All Views Articles for 2019-11-25

Monday, November 25, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduce public housing legislation as part of the Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, November 14, 2019. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha
The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy
Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs.
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A select few tech companies dominate the entire globe, and their CEOs are among the richest men the world has ever known. Many of their enterprises are virtual, allowing them to elude responsibility for everything from taxes to workplace conditions. (Photo: Monsitj/iStock via Getty Images). Bama Athreya
Twenty Years After Seattle, Is There a New Race to the Bottom?
Technology will continue to transform industries, but it's actually weak labor protections eroding the quality of work.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attends a news conference to introduce legislation to transform public housing as part of the Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol November 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. The liberal legislators invited affordable housing advocates and climate change activists to join them for the announcement. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Rupert Read, Frank Scavelli
Sanders' Green New Deal: A Realistic Response to the Emergency That Will Define Our Lifetimes
Contrary to what the New York Times recently suggested, Bernie's plan is the only one put forward by a major candidate that represents a level of ambition that matches the scale of the unprecedented crisis in which humanity now finds itself deeply entangled.
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The bottom line is that, to be sure, Netanyahu is a criminal. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) James Zogby
Netanyahu's Real Crimes
In today's Israel Netanyahu can't be found guilty of his most serious crimes—treason, incitement, destroying peace, hate crimes, and war crimes. Instead, he will be asked only to answer for his narcissistic appetites and corruption.
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WTO Corporate and Government delegate blockaded by protesters as the first day of the WTO meeting was shut down on November 30, 1999. (Photo: (C) 1999 Dang Ngo_ZUMA Press) Chris Dixon
WTO Shutdown: Remembering for the Future: Learning from the 1999 Seattle Shutdown
Who could have guessed that this was going to happen? Even those of us who had spent months planning to "shut it down" were stunned when our rhetoric became reality.
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In 2012, for the first time in our history, American service members began to die by suicide at higher rates than civilians. Today, they are more likely to take their own lives than to perish in combat. (Photo: Balazs Gardi/flickr/cc) Andrea Mazzarino
Bearing Witness to the Costs of War
On being a military spouse and writing about our post-9/11 wars.
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"The most serious constitutional violations are the ones that are institutional usurpations." (Photo: Mr.Fish) Chris Hedges
The End of the Rule of Law: The 12 Impeachable Offenses Committed By Trump
"If we take a narrow approach to impeachment, that will mean that all the more egregious violations will be viewed as having been endorsed and not rebuked and successive presidents will feel they have a green light to emulate Trump on everything except a Ukrainian shakedown."
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US citizen Omar Shakir, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) director for Israel and the Palestinian territories speaks to the press in Jerusalem on November 25, 2019. (Photo: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images) Juan Cole
In Expelling Human Rights Watch Director, Israel Joins Burundi, Uzbekistan and Other Authoritarian States
It is the slow ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and the settling on their property of Israeli squatters that Tel Aviv did not want Human Rights Watch to observe.
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House progressives could have voted together last week to separate reauthorization of the Patriot Act from a key spending bill, but they didn't. (Photo: Dan Cook/flickr/cc/with overlay) Norman Solomon
When Progressives in Congress Let Us Down, We Should Push Back
Rolling back key aspects of the military-industrial-surveillance complex cannot be accomplished without putting up a huge fight.
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The research findings contained in new report are based on 138 responses to a 30 minute survey and over 40 in-depth interviews conducted between 2018 and 2019 with people in 23 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. (Image: Fight Inequality Alliance) Jenny Ricks
Inequality Is Rising, But So Is the Global Movement Fighting Back
Despite the often-bleak picture we find ourselves in, the energy and dynamism of the movement that the report reveals is inspiring and cause for hope.
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