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Adil Ahmad Haque Iran’s Unlawful Reprisal (and Ours) Given the abject failure of unilateral force to achieve anything of lasting value, collective security measures seem worth trying. Exchanging armed reprisals can only lead to ruin. Read more |
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Annelle Sheline The U.S. Military Should Take the Iraqi Parliament’s Advice and Leave The on-going presence of American troops in the region does not enhance U.S. or regional security; it makes Americans more vulnerable to attack and further mired in endless wars in the region. Read more |
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Ilana Novick Are Establishment Democrats Running Out of Ways to Sabotage Bernie Sanders? The moderates of the party can't stand what Bernie is and what he stands for, but they apparently can't find a way to beat him. Read more |
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John Fleming In Australia's Nightmare, a Vision of the Planet's Terrifying Future What’s happening Down Under is a dark preview of the kind of chaos and destruction that’s awaiting the rest of the world in this rapidly unfolding climate crisis... It sounds dramatic because it is. Read more |
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Anthony Dworkin Soleimani Strike Marks a Novel Shift in Targeted Killing, Dangerous to the Global Order This new development shows how the influence of the open-ended military campaign against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State is washing back into the inter-state realm, imperiling the line between war and peace. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich A Report Card on the Failed American Project of the Last Three Decades Since 1989, intoxicated by a post-Cold War belief in its own omnipotence, the United States allowed itself to be drawn into a long series of armed conflicts, almost all of them yielding unintended consequences and imposing greater than anticipated costs. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes There Is Zero Actual Evidence Iran Is Responsible for Killing Hundreds of Americans The assertions being repeated today seem based on apparently groundless claims from twelve years ago by the same people who said Iraq possessed weapons, weapons programs, and weapons systems that were such a grave threat that they ignited the U.S.-Iraq war. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Biden and Buttigieg Exemplify How Corporatism and ‘the Madness of Militarism’ Go Together Political positions on class warfare don't always run parallel to positions on military warfare. But they have now clearly aligned in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare, Michael Arria To Stop Trump’s War with Iran, We Must Also Confront the Democrats Who Laid the Groundwork Democratic leaders are feigning outrage, but they’ve supported the precursors to war. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Meet the Corporate War Profiteers Making a Killing on Trump's Attacks on Iran As long as the top executives of our privatized war economy can reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran—or anywhere—will persist. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Blood On Whose Hands? In survey after international survey, the United States is perennially voted the world’s greatest threat to peace in most of the world’s nations. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism I have seen millions of people, in the United States and around the globe, turn the tide against fascism when, some eight decades ago, it threatened to engulf the world. Let’s hope they can do it again. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Trump’s Illegal, Impeachable Act of War With so much on the line—both for the United States and the world—the time for silence is over. Public resistance is the only tool we the people have left. Read more |
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Nick Turse Trump Threatens Afghan Armageddon U.S. "plans" for the Afghan War might prove a crime against humanity. Read more |
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Juan Cole Iraqi Parliament Resolves to Kick Out US Troops, and Trump Threatens Mother of All Sanctions The US invaded Iraq illegally in 2003 and essentially stole its oil income for years to pay for its military occupation of the country. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson No to Disastrous War With Iran Instead of initiating a war with the assassination of General Soleimani, rationale leaders would have pursued diplomacy to reverse the spiraling dynamic of military escalation, not thoughtlessly and murderously fueling it. Read more |
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Ann Wright An American General Probably Thinks- “Thanks Trump, for Putting a Target on My Back!” In 2017, Trump gave the CIA the authority to again use assassin drones after it had been withdrawn by the Obama administration. Read more |
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Ryan Costello Trump and His Team Are Lying Their Way to War With Iran Congress was left in the dark, and the administration appears to be lying about the intelligence they used to justify the strike. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Trump Order Aimed at Palestine Solidarity, Not Anti-Semitism By acting as loudspeakers for the Trump administration's assertion that support for anti-colonial liberation is anti-Semitism, corporate media are both doing a disservice to Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid and a favor to anti-Semites. Read more |
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Chris Hedges War With Iran The United States, like Israel, has become a pariah that shreds, violates or absents itself from international law. Read more |
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Michael Winship Drum Major Trump Marches Us Into the Folly of War Pay no attention to that fool on the bandstand. Read more |
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Angela Glover Blackwell, Sarah Treuhaft A Federal Job Guarantee Is a Crucial Tool to Fight Inequality A new campaign is building support for proposals to ensure that everyone who wants to work can have a good, living wage job. Read more |
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Dave Inder Comar The United States' Assassination of Iranian Military Leader Violates International Law "The assassination of Soleimani marks the most dangerous escalation between the United States and Iran in recent history, from which Iran and Iran's neighbouring countries will suffer the most." Read more |
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Eric Margolis Soleimani's Assassination: The Mafia Would Have Been Proud Trump may now have the war with Iran he so obviously craves and that Israel and Saudi Arabia want. Read more |
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Reese Erlich What's Really Going on With the US and Iran? Reese Erlich, who has reported from the region for 20 years, sorts out the impact of Trump's drone attack that killed a popular Iranian general. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly An Eyewitness to the Horrors of the US 'Forever Wars' Speaks Out Mainstream media seldom help us recognize ourselves as a menacing, warrior nation. Yet we must look in the mirror held up by historical circumstances if we're ever to accomplish credible change. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Unites Iran and Iraq... Against the United States The Trump administration charge that Soleimani had to be killed because he was planning an immediate, large scale operation against America in Iraq strikes no one in Iraq or Iran as very likely. Read more |
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Peter Certo Trump’s Iran Aggression Deserves Full-Throated Opposition Trump is betraying his voters and threatening millions of lives. Call him on it before it’s too late. Read more |
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John Buell Australia's National State of Emergency: The Fire This Time Long term solutions requires a fundamental debate about the role of uncontrolled growth and hubristic attitudes towards nature. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar With Space Force, Congress Hands Trump a Major Victory As the devastating impacts of our endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to unfold, lawmakers have casually, without much debate, expanded the arena of war into space. Read more |
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Wim Laven Trump Must Be Removed From Office and We Must Create a Pathway to Peace Millions of people need to fill the streets with the message: "Danger, danger, there’s a reckless warmonger in the White House." Read more |
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Katherine Trebeck Australia’s Bushfires Are a Wake-up Call: We Must Build a More Humane Economy Before It’s Too Late Economists used to admire scientists. Now they ignore them at our peril. Read more |
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Frank Clemente Eight Ways the Trump-GOP Tax Cuts Have Made the Rich Richer While Failing Working Families In the two years since Congress passed the Republican tax law, the richest 1 percent have been the big winners. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump, Troll-in-Chief, Wags the Impeachment Dog By Going to War With Iran It is extremely suspicious that Trump has abruptly begun trafficking in the sanguinary merchandise of all-out war just at this moment when his throne is on the brink of toppling. Read more |
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Alison Rose Levy Australia’s Tragedy Is a Cautionary Tale for the US Presidential Election There is no substitute for a systemic reorientation on climate – or a movement that unequivocally supports it. Read more |
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Carolyn Coe Afghan Children: Work of Necessity, Work of Choice If children like himself had a choice, Gul Mohammad thinks it better that they be able to study instead of having to work, better if the government would ensure that the needs of children were met. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Struggle to Vote in the U.S. From the suffragettes to today's voting rights advocates, securing the right to vote should be a common pursuit of us all. Read more |
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Mona Fawaz What Protests in Lebanon Can Tell Us About Inequality Worldwide Confronting inequalities is not about merely bridging gaps, it requires confronting entrenched interests. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Julian Castro's Story Should Cause the Democratic Party to Reflect on How It Chooses Candidates In general, it should make the country melancholy about how we do politics in the age of big money. Read more |
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Philip Weiss The Last Decade Brought the Conflict to the U.S., and That Is Progress Mainstream politicians are talking about BDS and Zionism. A portion of the Democratic Party is firmly committed to Palestinian human rights, because the Democratic base is demanding it. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg Are Not to Be Trusted It’s understandable that corporate-backed candidates don’t want to be cornered by questions that touch on realities of political and economic power. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies A New Year and a New Trump Foreign Policy Blunder in Iraq We hope that 2020 will be the year when the American public finally looks at the fateful choice between war and peace with 20/20 vision, and that we will start severely punishing Trump and every other U.S. politician who opts for threats over diplomacy, coercion over cooperation and war over peace. Read more |
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Mike Ervin Look Out: Trump’s Social Security Administration Wants People with Disabilities to Prove it Stepping up reevaluations is a good way to purge the disability rolls in the name of "enhancing program integrity." Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins 2020 Vision: A New Year’s Regeneration There is a practical, shovel-ready solution to our impasse, powered by a massive leap in grassroots consciousness, a youth-led climate movement and a 2020 ballot box revolution. Read more |
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Alan Hirsch Impeachment Heroes: Past, Present, Future Republican senators like Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Cory Gardner, and Lamar Alexander—history has its eyes on you. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Nancy Pelosi's Leverage over Mitch McConnell She can threaten to reopen the House investigation into the president. Read more |
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Jessica J. González A New Year's Resolution for Big Tech: Step Up to Stop Hate There's a very real possibility that the same companies that fell down on the job in 2016 will once again be a force for evil in 2020. Read more |
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Randall Amster For 2020 and Beyond: 'Keep Hoping Machine Running' All things considered, we could do worse than embracing Woody Guthrie's resolutions for the new year. Read more |
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Tara Houska A Voice From the Forest in the Corporate Boardroom Only when indigenous people are heard by those financing climate disaster can we stop the destruction, together. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Ralph Nader Letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi I, together with Constitutional Law scholars Louis Fisher and Bruce Fein, proposed that... Read more |
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Jim Hightower What If You Were to Own Your Own Power Company? What if you were to control an energy business that's also an economic development engine and a grassroots force for advancing social justice? Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Who is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, and Why Israel Hates Him His kind of leadership is problematic from the viewpoint of a hegemonic political and military power that requires utter and absolute submission. Read more |
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Ted Rall A Grim New Definition of Generation X Nihilism is about to become the best worst possible life strategy. Read more |
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Belén Fernández How the US Made the So-Called 'Safe Third Countries' Unsafe Despite Donald Trump's claims, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are everything but safe. Read more |
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Michael Felsen In 2020, Ukrainians Gain Whistleblower Rights Trump Has Forsaken Here The attacks on Yovanovitch, the Trump/Zelensky call whistleblower, and other career civil servants willing to speak truth to power, despite the risks, represent a frontal assault by the President on norms our American democracy depend upon. Read more |
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Tarana Burke The 'Me Too' Movement's Success Took a Decade of Work, Not Just a Hashtag. And There's More To Do. What makes our work to end sexual violence different is that it speaks to the needs of all survivors and addresses sexual violence as a systemic issue. Read more |
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Liberty Vittert Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon Since 2010, mile upon mile of rainforest has been replaced with a wide range of commercial developments, including cattle ranching, logging and the palm oil industry. Read more |
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Wim Laven A More Perfect Union Our institutions are weakened now by Trump and his coterie, but we must stay strong, our democracy depends on us. Read more |
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Michelle Chen Dirty Air and Water Is Killing Us New study affirms that pollution is the world’s leading cause of death, ahead of tobacco use, drug and alcohol use, and even war. Read more |
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Michael Winship In Trump World, Fiction Is Just as Strange as Truth There’s no escape from the vortex of lies and transgressions. Read more |
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Leslie Gregory, Tom Hastings White Nationalism and Public Health There is a trend across much of the world toward the strongman ruler, the Trump/Putin/Erdogan/Duterte/Jong-un model, but that is reversible. Nothing about this is permanent or inevitable. We always have a choice. Read more |
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Arthur MacEwan Are Taxes the Best Way of Dealing With Inequality? Taxes can redistribute income, but relying on taxes means we are accepting the way the system works—the way markets operate—to create inequality in the first place. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Decades of Denial Have to End: We Need Radical Climate Leadership in 2020 The next decade will define our collective future. We have no time to waste. Read more |
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Cathy Crowe Canada's Brutal Decade of Homelessness In Toronto alone, approximately 3,000 more people are homeless than 10 years ago. Read more |
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Erika Spanger-Siegfried The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, a Global Movement Unleashed Together we’ve felt grief as bad news mounted, rage as monied interests blocked the world’s efforts to save itself and, as climate denial made a political comeback at home, we’ve felt at times like the mythical Cassandra, cursed to tell the truth and never be believed. Read more |
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Yumna Patel A Decade in Review: Palestinians Who Stood Out, and Took a Stand, Over the Last 10 Years While the political situation often seems bleak and hopeless, these Palestinians, these changemakers, continue to try to make a difference, no matter how big or small, in the hopes that they can do better for their community. Read more |
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Ilana Novick 'Bombshell' Glosses Over the Horrors of Fox News Countless anchors and executives, including owner Rupert Murdoch, have made it one of the most destructive forces in American life. Read more |
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Pedro Telles Whose Democracy in Brazil? The impact of inequalities in elections in Brazil is reflected in the important political underrepresentation of women, blacks and minorities. Fortunately, it is possible to identify what needs to change so that those who do not have a political opportunity today can have it tomorrow. Read more |
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Bill Lueders A Progressive Wish List for 2020 If we work hard and stay focused, 2020 can be the year we make huge gains. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin 10 Good Things About 2019 Remembering some of the gains in the difficult year of 2019 can help inspire us for the critical struggles ahead. Read more |
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Linda Childers Climate Crisis is Too Real to Ignore This is an “All hands on deck!” moment. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Biggest Business Con of 2019: Fleecing Workers While Bosses Get Rich From Boeing to Whole Foods, companies are touting social responsibility as profits soar. Don’t believe a word of it. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis Imagining a World Without Capitalism For the new year, imagine the wondrous possibilities of a truly liberal, post-capitalist, technologically advanced society. Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M. Khan Warming Ocean Currents Affect Weather and Environment Australia's giant kelp beds are literally being cooked by the ocean Read more |
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Linda McQuaig How $15 Billion in Bonuses Leaves Canada's Bankers Gloomy There’s silly. There’s absurd. And then there’s this: The country’s six largest banks are dishing out $15 billion in bonuses this year. But, in the eyes of some, this isn’t enough . Indeed, Bill... Read more |
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Peter Dreier These Are A Few Of My Favorite Jews Like the Passover story, the celebration of Hanukkah reminds us that people can overcome great obstacles and achieve great things if they have a vision of a better society and build movements that... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump and Mormon Tutors Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money. . . . -Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204), Charity’s Eight Degrees Tutors in the... Read more |
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Stacy Bannerman In 2020, Live Your Prayer I quit going to church when my husband first went to the Iraq War in 2004. Then one day in the summer of 2017, I was walking around aimlessly and wandered into an old Episcopalian chapel in Medford,... Read more |
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Karl Grossman Trump Signs Measure Enabling Establishment of a U.S. Space Force President Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 that establishes a U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces—despite the Outer Space Treaty... Read more |
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Ralph Nader “Then, I Have an Article II, Where I Have the Right to do Whatever I Want as President.” – “King” Donald Trump Against Donald J. Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted narrow impeachment charges, despite key House Committee Chairs’ arguments for broadening the impeachment charges. These veteran lawmakers,... Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Trumpian Attacks on Homelessness and California Are Utter and Total Poppycock The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has a system for counting the homeless that is worthless: utterly worthless. And the media's failure to report this story accurately is dangerous. Read more |
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Naava Ellenberg Now Is Not the Time for Women to Stop Marching The 2020 march will be the strongest demonstration of our power yet, as we lift up every member of our community in our calls for justice. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The Stupidest Op-Ed of 2019 Argues Trump Will Inspire a Religious Revival Newsweek just published a piece that set a record for preposterous ideas, confidently but incoherently argued. Read more |
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Brian Larkin Extinction Rebellion: A Flock of Starlings and a Plane Tree The collective impact of human activity is already, and at an ever increasing pace, destroying life on earth. Read more |
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Dave Zweifel Trump's 'Moral Character' Is Severely Lacking Trump's broadside against the late congressman from Michigan, John Dingell, was disgusting and deplorable. Read more |
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Manuel Serrano Avoiding the Collapse of Democracy Is Our Responsibility Democracy needs to keep moving forward. If we elude our responsibility when it comes to breathing new life into the values that sustain it, our liberal societies will eventually collapse. Read more |
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Larry Cohen Voters Want Change, Not Centrism Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and other candidates aiming for the so-called center do not inspire voters. Read more |
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Julie A. Burkhart The High Price of Abortion Restrictions States with more restrictions on reproductive health care have higher maternal and infant mortality rates. Read more |
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Nicole Braun We Need a New Deal for Housing I’ve worked hard my whole life and will probably never own a home. This is a policy shame, not a personal one. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Here It Comes: Get Ready for a Stop-Bernie Onslaught Like You've Never Seen Beware. Because disparaging and minimizing Bernie in 2019 didn't work, the next step in 2020 will be to trash him with a vast array of full-bore attacks. Read more |
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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 |
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Amy Goodman Let 2020 Be the Year of a Truly Free Press We all have a responsibility to ensure that journalists are free to do their work, without threats of injury, imprisonment, or death. Read more |
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Lawrence Mishel, Melat Kassa Top 1.0% of Earners See Wages Up 157.8% Since 1979 This disparity in wage growth reflects a sharp long-term rise in the share of total wages earned by those in the top 1.0% and 0.1%. Read more |
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Randall Amster The Gift of Perspective Our existence at any scale is indeed a cosmic gift, even more so when we consider its full range of operation. Read more |