All Views Articles for 2019-12-09

Monday, December 9, 2019
They’re not selling it but paying companies to take it away and run it for profit. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) Caroline Molloy
The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business—the Reassurances Are Demonstrably False
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
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Striking university lecturers in the UK hold a poster in solidarity with students in Lahore, Pakistan, demonstrating for the right to form student unions. (Photo: Courtesy of Catherine Rottenberg/Al Jazeera) Catherine Rottenberg, Neve Gordon
To Survive Crushing Neoliberalism, the World Needs Intersectional Solidarity
From London to Beirut to Santiago and New Delhi, protesters need to build solidarity networks.
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Giovanna De La Rosa (center) at a United for Respect demonstration. Sarah Anderson
Toys R Us Worker: Wall Street Billionaires Should Not Be Making Money By Putting People Out of Work
As the bankrupt toy chain attempts a comeback, retail workers who lost their jobs after private equity takeovers are fighting for accountability.
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All state-run media throughout the Arab world were stuffed with loyalists. (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images) Ramzy Baroud
Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
Thousands of foreign journalists, with no cultural or political connection to the Middle East, were shipped in, to replace their Arab colleagues, and to participate, willingly or otherwise, in the dirty propaganda campaigns championed by one rich Arab countries or another.
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Symphony Lake, near Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo: mcav0y/flickr/cc) Dahr Jamail
Savoring What Remains in an Age of Climate PTSD
Vast numbers of climate scientists are now grieving for the planet and humanity’s future, with some even describing their symptoms as a climate-change version of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.
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There is zero chance Trump will be removed from office in a trial in the Senate. (Photo: Mr. Fish) Chris Hedges
The Great American Shakedown
The mortal wounds inflicted on our democratic institutions are bipartisan.
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This second case really is about destroying freedom of the press and entirely undermining what little is left of Israeli democracy. (Photo: Ben Amos Gershom/Prime Minister of Israel) Juan Cole
In Wag the Dog Move, Indicted Israeli PM Netanyahu Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank
Netanyahu is brazenly planning to steal a quarter of all the land in the Palestinian West Bank, forever ending any chance of a Palestinian state.
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