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César Chelala The UK High Court Is Wrong The decision by the UK High Court to block a bid by a former chief of staff of the Iraqi army to bring a private prosecution against Tony Blair for his responsibility over the Iraq War is misguided... Read more |
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Candace Clement This Guy Thinks CEOs Should Control the Internet Think the CEOs of the largest phone, cable and internet companies should call all the shots when it comes to Net Neutrality? Read more |
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Nick Meynen India’s Authorities Are Drowning 40,000 Families The Sardar Sarovar Dam in India was already competing to become the world’s most controversial dam. Last month’s decision to forcibly displace another 40,000 families without proper rehabilitation or compensation is both cruel and criminal. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college ( ABC7 , 2/8/17 ), a man with unmatched moxie walks 15... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Trump’s Call for Police Brutality Is No Joke On Friday, President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of police officers in Long Island, New York, and sent a shocking message to the nation. Trump’s words are worth repeating in full, as they are an... Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Dear Media: Trump’s “Beautiful, Clean Coal” Is Another Lie. Please Hold Him Accountable. Joined on stage by billionaire coal baron and Gov. Jim Justice, Donald Trump returned to West Virginia last night with another barnstorming lie that should make a Boy Scout cringe: His administration... Read more |
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Carly Goodman Commercialization Brought the Internet to the Masses. It Also Gave Us Spam. How the net neutrality debate exposes the consequences of a profit-driven Internet Read more |
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Aniqa Raihan Nearly 50 Senators Want to Make It a Felony to Boycott Israel In 1966, the NAACP of Claiborne County, Mississippi launched a boycott of several white-owned local businesses on the basis of racial discrimination. It was so impactful that the local hardware store... Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte The Sport of Plutocrats Golf Is Trump Read more |
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Michael Winship Three Trump Speeches and the Death of a Nation In just a short time, through actions and especially words, this presidency has diminished us as a people. Read more |
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Michelle Chan On Health Care and Hope Late last week, I skyped with an old, dear friend, Raj Thamotheram, and hung up with a lump in my throat. Several months ago, he wrote : Early on Wednesday 9 November we learnt that Donald Trump... Read more |
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Isaiah Poole Trump’s Bid to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other President Trump has resurrected an old canard in his effort to sell a new effort to restrict immigration into the United States. The legislation he backs, he said at a White House ceremony , was... Read more |
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Elliot Harmon Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation There’s a new bill in Congress that would threaten your right to free expression online. If that weren’t enough, it could also put small Internet businesses in danger of catastrophic litigation. Don’... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Will a Mega-Billionaire Rescue America from GOP’s Insurance Mayhem? Before recommending a practical way to reverse the devastating impact of Congressional Republicans’ attempts to strip tens of millions of Americans of health insurance coverage, and the non-stop... Read more |
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Katherine Culliton-González Viva la Resistencia: No, Mr. Trump, Clothing and Tattoos Don't Make Every Central American Kid Criminal Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted another set of unconstitutional immigration raids, this time targeting unaccompanied minors based on stereotypes about Latinos and... Read more |
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David Baake To Protect Our Planet and Revitalize Our Economy, We Need a Climate Conservation Corps Bob Dylan famously sang that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” We could update Dylan’s adage to say that in 2017, you don’t need a climatologist to see we’re in the... Read more |
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Josh Hoxie Don't Lie to Poor Kids About Why They're Poor Those at the bottom—and the top—deserve to know why their experiences are so different. Read more |
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Evan Popp Trump Nominates Non-Scientist to the Top Science Position at the Department of Agriculture "Clovis's nomination is just the latest example of the Trump Administration’s disregard for science and efforts to muffle support for environmentalism." Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Talking About a Media Revolution It’s long been clear that if we want to avoid catastrophic climate disruption on a scale that threatens human civilization, we need to leave vast amounts of fossil fuels in the ground. Environmental... Read more |
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Alyssa Aquino Trumping Up Our Trains The president promised a huge infrastructure boost. So why won’t he fix our trains? Read more |
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Richard Eskow Land Taken From Freed Slave’s Descendants for Amazon Data Center? This is a story about property: real and imagined, legitimate and illegitimate. It’s a story about who gets to decide who can own what, and whom. It’s a story of reality, both physical and virtual... Read more |
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Amir Ahmadi Arian Vicariously Offended: The Dawkins Controversy and the Absence of Muslim Voices The only way to have a leverage in current debates around Islam is to have many strong and effective voices, to the extent that Muslim voices become indispensable. Read more |
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Robert Reich A Summer Survival Guide for the Trump Era Here’s a summer survival guide, 10 ways to relax during the era of Trump. 1. Take a day off from the news, one day a week. 2. Don’t get into an argument with a Trump supporter, especially if it’s a... Read more |
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Ron Forthofer Threat to Free Speech There is a Senate bill, along with a companion bill in the House, working its way through Congress with strong bipartisan support, that poses a significant danger to free speech. One would think this... Read more |
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Mel Gurtov Reaching Paris Without Stopping in Washington History may record that the planet’s climate crisis was avoided thanks to the efforts of three countries: China, Germany, and France. Or not. The preparedness of those three, and the other EU member-... Read more |
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Steven Singer I Am Not A Hero Teacher I’m sorry. I am not a hero teacher. I am not stronger than a locomotive. I cannot jump tall ignorance in a single bound. I am not faster than a tax-cutting zealot . Up in the air – it’s a bird, it’s... Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 6 Falsehoods Embraced by New WH Chief of Staff John Kelly John Kelly will get a lot of good will from having fired the foul-mouthed Anthony Scaramuchi. But should he? At least Scaramuchi had been gunning for Steve Bannon, the scary far, far right wing white... Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Donald Trump, Anthony Scaramucci, and Reince Priebus: Nasty, Brutish, and Short Reince Priebus, Trump’s former chief of staff, lasted only six months before he was fired. But the man who bragged about taking down Priebus got a mere ten days as the most profane White House... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Kochs and Trump Team Up to Cut Billionaires’ Taxes This headline appeared on Monday, July 31, 2017, at precisely 4:00 am: “ Koch Brothers Move to Back White House’s Tax-Cut Plan .” This one appeared less than twelve hours later: “ White House sees... Read more |
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Ann Jones Can the Age of Trump Spur Medicare for All? "A single program launched by a single state is better than none. And it just might work." Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel An Even Better Deal "With the 2018 election cycle rapidly approaching, Democrats have an opportunity to draw an even sharper contrast with the GOP by embracing the kind of bold populism that this moment demands." Read more |
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Bill Moyers LBJ Launches Medicare: 'You Can't Treat Grandma This Way' Yes, our health system is broken, but broken systems can be fixed—not easily, but they can be fixed. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Billionaire Donors Plot a ‘Renaissance of Freedom’ — for the Privileged Who needs roads when you've got a private jet? Read more |
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Moé Yonamine Fighting for Okinawa — My Home, Not a Military Base My family moved to the United States from Okinawa when I was 7. But Okinawa is still home — and I’m hurt and angered at how the United States and Japan continue to treat Okinawa as little more than a... Read more |
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John Farrell Three Forces Fighting Local Renewable Energy and Three Ways to Fight Back If you’re reading energy news of late, you might have come across three new ways that forces are aligning against local renewable energy. State governments are increasingly pre-empting local... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Big Loss The demise of the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is hardly the end of the story. Donald Trump will not let this loss stand. Since its inception in 2010, Republicans made the... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Rising Angst Among Defenders of Overpaid CEOs Efforts to repeal CEO-worker pay ratio disclosure continue but the odds of success are growing longer. Read more |
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George Lakey A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action Movement manuals can be useful. Marty Oppenheimer and I found that out in 1964 when civil rights leaders were too busy to write a manual but wanted one. We wrote “A Manual for Direct Action” just in... Read more |
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John Feffer Trump: The Anti-Gorbachev Like Mikhail Gorbachev, Trump helms a fading empire. But while the former Soviet leader supported democratization in his wake, Trump's sowing the seeds of autocracy all over the globe. Read more |
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LeeAnn Hall People, Not Politicians, Beat Healthcare Repeal In Friday’s early morning hours, news outlets had their spotlights trained on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), casting him as the decisive player in the latest health repeal drama. When McCain walked to the... Read more |
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Michael J. Socolow Liberals, Cut Your Cable Cords They’ve finally done it. For the first time, MSNBC is consistently beating Fox News in total primetime cable news viewership. The number one program in cable news is no longer Bill O’Reilly’s. Oxford... Read more |
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Charles Mathewes, Evan Sandsmark Being Rich Wrecks Your Soul. We Used to Know That. 'If you are wealthy and are reading this, give away your money as fast as you can.' Read more |
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John Atcheson When Reality Exceeds Satire About 30 years ago, I tried to write a Swiftian satire. Nothing heavy, my target was designer jeans, which had become popular even though they used cheaper, thinner material than old-fashioned Levis... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Urgent Warning: Time to Hit the Reset Button on US-Korean Policy Touching down in Washington DC Friday night after a peace delegation to South Korea organized by the Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea ( STIK ), I saw the devastating news. No, it was not that Reince... Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Lessons from JFK in a Time of Trump In the last week of July, 54 years ago, President John F. Kennedy initialed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with his counterpart, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy spoke to the nation in a... Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Canada: Flexing Military Might is Capitulation to Trump, Despite Liberal Spin The prime minister’s pledge to hike military spending by a whopping 70 per cent over 10 years succeeded in winning praise from Trump while going largely unnoticed by Canadians, who may prefer to spend the extra $30 billion on social programs. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Going Soft on Corporate Crime a Bipartisan Affair Donald Trump is not a fan of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the law that says it’s illegal for any person — corporate or human — to bribe overseas. Trump has called the FCPA “a horrible... Read more |
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Trita Parsi The Mask Is Off: Trump Is Seeking War with Iran Something extraordinary has happened in Washington. President Donald Trump has made it clear, in no uncertain terms and with no effort to disguise his duplicity, that he will claim that Tehran is... Read more |
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Jerry Delaney Time to Take Nuclear Winter Seriously In a March 23 news story in The New York Times, the general in charge of our nuclear arms arsenal, Jack Weinstein, called for “…a strengthened and modernized nuclear deterrence force in this country... Read more |
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Dr. Carol Paris It's Time for the Adults in This Nation To Talk Seriously About Medicare for All Today, we breathe a quick sigh a relief. But we cannot celebrate a return to the failed status quo. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Is a ‘Global War on Terrorism Memorial’ an Appropriate Tribute? The proposal for a Global War on Terrorism Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, to honor the country’s post-9/11 war dead, described in Sunday’s Globe, may seem like a no-brainer. It is, in... Read more |
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Ben Norton Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda The US government has finally announced an end to its years-long program to arm and train Syrian rebels . The initiative, one of the CIA’s largest covert operations, with billions of dollars of... Read more |
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George Lakey What the Nordics Bravely Won, People Across the US Are Now Demanding With a growing hunger for "an alternative and achievable vision," Americans are increasingly looking to what the social democracies of northern Europe have shown is possible Read more |
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Laurie Richards Why Anti-Imperialists Should Support Trans Soldiers In an imperialist nation, the military represents what that nation feels is its truest self. Don't let Trump write trans people out of it. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Mooch, the Donald, and the Goldmanization of Government Donald Trump’s White House seems more like a Quentin Tarantino movie every day. Amid allegations of broken laws and self-dealing at the highest levels, the president has now hired a Communications... Read more |
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Laura Flanders A Healthcare Story to Celebrate: Oregon’s Reproductive Equity Act What does reproductive justice look like in action? It looks like bravery; the bravery required to stand up for everyone not just a few; for the whole, not a fraction of the population. People who... Read more |
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Ryan Cooper This Is the Most Clueless, Incompetent, and Self-Defeating Administration in American History The continual meltdown of the Trump administration has reached, unbelievably, an even higher pitch over the last few days, with the hiring of financier Anthony Scaramucci as the new White House... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson The Worst Is Yet To Come The Court of Mad King Donald is not a presidency. It is an affliction, one that saps the life out of our democratic institutions, and it must be fiercely resisted if the nation as we know it is to... Read more |
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Razan Azzarkani Don’t Let Corporations Pick What Websites You Visit Broadband companies want the government to let them control the internet as we know it. And they've got help. Read more |
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Laura Gottesdiener Burning Raqqa: The U.S. War Against Civilians in Syria It was midday on Sunday, May 7th, when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes again began bombing the neighborhood of Wassim Abdo’s family. They lived in Tabqa, a small city on the banks of the Euphrates... Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools, and... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt "Collateral Damage" Isn’t Collateral, It’s Central You would barely know it, living in this country, but the essence of modern warfare is what our military tends to call “collateral damage”: the killing or wounding of civilians, not combatants. The... Read more |
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Rebekah Wilce "Poison Papers" Snapshot: Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion with Chemical Industry The world of independent chemical testing has a shiny veneer. The public is reassured that chemicals they’re exposed to on a daily basis are certified by technicians in spotless white lab coats who... Read more |
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David E. RePass Republican Health Care Proposals Run Up Against Basic Economics and Can Never Succeed Republicans are trying to defy three basic economic factors with their health insurance proposals: 1) the large costs inherent in private insurance, 2) the market (supply and demand) model cannot be... Read more |
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Brian Tashman Kris Kobach, the Man Charged With Enhancing Americans’ Confidence in Elections, Says That We May Never Know Who Won The Election Roughly half of voters who said they voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election believe that he won the popular vote, according to a new poll from POLITICO/Morning Consult. The poll... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Can the World Defend Itself from Omnicide? Notice how more frequently we hear scientists tell us that we’re “wholly unprepared” for this peril or for that rising fatality toll? Turning away from such warnings may reduce immediate tension or... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Opening Gitmo to the World To read Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo is to run your mind along the contours of hell. The next step, if you’re an American, is to embrace it. Claim it. This is who we are: We are... Read more |
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Juan Cole Mideast’s ‘Only Democracy’ joins push to Silence Al Jazeera: Netanyahu Trump has his Twitter. Apparently far right wing Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has his Facebook. In a Facebook posting, Netanyahu vowed to close the Jerusalem office of the Qatar-backed... Read more |
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John Nichols The Case for Impeachment When Congressman Brad Sherman proposed the first article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the California Democrat carefully explained the necessity of the resolution, the legislative... Read more |
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Robert Greenstein “Skinny Repeal Bill” — a Trojan Horse for Broader ACA Repeal and Deep Medicaid Cuts Senate Republican leaders have tried and failed this week to pass two measures to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — a modified version of their “repeal-and-replace” bill and a straight ACA... Read more |
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Chase Strangio With Three Tweets President Trump Cruelly Threatens Trans Service Members With Rank Discrimination In a series of tweets this morning, President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a cruel and dangerous reversal in policy on transgender individuals serving in the military. Claiming that "[o]ur... Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk. We're not all ready to have the same conversation, but perhaps that's a good place to start Read more |
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Chuck Collins Eight Lessons US Progressives Can Learn From the UK Labour Party As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it. Read more |
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Jerry Lembcke Home-from-War War Stories: Myth, Media & the Ken Burns Vietnam Series Stories of Vietnam veterans treated badly by war protesters proliferated in the years surrounding the Persian Gulf War of 1991. They were the inspiration for the "yellow ribbon campaign" intended to... Read more |
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Mike Brickner Ohio Plans to Restart Executions with Drugs Known to Torture After a three-and-a-half year moratorium, Ohio is poised to start executions again with the killing of Ronald Phillips by lethal injection on July 26. It will also mark the beginning of 27 planned... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ Platform Isn’t Anything Working People Haven’t Been Sold Already Over the past eight months, the Democratic Party has floundered and sputtered around while trying to develop an agenda that can convince citizens they are a clear alternative to President Donald... Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer Counting Sperm "Compared to 1970s, sperm counts now in the predominantly white developed countries (North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand) are between 50% and 60% down." Read more |
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Ben Norton How Media Spread CIA’s Sectarian, Anti-Iran ‘Mideast Cold War’ Narrative A new Vox video ( 7/17/17 ) is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald Trump’s vehemently... Read more |
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Felicia Kornbluh Remembering 'The Americans with Disabilities Act' and the Movement that Generated It Many Americans were surprised that some of the most militant responses to the proposed Republican health care plan came from disability activists – who staged a “die-in” outside the office of Senate... Read more |
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Chad Williams 100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down 5th Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter The only sounds were those of muffled drums, the shuffling of feet and the gentle sobs of some of the estimated 20,000 onlookers. The women and children wore all white. The men dressed in black. On... Read more |
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Kate Aronoff Your Personal Consumption Choices Can’t Save the Planet: We Have to Confront Capitalism To stave off disaster, we must transform the economic system driving climate change. Read more |
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Julie Chinitz The GOP’s Trojan Horse on Health Care Repeal On Tuesday, 50 Republican senators showed contempt for their constituents by voting to move forward on repealing our health care, with Vice President Mike Pence stepping in to break the tie. Nine GOP... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Not the Right Thing, But the Right-Wing Thing: On John McCain, Death, and Dishonor In July 2008, just over a month after surgery for brain cancer and still in the middle of chemotherapy treatments, Senator Ted Kennedy returned to the Senate floor to help the Democrats break the... Read more |
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John Atcheson Sanders Showed Values Matter, But Democrats Continue to Focus on Tactics and Gimmicks The Democrats have just unveiled their new slogan: " A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages ." It looks like they were trying to do a rift on Roosevelt’s New Deal, but ended up with... Read more |
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George Capaccio "The Beauty of Our Weapons" (and the War in Yemen) O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the... Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins Dirty Dairy: Why Consumers Need to Force Ben and Jerry's to Go Organic The Vermont brand has been built on a bucolic image of cows grazing on endless pastures . . . Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and other Vermont companies have used this idyllic imagery to sell their... Read more |
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Richard Eskow If Hell Had a Budget: The GOP Breaks the Ten Commandments A heat wave gripped Washington D.C. last week, its bright sun delineating each building’s sharp corners with Edward Hopper-like clarity. Commuters waited listlessly for trains and buses, fixed in... Read more |
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Michael Winship Hail to Our Flounder in Chief Only half a year into the Trump administration and the narcissism, prevarication and corruption have our democracy in crisis. Read more |
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James Galbraith, Ha-Joon Chang, William K. Black, et al. A Refutation of Neoliberalism's Defenders in Ecuador Dozens of economists challenge criticism of previous open letter Read more |
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David Schwenk Five Pro-Democracy Activists Sentenced for Disrupting the U.S. Supreme Court In April of 2015, five pro-democracy activists stood up in the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the justices for allowing unlimited sums of money to corrupt our politics. This action occurred on the... Read more |
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William Hartung The Hidden Costs of “National Security” Ten Ways Your Tax Dollars Pay for War -- Past, Present, and Future Read more |
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Ian Haney López Everything That’s Wrong with the Democratic ‘Reboot’ in One Lousy Op-Ed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's editorial in Monday's New York Times is emblematic of a lack of vision in the party. Read more |
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Adam Johnson WaPo Worships Principled, Humanitarian McCain That’s Never Existed In a fawning editorial Saturday ( 7/22/17 ), pillar of the national security establishment Washington Post fell over itself to commend a John McCain that never existed, instead lavishing praise on a... Read more |
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Steven Singer Middle School Suicides Double As Common Core Testing Intensifies Here’s a high stakes testing statistic you won’t hear bandied about on the news. The suicide rate among 10- to 14-year-olds doubled between 2007 and 2014 – the same period in which states have... Read more |
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E.J. Dionne The Trump Election Commission Exists Solely to Justify a Trump Lie President Trump had some remarkable things to say at the inaugural meeting of his Commission to Promote Voter Suppression and Justify Trump’s False Claims, which is formally known as the Presidential... Read more |
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Ellen Brown Saving Illinois: Getting More Bang for the State’s Bucks Illinois is teetering on bankruptcy and other states are not far behind, largely due to unfunded pension liabilities; but there are solutions. The Federal Reserve could do a round of “QE for Munis.” Or the state could turn its sizable pension fund into a self-sustaining public bank. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How the Food and Drug Companies Ensure that We Get Sick and They Make Money Another reason for single-payer health care: The documentary What the Health shows how the lives and health of human beings are considered insignificant, and in many ways threatened, by the pursuit... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Trump and the Christian Fascists Donald Trump's ideological vacuum, the more he is isolated and attacked, is being filled by the Christian right. This Christianized fascism, with its network of megachurches, schools, universities... Read more |
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Jessica Juarez Scruggs It's (Loan) Shark Week: Families are Biting Back! "In their latest attack on everyday people, Trump’s corporate sharks have set their sights on our financial system’s lifeguard: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)." Read more |
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Nicholas Freudenberg Big Tobacco v Global Health: Time for New Strategies If present trends continue, experts predict, the tobacco toll in the 21st century will reach one billion premature deaths, ten times the 100 million people who died from tobacco use in the 20th... Read more |