All Views Articles for 2019-12-26
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Joshua Cho WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry The scandal of the Afghanistan War is not that the US entered into and prolonged an "unwinnable" war; the scandal is that the US empire’s invasion of Afghanistan is a war crime in violation of international law, and has inflicted imperial violence on the Afghan people. Read more |
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Juan Cole While Americans Slept in 2019, Uprisings Reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, and Algeria All four of these popular revolts caused a sitting prime minister or president to step down. Read more |
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Ellen Brown The Key to Solving the Climate Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet The bottom line is that saving the planet from environmental destruction is not only achievable, but that by focusing on regenerative agriculture and tapping up the central bank for funding, the climate crisis can be addressed without raising taxes and while restoring our collective health. Read more |
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Cyntoia Brown-Long I Was Jailed for my Trafficker’s Death. I’m Free Now—But Other Women Languish. An injustice to one is a threat to us all. #FreeEveryCyntoia Read more |
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Agnes Callamard The Khashoggi Verdict Is Exactly What Impunity Looks Like. It Must Be Denounced. Impunity for the killing of a journalist commonly reveals underlying political repression, corruption, abuse of power, propaganda and even international complicity. All are present here. Read more |
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Margaret Kimberley Propaganda and the Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn If Americans are going to make connections with the British elections they must talk about the assault on democracy from the billionaires and their willing minions. Read more |
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Robert Reich 5 Ways to Stop Corporations From Ruining the Future of Work Why we need to assert our roles as workers and members of a democratic society to ensure that new technologies benefit all of us. Read more |