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Jim Hightower How Trump's Poverty Subsidy Enriches the Rich This is how corporate and political elites conspire to rig the system, blatantly ripping off money meant to help poor people to make the rich richer. Read more |
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Yara Hawari It Is Time to Stop Lecturing Palestinians and to Start Listening Palestinians were not shocked by the reversal of U.S. policy on Israeli settlements and they know worse is yet to come. Read more |
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Joshua Cho After Al-Baghdadi's Death, Media Failed to Ask Where 'War on Terror' Is Going The circumscribed coverage of al-Baghdadi's death represented yet another artful evasion of any critical discussion of imperial foreign policy. Read more |
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Fran Quigley How to Win the Holiday Healthcare Debate With Your Conservative Relatives Like 99% of Americans, Uncle Joe would benefit from the change if he only knew the truth. Read more |
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Michael Winship Donald Trump and His Insane Clown Posse The GOP thinks its Ukraine fantasies are one more rung up the fool's gold ladder of chaos. Read more |
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Julie Hollar False Equivalence in the Age of Trump As the election nears, genuine truth-telling—as opposed to disingenuous false equivalence—is more urgent than ever, but it's just as unlikely as ever that corporate media will be up to the challenge. Read more |
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Raed Jarrar What Do Iraqi Protesters Want? The protests were initially sparked by everyday frustrations: widespread unemployment, lack of access to public services, and rampant government corruption. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Myth of Voter Fraud—And the Truth About What's Threatening Our Elections The next time you hear Trump and his enablers claim widespread voter fraud, know the truth. Their lies are intended to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, while they ignore the real threats to our democracy. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Tale of the Whistleblower Why is it so important for people like Jim Jordan to be able to talk to the whistleblower to discover what happened? Read more |
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Juan Cole What Does Fraud and Bribery Trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu Tell Us About Trump Impeachment? Both came to power in part through the backing of billionaires and their fake news organs. Both men are being investigated for corruption. Both have decried the investigations into their criminal activities as "a coup." Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Trump's War Crime Pardons Will Forever Be a Stain on the United States So the U.S. has held thousands of "terror" suspects in various prisons across the Mideast, some for decades in Guantanamo Bay, often without trial, they'll ask, but accused American war criminals get a free pass without even facing charges? Read more |
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Sam Husseini Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons? "US government is using nuclear weapons daily as a gun pointed at the head of the planet." Read more |
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Branko Marcetic Want More Proof of Corporate Media’s Anti-Bernie Bias? Look at MSNBC’s Democratic Debate During the debate and in the spin room, Sanders was treated more like an outsider than a front runner. It’s part of a broader anti-Bernie slant in the "liberal" network’s coverage. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Is Pete Buttigieg Just a Shill for Corporations and the Donor Class? Why has Buttigieg flipped from being a putative progressive to being perhaps the most conservative, pro-corporate Democrat remaining in the field? A good place to start would be to follow the money. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg The War on Words in Donald Trump’s White House: How to Fudge, Obfuscate, and Lie Our Way Into a New Universe The strategies employed in Washington to confuse and mislead the public have subtly eaten away at the country’s collective mindset, creating fertile ground for Trumpian-style lying to successfully take root. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Wake Up AARP! A Message to Seniors: Medicare "Disadvantage" Is a Corporate Trap Medical Dis advantage would be a more accurate name for the quasi-private programs referred to as Medicare Advantage, as insurance companies push to corporatize all of Medicare, yet keep the name for the purposes of marketing, deception, and confusion. Read more |
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Karen Hobert Flynn Congress Has No Other Option Than to Impeach and Remove the President From Office This is a time for members of Congress to rise up, put country over party, and act in accordance with our American values and the oath they take. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Settlements Is Rooted in Bipartisan Support Three previous U.S. administrations all ignored the gross power asymmetry between the Palestinians under occupation and the Israeli occupiers—an imbalance compounded by the fact that as the chief mediator in negotiations, the U.S. is also the primary military, economic, and diplomatic supporter of... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin "They're Killing Us Like Dogs"—A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse. Read more |
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Beverly Longid Stand With the Bolivian People for Self-Determination The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation calls for the immediate stop of killings, threats, racism and barbaric violence against our Bolivian brothers and sisters. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Explaining Trump’s Racism Racism means a lot more than using slurs or feeling hatred. Yet even in these narrow terms, Trump fits the bill. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Ilhan Omar's Call for Restorative Justice Gives Me Profound Hope for the Future The freshman Congresswoman represents the intelligence of tomorrow, pushing at the status quo centrism at the American political core. Read more |
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John Atcheson Sorry, President Obama—But We Do Need To Tear Down The System When neoliberals and centrists defend "the system" or warn against upending it, they’re more likely expressing concerns about their losing their personal power base than they are about the Party winning elections. Read more |
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Donna Smith Medicare for All: Medicine for a For-Profit System Addicted to Itself After years of pain, anxiety, and poverty under the status quo it is almost impossible to describe the relief I've felt after becoming eligible for Medicare this month. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan A Violent Epidemic Is Taking American Lives In addition to mourning those who have been killed, trans activists and allies have organized "Trans Awareness Week" to precede the Day of Remembrance. Read more |
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John Feffer Don’t Just Focus on Trump’s Crimes at Home Trump’s war on the law extends beyond flouting Congress and packing courts—overseas, it extends to arguable crimes against humanity. Read more |
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Laura Carlsen What’s Happening In Bolivia Is a Violent Right-Wing Coup Progressives need to speak up: Morales made mistakes, but nothing justifies the violent right-wing putsch that followed. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar OK Obama... Time to Cancel Radical Centrism So-called "centrists" are terrified that if the Democratic nominee is far to the left of Biden and Obama, they will be forced to coalesce around a candidate who represents a threat to the establishment of which they are a part. Read more |
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Julie Hollar, Jim Naureckas Sanders’ Plan to Fight Global Climate Disaster Too Ambitious, Says NYT It’s as if the paper can’t resist slipping in gratuitous digs at Sanders any chance it gets, even as the world burns. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Some Midday Thoughts About Sondland Testimony and Impeachment Only politics can save us! Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Democratic Naysayers Are Wrong on Medicare for All "Americans know that their current private health care payments, whether insurance premiums or out-of-pocket, are nothing other than 'taxes' they pay to stay alive." Read more |
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Helena Cobban Pompeo Casts International Law Aside On Israeli Settlement Policy Let us remember that this is yet another example of Washington acting as a callous scofflaw—a rogue nation, indeed—when it comes to efforts to uphold the values and mechanisms of international law. Read more |
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Beatriz Martínez Saavedra Protests in the Global South: Ecuador and Chile Facing an Uncertain Economic Order Protests in the global south, particularly in Chile and Ecuador, appear to be the result of long range monetarist policies that suit the political class and fail large sections of society. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Planned Fossil Fuel Production Dangerously Out of Line With Climate Safety Big oil remains on auto-pilot, happily and recklessly driving us off the cliff. Read more |
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Robert Reich Republicans (and Even Some Democrats) Trying to Scare You Away From Medicare for All Are Peddling Rubbish We shouldn't be paying private for-profit corporate insurers boatloads of money to get the coverage we could have for much less. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé 10 Tips on Disarming Despair If we believe something is essential—as in fixing our broken democracy and confronting the climate crisis—we’ve shown over and over throughout our long history that we can indeed do whatever it takes. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase The Prosecution of Julian Assange Calls for the Public’s Defense of Free Speech If the US government succeeds in extraditing Assange to the US where he faces 175 years in prison without any chance of fair trial, it not only leads to possible execution of an innocent man, but also the death of a free press as a guardian of democracy. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe Nonprofit Workers Join the Movement to Unionize Increasing numbers of people in mission- and passion-driven fields are waking up to the fact that they are, despite the trappings of middle-class-ness, still workers doing a job. Read more |
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Jeff Abbott The Other Americans: Indigenous Guatemalans Mobilize to Denounce Coup in Bolivia Repression against indigenous Bolivians has spurred protests across the Americas. Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian It’s Our Choice: Medicare for All, or Endless War? If we end wars, shut down wasteful and failing weapons programs, and close unnecessary foreign bases, we could come up with an extra $350 billion to spend on Medicare for All—without sacrificing security. Read more |
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Hoda Baraka Mind the Gap: On the Glaring Hole Between Global Fossil Fuel Expansion and Paris Climate Goals The disconnect between Paris temperature goals and countries’ plans and policies for coal, oil, and gas production is massive, worrying and unacceptable. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot The OAS Lied to the Public About the Bolivian Election and Coup Facts show nothing suspicious about the re-election of Evo Morales. Read more |
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Jackie Smith, Bob Glidden The Health of Millennials (and those coming next) Can Benefit from Lessons of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Declining physical and mental health is linked to social isolation, which is tied to atrophied social skills, practices, and values that were staples of Rogers’ programming. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Record Inequality and Corporate Profits Are What Media Call a 'Strong Economy' Corporate news outlets have an inherent interest in cloaking class warfare by equating a "strong economy" with the prosperity of the investor class, even if it comes at the expense of everyone else. Read more |
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Mattea Kramer A 12-Step Program to Opioid Justice Finding peace amid the new opium wars. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The Right to Vote Should Not Fall Victim to Partisan Battles Republican state legislators and governors push measures to suppress the vote of targeted populations. Read more |
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Juan Cole Fascists R Us: Trump and Pompeo’s Deny That Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land Is Illegal A combination of US Evangelical lawlessness and white supremacy with incessant lobbying by the Zionist far right has finally put the United States in the position of supporting the policies of the Axis in World War II. Read more |
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Jacob Sugarman Bernie Sanders' Stance on Bolivia Matters Any presidential candidate who claims to represent workers and marginalized communities, who even nominally opposes U.S. imperialism, should be able to identify a coup as such. Read more |
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Steven Gorelick Thinking Outside the Grid A greater reliance on local power would eliminate one of the most destructive side-effects of the grid: the misperception that energy is limitless. Read more |
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Norman Solomon It Was Revealing Who Joe Biden Saw—and Who He Didn't See—in California The astroturf quality of this campaign should not be ignored. Read more |
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Nandini Archer, Claire Provost US Isolated at 'Failed' Anti-Abortion Summit in Nairobi Conservative protests against global development conference in Kenya fail to draw crowds, or derail commitments. Read more |
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Janine Jackson Missed Opportunity to Recall a Day to ‘Perpetuate Peace’ Absent in media coverage of Veterans Day was discussion of the way to honor veteran. Read more |
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Diane Ravitch Yes, Something Stinks about the State Takeover of the Houston Independent School District The state officials behind the takeover are vandals, disrupters, corrupters of democracy. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Major Victory as EIB Ends Fossil Fuel Financing by 2021 Other banks must now follow. Read more |
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Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, Bill McKibben Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused Climate change disproportionately affects poor people and people of color. They should be compensated for their suffering. Read more |
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Chris Hedges How to Save the Planet and Ourselves We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophe. Read more |
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Juan Cole Iran: Economic Blockade and Crowd Protests Were Also How the US Made the 1953 Coup The 1950s boycott of Iranian oil exports plunged the country's economy into crisis and stirred popular resentments. Read more |
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William Hartung America's Arms Sales Addiction The 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade Read more |
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Reese Erlich A New Arab Spring in Lebanon and Iraq Once again, people in the Middle East want democratic reforms and an end to corruption and foreign domination. Read more |
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Lucas Koerner, Ricardo Vaz Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup For all the supposed threat Trump represents and the enthusiasm sparked by his possible impeachment, Western media continue to march lockstep behind his administration’s coups in Latin America. Read more |
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Martin Winiecki On Bolivia: Four Provocations for the International Left The fall of the last surviving leader of the "pink tide" is a true moment of reckoning for progressives worldwide. Read more |
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Michele Swenson Let's Be Very Clear: Medicare for All Is Not Socialism What we have now in the U.S. is a for-profit health insurance model that privatizes profit and socializes risk. And it's not working. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Risking Lives in Endless US Wars Is Morally Wrong and a Strategic Failure Too often ignored is the far greater number of lives that are lost not on the battlefield but at home, not from the enemy’s guns but from our veterans’ own hands. Read more |
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Eric Margolis The Forgotten Plunder of Iraq Few talk or think about Iraq these days and the media ignores this important but demolished nation. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Tanisha Anderson, Impeachment, and a Hawk This column could probably have gotten more likes if I'd made it about Trump instead of Tanisha Anderson or a hawk. Read more |
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Arshad M Khan, Meena Miriam Yust Venice Is Flooded—A Look at Our Coastal Future It might look likes the city—world famous for its canal streets—is sinking. But that is not what's happening. Read more |
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Jack Crosbie The Progressive Press Is Facing Mass Extinction Deadspin, Splinter, and ThinkProgress are gone. The mainstream media is hopelessly neutral. Who’s left to check capitalism? Read more |
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Michael Winship The Disdain for Ukraine Is Mainly in Trump's Brain The President of the United States treats Ukraine as if it were the slaphappy Freedonia of the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Violence of Fascist Leaders, Then and Now Although lacking internet, the Nazis knew the value of film in order to get their message to the people. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Most Impeachable President in US History vs. The Most Hesitant Congress. What are the Democrats waiting for? Trump is the most impeachable tyrant in the country's history—hands down. Read more |
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Shahid Mahmood Welcome to Chile: One of Latin America's Most Unequal Countries The current Constitution illustrates a time when Pinochet along with President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger forced upon Chile economic policies that would consolidate an export-driven economy owned by foreign multi-nationals. Read more |
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Michelle Chen Can Google’s Soul Be Saved? Rank-and-file Silicon Valley tech workers are using their leverage to push companies toward more ethical business models, or at least away from destroying the environment and undermining human rights. Read more |
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Brian Mier As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a 2018 ruling on November 7, upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty in the 1988 Constitution and declaring it illegal to jail defendants before... Read more |
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Tom Weis DNC Dithers While the World Burns Does anyone else find it strange that nearly every Democratic presidential candidate has publicly called for a climate debate the DNC refuses to hold? Read more |
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Victor Pickard, David Elliot Berman Cities and States Take Up the Battle for an Open Internet and Municipal Broadband A different vision of how the internet could operate is already taking shape across the United States. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Why Facebook Filtering Will Ultimately Fail We as a society need to do more than hope that Facebook can fix itself. Read more |
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David Solnit, Stephanie Guilloud Remembering the Battle for Seattle: Organizers Launch Project to Reflect on 20 Years of Lessons The 1999 protest against the World Trade Organization was a key turning point on the cusp of the 21st century, and there is no better moment to remember the lessons and carry forward bold visions of resistance. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Celebrating Peace: A Work in Progress For far too long, war has won. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps The House-Senate companion bill address corporate America's extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Why Aren't People in the US Rising Up Like Those Elsewhere in the World? Without a mass movement continually pushing and prodding for real change and holding politicians accountable—for their policies as well as their words—our neoliberal rulers assume that they can safely ignore the concerns and interests of ordinary people. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Dreamers Tell Trump and SCOTUS They Are Here to Stay The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a legal challenge being brought against President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA, enacted... Read more |
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Julie Hollar NYT Recycles Polling to Tell Democrats Once More: Move to the Right Hmmm... this was a very slippery question to hang an article on. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Welcome to a World in Which All Hell Is Breaking Loose What the U.S. military will be doing in a climate crisis future Read more |
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Angela Marino The Right-Wing Coup in Bolivia Is Exactly the Opposite of What Democracy Looks Like While emboldening the right wing at home, the face of U.S. foreign affairs once again masks evil with indefensible hypocrisy for people all around the world to see. Read more |
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César Chelala Coming to Terms With the U.S. Role in Central America U.S. military intervention has played an important role in the instability, poverty, and violence that drives tens of thousands of people from the Central American countries toward Mexico and the United States. Read more |
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Jill Richardson The EPA’s War on Science Continues The EPA wants to ban research that doesn’t violate the privacy of its subjects. That means less science—and fewer rules for polluters. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Time for a Billionaire Ban The wealthiest Americans dominate our airwaves. Let’s hear from someone else for a change. Read more |
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Alan Hirsch Why This Impeachment Skeptic Changed His Mind When a president continually engages in inappropriate behavior to win an election, the election itself ceases to be a reliable way of removing him. Read more |
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David Vine Reckoning With the Costs of War: It's Time to Take Responsibility As the new Costs of War report and 3.1 million deaths should remind us, part of our responsibility must be to repair some of the immeasurable damage done and to ensure that wars like these never happen again. Read more |
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Kelly Trout Decoding the IEA’s Scenario Spin: Real Reform or More of the Same? From the IEA’s preview materials, we already know this: The IEA is still failing, in 2019, to respond to climate emergency and steer energy decisions away from fossil fuels and towards the renewable future required to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores How the OAS and US Just Helped Overthrow Another Government The U.S. government and the Organization for American States can notch another coup on their belts. Read more |
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Frederic Mousseau, Elena Teare Ukraine, the Land of Quid Pro Quos If we are to take the matter of quid pro quos seriously, we should take the measure of over US$20 billion of aid forcing Ukraine to privatize its land and its economy for the profit of a few Western interests. Read more |
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Bill Blum Think Capone When It Comes to Trump’s Impeachment For Trump, rules, including the rule of law, are meant to be broken. Defiance, fueled by a volatile mix of psychopathology, sociopathy and ignorance, is his brand. Read more |
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Ben Freeman , Ryan Summers The Perfectly Legal Ways Foreign Powers Subvert US Democracy Foreign powers have ample ability, through their lobbyists, to directly influence congressional legislation. They also have at least three indirect, perfectly legal avenues for trying to shift U.S. foreign policy in their favor: think tanks, the media, and academia. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia The overthrow of the elected leader cannot be understood without a glance at the nation's massive reserves of this crucial mineral. Read more |
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Ilana Novick Bernie Sanders Has More Diverse Support Than You Think "While there’s no one candidate that’s won the hearts and minds of all women voters, it’s Bernie Sanders who has made the most progress." Read more |
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Danica Jorden Lula Free, Bolsonaro in Rage A ruling by the Constitutional Court provisionally released Lula. An important part of the Brazilian people welcomed the news with joy and hope. But Bolsonaro reacted with rage and called him "guilty scum." Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Trump Applauds Bolivia’s Military Coup As US Establishment Media Blame Morales For Turmoil Right-wing opposition forces, and their supporters in the U.S. government, benefited from the sheer ignorance of the electoral process in Bolivia, which was weaponized to further destabilize the country. Read more |
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Juan Cole 'Catastrophic' Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia as Government Backs Coal A new report on the G20 and climate finds that Australia’s emissions are increasing and there is no plan to rein them in. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Death by Oligarchy When those on the bottom and in the middle of the social pyramid lose their voice and agency, when the society exists only to serve the greed of the rich, when income inequality reaches the levels it has reached in the United States, the social fabric is torn apart and the society destroys itself. Read more |