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Hamid Dabashi 'Western Media' and Mass Deception What does the coverage of the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza tell us about the truth of 'Western media'? Read more |
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Ben Gubits To End Gun Violence, We Need to Address the Influence of Big Money In Politics Despite overwhelming popular support for stricter gun control laws, Congress has been unwilling to act because of pressure from powerful special interests. Read more |
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Joe Jackson Big Businesses Runs America - But Who's Running Big Businesses? All-male or all-white boards are no longer acceptable and should inspire a push for change. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Creating a Perpetual War Machine What happens when a few volunteer and the rest just watch. Read more |
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Robert Crawford The Senate Should Reject Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo The warning signs of another major Middle Eastern war are flashing red. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Why Israel Feels Threatened by Popular Resistance in Palestine The protest was about reclaiming the agenda, transcending political infighting and giving voice back to the people. Read more |
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Ted Rall The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance Nowhere to be found was a pacifist: someone who opposes war, all war, no matter what. Nor were there any anti-interventionists: people who say Syria is not our business and should be left to sort out its own affairs. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media Word choice is revealing when one considers an indisputable fact: U.S. oligarchs have done far more to undermine U.S. democracy than any Russian ever could Read more |
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Adam Johnson Snipers Shooting Unarmed People at 100 Meters Isn’t a ‘Clash’ The power asymmetry is one of the largest of any conflict in the world, yet Western media still cling on an institutional level to a “cycle of violence” frame, with “both sides” depicted as two equal parties. Read more |
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man A State-Sponsored Mass Shooting Israeli army has shot upwards of 1,000 unarmed protesters in the span of a week. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised The Syrian government’s alliance with Russia supposedly justifies Washington’s occupying Syria, in defiance of international law. Read more |
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Abel McDaniels Teachers and Students Walkout: Call Bullshit on Apartheid Schools in the Nation’s Capital Washington, D.C.’s public school system is just one example of how the impacts of racial segregation in our schools have been ignored. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis John Bolton's Terrifying First Day in the Trump White House On the deadly consequences of this dangerous man being placed in such a seat of power Read more |
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Alfred W. McCoy Gunboat Diplomacy and the Ghost of Captain Mahan Or how China and the U.S. are spawning a new great power naval rivalry. Read more |
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Leo Gerard Deep and Abiding Disrespect for Teachers What these states have in common is Republican control and union suppression. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Three More Reasons for Wealth-Deprived Americans to Take to the Streets Nearly 15 percent of our nation's total household wealth — $14 trillion! — has been transfered from middle-class America to people with an average net worth of $75 million. Read more |
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Tony Burman Winnie and MLK: Their Fight was Right — and It’s Not Over The pursuit of racial equality in South Africa and the United States, begun decades ago, still resonates today. Read more |
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Ray McGovern Welcome to Vietnam, Err, I Mean Syria, Mr. President As President Trump faces strong opposition from generals, war profiteers, “mainstream media,” and — not least — Israel to pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, here’s a look back to a similar fix another... Read more |
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Naomi Klein, Lauren Feeney The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich "Puertopians" are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, Puerto Ricans almost immediately began worrying about disaster capitalists swooping in to buy up beleaguered public utilities and damaged beachfront property on the cheap. Read more |
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Jason Opal The Civil War Wasn’t Enough We live in a second Gilded Age, a world of cruel inequality that makes Donald Trump seem genuine no matter how many lies he tells. Read more |
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Steven Singer Don’t Let School Lockdown Drills Become the New Normal We need sensible gun regulations – not another B.S. duck and cover exercise to engender a false sense of security and pop our civic resolve Read more |
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John Atcheson Trump is Still the Most Unpopular President Since Polls Have Been Kept; But It May Not Matter in 2018 or 2020 Americans would turn out to support a truly progressive Party that represents the people, not the interests of corporations, the elite and the ultr-rich Read more |
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Frida Berrigan How Do You Tell the Kids that Grandma is in Jail for Resisting Nuclear Weapons? “Our grandma is in jail,” Madeline tells a woman wrestling a shopping cart at Target. “She went over a war fence and tried to make peace,” Seamus adds helpfully. “They arrested her, and she is in... Read more |
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Wim Laven The Shameful Exploitation of Martin Luther King Jr. When a politician votes for programs and policies inimical to those King defended, they are purely hypocritical when they appropriate his words and feign admiration for him. Read more |
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Elizabeth Oglesby Guatemala Shows Why the CIA Must Be Held Accountable For Torture As discussions around Haspel's nomination heat up, other contentious legal proceedings — the current genocide trials in Guatemala — remind us that U.S. sanctioning of torture has a long, dark history with which we have yet to reckon. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Trump is Right About Syria: It’s Time to Leave The war has failed to accomplish anything other than to destroy Syria, destabilize Europe, and bleed the United States. Around 500,000 are estimated to have died in the war, with 10 million displaced . Read more |
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Michael Winship Lest We Ever Forget, Three Lists for Donald Trump Whoever came up with that old saying, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit," saw this guy coming from a country mile Read more |
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Michelle Chen The Oklahoma Teachers’ Strike Is a Mutiny Against Austerity Even with the proposed pay hike, teachers’ salaries are still devastatingly low, despite being years into the economic “recovery.” Read more |
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Ralph Nader Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections Regular coverage of very important consumer struggles with Congress, the White House, the courts, and the state legislatures has vastly shrunken. Read more |
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Ray McGovern Lunatic Loose in West Wing As Uber-Hawk John Bolton prepares to take over as national security adviser on Monday, Ray McGovern looks back at when Bolton was one of the “crazies” in the George W. Bush Administration. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Warn of ‘Russian Bots’—Despite Primary Source’s Disavowal "Total bullshit." Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The Dolls of Militarism Cleaning house, enabling war. Read more |
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Juan Cole Three Countries Show How Near a 100% Green Grid Is The world invested more in solar energy than in coal, gas, and nuclear combined last year. Read more |
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Yossi Gurvitz B’Tselem Calls on Israeli Soldiers to Defy Shooting Orders, Lest They Commit War Crimes This is the first time an Israeli NGO has explicitly warned Israeli soldiers that they are about to commit war crimes in advance of the act itself. Read more |
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Tamara Pearson US Shootings: Gun Industry Killing More People Overseas In every measurable way, the U.S is head honcho of the global violence industry. Read more |
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Lewis M. Steel Radical New Leaders Are Reviving Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign The movement looks to rebuild the cross-racial civil rights alliance that disintegrated during a half-century of counter-revolution. Their radical vision is more necessary than ever. Read more |
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Rachel Goodman Facebook’s Targeting System Can Divide Us On More Than Just Advertising How can we agree on the policies that should govern our world when there are no common reference points for what that world looks like? Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Striking Teachers Are Fighting for Communities Not only have governing policies made teachers an unappreciated, underpaid workforce, but lawmakers have forced teachers into becoming first responders on the front lines of communities that are being disinvested and decimated. Read more |
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Huma Yasin The Price Of Murder: Stop Funding the Israeli Military The US continues to fund the Israeli war machine with little regard for human life. Then it wonders why Palestinians, and supporters of Palestine, aren't fond of it. Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start with Big Pharma Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Rethinking the Whole Country For America to be America, does it need an enemy? Read more |
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Greta Zarro The Missing Link in the Gun Debate The culture of war is pervasive in our society, through military-funded Hollywood films and video games, the militarization of the police, and JROTC and ROTC programs in our schools. Read more |
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Kenny Torrella McDonald's Once Made Progress on Animal Welfare, But Has Now Fallen to the Back of the Pack While more than 100 food brands have committed to banning these cruel practices from their supply chains, Mickey D’s has stood firm in its commitment to extreme animal cruelty. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Remembering Martin Luther King, the Radical for Peace He was a democratic socialist who believed that meeting the needs of the poor was a higher priority than ensuring profit for the few. Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian "Things That Make White People Uncomfortable": Michael Bennett's Essential New Book "Why does the world even have to be like this?" Read more |
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Martin Luther King, Jr 'I've Been to the Mountaintop': The Final Speech Delivered on the eve of his assassination, King had arrived in Memphis to join striking santitation workers demanding dignity and better working conditions Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre King’s Dream Included Economic Equality, Too The late leader didn't just criticize racial segregation. He called for an end to economic injustice. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein It’s on Us to Stop the War in Yemen American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our hands. Read more |
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Greg LeRoy Cities Fail to Disclose Tax Incentives in Bids for Amazon’s HQ2 The “winning” state and city could overpay so much that incumbent taxpayers won’t even break even. Read more |
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Jim Hightower A Regime of Austerity Versus the Common Good In Washington, on Wall Street and in the corporate suites, the elites have taken exquisite care of themselves, with the top one percent tripling their share of the nation's wealth since 1980. Read more |
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Libero Della Piana Fifty Years On, MLK’s Call for Economic Justice Rings True The importance of the Poor People’s Campaign and King’s vision of a “radical revolution of values” was not just about race. It was about a radical reimagining of U.S. society as a whole. Read more |
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Yousef Munayyer In Gaza, Israel Aims To Massacre Hope As the notion of a two-state agreement fades firmly into history, the apartheid reality becomes impossible to ignore. Read more |
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Cornel West Martin Luther King Jr Was a Radical. We Must Not Sterilize His Legacy If King were alive today, his words would threaten most of those who now sing his praises Read more |
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Philip Lederer MD Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Freedom We don’t need a commemoration of the murder of Dr. King, we need a resurrection of his movement. Read more |
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Charles T. Clotfelter Rich Colleges Are Getting Richer. Why That's a Problem This growing inequality has three dimensions. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Could the Cold War Return With a Vengeance? The Pentagon plans for a perpetual three-front “long war” against China and Russia. Read more |
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Christopher M. Norwood Repeal the Second Amendment — It’s Not a Crazy Idea Do we honestly think that the 39 men that signed the U.S. Constitution 230 years ago, are some sort of deified superheroes who cannot be questioned by mere mortals in 2018? Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Trump’s Census Whitewash Once again more Americans are being excluded from the bargain than added to it: democracy is taking on the airs of a gated community. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Failures Of Western Reporting in Gaza If a Palestinian is killed by an Israeli soldier, the most appropriate thing to do is to call it a “clash.” Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Former US-backed Guatemalan Dictator Efraín Ríos Montt Dies Facing Genocide Charges Victims of the genocide and human rights advocates said Rios Montt's death brings a measure of closure. Read more |
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Aaron Weiss Confessions of a Former Sinclair News Director As Sinclair prepared to purchase my station, I emailed a colleague to say, "From everything I've seen so far, it's not the evil empire some people think." It took just a few months to realize how wrong I was. Read more |
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Dave Cooke EPA Rolls Back Fuel Efficiency Standards at the Request of Automakers If the EPA completely rolls back the regulations, it will mean an additional half billion tons of global warming emissions just from the vehicles sold between 2022-2025. Read more |
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Janet Cox Xavier Becerra: Missing on Climate Doesn’t the AG, and the state, have a dog in this fight? Read more |
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Ishaan Tharoor For Israel, There’s Little Political Cost to Killing Palestinians The aftermath of the protests underscored both the desperate futility of the Palestinian struggle and the relative impunity with which Israel can snuff out Palestinian lives. Read more |
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Josh Hoxie Cable TV Ignores Inequality; Here’s How to Get Around It “What I would say to our friends in the corporate media is start paying attention to the millions of people who are struggling economically every single day. Let’s talk about that issue.” Read more |
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Juan Cole Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel Became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship Randomly shooting into crowds is more than just threatening people with death. It is a means of terrorizing the dissidents. Read more |
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William Hartung Weapons For Anyone Selling arms as if there were no tomorrow. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Is the ‘Liberal World Order’ Worth Saving? We live in a profoundly unequal world. 70 percent of the world’s population owns only 3 percent of its wealth, while 8.6 percent of the population owns more than 85 percent. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam Beware the architects of our neofeudalism calling on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton The dangers inherent in following Bolton’s favored policies in Iran and North Korea cannot be overestimated. Read more |
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Colleen Kane Gielskie Not Charging the White Officers Who Killed Alton Sterling Is a Travesty That the officers who killed Sterling have not been charged is by no means the end of this fight. Read more |
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Robert Reich Dollars for Decency The slew of advertisers dumping Laura Ingraham "suggests that Americans may have had enough cruelty—coming from Laura Ingraham, from Fox News, from Donald Trump, from the Harvey Weinsteins of the land, from whomever." Read more |
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Billy Corriher Trump's Census Move Borrowed From Racial Gerrymandering Playbook The decennial census already overcounts white people and undercounts people of color. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati A Bigger Welcome Mat for America’s Tax Evaders The GOP tax cut enacted in December and the just-passed federal budget give would-be affluent tax cheats both motive and plenty of opportunity. Read more |
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Dean Baker Roger Lowenstein, F**k Your Stock Portfolio The value of the stock market does not equal the country’s economic well-being. Read more |
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Cathy Breen Who Calls Anyone Civilized? Fifteen years later, war rages on in Iraq. Read more |
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Jennifer Nou Census Smoke Signals Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is either seriously misinformed about how the Census Bureau usually works (troubling) or doesn’t care (also troubling). Read more |
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Sarah Anderson The Mosquito Gap How poverty, climate change, and bad policy put poor people at greater risk from pest-borne diseases. Read more |
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Kathleen Rogers Wrapped in a Sea of Plastic Half a century of this “uncontrolled experiment” is fast becoming as serious a problem as climate change Read more |
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César Chelala The Iraq War Fueled the Destruction of the Middle East The human and material costs of the war keep mounting. Read more |
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Jim Walsh Carbon Markets: Foolish Climate Policy that Big Banks Can Love RGGI doesn’t threaten dirty energy companies—it protects them. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce How Much Taxpayer Money Has Scott Walker Wasted Fighting Courts That Told Him to Do His Job? Wisconsin Republicans will do anything to tamp down on democracy. Read more |
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Alexandra Tempus Feeling Safe? Teen Gun Reform Activists Ask Paul Ryan “There’s an assumption that just because I’m carrying an American flag I have to be a chest-beating, war-mongering weapons fanatic,” Thompson said. “I’m trying to change that.” Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Trump's War Cabinet and Coming American Despotism: Will We the People Rise Up? Through freely associating with one another, united in love, we can walk the revolutionary way of peace, carrying the steps of our ancestors. Read more |
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Gary Olson A Few Thoughts on the March for Our Lives If a critical mass of students begins seeing the connections among violence, racism, injustice, capitalism and Washington raining death on people abroad, the MSM will abruptly cease its fawning approval. Read more |
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Michelle Chen Trump Wants to Reframe the Census to Fit His Definition of America, Not Protect Americans The addition of a citizen question isn't a bureaucratic nuance, it's the soft edge of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Why Focusing on People of Color Will Help the Movement for Gun Control Succeed “Yes, the March for Our Lives Was About Black People, Too—and It’s About Time.” Read more |
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Soumaya Ghannoushi Mohammed Bin Salman is Buying America's Silence With a Fake Veneer of Cultural Openness Riyadh has delivered a small dose of cultural and economic openness in order to avoid demands for political liberalism. Read more |
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Robert Reich Is Trump The Worst President In American History? Donald Trump is degrading the core institutions and values of our democracy. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Stopping War Pusher John Bolton, Trump’s Choice for National “Insecurity” Advisor For Bolton, the Constitution, federal law, the Geneva Conventions, and other international laws are pieces of paper to be thrown away with unctuous contempt. Read more |
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Sina Azodi The Art of Saving a Deal A decision to withdraw from the deal, would be a public-relations victory for the Islamic Republic, because it will be the U.S. who’d be at fault for the collapse of JCPOA. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder No, Growing Inequality Won’t Solve Itself A society that fails to invest in its children, to protect its land and water, or to build a future is courting collapse. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Chelsea Manning: We Got This Reform is not in her vocabulary. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Trump, Making Atrocities Great Again Trump’s recycling program: war crimes and war criminals, old and (potentially) new. Read more |
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Juan Cole Ultimate Hypocrisy: Saudi Crown Prince Touts Religious Tolerance in NYC Saudi Arabia is religiously intolerant in ways that contradict Islam and give the religion a bad name. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Parkland Kids Have Triggered Conservative Snowflakes What explains these defamatory attacks on a bunch of children simply trying to stop their fellow students from being senselessly butchered? Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Democrats Can Win if They Lead on Education Republicans have made themselves especially vulnerable on the issue of school funding by imposing years of financial austerity on schools. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Change Is Coming... And Not Through the Barrel of Our Guns The uncontained force behind the national murder rate is dehumanization, and as this movement grows, it must — it will — look institutional dehumanization straight in the eye. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Boosts Obvious Saudi Front Group as Neutral ‘Think Tank’ The Arabia Foundation is so satisfied with the media’s presentation of its messaging that it routinely tweets out articles it’s featured in and TV appearances it’s had, knowing its messaging is syncing up nicely with bin Salman’s PR tour to the United States. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder What to Do About Bolton and Other Pro-War Appointees A widespread show of support at the local level could embolden lawmakers toward a no-first-use policy on nuclear weapons. Read more |