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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 |
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César Chelala President Trump's Baseless Attacks on Wind Power Wind power is far more ecofriendly than burning fossil fuels and, more importantly, has the possibility of freeing the U.S. from the economic dependency on fossil fuels. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The UK's Electoral System Failed First-past-the-post voting has been praised for promoting political stability, but it comes at the price of a government in which a minority can ride roughshod over the interests and preferences of more than half of the population. Read more |
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Christopher W. Shaw It's a Wonderful Life... For Bankers Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both understand the key economic lesson at the heart of the classic holiday film. Read more |
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Ariel Gold The Fascinating History and Political Lives of Jews in Iran As American Jews and non-Jews we should be outraged at how the Trump administration is endangering Iranian civil society and making their efforts for change much harder. Read more |
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Jeff Abbott The Other Americans: Asylum Seekers Routed to Guatemala A proposed amendment to immigration policy endangers asylum seekers, advocates warn. Read more |
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Shrenik Rao India Under Modi Is Becoming a Brutal Authoritarian State Modi's Hindutva populism, backed by naked threats against India's Muslim minority and the suppression of dissent, is crashing India's economy and its democracy. Read more |
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Kristin Henderson A Feminist Alternative to Trump’s Chest Beating on Iran Foreign policy should prioritize the needs of ordinary civilians and civil society—and wars of choice should always be off the table. Read more |
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Juan Cole Would Refugee Baby Jesus Have Been Torn From Mary’s Arms by Trump? These American, Christian politicians would not have admitted the holy family when they fled Herod the Great. Read more |
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Ahsan I Butt The Afghan War: A Failure Made in the USA The US-made mess in Afghanistan has much to do with its failed policies and shoot-first-ask-questions-later attitude. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Remembering the Message of Christmas The Prince of Peace, he taught us that peace is not the absence of violence; it is the presence of justice and righteousness. Read more |
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Robert Reich How Trump Has Betrayed the Working Class The consequences of Trump’s and the Republicans’ excessive corporate giveaways and their failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day. Read more |
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Chuck Idelson All I Want for Christmas and Hanukkah Is Medicare for All Medicare for All would eliminate the debilitating health insecurity caused by skyrocketing costs while guaranteeing everyone will get the health care they need, when and where they need it. Read more |
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Julianne Tveten There's No Place Like the 'Center' for the Holidays The corporate media's holiday civility guides dismiss and stigmatize political dissent. Read more |
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Steve Beyersdoerfer Postal Workers Deliver 20 Million Packages Per Day. What Can We Give Them in Return? The White House task force claims that the Postal Service is on an "unstable financial path." The reality is that Congress manufactured our financial problem—and it could fix it. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear A Christmas Arrest for Climate Justice on #FireDrillFriday We need to go way beyond Gandhi and Dr. King, and build a global grassroots, bottom up, people power movement of active nonviolence on behalf of all creation the likes of which the world has never seen. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Moral Hypocrisy of Trump's Limited Impeachment If the Democrats and the Republicans were committed to defending the Constitution why didn’t they impeach George W. Bush when he launched two illegal wars that were never declared by Congress as demanded by the Constitution? Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Is Donald Trump America's Second 9/11? On the first 9/11, the greatest power in history struck out at the planet. The second time around, it seems to be preparing to strike out at itself. Read more |
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Norman Solomon It's Corporate Media, 'Moderate' Democrats, and the Oligarchy vs. Bernie Sanders and a Movement The greatest trick the American oligarchy ever played was convincing the country they didn't exist. Read more |
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Dave Lindorff OK Boomers, Wake Up! Sanders is the person you used to be but forgot about. Read more |
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Al Martinich, Tom Palaima The Trump Presidency is Reversing History If Trump is not convicted in the Senate of abusing his power and obstructing Congress, he will be emboldened. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Corporate Media Find All the Wrong Lessons for US Left in Corbyn's Defeat While there certainly are many things that progressives can learn from Labour's defeat, the herd of independent minds in the corporate press can see only one lesson: don't go left. Read more |
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César Chelala Bitter Days for Donald Trump This is the third time in the history of the United States that a president is subjected to political trial. Read more |
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Roshi Joan Halifax Wake Up Now! Rise Up Together! We must take a stand now for ending the structural violence associated with our climate catastrophe. Read more |
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Jeff Carter Major Missed Opportunity on Clean Energy Incentives to Reduce Carbon Emissions The stakes could not be higher. The climate crisis is a health emergency. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democrats Cave in Secret Budget Deal with Trump What a grotesque way to spend taxpayer money! Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work The underlying fault is not in how the U.S. tries and fails to reconstruct societies destroyed by its "regime changes," but in the fundamental illegitimacy of regime change itself. Read more |
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Kristine Mattis The Climate Emergency Needs No Holidays The voice of corporate capitalism seems to predominate this season, while the wails of our planetary ecosystem are muffled under a pile of packages. Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump and McConnell Are Getting Nothin’ for Christmas 'Cause they ain't been nothin' but bad. Read more |
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Julie Hollar PBS Decides What Debate Watchers Need Is More Talk From Pundits Debates are one of the few opportunities most voters outside of the early voting states have to hear directly from the candidates without being filtered by journalist spin. Until now. Read more |
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Parker Molloy The Hill Can’t Stop Spreading Misinformation About Trump’s Impeachment The site’s social media strategy sows confusion and spreads lies. Read more |
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Randall Amster Dread and Circuses: Powerful Forces Diverting Attention From Imperative Measures Through Crass Distractions It may be tempting to obsess over the ways that the two main parties diverge, but it might be more important to note when they agree. Read more |
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Walden Bello Good Riddance to the WTO Rich countries embraced trade multilateralism when it suited them, and now they’re abandoning it. That may not be such a bad thing. Read more |
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Juan Cole Climate Crisis Rages in Australia, With 14 of 15 Hottest Places in World and Sydney Fire-Besieged Australia is a major exporter of coal and other hydrocarbons, and with 0.7 percent of the world population is responsible for 5% of carbon dioxide emissions if exported fuels are counted. That is staggering. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar To Understand Trump, You Must Understand His Cult One of the best means of battling the cult of Trump is to continue to hammer away at the truth, hoping the shelf of nagging doubts at the back of the MAGA heads may collapse someday with the weight of facts and truth. Read more |
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John Atcheson Just Because Republicans Are Spewing Nonsense on Impeachment Doesn't Mean the "Big Lie" Won't Work The real jury in an impeachment trial is the people, no the U.S. Senate. But is enough of the nation truly ready to call out the president and is party for what they truly are? Read more |
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Andreea Sterea The Looming U.S. Water Crisis America is going through a water crisis, and we’re going to face even more dire times if it doesn’t begin to change soon. Read more |
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Karen Stillerman Farm State Voters See Soil as a Solution to Agriculture’s Woes Large majorities of voters said they would be more likely to support candidates for public office who propose ways to help farmers build healthy, living soil. Read more |
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Tarek Ismail, Scarlet Kim A Secret CBP Team Is Targeting and Detaining Innocent Travelers. We’re Suing. For too long, the government has acted as if it has carte blanche at the border. No more. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud From a Blessing to a Curse: How UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank The US managed to turn international consensus regarding the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine into an opportunity for Tel Aviv to disown any commitment, not only to the UN, but to the so-called two-state solution, and the "peace process", as well. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino How War Targets the Young War on terror, war on education. Read more |
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Ted Glick Impeachment and the Democrat/Progressive United Front Let’s do all in our power to turn the Republican Party’s unanimous kissing of Mafioso Don’s ring in the House yesterday into a massive wave of popular revulsion and a progressive political landslide next November. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Given $738 Billion, US War Budget Hits the Motherlode (Again) The delusions of militarism live on in a nation addicted to violence and bloodshed for profit. Read more |
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Saira Hussain California DOJ Cuts Off ICE Deportation Officers from State Law Enforcement Database The Trump administration relentlessly targets immigrant communities and ICE continues to exploit state and local resources, including databases, to act as force multipliers for immigration enforcement. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe Even in Defeat, Labour Mobilized the New Working Class The U.K. election demonstrated the urgent need for grassroots organizing. Read more |
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Sarah Gertler Trump’s Judaism Order Has Nothing to Do With Fighting Anti-Semitism The man who called neo-Nazis "very fine people" has no business defining anti-Semitism for the rest of us. Read more |
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Maria Tanyag , Jacqui True Climate Conferences Are Male, Pale and Stale—It’s Time to Bring in Women By supporting women at all levels, from the village to the global stage, this vital perspective can inform the creation of robust, sustainable and effective solutions to our climate crisis. Read more |
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Mimi Kennedy, Harvey Wasserman Final Showdown: PG&E at the Brink of Nuclear Bankruptcy The same pattern of lethal neglect and deferred maintenance that made PG&E the proven culprit in murderous wildfires is being repeated at Diablo Canyon. Read more |
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Evan Greer Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just Reject These Corporations' Surveillance and a Dystopic Future Purchasing devices that constantly monitor, track and record us for convenience or a sense of safety is laying the foundation for an oppressive future. Read more |
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Stephanie Danielle Roth People Power in Romania Stopped a Mining Project. Now the Corporation Is Suing for Billions of Dollars. Romanian and U.S. environmental justice activists demonstrated in Washington, DC, outside a World Bank tribunal hearing on a case brought by Canadian-based Gabriel Resources. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Can 'Powerless Nobodies' Fight the Corporate Powers? The Formosa settlement victory sets a major legal precedent to advance other citizen lawsuits against polluters, requiring that the polluters (not taxpayers) pay for their messes. Read more |
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Jessa Crispin Barack Obama Is Going After Old Men. His Real Target Is Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who consistently scares the political establishment, and the Obamas can’t stop themselves from showing whose side they’re on. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Remembering America’s First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists The Moro War: It was "progress" all the way then, too. Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Is Growth Passé? Some suggest that the Paris climate agreement’s target for limiting global warming can be achieved only by stopping economic expansion. But there is ample room to change the quality of growth and significantly reduce its environmental impact without condemning billions of people to lives of... Read more |
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Rachel M. Cohen Trump’s North America Trade Deal Is Poised to Worsen Climate Change—But Dems Don’t Seem To Mind “We cannot simultaneously claim to fight climate change on one hand and enact climate-denying trade deals on the other." Read more |
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Ilana Novick Media Taking Notice as Sanders Surges in New Polls It looks like the media might finally have to take Sanders seriously. Read more |
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Juan Cole Israeli Blockade of Gaza Causing Contaminated Water, 25% of Illnesses and 12% of Infant Deaths Under the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of Occupied populations, it is a war crime for Israel to impose collective punishment on all Palestinians in Gaza to get at Hamas. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Trump Is Leading a Revolution That Is Destroying America He has decided the presidency is above the law, as well as beyond the reach of Congress and courts. Read more |
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Robert Reich America’s Next President: Warren Sanders If the backers of both Sanders and Warren eventually come together behind one of them, they’ll have the votes to take the White House, and even flip the Senate. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Five Years After Obama’s Cuba Opening, Cubans Are Reeling From the "Trump Effect" Trump’s policies are making life harder for Cuba’s 10 million people. Read more |
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Deborah Burger Medicare for All Will Boost the Fight for Racial Justice in Health Care Transformation of our health care system to a more humane model based on health care as a human right, not profits and ability to pay would sharply reduce systemic and institutional racial disparities. Read more |
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Mark Kreidler Industry Seeks to Flatline Universal Health Care A deeply funded lobbying group is out to kill Medicare for All. Its ideological roots run back to the Truman era. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Boeing’s Perilous Bungling Requires New Leadership Boeing has displayed an egregious pattern of mismanagement. Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins 'We Need Total System Change': A Letter from Santiago, Chile Without mass grassroots awareness and collective action, without a political revolution—the billionaires and corporations will destroy us all. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Toxic Injustice and the Green New Deal Priority for abused communities must pervade every aspect of a Green New Deal. Read more |
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Carol Burris Rating the 2020 Democrats at This Weekend's Education Forum Support was voiced by the candidates for community schools, increased school funding for Title I schools, increased pay for teachers, support for unions, fully-funded pre-schools, increasing the number of teachers of color, student loan forgiveness, and other equity issues which have commonly... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Progressives Need a United Front for Sanders and Warren The need is for supporters to openly explain reasons for preferring Warren or Sanders while avoiding the start of a mutual demolition derby. In the process of strengthening progressive forces, it’s vital to defeat corporate Democrats, before proceeding to defeat Donald Trump. Read more |
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William Hartung Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decades The stubborn persistence of the military-industrial state. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Hope Lies in the Streets Economic tyranny lies at the root of the unrest in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon as well as the rise of right-wing demagogues and false prophets such as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more |
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Ivy Brashear The Lies We're Told About Appalachia The old exploitative images are indelible: out of work, White, needy. They obscure the region’s diversity and long tradition of activism. Read more |
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Rivera Sun What's the Secret to Success for Nonviolent Movements? Try Solidarity. Instead of "going it alone," movements can amplify their message, leverage collective power, and build strength by seeking solidarity from aligned organizations and groups. Read more |