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Eugene Robinson On the Bootlicking Cowardice of Republicans For now, Trump can cling to the fact that lily-livered Republicans still fear his wrath. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad, E. Ahmet Tonak What to Expect from Turkey’s Coming Invasion of Syria Erdogan’s government is preparing to enter Syria for a major military operation against the SDF. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Paying the Boss 1,000 Times More Than a Worker Encourages Reckless Corporate Behavior Sentiment is building to tax excessive CEO pay at public companies. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis We need to move from oil to soil. Read more |
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Larry Beinhart When Lies Trump Truth If Trump's falsehoods do not get him impeached or defeated in 2020, the future of American democracy will be bleak. Read more |
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Gerald Friedman How the US Could Afford 'Medicare for All' Medicare, America’s greatest success in advancing health care, succeeded precisely because it was limited and had its own dedicated funding streams. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Time to Rebel The corporate forces that have seized control of our political and economic systems will, unchecked, drive us into extinction for profit. All we have left is nonviolent, disruptive civil disobedience. A rebellion. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Talks Tough With Journalists But Lets Real Strongmen Like Turkey’s Erdogan Walk All Over Him Never has the United States had a more cowardly president, or one who could not be bothered to actually pursue a coherent foreign policy. Read more |
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Juan Cole Iraqi Government Teeters as Protest Death Toll Rises to 100, With 4,000 Wounded Youth protesters are upset about the spoils system in the Iraqi government. They are upset about the government’s inability to deliver basic services or sufficient jobs. They are exercised about severe corruption. Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M Khan Dying Wildlife on a Warming Planet If fish decline, so does a food source for humans and the water birds that feed on fish, and as insect pollinators decline, so do our crops and the plants around us. Read more |
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Emily Kirklin The Movement Bernie Started Is Bigger Than Any One Person. Have Faith in That Movement, Not Just the Man The reason people support Bernie Sanders is not because of the man; it is because of the ideals that he represents. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores The Latest on the Diplomatic War Against Venezuela So far, the diplomatic war is being won by the Maduro government, but the Venezuelan people continue to suffer from the brutal U.S. sanctions. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Lyricism of the Trump When the lyrical muse sings, the creative pen dances.. —Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium It is easy, when getting caught up in impeachment talk, crude behavior towards women, assaults on integrity, and... Read more |
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Abaki Beck Why Aren't Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women? Resource extraction takes a toll on more than just the economy and the environment. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Bernie's Heart. And Ours. Bernie has a huge and eternally healthy heart, filled with the lifeblood of empathy and dedication. In essence, that's what the 2020 Sanders campaign is all about. Not him. Us. Read more |
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Ron Fein Ukrainegate Is Impeachable. But So Is Putting Kids in Cages Do we really want to send future presidents the message that, so long as they don't pressure foreign governments to punish their political opponents, they can put children in internment camps? Read more |
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Alan MacLeod The Phony Liberalism of Bill Maher Despite everything he does and says, media still call HBO host a 'liberal' Read more |
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Diane Archer Watch Out, Seniors! Trump Just Launched a Stealth Attack on Medicare Trump's new executive order does nothing to hold the Medicare Advantage plans accountable for their fraudulent overcharges or their inappropriate denials of care and coverage. Rather, it rewards them. Read more |
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Anis Shivani Lessons from Hurricane Harvey, for a Still-Flooded Houston As Imelda’s floodwaters drain from my hometown, I observe a discourse around Harvey’s two- year anniversary constrained by a presumed opposition between the needs of humanity and the forces of nature—as though the two were in mortal combat. Read more |
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Juan Cole US Press Horrified By Trump’s "Shoot Migrants in the Legs" But Ignores What Israeli Snipers Do to Palestinian Protesters The Israeli army and government are now officially worse that the worst elements of the Trump administration. Read more |
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Jodie Evans Why I Confronted Trump’s Architect of U.S. Sanctions Against Iran and Called Her a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' Sigal Mandelker’s cruel policies cost too many lives to ignore. Read more |
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Bill C. Davis A Criminal Trump, GOP Complicity, and Hitler's "Chimera of Conscience" The forces keeping this chaotic, renegade organism in place are oblivious to the harm they are doing to themselves and indifferent to the harm being claimed by others. Read more |
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Lulu Friesdat Voting Machines Pose A Greater Threat to Our Elections Than Foreign Agents Security experts are alarmed at internet connectivity in voting systems because it can allow hackers to inject malware that disrupts or changes the outcome of an election. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Snowden Knows Exactly Why No One Wants to Be a Whistleblower "NSA whistleblowers who did go through this process had their lives destroyed." Read more |
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Genna Reed Science Advice Shouldn’t Be at the Whim of a President and His Appointees This executive order was just another example of this administration seeking to cut science and information out of the government and decisionmaking process. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Shame of the Nation: The 1% Rules and the 99% Lets Them There has never been so much but so little for the majority. Read more |
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John Atcheson When the Fringe Is Mainstream and the Mainstream Is Fringe: On Orwell and US Oligarchy The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to make all records tell the same tale, and they’re doing it as part of a systematic coup by the oligarchy that has been four decades in the making. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé, Bruce T. Boccardy Most of Us Are Not Doing So Well: Numbers Crunching Working People Our government’s and corporate media’s failure to capture the true extent of unemployment creates a distorted narrative about work that feeds bewilderment and self-recrimination. Read more |
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John Feffer The New Age of Protest People are hitting the streets to protest government inaction, repression, and corruption. Does that mean democracy is in trouble or stronger than ever? Read more |
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Rose Bookbinder After Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Immigrant Workers Are Organizing We can only expect that these raids will keep coming. The more prepared we are with rapid response, the more potential there is to organize and create a united front to fight back. Read more |
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Paul Kiel IRS: Sorry, But It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar No Good Reasons to Avoid Impeaching Trump If Trump survives an impeachment vote because his backers in the Senate refuse to abandon him, he may go on to lose at the polls because of the impeachment process. Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Protecting the Children on a Trumpian Planet Trumping the future would mean no future at all for my three kids Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Impeaching the Symptom, Not the Disease Trump may be a pioneer in bringing reckless, unrestrained narcissism into the role of national leadership, but he’s also a symptom of something wrong with this country that far transcends his stumbling ineptitude. Read more |
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António Guterres Youth Climate Strikers Have Accused World Leaders Like Me of Failure. They Are Right Around the world an unstoppable movement takes hold Read more |
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Sonya Sceats This "Strong Man" Populism Is Alarmingly Familiar to People Here Fleeing Human Rights Abuses The Trump and Johnson administrations’ attacks on the judiciary and lawmakers are part of a broader rise of authoritarianism, and must be seen alongside shocking recently unearthed comments about the use of torture. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Schiff Makes Clear All Trump Efforts to Obstruct House Inquiry Will Be Added to Articles of Impeachment Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff just provided a preemptive autopsy of Trump's presidency. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann If We Want US Democracy Back, We Must Undo Attack on Middle Class Launched by Reagan So long as the governments of America and other countries are captives of oligarchs and big corporations, and hang onto anti-worker, anti-middle-class neoliberal policies, citizens will continue to drift toward hard-right “populist" politicians. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Why Israel Is Struggling to Find a Way Out of Its Political Deadlock The reality is that there is strong unity in Israel—over shared, deeply ugly attitudes towards Palestinians, whether citizens or those under occupation. Paradoxically, the only obstacle to realising that unity is Netanyahu’s efforts to cling to power. Read more |
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Ben Freeman , William Hartung Trump and Money Are Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability for Khashoggi's Killing One year after Khashoggi’s killing, and 4 ½ years into the brutal Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, Congress and the president have yet to hold Saudi Arabia accountable. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson We’ve Waited Too Long for Corporations to Fix the CEO Pay Problem on Their Own A decade after bonus-chasing executives like Angelo Mozilo crashed the economy, we need tax incentives to push companies to narrow the gaps between CEO and worker pay. Read more |
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Anaiah Thomas I Climate Strike Because This Is Zero Hour We need everyone to join young people, frontline youth and Indigenous peoples around the world—because we will not stop, because we have no other choice. Read more |
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Michael Wallis Every Single One of My Patients Deserves Medicare for All If my patient needs a heart procedure, we should decide that together—not some insurance company. Read more |
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David Korten 'No Winners on a Dead Earth': Why We Need a Climate Leader in 2020 The climate crisis is our common cause, and we’ll need to elect a president that is willing to take it on. Read more |
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Olivia Snow Smith Wall Street Is Killing Local Newspapers We can’t put a price tag on our free press—but unless we stop them, predatory investors can. Read more |
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Karen Attiah 'Do Not Keep My Mouth Closed... You’ll Suffocate Me': Khashoggi's Final Words in Arabic Even in death, Jamal deserves to be heard, and his friends, family and compatriots deserve to have the chance to know the truth. Read more |
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Tamara Toles O'Laughlin The Fight to Stop the Climate Crisis is Local Everywhere the global #ClimateStrike movement exists, the fight to protect ourselves from fossil fuel extraction and climate injustice is personal and lives at home in our communities. Read more |
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Erin George, Ravi Mangla How Dehumanizing Language Fuels Mass Incarceration Projects to dismantle the system of mass incarceration must exist alongside a concerted effort to restore the humanity of incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, and other justice-involved people. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Trump’s Japan Deal Another Win for Global Meat Companies The Trump administration is building quite a record of favoritism for these multinationals that now rivals its well-known allegiance to the fossil fuel industry. Read more |
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Rajan Menon Hypersonic Weapons and National (In)security Why arms races never end. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin One Year After Khashoggi's Brutal Murder: Business as Usual? Who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince responsible for the journalist's gruesome assassination and the murder of tens of thousands of Yemenis, or the mendacious world leaders and businesspeople who continue to give MbS their support? Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice Such a scenario means that the entire region—from the Mediterranean Sea to the Hindu Kush mountains—will be plunged deeper into war. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Bernie’s Student Debt Plan Creates a Million More Jobs Than Warren’s—She Should Embrace It Full student debt cancellation, of the kind Sanders is proposing, would create at least a million more jobs than the plan Warren has put forth. Why, then, would progressives oppose it? Read more |
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Andy Rowell Despite Climate Emergency, Shell Boss Still Thinks It's "Legitimate to Invest" in Oil Shell still cares more about its shareholders than it does about society. It cares more about profit than it does people. It cares more about cash than a safe climate. Read more |
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Sarah Myhre Why Women’s Climate Leadership Is Vital Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place. Read more |
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Joshua Cho In Media Newspeak, a 'Peace Plan' for Israel/Palestine Is Anything US Proposes That Jared Kushner or this administration cares about "peace" for the Palestinians has always been a farce. Read more |
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Juan Cole On the Anniversary of Khashoggi's Grisly Assassination, Are Trump's Calls With Saudi Prince Also on Top Secret Server? Besides Ukraine, it appears likely that the White House may have also put conversations U.S. president had with Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson McConnell's Republican Senate Is a Roadblock to Progress in America The Majority Leader and his GOP allies will block reforms our nation desperately needs until voters move them out of the way. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Real Lesson of Ukraine Gate Is That Trump's 2020 Reelection Campaign Will Be Ruthless The real value of the formal impeachment now underway is to put Trump on notice that he can't necessarily get away with abusing his presidential power to win reelection. He will still try, of course. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly The Wounds of War A U.S. drone killed at least thirty-two pine nut farmers in Afghanistan and yet the U.S. war machine keeps grinding on. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Fighting Corruption Must Be Our Focus In 2020 The future of the nation and the planet is at stake. Read more |
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Will Bunch Trump Impeachment Isn’t Politics. It’s Whether There's Anything America’s Powerful Can’t Get Away With There’s a long way to go before America can plausibly claim that no man is above the law, but the impeachment of a crooked president will be a massive and long-overdue step in the right direction. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Make America Greta Again "Sea levels are rising and so are we!" Read more |
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Michael Winship Healthcare Reformer Wendell Potter: The For-Profit 'System Is Unraveling' A business group comes out swinging on behalf of Medicare for All. Read more |
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Ellen Brown The Disaster of Negative Interest Rates President Trump wants negative interest rates, but they would be disastrous for the U.S. economy, and his objectives can be better achieved by other means. Read more |
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Leah Asmelash Greta Thunberg Isn't Alone. Meet Some Other Young Activists Who Are Leading the Environmentalist Fight Around the globe, young people are sounding the alarm on climate change and environmental issues by organizing rallies and confronting policymakers. Read more |
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Norman Solomon MoveOn's Phony New Campaign for 'Protecting Whistleblowers' In the last decade, MoveOn—which says it has an email list of 8 million "members"—has refused to do any campaigns to help Manning, Drake, Snowden, Kiriakou, or Sterling. Read more |
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Manar Waheed Slashing of the Refugee Cap Latest Sickening Move by Trump Trump continues the legacy he began with the Muslim ban, betraying communities and implementing discriminatory and hateful policies at nearly every turn. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Corporate Media Still Waiting for Trump to Knock Over a Bank The corporate media establishment is devoted to the peculiar notion of "objectivity"—which, somewhat counterintuitively, rejects the idea that there is an objective reality that journalists can meaningfully describe. Read more |
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Juan Cole Yemen’s Houthis Claim Invasion of Saudi Arabia, Capture of Thousands of Troops in Najran If the story is true, it is a huge development. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly The Wounds of War in Afghanistan Recovering from a broken hip, the author reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war. Read more |
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Peter Dreier Can Quarterback Pelosi Bring the Democratic Team an Impeachment Victory? The Speaker of the House has helped build an impressive roster of players. The questions that liberals and Democrats—indeed, most Americans—are now asking is whether she can bring the team into the end zone. Read more |
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David Solnit, Julie Searle San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West "This is what arts and resistance looks like in San Francisco!" declared one of the many groups involved in the collective action. "Shutting down 2 blocks of SF’s financial district to disrupt climate profiteers!" Read more |
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Ralph Nader Will Constitutional Outlaw Trump Implode With Lies Before He is Impeached? When he is not openly violating the Constitution, Trump lies and commits impeachable offenses. Read more |
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Margaret Klein Salamon With a Planet on Fire, This Is What It Means to Enter Emergency Mode The climate crisis is an unprecedented emergency. How we react to the climate crisis will shape centuries and millennia to come. Read more |
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William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform A trillion-dollar future Pentagon budget? Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Impeachment Story Proves It Again: Trump Is No Strategic Genius He is not some omnipotent political mastermind. Attacks on his integrity, competence, appearance, or anything else that he's sensitive about will drive him nuts and sow chaos in his administration. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Trump Is Deserving of an Impeachment Inquiry, Many Times Over "At some point, we have to stand up to him and let him know that the line has been drawn, and you will go no further." Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Children to Adults: 'Do Your Job So We Have a Future' Children not only have the scientific facts on their side, but the moral clarity to demand change. Read more |
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Juan Cole Witness Intimidation: Unbalanced Trump Seeks Whistleblower Sources, Hints Execution for Espionage Trump is desperate to prevent more whistleblowers from surfacing and revealing more crimes or more details about the Zelensky shakedown. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Hope and Necessity This International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons There cannot be peace on the planet without peace with the planet. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Slow Down. The Case for a Deliberate and Focused Impeachment Inquiry Three reasons why it would be a mistake for House Democrats to rush the investigation into the president Read more |
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Trevor Timm Trump’s Ukraine Scandal Shows Why Whistleblowers Are So Vital to Democracy Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have consistently demonized people who share information with the press and public. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin 10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put "ending war" at the top of the "must do" list. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that. Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger Bernie Sanders, Medical Debt, and the Proposal for a Public Credit Agency Families that are in trouble due to medical debt are in trouble now , and the relief they need is also now . This plan offers it. Read more |
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John Feffer For Trump, Regime Change Begins at Home Trump has been enlisting foreign leaders in his fight against the U.S. state. Is impeachment a moral necessity or political trap? Read more |
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Juan Cole Annals of Impeachment: From Nixon’s "Smoking Gun" Tape to Trump Zelensky Summary Trump and his cronies are so far gone that they actually thought that staffers’ summary of his July conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky would exonerate him. Instead, it has so many Nixonian smoking guns that it single-handedly provoked a smog alert on Capitol Hill. Read more |
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Norman Solomon To Joe Biden, Trump's Potential Successor Mike Pence "Is a Decent Guy" That the former vice president could say such a thing about his successor—who has loyally served as Trump's highest-ranking henchman—illuminates a lot about Biden's style and his substance. Read more |
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John Atcheson In the End, Trump Left Pelosi No Choice on Impeachment If we must impeach, we must target the fundamental nature of the crimes, not the criminal. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Climate Change and Consciousness Shift Perhaps it takes a climate crisis to get us to understand that our home is the whole planet and we’re all in this as one. Read more |
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Mari Margil Legal Rights of the Natural World: Beyond Personhood By becoming a bearer of rights, nature is now being thrust into the murky realm of legal personhood. Read more |
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Michael Green Trump Threatens to Veto First-Ever Congressional Action on "Forever Chemicals" PFAS are "forever chemicals": They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. Read more |
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Lisa Gilbert Impeach Trump? Yes. But Don't Forget Complicity of McConnell and GOP The party's silence makes it partly responsible for the fact that at the helm of the country is a corrupt and craven want-to-be autocrat who tramples the Constitution on a regular basis. Read more |
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Peter Certo The Case for Impeachment Goes Way Beyond Ukraine Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Trump's Ukraine Call 'Not-a-Transcript' Proves This Is 'Stupid Watergate' The Trumpists release a non-transcript that is nonetheless incriminating—for the president, for his attorney general, and for Rudy Giuliani. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Big Polluters Respond to Greta’s Climate Call With "Woefully Short" Ambition Most leaders still pledge climate action out of one side of their mouth and continue investing in fossil fuels out of the other. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman, Sean McElwee You Might Be Surprised at How Far Americans Are Willing to Go to Overthrow the Power of Big Pharma No industry is more unpopular than the pharmaceutical industry. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight We want a future, a future we can live in, in a society that values people and planet, now and coming up. Read more |
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Julia Paley The End of Asylum? Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do? Read more |