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Thom Hartmann Will Enough Americans Show Up to stop Trump From Using the Dictator's Playbook? The question we will see answered over the next six months is whether Trump has taken America so far down the road to oligarchy and fascism that we can't recover. Read more |
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Juan Cole Leaders in Lebanon Resign Over 200 Tragic Deaths, But Trump Refuses Accountability for 163,505 Covid-19 Fatalities Despite refusing one shred of responsibility, the U.S. president by his peculiar combination of narcissism, contrarianism, irrationality, and political guile, has polished off more Americans than died in the entire Vietnam War. Read more |
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César Chelala Domestic Violence in the Times of the Pandemic The conditions of isolation foster not only physical but also psychological violence, which can be even more devastating for the victims. Read more |
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Chris Hedges America’s Death March Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire's terminal decline. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Within Healthcare USA, Risk and Reward Have Never Been More Out of Kilter Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million. Read more |
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Robin Tress BP Plans to Keep It in the Ground, Sort Of The climate justice movement has created conditions that make it harder for companies like BP to explore and extract fossil fuels. Read more |
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Juan Cole How Did Americans Become Such Wimps? Silence as Trump kills tens of thousands, destroys Social Security and post office, and plots election fraud. Read more |
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Jay Stanley & Jon Callas Tracking Apps Are Unlikely to Help Stop Covid-19 The debate over using apps for contact tracing or exposure warnings to help fight Covid-19 is largely a sideshow to the principal coronavirus health needs. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt It Could Have Been Different My world and (unfortunately) welcome to It. Read more |
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Peggy Bailey Trump Executive Orders Likely Won’t Help the Millions Struggling to Pay Rent The United States facing serious rental housing problems that an executive order won’t solve. Read more |
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Robert Dodge, Vincint J. Intondi Our Moral Awakening in the Long Shadow of the Bomb The continued existence of nuclear weapons are effectively killing us every day even without their use. Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes The Atomic Bomb Poets and the Military Realists 75 Years After Nagasaki May the hibakusha and this generation guide us to global abolition of nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Robert Greenstein Trump COVID-19 Executive Actions Woefully Inadequate, Legally Dangerous Under our constitutional system, the President and Congress together—not the President acting alone—have the power to appropriate funds and decide how to use them. Read more |
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Michael Winship Covid-19 'Has Laid Bare' the Crisis of Healthcare in America Wendell Potter's new group, the Center for Health and Democracy, investigates how money in politics stubbornly resists health insurance reform. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage? With fewer than 100 days remaining before Election Day, journalists at some of America's leading news organizations are working with their own newsrooms and others to make sure voters and the public at large understand what's at stake. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Dangerous Lies About the Covid Economy Lies about the economy are harder to spot than lies about the coronavirus because the virus's grim death count is painfully apparent while the economy is complicated. But Trump's economic lies are no less egregious. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Rehearsals for Apocalypse: From the A-Bomb to Covid-19 This pandemic is a test of our medical emergency response system. Like the nuclear arms race, it's a rehearsal for apocalypse. It turns out we're even worse at it than we could have imagined. Read more |
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Julie Hollar As Biden Mulls VP Pick, Pundits Vie for Most Substance-Free Forecast Useful coverage would lay out each potential pick’s background and qualifications. While you certainly can find that if you look hard enough, many journalists seem quite content to avoid content. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Ranking the Infinite Greed, Power and Controls of Giant Corporations People have the right to know how CEOs and major corporations do on the "Hedonistic Index" of greed and power. Read more |
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Nafisa Tanjeem, Michael J. Illuzzi How COVID-19 Is Normalizing an eLearning-Industrial-Complex in US Higher Education We should think critically about whether the emergency response at a moment of crisis is being used to justify the questionable collaboration of neoliberal universities with a billion-dollar eLearning industry that prioritizes profit over learning. Read more |
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Robert Freeman 75 Years On: Reflections and Preflections on Hiroshima We cannot change what happened, neither the heinous military nor the tragic moral stains that indelibly mark its occurrence. But we can transcend it, rise above it, by naming it, acknowledging it, repudiating it, and committing ourselves to a greater expression of the people and society we imagine... Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Remind Me, What Was the Civil War About, Anyway? Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas delivers a coded message about slavery. Read more |
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Elise Gould As Economic Bounceback Deflates, Lawmakers Must Act Now to Reinstate the $600 Unemployment Boost Job gains in the United States slowed considerably in July. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance This 75th anniversary of Hiroshima should not just be an interesting historical marker; it should be a turning point, when the U.S. renounces its nuclear legacy, and charts a new course for itself and humanity. Read more |
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Bryce Greene As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup US media have a well-documented history of supporting right-wing coups and regimes around the world, and not much seems to be changing. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly A Reversal in the Name of Human Survival We must turn away from war, and the profit motives that drive so much of it, if we are to finally realize our dreams of peace and justice. Read more |
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Robert Dodge 'Still Here': Honoring Hibakusha 75 Years After As we hear the voices of the victims of the atrocities, it is time we take definitive action to continue their fight to once and for all abolish nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Robin Valenzuela Dreamers' Children: Up to 200,000 American Kids Could be Left Parentless In his continued attacks on DACA and TPS beneficiaries, Trump aims to create a dramatic influx of children into the child welfare system. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Election Theft and the Reluctant Democracy Yes, voting is important (if you can), but claiming the right to vote and have your vote counted—and being able to vote for more than simply the lesser evil and the maintenance of the status quo—requires continual struggle in the face of lies and teargas. Read more |
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Patrick Cockburn War and Pandemic Journalism The Truth Can Disappear Fast. Read more |
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Norman Solomon A 2020 Imperative: Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. Read more |
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Gar Alperovitz, Martin Sherwin Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Unnecessary U.S. leaders knew we didn't have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway. Read more |
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Jamil Dakwar In Pompeo's New Hierarchy of Rights, Religion and Property, Not Humans, Are at the Top Pompeo’s ideologically motivated initiative aims to quash equal protection of human rights and dignity, and we must reject it. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase From Bombing of Hiroshima to Collateral Murder; War Crimes of Empire and Prosecution of Free Press This week marks the 75th anniversary of the detonation of US nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August, 6. 1945) and Nagasaki (August, 9) during World War II. The death toll of the... Read more |
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Suzanne Nossel The Censorship of 'Cancel Culture' May Ultimately Be Most Dangerous for Social Justice Champions Calling on institutions to bar those with odious views on race and gender empowers them to also exclude those championing equality and progressive change. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Beware Biblical Literalists Like Pompeo Seeking War With China On America's unholy crusade against Beijing Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Nuclear War or Invasion: The False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Like other dark chapters in U.S. history, the official narrative of the decision to unleash the most destructive weapon humanity has ever known upon an utterly defeated people is deeply flawed. Read more |
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Robert Reich Mitch McConnell's GOP Is Destroying America Time and again, Trump and the Republicans have shown that they only care about two things: their wealthy donors and corporate backers. Read more |
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Helen Caldicott The Lessons We Still Haven't Learned From Hiroshima and Nagasaki Seventy-five years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, we remain perched on the precipice of unparalleled catastrophe. Read more |
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Juan Cole Reckless Trump Nearly Provokes International Incident, Wrongly Saying Beirut Explosion a "Bomb" What if Trump's remarks were taken seriously and some hothead fired retaliatory missiles at Israel? Read more |
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David Korten Earth Is Warning Us We Must Change. Will We Listen? The Earth is strong, but also vulnerable. As Earth cares for us, we either care for it or bear the consequences of our recklessness. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The GOP Is Trying to Steal Away Our Right to Vote—Time to Fight Like Hell to Keep It Donald Trump—aided and abetted by Republican senators and governors—has sought to discredit voting by mail, blocking funds for the U.S. Postal Service and the states to gear up for mass voting by mail, the sensible, safe way to vote in the midst of the pandemic. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff The GOP Are Standing on Trump's Sinking Ship, But Democrats Need a Vision Beyond Electing Biden What the Republican collapse fueled by the president means for the nation. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Trump's Big Lie About Covid-19 vs. Grieving Families and a Dying Democracy The personal and political anger over the coronavirus dead is going to manifest itself even beyond the nation's obituary pages. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders The Science Is Clear: Our 'Masks for All' Plan Will Save Lives The coronavirus pandemic is raging out of control under Trump's leadership, but there are common sense solutions we must urgently implement. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino A Naval Officer's Spouse on Why the US Military Puts Empire Over Public Health My husband, in other words, is now unnecessarily risking his own and his family’s exposure to a virus that has to date claimed more than 150,000 American lives—already more than eight times higher than the number of Americans who died in both the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the endless wars in Iraq... Read more |
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Anita Desikan 150 Attacks on Science and Counting: Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Actions Hurt People and Communities Nationwide Suppressed studies. Muzzled scientists. Disbanded scientific advisory committees. These are some examples of the gross violations of scientific integrity that the Trump administration has carried out... Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson Oligarchy and Democracy From the Civil War to the Present Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. Read more |
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Michelle D. Holmes Black Lives Depend on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Don't water them down. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Brute Force Approach to Economic Reopening by GOP Benefits Reckless CEOs But Endangers Workers A Republican proposal would give corporate CEOs a five-year get out of jail free card for jeopardizing the health and safety of their workers while threatening the overall economic recovery. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg Missing in Action: Accountability in Trump's America All told, the U.S. president been a perfect model in deflecting all responsibility, even as the death toll soared over 150,000 with more than four million cases reported nationwide and no end in sight. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Comparing Poverty in India and America May Surprise You Being poor is much more than the lack of money and possessions. Read more |
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John Buell Republican Senators Commit Political Suicide by Holding Up Stimulus in Election Year Republicans are always destructive and regressive, both aggressively anti-people and anti-planet, if not individually, then certainly as a party. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies US Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the US, Not China The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet. Read more |
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Steven Singer We're Talking About Human Life Here. Unsafely Reopening Schools Is No Solution at All We need to make it possible for parents to stay home with their children. Now. Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis Woe to You Who Legislate Evil and Rob the Poor of Their Rights Our government's abandonment of the people is sin of the highest order. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Media's "Cancel Culture" Debate Obscures Direct Threats to First Amendment It is the powerful, not the masses, who inordinately have the ability to "cancel" individuals for their actions, and that it is the left and those challenging power who consistently suffer the brunt of the consequences. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Trump and Taxpayer Relief Act If an FBI building remains in its current location, Trump is assured that no competing hotel will be built there. Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica Futile Dialogue: What Would Socrates Do? I am committed to remaining optimistic (at least somewhat), to looking for the best in people. Read more |
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Ted Glick President Chaos There may be an actual, thought-out method to his madness. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Follow John Lewis: Don't Let Trump Provoke Violence If we want to win, we can't let Trump provoke us into violence. Read more |
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Michael Winship It's Easy to Laugh at Louie Gohmert. But... The Texas congressman's a dangerous fool, like the president he so admires. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Human Rights Defenders: Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony of the Execution of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif by Israeli Soldier, Elor Azaria A testament to the resolve of Palestinian society. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Speaker Nancy Pelosi Writes to Me! What political ambition it takes to defend expensive Obamacare (that still left 30 million people uninsured and more than double that number underinsured), instead of bucking up to support full Medicare for All. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Take On the Tech Mob Now or Perish If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it's about to get a whole lot worse. Read more |
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Adam Shah The 1 Percent's Attack on Unemployment Benefits is a Sign of Our Broken Democracy If policymakers care about motivating people to work, they should focusing on raising the minimum wage and giving workers a voice in decisionmaking. Read more |
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James Zogby Why Is the Democratic Party So Timid on Palestinian Rights? We will continue to push Democrats to recognize reality and oppose Israel’s occupation. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why Bernie Sanders Delegates Should Keep Fighting Polls in swing states show 12% of Sanders supporters do not plan to vote for Biden. Read more |
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Karen Bernal, Christian T. Shaughnessy The Case for Who Should Not Be Vice President: Joe Biden, Are You Listening? We are calling for a VP candidate with a history of demonstrated fortitude in the face of entrenched power, not someone skilled at just-found-religion rhetoric. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Trump’s Desperate, Last-Ditch Effort to Hike Tensions with Iran This might be the final stretch for his failed policy of 'maximum pressure.' Read more |
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Andy Rowell We Have Entered the "End Game" for Oil—With "Permanent Demand Destruction" What the industry denied for years, that its assets have become liabilities, has become a reality. Read more |
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Erica Fein Why We Will Win the Fight to Cut the Pentagon Budget Coupled with a possible shift to Democratic governance, major public support, and a fired up progressive movement, our moment to win is upon us. Read more |
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Juan Cole How Trump Broke America: A Story of Unparalleled Economic Pain and Human Death Historic 33% economic crash, 1,500 Covid-19 deaths per day, and tens of millions out of work and on verge of losing their homes. Read more |
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Robert Weissman Trump's Election Delay Threat Is a Coup in the Making Trump's tweet was a shocking display of his authoritarian impulses and his very serious consideration of means to de-legitimize the November election in order to maintain his grip on power, no matter what. Read more |
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Barbara Miner Death of America's Democracy? We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Clock Is Ticking: 5 Key Demands for the New Coronavirus Bill This bill is perhaps our only chance to get COVID-19 under control, Americans fed, and the economy back up and running. Read more |
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Alexander Reed Kelly Here’s How We Remake the Economy The Fed's crisis response exposes the faulty logic of moralizing, pro-austerity politicians and economists. Read more |
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Stuart Basden Our Lungs Are Under Attack—We Must Protect Them to Stay Alive Indigenous peoples are calling for an immediate moratorium on extraction from the Amazon. Read more |
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John Lewis Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. Read more |
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Juan Cole US Bases in Qatar, UAE Go on Alert as Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at Mock-Up of US Aircraft Carrier A real potential to spiral out of control into a hot war. Read more |
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Andrea Flores, Shaw Drake Border Patrol Violently Assaults Civil Rights and Liberties Ending Border Patrol’s long-standing abuses and impunity requires divestment, accountability, and removing the agency from U.S. communities. Read more |
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Breanna Draxler How to Bring About Catastrophic Success in the Face of Climate Change By decolonizing the atmosphere and making climate reparations, Eric Holthaus shows just how hopeful the next 30 years could be. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Happy 30th Birthday, ADA. What’s Next? We need a system where people with disabilities are universally included by design—not “accommodation.” Read more |
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Joshua Cho Worries About Foreign 'Hacking' of Vaccine Research Place Corporate Profits Ahead of Public Health By spinning the intellectual property of large US corporations as something that must be safeguarded rather than something that should be shared, US media are failing to inform their audiences about how corporations are delaying the development of a vaccine—and causing unnecessary deaths. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Yemen: A Torrent of Suffering in a Time of Siege It’s time for the world to demand an end to the policy-driven humanitarian crisis. Read more |
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Alex Lawson Operation Eternal Vengeance: We Pledge to Defeat Any Politician Who Uses Covid-19 to Attack Social Security We will defeat every attack on our Social Security, every single time. But special emphasis will be given to any lawmaker who attempts to do so under the cover of this deadly pandemic. Read more |
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Michael Winship "The World's Most Dangerous Man" Picks on Portland to Pick Up Votes Trump's quest for scenes of urban chaos may not be over, but for now, it could be ending with a whimper not a flashbang. Read more |
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Chuck Collins The Perils and Possibilities of Billionaire Charitable Giving: MacKenzie Scott (Bezos) Makes Her First Move Philanthropy is at risk of becoming another extension of the private power of plutocrats, alongside monopoly ownership and media domination. Read more |
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Matt Brenn Home Improvement Can’t Fix America’s Pandemic Problem Single-family rentals now comprise the fastest-growing segment of America’s housing market, suggesting that the great housing crisis of 2008 never really ended, but has rather just shifted its terrain of struggle. Read more |
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John Feffer How Covid–19 Could Upend Geopolitics This changes everything (or nothing). Read more |
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Ben Clements To Stop Trump’s Military Police State, the House Needs to Withhold Funding From Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Trump's use of federal agencies to turn our country into a police state is not only unconstitutional. It is straight out of the playbook of the fascist leaders he admires and emulates, and it poses an existential threat to our democracy. Read more |
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Robert Reich Corporate Con Man: Trump's Tyrannical Attack on Workers Trump perpetuates the rigged-for-the-rich system that’s shafting working Americans at every turn. Read more |
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Gaurav Laroia, Carmen Scurato Facebook's Unchecked Power Endangers Civil Rights If Mark Zuckerberg truly believes in giving everyone a voice, the company must integrate a power, race, and social analysis into its policies and their enforcement. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of the US Condemning an Afghan Air Strike No matter the administration in Washginton, impunity and lack of accountability have been constants in the so-called War on Terror. Read more |
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Robert Greenstein Counting the Many Ways the GOP Senate Covid-19 Relief Plan Would Fail Struggling Families and the Economy The Senate Republican proposal fails to come close to meeting the scale and nature of the challenges we face. Read more |
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Dean Baker, Gerald Scorse The Insanity of Prescription Drug Prices in America Solution: slash the prices and kill the ads. Read more |
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Thea M. Lee The GOP's Disgraceful HEALS Act Will Cost Millions of Jobs and Protect Bad Employers While Failing to Help People This bill will lead to deep and prolonged pain. Read more |
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Yves Engler The US Occupation of Haiti The only reason the corrupt, repressive and illegitimate Jovenel Moïse is currently president of Haiti is due to US (and Canadian) support. Read more |
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Sophia Rokhlin Without Reciprocity, Ayahuasca Consumption Is Extractive As COVID-19 devastates Amazonian communities, spiritual tourists are abandoning the cultures holding the sacred traditions of Ayahuasca. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Not the 'Heals Act' But the 'Heels Act': GOP Covid-19 Plan Puts Corporate Greed Before Human Need What if we ignored corporations and their billionaire CEOs and owners altogether, gave them nothing, and instead directed all our efforts to providing unemployment and other benefits to individual human beings? Read more |