All Views Articles for 2020-03-11

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
When Sanders speaks in moral absolutes and refuses to compromise on core values, they respond with contempt at his inflexibility because they feel remorse over their own moral flexibility. (Photo: 350.org/Flickr/cc) Dan Froomkin
Elite Political Journalists Are Eager to Kick Bernie Sanders on His Way Out the Door
They don’t hate him because their corporate masters tell them to. They hate him because he is a walking, breathing, sometimes yelling reproof of the sacrifices they have had to make to succeed in their chosen profession.
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The fact that MBS lifted the driving ban and simultaneously put in prison those who had campaigned and suffered for such reforms makes clear his actual motive: to silence dissent and prevent these women’s voices from being heard. (Photo: @noconversion/Twitter) Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold
Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen?
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 09, 2020 in New York City watch as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 2,000 points. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Christian Parenti, Dante Dallavalle
Wall Street Is High on Government Supply
For more than a decade, the US government has been taking over ever larger portions of the financial system to prop up shaky markets. It hasn’t worked. We need a real socialization of finance — for the majority, not the banks.
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A man taking precautions amid the coronavirus outbreak walks past the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo: Mark Lennihan / AP) Ellen Brown
The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained
The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing banks out, Congress should nationalize them.
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Travelers at the Atlanta airport wearing facemasks during the coronavirus crisis. (Photo: Chad Davis) Neil deMause
Reading About Coronavirus Without Scaring Yourself Too Much (or Too Little)
Reading up on the new coronavirus can feel like a rabbit hole of conflicting reports.
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Being better than the worst is not good enough in a time of climate emergency. (Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr/cc) Kelly Trout
The Loopholes Lurking in BP’s New Climate Aims
It’s time for BP and all oil companies to stop hiding behind net-zero rhetoric and commit to immediate action on the scale of the crisis we’re in.
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COVID-19’s incubation period could be as long as 14 days, and little is known about how long it could take to recover once symptoms take hold. (Photo: Kena Betancur/Getty Images) Elise Gould
Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, the Workers Who Need Paid Sick Days the Most Have the Least
Many of the 73% of workers with access to paid sick days will not have enough days banked to be able to take off for the course of the illness to take care of themselves or a family member.
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We are at the threshold of irreversible and irrevocable global changes that will jeopardize civilization," writes Orr. "No one in previous generations could say that with the authenticity and urgency with which we assuredly can." Key questions remain. How will we respond? And will it be in time? (Image: Ms Tech/Getty) David Orr
Politics and Consequences: From Climate Emergency to Coronavirus
After a forty-year waged on both science and government, the dangers that face us now are no surprise at all.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic Presidential Candidate, speaks to thousands of supporters during a rally at the Boston Common on Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Norman Solomon
'In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See': The 2020 Bernie Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue
Corporate media and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign—and the grassroots energy behind it—to melt away. That's not going to happen.
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