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Unicorn Riot ICE Case Management Handbook Based on Federal Law Enforcement "System of Systems" "Dossier and tracking databases designed by U.S. corporations have been a key instrument of social control for the U.S. government since at least the colonial occupation of the Philippines." Read more |
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Thomas Drake How a Government Censored an NSA Whistleblower "I viewed the extraordinary pressure to block me as an already-accepted speaker as a most alarming and Orwellian development." Read more |
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Larry Beinhart Drugs, Guns, and Despair: How America Is Killing Americans The free market economy has pushed the American population to the brink. Read more |
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Michael Schwalbe Medicare for All or Profits for a Few On a level democratic playing field, the for-profit healthcare industry’s fear mongering would gain little traction, as its talking points are easily refuted. Read more |
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Asa Winstanley Don't Let the Smears That Sank Corbyn Tank Bernie Sanders "Labour’s worst performance since 1983 carries an important lesson for the grassroots left-wing campaign in the United States to elect Bernie Sanders as president: You must defeat false anti-Semitism smears at all costs." Read more |
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Brian Wakamo Postal Pay Cuts Provoked a General Strike in Finland. US Postal Workers Deserve the Same Solidarity. The prime minister resigned over the nationwide protests, catapulting a 34-year-old woman into Finland’s top job. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Perry and the Tweet "It all made sense thanks to a simple trumpian tweet..." Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Sanho Tree Danny Glover Supports Landmark Reparations Fund in Chicago Suburb The Hollywood actor spoke at an Evanston town hall in support of a new policy to use revenue from marijuana legalization to narrow racial economic gaps. Read more |
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Danica Jorden Bolsonaro’s Revisionist History of Brazil The Brazilian government announced the creation of a new video series with which it intends to "combat leftist ideas" and offer a false narrative of Brazilian history. Read more |
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John Atcheson The Influence of Liars and the Failure of Corporate Media Why does the "big lie" work? For one thing, there's big money it. Read more |
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Peter Bloom UK Election Shows Progressive Must Have More Than Great Policies, They Need to Win There is no way to spin the results of this election as anything other than disastrous. So what should be done? Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte The Six Ways the NFL Groomed Us for President Trump Still going to watch the Super Bowl? Read more |
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Marcie Wells I Have 'Some of the Best' Health Insurance a Union Member Can Get, But I Would Trade It Today for Medicare for All Earlier this month, I witnessed a paid Culinary 226 Union organizer heckle Bernie Sanders and I haven't stopped wondering why Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann Trump’s Hunger Games More damage to our nation’s most successful anti-hunger program is on the horizon. Read more |
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Hasan Seede The Recent Natural Gas Blowout in South Texas Highlights the Need for Strong Regulation The proposed rollback of existing methane standards would allow oil and gas wells to release both methane and VOCs with virtually no control. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Afghanistan Papers Confirm That the Longest War Is a Lie The important question today is: Will the Afghanistan Papers bring about the end of the longest war? Read more |
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Joshua Cho For Corporate Media, Voters Are Obstacle to Buttigieg’s Centrist Rise The alleged "Buttigieg boom" may now be crumbling under the candidate’s stubborn opacity around his funders and great swaths of his career, as well as the entry into the field of fellow smug centrist Michael Bloomberg. Read more |
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Bill Blum Unequal Justice: Democrats Go Surgical and Small on Impeachment The Trump articles comprise a narrative of corruption, and on close inspection may not be as constrained as they appear at first glance. Read more |
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Chris Kromm Southern States Take Up Fight For Bold Democracy Reforms Pro-democracy advocates are tapping a deep well of frustration with the status quo, and creating a blueprint for a more vibrant democracy. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Centrists Don’t Want "Party Unity"—They Want to Defend the Wealthy Attacks by moderate Democrats on Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are really about defending corporate power and structural inequality. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow Unfortunately for Volcker’s legacy and the well-being of the rest of us, his signature policies led to the devastation of the American working class in the 1980s and ultimately set the stage for the 2008 global financial crisis. Read more |
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Manuel Pérez Rocha We Need a Progressive Alternative on Trade—and NAFTA 2.0 Isn’t It Here’s what a progressive trade agenda that actually protects people and planet would actually look like. Read more |
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Astra Taylor British Voters Are Terrified of US Companies Privatizing the NHS. They Should Be. The US healthcare machine raked in $100bn last year—and CEOs are salivating at the money they could extract from British patients. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Papers Owned By Oligarchs Unsurprisingly Oppose a Wealth Tax Is the Post’s dismissal of claims about the US being an "oligarchy," or their claim that private wealth being “off-limits” from taxation is "integral to any free society," mere coincidence? Read more |
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John Feffer Whose Coups? Donald Trump says that impeachment is actually a coup. It’s one more example of his attack on the rule of law. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Outrage as UN Climate Talks Kick Out Civil Society, Not the Polluters As we enter a decade that will define all the ones after it, we need to stand together against fossil fuel companies and the governments that prop them up—at the UNFCCC and everywhere. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Letting Our Values Out Of Their Cage Only with some sort of one-world consciousness can we begin stepping back from the edge of extinction. Read more |
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Brenda Roberts, Sarah Prestoza Why U.S. and Filipino Call Center Workers Are Working Together The only winners in this global race-to-the-bottom are corporate executives and wealthy investors. Read more |
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Jim Hightower 'Tax the Rich' Is No Longer Just a Political Slogan It's a national necessity and a moral imperative. And, at long last, it's actually within our reach. Read more |
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Thomas S. Harrington Americans Misled About Their Wars: Lather, Rinse, and Repeat The only real question worth pondering at this point is why Americans sign on to nihilistic pursuits of this sort with such regular and obedient ease. Read more |
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Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith What Trump and the GOP Learned from Obama They learned to embrace popular organizing and to fear—and suppress—the black vote. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson President Trump’s War on the Poor The economy continues to generate jobs that won’t support a family. That’s why so-called poverty programs—from CHIP to food stamps to public housing to low income heating assistance to Medicaid—are so necessary. Read more |
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Juan Cole Sizzling Arctic: Top 5 Climate Horror Stories in NOAA’s Report Card The wrecking of our beautiful earth is on us. Read more |
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Ted Rall The U.S. Government Lied About the Afghanistan War. They Couldn’t Have Done It Without Lapdogs Like the Washington Post 18 years and tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars too late, it’s nice to see the media finally shame these scumbags and their government handlers. But they ought to save a big portion of the blame for themselves. Read more |
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Ira Allen On Detrumpification: An Urgently Necessary Process After Trumpism Anything less than an overwhelming popular mandate for progressive, fundamental restructuring of the institutions of society along democratic lines will be insufficient to even begin the process of detrumpification. Read more |
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Arshad M Khan, Meena Miriam Yust Earth In Extremis While Trump Plays Ostrich Indeed a vexing state of affairs for the world when major players shirk their responsibilities. Read more |
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Gordon Clark Barack Obama and the Politics of Not Yet Would it be a "little more just" if only 25,000 people died every year from lack of insurance, as opposed to nearly 50,000? What if it was your brother, sister, or child who was dying? Read more |
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Norman Solomon Will the Democratic Presidential Nomination Be Bought by the Oligarchs? The wealthiest and most powerful people in the country are putting their big thumbs on the scale. Read more |
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Thea M. Lee, Robert E. Scott U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement—Weak Tea, at Best The USMCA will in no way offset or reverse the massive devastation caused by the original NAFTA agreement. Read more |
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Danica Jorden Last Straw as Teachers in France Join Nationwide Strike Macron administration’s proposed teacher pension reform, yet another example of neoliberalism’s war on public education. Read more |
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Kris De Decker We Can't Do It Ourselves In contrast to policies aimed at individuals, policies that frame sustainability as a systemic, institutional challenge can bring about the many forms of innovation that are needed to address problems like climate change. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen I Knew the War in Afghanistan Was a Lie Nineteen years into America’s longest war, Afghanistan is in a worse state than at any time since the U.S. military invasion. Read more |
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Hayley Farless Supreme Court’s Newest Move on Abortion Approves Torture for Pregnant People Kentucky’s anti-abortion legislators are nothing short of hateful for forcing physicians to torture their patients, and the Supreme Court’s conservatives are callous for allowing this injustice to continue. Read more |
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Basav Sen Most Americans Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuels. Isn’t That Worth a Headline? The Washington Post downplayed the most hopeful findings of their own poll on climate action, so we highlighted those findings for them. Read more |
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James Zogby A Second Nakba in the Making If it occurs, the responsibility for this tragedy will fall not only on the Israelis who carry it out and the US that aided and abetted them, it will also fall on the nations of the world who failed to act in time to stop this tragedy from occurring. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare The U.S. Military on a Planet From Hell Insignia, badges, and medals for a climate-wracked era. Read more |
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Magdalena Sepúlveda Beirut and Santiago in the Streets: Why Multinationals Should Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes If multinationals—and the super-rich—do not pay their fair share of taxes, governments cannot invest in access to education, health care, and decent pensions, or take measures to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Warren vs. Buttigieg Clash Offers Contrast with Bernie's Consistency A fighter for the most vulnerable Americans his whole life, Sanders' history is undisputed. Read more |
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Caroline Molloy The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business—the Reassurances Are Demonstrably False British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry. Read more |
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Catherine Rottenberg, Neve Gordon To Survive Crushing Neoliberalism, the World Needs Intersectional Solidarity From London to Beirut to Santiago and New Delhi, protesters need to build solidarity networks. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Toys R Us Worker: Wall Street Billionaires Should Not Be Making Money By Putting People Out of Work As the bankrupt toy chain attempts a comeback, retail workers who lost their jobs after private equity takeovers are fighting for accountability. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost Thousands of foreign journalists, with no cultural or political connection to the Middle East, were shipped in, to replace their Arab colleagues, and to participate, willingly or otherwise, in the dirty propaganda campaigns championed by one rich Arab countries or another. Read more |
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Dahr Jamail Savoring What Remains in an Age of Climate PTSD Vast numbers of climate scientists are now grieving for the planet and humanity’s future, with some even describing their symptoms as a climate-change version of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Great American Shakedown The mortal wounds inflicted on our democratic institutions are bipartisan. Read more |
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Juan Cole In Wag the Dog Move, Indicted Israeli PM Netanyahu Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank Netanyahu is brazenly planning to steal a quarter of all the land in the Palestinian West Bank, forever ending any chance of a Palestinian state. Read more |
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Ian Acriche The Pitchforks Will Come Out Eventually Failing to address wealth inequality means only one thing for a civilization: the end is near. Read more |
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John Atcheson The Missing Stories: Three Big Issues the Media Is Missing When the media and both political parties represent the interests of the oligarchy, attempts to prop up corporate centrists will fail, and surprises like Trump will be inevitable. Read more |
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Phil Steck Beating Trump Is Not Enough: The Real Change Democrats Must Pursue If we have another Obama-type presidency, without real change, we will eventually get Trumpism without Trump Read more |
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Julie Hollar How Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color Claiming to simply be defending poor parents and children is a hallmark of such news articles. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Women Who Will Save Us All They must pull us from the pyre of political madness. Read more |
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Ayanna Pressley, Monique W. Morris A Just Society Doesn’t Criminalize Girls The policies and unfair practices that disproportionately push girls of color from institutions of learning stem from deeply entrenched biases that require bold, community-based solutions to correct. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Who Is the Audience for the Judiciary Committee Hearing? An evaluation of the House Democratic leadership’s performance. Read more |
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Heather Day, David Solnit Celebrating WTO+20 and Looking Forward in Seattle Marking the anniversary of the WTO street uprising would not be complete without getting into the streets. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Big Energy Front Group Launches Push for Troubled Atlantic Coast Pipeline The group argued that building the pipeline would save North Carolinians money by bringing more natural gas into the non-drilling state, characterizing that as an "energy justice" issue. Read more |
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Josue De Luna Navarro The Centuries-Long History of Extractive Greed Climate change is a symptom of a malevolent virus borne out of capitalism and colonialism. Indigenous liberation shows the path towards healing the planet. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Why Not Also Go With “The Kitchen Table” Impeachable Offenses for Removal? Failure by Congress to prevent devastating precedents from being invoked and followed by future presidents will create a legacy of disgrace for Congress. Read more |
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Naina Agrawal-Hardin Young People Are Escalating to Sit-ins in Politicians’Offices Today. Here’s Why. In America, the New Deal Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti War Movement, and the indigenous activists of Standing Rock, among many others, have paved the path of nonviolent direct action that we are now embarking on. Read more |
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James Goodman 'Fleeing Not Migrating' Climate change, pollution, and violence drive people to the U.S. border, even with no promise of a path to citizenship. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Despite Warmest Decade on Record, We Still Act Like "Addicts Blowing Our Carbon Budget" "Another lost year leading to another lost decade. I don’t want to belittle the important things that have happened and are happening, but they are not enough. People will look back at us and wonder, 'What were you doing?'" Read more |
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William Minter Africa Could Power a Green Revolution With a thriving off-grid solar market and hundreds of millions of people waiting for electricity, the continent offers huge potential for renewables. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Fails Again to Bring Our Troops Home From Mideast: Mulling Escalation of 14,000 US Troops to the Middle East to Counter Iran It's not clear how another 14,000 US troops would effectively do anything to block Iran. Read more |
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Walden Bello How the Battle of Seattle Made the Truth About Globalization True Twenty years ago, experts refused to see the truth about the dark side of globalization. Then Seattle happened. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Amazon Abuses Workers and the Climate—Because It Can Far more effective than individuals walking away from the company (although that doesn’t hurt), is collective action to change the laws that Amazon benefits from. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Kerry's Endorsement of Biden Fits: Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War The spectacle of Kerry praising Biden as a seasoned leader amounts to one supporter of the Iraq catastrophe attesting to the character and experience of another supporter of the same catastrophe. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins ICC Holds Hearing on Afghanistan War Crimes, Including US Torture The current hearing will examine allegations that US troops and intelligence operatives tortured, raped and abused Afghan prisoners between 2003 and 2004. Read more |
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Hank Edson Professor Turley Is Dead Wrong on Impeachment and Here’s Why We don’t need Professor Turley’s hand-wringing performance to scare us away from defending our democracy through the exercise of our political power to hold an oligarchic authoritarian accountable. Read more |
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Clive Stafford Smith Everyone Should Watch The Report. Take It From a Guantánamo Bay Lawyer This important film shines a light on an important story in recent history: the torture of detainees kept as forever prisoners in Gitmo. Read more |
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Tamasin Cave Donald Trump, the US Private Health Giant, and Top NHS Officials—Special Relationships? US private healthcare firm Optum has been ‘planting seeds’ in the English NHS for a decade, new research exposes. Read more |
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John Feffer Inside the Battle for Another World Understanding how the new right went global—and how to stop it—is key to keeping our planet habitable. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Protocols of the Elders of the Republican Party Lunatic conspiracy theories are the heart and soul of today’s GOP. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? For me, it’s a gateway to pain relief. For others, its prohibition is a gateway to mass incarceration. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon What’s Wrong With the Republicans? Fruits of the twin roots of evil: Slavery and imperial expansion. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Envisioning a United World A global insanity: the alleged sovereignty of nation states to decide who matters and who doesn’t, what matters and what doesn’t. Read more |
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Shawn Fremstad Modern Family Progressive Values Put Conservatives to Shame Progressives rightly embrace family diversity and egalitarian, solidaristic relationships. Read more |
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David Solnit WTO Shutdown: A Few Things From the WTO Shutdown I Carry Into the Future There is an incredible opportunity to use street theater—art, dance, music, giant puppets, graffiti art and theater—and nonviolent direct action to simplify and dramatize the issues of corporate globalization and to develop and spread new and creative forms of resistance. Read more |
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Gwyneth Bernier The New Stateless Peoples: Confronting US Culpability in the Climate Refugee Crisis If floods and wildfires can take lives as surely as bombs and bullets, why has the United States adamantly denied entrance to climate refugees? Read more |
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Lee Camp The Left Is Finally Winning the War of Ideas Simply take a look at the ideas that are dominating the Democratic presidential race, even though the corporate media has tried to ignore these solutions, attack them, dispute them, and then ignore them all over again. Read more |
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John Nichols Ukraine? Yes. But Trump Must Also Be Impeached for Obstruction This is about the specifics of a constitution that can only work if the president cooperates with congressional investigations. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe What the U.K. Election Tells Us About Universal Health Care Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea. Read more |
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Ilana Novick Bernie Sanders Has the Backing of Leftists Worldwide Sanders’ support for international far-left leaders, Politico explains, "are a clear mark of distinction from Warren in a race in which their domestic agendas are viewed as very similar." Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Watergate Teaches Us That Democrats Should Broaden the Impeachment Charges The Democrats are now in the midst of an impeachment. And there is no going back. So why be moderate or cautious in the leveling of entirely legitimate charges against this terrible and entirely illegitimate president? Read more |
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Will Bunch Reagan’s Forgotten Iran-Contra Escape May Reveal More About Trump’s Fate Than Watergate The principles first laid bare in Iran-Contra—a deference to the raw exercise of power, including a willingness to overlook the rule of law—have become America’s cruel guiding spirit in the 21st century. Read more |
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Chris Winters Can We Get the Money Out of Politics? Many of the problems we have in the U.S. system, such as the Electoral College trumping (ahem) the popular vote, are institutional problems, and they are preserved by the high standards we set to amend the Constitution. Read more |
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Don Fitz Dammed Good Questions About the Green New Deal Here are 10 potential problems with dams. Read more |
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Emily Beament The Hottest Years The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the warmest in records dating back to the 19th century. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Middle America: The Danger for Democrats To insist that not coming on too strong is what’s needed in 2020 is to miss the whole lesson of the rightwing populist rise of Trump. Read more |
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Erika González, Sriram Madhusoodanan Meet the Big Polluters Sponsoring COP25 Whether it’s subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel industry continues to hamper our policymaking to face the ecological and climate crisis. Read more |
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Jeff Crosby WTO Shutdown: The Kids Are Alright This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Moral Injury and America’s Endless Conflicts A legacy of a new kind of war. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction Collective delusion—reflected in the populist, rightward, authoritarian global political wave—might just spell the end of organized human life on this planet. Read more |