All Views Articles for 2020-09-21

Monday, September 21, 2020
CDC Director Robert Redfield looks on while testifying on Capitol Hill on July 2, 2020. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Ken Cook
After Covid-19 Flip-Flops, CDC Director Must Resign
Either science goes, or Redfield goes.
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As I look to the future in a world of Gates and Tech Barons, I see a humanity that is further polarized into large numbers of ‘throw away’ people who have no place in the new Empire.(Photo by Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times) Vandana Shiva
Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Gates' 'funding' results in an erasure of democracy and biodiversity, of nature and culture. His 'philanthropy' is not just philanthrocapitalism. It is philanthroimperialism.
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There’s no question that, at the beck and call of the fossil-fuel industry, Donald Trump and his demonic crew have worked without qualms or remorse to ensure that this would be a fiery and furious America. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images) Tom Engelhardt
Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen
Think of him as the president from hell and here I mean a literal hell.
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A law enforcement officer watches flames launch into the air as fire continues to spread at the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images) Jamie Henn
The Climate Emergency Isn't Just a Crisis, It's a Crime
Whether you see a blood red sky in San Francisco, a wind ravaged landscape in Iowa, or a flooded street in Pensacola, you know what you're looking at: a world unraveling at the seams and—in a very real sense—a crime scene.
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The public should be concerned about the volume of suspect bank transactions that are the tip of the iceberg in terms of illicit funds, money laundering and tax dodging. (Photo: Getty) Chuck Collins
FinCen Files Shine Spotlight on Suspicious Bank Transfers
The reporters behind the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers have more to share. We should pay attention.
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Don’t let them steal this seat. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Anand Giridharadas
The Many Reasons the GOP Wants to Steal Ginsburg's Seat
Remembering what's at stake in the fight to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Bank of America is the only major American bank that has not yet ruled out funding for destructive drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) Bernadette Demientieff, Siqiñiq Maupin
Why Is Bank of America Still Open to Funding the Destruction of Our Homelands in the Arctic?
We stand together, the Iñupiat and the Gwich’in, in calling on Bank of America to listen to Indigenous people, protect our homelands, and stay out of the Arctic Refuge.
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"Fox News, the Republican Party, and the right edge of evangelicalism take the lead, often inspiring each other to new levels of extremism." (Photo: Screenshot) John Buell
The Many Ugly Faces of Climate Science Denial
The great danger of aggressive nihilism is that it will forestall remedial action until the crisis becomes so severe that some combination of authoritarian government and an even more harshly inegalitarian economy will prevail.
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The redistribution of wealth to the richest 1% over the past 45 years is hard to comprehend. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Paul Buchheit
How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets
The four-decade losses in wealth and job income have contributed to the poverty numbers, and to violent reactions.
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