All Views Articles for 2019-12-02

Monday, December 2, 2019
Ramirez, who is married with three children, spent Thanksgiving in ICE custody. The following day he was deported to his native Honduras. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Michael Felsen
Deporting Workers Makes America Less Safe
We need workers to speak out about potentially unsafe and unlawful conditions at work, without fear of deportation.
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Of all the activities planned around the WTO, the People's Assembly served as the sharpest counterpoint to the WTO, exposing it to be no less than an instrument of US imperialism. (Photo: Oakley Myers) Ace Saturay
WTO Shutdown: 'Victory Belongs to the People'
"I salute all the activists who continue to intensify our resistance against monopoly capitalism."
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The reason that Netanyahu is still in power after all the setbacks and outright failures is the fact that his rivals are yet to mobilize the necessary votes and public support to oust him for good. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Ramzy Baroud
The Unfinished ‘Coup’: The End of Netanyahu’s Era and the Political Earthquake Ahead
While it remains true that a fundamental change in Israel’s political system will neither deliver peace and justice to Palestinians—or stability to the region—it could potentially constitute the equivalent of a political earthquake within Israel itself, the consequences of which are yet to be seen.
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The leaked documents suggest that there could be no limitations on the export of data, potentially applying even in sensitive areas such as health data. (Photo: Yuri Samoilov/Flickr, CC 2.0) Laura Bannister, Ruth Bergan
Threat to Our Digital Rights Revealed in US-UK Trade Talks Leak
Leaked records of US-UK trade negotiations suggest the US is targeting our digital rights—and the UK seems alarmingly willing to play ball.
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Our anti-capitalist struggle is also a decolonial, anti-patriarchal and anti-racist struggle. Coalition of Climate Justice Movements
COP25, Social Movements and Climate Justice
A declaration on climate crisis, energy transition and extractivism in Latin America.
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The two of them have degraded and corrupted American democracy. We need them both out. (Photo: Screenshot) Robert Reich
Who Is Worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell?
Even if Trump is gone, if the Senate remains in Republican hands and McConnell is reelected, America loses because McConnell will still have a chokehold on our democracy.
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These sorts of dramatic protests seem to me the writing on the wall. (Photo: Screenshot) Juan Cole
Turning Point in Climate Activism? Germans Block Coal Mines With Their Bodies
As the horrific effects of carbon pollution become more and more apparent in fire and flood, drought and pestilence, the general public will mobilize to pressure governments and offset the energy lobbies that now often have a lock on policy decisions.
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Aggressive policing is the bulwark of a segregated America. (Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig) Chris Hedges
The New 'Black Codes'
The elites are acutely aware that without police terror and the U.S. prison system, which holds 25% of the world’s prison population, there would be intense social unrest.
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Antio-NATO protesters in Newport, Wales in 2014. (Photo: Andy Davies/@adavies4) Medea Benjamin
Trump Was Right Before He Was Wrong: NATO Should Be Obsolete
In an age where people around the world want to avoid war and to focus instead on the climate chaos that threatens future life on earth, NATO is an anachronism.
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"For a select few, war pays dividends in ways that peace doesn't," writes Astore. "In a nutshell, or perhaps an artillery shell, war is anti-democratic, anti-progressive, anti-intellectual, and anti-human." (Photo: Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images) William Astore
American Exceptionalism Is Killing Planet Earth
On the many abuses of executing endless war on a finite planet
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Democratic presidential hopefuls Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Norman Solomon
Corporate Media's Mantra Is 'Anyone But Sanders or Warren'
The mainline media are generally quite warm toward so-called "moderates," without bothering to question what's so moderate about such positions as bowing to corporate plunder, backing rampant militarism and refusing to seriously confront the climate emergency.
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