All Views Articles for 2019-11-22
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Danny Sjursen Trump's War Crime Pardons Will Forever Be a Stain on the United States So the U.S. has held thousands of "terror" suspects in various prisons across the Mideast, some for decades in Guantanamo Bay, often without trial, they'll ask, but accused American war criminals get a free pass without even facing charges? Read more |
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Sam Husseini Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons? "US government is using nuclear weapons daily as a gun pointed at the head of the planet." Read more |
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Branko Marcetic Want More Proof of Corporate Media’s Anti-Bernie Bias? Look at MSNBC’s Democratic Debate During the debate and in the spin room, Sanders was treated more like an outsider than a front runner. It’s part of a broader anti-Bernie slant in the "liberal" network’s coverage. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Is Pete Buttigieg Just a Shill for Corporations and the Donor Class? Why has Buttigieg flipped from being a putative progressive to being perhaps the most conservative, pro-corporate Democrat remaining in the field? A good place to start would be to follow the money. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg The War on Words in Donald Trump’s White House: How to Fudge, Obfuscate, and Lie Our Way Into a New Universe The strategies employed in Washington to confuse and mislead the public have subtly eaten away at the country’s collective mindset, creating fertile ground for Trumpian-style lying to successfully take root. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Wake Up AARP! A Message to Seniors: Medicare "Disadvantage" Is a Corporate Trap Medical Dis advantage would be a more accurate name for the quasi-private programs referred to as Medicare Advantage, as insurance companies push to corporatize all of Medicare, yet keep the name for the purposes of marketing, deception, and confusion. Read more |
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Karen Hobert Flynn Congress Has No Other Option Than to Impeach and Remove the President From Office This is a time for members of Congress to rise up, put country over party, and act in accordance with our American values and the oath they take. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Settlements Is Rooted in Bipartisan Support Three previous U.S. administrations all ignored the gross power asymmetry between the Palestinians under occupation and the Israeli occupiers—an imbalance compounded by the fact that as the chief mediator in negotiations, the U.S. is also the primary military, economic, and diplomatic supporter of... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin "They're Killing Us Like Dogs"—A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse. Read more |
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Beverly Longid Stand With the Bolivian People for Self-Determination The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation calls for the immediate stop of killings, threats, racism and barbaric violence against our Bolivian brothers and sisters. Read more |