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Danny Sjursen What If They Called an Election and Nothing Changed in the War State? Foreign policy, sacred cows, and the U.S. Military. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Pentagon in Your Hands? The pernicious and lucrative aspects of military madness are personified in the favorite to be Biden’s Defense Secretary. Read more |
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Robert Reich Profiles in Cowardice Most elected Republicans in Washington are failing the test by refusing to stand up to Trump. Their cowardice is one of the worst betrayals of public trust in the history of our republic. Read more |
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Peter Bohmer The 2020 Election and What We Should Do Now We shouldn't give Biden any breathing room and wait to see what he does before acting. We need to build campaigns and social movements and mass action in the streets for progressive policies. Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers Black Voters Saved Our Democracy Black voters waited in 10-hour lines to show up for Joe Biden. Now Biden needs to return the favor. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade What could be better than a drug that can stop Covid? A society that doesn’t let some make billions off a drug millions can’t access Read more |
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Isabella Breda How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Smart Commentators Must Stop Minimizing Trump's Ongoing Threat To This Election How far will Donald Trump go to stay in power, and how far will enough of his supporters—in Congress, in the military and police, and in the street—go to keep him in power? Read more |
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Juan Cole At G20, Only India Is On Track to Meet Goals for Keeping Global Heating to 3.6° F Although most of India's electricity and heating now comes from carbon-intensive coal, the country has big plans to transition to renewables. Read more |
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Ted Snider When Coups Come Home "As the solution to every foreign election that didn't turn out the way the American government wanted it to was a coup, so when the American election didn't turn out the way the American government wanted it to, the solution was an attempted coup." Read more |
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Riva Enteen Don't [Mourn] Celebrate, Organize! "That Biden's win against the unstable racist was close is damning enough. What is more damning is that he's promised that "nothing will fundamentally change," so the utter bankruptcy of the Democrats will be glaring." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump's Massive, Lawless, and Immoral Legacy to Our Country Will Continue Unless... "It is difficult to overestimate the continuing harm to our beleaguered democracy and its people, should Trump and his cohorts not be brought to justice." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Dreams "Just 10 days after the trump learned that his lease on the White House would not be extended beyond January 20, 2021, a federal court ruled that the trump efforts to reduce the number of DACA recipients in the country was invalid." Read more |
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Andy Rowell Crisis, What Climate Crisis? Oil Majors Still Sitting on Tens of Billions of Barrels of Undeveloped Reserves If these are developed we will face more hurricanes ripping communities and lives apart as our climate emergency intensifies. It did not have to be this way. It should never had to be that way. Read more |
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Faiz Shakir Democrats Must Commit Themselves to the Needs of Non-College Educated Workers Now is the time to show the working class that a Democratic agenda can deliver real change. Read more |
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Jonathan B. Kotch, Jonathan Michels Biden Ran on a Return To Normalcy, but There's Nothing Normal About the American Health Care System In poll after poll, Americans have indicated their preference for a universal, single-payer health care system. Compromise and half-measures are not acceptable. Medicare for All remains the goal. Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn On the Current Status of Trump's Coup Attempt—and Its Future It may look like this is one frivolity and absurdity after another—and it is. But if this electoral clash reaches the Supreme Court, all bets are off. Read more |
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Renée Graham If Biden Wants Unity, He Must First Hold Trump Accountable America’s typical hit-and-run approach to its most troubling eras won’t work now. Read more |
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Bill Blum Unequal Justice: The Treachery of Samuel Alito His record of arch-conservatism makes him more closely akin to a Fox News host than a Supreme Court Justice. Read more |
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Rosa Pavanelli Tax Losses Are Lives Lost There is more than enough money available. But it has been redirected away from our public services and into the offshore bank accounts of multinationals and the mega-rich. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg The Real Plan? To Make America Ungovernable Neither party is equipped to reach across the divides that separate Americans, and the political system is set up to make it nearly impossible for a third party to take root. Read more |
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Erin Brockovich Dear Joe Biden: Are You Kidding Me? The president-elect has tapped a former DuPont consultant to join his Environmental Protection Agency transition board. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Joe Biden Can Fix on Day One So much vital work to be done—that must be done—for a more a peaceful world. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Long-Term Care Fiasco a Warning About Private Ownership The private sector almost always does things to make a profit, and that can leave the rest of us paying a high price—in dollars and deaths. Read more |
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Cassandra Stimpson, Holly Zhang A Washington Echo Chamber for a New Cold War A rising China is also guaranteed to lift all boats (submarines, aircraft carriers, and surface ships) as well as fighter planes aiding the military-industrial complex on a planet increasingly at war with itself. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Beyond Simplistic ‘Peace’ My God, if complexity were brought into the news—e.g., bombs kill, people suffer, no one ever wins, wars never end—the trillion-dollar annual military budget would be in danger. Read more |
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Pip Hinman Scientists Say Net Zero by 2050 Is Too Late This means unions and the climate movement need to be bold and step up the pressure on all parties for serious climate action. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Petty Revenge of a Soon-to-Be-Ex-President With their pitiful plots to overthrow election results, Trump and the GOP are the lowest. Read more |
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Rebecca Chowdhury Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Trump Team Seeks to 'Delay the Inevitable' In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, the Republicans' false claims of voter fraud are becoming undone. Read more |
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Robert Reich Georgia Runoffs: How You Can Help Flip the Senate The stakes couldn’t be higher. Let’s bring this home, flip the Senate, and usher in the transformative change this nation requires. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Senate Runoffs in Georgia Offer a Clear Choice The races will be determined by whether Georgia’s voters choose to embrace and build a New South coalition or revert to the Old South. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis With the Election Over, Congress Must Remember the Rest of the World Even a lame-duck Congress must remember their actions have global consequences too. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Why We Must Protect Essential Workers From Billionaire Pandemic Profiteers We are witnessing a criminal tragedy as wealthy billionaires, sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets, are dispatching essential workers into the line of infection fire with inadequate shields and protections. Read more |
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is. When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no clue why this is how we choose our president. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook I Am Greta Isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World We can listen to Greta, without fear, without reproach, without adulation, without cynicism. Or we can carry on with our insane games until the bubble explodes. Read more |
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Kari Hamerschlag, Christopher D. Cook Biden’s Agriculture Secretary: Heitkamp Is the Wrong Choice We cannot afford an old-school agriculture secretary who maintains today’s disastrous status quo when the job calls for a bold change agent. Read more |
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Christine Ahn, Yifat Susskind Biden Should Embrace an Anti-Imperialist Feminist Foreign Policy to Heal Wounds Abroad—and at Home Women of color should be the ones remaking U.S. foreign policy. Read more |
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Adrienne Pine More Humane Cages? Prospects for Immigration Justice Under Biden Appear Dim In stacking not just his DHS team but all of his transition teams with neoliberals and hawks, Biden has sent the world a clear signal that despite the cage-free fantasies of liberal Democrats, his immigration policy will be more of the same. Read more |
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Roy Eidelson With the Win-Win Machine, Most of Us Actually Lose If Biden now selects only corporate-friendly, status-quo-defending advisors and Cabinet members, and if he touts watered-down bipartisan "solutions" as stunning successes, it will further cement a betrayal. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis Grappling With a Divided Nation The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen President-Elect Biden: Time for YOU to Follow the Climate Science Big corporate media outlets are great at policing progressive Democrats who "go too far." They're not so watchful over Democratic presidents who cling to a go-slow, corporate-friendly "middle ground." Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich, Adam Weinstein Trump Demands Afghan Withdrawal and Washington Panics. But It’s Time To Leave, Now. No serious person believes that the war is winnable in any meaningful sense. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump's Requested Strike on Iran Could Kill More People Than Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Any US military action against Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities would be a massive war crime. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Drawing All the Wrong Lessons From Media’s Election 2020 Failures By repeatedly conferring legitimacy on a fundamentally antidemocratic president and his actions, media paved the way for the dangerous place we find ourselves in today, and hobbled their ability to protect our democracy. Read more |
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Zoe Weil Want to Save Democracy? Reduce the Voting Age Let’s teach 16-year-olds to be election-savvy and help them register to vote. Read more |
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Laura Flanders The Media's Quadrennial Eclipse We need coverage of people as active citizens, not just as consumers. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann This Election Was Rigged If any governor wants to take away your vote, they don’t even have to tell you, they just kick you off the voting rolls, because right now voting is not a right in America, it’s merely a privilege. Read more |
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Christian Christensen It's 2020 But the Dangerous Myth About the So-Called "Liberal" Media Still Going Strong Legitimizing this myth only serves the interests of those opposed to the critical analysis of current events in the United States. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Corporate Democrats Are to Blame for Congressional Losses—So Naturally They’re Blaming Progressives When Rep. Rashida Tlaib talks about "pushing the Democratic Party to represent the communities that elected them," she actually means what she says. Read more |
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Udi Ofer 50 Years After the Start of the War on Drugs, Americans Have a Chance to Fix the Harm It Created Today, policymakers and the public alike are increasingly adopting approaches that treat substance use as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice one. Read more |
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Robert Reich Debunking Trump’s Post-Election Lies We must see this for what it is: A final attempt of a desperate, bitter man to cling to power. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Margot Rathke The Federal Government Owns 92% of Student Debt. Will Biden Wipe It Out? Lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy. Read more |
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Joe Sanberg You Can't Eat Civility: A Message to Joe Biden and the Democrats Politeness will not solve the problems facing the country. Democrats must put forth and fight for bold solutions that will materially improve the lives of working people. Read more |
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John Feffer Biden Rushes in Where Clinton Failed to Tread There's no returning to normal after Trump. Read more |
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The Glasgow Agreement Glasgow Agreement, A Plan of Our Own Rather than plans dictated from the top—which have proven not only to be unfair and destructive, but not even reach the necessary emissions cuts—we will build a plan of our own, from below. Read more |
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Jim Hightower It’s Not Trump’s Country — Even in ‘Trump Country’ Progressive ballot initiatives passed handily across the country, even in so-called red states. Read more |
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Janine Jackson Absolving Trump Means Erasing the Harm Done to Millions The call to coddle Trump—like the same outlets’ insistence that it would be mean to send bankers whose fraud derailed the economy to jail—is evidence of the total divorce between real people’s lives and experiences, and the puppets and caricatures in media’s narrative. Read more |
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Robert Freeman How the Green New Deal Can Save Joe Biden and America There is no other policy construct on the horizon that has any chance of delivering so many salutary outcomes. Read more |
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Rhett Butler, Mongabay Musician Raffi on Music, Healing the Planet, and How Crisis Can Bring Opportunity The man who brought the world "Baby Beluga" talks about his efforts to further the concept of "Child Honouring." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Trump and the FED The president could be heading towards a fitting end to a uniquely undistinguished tenure. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Future of American Democracy: On Inequality, Polarization and Violence While the buzzword throughout the election campaigns has been ‘saving American democracy’, the state of democracy in the US is likely to worsen in the foreseeable future. Read more |
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Dylan Penner Public-Private Partnerships Have No Place in Canada’s Post-COVID Just Recovery We urgently need the government to put people at the core of its COVID-19 response and recovery plan. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Why Can’t Inner-Ring Democrats Just Say ‘No’ to Billionaires? The problem runs even deeper than Donor Class donations. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston After Trump’s Payouts Are Gone, What Happens to Farmers? Here are a handful of immediate steps new leadership could take. Read more |
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Catherine Lynne Troisi President-Elect Biden’s New COVID-19 Task Force Gives the US a Fresh Chance to Turn Around a Public Health Disaster As an infectious disease epidemiologist, I’m looking forward to research-based guidance at the federal level that I hope will help get the coronavirus under control. Read more |
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Janet McCabe On Environmental Protection, Biden’s Election Will Mean a 180-Degree Turn from Trump Policies With a closely divided Senate, Biden will need to rely primarily on executive actions and must-pass legislative measures like the federal budget and the Farm Bill to further his environmental agenda. Read more |
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Melanie Conklin Billionaire GOP Donors Positive for Covid-19 After White House Election Watch Party The Uihleins, who have opposed public health guidelines, tested positive after attending the White House election eve watch party. Read more |
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Ken Levy, Jen Senko How to Combat Trumpism (Even After Trump Is Gone) This story—that a few extreme-libertarian billionaires like the Murdoch family use media like Fox News to enrich themselves at viewers’ expense—needs to be told over and over again, in every possible venue. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Biden Will Fail to Bring Back 'Normal' Politics. What’s Needed Now Is a Populism of the Left The neoliberal "normal" isn’t coming back because the economic circumstances that generated it—the post-war boom of seemingly endless growth—have disappeared. Read more |
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Juan Cole Georgia Sen. David Perdue Ready to Save His Ocean-Front Mansion From Rising Seas While Voting to Burn More Oil and Gas Perdue, who is worth between $13 million and $39 million, is worried about rising sea levels. But he votes like he isn’t worried, because he is sure he has the wealth to protect his own property from the worst effects, at least in his lifetime. Read more |
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David Korten From Fear and Anger to Collective Purpose What greater purpose and meaning is there than working together to create a world that secures the health of Earth and the well-being of families and communities? Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Fighting the Pandemic Can’t Wait for Inauguration Day A nation could not have been more poorly positioned to fight COVID-19 than by the Trump administration. Read more |
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Bill C. Davis An Alternate National Food Mandate America seems to have a romance with disease. Read more |
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Nick Turse A Convergence of Calamities Record numbers of war-displaced to be dwarfed by those driven from their homes by climate change. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Not Just Cruel, GOP Blocking Unemployment Aid Is Terrible Economics With unemployment benefits for millions of workers set to expire in December, Senate Republicans must stop blocking aid. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman Republicans Aren’t Just Bad Losers—They’re Traitors to Democracy Trump’s insidious rhetoric on the election won’t stop Biden from taking office, but it’s not harmless either. Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren 2020's Lesson Is Clear: Bold Policies to Improve People's Lives Are Broadly Popular What a Biden-Harris administration should prioritize on its first day. Read more |
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Timothy Snyder Don’t Underestimate Where Trump's Election Lies Could Take the United States Clinging to power by claiming you are the victim of internal enemies is a very dangerous tactic. Read more |
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Albert Hunt Trump's False 'Stolen Election' Claims Could Unleash Wave of Right-Wing Violence Trump's deceitful charge undermines confidence in our Democratic system, but it could also threaten to unleash a dangerous wave of violence. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Biden's Mandate Is for Deep Solutions, Not Donor-Class Fetishism of Bipartisan Compromise Biden and the Democrats should put principles first and rally the nation around a serious vision: an agenda not simply to "restore the soul of America" but to expand that soul, make this country a true global leader as Planet Earth faces its treacherous future. Read more |
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JP Sottile Feel Uneasy. Feel Very Uneasy Are we simply just stuck in the middle seat between a lunatic (Trump) and scumbag (McConnell) on an insane airplane ride.... or is it something much more sinister? Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman The Left and the Rule of Law Our work in the present situation then, is to protect the rule of law against threats to take hold of the power concentrated in our government and use it in arbitrary ways. Read more |
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Thomas A. Bass Pham Doan Trang Goes to Prison Trang has been arrested in Vietnam's most brazen attack on journalists since relations with the United States were normalized in 1995. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard The Fall of Trump Propels the Climate Story into a Decisive New Era The world is about to see whether the US government will help humanity grasp a final opportunity to turn down the heat. Read more |
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Christian Sorensen The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Is Fascism This Veterans Day, if you wish to honor the troops and humanity as a whole, vow to break with or challenge the MIC. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Trump's Anti-Labor Department Donald Trump has been waging a savage war behind the administrative curtain to make employees wholly subservient to the profiteering whims of CEOs and rich investors. Read more |
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Walden Bello Things May Get Worse Before They Get Better for the U.S. For many, Trump’s ouster is a relief. But his steadfast support among white voters puts his party on a crash course with democracy. Read more |
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Julie Hollar When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left Clearly the 2020 election contains many lessons, but it's unlikely the right conclusions will be drawn from the fact-free centrist narrative that has already emerged. Read more |
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Simon Davis-Cohen The Reactionary Immigration Measures Alabama, Florida and Colorado Just Passed That No One is Talking About T he fight over non-citizen political rights is the cutting edge of democratic, refugee and migration discourse. Read more |
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Bama Athreya Uber and Lyft Notch Another Corporate Victory in the Global Exploitation of ‘Gig Workers’ Labor organizing in California and around the world is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson A White House That Once Again Calls on Our Better Angels A new mood. A new plan of action. Once more, hope is reborn. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Margot Rathke After Boosting Low-Income Voter Turnout, Poor People’s Campaign Mobilizes for Covid Relief People did not turn out in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. They want policy change based on a moral agenda. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores A Triumphant Return to Power for Bolivia’s Social Movements The most important victory, however, did not come at the ballot box, but rather in the streets. Read more |
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Robert Reich Recognize What This Is: A Final Attempt of a Desperate, Bitter Man to Cling to Power Why this effort to steal an election and corrupt democracy won't work. Read more |
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Yves Engler Trudeau Lobbies Biden to Maintain Climate-Destroying Trump Policy Why is Ottawa trying to maintain one of the Republican's worst environmental policies? Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt State of Chaos Donald Trump knew us better than we knew ourselves. Read more |
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William Astore Reclaiming American Idealism We could use a leader like George McGovern again. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will the Biden Team Be Warmongers or Peacemakers? We must vigorously advocate for a team that would put an end to the normalization of war and make diplomatic engagement in the pursuit of international peace and cooperation our number one foreign policy priority. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The UK Equalities Commission's Labour Antisemitism Report Is the Real 'Political Interference' Neither Jewish leadership groups nor the corporate media have an interest in highlighting the embarrassing fact that the commission’s findings exposed their campaign against Corbyn as misinformation. Read more |