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Robert Dodge Hope and Necessity This International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons There cannot be peace on the planet without peace with the planet. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Slow Down. The Case for a Deliberate and Focused Impeachment Inquiry Three reasons why it would be a mistake for House Democrats to rush the investigation into the president Read more |
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Trevor Timm Trump’s Ukraine Scandal Shows Why Whistleblowers Are So Vital to Democracy Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have consistently demonized people who share information with the press and public. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin 10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put "ending war" at the top of the "must do" list. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that. Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger Bernie Sanders, Medical Debt, and the Proposal for a Public Credit Agency Families that are in trouble due to medical debt are in trouble now , and the relief they need is also now . This plan offers it. Read more |
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John Feffer For Trump, Regime Change Begins at Home Trump has been enlisting foreign leaders in his fight against the U.S. state. Is impeachment a moral necessity or political trap? Read more |
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Juan Cole Annals of Impeachment: From Nixon’s "Smoking Gun" Tape to Trump Zelensky Summary Trump and his cronies are so far gone that they actually thought that staffers’ summary of his July conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky would exonerate him. Instead, it has so many Nixonian smoking guns that it single-handedly provoked a smog alert on Capitol Hill. Read more |
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Norman Solomon To Joe Biden, Trump's Potential Successor Mike Pence "Is a Decent Guy" That the former vice president could say such a thing about his successor—who has loyally served as Trump's highest-ranking henchman—illuminates a lot about Biden's style and his substance. Read more |
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John Atcheson In the End, Trump Left Pelosi No Choice on Impeachment If we must impeach, we must target the fundamental nature of the crimes, not the criminal. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Climate Change and Consciousness Shift Perhaps it takes a climate crisis to get us to understand that our home is the whole planet and we’re all in this as one. Read more |
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Mari Margil Legal Rights of the Natural World: Beyond Personhood By becoming a bearer of rights, nature is now being thrust into the murky realm of legal personhood. Read more |
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Michael Green Trump Threatens to Veto First-Ever Congressional Action on "Forever Chemicals" PFAS are "forever chemicals": They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. Read more |
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Lisa Gilbert Impeach Trump? Yes. But Don't Forget Complicity of McConnell and GOP The party's silence makes it partly responsible for the fact that at the helm of the country is a corrupt and craven want-to-be autocrat who tramples the Constitution on a regular basis. Read more |
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Peter Certo The Case for Impeachment Goes Way Beyond Ukraine Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Trump's Ukraine Call 'Not-a-Transcript' Proves This Is 'Stupid Watergate' The Trumpists release a non-transcript that is nonetheless incriminating—for the president, for his attorney general, and for Rudy Giuliani. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Big Polluters Respond to Greta’s Climate Call With "Woefully Short" Ambition Most leaders still pledge climate action out of one side of their mouth and continue investing in fossil fuels out of the other. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman, Sean McElwee You Might Be Surprised at How Far Americans Are Willing to Go to Overthrow the Power of Big Pharma No industry is more unpopular than the pharmaceutical industry. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight We want a future, a future we can live in, in a society that values people and planet, now and coming up. Read more |
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Julia Paley The End of Asylum? Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do? Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Workers Are Asking, Whose Side Are You On? Auto workers, nurses, pilots, hotel workers—they’re all going on strike. Trump boasts about the "economic miracle," but most workers aren’t experiencing it. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Economy Leaves Working People Behind. Here Are the Receipts. The next time Trump and his enablers boast about the economy to distract from the damage they’re really doing to America, know the truth. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Two Cheers—Not Three—for Pelosi's Speech on Impeachment This is serious progress, but it remains to be seen whether the House Democrats now have a real political strategy for impeachment. Read more |
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Paul Seamus Ryan The "Quid" Is a Crime: No Need to Prove "Pro Quo" in Ukrainegate Americans have long prided themselves on a belief that no one is above our nation’s laws. President Trump seems determined to prove us wrong. Read more |
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Evelyn Leopold How Serious People Planned to Avert Climate Catastrophe at the UN (While Trump Hung Out in the Basement) The Trump administration has leapt back into the 19th century, canceling as many fuel emission policies as possible and rolling back more than 80 environmental rules and regulations. Read more |
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Charles Davis Mass Killings In Afghanistan Are Acts of White Supremacy Like racist mass murders at home, drone attacks killing dozens of civilians at a time are only possible because of a culture of dehumanization. Read more |
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Wendell Potter Why the Private Health Insurance Industry Faces an Existential Crisis A former health insurance executive says the moment the insurance industry fears most has arrived. Read more |
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Todd Miller Trapped in an Empire of Borders: The American Homeland Is the Planet The U.S. border is much bigger than you think (and don’t just blame Donald Trump). Read more |
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GRAIN Step Aside Agribusiness, It's Time for Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis Big food and agribusiness companies are desperate to portray themselves as part of the solution to the climate crisis. But there is no way to reconcile what's needed to heal our planet with their unflinching commitment to growth. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu on Steroids: What a Gantz-led Government Means for Palestine For Gantz, war is the answer, as indicated by one of his campaign slogans, "Only the strong survive." Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Rights Groups Urge Senate to Reject Nomination of Torture Advocate Marshall Billingslea to Top Human Rights Post Billingslea’s nomination has alarmed human rights advocates due to his unapologetic embrace of torturing suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush administration. Read more |
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Julie Hollar What Corporate Media Like Best About Elizabeth Warren: She’s Not Bernie Sanders Why has Warren—who has positioned herself as Bernie Sanders’ closest ideological competitor, and a vocal crusader against corporate control over the political system—so far escaped the scathing and skeptical coverage Sanders has received? Read more |
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Robert Freeman Why on Earth Is Nancy Pelosi Protecting Donald Trump? The House Speaker is directly, and personally, undermining the role of Congress as the sole institution of government designed to hold to account a corrupt, inept, and destructive executive. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The Trump "Whistleblower" Situation Is Very Dangerous for Democracy (and for the Democrats) Biden's disingenuousness is no match for Trump Read more |
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Don Fitz What Is Energy Denial? Our guiding principle needs to be that the only form of truly clean energy is less energy. Read more |
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Jeff Hauser, Max Moran Why Are House Democrats Afraid to Wield Their Subpoena Power? Make no mistake: Democratic cowardice toward oversight has real, "kitchen-table" consequences for voters. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores Dialogue in Venezuela Another Missed Opportunity for Democrats Instead of aiding and abetting Trump's disastrous policy, the Democrats need to challenge it, and the most obvious candidate to do so is Bernie Sanders. Read more |
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Celso Amorim Five Hundred Days of Injustice: On the Imprisonment of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva For normalcy to return to Brazil and for hope to be recovered, Lula's freedom—along with annulment of the faulty process by which he was condemned—is essential. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Squad Was Right About Trump Impeachment "At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior—it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it." Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Will Joe Biden Be a Rerun of 2016 Tragedy? As a throwback to the Clintonite 1990s, Biden says he feels the pain of victims but won’t name many villains. That approach no longer works—and actually plays into the hands of demagogues like Trump. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Just When I Thought Endless War Couldn't Get Any Worse… A veteran in a world of never-ending wars and improvised explosive devices. Read more |
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Patti Lynn, Nnimmo Bassey, & Lidy Nacpil Want Real Climate Ambition? Keep Polluting Industries Out and Make Them Pay. The industries that have fueled this crisis should have no part in dictating the solutions—rather, they should be made to pay to address the massive damages they have caused and to finance real solutions to the crisis. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us. Read more |
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María José Carmona Stress, Overwork, and Insecurity are Driving the Invisible Workplace Accident Rate The pressure to work faster and longer is making work more dangerous for diverse jobs, from delivery drivers to home care workers. Read more |
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Juan Cole Bribery and High Crimes and Misdemeanors Did Trump finally go full impeachable in Ukraine calls? Read more |
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Christian Christensen The US Just Killed 30 Innocent People in Afghanistan. Let's Pretend It Was London. What if the victims of last week's U.S. drone strike had lived somewhere other than Afghanistan? Read more |
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Jessica Garraway A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism "Our goal is to get 3.5 percent of the population mobilized. It's time to stop thinking about our target audience as middle class white people. Those who are already fighting are the most likely to join us in mass." Read more |
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Tom Valovic Google Becomes Evil Why is the tech giant censoring alternative web sites? Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Rise of the Entitled Millennial Politician "Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with young people running for office... But simply being young does not mean one has access to the fountain of all wisdom. One must also have good political views." Read more |
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Sarah Jones Yoga Teachers Are Unionizing to Heal the Wellness Industry "You're in the wellness industry, your job is about health, and yet your own health is not supported or guaranteed in any way." Read more |
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Savannah Kinsey Fighting for Healthcare in America's Forgotten Towns "Life expectancy in my Western Pennsylvania town is on its way down. But there’s hope—if we fight harmful myths about poverty." Read more |
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Eleanore Catolico Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal. Read more |
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Randall Amster Youth Trumps Fossils "Perhaps these youths don't have all the answers, but they're asking the right questions. How much more evidence do we need before taking action?" Read more |
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Negin Owliaei, Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson Who’s Burning the Amazon? The fires are no accident. They’re set by people turning a profit in a grocery store near you. Read more |
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Dipti Bhatnagar We Have a Decision to Make. Change the System or Face Climate Catastrophe We have a choice between a better world that will be climate-just , or a world of injustice, suffering, and species collapse. Read more |
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Bill Bigelow Rep. Barbara Lee Calls for Climate Education in All Schools “We need to teach every young person the human impacts of climate change and how to combat the climate crisis before it is too late.” Read more |
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Stephanie Savell The Saddest Story of All: The Imperial Debris of War Why ending the Afghan War won’t end the killing. Read more |
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Stephanie Van Hook Beyond Coping: How to Find the Strength to Take on Climate Change Our emotional energy can be a source of power. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar It's Time to Strike for the Climate Not only is the cost of inaction going to be astronomical, but so is the cost to the human race, in terms of livelihoods, homes, environments and lives. Read more |
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Dana Brown Pelosi Plan Not Good Enough: Lower Drug Prices Now Through a Pharmaceutical Public Option There has never been more momentum or more public outrage on drug pricing and issues of corporate excess in the pharmaceutical sector. The people deserve—and are demanding—much something much better. Read more |
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Rachel Sarah To the Adults Who Are Striking Today for the Future, Thank You Today is the day we must stand up for all generations. Read more |
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Tom Weis Another Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez: How Are Democrats Going to Contain the Climate Worldfire If They Won’t Even Hold a Climate Debate? Either the Democratic Party is committed to mobilizing America to "address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II" or it isn't. Read more |
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Shannan Stoll Where Bill McKibben Finds Hope Amid the Climate Crisis The environmental activist says surviving an existential threat like climate change requires honesty—and hope. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Greta Tells Congress to #UniteBehindtheScience On Friday tens of millions of people around the world will participate in a climate strike, demanding action on the issue and an end to the use of fossil fuels. Read more |
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David Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises The polar bear has become the poster child for climate change impacts in the Arctic. Sea ice, which the bears depend on for hunting, is melting at an ever-expanding rate. Read more |
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John Atcheson Here We Go Again: Neoliberal Centrists Are Anointing One of Their Own—and It Could Cost Us Running a candidate who will advocate policies that are embraced by the elite are done in the interests of the oligarchy is literally the only path that leads to a Trump victory in 2020. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out. Read more |
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Jessica Garraway, David Boenke Teachers Should Join the Student Strikes Students are striking for a future—educators should join them. Read more |
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Jenny Ricks Led By Our Youth, the Climate Narrative Has Changed The lack of meaningful and radical action from our governments, the denial of the existence of a climate crisis, the monied interests that drive our overconsumption and reliance on fossil fuels are all trying to prevent radical and effective solutions to the climate emergency—these are the usual... Read more |
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Steven Singer Charter Schools Were Never a Good Idea. They Were a Corporate Plot All Along The concept always was about privatizing schools to make money. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Bad News to a Sick and Miserable-Looking Earth: "I'm Afraid You Have Humans." Has sanity—and by sanity, I mean hope—finally emerged as a counterforce to the impenetrable status quo of fossil fuel consumption, capitalism and nationalism? Read more |
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Ralph Nader 25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections Everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear. Can you hear that, Congress and the White House? Read more |
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Tamara Pearson The Climate Crisis Means the Wrong People Are Running the World There is no democracy when you can't do anything about the companies polluting your rivers and air. The unbridled power of the big corporations is despotic. Read more |
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Joe Emersberger Reuters’ Can’t Find US Critics to Question Amazon’s Anti-Venezuela Propaganda This technique not only invisibilizes principled US-based dissent from Washington’s aggression, but also associates anti-war and anti-imperial views with governments it has helped Washington vilify. This is not limited to Venezuela. Read more |
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Michael Sainato 2020: Democratic Establishment vs. Democratic Socialists Meet three new challengers to the entrenched old guard. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Americans Want Action on Climate; Not War Over Oil With Iran Rather than being exposed to the volatility of the oil markets and Middle Eastern politics, we could all insulate our selves by ushering in a new era of decentralized renewable energy as part of an international Green New Deal. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Over 3300 Actions This Week with Campaign Nonviolence It’s about time for all of us to step to the plate the way Gandhi and Tutu and so many other heroes and peace leaders have before us. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Can America Break Its Gun Addiction? Other nations savaged by civil war or outside invasion may suffer greater casualties in a conflict, but we have made violence—and victims of violence—routine. Read more |
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Juan Cole Palestinian-Israeli Joint List Gains Seats, as Netanyahu’s Demonization Backfires Netanyahu is always going on about how anyone who opposes his colonization of the Palestinian West Bank is a racist bigot, but there really is no greater racist bigot than he. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel? If Congress successfully reclaims its constitutional authority over the US role in this conflict, it could be a critical turning point in ending the state of permanent war that the U.S. has inflicted on itself and the world since 2001. Read more |
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Sarah Lahm GM Just Took Away Our Insurance, But It Can't Stop Our Strike "We are damn mad. They have abused our trust, especially when unions are under attack in our country right now." Read more |
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Robert Reich The Secret GOP Plan to Keep Power Despite the fact that Republicans continually receive fewer raw votes in national elections, they could regain control of the House through gerrymandering. Read more |
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Helena Cobban The Emperor’s New-Old Nuclear Clothes Israel wants to keep leaders in Washington distracted and always a little off-balance, so they will end up without the bandwidth and the stamina needed to confront Israel over the continuation of colonial expansion in the lands occupied in 1967. Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Parents, Time to Misbehave and Climate Strike With Your Kids Our kids get it: While schools and parents wring their hands and debate over issuing "excused absences" for missed classes, they have ignored the fact that the surge of carbon emissions last year increasingly renders a bleak future. Read more |
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Reynard Loki Global Climate Strike: Kids Are Demanding Action, But Will Adults Act? There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. Read more |
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Fran Quigley Removing the Profit From Our Pills: The Case for a Public Pharma System The American people are ready to extract the profit from our pills, and this new report shows us how to do it. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Conflict With Iran Portends World War III The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. It is, quite possibly, life-and-death for the planet. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson The Uncertain and Dangerous Interregnum: World Peace and the Post-Cold War Era On geostrategic dynamics and a vision for Eurasian common security diplomacy Read more |
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Harriet Feinberg Why Trump Can’t Learn: An Educated Guess by a Veteran Teacher Dyslexia may explain a lot about the twisted behavior of the president. Read more |
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Alberto Saldamando, Jim Walsh Expanding Carbon Offsets Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis or Protect Tropical Forests Rather than expanding California’s failing cap-and-trade program to include tropical forest offsets, the state should scrap it altogether and require polluting companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the source. Read more |
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David Solnit Climate Strikes to the Green New Deal: Arts Organizing to Protect the Planet "We need more than dire warnings about the future. We need artists to create images of the better and more beautiful world we want to build." Read more |
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Alison Rose Levy The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content Given that "90% of the United States' media is controlled by five media conglomerates," the top executive at many news outfits is likely the CEO of a multinational corporation. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Are We the People Unfit for Democracy? Maybe we are wired for authoritarianism—but the present crisis has another cause. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Apartheid Made Official: Deal of the Century Is a Ploy and Annexation Is the New Reality Israeli leaders are facing little or no hindrance whatsoever as they finalize their complete colonization of all Palestinian land. Read more |
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Maha Hilal Admitting the Terrorism Watchlist Was Unconstitutional is Important, But Not Nearly Enough We must acknowledge the totality of the U.S.' collateral damage, from those subject to extra scrutiny at airports to those being bombed in their home countries for nothing more than adhering to Islam. Read more |
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Robert Jensen The Danger of Inspiration: A Review of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein's new book is essential reading, but does it go far enough in confronting the grim realities we truly face? Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt On the Precipice: The Collective Asteroid of Human History Blind to our future fate and that of our children and grandchildren, humanity has been installing in power leaders who are the literal raw material for ensuring that the collective asteroid of human history will indeed be delivered. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn't Felicity Huffman's $15,000 While bribing your child’s way into an elite college is pretty bad, it pales in comparison with the millions of dollars in bribes paid every hour in America at the federal and state level so billionaires and big corporations can get the laws they want. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Only the Coalition of the Foolish Wants a War With Iran If you want to identify the most reckless powers in our world today, look no further than Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The 'Official Secrets' Movie vs. Joe Biden's Lies About the Iraq War The current Democratic frontrunner did everything he could to enable the Iraq war, and—still—takes no responsibility for doing so. Read more |