popular at first look. When the insurance and drug companies and other opponents unleash their arguments, people’s doubts grow.
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