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Ryan Cooper Why Democrats Should Open an Impeachment Inquiry It's worth remembering that impeachment is constitutionally obligated Read more |
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Eugênio Bucci Bolsonaro Is a Threat to Brazil’s Democracy The far-right leader’s flair for fascism recently included ordering a celebration of the coup that brought Brazil’s military dictatorship to power Read more |
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Owen Walsh Corporate Media Target Gabbard for Her Anti-Interventionism—a Word They Can Barely Pronounce Perhaps the simplest explanation for corporate media's treatment of Gabbard is that she opposes the kind of intervention that they have historically been complicit in Read more |
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Cenk Uygur Nancy Pelosi Is Not a Progressive Pelosi works against every progressive priority in Congress Read more |
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John Atcheson Unless Democrats Refute the Myth of a "Good Economy," Trump Likely to Win Second Term Why silence on the real economic picture could spell disaster for Democrats in 2020 Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé The Shocking Tale of Two Generations The tragic place America finds itself in Read more |
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Léonce Ndikumana Africa Must Raise Taxes to Better Fight Climate Change A frica is now the most vulnerable region to climate change, although it has only marginally contributed to it Read more |
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Héctor Figueroa Save the Planet—With Good Union Jobs The Green New Deal is the best plan yet to push wages up and pollution down Read more |
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Victoria Bassetti, Tim Lau Trump’s Troubling Rebuke of Congressional Oversight Congress’ ability to fully know the facts and to investigate them thoroughly is critical for our democracy to work, argues Brennan Center Fellow Victoria Bassetti Read more |
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Juan Cole Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to Join Press Against Iran; Iraq Declines Bolton and Pompeo are warmongers and like the idea of bullying Iran, and they are also closely tied to the fascist Likud Party in Israel, which has been plumping for a war on Iran for decades Read more |
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Jim Hightower Let's Re-fund America We must create a politics that directly confronts the narcissistic nabobs who're knocking down our people and our country Read more |
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Bill Blum The Ominous Implications of William Barr’s Testimony With its newly constituted majority, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is uniquely poised to hold the most corrupt administration in our history to account Read more |
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Syreeta McFadden The Cinderella Story Has Always Evolved With the Times. Rebecca Solnit's Update Is Overdue. Maybe it's no longer useful to teach girls that being pretty and getting married is the best way to achieve social mobility Read more |
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Jean Ross A Serious Question Goes Viral: 'When Did You Become Radicalized by the U.S. Health Care Non-System?' The thousands of responses are why corporate health care industry executives won't be able to hold back this tide for Medicare for All Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump Is Achieving His Primary Goal: Division But don't be fooled, the president's divide-and-conquer strategy has disguised his efforts to reward his wealthy donors and funnel more wealth and power to those at the top Read more |
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Jack Holmes Mitch McConnell's Trump Defense Strategy Is Proof the Republican Party Is an Authoritarian Outfit The president is destroying any institution of democracy that could provide a check on his power, and Republicans in Congress are helping him. Read more |
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Philip Weiss As Mainstream Comes Down Hard on Palestinians, Sanders Cites Human Rights Violations in Gaza "Our job is to do everything we can to try to bring a lasting peace to that very, very troubled region. And as president that’s exactly what I will try to do." Read more |
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Kyla Tienhaara The Green New Deal Is Going Global The Canadian coalition joins a growing movement that aims to dramatically shift the scope and speed of action to address the current ecological crisis Read more |
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William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger Boondoggle, Inc: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget A dollar-by-dollar tour of the national security state Read more |
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Medea Benjamin What Is Happening at the Venezuelan Embassy Is an Outrage Determined to avoid another war, a group of US peace activists sought and received permission from the legitimate Venezuelan government to form an Embassy Protection Collective Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran? Trump—with Bolton and Pence—seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda. Read more |
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Alex Lawson, Stephanie Taylor Raise Your Hand If You Like Being Ripped Off by Pharmaceutical Corporations The only people who don’t want bold, aggressive action are the drug corporations and the members of Congress who are listening to them instead of their constituents Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac When It Comes to Trump, Nancy Pelosi May Be Too Clever for Our Own Good Why only unambiguous opposition to Trump can save us Read more |
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Eric Levitz Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide Earth’s ecosystems did not evolve to thrive amid the conditions that a global, advanced capitalist civilization of 7 billion humans has created Read more |
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Adewale Maye, Kevin Cashman The Social Security Trustees Consistently Agree: The Program is Well-Funded Since the program is vital to so many Americans, there are also clear ways it could even be expanded Read more |
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Chris Hedges Creeping Toward Tyranny Capitalists, throughout history, have backed fascism to thwart even the most tepid forms of socialism Read more |
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Sophie Erfurth When Losing Your Soil Means Losing Your Livelihood The situation in Niger is devastating Read more |
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Paul Waldman Fearful Democrats and the False Allure of Policy Centrism In an era of hyper-partisanship, going moderate may not be a winning strategy Read more |
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Sarah Anderson The Reality Behind the ‘Surging’ U.S. Economy A tiny uptick in wages won't do much to help Americans squeezed by debt and facing rising prices for medicine, child care, housing, and other essentials Read more |
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Karen Dolan All I Want for Mother’s Day Is Equality for My Child My child has fought her whole life for her right to exist. This administration wants to take that away. Read more |
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Michael Winship Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five, and the Anniversary Waltz In these turbulent times more than ever, memory is a blessing and a curse. Read more |
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Stephen Trimble The Natural Antidote to Trumpamine In the face of Trump’s anti-fact, anti-learning and anti-teamwork rhetoric, science continues to churn out these insights and discoveries that remind me to take the long view Read more |
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James Zogby Playing 20 Questions to Figure Out Jared Kushner's "Deal of the Century" While this secretive "deal" is supposedly being concocted, the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government have been quite busy taking steps that make clear their intentions toward the Palestinians Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli A Story About Presidential Clowns On comedians, politics, and dangerous times Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Nonviolence or Nonexistence The day before he died, Martin Luther King said these words at a packed church in Memphis: “Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now no longer can they just talk about it. It is... Read more |
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Nina Turner Why Universal Health Care, Higher Wages, and Free Public Education Are Crucial Issues for Black Women Why I'm tired of politicians who kick the can of equality down the road to subsequent generations while the people we know and love suffer today Read more |
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Jeffery Robinson 'Should the Boston Bomber Be Able to Vote?' A Provocative Question. And the Wrong One. On the racist roots of denying incarcerated people their right to vote Read more |
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Wretched of The Earth An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion "The fight for climate justice is the fight of our lives, and we need to do it right." Read more |
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Eric Margolis Sure. Let's Invade Venezuela. Another Jolly Little War. More aimless imperial over-reach, more lack of strategy, more enemies generated. The only big winner? The Pentagon and military industrial complex. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Media Is Already Bungling Its Trump Re-Election Coverage It would be nice if the big-shot political press would do their jobs responsibly, and not enable Trump's subversion of democracy Read more |
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Juan Cole Tipping Point: In Historic First, US Renewables Made More Electricity Than Coal in April The sun is shining and the wind is blowing on the U.S. energy grid Read more |
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Robert Pollin New CBO Report on Medicare for All Is a Serious and Positive Contribution Contrary to some press reports, the CBO study should be seen as useful and encouraging to advocates of Medicare for All Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Trump's Abortion Lies Are Going to Get Somebody Killed Anti-abortion activists have created a dangerous myth in order to criminalize abortion. Now that myth is gaining legitimacy from the highest authority in the nation: the president. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Assange’s US Extradition Battle: The Fight to Defend the Conscience of America In the uncensored images of modern war, what did we see? We saw our government violating the highest laws of the land. Read more |
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Chase Strangio Caster Semenya Is Being Forced to Alter her Body to Make Slower Runners Feel Secure in Their Womanhood The courts decided that discriminating against some women is required for athletic competitions to be “fair” to other women Read more |
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Rosemary Rivera New Age of Criminal Justice Calls for a New Kind of District Attorney Cities can elect progressive District Attorneys, but if those prosecutors are joining the same organizations that have stifled reform for decades, then all that will change are local practices—not the larger system Read more |
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Cherie Mortice Farm Country: Don’t Get Fooled Again Big ag companies killed family farms and polluted our water, while politicians blamed our immigrant neighbors. Let’s not turn on each other again Read more |
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Christian Christensen On World Press Freedom Day, 10 Reasons Why Press Freedom Matters A vibrant, critical, free press is absolutely fundamental to a functioning democracy Read more |
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Leo Gerard The Real Reason American Workers Have It So Hard The American system (the Supreme Court, Congress, and the president) has conspired to crush workers Read more |
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Doug Morris Pete Seeger Lives! On Folk Legend's 100th Birthday, Remembering How Music and Love Conquers Hate The folk musician and legendary social justice activist was loved by people across the world because Pete actively loved people across the world. Read more |
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Angela Godfrey-Goldstein In Occupied Territory, Reality Check at Ground Zero The fate of a Bedouin village spotlights the cruelty of the Israeli occupation Read more |
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Steven Singer The Best School Innovation Would Be More People We need teachers, counselors, aides and administrators promoted from within and not functionaries from some think tank’s management program Read more |
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Suzanne Nossel The Alarming Assault on the Free Press This year on World Press Freedom Day, it is time to remind ourselves and our governments about this essential liberty, and to recommit ourselves to the steps necessary to protect it Read more |
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Ralph Nader Donald Trump Is the Most Impeachable President in American History The sitting president vs. Congress and the U.S. Constitution Read more |
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Jesse Jackson GOP, Not Russia, Is Greater Threat to Free Elections The right to vote—the most basic right of a democracy—is still contested in too many states—and must be fought, state by state, by citizens of conscience Read more |
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Max Moran Wall Street Money Buys Silence on Big Bank Abuses The financial industry used $2 billion in political spending during the last election cycle to head off meaningful change and preserve its ability to rip off consumers Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Ilhan Omar Won't Be Cowed by Trump Whether Trump likes it or not, “our country” is also Omar’s country Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce William Barr Is Orchestrating a Slow-Rolling Coup Against the Constitutional Order Jerry Nadler threw down the gauntlet after the attorney general flouted congressional subpoenas, but he's dead wrong about what the future might hold Read more |
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Curt Ries Bernie Sanders Is Running an Unprecedented Campaign We need nothing less than a political revolution made up of hundreds of thousands of volunteers and millions of supporters. So that's what we're doing. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa Spring stirrings and misgivings Read more |
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John Feffer A Farewell to Arms Control? With Trump and Bolton at the helm, the international arms control regime is effectively dead. But could that spark a new movement for disarmament? Read more |
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Connie Huynh #PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll The forces working against us are very strong, so we must keep growing our movement Read more |
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Ryan Cooper 'Electability' Is a Terrible Reason to Pick a Candidate Being timid and going with the "safe" choice backfired horribly in 2016 Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Venezuela: It’s Only a Coup if the US Government Says So Media side with Trump cronies rather than common sense in labeling coup a 'protest' Read more |
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Robert Reich Congress Should Be Ready to Arrest Attorney General Barr if He Defies Subpoena Trump's contempt for the inherent power of Congress cannot stand, and lawmakers should not tolerate an Attorney General who refuses to submit to oversight Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why So Many Journalists Are Clueless About the Bernie 2020 Campaign The elite-oriented atmosphere of media aversion to his campaign is in sync with media disregard for the power of community-based activism that could result in a Sanders presidency Read more |
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Dave Lindorff It’s Looking Like Another Failed Coup Attempt by the US and Its Puppet Guaidó in Venezuela The US cannot understand how loathed it is south of the border Read more |
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Hallie Templeton Your Tax Dollars at Work The Trump administration just created a map showing mega-corporations where they should industrialize the ocean next Read more |
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Carmen Scurato Why the Demise of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Would Be Good News for You T-Mobile buying Sprint would consolidate the wholesale market, drying up competition and driving up prices Read more |
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Miranda Spencer Establishment Media and the Green New Deal: New Wine in Old Bottles While the resolution was a radical departure from politics as usual, most corporate media filtered coverage of the “Green New Deal” through the lens of conventional expectations Read more |
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Richard Wolff Yes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant ecomomic system which cannot escape its intrinsic exploitation of labor Read more |
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Jean Stokan A Border Crisis of Our Own Making For 30 years I've led faith delegations to Central America, seeing firsthand how U.S. policies displaced the people now arriving at our border Read more |
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Juan Cole Does Mueller's Angry Letter Prove Barr Lied to Congress? Mueller’s vehemence that Barr not disregard the possibility that Trump committed obstruction shows exactly what is on his mind Read more |
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Jim Hightower Where the Money Is As most Americans now realize, the tax cut was not for them but instead was a disgraceful trillion-dollar-a-year giveaway to corporate giants and their wealthiest shareholders Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The New "Infrastructure Deal" Is a Political Disaster Why legislative tacticians make bad political leaders Read more |
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Gerry Condon This US-Backed Rightwing Coup Attempt in Venezuela Must Be Condemned We must do all we can to join this historic struggle for peace, justice and self-determination in our hemisphere. Read more |
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William Astore How the Pentagon Took Ownership of Con Man Donald Trump When it comes to raising money based on false claims, this president has nothing on the Pentagon. And worse yet, like America's wars, the Pentagon's long con shows no sign of ending. Read more |
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Teddy Ostrow Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela That elite media didn’t find a single person to vouch for Maduro or Chavismo, and that almost all the opinions explicitly or implicitly expressed support for the ouster of Venezuela’s elected president, demonstrates a firm editorial line, eerily obedient to the US government’s regime change policy. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Social Movements Under Intense Attack Despite Colombia 'Peace Plan' The U.S. government has interfered with the internal affairs of Colombia since the nation's founding as a nation in 1810 Read more |
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Tim Lau How Congress Can Help Fix the Federal Election Commission There is growing momentum for major FEC reforms Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump's Rhetoric Stokes Hate and Never Thinks of the Consequences. Trump's theory of politics is based on division, not unity. Read more |
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Larry Willis Another Bad Idea Brought to You by the Koch Brothers It is a bad idea. It is such a bad idea that it does not deserve a response. But here I am, giving it one. Read more |
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Ady Barkan I'm Dying From ALS and Here's My Message: No More Half Measures. Only Medicare for All "Some people argue that although Medicare for All is a great idea, we need to move slowly to get there. But I needed Medicare for All yesterday. Millions of people need it today. The time to pass this law is now." Read more |
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Robert Reich 5 Responses to Climate Change Deniers At this point, there are no good-faith deniers of the planetary emergency before us Read more |
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Richard Kogan 5 Reasons to Reject Any Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment Another bad idea that seems to go away Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Corporate Media Are Here to Warn You: Medicare for All Is a Very Bad Idea Despite all the concern trolling, reading the financial press highlights the fact that corporate media oppose Medicare for All not because of legitimate queries and concerns about its implementation, but because they are owned by investors with stakes in maintaining the for-profit status quo Read more |
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Nada Elia Indivisible Justice: Why Supporters of Palestine Must Stand With Other Oppressed Communities Intersectional struggles and solidarity hinge on the understanding that we are enmeshed in a global web Read more |
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Michael Winship Impeach His Sorry Ass Now The GOP is the party of overlook; Democrats must be the party of oversight. Read more |
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Allegra Harpootlian , Emily Manna The End of War Is Just a Beginning Will technology stamp a "Forever" on America's wars? Read more |
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Juan Cole Hatred of One, Hatred of All: The Undeniable Link Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia The alleged shooter in this attack offers an object lesson in the intersection of white nationalist and racist violence Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Last Battle of the Cree Nation The Canadian tar sands, perhaps the largest such project in the world, is rapidly accelerating the release of the carbon emissions that will, if left unchecked, soon render the planet uninhabitable for humans Read more |
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Randy Baker Not Impeaching Trump Is Riskier than Impeaching Him Based on what we know, impeachment is the Democrats’ best option politically, as well as legally Read more |
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Roy Morrison J'accuse Donald J.Trump On this day, April 28 in 1898, Emile Zola's open letter “ J'accuse ” (I accuse) was published, accusing the French government and military of making a Jewish officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus a... Read more |
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Justin Anderson Comcast-Owned MSNBC in the Tank for Joe Biden’s Presidential Run Joe Biden finally announced on Thursday what everyone already knew. With the release of a three-and-a-half minute promotional video , the former vice president officially threw his name in the ever-... Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump and the San Diego Synagogue Shooting The President Plays with Fire, and The Rest of Us Get Burned Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Operation Take Down Bernie Sanders’s socialism is scary for a Democratic establishment that worries a lot about electability. Cue the media hit pieces. Read more |
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Connie Jenkins Another Shameful "Christening" at Bath Iron Works We Must Be Out in the Streets Read more |
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Thomas Meisenhelder Making America Great There is a lot of talk around about how to “make America great.” It seems to me common sense that if we really want to “make America great”, then we must be prepared to learn from societies that are... Read more |
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Eric Margolis Trump's Crusaders March to War on Iran Welcome back to 19th-century gunboat diplomacy. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Lucky Siblings: Donald & Maryanne Happy families are all alike. . . . — Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina I’m sure Maryanne and Donald have enjoyed some good laughs over it while contemplating how different the outcome would be had their... Read more |