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Christopher Brauchli The Trump and the Courts The Trump doesn’t respect anyone, not even the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read more |
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Steven Singer Billionaire Heiress Lashes Out at Unions Because Her Fortune Didn’t Buy Election If anyone has a “stranglehold” on politicians it’s silver spooned magnates like DeVos Read more |
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Steve Suppan The 2017 Thanksgiving Salmonella Outbreak Is Still With Us. Why? There are serious questions about the proposed USDA takeover of all federal food safety duties Read more |
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Juan Cole The Bottomless Dishonesty of CNN on Palestine and Marc Lamont Hill Firing CNN has fired contributor Marc Lamont Hill for a speech he gave on Palestinian rights at the UN. The speech can be found here. You can protest this outrageous firing at this petition site . And here... Read more |
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Sue Sturgis The Corporations That Helped a Confederate Apologist Hold a Senate Seat Despite her hanging remark, not all money ran from Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi Read more |
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Ricardo Martner AMLO vs Bolso: Opposing Views on Development The differences between the two are profound, especially their economic proposals Read more |
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Cindy Cohn Questions We Should Be Asking About Facebook’s Smear Campaign Against Its Critics The incident confirms that we should double down on pressure on Facebook and Instagram to provide users with more control over their experience on the platforms. Read more |
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Dean Baker Our Elites Refuse to Accept Responsibility for Leaving Behind the Left Behind In short, we have a problem of the government subsidizing the financial industry at the expense of the rest of the country, not a story of the market just leaving some areas behind. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Free the Free Press From Wall Street Plunder Our right to a free press is meaningless if hedge funds can gobble up and gut the community newspapers that exercise it. Read more |
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Mehnaaz Momen The Missing Piece in the Gun Violence Discourse: The Porous Border Between Republic and Empire It may not be a coincidence that the rise in the killings of unarmed civilians thrives at a time when America remains engaged in a multitude of wars, some visible, some not so visible. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Trump’s Budget Director Reveals Plans to Attack Social Security and Medicare Americans will not be fooled into allowing Mick Mulvaney to make what he deemed “easy” cuts to earned benefits. Read more |
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Michael Molitch-Hou CNN's Anderson Cooper Cancels Segment With Climate Report Author to Give Rick Santorum More Air Time After being interviewed for Anderson Cooper 360°, Katharine Hayhoe’s interview about the latest national report on climate change never aired Read more |
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Stephanie Kelton, Andres Bernal We Can Pay for a Green New Deal We must transform our energy system, transportation, housing, agriculture and more. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Banned From Newspapers for Criticizing... Newspapers! Jim Hightower Up Against the Corporate Wall After years as one of the nation's leading progressive voices, the Creators Syndicate informed the columnist earlier this week they were not going to distribute his latest piece. Why not? Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Trump’s Tear-Gassing of Migrants Is the Next Step in a Cruel Dehumanization Campaign The thousands of human beings currently camped out in Tijuana in desperate conditions, at the end of a long and arduous journey, are real people. Period. Read more |
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Yousef Munayyer CNN Fired Marc Lamont Hill For Saying Palestinians Deserve Equal Rights Marc Lamont Hill calls for treating Palestinians as equal human beings with equal human and civil rights, and he is out the door in 24 hours. This is CNN , and it should be ashamed. Read more |
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Abigail Sullivan, Matthew Houser Addressing Climate Change Through Degrowth: It May Be Less Contentious Than You Think. It may seem far-fetched and radical to hope that degrowth could receive widespread public support, but it is impossible to shift society unless we begin putting forth a vision of what alternatives could look like Read more |
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Kathy Kelly The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East Why the movements that pressured the U.S. Senate to reject current U.S. foreign policy regarding Saudi Arabia and its war on Yemen must continue to raise their voices Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Guardian Escalates Its Vilification of Julian Assange The Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred of evidence. It did what it is designed to do. Read more |
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Les Leopold Do the Democrats Have a Plan for General Motors? Rather than allowing Trump and GM to set the terms of the debate, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party needs to break out of their neo-liberal box Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump is Violating the Three Basic Principles of the Rule of Law Breaking the rule of law doesn’t require consistency. It requires only a thirst for power at whatever cost. Read more |
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Aviva Chomsky Making Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land The DNA industry and the disappearing Indian Read more |
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Todd Miller Why the Migrant Caravan Story Is a Climate Change Story Drought, crop failure, storms, and land disputes pit the rich against the poor, and Central America is ground zero for climate change Read more |
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John Feffer It’s a Borderful World Globalization’s ardent supporters, like politicians and financiers, are powerful people. They cross borders with ease. Much easier to pick on the poorest and most disadvantaged people in the world Read more |
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George Goehl Heartland Holds the Key to Winning in 2020 Two years after they sent Donald Trump to the White House, voters in the Heartland broadly rejected his divisive agenda in a people-powered blue wave Read more |
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Leo Gerard Workers Petition Congress: Protect Our Pensions They worked hard and played by the rules—but now their pensions are at risk for reasons out of their control Read more |
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Nemonte Nenquimo A Message of Indigenous Resistance and Inspiration From the Amazon Our fight is not just a fight about oil — it’s a fight about a different way of living Read more |
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Yifat Susskind Who Benefits When Women Human Rights Defenders Are Targeted? What do all of these stories have in common? These women all have tried to remake the world, in ways big and small. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler It's Time. We Must Jam the 'Demonic, Destructive Suction Tube' Nothing much has changed in 50 years. This tube is still sucking resources and spewing fear. And it still owns the media. Read more |
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Ralph Nader First Step Post-Election – Open Up the Closed, Secretive Congress Currently, Congress is open for avaricious business, not for productive democracy Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Afghan Officials: US Air Strike Kills At Least 30 Civilians, Including 16 Children How much longer is this insanity going to continue? Read more |
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Ross Barkan General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net Millions of Americans are in danger of entering their final decades unable to afford ballooning medical bills and cost-of-living expenses Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Thomas Farr Is a Hack Too Far Thomas Farr, an ambitious vote suppressor, was nominated for a spot on the federal bench Read more |
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Vijay Prashad What’s Keeping the World From Ending AIDS: Greedy Big Pharma, Bad Policy December 1 marks the 30th World AIDS Day—and despite leaps forward in medicine and awareness in affluent parts of the world, it’s still a big problem elsewhere Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Stacey Abrams Files Federal Lawsuit Detailing Georgia’s Extensive Voter Suppression in 2018 But electing a Democrat as Secretary of State in next week’s runoff might be a quicker solution to these problems Read more |
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Brandon Harami It's Time for Nancy Pelosi to Embrace Medicare for All Pelosi constantly talked about the need to lower healthcare costs and how important it was to our midterm sweeps, however the only healthcare positions she’s taken have been the need to lower prescription drug costs and protect the Affordable Care Act Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu's Predicament: The Era of Easy Wars Is Over It seems that the age of striking Gaza with impunity in order to score political points with Israeli voters, is, perhaps, over Read more |
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Kate Kizer Trump Runs PR for the Saudis But Congress Can Shut Him Down If the bill passes, the Senate could stop the president’s plan for more war in the region in its tracks Read more |
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Laura Flanders Amazon Gives to End Homelessness? That’s Rich. This is the same trillion dollar corporation that just extracted billions of taxpayer dollars in what amount to bribes from two cash-strapped states: Virginia and New York Read more |
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Greta Thunberg I'm Striking From School to Protest Inaction on Climate Change – You Should Too Every Friday, I miss classes to sit outside my country’s parliament. I will continue to do so until leaders come into line with the Paris agreement Read more |
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Naomi Klein The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal This possibility is simply too important, and time is just too short, to allow it to be shut down by the usual forces of political inertia Read more |
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George Capaccio Nothing Justifies the Killing of Children in Yemen. Nothing. As members of a purportedly democratic society we are obliged to hold our leaders accountable and demand that they do everything in their power to protect and preserve the lives of the people of Yemen Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Rule Number One in Warfare: Know Your Enemy What does the nomination of retired Army General John Abizaid as the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia signify? Next to nothing—and arguably quite a lot. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren 'In Front of Your Nose'—A Sequel to Orwell in the Trump Era Why can't we see what is in front of our faces? Read more |
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Michael Winship The President Isn't Orange. He's Yellow. Our chief executive evaluates everything by price and values nothing by standards of common decency. Read more |
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Jacob Sugarman Trump Is Forging His Own Gaza on the Southern Border The Trump administration has sought to militarize the region from the start Read more |
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Ryan Cooper What Bernie Needs to Win the Presidency If he really wants to win the Democratic nomination, and the presidency, Sanders will have to get his hands dirty and really fight Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Fixing Campaign Finance Needs to Be at the Center of Democracy Reform It’s still overwhelmingly popular Read more |
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Juan Cole Bowing to Saudi Pressure, Trump Stops UN Yemen Ceasefire No public health crisis of this enormity has been known since WWII Read more |
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Andy Rowell Australian Kids Plan “Big School Walkout for Climate Action” “When young people try to have a voice in politics, Scott Morrison is shutting them down, yet he’s happy to listen to the coal lobby and big corporations who continue to profit from making climate change worse.” Read more |
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Norman Solomon Democratic Party "Leadership" Is Upside Down No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles. Read more |
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Amy Eskind Excited About the Big Voter Turnout in the 2018 Midterms? Don't Be Yes, more than 116 million voted, but almost 120 million didn’t Read more |
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Will Bunch Oil Is the Poison That Burns Paradise, Kills Kashshoggi, Inflames Paris. When Will We Quit? The blindness of Trump's oil-flooded eyes — rendering the United States the only nation on the planet to reject the Paris climate accord — shouldn't blind us to the fact that the rest of the world is also struggling to transition away from fossil fuels Read more |
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Chris Hedges Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism. Read more |
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César Chelala The War in Yemen Is Not a War. It Is a Massacre The brutal and indiscriminate attacks of the Saudi-led coalition have left a ravaged country, with millions of civilians fighting for survival Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Facts That Privileged Americans Don't Want Us to Know It's strange that most media outlets rarely if ever report on these realities... until you remember who owns most media outlets Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Fighting for the Climate: A Note from Post-Apocalyptic California Those of us working to support aggressive policies on climate change need to develop counter-narratives that help people to understand who is getting in the way of a society that works for us all. Read more |
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Greg LeRoy End the Subsidy Wars: Amazon Took Advantage of a System That's Baked into America's Economy. We Must Finally Fix It. How did such a flawed, wasteful system come to be? How can we be rid of it? Read more |
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Srecko Horvat What Happens If Julian Assange Is Tried in the US? The prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder in the U.S. would have grave consequences for press freedom across the world. Read more |
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Verónica Montúfar Women Are Most Likely to Be Affected by Violence in the Workplace, But We Are All Victims We need to recognize the importance of the social dialogue and the establishment of concrete protection and prevention measures between the actors in the world of work: the employers, the workers, and the governments Read more |
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Adam Johnson NPR Infomercial for Its Sponsor Amazon Omits Labor and Environmental Criticisms It would be good if a radio station, ostensibly set up to serve the public, could mention these inconvenient realities. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig More Oil Moving by Rail Now Than at Time of Mégantic Disaster How is it that a preventable tragedy of this magnitude has passed into media and political oblivion—even though the circumstances that led to the crash remain essentially unchanged? Read more |
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Juan Cole 3 Charts: What Trump Doesn't Want You to Know About the Climate Emergency Trump and his cronies are deeply invested in or beholden to ExxonMobil and other Big Carbon firms who stand to lose billions if the public realizes the harm they are inflicting on us Read more |
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Rachel Cleetus New National Climate Assessment Shows Climate Change Is a Threat to Our Economy, Infrastructure, and Health Urgent action is needed to lower heat-trapping emissions and invest in making our economy and our communities more prepared to withstand climate impacts. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Will Democrats Back a 'Green New Deal'? Rampant poverty and climate change are arguably the two most important challenges facing the U.S. today. A Green New Deal would address both crises together. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna America's Wealthiest Family Owns Walmart. They Can Afford to Pay Workers $15 an Hour. When you're shopping today, remember Walmart's owners have billions, while workers can barely afford to live, often forced to use government subsidies. We can do better. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Birds of a Feather Hostility towards immigrants is not the only tie that binds Messrs. Orban and Trump. Dislike of Mr. Soros is the other. Read more |
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Steven Singer Dear Lawmakers, Please Hire Teachers as Education Aides—Not TFA Alumni People taking money from the testing and school privatization industry shouldn't be drafting education policy. Read more |
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Justin Anderson Minimal Media Attention Helped Sink Crucial Climate Initiatives The majority of climate change-related ballot measures failed in the midterm elections Read more |
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Ann Wright U.S. Relations with Pakistan Hit Rock Bottom With Trump’s Tweets The U.S. isolates itself from Pakistan at its own peril. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Skip Cyber Monday—Support a Real Local Business The online shopping day is just another ploy by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to siphon sales from real stores Read more |
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Ira Chernus A Thanksgiving Ritual for Sixties-Style Activists The world keeps doing all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly things. But kid, it's never too late to rehabilitate yourself, to start once again creating enough of a nuisance and singing loud enough to end war and stuff Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's Dismemberment of Yemen Regardless of the dollar amount of any promised weapons deal, Donald Trump has made it very clear: Spend enough money with the U.S., and you can get away with murder. Read more |
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Heather Wokusch The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists. Read more |
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Pat Garofalo Black Friday Isn’t the Only Time Workers Face Unfair Schedules Long holiday hours are just one of the myriad abuses employees face when it comes to their work schedules. Read more |
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Gustavo Arellano Remember the Activists Who Helped Power the Blue Wave Hundreds of thousands of midterm votes are still being counted across the United States, but you can already verify this result: The Democratic blue wave contained a lot of azul . The national... Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Prosecution of Julian Assange, America’s Betrayal of Its Own Ideals As Trump’s administration now carries on Obama’s legacy, vowing to destroy WikiLeaks for engaging in publishing activities that are protected under the First Amendment, American people are slowly coming to see their own government’s dirty war that has been waged in their name. Read more |
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Natasha Hakimi Zapata Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Already Making Democrats and Republicans Nervous It seems Ocasio-Cortez is already doing exactly what she was elected to do. Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Why Medicare for All Is an Ideal Discussion on Thanksgiving From our dining rooms to our break rooms, we need to have down-to-earth conversations that break the myths about health care. Read more |
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Michael Winship On Being Thankful for William Goldman, RIP “Movies are a very, very odd way to make a living." Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Protesters Take to the Streets to Demand Green New Deal From Democrats Activists are calling on Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee to create a committee to address the economy and climate change Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries Warfield Don't Trash Thanksgiving. Decolonize It Despite the holiday's false origin tale, we can celebrate with our families in ways that honor those who the day originally dishonored Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Ways Trump Put America Last with Whitewash of Saudi Prince Did the exclamation points give it away? Trump began by saying he was putting America first, but that was the last thing he was doing. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Will the New House Democrats Take on the War Lobby? How can we expect the new Democratic House of Representatives to stand up to the war lobby if they choose leaders who voted for the disastrous Iraq war, fail to lead on critical current issues of war, peace and record military spending, and are still in the pay of military-industrial interests? Read more |
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James Bovard Julian Assange Deserves a Medal of Freedom, Not a Secret Indictment Rather than federal indictment, Assange deserves a tweaked version of one of Washington’s hottest honors — a Medal of Freedom with a steam whistle. Read more |
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Jill Richardson California Is on Fire. Trump’s Solution: Rakes? America's largest state is suffering one of its worst climate catastrophes to date, but the president refuses to see the obvious. Read more |
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Ralph Nader If It Takes the Rats to Wake Up Us and Congress, Bring Them On! And this new book shows how to do it... Read more |
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John Buell Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party Think of applauding a leader like Duerte, who murders “suspected” drug dealers. Trump gives license to these ruthless autocrats, and they make him look moderate Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Planet of War Still trapped in a greater middle eastern quagmire, the U.S. Military prepares for global combat Read more |
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Andrew Cohen The Case for Matthew Whitaker Grows Weaker by the Day He was hired to protect Trump from Mueller, and he’s not qualified to lead the DOJ Read more |
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Chuck Collins One Way to Skip Wall Street and Invest in Your Community Take it from someone who gave away his inheritance 35 years ago: The act of distributing your wealth will propel you forward. Read more |
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Jessica Levinson Jim Acosta and CNN's Legal Battle With Trump Is Part of an Existential Fight About the First Amendment This will not be the last time that the Trump administration attempts to exert significant control over the press Read more |
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Chris Hedges Are We About to Face Our Gravest Constitutional Crisis? Trump could be steering us towards a full-blown authoritarian state where the rule of law no longer exists and the president is a despot Read more |
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Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini Migrant Caravan: Branding Migrants ‘Human Shields’ Has a Deadly Motive By attempting to make a better life for themselves, migrants are transformed into military targets, people who can be legitimately injured or killed Read more |
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Richard Eskow Wall Street Is Leading the Attack on Pelosi—Steny Hoyer Is the Real Barrier to the Progressive Agenda A Hoyer speakership would be a catastrophe for the left. Read more |
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Michael Sainato 'They Obviously Can Afford to': Workers Call On Walmart To Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour As the Walton Family continues amassing greater wealth from Walmart’s success, employees at Walmart retail stores struggle with poverty, low wages, and larger workloads due to understaffing Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian A Climate of Racism Took Two Lives at My Kroger Jesse Hagopian, a Seattle high school ethnic studies teacher and co-editor of the book Teaching for Black Lives, interviewed Michelle Randolph on the fight against racism and the struggle for education Read more |
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Johanna Bozuwa PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over The potential bankruptcy of the California utility whose negligence likely plays a role in California’s wildfires is an opportunity for the public to gain control of the state’s energy destiny Read more |
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Diane Ravitch Cost to Protect Betsy DeVos: $20 Million Of course, she is very special. She is a billionaire Read more |
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Michael Carolan A Sharing Economy for Plants: Seed Libraries Are Sprouting Up Food activists, garden enthusiasts and community leaders are trying to make it easier to share seeds through libraries. Surely there’s nothing controversial about that, right? Actually, there is. Read more |