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Jake Johnston Social Security Protests in Nicaragua? Hold on a Second… Conflating all of the world’s grievances with Ortega, without further analysis of the issues or motivations, into one movement — a movement destined to overthrow a “dictatorship”— doesn’t do anybody any favors. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas NYT Examines How History Impacts Korean Talks–but Its Own Memory Is Fuzzy The myth that Gadhafi had openly threatened civilians and thus necessitated international military intervention sprang up quickly as the US and its NATO allies launched an attack on Libya’s government. Read more |
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Roy Eidelson The DCCC’s Mind Games and the Ballad of Roy Moore Progressive candidates deserve better than comparisons to Roy Moore and intimidation tactics by establishment heavyweights inside the Democratic Party Read more |
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Ralph Nader, Robert Weissman, et al. An Open Letter to Jeff Sessions on Corporate Crime The DOJ does not compile comprehensive data on corporate crime. This is a notable oversight. Read more |
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Maureen Clare Murphy Fifty Killed in Gaza. Zero Israelis Injured. Israel meanwhile continues to spin the protests as “Hamas riots,” accusing the political and resistance group of “attempting to disguise terror activities as a civilian-led riot.” Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Why Can't the World's Best Military Win Its Wars? Americans need to rethink war and look honestly at ourselves and our friends. Read more |
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Gareth Porter Did John Bolton Leak Intelligence to Sabotage a Trump-Kim Deal? Bolton isn't just uninterested in selling a denuclearization deal to the public, he’s working actively to undermine it. Read more |
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Paul Pillar Netanyahu Makes a Case for the JCPOA In continuing his agreement-killing campaign this week with another prop-dependent show-and-tell, Netanyahu has abandoned any effort to be logical in arguing against the JCPOA. Read more |
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Juan Cole Netanyahu: Don’t Look Here Where We’re Shooting Children, Look Over There at Iran Netanyahu’s breathless announcement that there was a potential weapons aspect to Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has been known for a decade and a half. Read more |
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Sarah Giddings Making People's History in Arizona: Educators Rise Up We had no other choice but to demonstrate our basic civil liberties in pursuit of real, transformative change — by walking out of our classrooms together and into the Capitol on the historic day of April 26, 2018. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Olive Branch for North Korea, Bombs for Iran? The great tragedy of the horrifying specter of another Middle East war is that it is wholly fabricated by the US administration Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Fascists Compete To Own America Now might be a really good time to examine the origins and nature of the whole right-wing collusion between business and government Read more |
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John H. Johns, Trita Parsi The End of US National Interest The damage Trump is inflicting on U.S. security and global standing may well prove irreparable. Read more |
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Camille Fassett Why is ICE Interfering with Journalists Covering Immigration Hearings? ICE’s continued hostility towards journalists covering deportation hearings is deeply troubling. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Crime of Being Poor and Black There are only a few saints in this world. Professor Roden is one. Read more |
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Hayley Miller Joy Reid’s Defenders Praise Her Apology — But Ignore Her Apparent Cover-Up The MSNBC host’s most ardent fans are willing to turn a blind eye to her hacking claims, and that’s unsettling. Read more |
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Dorothy Grace Guerrero Colonialism, Borders and Justice Should Be in Our Conversation About Migration Former colonial powers, like Britain, are culpable in promoting the unfair rules, creating debt burdens, forced privatisations and entrenching oppressive neo-colonial power dynamics on the international stage. Read more |
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Raúl Grijalva Be Progressive, Democrats, Not Merely Liberal What was once pigeonholed as the “progressive” position has since become the popular position. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Meeting the Definition of Terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Banks Beware the corporate terrorists in our midst. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Swamping the Drain in Washington Washington has been and remains a swamp in every sense of the word. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Pyrrhic Party: The Democratic Establishment’s War on Progressives The party’s antipathy for progressive candidates and ideas that seems to grow more conspicuous with each passing day. Read more |
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Molly Roberts Michelle Wolf Got It Just Right That Wolf’s performance was not “normal” for the correspondents’ dinner is a testament to its timeliness and necessity — nothing is “normal” right now, and pretending otherwise out of a false sense of the fourth estate’s friendship with the executive would have been the real disgrace. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Can Bean Counters Save the World From Trump? If we want to bring down Donald Trump, we need to follow the people who follow the money Read more |
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Robert Reich How To Stop Trump He is the product of years of stagnant wages and big money's corruption of our democracy Read more |
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James Cullen, Ty Parks Rapper's Story Shows How Progressive Prosecutors Can Reform Probation and Parole Meek Mill's experience is troubling because of how normal it is—but it also illustrates a way forward Read more |
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Mike Merryman-Lotze Americans Bear Direct Responsibility for the Horrific Reality in Gaza Using our tax money, the U.S. continues to fund the Israeli military, which has once again turned its guns on Gaza—this time on unarmed protestors Read more |
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Kirk Freudenburg Donald Trump and Rome's Mad Emperors We've never had to deal with anything half as reckless, delusional, and smug as Trump occupying the Oval Office, so how do we describe him, and the predicament that he puts us in? Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn Protests Force Starbucks to Ditch ADL From Leading Anti-Racism Training "You can't be a piece of an anti-bias training when you openly support a racist, oppressive, and brutal colonization of Palestine," says Cat Brooks Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Hoisting the False Flag The alleged chemical attack in Syria reminds us that we should await clear evidence before falling into well laid traps Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Maybe Kansas Deserves Kris Kobach Will residents of the state conclude that it would be ridiculous to vote into the governor's office a man of Kobach's limited integrity? Read more |
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Bob Burnett In Trump Era, Christianity Goes Astray White evangelical Christians support Trump because their pastors say they should, they do not believe what the media says about him, and he is furthering their goal of a Christian nation Read more |
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Juan Cole Pompeo, Trump's New Enforcer, Targets Iran Deal After the U.S. far right destroys the deal, they likely will attempt to destroy Iran militarily as their predecessors did with Iraq Read more |
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Brian Tashman The CIA Can't Keep Gina Haspel's Torture Record Secret The agency must come clean about her complete role in the torture program—and its cover-up Read more |
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John Atcheson Beyond Trump: How the US Went Off the Rails Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems. Read more |
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Kathleen Rest, David Michaels OSHA Fails to Protect Workers From Dangerous Chemicals What the Trump administration sees as cutting red tape is actually cutting important and hard-fought protections Read more |
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Danielle Beavers The Business Case for Diversity Leaves Little Room for Our Hearts and Minds People of color and our allies must be explicit and uncompromising in demanding access to economic opportunity Read more |
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Debbie Weingarten Tens of Thousands Mobilize to Support Arizona Teachers Amid Backlash Resentment among Arizona educators has been simmering for years. Read more |
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Ahmed Mokgopo How a Development Bank is Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry in South Africa. And Why it Must Reverse Course Local communities are not the only ones who are going to pay the bitter price of reckless and backward-looking investment choices. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Mick Mulvaney Delivers the Chilling Truth A political system among the most corrupt in the world. Read more |
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Mike Garvey Legislators Are Trying to Hide a Dangerous Voucher Proposal Inside the Defense Spending Bill This proposal would funnel taxpayer dollars to private, unaccountable education providers that do not have an obligation to serve all students equally. Read more |
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David Palumbo-Liu Are Israeli Snipers Censoring Palestinian Journalists by Murder? “It is both an effort to ensure that the Palestinian story is not told to the world and to tell Palestinians themselves that no one is safe.” Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Kentucky Teachers’ Walkout Catalyzes More Advocacy At least 40 educators have filed to run for office. Read more |
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Juan Cole If the Leaders of the Two Koreas Can Meet, Why Can’t Those of Saudi Arabia and Iran? “Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.” Read more |
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Christian Christensen Charlie Rose, #MeToo and the Eternal Possibility of White, Male Redemption "You committed sexual assault? No problem! Let's give you a TV show to talk about it!" Read more |
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Glen Tyler Coal Communities in South Africa Want Coal to Stop 51% of all hospital admissions and deaths in coal communities are due to outdoor air pollution which could be attributed to emissions from power stations. Read more |
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Nomi Prins Donald Trump and the Next Big Crash Making the Fed an instrument for disaster Read more |
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John Feffer Korea and the Geopolitics of the Impossible Careful Korean diplomacy, coupled Trump's desire to do what Obama couldn't, could mean a rapprochement on the Korean peninsula no one thought possible. Read more |
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Tahmina Watson Tourists, Beware: Trump Administration Wants Your Social Media Handles Before You Travel Such scrutiny will affect people coming to the U.S. for work, for business, for tourism, or simply to visit family. Read more |
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Harry Blain America’s Hypocrisy on Free Trade Is Dangerous If we look honestly at our own history, we can begin to understand China’s current and future goals. If we don't, we could be headed toward conflict. Read more |
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Juan Cole Russia and China slam Trump-Macron Push to Renegotiate Iran Deal The pushback comes as the US continues to violate the spirit of the agreement by retaining severe sanctions on Iran, which it had implied it would drop. Read more |
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Tara Raghuveer HUD’s Carson Offers Tenants Insults, Not Solutions “It is absolutely unthinkable that the Trump Administration’s response to the crisis is to make things worse with draconian rent increases and work requirements." Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Jonathan Alter Thinks Democrats Need to Be Less Democratic The DNC zealously works to anoint individuals the base barely supports. Read more |
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Sarah Kate Ellis Mike Pompeo’s Anti-LGBT Views Should Disqualify Him From Becoming Secretary of State From backing the Family Research Council to his opposition to marriage equality, Mike Pompeo has shown himself unfit to be Secretary of State, GLAAD's president and CEO argues. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Can We Unlock the Golden Door? ICE raids are justified with the ignorance of racism and war. Read more |
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Bill C. Davis A Man Without Honor The irony of a man who only sees price tags being a price tag to the people making a cottage industry of being appalled by him, is rich. Read more |
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Saurav Sarkar Bring Back May Day Politicians have made a mess of things for American workers, but a new Poor People's Campaign is rising to set things right. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Democrats Who Vote For Pompeo Will Disgrace Themselves and Their Party If the party can’t even take a stand against hate, does it stand for anything? Read more |
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Duncan Maru TPS Renewal for Nepal Is a Moral Necessity 9,000 Nepali citizens with TPS face a perilous and uncertain future. Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Puerto Rico Goes Back Door to Solartopia and the Corporate Media Blacks It Out A Solartopian Puerto Rico would threaten the Trumpian corporatists who want to “restore” the island’s central, fossil-fired, utterly corrupted grid, which is sure to go down in the next global-warmed hurricane. Read more |
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Renee Parsons The Democratic Party’s War History and the AUMF of 2018 Can there be a more pathetically farcical example of the “world’s greatest legislative body” so utterly devoid of conscience, so disconnected from life’s reality with no awareness of their own culpability for war crimes. Read more |
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Simone Chun, Kevin Martin Diplomacy, Hope, and Inspiration in Korea It's time we all gave peace on the Korean Peninsula a real chance. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why the DNC Is Fighting WikiLeaks and Not Wall Street Willingness to challenge Wall Street would alienate some of the Democratic Party’s big donors. Read more |
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Catherine Rottenberg Why Natalie Portman Is Not the Real Story Something much more important is happening than Portman's decision not to attend a prize ceremony in Israel. Read more |
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Jim Hightower A Plutocratic Coup The threat of concentrated wealth and the ever-present danger that the imperious rich pose to majority rule. Read more |
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Todd Miller The Border Fetish: An Unsustainable World Managed With an Iron Fist The U.S. frontier as a zone of profit and sacrifice. Read more |
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Jay Stanley A Company Announces Its Intent to Create World’s Newest Privacy Nightmare There would be no place where one could feel secure that someone was not monitoring and recording from the sky. Read more |
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Amrit Cheng ICE Separates 18-Month-Old From Mother for Months They are just one of hundreds of families who are subjected to ICE’s brutal tactic of forcibly separating immigrant parents and children. Read more |
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Robert Borosage Tell Congress: Curb the President’s War Powers The attack on Syria was an open violation of international law and of the U.S. Constitution. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Senate Proposal To Constrain Trump’s War Making Would Actually Expand Perpetual War “Over the last sixteen years, we have witnessed the consequences of unfettered executive power in matters of war.” Read more |
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Sonya Sceats Gina Haspel's CIA appointment Will Delight Torturers Around the Globe Trump’s support for torture and Haspel’s reputation for allegedly overseeing it can cause untold human damage. Read more |
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Adam Johnson MSNBC’S Creepy Comcast Commercial Is Sinclair Lite One is compelled to wonder what influence, both subtle and direct, Comcast corporate has on its properties’ coverage on a day-to-day basis. Read more |
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Juliette Legendre Far Right Groups Are Stumbling, But Their Rhetoric Is More Mainstream Than Ever In a sense, the Republican Party has become a much more powerful instrument of white rage than the alt-right. Read more |
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Elizabeth Madin I’m an Expat US Scientist – and I’m Returning to Trump’s America to Stand Up for Science Across all policy areas, Trump has shown clear disdain for expertise and facts. Read more |
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William Cohn Carnage Unleashed: DoD & AUMF American people should see death on their doorstep, given the global slaughter wrought in their name. Read more |
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Krissy Kasserman Nobody Should Have Hog Poop on the Walls of Their Home Rather than let the hog farms next door ruin their lives, North Carolinians are fighting back against Smithfield Foods. Read more |
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Hannah Finnie Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again They are frustrated by a system whose cracks were etched into place by preceding generations, but have only fully metastasized for theirs. Read more |
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Billy Corriher How the Klan Act of 1871 is Fighting Voter Intimidation Today "Trump has made an escalating series of statements, often racially tinged, suggesting that his supporters should go to particular precincts on Election Day and intimidate voters." Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Arizona's Uprising Teachers Build Bridges, Not Walls Arizona presents new and interesting challenges to the spreading teacher uprisings, and demonstrates ways that teachers build bridges. Read more |
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Paul Rosenberg Destroy the Earth Day: Under Trump and Pruitt, the Right's Assault on the Environment Goes Nuclear For decades the right has fought to undo environmental regulation. Under Trump and Pruitt, it’s extreme gaslighting Read more |
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Olivia Rosane 5 Environmental Victories to Inspire You This Earth Day It's not all bad news... and these victories all hold lessons as we march forward Read more |
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Jason Mark Will Courts Hold Oil Companies Accountable for Climate Change Disasters? The fossil fuel giants possessed the early scientific awareness, the economic might, and the political influence to shift the direction of human affairs and avoid climate chaos. They chose not to. Read more |
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Michael Sainato With Treetop Protest, 61-Year-Old Red Terry Is Leading Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline "Nobody should have the right to eminent domain for something that is not going to help people. Its to help themselves, profit before the people." Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Support US Violence Against Syria, But Long for More Corporate news outlets seemed genuinely upset that more U.S. violence was not forthcoming Read more |
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Eric Margolis Doctor Death From Damascus? Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love to hate. Read more |
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Robert Reich Can Trump Fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller? Yes. But the costs would be tremendous. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump Times Two What in the world are we witnessing? Read more |
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Juan Cole Top Six Reasons Mike Pompeo Should Not Be Secretary of State And counting.... Read more |
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John Buell Students as Debt Slaves It is time for a system that turns students into indentured servants to go Read more |
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Alfonso Saldaña, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap A Cancer on Society: Monsanto Claims Right Not to Speak About Roundup Monsanto doesn’t want the world to know their product is labeled a "probable carcinogen." Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald, Trevor Timm The DNC’S Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks Poses a Serious Threat to Press Freedom The theory of the suit would mean that any media outlet that publishes misappropriated documents or emails (exactly what media outlets quite often do) could be sued by the entity or person about which they are reporting Read more |
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Ralph Nader Bill Curry on the Move Against Public Corruption Legalized corruption is all over Washington, D.C. as trillions of dollars of giveaways, subsidies, bailouts, and no-bid contracts proliferate. Read more |
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Will Bunch Mitch McConnell Gets his Own Chapter in the Story of America's Dying Democracy. And it's Devastating It is Mitch McConnell, more than anyone else in Washington, who has turned the notion of comity into comedy. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Trump Declares ‘Mission Accomplished’ on Syria Attacks — But Whose Mission? The swamp refuses to be drained. Read more |
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Philip Weiss, James North Natalie Portman Says, Enough! The statement is surely a reference to Israel’s killing of nearly 40 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, which have shocked Jews around the world. Read more |
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Bill McKibben 100% Renewable Energy is Within Our Reach America’s twisted politics may slow the transition to renewables, but other countries are now pushing the pace. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too The sad truth is financial austerity that has driven governments at all levels to skimp on education has had plenty of compliance, if not downright support, from centrist Democrats. Read more |
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Orion Danjuma Court’s Ruling Holding Kobach in Contempt is Well-Deserved It is clear that the secretary of state believes he need only answer to himself and not the law. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Public Radio’s McCarthyite Smear of Black Activists Shows Danger of Russia Panic If assumptions about “Country X–backed media” are used to smear those who take a check—or even come close to those who take a check—from Russia, there should be a consistent standard for everyone. Read more |
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Sarah St. Vincent Data Privacy Is a Human Right. Europe Is Moving Toward Recognizing That. Mark Zuckerberg played dumb when Congress pressed him on privacy protections. But he should know better — the EU is already forcing his hand. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Why Are Some on the Left Falling for Fake News on Syria? If leftist and progressive calls to curb American imperialism are to be taken seriously, our analysis of international relations and foreign policy needs to be far more sophisticated. Read more |