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Andy Rowell Arctic Warming & Climate Change 'Should Be the Number One Urgent Conversation Right Now' "What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic." Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Phone and Online Voting for Democrats in the 2020 Caucuses? DNC Is at a Major Crossroads Experts point to red flags that could undermine the nominating process Read more |
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John Atcheson The Remorseless Working of Things: A Political Tragedy in Three Parts The solutions to our problems are in hand or within reach, yet we continue to drive ourselves toward the cliff's edge Read more |
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Peter Dreier In Praise of I.F. "Izzy" Stone In these critical times, remembering what one of last century's most courageous journalists taught us Read more |
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Laura Flanders In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide For close to a decade now, Barcelona has become a beacon of possibility for transformative change at the city level Read more |
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Jim Goodman Current Farm Crisis Offers Opportunity For Change The current agricultural model places value only on volume of production, not nutritional quality of the food produced, human health, rural communities or the environment Read more |
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Tom Athanasiou Global Inequality in a Time of Climate Emergency Our world’s richest have a great deal of money. They also have the power to decide whether our civilization sinks or swims. So what can we do? Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage That Is Deadly, Illegal, and Ineffective Whether in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea or one of the 20 countries under the boot of U.S. sanctions, the Trump administration is using its economic weight to try to exact regime change or major policy changes in countries around the globe Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange This is the gravest assault on press freedom in my lifetime Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Heights on Stolen Golan an Indictment of Colonial White Privilege Given that Trump is a narcissistic fraud, it is appropriate that his name be attached to the illegal Israeli theft of Syrian territory Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt If Donald Trump Is the Symptom... Then What’s the Disease? In the context of both Trump change and climate change, we're obviously still awaiting our true transformative president, the one who is not a symptom of decline, but a factor in trying to right this country and the Earth before it's too late. Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis 'Everybody Has the Right to Live': The Visionary Budget at the Heart of Our Moral Uprising It has become clear that people are ready to come together and demand truth, love, and justice, and debunk the lies of scarcity and inevitable, unchangeable poverty. Read more |
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Celina della Croce Why Venezuela Is the Vietnam of Our Time On April 30, 1975, the United States learned an important lesson. The capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) would mark the defeat of the world’s most powerful military force by an... Read more |
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Wim Laven We Need Evidence-Based Decision Making Read and react to the Mueller Report —or you will be sorry. Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer Iran's Game Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton probably do want a war with Iran Read more |
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Tony Norman Sorry Means Sometimes Having to Admit You're Racist It's time for the president and no small number of media outlets to apologize for their characterizations of the Central Park Five Read more |
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Peter Certo A Father’s Day Gift for Myself: Activism My two-year old will barely be the age I am now when the climate catastrophe comes, and that realization is taking a toll. Read more |
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Christy Spees If We Want Antibiotics to Work, Consumers Have to Put Big Pressure on Factory Farms On March 1, Denny’s stopped purchasing chicken treated with medically important antibiotics for its U.S. restaurants. Many consumers might expect to see such promises at Whole Foods or their local... Read more |
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Ernest A. Canning Bernie Sanders Delivered the Most Profound Speech Since We Lost MLK We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both. – Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis It is not hyperbole to... Read more |
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Eric Margolis Will the Real Bombers Please Stand Up Who is attacking oil tankers in the Gulf between Oman and Iran? So far, the answer is still a mystery. The US, of course, accuses Iran. Iran says it’s the US or its local allies Saudi Arabia and the... Read more |
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Janine Jackson Big Media Get Big Things Wrong on Venezuela Big media have got some big things wrong on Venezuela. Who can forget CNN's May 5 claim that "pressure is mounting on Maduro to step down, following elections in January in which voters chose... Read more |
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Trita Parsi Trump Blames Iran for the Tanker Attacks. But Let's be Skeptical of his Administration's Pro-War Bluster The speed in which the U.S. government officially blamed Iran should give us pause, given our own history in the region Read more |
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Joe Emersberger Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried By Reuters for Over a Month It is up to all of us to not be passive consumers of news, and continually bear in mind that the news we are getting about official enemies may be less than half the story Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Facing Serious Charges, Judge Sets 'Long Timetable' For Assange To Prepare Defense Against Extradition "This indictment is a direct attack on free speech and a direct attack on journalists and publishers everywhere." Read more |
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Richard Silverstein Is Pompeo Angling to Interfere in British Politics? In leaked comments from a recent meeting with Jewish leaders, the US secretary of state cites the need to 'push back' against a potential Corbyn victory Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Elizabeth Warren’s Rise Is a Plus for Issue Politics—And a Bad Sign for Billionaires The press is choosing to view it in another light. That will only work for so long. Read more |
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Christian Christensen "Not Founded On Anything": The Epitaph for the Sarah Huckabee Sanders Era The now infamous phrase points to how the Trump administration has embraced a cruel, cynical, nihilistic worldview rooted in nothing but the quest to obtain and maintain power in the service of personal gain Read more |
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Stan Sorscher Making Sense of NAFTA and Its Replacement Why we need new economic policies before we can fix trade deals Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Armed Bureaucracy "Sooner or later they end up in a cage, where (they) belong." Read more |
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Juan Cole Whatever Pompeo Says, There Is No Certainty Iran Mined the Tankers It was clear that Trump warmongers would blame Iran and then use the incident as a springboard to war Read more |
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Curt Ries Defining Democratic Socialism Democratic socialism is a way of organizing society that guarantees all people a decent and dignified life by decommodifying basic human needs and ensuring agency over our productive lives Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig So, What’s the Difference Between Warren and Sanders? Much of it comes down to the matter of regulation vs. revolution Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce I Don't Trust This Administration* With a Lemon Zester, Let Alone a War With Iran Mike Pompeo is fighting way above his weight class Read more |
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Jonathan Cohn “Electability” Is Astrology for Pundits Expert predictions often represent little more than calcified prejudice Read more |
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Laura Gottesdiener Two Iraqi Peace Activists Confront a Trumpian World As the Trump administration weighs war, Iraqis prepare a carnival for peace Read more |
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Elliott Negin Our Post-Carbon Future Depends on Electric Vehicles—Our Congress Controls Their Economic Lifeline The fossil fuel industry is working hard to eliminate a tax credit that reduces emissions and creates jobs Read more |
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Eric Levitz Democratic Socialism: 'There Is No Alternative' If our "capitalist" economy depends on constant discretionary interventions by policy-makers, we might as well determine those interventions through democratic debate—and aim them at advancing the best interests of the 99 percent Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Requests Hacked Dirt on 2020 Democrats From Foreign Regimes in Free Ad Aired on Disney's ABC News Imagine his secret glee at sending the message all around the world via Disney’s ABC News, and for free Read more |
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Ryan Cooper How to Stop Google and Facebook From Strangling Journalism A good place to start would be breaking up the tech giants, and regulating the online advertising market to ensure fair competition Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Emergency For already vulnerable populations, the health risks of extreme weather events can be deadly Read more |
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Basav Sen Trump's War on Science Is Grounds to Impeach There are fresh signs that the Trump Administration intends to actively interfere in research by federal scientists Read more |
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Thom Hartmann How Fears of Abolition Shaped the Second Amendment Little did Madison, Jefferson, or Henry realize that one day in the future, weapons-manufacturing corporations, newly defined as "persons" by a dysfunctional Supreme Court, would use his slave-patrol militia amendment to protect their “right” to manufacture and sell guns to individuals who would... Read more |
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Jim Hightower Trump to Working Class: 'Adios, Chumps' The guy who pretended to be a champion for America's workers has been a one-man working-class wrecking crew, systematically destroying employee rights and protections against the abuses of corporate bosses Read more |
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Jeremiah Lowery Climate Change Is So Much More Than a 'Single Issue' Tom Perez needs to reconsider his position and the DNC needs to step up to the plate and host a climate debate, because the multiple issues within our climate crisis can no longer be pushed aside Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Are You Sure You Actually 'Like' Your Private Health Insurance? In 2018, as millions of Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for health care, 62 CEOs of health care companies made a combined total of $1.1 billion in compensation Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Kushner as a Colonial Administrator: Let’s Talk About the 'Israeli Model' Kushner thinks he is capable of arranging the future of the Palestinian people without the inclusion of the Palestinian leadership Read more |
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Joshua Cho According to NYT, 'Relentless Flooding' in Midwest Just Happens The Times failed to link the floods overwhelming the city with a changing climate Read more |
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Sarah Jones Finally, Some Good News for Abortion Rights The state’s newly elected Democratic governor, Janet Mills, signed a bill that will allow nurse practitioners, osteopathic physicians, and physicians assistants to perform abortion procedures Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Bring Troops Home and Send More Kids to College It aids the ambitious children of low-income families in rural and urban areas to lift themselves above their circumstances Read more |
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Robert Reich The 7 Biggest Failures of Trumponomics Trumponomics has exploded the deficit, hurt ordinary Americans, and lined the pockets of the wealthy and corporations Read more |
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Nick Hanauer Sorry, But Just Having Better Schools Won’t Fix America Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first. Read more |
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Sheena Anne Arackal Annexation Without Citizenship Is Apartheid The only way to avoid bringing the barbarism of apartheid into the 21 st century is by firmly shifting away from the two-state solution and instead linking Israel’s inevitable annexation of the Occupied West Bank to Israeli citizenship for occupied Palestinians Read more |
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Eugene Robinson We Don’t Need 23 Presidential Candidates. There’s Another Important Role to Fill Dear Democratic presidential candidates: If you truly believe your own righteous rhetoric, some of you ought to be spending your time and energy in another vital pursuit—winning control of the Senate Read more |
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David Bromwich Politics as Usual and Planetary Destruction Fire and flood: What it means to be "great" on a planet going down Read more |
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Margaret Wurth What Life Is Like When Abortion Is Banned "As Republicans around the country pass sweeping abortion bans, I think about what life could be like for women and girls if these laws take effect. I don’t have to use my imagination." Read more |
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John Duda Revealed: Americans Care More About Social Needs Than Deficits A recent poll from the Democracy Collaborative and YouGov reveals that most Americans are ready to spend more for social needs, even if it raises the deficit Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Peace Is a Word That the West Has Taken From the Afghans With no end of war in sight, this past year has been the deadliest year for civilians since the United States first began to bomb Afghanistan in 2001 Read more |
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Bonnie Castillo Medicare for All Is Coming... Because Even the "Insured" Are Not Safe in This For-Profit System So-called "experts" tell us that Americans love this system and it would be too costly or too complicated to change it. But even those with private insurance or employee-provided coverage know this simply is not true. Read more |
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Andrea Dehlendorf, Ann Marie Reinhart Retail Workers Nationwide Are United for Respect Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act Read more |
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Rachel M. Cohen How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned To Work Together in New York New York Renews offers an encouraging example of how labor and environmental groups can work together to act on climate change Read more |
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Julio Ricardo Varela Trump's Mexico Tariff Deal Is Fake News. Mexico Has Been Enforcing U.S. Immigration Policy For Years The only thing the Mexican government surrendered in the war of words was its dignity Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Charter Schools Are a Major Dividing Line for the 2020 Democratic Candidates—Education Fights in Pennsylvania Point the Way Charter schools now cost Pennsylvania taxpayers over $1.8 billion annually and account for over 25 percent of the state’s basic education funding Read more |
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Robert Reich The Same Old Scare Tactic About Socialism When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan 'Down With Socialism'…what he really means is, 'Down with Progress.' Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Green New Deal Me In It should all be a call to arms no less urgent than that of the "Fate of the Earth." Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Cult of Trump Only when we recognize Trump as a cult leader, and many of those who support him as cult followers, will we understand where we are headed and how we must resist Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why an "Apology Tour" Is Needed: An Open Letter to Joe Biden Pretending that you don't have much to apologize for is not viable. Read more |
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Sarah Reinhardt Will the Trump USDA Deliver on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans? Our New Report Shows What’s at Stake "The federal government should be making a renewed commitment to public health by developing a strategy that will allow the benefits of a healthy diet to be realized by all communities." Read more |
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Jill Richardson Dealing With Climate Fear If you feel powerless, remember that the biggest change you can make is to support leaders who think our planet is actually worth saving Read more |
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Juan Cole No, WSJ, Palestinians Have Not Given Up On National Rights Most Palestinians support a just and lasting settlement of the issue of Palestinian statelessness. Read more |
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Igor Volsky What the Gun Control Movement Can Learn From Marriage Equality Clear goals, consistent strategy, and a sense of personal connection can change public opinion—and the law Read more |
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Xavier Best Decades After False Convictions, 'When They See Us' Highlights Media Failure While the highly publicized antics of Donald Trump has received a great deal of condemnation, less attention has been paid to how prominent media outlets fell in lockstep with the myth of five deranged black youths randomly attacking white cyclists and joggers in Central Park Read more |
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Sarah Jones What’s So Funny, Joe? "After Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores published her account of an unwanted kiss from Joe Biden, the 2020 candidate said he’d have to change the way he campaigned. Instead, he's turned her story into a punch line." Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre Racism as a Public Health Crisis Milwaukee's novel approach to combating racial inequity should inspire other cities Read more |
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Nate Singham How Powerful Mining Corporations Flagrantly Plunder the Global South Without Consequence The process of corporate plunder in the global mining industry is severely aggravating social and economic inequalities across the planet Read more |
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Mary Otto America's Dental Health Crisis: Modern Life Causes More Tooth Decay, and Care Is Increasingly Unaffordable Millions of Americans lack access to oral health care, and vulnerable communities are in desperate need of a solution Read more |
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Ralph Nader FAA’s Boeing-Biased Officials: Recuse Yourselves or Resign "Boeing is used to getting its way. Its grip on Congress—where 300 members take campaign cash from Boeing—is legendary." Read more |
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Carmen Perez Reopen Linda Fairstein’s Cases and Hold New York’s Criminal Justice System Accountable Our criminal justice system is stacked against people of color, especially young people of color, from the moment they come into contact with law enforcement to when they enter probation Read more |
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Gabrielle Oliveira For Immigrants at the Border, It's About the Children The U.S. government has chosen to fracture and separate the very unit that it argues it cares about most Read more |
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Bill Bianchi The AMA Stops Us From Getting Health Care We demand you step out of the way of Medicare For All, which is the health care we want and need Read more |
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Peter Oborne Aung San Suu Kyi in Hungary: A Chilling Sign of Global Islamophobia The spectacle of the Burmese Nobel Laureate's meeting with Viktor Orban highlights the monstrous threat posed to Muslims around the world Read more |
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Joshua Cho WSJ Says CIA Chief Wouldn't Do Anything 'Inappropriate'—Despite Record of Torture and Coverup Perhaps if outlets like the Wall Street Journal provided less adulatory coverage of the CIA’s leaders and the organization’s illicit activities, it would be harder for its members like “Bloody Gina” Haspel to get away with lying Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit The Curious Case of Elizabeth Warren and the "Charter School Lobbyist" Who Wasn't How internet insinuation can quickly become campaign fact Read more |
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Laura Carlsen Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Are About White Nationalism, Not Trade There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Whitewashing War Crimes Has Become the American Way What sort of society would America be if its soldiers were free to rape, pillage and plunder in current and future wars? A venal empire, that’s what—which this country resembles more and more. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Tariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis The migrants that do arrive in the U.S. are fleeing situations exacerbated by decades of bad American foreign policy. Tariffs on Mexico would continue that pattern. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak In Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats The media’s false implication that Iran is a danger to the population of the United States makes US escalations against the country appear necessary and justified Read more |
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Justin Podur Sanctions Are Genocidal, and They Are the US’s Favorite Weapon Far from precision-guided munitions, sanctions are weapons of starvation, which target the most vulnerable civilians for slow and painful death by deprivation of food and medicine Read more |
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John Buell From Guatemala to Moscow to Washington, Neoliberalism and Privatization Driving Our Crises Neoliberal privatization and austerity, backed by the hard fist of militarization, have an ugly track record of which we must remind citizens early and often Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Clemency for the Lowly, Free Passes for the Mighty Of crimes and pardons in the Trump era Read more |
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Joe Lauria After Assange’s Espionage Act Indictment, Police Move Against More Journalists for Publishing Classified Material Less than two months after the arrest of journalist Julian Assange, and two weeks after his indictment under the Espionage Act, emboldened governments have sent the police after journalists who’ve challenged the state Read more |
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John O'Day Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts About Exiling Julian Assange From Journalism One might have thought that, when drawing a line between Pulitzers and prison, corporate media would instinctively err on the side of caution and go to bat for Assange Read more |
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Robert Reich The Gig (Economy) Is Up The jobs problem today isn’t just stagnant wages. It’s also uncertain incomes. Read more |
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Juan Cole Hey, Psst, Prince Charles: Here are Some Graphs on Global Heating That Maybe Even Trump Could Understand Prince Charles may as well have saved his breath. There are nothing but squirrels running around inside Trump’s brain. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The GOP's White Supremacy Now Has a Smoking Gun The racism of the citizenship question should at least be apparent to the American public—if only mainstream media outlets covered the story with the gravity it deserves Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Boeing, Obama, a Gold Watch, and 346 Dead During his time as President of the United States, Barack Obama promoted the sale of Boeing planes—including the 737 Max 8 planes—around the world Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Quiet Killer at the Core of Patriotism Doesn’t it make sense, in this land of 357 million guns, that our national glorification of war will have some unintended consequences here at home Read more |
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Jill Richardson Celebrating Pride, Mindfully Inequalities in our broader society also occur in the queer community Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld America Is Missing Its Chance to Fix Our Election System Before We Vote in 2020 As many legislatures adjourn, few improve their recount and audit laws Read more |
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Isabel Marlens The Farms of the Future If we all divest our time, energy and money from the corporations that fill megastores and supermarkets, and invest instead in ourselves, in local farmers and small local businesses, then we can keep money and precious resources circulating in our communities Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Travel to Cuba Falls Victim to John Bolton’s Wrath John Bolton hates the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua— calling them the “troika of tyranny” and the “three stooges of socialism”—and is determined to use his time as National Security... Read more |