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Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen? Read more |
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Christian Parenti, Dante Dallavalle Wall Street Is High on Government Supply For more than a decade, the US government has been taking over ever larger portions of the financial system to prop up shaky markets. It hasn’t worked. We need a real socialization of finance — for the majority, not the banks. Read more |
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Ellen Brown The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing banks out, Congress should nationalize them. Read more |
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Neil deMause Reading About Coronavirus Without Scaring Yourself Too Much (or Too Little) Reading up on the new coronavirus can feel like a rabbit hole of conflicting reports. Read more |
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Kelly Trout The Loopholes Lurking in BP’s New Climate Aims It’s time for BP and all oil companies to stop hiding behind net-zero rhetoric and commit to immediate action on the scale of the crisis we’re in. Read more |
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Elise Gould Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, the Workers Who Need Paid Sick Days the Most Have the Least Many of the 73% of workers with access to paid sick days will not have enough days banked to be able to take off for the course of the illness to take care of themselves or a family member. Read more |
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David Orr Politics and Consequences: From Climate Emergency to Coronavirus After a forty-year waged on both science and government, the dangers that face us now are no surprise at all. Read more |
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Norman Solomon 'In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See': The 2020 Bernie Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue Corporate media and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign—and the grassroots energy behind it—to melt away. That's not going to happen. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu The Coronavirus Is A Wake-Up Call For Climate Change If the world can do this for one virus, it can begin to do this for the even more catastrophic — and predictable — danger of climate change. Read more |
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Robert Reich How We Should Respond to the National Coronavirus Emergency Congress must immediately enact an emergency $400 billion. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson I Support Bernie Sanders Because He Is Only Candidate Who Inspires a New Generation Sanders will beat Trump by summoning America to a new day, not by calling for a return to yesterday Read more |
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Diana Sierra Becerra If You Support Women and Feminism, Back Bernie Sanders Many are urging Warren to endorse Sanders because his platform is feminist and because he has the best chance to defeat Trump. Read more |
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Bill Quigley Six Quick—But Very Important—Points About Coronavirus and Poverty in the US The most vulnerable among us simply do not have the same options as the most privileged. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Boomer, Hold Thy Tongue If you fall into the category of voters who generally agree with Sanders on the issues but fear that he can’t be elected, then please, at the least, stop acting as an echo chamber for the supposed irrational fears of your peers. Read more |
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Nan Levinson Would a Draft Matter? The nature of the military that fights America’s forever wars. Read more |
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Josh Bivens Even HBO’s John Oliver Didn’t Provide the full Context on "Medicare for All" and Jobs Many studies project that providing health insurance to currently uninsured and underinsured people will substantially boost demand for health care services, which in turn will boost demand for health care workers. Read more |
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Dean Baker Coronavirus Is a Reason to Worry About the Economy—the Stock Market Plunge Is Not If the coronavirus becomes very widespread, we could see enormous economic impacts. Read more |
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Adam Gaffney Medicare For All: If Not Now, When? The vast majority of the nation could benefit from single-payer reform—and that fact makes it winnable. Read more |
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Jennifer Goff, Erika Gubrium, et al. Five Americans Living in Social Democratic Norway Explain Why Bernie Sanders Is So Appealing We had to live in such a society before we could believe that it was possible. Here's what we discovered. Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian Why as a Black High School Teacher I'm Endorsing Bernie Sanders This is the campaign to fix the hole in the soul of America. Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Push for Racial Justice Beyond Race Alone Today, liberals and many on the left reflexively cast “African American” and “working class” as antagonistic rather than overlapping categories. Read more |
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Maria Morris Are Our Prisons and Jails Ready for COVID-19? People in prisons and jails are uniquely vulnerable to coronavirus. Officials must act quickly to pull together a plan to ensure the safety of incarcerated people, medical staff, and correctional officers. Read more |
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Carly Regina Not Just 'Two Old White Men,' This Democratic Primary Is Now a Serious Fight Between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders When it comes to the issues and their agendas, the contrast between these two candidates could hardly be more stark. Read more |
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John Buell Will the Establishment's Neoliberal Model of Drug Profiteering Finally Kill Us All? Why is there even a debate on whether any Coronavirus Vaccine Should be Free? Read more |
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Bill Moyers Losing Reality: Can We Get the Truth Back? Bill Moyers in Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton. Read more |
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Anis Shivani Time to Debate: How Bernie Could Destroy Biden in 120 Minutes Or Less Some serious advice for Sen. Sanders from somebody who is not a professional campaign strategist. Read more |
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Josh Bivens With Working People Most Vulnerable, It's Time to Get Serious About Economic Response to Coronavirus The first two characteristics of a potential COVID-19 slowdown—that it could come fast and come straight for low-wage workers first—suggest one potential response: rapid direct payments to individuals. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Beware the Buyer's Remorse of Impulse-Purchase Joe Biden While Biden may indeed be a "nice guy," he is quite possibly the worst candidate to challenge Trump. Read more |
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John Feffer President Trump as a Political Hit Man Trump’s perpetual reelection machine. Read more |
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Chris Hedges If It's Biden vs. Trump, This Year's One-Choice Election Will Be for Oligarchy We don’t need a "Punch and Judy" show between Trump and Biden. But that, along with corporate tyranny, is what we seem fated to get, unless we take to the streets and tear the house down. Read more |
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Joe Nguyen & Liz Lovelett Hey Fellow Warren Supporters, Let's Rally Around Bernie Sanders For all the strife we saw between Warren and Sanders during the campaign, the fact remains that the two have much more in common than not. Read more |
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Osprey Orielle Lake & Katherine Quaid Celebrating Climate Women on International Women's Day In the midst of multi-layered injustices including institutionalized patriarchy, colonization, racism, and economic inequality, women continually lead the way. Read more |
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Scott Casleton Bernie Beats Trump (and Biden) on Trade There is simply no question that Sanders's approach to trade prioritizes workers and the environment, and not corporate convenience. Read more |
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Nanticha Ocharoenchai What I Learned From the Women Fighting to Save Our Planet Creating change meant fixing a problem, and fixing a problem meant facing the complexities of environmental policy and political drama. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. They Really, Really Don't Want Black People to Vote, Do They? Six hours is time enough to steal a democracy. But it's time enough to save one, too. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism A far more urgent task for reporters covering the U.S. election cycle would be asking candidates how they plan to combat U.S. authoritarianism at home and abroad, and questioning why the accomplishments of Latin American socialism aren't possible in the United States. Read more |
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Eric Margolis End Bush's Stupid War Today Since 2001, hardly a word of truth about Afghanistan has come out of Washington. Read more |
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Sascha Cohen Freelancers Shouldn't Betray Other Gig Workers By Allying with Anti-Union Opponents of AB5 AB5 certainly needs tweaking, and jettisoning the arbitrary 35 article cap for writers is a good place to start. But it's another thing entirely to sidle up to Big Tech, Republican politicians, and firms like PLF, and to defend our work using the capitalist ethos of "individualism." Read more |
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Nikki Madsen Unnecessary Restrictions on Abortion Pose Undue Burden to Women's Constitutionality These regulations—as well as the extremist legislators who impose them—ignore the fact that abortion is safe, and as clinics close, more and more patients are forced to travel outside of their communities for care. Read more |
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John Feffer Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization? The Spanish flu helped herald the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. A century later, could the coronavirus do the same? Read more |
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Roger Lancaster Welcome to the New Legitimation Crisis: Bernie Sanders vs. the Plutocrats In these dangerous times, we might be pardoned for finding comic relief in the spectacles that are constantly playing out, as our uncomprehending ruling class stages displays of its own rank incompetence, its unfitness to govern. We might be excused for mocking the emperor's new clothes. Read more |
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Juan Cole It Seems That Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince MBS Is Continuing His Purge of Potential Rival Princes Former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, his brother Nawwaf, and Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud are accused of plotting to overthrow King Salman. Read more |
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Vera Eidelman Will the US Supreme Court Protect the Right to Protest? An officer sued DeRay Mckesson. The lawsuit, which should have been swiftly dismissed, now threatens the First Amendment rights of millions. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump vs. Sanders: A Concise Comparison for Voters (and Why Bernie Wins Hands Down) When there is a conflict between big business and the public good, on labor rights, consumer rights, small taxpayer respect, and environmental protections, Bernie has stood with the people. Read more |
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David Korten Corporations are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good. Read more |
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Laura Carlsen The Organization of American States Is Eroding Faith in Democracy Under its pro-Trump secretary general, a politicized OAS has botched electoral missions across the hemisphere—and even precipitated a coup. Read more |
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Juan Cole Exactly How Many People in Iran Will Die of Coronavirus Because of Trump's Inhumane Sanctions? If you were an evil comic book villain attempting to kill large numbers of people with a disease outbreak, you could not do a better job in putting people in harm's way than Trump has been doing. Read more |
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Joe Emersberger WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup When you have election monitors beholden to the US government, and a corporate media willing to cover for them, it is only duly elected officials in poor countries that need fear those kinds of consequences—and much worse. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan It's Medicare or Coronavirus-for-All A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defense against an epidemic like we now face. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson No, President Trump, the Never-ending War in Afghanistan Is Not Ending Trump is wrong to pretend he’s bringing the troops home from Afghanistan. All he’s agreed to do is bring them back down to the level they were at when he took office. Read more |
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Paul Street Trump's Real Base Is the Ruling Class Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base is—the billionaire class—ever since his election. Read more |
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Bill Kitchen Can Bernie Sanders or Bart Starr Jr.—or Anyone—Save Nate Woods From Execution? Sanders probably has little, if any, influence with Gov. Ivey. But he does have the ability to bring national attention to an issue just by mentioning it. Read more |
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Donna Smith She Persists: A Reflection on Elizabeth Warren's Sense of Shared Humanity Warren has been and ever will be the kind of powerful, American woman I will look up to with wonder and gratitude. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Trump's Ludicrous Handling of the Coronavirus What Alex Azar appears to be saying is that a coronavirus vaccine, once it is developed, will be left to the private marketplace rather than to government procurement. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The True Meaning of Super Tuesday We are not yet the nation we are struggling to become, but the Sanders campaign, however it fares in 2020, is helping to shape that future. It’s doing so one voter at a time, whether or not their vote is counted. Read more |
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Les Leopold When Gown Crushes Town: The Corporatization of Oberlin College Only the strongest actions from Alumni are likely to prevent the carnage that the College is about to unleash on these workers, on the community so dependent upon it, and on itself. Read more |
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Jonas Ecke Yet Another Betrayal of Humanitarianism: EU Policies at the Greece-Turkey Border If fascism now comes wrapped in an American flag, it is accompanied and conjured by historical amnesia in Europe. Read more |
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Bob Dreyfuss A Giuliani-Trump Foreign Policy? Rudy’s coup at Foggy Bottom. Read more |
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Josh Bivens Fundamental Health Reform Like 'Medicare for All' Would Help the Labor Market Job loss claims are misleading, and substantial boosts to job quality are often overlooked. Read more |
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Norman Solomon A Profound and Historic Question for Elizabeth Warren: Which Side Are You On? How Warren answers that question might determine the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In the process, she will profoundly etch into history the reality of her political character. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud A Terrifying Scenario: Coronavirus in 'Quarantined' Gaza Imagine living in a place that you couldn't get out off with sickness and threat of death all around you. Maybe now you will understand. Read more |
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Gissela Moya Want Everyone Counted in the 2020 Census? Involve Young Adults Although we still live under heightened political fear, our communities must be counted. Read more |
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Khury Petersen-Smith Ending the Myth That Trump Is Ending the Wars Trump has sent more new troops to the Middle East than he’s bringing home from Afghanistan. Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr., Willie Legette South Carolina, Neoliberalism's Stranglehold, and the Mystique of the 'Black Vote' By reducing all of black Americans' concerns to race or exploiting the idea of a singular "black vote" in the first place, the elite political class continues to undermine our ability to organize the majoritarian social movement we need to combat the ruling-class assault on all working people in... Read more |
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Shailly Gupta Barnes, Lindsay Koshgarian Remember Trump’s Choices: War, Walls, and Wall Street There are few clearer ways to see an administration’s choices than its budget. Here’s what we found in the president’s. Read more |
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Robert Reich If You Understand How Trump Defeated Clinton Four Years Ago, Do You Really Vote for Joe Biden? As Democratic establishment coalesces around Biden, 2020 primary starting to look a lot Like 2016. Read more |
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Anis Shivani After Super Tuesday, Bernie Must Go All Out to Make the Case for Biden's Unelectability The gloves must immediately come off when it comes to treating Joe Biden. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Trump Conundrum Donald Trump is the fakest (and realest) news of all. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Do Media Really Care About Money in Politics? All that soft money doesn’t go to the candidates—most of it goes directly toward ad buys, so it supports the salaries of people like Maddow and Bolduan. They aren’t about to bite the hand that feeds them. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Real Losers on Super Tuesday: Urgent Climate Action and Medicare for All. The Winner: Plutocracy On three big issues of major concern to the public, Biden ranges from being fairly good to being wholly inadequate. Sanders is superb on all three. Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Our For-Profit Health Care System is Unjust—Only Medicare For All Can Fix It When my patients struggle, it's not because they're unfortunate. It's because the system is unjust. We don't have to live like this. Read more |
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Nigel Clarke Mouseland Should Be Governed By Mice, Not Cats As the population has jumped back and forth between Republican and Democrat, the plight of the ordinary person has remained the same or gotten worse. Read more |
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Jessica J. González How Trump's Attack on Net Neutrality Created a Legal Mess for the Entire Internet Now more than ever we need the Senate to pass the Save the Internet Act. Read more |
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Roy Eidelson Beware the Bipartisan Legion of Doom: Corporate Democrats and Trump's GOP There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump. Read more |
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Josh Bivens Economic Policy and the Coronavirus: How to Mitigate Harm and Plan for the Future A list of considerations for policy makers. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Did Chris Matthews Reveal That Democratic Establishment's Real Fear Is a Bernie Win? Notice that the central worry from many in the corporate media is not that Sanders will lose to Trump, but that he will win . Read more |
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Alex Kotch Candidates Backed by Bloomberg Helped Pollute the Planet While Bloomberg has been consistent in his efforts to scale down coal operations, he’s been an enthusiastic supporter of natural gas development. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Four Numbers That Scream 'Vote for Bernie!' The richest 10% are very interested in keeping things just the way they are. Read more |
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Alison Rose Levy A Final, Super Tuesday Appeal to Warren Voters Please realize what is happening and don't subvert the passionate democracy of the #NotMeUs generation. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook On Super Tuesday and Beyond, 10 Reasons to Vote for Bernie Sanders The choice Democratic voters face is now clear: the corporate centrist establishment (the same one that lost in 2016) versus a surging multiracial coalition of people demanding real change, real justice, real equality, and an end to the status quo power dynamics that are killing and harming so many... Read more |
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Bruce T. Boccardy A Moral Flaw in the Process of Capitalist Economics If we cherish political democracy as a fundamental principle in our country, then we must adhere to a form of economic democracy as well. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Modi's Muslims We can only fear what this country will become should he reign another four years. Read more |
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Mary Kelly Gardner On Joining a Teachers’ Union and Supporting Bernie Sanders Sanders' voice is a rallying cry, reminding us all that collective action works, that we should let down our guard, allow ourselves to hope and band together. Read more |
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Mandy Smithberger Letting the Pentagon Loose With Your Tax Dollars Creating a national insecurity state. Read more |
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Margaret Klein Salamon, Ezra Silk Our Climate Mobilization Journey With Bernie Sanders It gives us hope that a Bernie Sanders administration, which we are committed to making a reality, will be the world’s first Climate Mobilization Presidency. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage. Read more |
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Lisa Graves Dark Money Played a Pivotal Role in Trump’s Wisconsin Win A confidential report claims that secretive groups targeting independent voters helped tip the balance for Trump in 2016. Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution We must think, act and organize locally, while simultaneously cultivating a global vision and global solidarity. Read more |
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Barcelona Research Group on Informal Recyclers The World’s Waste-Pickers Under Threat New waste management policies undermine the informal recycling sector in the Global South. Read more |
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Norman Solomon At the Epicenter of Super Tuesday, the Sanders Coalition Is Set to Shake the Political World Make no mistake about it: The bulk of powerful corporate media and entrenched corporate Democrats will do all they can to prevent the nominee from being Sanders. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Here Are 10,000 Words Detailing Why Bloomberg Embodies Everything Wrong With the US Plutocratic Political System Bloomberg and his political and media allies want to portray him as a non-ideological centrist, a good administrator who will "get it done," and a pragmatic politician who can work with both major parties. Don't believe them. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Plutocracy Strikes Back: CNN Compares Bernie Sanders to Coronavirus When I was young, people used to rail against plutocracy, and you always thought they were a bit kooky. But now I don't know what else you would call the United States. Read more |
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Peter Bloom The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher Did We Just Witness the First Union-Authorized Climate Strike in the United States? The union's focus on climate change demands is part of a growing trend toward "bargaining for the common good." Read more |
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Elise Gould Lack of Paid Sick Days and Large Numbers of Uninsured in US Increase Risks of Spreading the Coronavirus Meaningful paid sick leave legislation is incredibly important for low-wage workers and their families and important to reduce the spread of illness. Indeed, lives depend on it. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Democratic Debate Moderators Frame Questions to Define Acceptable Politics What we continue to see is the corporate media's ability use of its outsized power to dictate the limits of the conversation—and therefore also limit the ambitions of our politics. Read more |
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Ralph Nader American Fuhrer: Delusionary, Dictatorial Donald Trump Is Drunk on Power The word 'corruption' cannot fully embrace how this insulting megalomaniac is tearing apart our country, our democratic practices, and our moral norms. Who will put a stop to this president's corrupt rampage against the American people? Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate Despite the desperate smears from center-right opponents claiming he is "divisive," the reality is that Bernie Sanders’ policies are all about unity: common needs, mutual care, and a shared future. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan A Message for Trump: Coronavirus Threat Is About Public Health—Not the Stock Market or Your Reelection The gangerous cynicism of the Trump administration's response to the growing crisis. Read more |
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Marielena Hincapié Trump's New "Public Charge" Is a Radical and Grotesque Attack on Immigrant Communities and US Democracy While Trump wages this political power grab, the regulation going into effect this week will devastate countless families, deterring immigrants and citizens from seeking critical services—even though their tax dollars support these very programs. Read more |