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Michael Arria Why Are Progressive Democrats Backing an Anti-BDS Bill That Was Introduced at an AIPAC Conference? "They are deluding themselves." Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Five Men Sentenced to Life for Operation Condor Killings Trained at School of the Americas Revelation comes after Italian court sentences 24 men to life behind bars for roles in U.S.-backed state terror campaign Read more |
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Rose Ramirez A Trump Plan to Throw 55,000 Children Out of Their Homes A proposed rule would strip housing benefits from U.S. citizens if they’re found to have family members with the wrong immigration status Read more |
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Julie Hollar CNN Should Treat Left and Right Alike in Presidential Debates Please call on CNN to play fair and include a progressive journalist in its Democratic debates Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Mad Corruptions of Trump Inc. We have a president who's clearly out of his mind Read more |
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Ali Abunimah Israel Lobby Groups Hatch Plan to Divide the Left Israel and its lobby see the strengthening solidarity between Palestinians and other oppressed groups, especially Black people in the United States, as a major threat and they are determined to fight back Read more |
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Robert Reich How Corporate Welfare Hurts You The next time you hear conservatives railing against welfare handouts for the poor, remind them that we should really be cutting corporate welfare Read more |
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Mike Lofgren When It Comes to Plutocrats Like Epstein and Trump, Always Assume the Worst In the age of Trump, the wrongdoing has become so blatant, the attitude towards the rest of us so contemptuous, that a presumption of guilt may be the only realistic attitude Read more |
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Elliott Negin 10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year Trump’s EPA administrator should change the name of his agency to "Every Polluter’s Ally." Read more |
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Natasha Hakimi Zapata I Know What It’s Like to Be Told to ‘Go Back’ to My Own Country This president and his enablers are not the exception in our long, shameful history of systemic racism—they simply have no interest in hiding theirs behind platitudes Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 4 Ways the Squad of Young Congresswomen Represent More Americans Than Trump Trump’s constituency is disproportionately old white people, who are no longer a majority in the US Read more |
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Mark Pocan, Pramila Jayapal A $15 Minimum Wage Is Exactly What Our Economy Needs The Raise the Wage Act is an opportunity for Congress to restore dignity to work and stability to the lives of millions who work hard every day for less and less Read more |
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Cecily Myart-Cruz McDonald’s: Stop Exploiting Our Schools So-called "McTeacher’s Nights" rip off teachers, schools, and McDonald’s workers under the guise of raising funds Read more |
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Jud Lounsbury Trump’s "Go Back" Racist Epithet; Oh, So Familiar Trump has dived deep into the septic tank before. But, folks, this is truly a new low Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Trump Murdered the Iran Deal—And Europe Isn’t Too Happy About It The U.S. behavior regarding such international agreements, Macron said, was "insane." Read more |
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William Hartung Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids Eisenhower's worst nightmare Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump's Latest Tweets Are Not Just Racist, But Part of a Broader Reactionary Attack on the Left Trump hates immigrants and he hates people of color. But it doesn't stop there. He hates worker rights. He hates journalists, and scientists, and educators. He hates democracy. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis—And How to Fix it An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service's ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal service Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The President* Is Now Arguing He's the Real Victim of His Own Bigotry Plus: an assault on asylum and Wilbur Ross is on the chopping block Read more |
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Khury Petersen-Smith Iran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is. If a war breaks out, it won’t be because the Trump administration "bumbled" into one. Read more |
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Ai-jen Poo The Workers in Our Homes Deserve Rights A new bill would give nannies, house cleaners and home care workers long overdue protections Read more |
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Jessica A. Knoblauch Fireflies’ Glow Could Soon Be Extinguished by Human Actions Species’ extinction rates are accelerating on a global scale. We need solutions that match the severity of the problem. Read more |
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Nathan J. Robinson Why Do Billionaires Keep Presenting Themselves as America's Great New Hope? From Ross Perot to Tom Steyer, rich megalomaniacs run for president by preying on voters’ disillusionment Read more |
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James Zogby Two Congressional Resolutions That Won’t Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace The bottom line is that Congress, as much as this and past Administrations, is responsible for the current state of affairs in Israel/Palestine Read more |
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John Atcheson Pelosi's War on Progressives Risks Another Trump Victory There are three reasons Trump won, and some of the leading Democrats don't seem to understand any of them Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon I Had an Abortion and Now I'm Not Ashamed The personal is still political. And it's planetary, too. Read more |
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Jamil Dakwar, Sonia Gill Pompeo’s New "Human Rights" Commission is Up To No Good This commission isn't fooling anyone Read more |
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Eric Margolis Turkey Calls Trump's Bluff Turkey can live without the F-35. It’s too expensive and may be more vulnerable than advertised Read more |
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Julie Hollar Why Does WaPo See Black as an 'Identity'—but Not Multi-Millionaire? If the Post wants to talk about the black demographic, why frame its article around an outlier multi-millionaire, rather than the majority of the African-American electorate? Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Trump Officials Who Resigned Because of Shocking Scandals The resignation of Trump's Labor secretary, Alex Acosta, is only the most recent in a string of such scandals for Trump. In fact, what with all the things Trump himself has done plus those around him... Read more |
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Reese Erlich What's Really Going on in Hong Kong? China and Hong Kong will be struggling for many years to determine exactly what "one country, two systems" really means Read more |
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Michael Winship What I Saw at the (American) Revolution The founders would say Trump mangles the Constitution even worse than he does the English language Read more |
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César Chelala Children's Trafficking and Exploitation is a Persistent, Dreary Phenomenon Children's trafficking and exploitation is a widespread phenomenon that is causing enormous suffering throughout the world. It can take several forms such as forced labor, sexual exploitation and child begging, among other practices Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne It’s Prime Time to Boycott Amazon Pledge to boycott Amazon today. Then get what you need from Prime Day Read more |
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Robert Dodge 60 Years Since the Largest U.S. Nuclear Accident and Captured Federal Agencies What is needed now is action Read more |
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Skeena Rathor Rebelling From a Nonviolent Heart Extinction Rebellion is ushering in a comprehensive language of nonviolence Read more |
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Ori Nir Religious Fanatics Have Hijacked America's Israel Policy. And They're Not Even Evangelicals Trump's extremist, maverick pro-settler envoys, David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, aren't resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They're fueling it—and Congress should investigate Read more |
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Clair Brown, Simon Sällström What America Needs to Understand About Capitalism The United States has the resources to create a better capitalist system, and it is clear which policies can improve wellbeing today and create a more equitable and sustainable economy for future generations. Now the country needs to elect a president and Congress that can build this system Read more |
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Mary Fitzgerald The American dark money behind Europe's far right From Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the rise. openDemocracy investigations over the past year have revealed the vital role of US Christian conservatives Read more |
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Samuel Moyn Can Pompeo Redefine Human Rights for the Trump Era? The Commission on Unalienable Rights is a laboratory for new collaborations between the religious right and the secular far right Read more |
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Leo Gerard Is There a Global Future for Unions? For labor to secure gains, in the United States or Canada or anywhere, workers must mobilize. We have to bring everyone together, women, men, poor people, people of color, gay people—all working people Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The Fear, Like the Cruelty, Is the Point It's the point of the census fandango and the "massive ICE raids." It's the point of everything the Trump people do Read more |
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Steven McFadden Sleepwalking Into Certain Catastrophe, or Awakening via Agroecology As people’s access to food, land, water, health care, housing, and education are threatened or destroyed, there will be an intensified need for policies that ensure respect for human, social, economic, and environmental rights Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Are We Underestimating Trump Yet Again? Progressives and liberals have to accept the ugly fact that a sizable portion of America’s population is susceptible to Trump's propaganda because they back the president’s xenophobic, anti-immigrant, racist, sexist, homophobic, corporatist, and war-mongering agenda Read more |
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Carolyn Kormann The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency Given that the fate of millions of species, the future livelihoods of current high schoolers, and the stability of modern civilization rests in the balance, the only word to describe the situation is: emergency Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Remnants of War The Taliban, U.S. Government, and every other warring party in Afghanistan must be asked: "How many more civilians, including children, are you willing to kill and maim?" Read more |
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Andy Rowell Humanity Sleep-Walking Toward 'Mass Extinction' Politicians ignore the daily alarm bells in the science, whether it is melting Antarctica ice caps or the growing temperatures in the ocean Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman The Quake to Make Los Angeles a Radioactive Dead Zone Nothing significant has been done to improve safety at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four Fukushima reactors have already exploded Read more |
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Ellen Brown How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed What US presidential candidates from both parties should talk about is how to modify the law so that Congress, the Administration and the central bank can work together in setting monetary policy, following the approaches successfully modeled in China and Japan Read more |
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Michael T. Klare O-I-L: The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis The fossil fuel's enduring sway in U.S. policy in the Middle East Read more |
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Jill Richardson The Good News About Trump’s Very Bad Environment Speech Even Trump now senses that the electorate wants a 2020 candidate who takes climate change seriously Read more |
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Roger Bybee Donald Trump’s Not-So-Great Economy Dig just a little below the surface and you’ll find that the much-discussed gains for working people are mostly illusionary Read more |
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Conn Hallinan The World Needs a Water Treaty The world has enough water for 7 billion people, but not if countries waste, hoard, or weaponize it Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan U.S. Women's Soccer Players Gain a Global Platform for Their Battles The U.S. women’s soccer players now have a global platform to highlight the struggle for women’s pay equality and justice Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Democrats Are Failing the Country by Letting Trump Off the Hook Democrats have essentially been shouting, "Do whatever you want, Mr. Trump! We are terrified of our own shadow and will let you get away with anything!" Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The Perils of Pelosi vs. The Squad I wish Pelosi would open up to her left colleagues, but it’s not likely to happen anytime soon Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Mop Closet of American History Welcome to hell, as presided over by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Ross Perot Was a Big, Loud, Transformational Crank His 1992 third-party candidacy changed the Democratic Party for the worse—and laid the groundwork for 2016 Read more |
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David Dayen Conservatives Grasp at Straws After CBO Minimum Wage Analysis Shows Clear Benefits Increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour would be very good news for American workers Read more |
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Jayati Ghosh Blame US Trade Policy for Sky-High Drug Prices Skyrocketing drug prices were a major issue in the 2016 US presidential campaign, and the Trump administration has since announced measures to bring them down. Why, then, is the administration also pushing for intellectual-property rules that give pharmaceutical giants even more price-gouging power? Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez Return of the Poll Tax Florida's anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters—and hundreds of millions of dollars Read more |
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Mallika Khanna Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue Poor and working communities stand to gain the most from protections against corporations that expose them to pollution Read more |
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Bill McKibben The Climate Movement: What's Next? We must use this moment as crucial leverage to push the planet in a new direction. If we succeed, then we have risen to the greatest crisis humans have ever faced and shown that the big brain was a useful evolutionary adaptation. Read more |
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Timothy Wise Agroecology as Innovation Agroecological sciences offer just the kinds of innovations small-scale farmers need to increase soil fertility, raise productivity, improve food and nutrition security, and build climate resilience Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Why Won’t the Charter School Industry Acknowledge Its Documented Failures Public schools remain society’s most preferred and best attempt to guarantee an education to every child, while private enterprises like charters have the option of closing down whenever they want because the public system remains as a safety net for students and families Read more |
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Tanya Rawal-Jindia How Multinationals Pad Their Budgets With the Wealth of Developing Countries Tax havens are a geopolitical nightmare, and transfer pricing is a legal accounting trick to get money into tax havens Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Let Us Be Clear: Trump's Environmental Record Is a Crime Against Humanity And no, nature doesn't care about Trump's fatuous spin about his accomplishments Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Trump and GOP Are Blatantly Encouraging Foreign Dictators to Hack the 2020 Election Which is why Trump and McConnell are working as hard as they can to make sure those foreign oligarchs and autocrats know how much they’ll appreciate that help, should it be forthcoming Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations Washington’s complete adoption of Israel’s messianic, extremist policies regarding Occupied Palestine has been a long time in the making. And it is here to stay. Read more |
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Angus Satow Only a Mass Movement Can Bring About a Green New Deal Plans for a radical green transformation must be matched by a movement that is rooted in the lives of ordinary people Read more |
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Robert Reich America’s Real Divide Isn’t Left vs. Right. It’s Democracy vs. Oligarchy When oligarchs fill the coffers of political candidates, they neuter democracy Read more |
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Jesse Jackson ‘Equal Pay, Equal Pay, Equal Pay’ If there is justice, the U.S. women’s soccer team will be as victorious in their quest for equal pay as they were in their quest for the World Cup Read more |
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Prabir Purkayastha Trump’s Version of the Iran Accord: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose We are now back to a collision trajectory between the U.S. and Iran, which can only lead to another war in West Asia Read more |
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William Astore The Riptide of American Militarism Lessons from the natural world on Washington’s unnatural wars Read more |
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Branko Marcetic Joe Biden Didn’t Just Vote for the Iraq Invasion—He Helped Lead the March to War Biden may run from it today, but he played a critical role in ensuring America’s involvement in the most disastrous foreign policy venture of the 21st century. Here’s how. Read more |
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Michael Arceneaux AOC Wants to Change the World Through Action. Nancy Pelosi Wants to Do It Through Pithy Phrases I’m bored with the folk tale of Nancy Pelosi in which she drives the aspiring tyrant Donald Trump mad by using ironic turns of phrases such as 'self-impeachment' while providing him more money to mistreat kids Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz CBO Report Shows Broad Benefits From $15 Federal Minimum Wage New analysis by the Congressional Budget Office finds that $15 in 2025 could raise the wages of 27.3 million low-wage workers and would increase the income of families who earn below three times the poverty rate by $21.9 billion Read more |
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Charles Davis Donald Trump’s Fake Isolationism Trump, like George W. Bush before him, is an America-First unilateralist who has already killed thousands Read more |
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Jackie Smith, Joyce Dalsheim Why Busy-ness Is So Damaging Our economic and political order fuels a state of constant activity which harms both individual and community well-being Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s Bluster Diplomacy Don’t expect Trump to do a North Korean-style pivot in his relations with Iran Read more |
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Mehdi Hasan Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It’s With Her Own Party’s Future The New York Times interview is yet another reminder for liberals and leftists that if they want to oppose Trump, they have to oppose Pelosi too Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright Dogs of War Howl for Blood in Iran While Americans Cheer US Bombers on July 4th Last week's display was a chilling reminder of the horrific deaths caused by successive administrations' propensity for war Read more |
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Andy Rowell OPEC Warns Climate Campaigners Are "Greatest Threat to Our Industry Going Forward." OPEC will be made redundant by the coming renewable revolution and by our climate emergency. Read more |
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Chris Hedges War, Memory and Gettysburg Time has long since erased these gruesome sights and smells from the battlefield national park, along with the disorienting confusion, fear and deafening noise of combat Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump’s Economic War on Iran: 88% Reduction in Oil Exports, 6% Shrinkage of Economy The United States is already at war with Iran, squeezing its economy down to nothingness. If another country tried to do this to the US just on a whim and with no UN or international-law basis, the... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Corporate Team of Rivals: Harris Now in Top Tier with Biden to Prevent a Progressive Nominee The odds are now very strong that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic presidential nominee. New polling averages say they account for almost 70 percent... Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. I Am Reading More Books by Women—Intentionally Sexism isn't just about what you consciously do or believe. It is about the assumptions you make without realizing you've made them, the attitudes you hold without realizing you hold them Read more |
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Philip Alston US Can't Ignore That Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty Mainstream discussions of the global emergency, writes a top U.N. official, are remarkably out of touch with the scale of the crisis and the economic and social upheaval it will bring Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Climate Package Is a Dangerous Fraud His promise to direct pipeline profits to clean energy is like allowing cigarettes to be sold to kids as long as tobacco companies make generous donations to cancer research Read more |
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Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher & Patrick Bigger Why We Can't Ignore U.S. Military Emissions The U.S. military's carbon footprint is bigger than 140 countries combined. To seriously address climate catastrophe, we must dismantle its vast infrastructure Read more |
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Ernest A. Canning "Civility" Should Not Be a Priority for a Democracy Under Threat Biden is simply hiding behind "civility" to conceal the fact that, all too often, he shared portions of the same anti-democratic agendas embraced by vile segregationists, by his "Republican friends," and by his Wall Street donors Read more |
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Brian Wakamo We Have the Money to Fix Our Food System Imagine supporting farmers markets, child nutrition, and local agriculture with money we spend on factory farms Read more |
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Ria Tabacco Mar Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don't Roll Back LGBTQ Rights The message came in the form of friend-of-the-court briefs filed in a trio of cases involving workers who lost their jobs because of who they are Read more |
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Bob Burnett What Does "Electability" Mean? Depending upon the Democratic voter, being electable means that their candidate adopts a particular stance/attitude Read more |
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Dr. Hakim Young and the Afghan Peace Volunteers We're the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, And We Have Three Dreams Our three dreams are about reuniting with nature and 7.7 billion other human beings Read more |
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Juan Cole If Trump's Steampunk History of Revolutionary War Airbases Isn't Grounds for Impeachment, What Is? The president's comments came as part of his white-nationalist Fascist Fourth of July campaign rally Read more |
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Ben Armbruster Media Falsely Portrays Iran's Nuclear Deal Breach as Dash to Bomb It's reminiscent of how the mainstream U.S. media handled the Bush administration's march to war in Iraq Read more |
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Robin Chazdon Experts Mapped Global Hotspots Where Restoring Tropical Rainforests Would Be Most Beneficial and Least Costly and Risky They cover over 385,000 square miles, an area as large as Spain and Sweden combined Read more |
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Kiki Monifa As a Lesbian of African Descent, I Am Not an American—Not Completely I am not an American and will not be an American until people of color are no longer profiled for driving and shopping, and killed for simply being Read more |
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Maximillian Alvarez & William Lopez Trump Wants to Transform Immigrant Communities Into a Permanent, Hyper-Exploited Underclass The Trump administration has made it clear that the cornerstone of its immigration enforcement policy is highly visible and spectacular cruelty Read more |