All Views Articles for 2019-12-11

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Years of rank avarice and arrogance have caught up with the superrich and their enablers, turning "billionaire" into a synonym for "thief" and focusing rising public anger on the inequality they've fostered.(Photo: Austin Kirk/flickr/cc) Jim Hightower
'Tax the Rich' Is No Longer Just a Political Slogan
It's a national necessity and a moral imperative. And, at long last, it's actually within our reach.
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Afghan children look on as a US soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) Steel Warriors patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province on December 19, 2009. (Photo: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images) Thomas S. Harrington
Americans Misled About Their Wars: Lather, Rinse, and Repeat
The only real question worth pondering at this point is why Americans sign on to nihilistic pursuits of this sort with such regular and obedient ease.
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Republicans have doubled down on efforts to keep black people from voting in key races. (Photo: DonkeyHotey/Flickr) Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith
What Trump and the GOP Learned from Obama
They learned to embrace popular organizing and to fear—and suppress—the black vote.
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The Trump administration may restrict the size of loans college students can take out, which Rev. Jesse Jackson says is a backward way to reduce student loan debt. (Photo: File Photo) Jesse Jackson
President Trump’s War on the Poor
The economy continues to generate jobs that won’t support a family. That’s why so-called poverty programs—from CHIP to food stamps to public housing to low income heating assistance to Medicaid—are so necessary.
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As a historian, I have taught courses on climate change and history, and one thing I can tell you, it is very unusual during the past million years for the Arctic to be hot. Juan Cole
Sizzling Arctic: Top 5 Climate Horror Stories in NOAA’s Report Card
The wrecking of our beautiful earth is on us.
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Nothing has changed. Whenever there is a foreign policy "crisis," you will never read or hear or see someone completely opposed to U.S. involvement given a voice in the media. Certainly not in the Post. (Photo: flickr/cc) Ted Rall
The U.S. Government Lied About the Afghanistan War. They Couldn’t Have Done It Without Lapdogs Like the Washington Post
18 years and tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars too late, it’s nice to see the media finally shame these scumbags and their government handlers. But they ought to save a big portion of the blame for themselves.
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Playing it "safe" is losing, and not just because centrism is (witness the centrist Obama years’ radical erosion of Democrats’ ability to participate in governance) far from being a safe bet in the first place. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Ira Allen
On Detrumpification: An Urgently Necessary Process After Trumpism
Anything less than an overwhelming popular mandate for progressive, fundamental restructuring of the institutions of society along democratic lines will be insufficient to even begin the process of detrumpification.
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If such is the state of our earth in extremis, COP25 the UN Climate Change Conference, is endeavoring to mitigate the major cause: climate change. (Photo: EuroNews/Twitter) Arshad M Khan, Meena Miriam Yust
Earth In Extremis While Trump Plays Ostrich
Indeed a vexing state of affairs for the world when major players shirk their responsibilities.
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As Obama inserts himself in the 2020 election—with some news reports suggesting he may engage further to help prevent a Sanders nomination—he is fast becoming a symbol of the divide within the Democratic party, between those who caution against (or fear) real change and those who are long tired of waiting. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) Gordon Clark
Barack Obama and the Politics of Not Yet
Would it be a "little more just" if only 25,000 people died every year from lack of insurance, as opposed to nearly 50,000? What if it was your brother, sister, or child who was dying?
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South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden talk during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Norman Solomon
Will the Democratic Presidential Nomination Be Bought by the Oligarchs?
The wealthiest and most powerful people in the country are putting their big thumbs on the scale.
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