All Views Articles for 2019-12-13

Friday, December 13, 2019
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday delivered a fiery attack on the FBI during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into report produced by the DOJ Inspector General over the probe into 2016 election interference by the Russian government. (Photo: Getty Images) John Atcheson
The Influence of Liars and the Failure of Corporate Media
Why does the "big lie" work? For one thing, there's big money it.
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The broadcaster's exit poll results projected on the outside of the BBC building in London shows Jeremy Corbyn's opposition Labour Party predicted to win 191 seats and lose the general election as the ballots begin to be counted in the general election on December 12, 2019. (Photo: Tolga Akmen / AFP / via Getty Images) Peter Bloom
UK Election Shows Progressive Must Have More Than Great Policies, They Need to Win
There is no way to spin the results of this election as anything other than disastrous. So what should be done?
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Attempts to create rules to avoid, say, crippling blocks and tackles have generally been met by howls of anguish from chickenhawk fans who cried out: don’t sissify football. (Photo: Joe Robbins/Getty Images) Robert Lipsyte
The Six Ways the NFL Groomed Us for President Trump
Still going to watch the Super Bowl?
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks while introducing the Medicare for All Act of 2019 with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Marcie Wells
I Have 'Some of the Best' Health Insurance a Union Member Can Get, But I Would Trade It Today for Medicare for All
Earlier this month, I witnessed a paid Culinary 226 Union organizer heckle Bernie Sanders and I haven't stopped wondering why
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"What happens if a movement is able to help people see how they’re being played against each other?" he asked. "You could reset the entire political calculus." (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Greg Kaufmann
Trump’s Hunger Games
More damage to our nation’s most successful anti-hunger program is on the horizon.
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In the first two decades after its release, methane traps over 85 times more heat in our atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2). (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) Hasan Seede
The Recent Natural Gas Blowout in South Texas Highlights the Need for Strong Regulation
The proposed rollback of existing methane standards would allow oil and gas wells to release both methane and VOCs with virtually no control.
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U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001. (Photo: Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly / United States Marine Corps) Sonali Kolhatkar
Afghanistan Papers Confirm That the Longest War Is a Lie
The important question today is: Will the Afghanistan Papers bring about the end of the longest war?
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Such outlets, after all, don’t care as much about winning elections as they do about blocking the threat of a progressive political movement. (Photo: FAIR) Joshua Cho
For Corporate Media, Voters Are Obstacle to Buttigieg’s Centrist Rise
The alleged "Buttigieg boom" may now be crumbling under the candidate’s stubborn opacity around his funders and great swaths of his career, as well as the entry into the field of fellow smug centrist Michael Bloomberg.
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