All Views Articles for 2020-06-09
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Miles Mogulescu Neoliberal Capitalism Depends on White Supremacy American oligarchs have led a five decade-long, well-funded campaign to convince whites that safety net programs, taxes on the wealthy, unions, and government regulations were not in the interest of whites but were just designed to help blacks and other minorities. Read more |
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Bryce Greene Media Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence Only sustained media attention to such abuses will create the conditions for ongoing calls for justice to be answered. Read more |
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David Armiak Bradley Spent Millions on Voter Suppression, Union Busters, Climate Deniers, and Right-Wing Media in 2019 As part of Bradley’s strategic vision, it invests in groups to defund and dismantle unions, to fuel a web of climate change deniers, and to prop up right-wing media. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Big Bank CEOs Want to ‘Listen’ to Black Communities. They Should Return Their Stolen Wealth Instead. There's a whole lot of Wall Street listening going on, but not much doing. Read more |
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Morgan Palumbo, Jessica Draper How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington A monumental lobbying battle over American foreign policy. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Defund the Police, Defund the Military For too long, we have let cynical politicians and business leaders divide and rule us, funding police and the Pentagon over real human needs, pitting us against each other at home and leading us off to wars against our neighbors abroad. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Paradigms Take Years to Shift Don’t let anyone tell you the work is done. Read more |
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Dean E. Robinson Why Covid-19 Racial Disparities Make the Case for Medicare for All Though it won't solve all our problems, expanding Medicare to all people is an essential demand if we want to advance health equity in the United States. Read more |
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Sarah Manski Designing Technology to Protect Civil Liberties During the Pandemic Thoughtful citizens who want to protect democracy and public health should take a pro-science and pro-civil liberties stance and avoid succumbing to fear and sloganeering. Read more |
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Ben Chin COVID-19 Unveils Need for Fair Taxation Movement at the State Level States must take the opportunity to dramatically rebalance their tax codes, making safety net programs truly re-distributive. If the federal government hits the gas while states hit the brakes, we will get nowhere fast. Read more |
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Julianne Tveten Reporting Curfews Through Official Eyes For cops, protest is a problem and silence the solution. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Police Reform Was Never Going to Be Easy—But Now's the Time What has been missing is will, not ideas. And now, as the demonstrations reveal, Americans—black and white, young and old—are demanding change. Read more |
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Brazilian Network of Environmental Journalism Where Journalism Is Planted, Democracy Blooms Journalists and land defenders send warning to the Brazilian government. Read more |