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Brian Tashman Kirstjen Nielsen’s Brutal and Calamitous Leadership of the Department of Homeland Security Comes to an End All in all, Nielsen’s legacy as an apologist and enabler of Trump’s detention and deportation machine will go down in history as one of the crucial—and cruel—moments of this presidency Read more |
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Naomi LaChance Ignoring Lessons of #Metoo, Media Scrutinize Biden’s Accusers In addition to questioning the motives of the accusers and victim blaming, media analysts have invented reasons to excuse his behavior Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian For Military Contractors, Tax Day Is Pay Day Lockheed Martin's CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military. Read more |
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Alfred W. McCoy America's Self-Inflicted Wound: 100 Years of the War on Drugs On the dead end of prohibition Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Sacramento Teacher Strike Is a Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere Teachers in Sacramento are threatening to walk off the job over alleged violations of their collective bargaining agreement with the district Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Middle America: The Democrats’ Dilemma Can Democrats win with an economic justice platform? Read more |
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Juan Cole In Norway Electric Vehicles Outsold Gasoline Cars for First Time in History and Other EV Success Stories One way to boost the ecological benefits of driving an EV even further is to manufacture these cars using net carbon zero techniques. Audi’s factory in Brussels aims to do just that. Read more |
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Daniel Bertossa Why Even Investment Funds Want More Corporate Tax Transparency Multinational corporations must stop blocking further transparency so that governments can develop tax policies that address inequalities, as well as the populism and authoritarianism that flow from them Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Democratic Party Is Not Going Nuts. It's Coming to Its Senses. Sanders is squarely within the reformist-radical American tradition—someone who wants to build on previous accomplishments to make the United States a more decent and equal society. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Libya’s Incoming Strongman Haftar Will Send the Oil Out to Europe—and Keep Its Migrants In European values are fairly clear: they want oil to travel northward, not people. Haftar, at the cost of the Libyans themselves, will make that happen. Read more |
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man Annexation Is Happening Whether Netanyahu Is Reelected or Not Netanyahu’s declaration that he will annex parts of the West Bank is alarming, but it only names a process that was long ago put into action, and which is now part of the mainstream Israeli discourse. Read more |
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Amee Chew It’s Time to End U.S. Military Aid to the Philippines U.S. taxpayer funds are bankrolling the worsening human rights crisis in the Philippines. Movements are rising to shut that aid off. Read more |
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Gerald Friedman Take It From an Economist, Medicare for All Is the Most Sensible Way to Fix Health Care I've spent decades studying US health care. Time to get real: Medicare for All is the only reasonable path to controlling costs and covering everyone. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich For All His Endless Lies, Trump Has Exposed Some Important Truths We can thank the Trump era as the moment when things long hidden became plain to see Read more |
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Chris Hedges Reckoning With Failure in the War on Terror The corporate state, its legitimacy in tatters, seeks to make us afraid in order to maintain its control over the economic, political and military institutions Read more |
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Carmen Scurato Tech Companies Need to Get Serious About Confronting Hate Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other large tech companies already have policies that ban hateful, violent, and harassing content. It is clear they need to do much more. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Rep. Barbara Lee’s Startling Vote to Boost Military Spending It’s all too easy for lawmakers to be unduly influenced by party leadership on Capitol Hill, where conformity is vital for the warfare state Read more |
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Robert Reich The Myth of Meritocracy A prestigious college packed with the children of wealthy and well-connected parents is now the launching pad into the stratosphere of big money. Read more |
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Tiffany Gooch Canadian Youth Fight Back Against Governments That Limit Their Choices These young people are a tidal wave intent on shaping the direction of our country. They are watching, they are activating and organizing, and they are taking notes for how they will do politics differently Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Trump and the Pope If God is addressing the worldwide problem of immigration, who is his spokesperson? Read more |
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Jonathan Cohen and Kavita Ramdas Our First Amendment Rights Are Under Assault With the Global Gag Rule The Trump administration is dismantling women's health and rights Read more |
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Kate Aronoff Could a Green New Deal Make Us Happier People? A growing body of research points to some unexpected reasons why it could make us more cheerful Read more |
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Juan Cole Why Designating the Iranian Rev. Guards Terrorists Would Paint a Big Red Target on US Troops in Iraq Iraqi Shiite militias close to the IRGC are essentially the hosts and protectors of the some 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq Read more |
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Kevin Martin and Gabe Murphy President Moon's Unenviable Task Trump should heed the sage advice of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has much more riding on this peace process than Trump does Read more |
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Jeff Bryant 3 Questions That 'Created Havoc' in Betsy DeVos' Department of Education My latest brush with the education policy edifice's imperviousness to outside inquiry occurred while researching the Education Department's Charter School Program Read more |
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Christian Addai-Poku and Michael Galant Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them The fight for public education reminds us that working-class struggles around the world are linked—and that international solidarity is the key to victory Read more |
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Carla Santos Skandier Free Market Solutions to Climate Change Aren't 'Realistic' The fossil fuel industry has benefited from market-distorting incentives for decades Read more |
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C. Cora True-Frost What Have We Learned From the Rwandan Genocide? It is important that we remember the horror of the genocide and reflect on the mistakes made, in order to work toward a more peaceful future Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy The Sheer Weirdness of an Illegal Inaugural Trump's team may have violated some of the few campaign finance regulations that still apply to inaugural committees Read more |
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Damon Moglen Nuclear Power Is Not a Viable Solution for Green New Deal It's too expensive, too dangerous and dirty, and takes too long to deploy Read more |
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Rose Lambert-Sluder This Castle in the Desert Provides Respite to Asylum-Seekers After leaving detention, as many as 300 asylum-seekers find temporary housing in a former monastery before they move onto the next leg of their journey Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Why Many 2020 Swing States Will Produce Recount Headaches Recount laws and timetables vary widely across likely 2020 swing states Read more |
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Steven Singer Standardized Testing is a Tool of White Supremacy It's time to treat all our children fairly. It's time to hang up the tests Read more |
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Ralph Nader Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize The Boeing 737 Max must not be allowed to fly again Read more |
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William Minter In the Wake of Cyclone Idai, the North Has a Climate Debt to Pay Civil society groups are doing the hard work of recovery, but it’s fossil fuel companies and rich countries that need to step up Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Trump's Disdain for Puerto Rico Should Be His Undoing Trump sees the U.S. colony as a personification of his usual enemies Read more |
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Sandra Park How VAWA Takes on the Systems That Perpetuate Domestic and Sexual Violence #MeToo not only shed light on the pervasiveness of sexual violence—it also showed how people, systems, and institutions have been complicit in silencing survivors and fostering ongoing and escalating violence Read more |
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Robert Freeman Capitalism or Socialism. Which Will it Be? Socialism isn’t fundamentally about public ownership of private resources. It is about collective action in pursuit of common goals, where private action has destroyed or damaged the common good. Read more |
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John Atcheson Hyperbole and Outrage as Substitutes for Thought, Facts, Accuracy and Truth Just scream or tweet—the more idiotic and intensely stated the utterance, the more likely it is to succeed Read more |
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James Kahn Why Single-Payer Would Improve California Health Care The only big losers are the private insurance companies—and that’s okay with me Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Marianne Williamson: Challenging the Status Quo in 2020 “Our democracy has stage 4 cancer.” Read more |
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John Buell “Free” Markets and the Attack on Democracy The signs of neoliberalism are all around us Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The UK Media Smoothed the Path to Soldiers Using Corbyn Image as Target Practice The political and media elites don’t really care whether politicians are assaulted, vilified or threatened —at least, not if it is the kind of politician who threatens their power Read more |
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Adam Johnson To Ramp Up Fear of Russia in Africa, NYT Downplays Massive US Military Presence on Continent Let the Pentagon gravy train run its course, year in and year out, because invariably there will always be, with the help of the New York Times, the specter of an enemy threat “advancing on a new front.” Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Republicans Have Put Our Country on a Path of Warp-Speed Decline—And They Want You to Think It's Worth Cheering For As long as the GOP can fool some of the people all of the time, they don't give a rat's ass about the rest of us Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz The PHASE-in $15 Act Would Lock in Low Wages for Millions of Workers Working people in every region of this country deserve a decent wage and the The PHASE-in $15 Act will not accomplish that Read more |
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John Feffer Ayatollah Trump: The Global Rise of the Christian Right Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust Dangerous Plastics Are a Threat to Us and Future Generations Why a legally binding treaty cannot be postponed Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Was Ending the Draft a Grave Mistake? Ironic as it may seem, more military service may actually be the only workable formula for less war Read more |
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Dilip Hiro India, Pakistan, and a Planet in Peril South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss...barely Read more |
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Chuck Collins A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder Here’s a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent Read more |
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Jill Richardson The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler A horrific new ruling would let states execute people in more painful ways, even when alternatives are available Read more |
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Deborah James Global Civil Society Urges WTO Members to Abandon Digital Trade Talks As thousands gather for a global summit in Geneva, just weeks after some countries launched talks on "e-commerce" policies, more than 300 groups from around the world warn governments of serious dangers and urge them to instead focus on transforming global trade rules for shared prosperity for all Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud ‘The Essence of Being Palestinian’: What the Great March of Return is Really About Their protests are a collective statement, a cry for justice, an ultimate reclamation of their narrative as a people—still standing, still powerful and still hopeful after 70 years of Nakba, 50 years of military occupation and 12 years of unrelenting siege Read more |
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Jefferson Morley Spain Not Satisfied With CIA Answers on Embassy Attack Burglars sought files of Kim Jong-un adviser Read more |
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Deborah Weinstein Why Congress Must Lift the Spending Caps to Help Low-Income Families What are the human impacts of reduced spending for human needs programs? Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes The Measure of Our Happiness The highest-ranking countries in the World Happiness Report are those that have “strong social welfare systems and an emphasis on equality.” Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Democrats: Stop Being Babies and Get Trump's Tax Returns Sixty percent of Americans say Democrats should force Trump to release his returns—and railing against a billionaire oligarch president for not coming clean with the public about his money cuts into his populist persona Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon Business Leaders, Investors, and Experts to IEA: Align With Paris and Help Us Plan for Success As it stands, even the IEA’s so-called “climate scenario” is encouraging massive continued investment in fossil fuels that we cannot burn if we are to stay within the Paris limits Read more |
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Jim Hightower As We Gape at Trump's Sideshow, Corporations Are Picking Our Pockets When Trump Inc. crashed into Washington—KABLOOIE!—incrementalism exploded into a government of agencies almost wholly owned and run by Wall Street bankers, CEOs, industry lobbyists and corporate lackeys often plucked from the ranks of former Congress critters Read more |
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Philip Weiss After Gaza Slaughter, Buttigieg Praised Israeli Security Responses as ‘Moving’ and Faulted Democrats for Easy Judgment Buttigieg did not meet with AIPAC last week; but we can expect Buttigieg to take a centrist pro-Israel position in opposition to the Democratic base Read more |
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Daniel Costa Congress and Trump Discover Bipartisanship on Immigration—But Only to Increase H-2B Visas for Captive and Underpaid Migrant Workers Migrant workers make important contributions to the U.S. economy, and it should go without saying that they deserve equal rights, fair pay, protections from retaliation, and a path to permanent residence and citizenship. Sadly, the H-2B program does not meet any of these standards. Read more |
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Adam Eichen The Case for Using Ranked Choice Voting in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries To make the 2020 primary campaign more democratic, we should demand a system that takes all voter preferences into account. That system is ranked choice voting. Read more |
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Tim Karr Playing Whack-a-Mole With Broadband Industry Shills This industry money has turned far too many decision-makers in Washington against the interests of the people they’re supposed to represent, people who support Net Neutrality in large numbers Read more |
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Jonita Davis Why We’re Seeing More Realistic Depictions of Abortion in TV and Film Planned Parenthood has partnered with the entertainment industry to combat misrepresentations of women’s reproductive health Read more |
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Vera Eidelman, Ramya Krishnan The Government’s System of Censoring Its Former Employees Is Unconstitutional The system is so opaque that many others aren’t even aware of their obligations to submit Read more |
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Andrew Malone, Vera Eidelman The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters The new law gives the state the authority to sue individuals and organizations for “riot boosting,” but it does not clearly describe what speech or conduct it considers to be “riot boosting.” Read more |
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Stephen Zunes The Other Reason Biden Shouldn’t Run Biden used his leadership to get a Democratic-controlled Senate to give then-President Bush in 2002 the unprecedented authority to invade a country on the far side of the world that was no threat to the United States Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Those Boeing Crashes and Donald Trump It would be convenient to blame Trump’s deregulation. But the regulatory failure that ended in two tragic crashes was all too bipartisan Read more |
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Rajan Menon Money Talks, Big Time 1% politics and the scandals of a new gilded age Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Trump’s Dangerous, Dishonest Game on the U.S.-Mexico Border Trump is the mean drunk at the family dinner, throwing his weight around, hurling insults and threats, while everyone cringes and hopes that his rage will subside, knowing that nothing good will come from a confrontation Read more |
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Jesse Jackson, David Daley Florida Officials Are Trying to Sabotage the Will of the People With a Modern Day Jim Crow Law The 64 percent of Floridians who amended their constitution did not intend to prevent those who can’t afford to pay unreasonable fees to remain voiceless for the rest of their lives Read more |
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Elie Mystal Supreme Court Draws, Quarters The Eighth Amendment The most disturbing and grotesque of originalist fantasies is now law Read more |
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Alex Lawson Why Trump’s Goon in Charge of Medicare and Medicaid Should Resign Immediately Verma’s attacks on Medicare are more subtle but no less dangerous Read more |
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Andrea Prasow Why Congress Must Act Now on Yemen The war has contributed to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with a spike in cholera cases in recent weeks and about 80 percent of the population, or 24 million people, requiring humanitarian assistance Read more |
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Janine Jackson Chelsea Manning Again Takes Fall for Defending Public’s Right to Know I can’t find any editorials in US corporate media in support of Manning, or of journalists’ right to inform the public, or of the public’s right to know Read more |
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Elise Gould Equal Pay Day Is a Reminder That you Can’t Mansplain Away the Gender Pay Gap To close the gender pay gap, women need to see real wage growth faster than their male counterparts Read more |
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Paul Waldman Joe Biden Is a Link to the Past—and Not In a Good Way In ideology, political strategy, and demeanor, Biden represents the Democratic Party of the past Read more |
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Will Bunch As Floodwaters Rise, GOP Lawmakers are Frantically Building Levees of Climate Denial The right’s environmental McCarthyism bobbed to the surface this week Read more |
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Juan Cole Syrian Ambassador: Trump Should Give Israel the Carolinas, Instead of Syria’s Golan Jaafari said that the United States had completely ended any role for itself as a mediator in the region, and described Trump’s decision as “an illegal announcement issuing from the American president.” Read more |
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Gladys McCormick Fox News' '3 Mexican Countries' Gaffe Perfectly Sums Up Trump's Policies For the Trump administration—much like Fox News—Central America is an extension of Mexico and immigrants fleeing Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are one and the same, as if we were, in fact, Mexicans Read more |
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Chris Hedges Only the Struggle Matters The brutality of our corporate executioners grows by the day Read more |
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Danny Sjursen What I Won't Miss as I Leave the US Army The forever wars go on without me Read more |
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Michael Winship "Feckless" Trump and the Immigration Maelstrom Why should you care about Liberia? Read more |
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Peter Dreier Cesar Chavez's Legacy Chavez became a national hero, a symbol of courage and fortitude, for leading a nonviolent revolution to organize farmworkers Read more |
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Sarah Reinhardt Nine Reasons to Oppose the Trump Administration's Proposed SNAP Changes In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the only thing more troubling than persistent hunger, poverty, and inequality is an unwillingness to do something about it Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Latest Agriculture Emissions Data Show Rise of Factory Farms The increase in methane emissions mirrors the rapid expansion of factory farms in the U.S. over the last two decades Read more |
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Juan Cole 75% of Scotland's Electricity Now Green; All Cars Electric by 2032 People who talk about our finding future solutions to the climate emergency are just out of date. The solutions exist, it is just a matter of implementing them, of political will. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Amateur Hour To describe the Trump advent to the world stage as a gift from God, was a little like saying that the recent floods in the mid-west are a gift from God to the farmers whose livelihoods have been wiped out Read more |
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Katie Halper Matt Taibbi and Aaron Maté on How Russiagate Helped Trump A sad irony is that the Russiagate narrative, which so many people clung to in an attempt to bring down Trump, only helped him. Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Vietnam to Venezuela: US Interventionism and the Failure of the Left The modern U.S. empire has run roughshod over the interests and desires of foreign nations and their people for more than a century, but that history should call for pause as the bipartisan interventionist consensus gears up once again, this time in an effort to topple the legitimately elected... Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Why Is the Government Allowing Its Own Drug Research to Be Monopolized for Profit? The government is doing nothing to prevent outrageous price-gouging, which places a near-insurmountable barrier to getting a life-saving drug out to all who need it Read more |
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Adam Johnson 'Renouncing Violence' Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims What makes the West's arbitrary, violent occupations per se justified, while less sophisticated counter-occupations who refuse to go full Gandhi are committing a profound moral transgression? Read more |
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Benjamin Barber The Partisan Gerrymandering Cases That Could Shape the Future of Southern Politics Gerrymandering is facing an unprecedented challenge, with two landmark lawsuits over the practice now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court Read more |
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Yara Hawari From Inspiration to Despair: A Year of Gaza's Great March of Return As Palestinians dream of returning home, Gaza has become synonymous with war, death and suffering Read more |
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Leo Gerard Republicans on Health Care: Do Vast Harm The message is clear: to Republicans, health care is a right only for the rich; the rest can suffer and die Read more |
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James Gustave Speth A People’s State of the Nation We now face a daunting, festering array of challenges that were decades in the making. If we are to save ourselves, we must take an honest look at where we are and then act urgently to get where we want to go. Read more |
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Emile Nakhleh Hawks Clamoring to Attack Iran The massive destruction of Iraq and the horrendous human and material cost the American “liberation” caused for the country will be child’s play compared to what could happen if Trump and his Israeli and Saudi allies decide to attack Iran Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Learning the Downsides of Candidates Is a Big Upside of Modern Media The possibility of picking nominees based on who can best serve the interests of voters rather than donors is really one of the most positive developments in modern politics Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Moving Beyond the Mueller Investigation The Mueller investigation should never have been considered the sole means by which the Trump presidency would be taken to task Read more |