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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 |
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Alan MacLeod When the US Supports It, It's Not a Coup The media message from the Bolivia case is clear: A coup is not a coup if we like the outcome. Read more |
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John Atcheson Trump Is Controlling the Narrative On Impeachment As long as the media and the Democratic Party allow Trump to impose his rhetorical frame on the impeachment process, the prospect of four more years of Trump remains a clear and present danger. Read more |
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Garett Reppenhagen Reclaiming Armistice Day As I hear the messages of militarism, I’ll be holding up hope (and a sign!) that seeks to reclaim a moment that is rooted in justice and ending wars that disrupt livelihoods and take resources from people around the globe. Read more |
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Melinda St. Louis We Asked a Simple Question. What We Received Was Shocking. " $10,000 for 4 hours in emergency room, food poisoning. Didn’t even stay the night!" Read more |
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Brian Terrell A Doubtful Proposition A Reflection on the Trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Read more |
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Naomi Oreskes The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All Science failed to have the necessary impact in significant part because of disinformation promoted by the major fossil-fuel companies, which have succeeded in diverting attention from climate change and successfully blocking meaningful action. Read more |
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Matthew Hoh And the Armies That Remained Suffer’d: Veterans, Moral Injury and Suicide The only way to prevent veterans from killing themselves is to prevent them from going to war. Read more |
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Stephanie Rugoff Helping Students Keep Their Humanity by Not Signing Up for War We Are Not Your Soldiers brings exposure of imperial wars to a generation of youth largely unaware of the crimes being carried out throughout the world in their names. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Biden and Bloomberg Want Uncle Sam to Defer to Uncle Scrooge The biggest fear among the billionaire class is not that a progressive Democratic nominee will lose against Trump. The biggest fear is that such a nominee will win. Read more |
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Glen Ford By Trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media Delegitimize Themselves Bernie Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Inequality and the Iron Law of Decaying Public Services The fires ravaging California offer still another reason to fear our grand economic divides. Read more |
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Theo Wuest If Money Is Tight, Climate Change Is Your Issue "40 percent of Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency — and more emergencies are coming." Read more |
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Regina Schwartz Immigration: "Loving Justice" When we fail to respond humanely to refugees, we not only deny their vulnerability, we also deny our own. Read more |
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Karim Sharara The Struggle of Nation and Religion in Lebanon "What happens once the protests are over, after people go home, and find that their expectations were cut short? Will it be another thirty years before they muster the courage to rise up again?" Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Defrauded Students and DeVos "Betsy DeVos has done so many notable things in her role as Secretary of Education that have justifiably earned her contempt, that being held in contempt by a federal judge because of one failing is barely newsworthy." Read more |
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Richard Eskow Can Bloomberg Buy the Election for $12 Billion? If So, He Can Write the Check Today "Michael Bloomberg is providing a public service in one way. He has become a living illustration of our broken economic and political system." Read more |
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Debra Utacia Krol Beyond November, Indigenous Communities Honor Culture and Heritage Year-Round " We are still here." Read more |
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Ryan Gunderson, Diana Stuart Corporate Climate Commitments: Who Should Lead Climate Action? Corporate claims about climate action are made with little financial backing or, rather, funneling money in the opposite direction. Read more |
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Tom Conway How Big Corporations Spy on Their Workers to Keep Their Wages Down "If corporations get the green light to spy on workers, they'll have an easier time ferreting out organizing campaigns and bullying employees into dropping them." Read more |
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John Atcheson The Neoliberal Assault on Warren's Plan to Pay for Medicare for All Well, that was quick—and predictable. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Impeachment Must Be More Than Impeachment "The impeachment needs to link the Ukraine scandal with the Mueller report." Read more |
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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Our Point Remains: PBS Should Broadcast Impeachment Hearings in Primetime And not just on digital platforms but on your regular local station. Read more |
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Dean Baker A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs The average benefit this year is just over $17,600, certainly not enough to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Read more |
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Heather Digby Parton Looks Like GOP Might Run With the "Moron Defense" for Trump Exhausted Republicans have given up on the claim that Trump did nothing wrong. All they've got left is "he's dumb." Read more |
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John Feffer Examining Trump World’s Fantastic Claims About Ukraine When it comes to Ukraine, Trump has been manipulated as deftly as a mindless marionette. It’s going to cost him. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Throwing the Base Under the Bus—and Other Deep Thoughts From NYT Edsall wants Democratic candidates to appeal to white working-class voters, not by offering them real economic succor, but by throwing the rest of the party under the bus. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Governments Beware: People Are Rising Up All Over the World Free-market capitalism has proved time and again to be a failure. The promised riches are distributed far too unequally, and for most they never transpire. Read more |
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Ralph Nader America's Streets and Squares Are Waiting, But When Will the People Rise Up to Fill Them? While there are some street protests in the U.S., they are sadly too few and far between. Read more |
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Michael Winship and Bill Moyers A Message to PBS: Televise the Trump Impeachment Hearings for All to See Why we took out that ad in The New York Times. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Social Media Is Amplifying Trump’s Rants and Disinformation More Than Ever—Can Society Protect Itself? As 2020 approaches, a look at disinformation trends, who’s susceptible, and the Democratic Party’s countermeasures. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Watching My Students Turn Into Soldiers of Empire A new generation of West Pointers joins America’s hopeless wars. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Is the Run on the Dollar Due to Panic or Greed? It looks to be just another case of Wall Street fattening itself at the public trough, using the funds of mom and pop depositors to maximize bank profits and line the pockets of bank executives while depriving small businesses of affordable loans. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad How U.S. Sanctions on Iran Are Killing Innocent People The evidence is undeniable. The U.S. sanctions are seriously destroying Iran’s health infrastructure and are leading to immediate deaths and suffering of the Iranian population. Read more |
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Robert Reich Massive Power, Dangerous Lies, and Why Corporations Like Facebook Must Be Broken Up Antitrust law was designed to check the power of giant commercial entities. Its purpose wasn't just to hold down consumer prices but also to protect democracy. Read more |
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Jimmy Gomez Hiking the Estate Tax Will Help Close the Wealth Gap A robust estate tax would limit the American aristocracy, narrow the wealth gap and raise revenue for public services essential to those of us who won't inherit a fortune. Read more |
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Sydney Ghazarian The Climate Strikers Walked Out of School. Next, Let’s Walk Off the Job. We can leverage our power as workers through high-impact, disruptive labor strikes that halt the economy’s gears until politicians can no longer ignore us, and are forced to cede to demands that will save the world. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Trump's Climate Crimes Are His Most Impeachable Offenses The climate crisis imperils the planet. To deny it is impeachable, the highest of high crimes and misdemeanors. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler A Tight Grip On Our Nuclear Toys Hello, omnicide. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Class Warfare of Billionaires Against Sanders and Warren The fight happening now for the Democratic presidential nomination largely amounts to class warfare. And the forces that have triumphed in the past are outraged that they currently have to deal with progressive opposition from not one but two candidates. Read more |
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Jodie Evans Avoiding the Climate Catastrophe Starts With Divesting From the War Machine The time has come to divest from the war machine and withdraw our public dollars from weapons corporations. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World It is entirely fitting that Chile should be in the vanguard of the protests sweeping the world in this Autumn of Discontent, since Chile served as the laboratory for the neoliberal transformation of economics and politics that has swept the world since the 1970s. Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez Republicans, Not Russians, Threaten Our Elections When turnout climbs, Republicans lose. No wonder they're closing polling places and purging voters all over the country. Read more |
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Shawn Fremstad Inflation Inequality and the Poverty Measure Today the United States is the only country in the world that measures present-day poverty by using a poverty line set over half a century ago. Read more |
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Louise Melling Trump Wants to Allow Discrimination With Billions of Dollars of Federal Funding Proposal from Health and Human Services would allow discrimination based on faith—including people who are Jewish, Muslim, Catholic—as well as LGBTQ people. Read more |
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Nick Turse Winter Is Coming Castle Black, the Syrian withdrawal, and the Battle of the Bases. Read more |
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Ilana Novick How Warren’s 'Medicare for All' Plan Hurts the Cause Warren’s funding scheme is getting major criticism from the left. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The Medicare for All Debate Is Long Overdue Medicare for All is popular at first look. When the insurance and drug companies and other opponents unleash their arguments, people’s doubts grow. Read more |
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Robert Reich Case Closed. There's No Question the Founding Fathers Would Impeach Trump If a president can invite a foreign power to influence the outcome of an election, there's no limit to how far foreign powers might go to curry favor with a president by helping to take down his rivals. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati William the Conqueror and CEO pay In 2018, fifty publicly traded U.S. corporations paid their CEOs more than 1,000 times what they paid their median workers. Read more |