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Chris Hedges The American Rescue Plan Does Not Address the Deep-Rooted Inequality Killing Us Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral. Read more |
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John McEvoy UN Rebuke of Crushing US Sanctions on Venezuela Met With Stunning Silence By omitting the devastating impact of sanctions, corporate media attribute sole responsibility for economic and humanitarian conditions to the Venezuelan government. Read more |
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Elizabeth Nash Arkansas Passing Near-Total Ban on Abortions Is Part of Larger Plan to Hurt Reproductive Rights Nationally As the courts have become more conservative, state legislatures have focused more attention on total and early abortion bans, with the hope that eventually the Supreme Court will allow such sweeping laws to take effect. Read more |
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GRAIN Sustainable Agriculture in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Farmers Leading the Battle in Asia They must become a road map—in Asia and the rest of the world—to get us all out of the terrible mess created by industrial agriculture and corporate greed. Read more |
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F. Douglas Stephenson Biden's Neoliberal Rescue of For-Profit Health System Proves We Need Medicare for All We need a system that is truly universal—everybody in, nobody out. Biden's proposal will add more participants to the current program, but still leave millions out. Read more |
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Alexandra Kotowski Four Things to Know About How Residents of the World's Largest Refugee Camp Have Braved Covid-19 Women and girls have bore the brunt of the crisis. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon Rahm Emanuel Is in the Running for a Top Ambassador Post. The Prospect Is Appalling. The saga of Emanuel's three decades in politics is an epic tale of methodical contempt for progressive values. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Biden Seems Intent on Falling in Line With America's History of Failed Foreign Policy Under the guise of correcting Trump's failures, they will perpetuate their own. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Voter Suppression: The Deep Roots of Racism in the GOP's Pursuit Towards Autocracy "They're doing anything they can to silence the voices of Black and Brown voters specifically because they largely powered [Democrat] wins." Read more |
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Ali Ahmad, Aditi Verma Ten Years After Fukushima: The Experts Examine Lessons Learned and Forgotten A nuclear accident anywhere is an accident everywhere. Read more |
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Michael Waldman Congress Can Stop These GOP Voter Suppression Laws, Cold. It Just Needs the Political Will. The For the People Act would make our democracy more inclusive and block efforts by state legislators to make it harder to vote. Read more |
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Denita Jones Deregulated, Privatized Utilities in Texas Are Designed for Private Gain at Public Expense My family spent the Texas freeze cold and dirty and parched while utilities bilked us and politicians fled to resorts. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Like the Diana Story, Meghan’s Fight With the Royals Will Ensure Nothing Really Changes The Royal Family, the perpetuation of privilege and the erosion of democracy will march on as before, in the same long and glorious British tradition. Read more |
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Carmen Scurato Resilient Networks Can Save Lives The injustice and barriers getting in the way of people trying to stay connected are nearly identical to the injustices woven into our electrical grids. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Rights of Nature: We Need Nature More Than It Needs Us This concept of nature existing in its own right as a living entity—not merely as inert property to be extracted and exploited for profit—is the essence of a rapidly spreading Rights of Nature movement. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Racism Among the Royals? Really? While Queen Elizabeth the person may be off the hook for asking about Archie's complexion, the monarchy's not off the hook for colonialism or white supremacy. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Violence Towards Asian Americans Has Skyrocketed The scapegoating of Asian Americans is taking an ugly, violent turn. Read more |
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Robert Reich Biden Must Wield the Power of the Presidency and Get Manchin and Sinema to Fall in Line There is no excuse for two Democratic senators to allow Republicans to stomp on our democracy and entrench their minority rule for generations. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era One of the lies capitalism tells us is that we should be grateful for our jobs and should think of those who make a profit from our labor not as exploiters but as "job creators." Read more |
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Chris Winters The War on Democracy and Voting Rights Is Under Way The Republicans have realized that their biggest problem is that voters don't like them or their policies. Rather than adapt, their solution appears to be to get rid of the voters. Read more |
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Yousef Rabhi, Anna Hansen We Are Local Leaders Uniting to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable We wouldn't be forced to tackle these unprecedented challenges were it not for the oil and gas industry that has spent decades polluting our climate and lying about it in order to protect their profits. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter The Daunting Water Crisis Requires a Bold Federal Response In Jackson, Mississippi, and throughout the South, communities are struggling to meet their residents' most basic needs. Read more |
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Julian Agyeman Disparity by Design: How Urban Planning and Housing Policy Helped Create 'Food Apartheid' in US Cities The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 54.4 million Americans live in low-income areas with poor access to healthy food. Read more |
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Aidan Smith Through Vigilant Organizing, Progressives Secure Representation in the Biden Administration Make no mistake, these appointments matter—these individuals will be shaping and informing policy decisions at the highest levels of government, affecting millions of lives in the process. Read more |
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Juan Cole Biden Overturns Trump Policy, Pushes Massive 84-Turbine Offshore Wind Farm to Power All Southern Massachusetts The $3 billion wind farm will be America’s first commercial scale offshore wind installation. Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte The Four Horsemen: Rush, Roger, Rupert, and The Donald May Ride Forever As do pestilence, famine, war, and death. Read more |
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Salena Tramel Sowing a Feminist Future "This is the struggle of a whole people who know they are thirsty for justice and have the wisdom to forge their liberation." Read more |
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Audrey Azoulay , Katrín Jakobsdóttir The World Not Only Needs Women Leaders—It Needs Feminist Leaders "Because gender equality not only serves to advance the cause of women—a fairer society benefits us all." Read more |
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Tara Houska Enbridge's Greenwashing Will Not Stand You can't put a fire out and pour millions of barrels of tar sands on it at the same time. Read more |
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Diane Archer The Ghost of the Trump Administration Is Haunting Medicare The Trump administration has outsourced Medicare to insurance companies and other for-profit middlemen, placing them between Americans and their doctors. Read more |
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Laura Packard Congress Must Expand Health Care Now Through the American Rescue Plan Expanding health care incrementally through the American Rescue Plan will help save lives now, and lay the groundwork for health care for all later. Read more |
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Marisa Bate International Women's Day Should Reflect a Record of Direct Action, Not Hollow Gestures COVID-19 is the enemy of us all, but to women it has felt like a meteor made of pure misogyny, shattering our lives on impact. Read more |
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Magdalena Sepúlveda Do You Want a More Caring—and Feminist Society? Tax Better! Women are the first to pay the price for decades of budget cuts and privatization of essential services. Read more |
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John Buell Making the Covid Vaccine Less Accessible to Poorer Countries Is Dangerous for Everyone COVID-19 and its variants reduce poor nations to producers of pathogens that will continue to disrupt economic and social life in wealthy nations. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud 'Is This Who We Are?': Gitmo is America’s Enduring Shame Guantánamo is a crime against humanity and there will never be any justification to rationalize why hundreds of people were held indefinitely, without trial, without due process, without international observers and without ever seeing their families and loved ones. Read more |
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Tara Lohan Sounds of Silence: Extinction Is Erasing the Earth’s Music Writer Kathleen Dean Moore turns her ear to nature’s sounds and what we’re losing as species disappear. Read more |
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Rivera Sun 9 Skillful Struggles Happening Right Now Learn some lessons from these nonviolent struggles around the world working to bring justice, equity and change to their communities. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Why the Amazon Worker Vote in Bessemer Means So Much Unions don't just raise worker wages. They help flatten grand private plutocratic fortunes. Read more |
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Robert Greene Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois: A Giant in the Struggle for Black Freedom in the US As America faces a period of renewed racial and political polarization, Du Bois’s vision for building a multi-racial democracy is more relevant than ever Read more |
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John Feffer The Talented Mr. Bin Salman The Saudi prince, like the Patricia Highsmith character, is a confidence man, serial killer, and all-around psychopath. The United States should stop enabling him. Read more |
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Shiney Varghese Calls for the Biden Administration to Prioritize Our Water Infrastructure Newly introduced legislation would help counteract decades of underinvestment in water infrastructure that's been plaguing America’s drinking water systems. Read more |
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Tom Pegram, Julia Kreienkamp Global Obsession With Economic Growth Will Increase Risk of Deadly Pandemics in Future Human civilization is on a collision course with the laws of ecology. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Prince Redux: The Family's Imprint Is Still Being Felt It’s hard not to marvel at their staying power. Read more |
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Juan Cole Typical Republican: The Racism and Anti-Science behind Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s Lifting of Covid Restrictions Abbott's policy is in accord with the general Conservative principle that property is more important than human life. Read more |
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César Chelala A Fragile Democracy In short, the former president’s behavior was criminal. Read more |
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Eshawney Gaston Essential Workers Deserve $15 an Hour We care for your parents, children, and homes. We should make enough to care for our own, too. Read more |
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Alastair Boone, David Solnit How Art Can Stop Evictions Street Spirit Newspaper's publishes anti-eviction art kit. Read more |
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Rebekah Entralgo The Richest Country in the World Should Guarantee Universal Paid Sick and Family Leave For workers like my mom, the financial strain caused by a lack of paid leave can be just as stressful as catching COVID-19. Read more |
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Tina Smith I've Made Up My Mind: The US Senate Must Abolish the Filibuster The filibuster has long been the enemy of progress. In fact, it’s been a highly effective tool to thwart the will of the people. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Corporate Media Praise Republicans Who Oppose Trump, but Whitewash Their Extremism and Undermining of Democracy Their own credulous coverage of the little lies of vote fraud, which went on for decades and their willingness to lionize purveyors of those lies to this day, have played no small role in allowing it to happen. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Biden's Bombing of Syria Is a Dangerous Step Backward Latest military attack shows that the new President hasn’t broken from the failed policies of the past. Read more |
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Elise Gould Jobs Report Shows Congress Must Pass Full $1.9 Trillion Relief Package Immediately The $1.9 trillion relief and recovery bill being considered in Congress this week is exactly what workers and their families need right now. Read more |
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Joe Dinkin The Choice for Democrats in Congress: Go Big or Go Home. The precedent created by letting one or two moderates derail popular legislation supported by the rest of the caucus is truly dangerous. Read more |
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Lynn Parramore Meet the "New Koch Brothers"–the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal Players on Wall Street have been torpedoing our chances of averting environmental catastrophe for years. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment? For local governments, public banks offer a path to escape monopoly control by giant private financial institutions over public policies. Read more |
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William Astore Rewarding Failure: Why Pentagon Weapons Programs Rarely Get Canceled Despite Major Problems As scores of billions of dollars are thrown away on failed weapons systems, America's roads, bridges, and other forms of infrastructure continue to crumble. Read more |
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Juan Cole Why Biden Is Dead Wrong on the ICC and Occupied Palestine Since Palestine as a permanent UN observer state is a member of the ICC and invited the court into its territory, the International Criminal Court has every right to investigate violations of the Rome Statute that took place in those territories. Read more |
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Sandra Steingraber How Austerity Killed the Center for Climate Justice: A Farewell to Ithaca College "As a matter of conscience, how could I launch a center devoted to the idea of justice when so much injustice would be taking place all around me? It’s traumatizing." Read more |
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Richard Eskow Ma Bell with Mind Control: Liberalism, Radicalism, and the Evolving Face of Censorship Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently lamented the rise of domestic extremism in the Washington Post . "We pride ourselves on the institutions that have evolved over... Read more |
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Lorah Steichen The Only Good "National Security" Approach to Climate Change Is to Make the Planet Itself Safer—for Everyone Who Lives on It As we saw in Texas, climate change is a major security risk. But it's not the kind the military is well equipped to handle. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The US War Machine Doesn't Want Us to Take War Personally The God of War is our ruler, and the job of the guy we elect as president is to slather our every act of war in sophisticated justification, a.k.a., public relations. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Wait, Don't Tell Me: The Capitol Riot Was Yet Another "Intelligence Failure" This is Washington's go-to excuse for basic failures of policy, but we should not tolerate it any longer. Read more |
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Helen Jaccard Marshall Islanders Remember "Castle Bravo" Nuclear Bomb with Honolulu Veterans and Supporters The Honolulu remembrance was part of the Golden Rule Project’s educational program about the growing danger of nuclear war, and the great damage that has already been done by nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars Unbeknownst to many Americans, the U.S. military and its allies are engaged in bombing and killing people in other countries on a daily basis. Read more |
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Michael Winship Same Old, Same Old from the Mouth That Roared Trump's CPAC speech may have been a rehash of his greatest hits but it made clear his lust for tyranny is undiminished. Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem Biden Is Bending Rules to Drop Bombs But Not to Raise Wages—That’s a Mistake People overcame great challenges to put this administration, and this Senate, in power. We shouldn’t be bombing people abroad while families at home struggle to survive. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear My Long-Lost Conversation With John Lewis on His Vision of Nonviolence In this never-before-released interview, the late civil rights leader and congressman talks systemic racism, permanent warfare, extreme poverty and nonviolence as a way of life. Read more |
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Molly Scott Cato The Joy of Tax: An Economy for the Common Good Taxation—including a carbon tax—can incentivise the transition to a low carbon economy, while reducing inequality and supporting vital services. Read more |
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Andy Rowell John Kerry Tells Big Oil to Stop Resisting Energy Transition or "You’re Going to End up on the Wrong Side of This Battle." The pandemic has "accelerated the energy transition," from which "oil demand may never recover." Read more |
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Jim Hightower 'Pathetic and Disgraceful': The GOP's Shameful War on Voters The theft of our democracy doesn't happen in a violent coup but in a thousand legalistic cuts by crooks like Ted Cruz. Read more |
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Michael Eisner, Jack Steele With Biden Refusing to Act, It's Time to Take Mohammed bin Salman to Court With Biden's inaction, courts are the best chance of achieving justice for Jamal Khashoggi and holding Mohammed bin Salman to account for his many human rights abuses. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Biden Is Following a Failed Blueprint for Forever War Bombing Syria and excusing the crimes of the Saudi crown prince won’t bring us any closer to a withdrawal from the Middle East. Read more |
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Madeleine Johnsson To Restore American Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultra-Wealthy After the tech sector, Wall Street is the second-highest source of wealth for American billionaires. Read more |
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Fabian Flues, Cecilia Olivet This Obscure Energy Treaty Is the Greatest Threat to the Planet You’ve Never Heard Of The Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action on climate change. It must be stopped before it’s too late. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis Biden Must Go Beyond Fiscal Stimulus Both supporters and critics of US President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan assume that there is a dollar amount that is just right. In fact, no such figure exists: every possible stimulus size is simultaneously too little and too big. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Age of Social Murder The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Operation Desert Storm: Blood for Oil Amid the ongoing horror, it’s important to find ways to atone for war crimes—including reparations. Read more |
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Mary Lawlor In Honduras and Across the World, Human Rights Defenders Continue To Be Killed With Impunity Five years after Berta Cáceres was murdered, governments are still failing to protect human rights defenders. Read more |
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Mandy Smithberger The Pentagon, First, Last, and Always Focusing on the wrong threats, including a new cold war with China, is the last thing we can afford now. Read more |
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Matt Sehrsweeney The Most Effective Method of Minimizing the Impacts of Climate Change Is Ensuring That Everyone’s Basic Needs Are Met We must attend to the structural injustices that immiserate so much of this country. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Factory Farms: New EPA Emissions Data Should Guide Biden on Agriculture and Climate We have to appropriately regulate the factory farm industry that has thus far successfully externalized the costs of its water and air pollution to the rest of us. Read more |
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John Buell Opponents of a $15 Minimum Wage Are Dead Wrong Raising the minimum wage is widely popular. Read more |
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Joan Herrera i Torres Capital Versus Biosphere: Humankind Is Testing the Limits of the Very Space in Which We Live An eco-social agenda fit for the times. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino Living Up Close and Personal With Our Endless Wars Perspectives on the storming of the Capitol from a military spouse. Read more |
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Chuck Collins COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Extreme Levels of Inequality. It’s Time for a Billionaire Wealth Tax The US's billionaires have amassed democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power as millions have been thrown into poverty. Read more |
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Orthalia Kunene The Climate Crisis Fuels Violence Against Women Without women’s full participation and freedom from violence, oppression, and discrimination, our efforts to address the climate crises will be an absolute failure. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma Though we must insist that the return to rule by the military in Burma is unacceptable, we must equally demand that Burma embraces true democracy for all of its citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. Read more |
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Trita Parsi Iran's Refusal to Meet Not Surprising There is no perfect solution to this imperfect situation. Both sides will have to swallow some pride and pay a political cost. Read more |
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Jennifer Grygiel Fiasco in Australia Illustrates How Facebook Is Ruining the Internet The situation in Australia is a significant opportunity to examine how much power Facebook has over the ways people can seek information online. Read more |
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Sanket Jain Why India's Farmers—Confronting Corporate Power and Modi's Right-Wing Government—Deserve Global Solidarity For more than eighty days, Indian protesters have demonstrated against a set of laws that would corporatize the country’s agriculture—and leave most farmers destitute. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Average American Pays Tax on Over Half Their Wealth. Shouldn't the Very Rich Do the Same? Our current national confusion over wealth taxes serves only the wealthy. Read more |
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Stephen Miles Biden Must Realize There Is No Winning an Endless War There is only loss and suffering. Read more |
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Robert Reich Senate Democrats Can and Must Abolish the Filibuster. Now. As long as the filibuster is intact, Senate Republicans could keep the Senate in gridlock, and then run in the 2022 midterms on Democrats’ failure to get anything done. Read more |
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Janine Jackson With Biden's Jen Psaki at the Podium, Corporate Outlets No Longer Think Briefings Newsworthy Obama briefings? Not news. Trump briefings? Always news. Biden briefings? Not news again. Read more |
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Mark Green Biden Can Be the FDR of Democracy Like Roosevelt did for the economy and Carter did for human rights, President Biden must make reviving American democracy the nation's top long-term priority by creating a new "Office for Democracy." It'd be an ignition switch to advance so many of the urgent pro-democracy reforms already proposed... Read more |
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Alex Lawson Want to Strengthen Social Security? Raise the Minimum Wage—and Do It Now! Social Security is extremely popular, effective, and efficient, but it has one major flaw—benefits are too low. Raising the minimum wage would be a big step towards fixing this problem. Read more |
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Michael Winship When Texas Froze Over, There Was Hell to Pay In the face of a winter disaster, when it came to taking care of the state’s citizens, GOP leadership was clueless and counterproductive. As usual. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised Biden must recognize that the best way to protect U.S. personnel in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region is to take them out of the Middle East. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis, Khury Petersen-Smith Dangerous US Bombing of Syria Worsens Regional Instability and Threatens Iran Nuclear Deal Regardless of who is giving orders to US bombers, we know that deploying US troops, drones, and warplanes across the region does not provide safety or security for anyone. Read more |
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José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph Stiglitz 'Global Minimum Tax on Multinationals': An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation For too long, international institutions have failed to address one of the most toxic aspects of globalization: tax avoidance and evasion by multinational corporations. Read more |