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Kenneth Peres Wrong Way Economics: Trump's Roadmap for Corporate Domination Trump's economic policies can be summed up as CACAnomics: an acronym for Corporate Agenda (CA), Cronyism (C) and Authoritarianism (A) Read more |
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Lindy Hern The Power of Personal Connections in the Dark Age of Trump Sitting in my relatively new home in Hawai’i in January of 2017, I’m watching Nina Turner, past state-senator in Ohio and current progressive leader, speak to hundreds of single-payer activists at... Read more |
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Jake Johnston Miami Conference Signals Further Militarization of US Policy in Central America In a high-level meeting Friday, the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador will discuss the region’s security with American and Mexican officials. Innocuous enough, you may think. But part... Read more |
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Michael Winship 'Stonewall' Sessions Leads the Charge Of the Trump Brigade The attorney general's testimony before the Senate intelligence committee was more smoke and mirrors. Read more |
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Ken Kimmell If the Feds Won't Face Climate Change, the Region Can "Trump’s pull-out from Paris has created a strong backlash, and it is heartening to see leaders vowing to step up." Read more |
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John Nichols A Progressive Electoral Wave Is Sweeping the Country The Trump-obsessed big media are mostly ignoring it, but Bernie-inspired activists are winning across the country—including in districts that went for Trump in 2016. Read more |
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Steven Harper Obstruction of Justice: Seeing the Forest and the Trees A lawyer helps to break down the different ways of arguing what constitutes obstruction of justice. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Help Republicans Gut Obamacare Behind Closed Doors "Shouldn’t we have the public debate before the vote this time, and not have people scrambling to call their congresspeople at the last minute?" Read more |
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John Atcheson Power or Principles: How the Establishment Branch of the Democratic Party Is Choosing to Lose Both "The Democratic Party must finally understand which side it is on …" —Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing The People's Summit There’s a war on for the soul of the Democratic Party. On one side are the... Read more |
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Karen Greenberg A Planet's Future Threatened by the Fate of Its Children In this age of grief, where have all the children gone? Read more |
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Liz Ryan Murray What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are The Treasury Department has released their report on financial regulations they want to scrap. Spoiler alert: the Wall Street sharpies who Trump put in charge of our economy, who made fortunes on... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan White House for Sale: Emoluments, Corruption and Donald Trump “Emolument” is a word few people used, or even knew, until Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Now, it’s being bandied about the Beltway on a daily basis, and is at the heart of several lawsuits... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Uprooting the N-Word The word, inappropriately uttered, has the news value of a bullet fired off at the mall. One word. It’s the ticking time bomb of American history. It pulsates with paradox. I want to take a moment to... Read more |
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Conn Hallinan The Long Term Threat to Europe Isn’t Le Pen. It’s Capitalism. The good news out of Europe is that Marine Le Pen’s neo-Nazi National Front took a beating in the May 7 French presidential election. The bad news is that the program of the winner, Emmanuel Macron,... Read more |
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Evan Popp Democrats Don’t Have a Progressive Foreign Policy Vision. And They Need One Former President Barack Obama once articulated his vision of foreign policy as not doing “stupid shit.” By this he meant not putting boots on the ground in long-term, unwinnable wars. What this... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel The GOP Is Working Stealthily to Shred Health and Financial Protections for Ordinary Americans The bars opened early in Washington and elsewhere last Thursday, as more than 19 million Americans tuned in when the networks and cable news channels carried live former FBI director James B. Comey’s... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Cuomo Wants to Privatize Penn Station; That’s a Bad Republican Idea New Yorkers face a “ summer of hell ” as Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie seek to hand over the city’s historic Penn Station to private investors. This “hell” is the result of our leaders’ “... Read more |
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Jim Hightower The GOP Will Free You from Having Health Care When I think of freedom, I think of it in positive, aspirational terms — our First Amendment freedoms, for example, or FDR's "Four freedoms" or the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed people... Read more |
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Brett Max Kaufman The US Intelligence Community Can Share Your Personal Information With Other Governments, and We’re Demanding Answers While the ACLU’s focus on foreign intelligence surveillance typically centers on the U.S. government’s National Security Agency, intelligence collection actually operates on a global scale. Our... Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Koch Brothers & Trump: The Men Who Sold the World When he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump gave a speech so filled with falsehoods that it triggered detailed rebuttals by publications ranging from Politifact to Scientific... Read more |
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Audrey Juarez A Year After Pulse, We Are More Than Survivors I still remember the metallic taste in my mouth when I first heard about the Pulse night club shooting. I was sitting on my couch, hung over from DC Pride, scrolling through Twitter. My whole feed... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt America Last: Will Trump Set a Record for the History Books? In its own inside-out, upside-down way, it’s almost wondrous to behold. As befits our president’s wildest dreams, it may even prove to be a record for the ages, one for the history books. He was,... Read more |
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Shaun King Every Democrat in America Should Support Medicare for All In a recent poll from the health insurance industry, only 8% of Americans actually want the United States Senate to pass the terrible Trumpcare bill, also known as the Affordable Health Care Act,... Read more |
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John Nichols An Article of Impeachment Based on Trump’s Obstruction of Justice Is Now Circulating in the House California Congressman Brad Sherman, a senior Democrat, proposes a resolution—and promises to trigger impeachment votes in the chamber. Read more |
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Marty Lederman Why Trump Can’t (Lawfully) Fire Mueller Such an act would make Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre look like a genteel tea party Read more |
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Thomas S. Harrington Total Surprise! People Love the Left's Ideas for Progress I just can't believe what happened in the British elections. I can't get over the fact that that when a politician with real convictions honed over 40 years of political life—generous and forward-... Read more |
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Betsy Hartmann Trump’s Apocalypse Has Been a Long Time Coming As the first-year anniversary passes of Omar Mateen's deadly attack on the gay Pulse night club in Orlando, it's worth remembering Donald Trump's apocalyptic response. Out on the campaign trail, he... Read more |
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Robert Naiman Tuesday: A Senate Roll Call on Saudi Arabia's War and Yemen's Famine With the Senate, it's always hard to know for sure when a vote will be. But the latest reports are that a Senate vote on Trump's Saudi arms deal will happen after 2pm ET Tuesday. This vote is a... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Knocked Down Bans on Interracial Marriage. How Have Things Changed Since Then? Should we allow states to decide whether black Americans may marry white Americans? Today, such an idea seems absurd. Most Americans believe that states shouldn't be permitted to trample on the basic... Read more |
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David Schwenk People's Summit Vows to Transform Resistance into Power Gathering of progressive activists and organizers celebrates new generation of progressive leaders Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Draft Bernie? Democratic Party Takeover? Strategic Concerns Paramount at People's Summit Because criticizing the Democrats and ditching them are two entirely different things Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Battle for the Future: Trump's Dystopian Vision vs. Push for Brave Green World Is Trump launching a new world order? Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Age of Anger "History informs the present," Hedges writes Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population Last year it was 8 men , then down to 6 , and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis... Read more |
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Tony Norman The Gospel According to Donald Trump On Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and said out loud what a majority of Americans concluded a long time ago — that President Donald J... Read more |
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Tom Steyer Republicans Set A Standard For Impeachment — And Trump Has Met It Former FBI Director James Comey’s explosive testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee began with an unambiguous declaration that the president of the United States lied about his firing. He... Read more |
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Linda McQuaig NAFTA’s Dirty Secret: It Lets U.S. Control Canada's Oil Why wouldn’t Canadians be happy to leave our energy in the hands of Trump’s Washington and Big Oil? Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Saudi Arabia is Destabilizing the World Just a few months ago, the governor of Indonesia’s largest city, Jakarta, seemed headed for easy re-election despite the fact that he is a Christian in a mostly Muslim country. Suddenly everything... Read more |
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Sepideah Mohsenian-Rahman Daesh Claims Responsibility for Unprecedented Terror in Tehran Twin attacks left 12 civilians dead and at least 46 wounded in Tehran on Wednesday. In the almost simultaneous attacks claimed by ISIS just weeks after Donald Trump completed his first tour to the... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Ethics? Trump? Grub first: then ethics — Bertolt Brecht, Three Penny Opera It is a distinct pleasure to be the first columnist to disabuse a troubled American public of an easily understandable, but totally... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot The Resurrection of Jeremy Corbyn: Truth Can Be an Effective Political Weapon The Labour Manifesto allowed voters to see that Corbyn stood for things they believed in. Read more |
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Dana Drugmand Advancing Clean Energy at the State Level - An Imperative In the wake of President Trump's recent decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, one thing seems abundantly clear, and that is that the role of states in advancing... Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Courage for Peace, Not for War, in Afghanistan When activists like me return from visiting the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan, young seamstresses there often entrust each of us with about fifty sky-blue scarves. The word “... Read more |
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Michael Winship Comey Got in the Face of Trump's 'Godfather' Fantasy The testimony of the fired FBI director revealed a president who sees himself more crime boss than chief executive. Read more |
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David Schwenk Promise in the Land of Despair: The Crisis Is Not Over in Flint, Michigan While the state and federal governments have failed, two outposts of citizen aid are providing support and fostering hope Read more |
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Stephen Kretzmann For This Climate Fight: Less PowerPoint. More Power. There is no way to solve climate without confronting – and defeating – the fossil fuel industry. Read more |
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Amy Kroin Join the Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality "There's no way to resist this administration or engage in any other kind of activism online without Net Neutrality" Read more |
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Reza Marashi, Trita Parsi As Iranians Vote For Peace, Trump Helps Saudi Arabia Pick Another Fight Iranian society extended its hand to the world, and the governments in Washington, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv responded with threatening clenched fists. Read more |
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Nick Dearden After the UK General Election – We Must Write the Script for What Comes Next In the last six weeks we’ve seen that change is possible. The general election was called because the prime minister insisted there was too much opposition to her plans in parliament. We were told... Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The Facts Proving Jeremy Corbyn’s Election Triumph Progressive leader has turned around the electoral fortunes of his party more than anyone in 70 years Read more |
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Richard Eskow Kitchen Logic: Don't Let Trump's GOP Privatize America Privatization—the transfer of government-owned resources to private interests—is a permanent solution to a temporary problem Read more |
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George Zornick Can Robert Mueller Really Hold Trump Accountable? The special counsel loomed large over the entire Comey hearing Thursday. Read more |
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Jesselyn Radack Reality Winner Is a Whistleblower Many whistleblowers pay a very high price. The least we can do is protect them. Read more |
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Neema Singh Guliani Trump, Hypocritically, Moves to Make Temporary Surveillance Powers Permanent President Trump thinks surveillance is just “terrible.” “You look at the extent of surveillance,” he laments. “Me and so many other people, it’s terrible.” Given these statements, and Vice President’... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler A Dying Man’s Gift of Awareness “Tell them, I want everybody to know, I want everybody on the train to know, I love them... ” These words are also part of the geopolitics of murder — these words of light and hope, alive and pulsing... Read more |
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Peter Bloom Corbyn and Labour are Fighting for a New Progressive Political Mainstream On April 18 the newly selected Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called a general election for June 8th, declaring it "the only way to guarantee certainty for the years ahead." This was a... Read more |
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Ben Norton Corporate Media Hope Labour’s Corbyn Loses Election—and Badly Millions of people across the United Kingdom are voting in an early general election on June 8. For the first time in several decades, voters have the possibility of electing a staunch left-wing... Read more |
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Nomi Prins Dear President Trump: Breaking Up (Banks) Isn’t So Hard to Do What's your pleasure: A new Glass-Steagall or another economic meltdown? Read more |
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Joan Chittister Make America, America again There's a pall hanging over the country these days. And it's everywhere. It colors every news article, of course. But, it's not only the news that's been tainted by the non-majority election of a... Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce It Is Time for Donald Trump to Leave the White House The government cannot pass any stress test with this president* in office. Read more |
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Robert Reich Impeach Him Now Why engage in a purely symbolic gesture? Plenty of reasons. Read more |
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Liz Ryan Murray CHOICE Act Is a Lump of Coal in Our Stocking “Wall Street wrote their wish list, and to Congress they’re flocking: But this Christmas in June, let’s put coal in their stocking!” Republicans in the House want make the deepest desires of Wall... Read more |
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John Nichols Bernie Sanders Is Super Excited About Jeremy Corbyn’s Anti-Austerity Campaign Bernie Sanders traveled to Britain last week, attracting crowds that confirmed that the Vermont senator has emerged as not just the most popular active political figure in the United States but an... Read more |
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Jennifer Bing Palestinian Children’s Lives Are Shaped By 50 Years of Military Occupation Five decades of occupation have turned military violence into the norm for Palestinian children. Read more |
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Phil Gasper Could Jeremy Corbyn Pull off a British Upset? Can the British Labour Party pull off an astounding come-from-behind victory in the UK general election this Thursday? The odds still favor Theresa May’s Conservatives (known as the Tories), emerging... Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Why Trump's So-Called Infrastructure Plan Is Good for Wall Street But Bad for America Donald Trump’s so-called infrastructure plan is a huge giveaway to Wall Street that fails to create the millions of jobs we need to modernize our roads, bridges, water systems, rail, airports, levees... Read more |
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Michelle Chen How the States Can Still Fight Climate Change — Without the Federal Government Con fronting the climate crisis shouldn’t be rocket science—to push society to decarbonize, just treat greenhouse gases the way governments treat liquor and cigarettes: Raise the price. With the... Read more |
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Neal Gabler The Trump Doctrine: Up-Yours-Ism! A chip-on-the-shoulder attitude prevails at the White House. It could destroy the country. Read more |
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Nafeez Ahmed This Is How to End Islamic State Terror - and Stop British Foreign Policy Blowback It's time for a difficult conversation about the British government's overt and covert military interventions which have made the UK a breeding ground for violent extremism Read more |
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Emile Nakhleh Saudi Arabia and Qatar: Tribal Feud with Regional and Global Implications On the morning of June 5, Saudi Arabia and four of its regional friends decided to sever diplomatic, economic, and transportation ties with Qatar and its ruler Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Such a... Read more |
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HDS Greenway Seeds of Fascism Sprout Anew in Trump's America "It is of course conceivable that a fascist party could be elected to power in free, competitive elections," wrote Robert Paxton in his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism Read more |
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William Astore America’s Real Red Scare: The Slow-Motion Collapse of the American Empire Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has just arrived in the mail. I’m tantalized by the cover article. “Russia is finished... Read more |
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LeeAnn Hall Rural Communities Lose Most With Health Repeal The GOP health bill won’t just roll back Obamacare – it will end Medicaid as we know it. For thirty years, I’ve helped people fight for health care. In one of my proudest moments, I worked with... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump Is Out of Control The statements President Trump issued on Twitter in recent days lead to a chilling conclusion: The man is out of control. I know that is a radical thing to say about the elected leader of the United... Read more |
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Elizabeth Sawin Want to See US Climate Progress? Support City and State Leaders and the Grassroots Groups Who Hold Them Accountable Less than a week after President Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, cities and states across the US have adopted the goals of the agreement as their own... Read more |
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Diane Ravitch The Demolition of American Education Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s proposed budget for the US Department of Education is a boon for privatization and a disaster for public schools and low-income college students. They want to cut... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Time for Democrats to Unite Around Medicare for All “It’s an unbelievably complex subject,” President Trump said in February , discussing the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It was... Read more |
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William E. Connolly Changing This Bumbling Narcissist Impossible, So We Must Depose Him Dear Donald Trump: I write this short note to you shortly after you have moved to cancel participation of the United States in the Paris Climate Accord. I know that many believe you are a stumbling,... Read more |
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John de Graaf A Beautiful American Story When Hillary Clinton gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Wellesley College on May 26, her message of “Onward Together” reflected that of another Wellesley icon, Katharine Lee Bates, the... Read more |
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Andy Rowell Trump Dismissed as "Climate Buffoon" After Paris Pull-Out It was meant to be Donald Trump’s greatest triumph. Yet it will prove his greatest failure. It was meant to send a strong powerful message to his supporters at home. But it backfired at home and... Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Roadmap to Destruction: Trump, CACAnomics, and the Rhetoric of National Capitalism While denigrating and demonizing the "other," the Republican president is playing a sinister and deadly game Read more |
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Sam Husseini After a Terrorist Attack, Spain Rejected Its Hawks. Will Britain? Spanish voters turned against the incumbent conservative party after the 2004 Madrid bombings. Read more |
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Hunter Blair, Josh Bivens Trump’s Infrastructure Plans Are Empty Promises Not Backed By Money It has been declared “infrastructure week” by the Trump administration. On the face of it, that should be excellent news. The U.S. economy would benefit enormously from an ambitious increase in... Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The Unwanted 'Bride': Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace? There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel... Read more |
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Juan Cole How Trump Should Have Responded to London Attacks If He Were Normal Donald J. Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/ Mar-a-Lago Florida (Golf Course) Dear Prime Minister May and Mayor Khan : I was devastated to learn that so many people were killed or wounded on London... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Antonio Gramsci and the Battle Against Fascism "Mass culture is a potent and dangerous counterrevolutionary force," says Hedges. "It creates a herd mentality." Read more |
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Rajan Menon Avoiding Apocalypse on the Korean Peninsula Why diplomacy is not naïve appeasement in the Korean crisis Read more |
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Norman Solomon Dangerous Discourse: When Progressives Sound like Demagogues The Trump administration has already done enormous harm to the United States and the planet. Along the way, Trump has also caused many prominent progressives to degrade their own political discourse... Read more |
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David Michael Green Stop Legitimizing 'Conservatism': It's Not an Ideology – It's a Goddamn Death Machine There’s no end to the maladies that ail American politics these days. It would, indeed, be far easier and quicker to identify what’s working than to itemize the travails that bedevil our pathetic... Read more |
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John Atcheson Dropping Out of Paris Even Worse Than You Think – Way Worse How Trump has made himself irrelevant and why collective global action is more important than ever Read more |
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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright After Paris Withdrawal, Local Resistance is Fertile Increasingly, people are rising up, speaking out, and taking direct action in their communities to fight for the future of our planet. Read more |
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John Light Trump Has Made the 2020 Election a Referendum on Climate Change It takes four years to quit the Paris Agreement. That means voters will be able to let Donald Trump know what they think of his decision to do so. Read more |
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Andrew Mitrovica Jeremy Corbyn Was Right in 2003, and He Is Right Again Today Britain's taste for 'bombing sorties' and 'regime changes' is feeding an interminable cycle of reciprocal violence. Read more |
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Bhikkhu Bodhi A Decision Cruel and Callous Much has been written over the last several days about the political and economic repercussions of Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out from the Paris Climate Agreement. It’s been pointed out that... Read more |
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Ann Marie Utratel, Stacco Troncoso Promoting the Commons in the Time of Monsters How peer-to-peer (P2P) politics can change the world, one city at a time Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Immigrant as Criminal Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. —Charles de Secondat, De l’Espirit des Louis (1748) As usual, the fake news people are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that it took DJT more than 48... Read more |
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Kristine Mattis Of Course Trump Has No Moral Compass on Climate. Now It's Up to Us At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) marked the first international treaty to address the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions... Read more |
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Jamie Henn The Best Way to Resist Trump Ditching Paris? Divest from Fossil Fuels Divestment provides us with a powerful way to cut our ties with this destructive industry and start moving in a new direction Read more |
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John Nichols It’s Time to Make the Case for Impeaching Trump The president blatantly tried to block a federal investigation. That’s obstruction of justice. Read more |
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Eamon Ryan America Is Acting Like a Rogue State, So We Must All Stand Up for What's Right It was no surprise when Donald Trump walked out into the Rose Garden to announce to the waiting world he was about to drop out of the Paris Climate Agreement. We knew what was coming. We realised... Read more |