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Dean Baker Corporate Media Take the Trump Line on Trade It would be great if trade reporters could get a bit more serious and give some thought to winners and losers from trade policy, and not pretend that everyone in the United States is in the same boat. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Problem With Health Care Is 'The System' While our doctors and other providers have top-level skills and knowledge, they operate within a fundamentally flawed corporate structure that measures success not in care delivered to the many but in profits extracted for the few: the investor elites. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Humanity Denied: What Is Missing From the Omar, Tlaib Story This is the story of Palestinian isolation by Israel that we must not allow to die out. Read more |
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Daniel Ross Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe? To prevent the worst climate scenarios, carbon emissions must be slashed to net-zero by 2050. Read more |
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Jovanna Garcia Soto Violence Against Indigenous Hondurans Shows Us What Fuels Migration The United States government bears direct responsibility for the violence—militarizing the region and ensuring U.S. corporations can extract profit and resources. Read more |
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Sameena Mustafa Real People Will Lead the Way to #MedicareForAll Most would not believe that a bunch of grassroots activists could stop a 172-year-old professional organization in its tracks. Such a feat would be nothing short of David felling Goliath. But that’s exactly what we did. Read more |
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Rob Boston Federal Appeals Court Green Lights Discrimination Against Non-Theists It's yet another in a problematic line of recent decisions that allow government entities to endorse and promote religion (just about always Christianity) as long as it’s being done for "historic" purposes. Read more |
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Julianne Tveten Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science While proposals to compromise might appear fair, protectors say, they dismiss the historical context in Hawaii of colonialism and the usurpation of Indigenous land that continues today. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The G7 Countries Look Feeble—Iran and Brazil Could Shore Them Up To think that the G7 is a serious body is to have lost one’s mind. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi John Hickenlooper Is the New Joe Lieberman What Lieberman was to antiwar Democrats, Colorado’s Hickenlooper is to environmentalists. Read more |
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Amitabh Pal India’s Kashmir Gambit Fulfills the Hindu Nationalist Agenda "Now Modi is the leader of a billion people who stand solidly with him." Read more |
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Leila Salazar-López, Lindsey Allen We Are Facing a Global Emergency in the Amazon. Here's What We Can Do Global solidarity with Brazil's indigenous and environmental movements can make the difference at this critical moment. Read more |
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Sarah Jones David Koch’s Monstrous Legacy David Koch died before he could reap the full bounty of his works. We will not be so lucky. His legacy is poisoned water and dirty air, decimated unions, and Donald Trump. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Violent White Supremacists Threaten Basic Civil Rights—and Our Lives The federal government can largely stamp out domestic terrorism—or fan the flames. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Make America… More Like Canada Canadians enjoy much better health care, much less inequality, and—a new study finds—higher incomes too. Read more |
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Rachel M. Cohen 8 Unions Have a Plan for Climate Action—But It Doesn’t Mention Fighting the Fossil Fuel Industry While the report’s focus on public investment, good jobs and justice shares much in common with the federal Green New Deal resolution introduced in February, it also stands in tension with environmentalists who demand the U.S. work to transition more quickly away from oil, coal and natural gas. Read more |
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Mekela Panditharatne Flint’s Water Crisis Wasn’t Just a Blip. Our Water Standards Need Bold Change. Federal law should not greenlight weak standards for lead in water. The Lead and Copper Rule needs bold and far-reaching change. Read more |
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Evelyn Leopold Trump Has Done Incalculable Damage to Humanity by Backing Out of UN Programs Will he slash more programs in his disdain for world bodies? Read more |
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Naomi Klein The Amazon Is on Fire—Indigenous Rights Can Help Put It Out Colonialism is setting the world on fire. Taking leadership from the people who have been resisting its violence for centuries, while protecting non-extractive ways of life, is our best hope of putting out the flames. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex? Their pro-diplomacy worldview has blind spots. This creates a pretext for continuing U.S. militarism and risks undermining their commitment to peace. Read more |
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Alexander Sammon Progressives Shouldn’t Be Interested in John Hickenlooper for Senate Virtually any Democrat would be favored to beat Cory Gardner in Colorado, and virtually any Democrat is better than John Hickenlooper. Read more |
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Basav Sen Brazil Isn’t the Only Far-Right Government Destroying the Planet As the Amazon burns, the terrifying parallels between the U.S. and Brazilian governments highlight the damage authoritarian leaders are doing. Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump’s Entire Worldview Is a Nut Job Conspiracy Theory "Why is everybody always picking on me?" Read more |
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David Miranda Fires Are Devouring the Amazon. And Jair Bolsonaro Is to Blame The ongoing destruction of the Amazon is taking place because of policy choices made by those who now rule Brazil. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Curse of Moral Purity Liberal elites have jettisoned genuine political life and retreated into self-defeating moral crusades in a vain and futile attempt to deflect attention away from the looming social, political, economic and environmental catastrophes. Read more |
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Juan Cole France Upstages Trump at G7 by Inviting Iran to Salvage Nuclear Deal "He is the only one who seeks to punish Iran, to increase sanctions. All the others are searching for a solution." Read more |
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Roy Morrison Global Climate Movement: Darkest Before the Dawn Climate action from above—like proposals for a Green New Deal—is both driven by and will only be achieved by determined and relentless pressure from below Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Two Arguments for Localism A Great Unraveling is in store Read more |
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Rivera Sun Tapping Into People Power We have more power than we think Read more |
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Birgit Schippers Facial Recognition: Ten Reasons You Should Be Worried About the Technology We desperately need a more prominent conversation on the technology's impact on our rights and civil liberties. Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name The sadistic logic of the sanctions against Venezuela is clear: Put pressure on the target government by ripping apart the social and economic fabric of the country. Read more |
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Steven Singer Blaming Schools for Student Absences Is Like Denouncing Doctors for Disease If something is wrong with children, it must be the school’s fault. Right? If kids can’t read, write and do ‘rithmetic, the teachers must not have taught ’em right . It couldn’t have anything to do... Read more |
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Jeffery Robinson Will North Carolina's Supreme Court Allow Racism to Remain a Persistent Factor in its Death Penalty? Data shows that racial bias in state’s death penalty is systematic—not the work of a few isolated bad actors. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Endangered Species The would-be immigrants who are poor, like the plants and animals that were formerly protected by the The Endangered Species Act, have no chance. Read more |
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Diane Ravitch Providence Plans to Defund Its Public Schools to Expand “No Excuses” Charter Gov. Gina Raimondo is a big fan of charters Read more |
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Christopher Petrella, Justin Gomer Stop Using Mental Illness to Explain White Supremacy White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It’s terribly, terrifyingly normal. Read more |
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Olatunde Johnson, Michelle Aronowitz The Trump Administration’s Assault on Fair Housing The proposal would gut the core of the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact method of proof. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Just Who Got Trump's Farm Bailouts? Rich families cashed in on over half the bailout money set aside for farmers hurt by Trump’s trade policies. Read more |
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Janine Jackson GateHouse’s Takeover of Gannett: Bad News for Journalism and the Planet USA Today ran a piece ( 8/20/19 ) on the Amazon fires in which “anthropogenic climate change” were almost literally the last three words. Media watchers are wondering if that’s more likely to reflect... Read more |
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John Atcheson Centrists Are Going to Kill Us Democrats are in danger of dooming the planet and the democracy by adhering to their corporate-friendly, campaign finance-motivated centrist strategy. Read more |
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Helena Norberg-Hodge Resist Locally, Renew Globally Resistance to corporate rule at the policy level will need to be coupled with the generation of alternatives from below, to fill the gaps left by the departing old system. Read more |
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Tracy L. Barnett How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Is a Nationally Widespread New Voting System Ready for the 2020 Elections? An independent audit in Maryland raises key questions. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Terrifying Legacy of David Koch David Koch was one of the most powerful people in the world over the last three or so decades, and he did his level best to stymie any effort to stop the biggest threat to human society. Read more |
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Emily Beament Trade in Giraffe Products to be Regulated Giraffes are facing what has been described as a "silent extinction", with numbers falling by up to 40 percent over the last 30 years. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Let's Stop Trying to Predict Who Can Beat Trump Jill Biden’s tacit admission that her husband stands for nothing much beyond a vague idea of electability could hand the election to Trump. Read more |
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Eliza Mackintosh The Amazon Is Burning Because the World Eats So Much Meat And if saving the rainforest isn't enough to convince carnivores to stop eating Brazilian beef—the greenhouse gas emissions the cattle create may be. Read more |
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Juan Cole Bernie Sanders’ Manhattan Project: The Game-Changing Green New Deal The selfish and greedy elites of the US Establishment will attempt to kill this plan just in the same way that they are killing the planet. Read more |
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Janine Jackson When Reporting on Global Crises Like the Amazon Fires, the Media Needs to Focus on Who’s Fighting Them It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change. Read more |
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Jackie Smith Human Rights from the Ground Up Bottom-up action and local identities are not only viable as foundations for a global movement, but they are also essential if we are to mobilize the collective energies and creativity needed to address today’s existential crises. Read more |
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Jim Goodman Farmers Need a Bill of Rights Besides a fair income, just like other workers, the Farmers Bill of Rights seeks to guarantee farmers fair and open markets that are not dominated by a handful of corporations. Read more |
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Harry Blain Should We Fight a War on White Terrorism? There’s a strong argument to shift law enforcement resources from Muslim organizations to domestic white terrorists — but expanding the war on terror is a riskier proposition. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Bernie Sanders' Plan to Rebuild Labor Unions Would Be a Huge Win for Working Americans It would be a glorious victory for nearly all of the American people—which is why big business will fight it to their dying breath. Read more |
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Manuella Libardi Leaked Documents Show Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Grave Plans for Amazon Rainforest DemocraciaAbierta had access to PowerPoints from a meeting between members of the Bolsonaro government. The slides show that the current government intends to use the president's hate speech to diminish the power of minorities living in the region and to implement predatory projects that could have... Read more |
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Stephanie Woodard At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice With Indian country’s electoral power growing, presidential hopefuls pledged to honor treaties and enact structural change. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre 400 Years After Slavery’s Start, No More Band-Aids It’s time to heal the deep wounds of racism—not only to ensure equity for African Americans, but for our entire economy. Read more |
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Anis Shivani The Dream Is Dead Not Just for Dreamers, But for All Americans For many, the dream has become a nightmare, but there is yet a passage through the difficult terrain which might perhaps take us to a different kind of dream, because this one sure is extinct. Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Become a Corporate CEO Scam Artist in Five Easy Steps And how to stop it in five more Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Putting Bodies on the Line in Participatory Evolution The big black pickup truck plunged into the protesters blocking the parking lot and I cringed, viscerally, as though I could feel it myself — this merciless crush of steel against flesh. I was... Read more |
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Brian Tokar Think Globally, Act Locally? Progressive, locally rooted movements have long proven their ability to influence wider social and political trends, whether by force of example, concerted political pressure, or active resistance to centralized power. Read more |
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Elliott Negin Trump Administration’s Attacks on Science Already Surpass Two Bush Terms Trump may have lauded the Apollo 11 mission, but his administration has launched more than 100 attacks on science. Read more |
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Daphne Wysham Saving the Planet Means Fighting Bipartisan Corruption Major donors to both parties are trying desperately to get more fossil fuels to market. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Corporate Media Filled With Nameless Voices Attacking Progressive Democrats Here's a question: Why grant anonymity to a partisan source making an inaccurate attack—unless giving cover for a non-returnable attack on a progressive political figure was the point? Read more |
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George Goehl Trump’s Re-election Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other I’ve seen firsthand how communities get hung out to dry when politicians scapegoat immigrants for the crimes of corporations. Read more |
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Doug Lasdon The "Blame the Poor" Playbook—Used by Republicans and Democrats Alike—Is Back With a Vengeance And what 30 years as a human interest attorney has taught me about what we can do about it Read more |
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Naomi Klein Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate Debate Having a habitable Earth is not a "single issue"; it is the single precondition for every other issue’s existence. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Antifa Is Not a 'Terrorist Organization,' But That Doesn’t Make It Good Thoughts from Bloomington, Indiana. Read more |
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David Dayen How Elizabeth Warren Works the Political System She has an approach that involves identifying ways to make progress and focusing relentlessly on achieving them. Read more |
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Bill McKibben Youth to Adults—Join Us in the Climate Fight On what kind of world do we expect 15-year-olds to tackle our biggest problems by themselves? Read more |
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David Korten You Can’t Put Capitalism Over Sustainability—and Other Lessons From China Humanity’s existential crisis can be resolved only when we the people stand united behind a vision of the world we truly want. Read more |
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Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change A book entitled Discerning Experts explains why—and what can be done about it. Read more |
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Nancy Altman, Alex Lawson Dear Politicians: Lower Drug Prices Now Our strategy is simple: mobilize millions of Americans across this country to stand up and demand that politicians choose a side, the American people or the pharmaceutical corporations. Read more |
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Angela Stuesse Workplace Raids Are Not the Answer Criminalizing undocumented labor will not curb the practice of their hiring. It only makes workers more exploitable. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Stop Criminalizing Children in the Name of School Security We need a more realistic law that balances security and responsibility with children’s right to make mistakes and to learn from them. Punish them. But don’t crucify them. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Key Trump Policies Show a Person Mentally Disordered: Megalomaniacal, Paranoid, and Psychopathic The U.S. president is widely mischaracterized as a cynical politician maneuvering for personal power and financial gain. Yet the situation is far more dangerous. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Why the World Is Watching the Fate of an Iranian Tanker in the Mediterranean Greece, unlike the U.S., has taken the position that Iran has "the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes alone." Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The Significance of the 1619 Project The project tells the "unvarnished truth" of slavery. We will face the horrors of our past, as well as the triumph of our progress. It is a telling that is long overdue. Read more |
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Bill Blum The Biggest Obstacle to Gun Control May Be the Supreme Court With the addition of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, today’s Supreme Court may be even more pro-gun than it was when Scalia penned Heller. Read more |
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Rebecca U. Thorpe One Budget Line Congress Can Agree On: Spending Billions on the US Military Americans are increasingly insulated and isolated from the political, economic and human costs of warfare. Read more |
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Dean Baker CEOs Say They Will Stop Maximizing Shareholder Value. Would Be Better If They Stopped Maximizing CEO Compensation Rather than maximizing shareholder returns, it seems more plausible that CEOs have been maximizing CEO pay, which has risen 940 percent since 1978. Read more |
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Rebekah Barber Public Charge Rule Is Trump's Latest Attack on Immigrants The rule could have a particularly devastating effect on immigrant communities in the South, the nation's poorest region. Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn The Foreign Policy Litmus Test for Democrats in 2020 As the carnage continues with no end in sight, all of the Democratic candidates should be making immediate and complete U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and indeed, all countries in which the United States is fighting, a central pillar of their platforms. Read more |
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Brent Patterson Remembering Colombian Land Defender Hernán Bedoya "A year before he died, Hernán warned the palm oil companies planned to plant another 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres), which would be impossible unless he and more than a dozen other campesinos were dispossessed." Read more |
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Likhita Banerji A Dangerous Alliance: Governments Collaborate with Surveillance Companies to Shrink the Space for Human Rights Work Despite the existence of these international laws and standards, states and private companies have been able to buy and use spyware freely and without any provision for accountability. Read more |
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Diana Donlon Got Climate Anxiety? Watch "The Biggest Little Farm"—a Template for Regeneration The real takeaway from this movie is that the miracle of self-renewal can happen anywhere, once soil-health restoration becomes the priority and the processes that allow nature to regenerate are set into motion. Read more |
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Philip Weiss Political Upheaval Over Tlaib and Omar Shows the Power of BDS The 56 percent majority of Democrats who believe in punishing Israel in aid for its unending gobbling of Palestinian land is gaining numbers as we speak. Read more |
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Paul Waldman There Will Be No Justice For Trump's Enablers The moral and professional accounting some Republicans feared will never take place. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt 2084: Is Donald Trump Big Brother? Orwell revisited in the age of Trump Read more |
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Zubeida Mustafa Trump's Ignorance Touches Off a New Crisis in Kashmir Observers believe that Donald Trump's ham-handedness has provoked Modi—or rather, provided him the opening he was looking for Read more |
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Larry Beinhart Donald and Ronald Just how different is Trump's presidency from Reagan's? Read more |
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Juan Cole America as a Company Town: Royal Dutch Shell Workers in Pennsylvania Coerced to Show Up for Trump This campaign rally was a way for Royal Dutch Shell to force its workers to show up for Trump and to put them under his political influence Read more |
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Tim Wilkins The AMA Gets Out of the Way of #MedicareForAll "The AMA has made the right—if overdue—call by leaving the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, and to stop giving their credibility to this effort by big corporations to put profits before people's health." Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe Bad Boss Trump, the Great Organizer Working people at all levels are beginning to understand how their interests are not that different, whether they pack chickens in Mississippi, sell Walmart products in California, or program for IBM in Atlanta Read more |
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Patrick O'Malley Meet Tom Gallagher, the Democratic Socialist Challenging Nancy Pelosi in 2020 Gallagher's record provides a bold contrast to the rightward drift of the Democratic Party: he was resisting neoliberalism before we called it neoliberalism Read more |
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Brian Mier Media Blackout on Brazil's Anti-Bolsonaro Protests Why are the New York Times and Guardian downplaying resistance to Brazil's far-right president? Read more |
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Ashoka Mukpo Corrections Officer Who Struck Rhode Island ICE Protesters With Pickup Truck Resigns "From the perspective of the Never Again movement, looking to shut down ICE and stop the deportation machine, the place where that intersects in Rhode Island is at Wyatt." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli A Dangerous and Filthy Place Trump's descriptions of Baltimore were actually descriptions of the Kushner properties Read more |
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Randi Spivak How to Counter Trump's Disastrous Attack on Our Public Lands Fossil fuel leasing on public lands is worsening the climate crisis. But there's hope. Read more |
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Juan Cole After Tlaib and Omar Are Barred by Netanyahu, Why Would Any Self-Respecting Democrats in Congress Do the AIPAC Tour Again? Dem leaders Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Steny Hoyer condemned the move, but it is unlikely that they will do more than that. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Memo to Mainstream Journalists: Can the Phony Outrage; Bernie Is Right About Bias Mainstream media is shocked at Sanders' suggestion that ownership influences coverage. I can tell you it's true. Read more |