All Views Articles for 2019-11-27
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James Haslam Bernie Sanders Is the Movement Candidate We Need It is time we acknowledge the political realities before us, and align on the candidate who will not only win, but build the kind of multicultural, multiracial and working class movement that will enable the next President to take on corporate power and deliver justice for all. Read more |
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Mark Dudzic If Medicare for All 'Too Risky,' How Would NYT Have Reported Push for Social Security, Abolition, or the Overthrow of King George III? If this is how they cover the effort to secure health care as a human right, I began to wonder how the Times editorial staff cover other momentous changes in American history. Read more |
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Nick Dearden Leaked US Trade Talks Show How Trump Is Dictating Johnson's Approach to a Hard Brexit Far from taking back control, Britain has clearly entered into a relationship where we hold none of the cards. Read more |
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John Feffer Will Impeachment Affect Trump’s Reelection Chances? The Democrats’ impeachment strategy might backfire at the polls, but so might Trump’s polarization strategy. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati For Billionaire Bloomberg, Trying to Buy the Presidency Is Just a Sound Investment America’s wealthiest billionaires buy a national election at $100 a vote—and still make money. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson If Democrats Don’t Go Bold With Social Reform Right Now, Then When? We can afford these things. With inequality reaching new extremes, and corporations and the wealthy rigging the tax code to their benefit, we can pay for them without raising taxes on middle- and low-income Americans. Read more |
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John E. Peck WTO Shutdown: How the Food Sovereignty Movement Helped Bring Down the World Trade Organization (WTO) Twenty years on, the "Spirit of Seattle" continues to inform and inspire many activists today, and clearly points the way to another world being possible. Read more |
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David A. Love Why Obama Is Just Plain Wrong About Democrats Moving 'Too Far Left' The former president is mistaken if he believes that in appealing to the electorate, Democrats must tamp down their message and advocate for tweaks in the system rather than systemic reform. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Media Wonder: Why Can’t Venezuela Be More Like Bolivia? FAIR has documented how corporate media consistently criticize the success of left-wing political agendas pursued abroad in countries like Venezuela and Bolivia—in defiance of US imperialism—because they are afraid of the threat of a good example. Read more |
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Jimmy Carter, Karin D. Ryan How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis We cannot solve this complex problem as long as women and girls, half of the world’s population, have unequal access to education and decision-making bodies at all levels and are largely excluded from local, national, and global efforts to respond to this challenge. Read more |