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Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick Worldwide So great is the admiration for Cuban doctors that a global campaign has sprung up to award them the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more |
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Michael Winship In the Face of Powerful Protests, Parts of Middle America Enter the Twilight Zone Trump and Barr are at the forefront, trying to scare the citizenry with tales of anarchy and destruction. Read more |
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Kanya Bennett Congress Can Lead the Charge on Divesting From Law Enforcement The acknowledgment that Black Lives Matter demands bold and visionary leadership at the national level. Read more |
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Harriet Malinowitz The Banality of Racism and the Tearing Down of Statues As long as those stone or bronze testaments to a "heritage" or a "way of life" remain fixed in their places, they will continue to permeate our sense of what is just and acceptable in human relations. Read more |
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Brian Wakamo Instead of Bailing Out For-Profit Colleges, Congress Should Cancel Student Debt Lifting student debt burdens would particularly benefit people of color, while giving the economy a major boost. Read more |
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Max Richtman Trump, USPS and Seniors Refusing to bolster the United States Postal Service in its time of need is nothing short of a betrayal of American seniors, who are more reliant upon the US Postal Service than any other age group. Read more |
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Rory O'Connor Danny Schechter Award for Journalism and Activism Goes to Winona LaDuke The Global Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to developing socially responsible media, is proud to announce Native American leader Winona LaDuke as the recipient of the fifth annual DANNY Award, which honors the life and work of the late Danny "The News Dissector" Schechter. Read more |
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Sahar Aziz A Domestic Terror Law Could Quash Political Dissent in the US Passing a law allowing the designation of domestic groups as terrorist would allow the government to silence opposition. Read more |
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Nick Turse Will the Death of George Floyd Mark the Rebirth of America? A man forced to die with his face pressed to the ground may yet shift the earth under your feet. Read more |
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Paul J. Baicich Here Are Alternate Names for 10 Confederate-Named Army Bases These possibilities should strengthen the arguments from those who want to rid the country of anachronistic and racially-charged embarrassments. Read more |
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Al Martinich & Tom Palaima 2020 Is Not 1968, But It Could Be If we are to reach another new frontier, we may have to rely on each other—a remarkable 'ask' in the time of Covid-19, but one that many people, young and old, seem to be answering. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Sudan's Democratic Revolution is Being Undermined by the United States Economic recovery from decades of autocratic misrule is critical for Sudan. The U.S. is maintaining sanctions, effectively punishing the country for the sins of the dictatorship the Sudanese people overthrew. Read more |
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Juan Cole All the Lies Trump Told the West Point Graduates About American Militarism He reiterated that he would not allow the military to change the names of the bases named for Confederate generals, lied that he had complete destroyed ISIL, and glorified Gens. George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur. Read more |
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Rachel M. Cohen There's a Simple Solution to the Unemployment Crisis: Offer Everyone a Job Had we put a job guarantee in place 10 years ago we would have had institutional infrastructure that would be ready to employ folks now. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich & Danny Sjursen Rename the Army Posts—These 10 Soldiers Deserve the Honor The police killing of George Floyd has brought renewed attention to this absurd practice, in which U.S. Army and Army National Guard installations across the South bear the names of secessionist generals. Read more |
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Kanya Bennett Congress Can Lead the Charge on Divesting From Law Enforcement The acknowledgment that Black Lives Matter demands bold and visionary leadership at the national level. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Donald J(esus) Trump Trump assumed different postures in front of the church, contemplating before each photo how he could best appear to the onlookers. Read more |
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Joshua Cho NYT Erases US Occupation's Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency The Times also demonstrates a commitment to the propagandistic narrative of the "War on Terror." Read more |
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Fred Silverman , Robert Barnett Black Lives Don't Matter to the Supreme Court While we are a nation of laws, the recent history of the Supreme Court offers little comfort that it will side with the powerless and the oppressed. Read more |
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Marcus Hedahl & Bradley J. Strawser Why Soldiers Might Disobey the President's Orders to Occupy US Cities They could refuse to follow the orders of their commander-in-chief if they believed those orders were contrary to their oath to the Constitution. Read more |
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Eddie Chambers Statues, Statues, They All Fall Down European monuments to historic slavers and colonizers are the latest victims of rising protests for justice. Read more |
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George A. Lopez Targeting the ICC: Misguided Sanctions Imposed Yet Again These new sanctions are theatrical overkill to further accentuate American exceptionalism. Read more |
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Lornet Turnbull Cities Reimagine Public Safety Amid Calls to #DefundPolice Local officials are urged to redirect funds to things such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, and community programs. Read more |
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Tom Valovic America Needs Deep Cultural and Political Renewal—Is it Even Possible? Perhaps we have seen the beginnings of this with huge numbers of Americans waking up and taking to the streets to protest the economic and racial injustice of our train-wrecked society. Read more |
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Bianca Mugyenyi Canada Isn't the Right Choice for the UN Security Council For progressive Canadians the message is simple: Better than the USA is not good enough. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Understanding Accountability So We Can Hold the Police to Account This is a moment where we can all work to make the power that is given to police forces more accountable, while we also work to take that power away. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ro Khanna Introduce Bill to Increase Military Accountability for Civilian Casualties Since waging the world’s only nuclear war at the end of World War II, the United States military has killed more foreign civilians than any other armed force on the planet, by far. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Media Acknowledge Drive to Defund Police—But Seek to Blunt Its Radical Edge Media wave away this possibility as absurd, but how to move beyond the US’s racist, shockingly violent criminal justice system is a discussion our country not only can but desperately needs to have. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson A Second Wave of COVID-19 Looms Large—and It’s Not Because of Protests The far greater concern is the rampage on science and public health now underway by governors and the White House. Read more |
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. All We're Asking Is to Let Us Live: Stop the Money Pipeline Now If you continue to fund projects that are literally putting our planet, our existence on the line, and defining the existence of our children, then you have left us no choice: that we must put our bodies against the gears of the machine and bring it to a grinding halt. Read more |
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Maritza Perez The Congressional Police Reform Bill Fails to Meet the Moment It continues to fund police departments rather than redirect resources to communities, particularly Black and Brown communities that have been most harmed by over-policing and the war on drugs. Read more |
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Rick Claypool Will Corporate Accountability Be the Next Coronavirus Casualty? As the Coronavirus spread, corporations risked essential workers' lives. Immunizing businesses from liability would make them even more reckless. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher Black Lives and the Green New Deal The Green New Deal is a vehicle for building the broad movement for structural change necessary to truly make Black lives matter. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The People Need to Seize This Moment of Uprising for Deep and Lasting Change How then can this current moral force avoid dissipation once the media loses interest and the protesters become exhausted? How can such widely praised demonstrations produce real change? Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Get Ready to Pay the Costs of a New Cold War With China How will it affect you? Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz It's Been Three Months Since Covid-19 Hit and the Economic Pain Continues More than one in five workers are either on unemployment benefits or are waiting to get on. Read more |
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Michael Winship What George Floyd’s Dying Breaths Tell Our Fractured Nation It’s past time for a radical restructuring of criminal justice. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race—and Dodging Class Economic injustice is vital to the entire U.S. power structure. While many people of all races suffer as a result, people of color are at much greater risk. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Spain: Trial Begins for Former Salvadoran Colonel Accused of ’89 Jesuit Massacre Many Salvadorans and human rights advocates around the world have welcomed the start of the trial. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Globally Uprooting a Racist Past Not only have the protests against police violence gone global, but they have cut deep into Western history: into its racism and colonialism, which, until now, have remained quietly unquestioned and entrenched in our institutional "normal." Read more |
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Yumna Patel Thousands Protest Against Annexation. But Is It Enough? "The majority of U.S. public opinion now acknowledges the legitimacy of black grievances, while the majority of Israelis—including most of the Jewish center-left—continues to view Palestinians, at least those beyond the former Green Line, as a mortal enemy bent on their country’s destruction." Read more |
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Ken Makin Defund the Police, Invest in Communities Local governments have a revenue problem, while America has a policing problem. There’s a simple solution. Read more |
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Josie Moberg A Matter of Life and Breath Firing tear gas at nonviolent demonstrators is unconscionable—especially in a respiratory pandemic. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg United States: An Obituary It is reasonable to ask whether the United States will continue to exist as a unified nation for much longer. Read more |
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Million Belay Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe": An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism The knee on George Floyd's neck is the same knee that is on our neck. It is the same knee that justified colonialism in Africa. Read more |
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Zoe Weil Why 2020 Could Turn Out to Be a Transformative Year 2020 could turn out to be one of the most transformative years of our collective lives, marking the turning point when unjust, destructive, and inhumane systems began to be toppled and transformed. Read more |
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Kymone Freeman, Nancy J. Altman Solidarity Will Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable People are rising up nationwide in massive protests seeking to finally eradicate the systemic forces that led to George Floyd's torture and death. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Weapons That Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change Reflections on weapons and systems white people use to protect their white privilege, recalling that Dr. King likened U.S. wars to "some demonic destructive suction tube." Read more |
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Sadia Abbas But It Has Been Happening Here: A Response to Salman Rushdie The point is not that people should not delude themselves that it can't happen here. The point is that "it" has been happening here. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann What Will It Take to Stop Republicans From Maintaining Structural Racism in Our Voting? What Georgia did yesterday was criminal, a racist crime against our democracy, and it’s time to criminalize voter suppression once and for all. Read more |
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Greg Mitchell The Truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki What Chris Wallace didn’t tell you on the Fox News special adapted from his new bestseller. Read more |
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Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Deadly Fox News-Trump Syndicate Deny, promote quack remedies, attack the experts, blame others, and change the subject to "freedom." Read more |
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Juan Cole Chump: Before Trump Fell for Antifa Conspiracy Theory, He Fell for Saudi Blockade of US Ally Qatar Is there no conspiracy theory Trump won’t fall for, however damaging to US interests? Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Neoliberal Capitalism Depends on White Supremacy American oligarchs have led a five decade-long, well-funded campaign to convince whites that safety net programs, taxes on the wealthy, unions, and government regulations were not in the interest of whites but were just designed to help blacks and other minorities. Read more |
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Bryce Greene Media Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence Only sustained media attention to such abuses will create the conditions for ongoing calls for justice to be answered. Read more |
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David Armiak Bradley Spent Millions on Voter Suppression, Union Busters, Climate Deniers, and Right-Wing Media in 2019 As part of Bradley’s strategic vision, it invests in groups to defund and dismantle unions, to fuel a web of climate change deniers, and to prop up right-wing media. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Big Bank CEOs Want to ‘Listen’ to Black Communities. They Should Return Their Stolen Wealth Instead. There's a whole lot of Wall Street listening going on, but not much doing. Read more |
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Morgan Palumbo, Jessica Draper How the Saudis, the Qataris, and the Emiratis Took Washington A monumental lobbying battle over American foreign policy. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Defund the Police, Defund the Military For too long, we have let cynical politicians and business leaders divide and rule us, funding police and the Pentagon over real human needs, pitting us against each other at home and leading us off to wars against our neighbors abroad. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Paradigms Take Years to Shift Don’t let anyone tell you the work is done. Read more |
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Dean E. Robinson Why Covid-19 Racial Disparities Make the Case for Medicare for All Though it won't solve all our problems, expanding Medicare to all people is an essential demand if we want to advance health equity in the United States. Read more |
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Sarah Manski Designing Technology to Protect Civil Liberties During the Pandemic Thoughtful citizens who want to protect democracy and public health should take a pro-science and pro-civil liberties stance and avoid succumbing to fear and sloganeering. Read more |
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Ben Chin COVID-19 Unveils Need for Fair Taxation Movement at the State Level States must take the opportunity to dramatically rebalance their tax codes, making safety net programs truly re-distributive. If the federal government hits the gas while states hit the brakes, we will get nowhere fast. Read more |
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Julianne Tveten Reporting Curfews Through Official Eyes For cops, protest is a problem and silence the solution. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Police Reform Was Never Going to Be Easy—But Now's the Time What has been missing is will, not ideas. And now, as the demonstrations reveal, Americans—black and white, young and old—are demanding change. Read more |
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Brazilian Network of Environmental Journalism Where Journalism Is Planted, Democracy Blooms Journalists and land defenders send warning to the Brazilian government. Read more |
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Ajamu Baraka No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad Mass mobilizations have a place but developing the organizational forms that will build and sustain the power necessary to bring about radical fundamental change is the primary challenge and historic task. Read more |
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David Solnit Striking for Their Lives Two-week McDonald's strike shutdown in Oakland, California: Faith leaders, artists, and community rally as Covid-19 outbreak at McDonald's hits double digits. Read more |
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Clive Lewis George Floyd Was Lynched Black Americans have seen their civil rights regress for thirty years. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Four Numbers that Show America's Disdain for Its Most Vulnerable People The nation's plague of economic inequality and poverty puts everyone at risk. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann How Exactly Should the US Reinvent Its Police Departments? The nation's Founders offered a couple clues on how to deal with guys with guns. Read more |
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Michael Kink , Kevin Connor Governor Cuomo’s Pandemic Wealthcare Plan The New York leader has prioritized the wealth and influence of billionaires—many of whom are his donors—over the physical well-being of his most vulnerable constituents. Read more |
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Joe Herbert, Riccardo Mastini Economic Growth Can't Go Back to Normal If We Are to Solve the Ecological Crisis Most scientists agree that an unprecedented economic transformation is now needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and avert climate breakdown. Read more |
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Diane Archer, Wendell Potter To Defeat Coronavirus, We Need to Expand Medicare Congress must act decisively to guarantee health care to everyone in the country. It should do so on moral grounds, it should do so on public health grounds, and it should do so to help ensure our economy gets back on track and stays back on track. Read more |
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William Astore 'Light Em Up': Warrior Cops When the Wars Come Home America’s forever wars in distant lands have now come home. Read more |
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Will Bunch Why Do Police Unions Talk and Act Like the Mafia? How Can We Stop Them? It's been difficult, if not impossible, to end the career of the worst cops who commit many of the abuses. Read more |
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Eileen Appelbaum New Labor Department Guidance Allows Risky Private Equity Investments in Workers' 401(k) Accounts Scalia has rolled back rules that protected workers' retirement security. This should be seen as a gift to private equity firms, not a favor to workers. Read more |
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Robert Shetterly After the Lockdown, the Jailbreak If there's finally an effective antidote to cynicism, it's people in the streets. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Media Downplay Global South Leadership on Covid-19 Only Westerners, it seems, are deserving of praise. Read more |
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Juan Cole Palestinian Lives Matter: Huge Jewish-Arab Rally in Tel Aviv Decries Netanyahu's Plan to Annex 1/3 of West Bank It was the biggest demonstration by the Israeli left wing in many years, and was remarkable for its mixed character, with both Jewish and Palestinian Israelis coming out. Read more |
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Natalie Shure Don't Shame Protesters and Park-Goers Over Covid-19 Spreading—Shame Corporations and the State While demonstrators have been blamed for potentially endangering the public, the real danger lies elsewhere. Read more |
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Alex Kane The New York Times Opinion Desk Has a Neoconservative Problem The Times' decision to publish Cotton highlights a neoconservative media network's pipeline into America's paper of record. Read more |
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Reese Erlich The Rest of the World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots The United States is paying the price for denying people what Malcolm X called "the right to be a human being." Read more |
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Dorothee Benz There, I Fixed It for You… Corporate media headlines revised as though they were journalism. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Governor Cuomo: Avoid Budget Cuts by Not Rebating Stock Sales Tax to Wall Street "This stock transfer sales tax, bringing in an estimated 13 to 16 billion dollars a year, would reduce forthcoming budget cuts in health, education, transportation, and other safety nets." Read more |
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Bill Moyers We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It's Happening Before Our Very Eyes The man in the White House has taken all the necessary steps toward achieving the despot's dream of dominance. Read more |
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Laura R. Olson Trump’s Use of Religion Follows Playbook of Authoritarian-leaning Leaders the World Over Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions. Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica What Christ Said He said we better get our shit together, he is losing his fucking patience. Read more |
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Joel Wendland-Liu Some Lessons of the American Uprising 2020 America has sunk into a crisis for which Trump and his party have no answers. Read more |
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Hayley Brown, Shawn Fremstad Racial Inequality Among Workers in Frontline Industries: Black Workers Are Overrepresented and Undercompensated The history of the United States is the history of exploited black labor, beginning with slavery and continuing today in the form of endemic structural racism. Read more |
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Simon Whalley Stop the Violence, Stop the Looting A good place to start would be at the very top of American society. Read more |
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David Masciotra Bruce Springsteen’s Ballad of Brutality, "American Skin" Twenty years later, on the streets of Minneapolis, the song once again rings true. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share Message for World Environment Day, 5 th June 2020. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Keep the Good Book Closed, Trump Says. We Say, Open It and Resist! The churches needs to send the racist president, the Republican party, the One Percent, the warmakers and all racist supporters of the unjust status quo the holy message that Christians across the board reject their violence. Read more |
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Josephine Lee America’s Unfinished Revolution Will we advance our unfinished revolution or will our spontaneous actions end in the acceptance of petty reforms and a return to the status quo? Read more |
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Alec Connon Caring About the Climate Crisis Means Supporting the Demand to Defund the Police As anger rages across the country at the brutal killings of black and brown people, the climate movement must join the call to divest from the police and invest in communities. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis America for the Rich or the Poor? Which America will be ours after the pandemic? Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Killers Inside Us: White Fury and the Thin Blue Line These tin soldiers are the violent, cowardly, bullying products of a dying empire, the death dreams of a sybaritic system breathing its last. They are America's Id. Read more |
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Bonnie Kristian How Endless War Contributes to Police Brutality Police officers are explicitly trained to conceive of themselves as warriors in battle, always on high alert and prepared to kill. Read more |