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Dave Lindorff You Will Have Social Security Just Like Your Parents and Grandparents—If You Fight to Keep It! Despite being a socialist idea in a country that has always officially rejected and ridiculed socialism, it is hands down the most successful government program in the history of this nation. Read more |
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Ann Eisenberg As the Coal Industry Shrinks, Miners Deserve A Just Transition—Here's What It Should Include A just transition should focus on sustainably rebuilding regional economies, and should be informed by input from people who are affected. Read more |
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Todd Miller Why Climate Action Needs to Target the Border Industrial Complex Climate change is displacing a growing number of people; governments are responding by privatising border policing. Read more |
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Cecili Thompson Williams Which of the 2020 Candidates Are Ready to Address the Threat of Nuclear Weapons? Will the candidates continue to support the policy that gives the US president unfettered authority to start a nuclear war? Or will they instead lower global risk of war and publicly commit the US to a nuclear No First Use policy? Read more |
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Marshall Auerback America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as 'Free Markets' Dominate the Economic Debate We need to invest in research and development if we’re going to strengthen the middle class and compete in a global market. Read more |
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Dorothee Benz Nazi-Normalizing Barf Journalism in the Trump Era Again and again during Trump’s presidency, corporate media have fallen over themselves to find acceptable ways to describe utterly unacceptable behavior, policies and decisions—none more so than the New York Times. Read more |
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Roberto Savio Farewell to the World Social Forum? Citizens have become more aware of the need for change than they were when we first met in Porto Alegre many years ago. Read more |
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Svenja Blanke Who’s Afraid of Greta Thunberg? The character of Greta Thunberg is part of a polarised global confrontation regarding climate change. Despite what her critics may say, her speeches have contributed to social mobilisation and awareness of the climate crisis and the future of the planet. Read more |
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Leo Baunach World Bank Rankings Promote Deregulation at the Expense of Working People The highly controversial annual Doing Business report gives governments high marks if they slash taxes and worker protections. Read more |
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Randall Amster Dear Fossil Fuels: It’s Over Breaking up is never easy, but humanity is ready for this toxic relationship to end once and for all. Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 6 Problems With Trump Taking Syrian Oil Whoever told Trump the US was there for oil is an inspired fabulist who pulled the wool over Trump’s eyes. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Enemy Within Is Deep Indeed The deep state, incapable of reform and determined to retain its grip on power, will morph under the threat of popular unrest into a corporatized fascism. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Down the Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump Donald in Blunderland: Living a mixed metaphor. Read more |
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Ron Forthofer Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria President Trump has stated his intent to withdraw US troops from Syria on several occasions since March 2018. Each time politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, supported by the... Read more |
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John Atcheson Politics as a Food Fight: The Media Is Feeding the Political Divide False “balance” which infects the entire mainstream media, making it puke out nonsense as if it were news. Read more |
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LaDonna Brave Bull Allard et al We Stand in Solidarity with Rojava, an Example to the World Leaders from social movements, communities and First Nations from around the world, including LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Eve Ensler and Stuart Basden on the Turkish invasion in north-east Syria Read more |
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César Chelala Why is Latin America Burning? In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs. The last few months have seen a remarkable spectacle: hundreds of thousands of citizens are... Read more |
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Joe Emersberger Max Blumenthal Arrest Exposes Hypocrisy of Western Media and ‘Human Rights’ NGOs Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal, a prominent journalistic critic of US policy toward Venezuela, was arrested by DC police on Friday, October 25, in connection with a protest at the Venezuelan embassy... Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Spare Us From the Vichy Republicans The party has become a cult run by crooks. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis Another Europe Is Possible I'm an old-fashioned lefty. I don't believe in destroying institutions. I believe in taking them over and transforming them into true public servants. Read more |
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Alan Singer Why They Love Trump Like many who lean left, even many to the right of center, I find Donald Trump’s contempt for law, disrespect for people, derision of opponents, disdain for facts and truth, erratic and self-serving... Read more |
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Wim Laven Should You Be Afraid of the Fascists in Your Community? I get accused of “being over-the-top” and using hyperbole by conservative friends and acquaintances with increasing frequency. This is caused, in large part, by me being a vocal and active... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Buffeting Boeing CEO’s Rope-a-Dope in Congress This past week, Boeing’s deadly 737 MAX crashes were the focus of two back-to-back hearings – one in the Senate and one in the House. In the House Transportation Committee hearing, at least 50... Read more |
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Brett Wilkins For 9th Straight Year, US Grants Waivers to Countries Violating Anti-Child Soldier Law The White House recently announced the US was granting full or partial waivers to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) to Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Read more |
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Dean Baker Mark Zuckerberg Is a Rich Jerk There is no reason to waste any effort trying to convince Mark Zuckerberg what is good for democracy. We just have to tell him, and make him a pay a very big price if he is too lazy or dumb to "get" it. Read more |
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Moira Birss BlackRock's Ghoulish Lack of Action for the Amazon BlackRock's continued silence on this crisis—both in the public space as well as its continued failure to engage with civil society stakeholders—is alarming. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Boris, Brexit, and the British Election Brexit has deeply split British society and presents a serious conundrum for left and progressive forces. Read more |
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Robert Edwards Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and the Rise of the 'Shallow State' Pompeo nauseates me almost more than any other member of the president's inner circle, even though there are far more despicable characters to be found there. Read more |
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Wendell Potter How Health Insurance Industry Allies Are Going to Lie and Attack Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All Plan The health insurance industry believed it was marching Warren into a trap, and now they’re scrambling to come up with a response to preserve their treasured but failing cash cow: the employer-based health insurance system. Read more |
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Djaffar Shalchi Dear Mr. Donny Deutsch: Please Come to "F***ing Denmark." I invite you. Come and see for yourself a happy and healthy society, funded in part by hefty taxes on millionaires like you and me. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar California Must Take Back Its Power—Literally The idea of wresting the power grid out of the hands of private investors and making it a publicly owned utility has grown more and more appealing. Read more |
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Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers. Read more |
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Juan Cole Looming Impeachment Puts Trump in Company of Corrupt Mideast Leaders Only because the masses turned against their guy did military elites step in to insist they step down. Think about that. Read more |
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Shahid Mahmood Painting Over Greta Activism is meaningless unless there is the political will to leverage civic engagement into policy change. Read more |
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Norman Solomon A Message to Progressives: Adam Schiff Is Not Your Friend While tenaciously challenging a despicable president who should be impeached, we should be aware that the California Democrat remains deeply enmeshed with corporatism and militarism. Read more |
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Michael Winship United Kingdom—Brexit or No Brexit—Our Donald Trumps Your Boris But an ocean apart, both US and UK activists fight dangerous threats to democracy. Read more |
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Zenei Cortez Patient Crisis Obscured By Cost Talk on Medicare for All How long must we allow fearmongering and health care industry talking points stand in the way of the transformative reform that would guarantee health coverage for all our nation’s residents without the backbreaking costs and heartbreaking health insecurity that burdens so many today? Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Why Those "Endless Wars" Must Never End Donald Trump and the ten commandments (plus one) of the national security state. Read more |
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César Chelala An Open Letter to Donald Trump: You Are Putting the World at Grave Risk What happens after the U.S. contributes to destroying a country’s social fabric? Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Keeping the Peace Is Far More Complicated Than Waging War The police may be more like an occupying army as the militarization of police departments around the country is becoming common. Read more |
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Jeff Hauser, Eleanor Eagan Who Exactly Are Joe Biden's Wealthy, Well-Connected Bundlers? The former Vice President's anti-transparency stance is definitely more concerning in light of his apparent fundraising desperation. Read more |
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Margaret Kimberley The Baghdadi Scam The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else. Read more |
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Jacob Bacharach Nate Silver Is Making This Up as He Goes One suspects that despite his claims to analytical rigor, at some very basic level, Silver does not actually know what a poll is. Read more |
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Jill Richardson We Need Publicly Owned Utilities California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations. Read more |
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James Dorsey Popular Protest: Just How Effective Is It? The uprisings are many, but are they enough? Read more |
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Sam Knights Extinction Rebellion: We Need To Talk About The Future This year has changed everything. Read more |
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Juan Cole Bernie Sanders Says Give Aid to Gaza and That Calling Out Netanyahu's Racist Government Isn't Anti-Semitism Palestinian rights have entered into an American presidential campaign, virtually for the first time. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann A Democracy-Killing Duo: How the Supreme Court and the Morbidly Rich Are Ruining Democracy in America This is not democracy; it’s oligarchy or, at the very least, a corporate state. Read more |
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John Aram Reassessing Corporate Social Responsibility Neither voluntary nor mandatory social responsibility can substitute for public policies, including business regulation, formulated by representatives whose campaigns are financed by true citizens. Read more |
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John Buell The Lies Corporate Media Tell When Bernie Sanders Is "Extreme" and Trump's GOP Is "Mainstream" The modern Republican Party is as extreme as any major party in our history. Read more |
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Bonnie Castillo What Algorithms Tell Us About Structural Racism in Health Care In a medical system premised on profits and ability to pay, racial disparity presents in ability to afford the high cost of premiums, deductibles and co-pays that disproportionately discourages African Americans from getting needed medical care. Read more |
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Allegra Harpootlian Drone Strikes and Tears: Why I Weep While I Work Or what it means to experience U.S. wars from a computer screen away. Read more |
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John Atcheson The Revolution Is Here: Democrats Ignore It at Their Peril With the majority of people holding progressive views, the way to get no-shows to show is not to back centrist policies, it’s to run on values that favor the people, and that are supported by the majority of Americans. Read more |
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Michael Arria Over the Last Week, At Least 85,000 Workers Were Out on 13 Different Strikes "Right now there is a movement of workers across the country who are taking back their power at a scale we have not seen in recent memory." Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Trump Is Not Alone Among Americans In Failing to Understand What A Real Lynching Is Whatever complaints Republicans may have about an impeachment hearing convened in Congress under its constitutional authority, it surely is not a lynching. Read more |
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Bill Blum What Will Tump Impeachment Trial Look Like in Mitch McConnell-Controlled Senate? No matter the ultimate outcome, the American people will have the opportunity to assess the evidence against Trump. Read more |
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Peter Bloom Forget Russia, The Real Threat to Democracy Are Corporate Assets Like Clinton and Trump Here's a truth that is very unpopular among many in the U.S. mainstream: the nation's democracy is being corrupted from the inside, not from abroad. Read more |
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Jackie Smith Corporate Influence Threatens Human Rights in Communities Nationwide National network of cities files report to UN Human Rights body on corporate power and local human rights challenges. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Duke Students Protest Speech by Tzipi Livni, Former Israeli Foreign Minister Accused of War Crimes "Hosting [Livni] for a lecture minimizes the lives and deaths of her victims while encouraging future reproductions of her crimes." Read more |
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Ashoka Mukpo I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw. How will we respond to their suffering? Will we allow the most hateful and uncaring among us to write our history, or will we fight back and demand better? Read more |
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Harry Blain How the Judiciary Is Chipping Away at the War on Terror Lower courts are slowly but steadily eroding the legal basis for some of the most reactionary war on terror policies. Read more |
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James Carroll What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later And the return of war-as-the-answer. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq We can work to abolish war, mourn the deaths of Al-Baghdadi's children and question how conditions inside U.S. military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers. Read more |
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Juan Cole US Militarism, Having Provoked ISIL Into Being, Kills Cult Leader Baghdadi People in eastern Syria were brutalized and then suffered enormous damage as the US bombed their towns and villages to defeat ISIL, which had taken them over. Read more |
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Juan Cole Did US Officials Manipulate Trump Into Sending Back Troops From Iraq to Syria “For the Oil”? The U.S. military and political establishment was extremely upset by Trump’s withdrawal of 1,000 US troops from northeast Syria. Read more |
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Tyler Cullis Trump Pours More Misery On Iranians He’s Claiming To Support The Trump administration is deliberately targeting humanitarian trade with Iran as part and parcel of its so-called "maximum pressure" strategy. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Emoluments Mess Trump has been funneling government dollars into his own pockets ever since he was elected. Read more |
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Ebony Slaughter-Johnson Amber Guyger Case Shows How Far America Has to Go When It Comes to Justice for Innocent Black Victims The murder of Botham Jean in his own home resulted in an almost unprecedented conviction of a police officer—but the case played out with frustrating familiarity. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Now and Then The Nazis knew the value of film in order to get their message to the people. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod The Revolution Isn't Being Televised The media is uninterested in protest movements around the world. Read more |
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Johanna Ross 'Patience Is Running Thin' in Brexit Stalemate Prime Minister Boris Johnson is forced to abandon his 'do or die' pledge to leave the E.U. by 31st October... Read more |
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Kary Love Of Course a US President Can Murder Somebody Without Legal Jeopardy—Ain't That Great! "Once the foundation is there, and the people and Congress acquiesce, mission creep soon extends the immunity and impunity to other areas." Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Trident Is the Crime U.S. possession of nuclear weapons robs the poorest people on the planet of resources needed for food, shelter, and housing. Read more |
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Peter Dreier Trump Doesn't Have the Balls To Throw Out the First Pitch at the World Series "Offered a chance to wear a real major league baseball cap in a real baseball stadium, Trump's balked." Read more |
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Dean Baker Senator Warren is Exactly Right "Warren is determined to talk about the substance of the issue, whether or not the reporters want to hear it." Read more |
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Eli J. Campbell Wall Street Has Been Gambling With Student Loan Debt for Decades "The student debt crisis is symptomatic of an unsustainable capitalist system." Read more |
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Stephen Marks Paying for 'Medicare for All'? No Problem "A lack of money is not the problem." Read more |
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Wendy Fields #FireDrillFridays—Vote. Speak. Act. Fossil fuel pollution will affect all of us, regardless of where we are on the political spectrum, or our race, class, gender, or zip code. Read more |
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Julie Hollar LGBTQ Issues Missing in Presidential Campaign Coverage It’s time for journalists to step up and cover these issues with the urgency they deserve, both at the debates and in their daily election coverage. Read more |
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John Atcheson Centrists—Or Neoliberals–Control the Party and the Media and They're Risking Losing to Trump Again in 2020 We either ignite a revolution built around values, and take back the country from the neoliberal centrists, or we risk another Trump victory. Read more |
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James Haslam Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival? It's time for us to come together, and demand what our country needs to ensure our survival—including electing politicians who support a shared new vision of the future: one that’s rooted in community-based solutions and intersectional organizing. Read more |
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Aaron Fernando California Opens the Public Banking Floodgates The move shifts power away from profit-motivated board members of corporate banks and into the hands of the people. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Corporate Power Wins When a Nation's Civic Leaders and Experts Are Locked Out The foregoing case for a single-payer health insurance system is just one example of how corporate power prevails when there is media and political exclusion of the informed and experienced civic community. Read more |
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Juan Cole New War for Oil? Trump to Occupy Oil-Rich Syrian Province with Tank Corps, Asks for Kurdish Displacement There The notion of a US invasion and occupation of Deir al-Zor is entirely illegal in international law. Read more |
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Peter Nelson What's Wrong With the Bees? Our New Film, "The Pollinators," Seeks an Answer If these beekeepers are worried, we all should be: our diet depends upon pollination for one of every three bites we eat. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Angered Over the Whiff of US Troop Withdrawals, Now the Generals Speak Up? Let's review the boundless hypocrisy of just a few of the most prominent voices crowing against the Syria withdrawal. Read more |
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Michael Mitchell State Higher Education Cuts Pushed Costs to Students, Worsened Inequality To build an economy in which the benefits of higher education are broadly shared and felt by every community regardless of race or class, state lawmakers need to invest in high-quality, affordable, and accessible public higher education. Read more |
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Timothy A. Wise Rome Summit Takes Bold Step Toward Agroecology Leaders endorse agroecology as one of the cutting-edge innovations we need to help small-scale farmers adapt to climate change. Read more |
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William Astore Killing Me Softly With Militarism The militarization and decay of democracy in America. Read more |
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Kei Otsuki Is It Time to Engage With the Destroyers of the Amazon Rainforest? If we care, not only about extinguishing fires but about how to prevent this next year, we need first to understand who these destroyers of the Amazon are and how to engage with them in environmental governance. Read more |
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Joel Bellman As President Trump Abuses His Power, Why Is Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer Trying to Criminalize Dissent? In an era of unprecedented presidential lawlessness and abuse of power, throwing the book at a powerless few who try to speak out against it seems almost perverse. Read more |
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Rebecca Burns Chicago’s Citywide Strike Just Spread to Charter School Teachers This is the first time that district and charter teachers have struck simultaneously in Chicago, an occasion marked by high energy and a raucous chorus of "Solidarity Forever" on the picket line. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Assange’s Extradition Is a Case About the Crimes of Empire The U.S. government’s prosecution of Assange is and always has been politically motivated. He is there for exposing the war crimes of the U.S. empire. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The Republican Party Is as Guilty as Trump Until they openly declare war on his presidency, his ongoing assault on our democracy is just as much their fault as his. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Clinton, Stein, Gabbard, and the Deconstruction of RussiaGate A friendly reminder: The United States has a long-g-g-g history of interfering in its own elections and hardly needs Russia's help. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Media Failed to Connect Climate Crisis and Utility Blackouts Despite what corporate media would have us believe, we really don’t need to choose between enduring deliberate blackouts from for-profit utilities or hazarding deadly fires and widespread power shortages. Read more |
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Lance Compa When High-Road European Corporations Take the Low Road in the U.S. South European multinationals have brought major investments to southern U.S. states, but they do not always bring the labor rights standards they abide by in their home countries. Read more |
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David R. Montgomery The Key to Saving Family Farms Is in the Soil Farmers adopting regenerative agricultural practices across the Midwest are restoring the health of the soil and of their rural economies. Read more |
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Ilhan Omar Sanctions Are Part of a Failed Foreign Policy Playbook. Stop Relying on Them. Research has shown that sanctions rarely achieve their desired goals. In the worst-case scenario, they hurt the people of a country—generally the very people we’re purporting to help—without making a dent in the country’s behavior. Read more |
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Elliott Negin ExxonMobil Is Still Bankrolling Climate Science Deniers The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups. Read more |