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Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd No, Joe, Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers We need political leaders and intelligence community officials who acknowledge that torture is illegal under international law, inhumane, and ineffective. Read more |
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John Buell This Last-Minute Congress Stimulus Package Is Terrorism by Austerity Congress stimulus package finally passes—but it is too little, too late. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt What If, After 9/11, George W. Bush Had Thrown Parties? And what if, after the pandemic arrived, Donald J. Trump had launched a global war on Covid-19? Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Elliott Smith Law Student's Arrest 62-Years Ago Helped Inspire Youth-Led Movements for Social Change Bruce Carver Boynton (1937—2020) exemplified the power of a young person to take a principled stand on behalf of human dignity. Read more |
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Max B. Sawicky Biden Needs to Spend Big—And Fast. Here Are 4 Immediate Priorities. Forget about the debt. Boosting the economy and sending people money isn’t just good policy, it’s smart politics. Read more |
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Sonia Gill President-Elect Biden's Voting Rights To-Do List Trump’s assault on our democracy reinforces the Biden administration’s obligation to do everything within its power to protect the right to vote. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Final Days of Donald Trump, Absentee President During which a petulant manchild tries to wear us out with his refusal to face reality. Read more |
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Juan Cole Everyday War Crimes: Israeli PM Netanyahu Gets Covid Vaccine, Squatters Get Vaccine, But Not Occupied Palestinians Vaccines will be supplied to the hundreds of thousands of government-backed illegal Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank, but not to the indigenous Palestinian population. Read more |
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Bryce Greene NYT Erases US Economic War Against Venezuela The New York Times has long played a role in supporting U.S. attempts to dominate Latin America. Read more |
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Eleanor J. Bader Homes Guarantee Campaign Demands Housing for All With the pandemic making shelter more crucial than ever, activists are fighting for everyone’s right to a place to live—regardless of income or background. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Comparing Republican With Democratic Party Energy Levels: No Contest Just under 400,000 votes, in the six battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, gave Biden his Electoral College victory! Democrats wake up! Read more |
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Reese Erlich Are Cuban Protesters Freedom Fighters or US Pawns? Painters, musicians, and other artists are responding to what they call the "lack of freedom of speech." The government calls them agents of the U.S. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump and Death When considering the number of deaths for which Trump was responsible, historians will also look at those killed because of his devotion to the death penalty. Read more |
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Juan Cole Pence, Who Backed Muslim Visa Ban, Gets Vaccine Invented by Muslim Immigrants Pence also praised far right-wing evangelical leader John Hagee. Hagee has said that Muslim Americans are not real Americans. Read more |
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Dusti Gurule Joe Biden's Historic Pick for Health Secretary Signals Hope Xavier Becerra, who would be the first Latino to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has been an outspoken supporter of reproductive rights. Read more |
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John Feffer America’s Destructive Denialisms The refusal of tens of millions of Americans to recognize the election results is part of a much larger denialism—of Covid-19, of climate change, and U.S. decline. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare Pfizer Helped Create the Global Patent Rules. Now It's Using Them to Undercut Access to the Covid Vaccine. The pharmaceutical company is opposing a proposal at the World Trade Organization to expand vaccine access to poor countries. Read more |
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Aliyah Chavez Deb Haaland: "I'll Be Fierce for All of Us" Haaland is poised to become the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality Poor, dark-skinned people should not be made to die when their lives can be saved by a simple vaccine, which is available in abundance. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Neocons Want Us to Belly up for One More Round of War They already expect citizens to pay for the next round. Read more |
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Conn Hallinan The U.S. Needs COVID Relief and Renewable Energy, Not a Space Force Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space. Read more |
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Mekdela Maskal Young People in Georgia Fight for Climate Ahead of Runoff Elections "I think if people realized that a lot of the social justice issues in Georgia are tied to environmental issues, they would be more interested in fighting for the environment." Read more |
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Moazzam Begg Failure to Prosecute UK War Crimes in Iraq Exposes ICC's Own Failings The court could have set a powerful precedent in holding Britain to account. Instead, it has become a laughing stock and few will be able to take it seriously again. Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan Dear Mackenzie: There's One More Donation You Owe to the World Unionize Amazon. Read more |
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Sarah Jones AOC Is Right About Pelosi and Schumer Under Pelosi and Schumer, the party has catered to conservative and moderate members while alienating its rising progressive flank, and Ocasio-Cortez’s specific criticisms of Pelosi are certainly informed by ideology. Read more |
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Sarah Piepenburg This Holiday Season—Shop Safely, Support Local Businesses and Act with Justice in Mind When you purchase gifts through small, local retailers, you are helping to sustain the livelihoods of real people in your community. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon It's Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11: Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster? After two decades, can wefinally ask whether trying to prop up a dying empire actually makes us—or indeed the world—any safer. Read more |
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J. Mijin Cha For a Path Forward on Climate, Let’s Learn From the Original New Deal A broad, progressive coalition came together in the 1930s to bring the United States out of the Great Depression. It can be done again in the face of COVID and climate change. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler One World: The Wisdom of Wholeness In this country, as well as much of our divided world, short-term gain is often all that matters and nothing else exists. This flawed thinking is at the core of our social infrastructure. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Trump’s Lies About Immigrants Should End With His Presidency New data confirms what’s been true all along: Trump built his brand selling fear-mongering lies about immigrants and crime. Read more |
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Maggie Mills A Public Option Won’t Save Us. The Sick and Disabled Need Medicare-for-All Medicare and Medicaid are rife with complicated formulas for exclusions, exceptions, and limitations. The cruelty that is imposed by the constraints of these programs cannot be overstated. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard As 2020 Ends, It’s Time for News Outlets to Declare a "Climate Emergency" Let 2021 be the year that we declare, in accordance with science, that humanity is facing a climate emergency—an emergency we promise to illuminate and, we hope, help humanity overcome. Read more |
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Will Bunch A Notable Death in 2020: American Democracy America has two political parties. When one no longer believes in counting the votes, it’s not a democracy. Read more |
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Matt Littlejohn Amazon Must Stop Flooding Our Oceans With Plastic Waste Amazon’s apparent embrace of plastic packaging is hindering its commitment to help the fight against climate change. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Timeless Truths for Trying Times We progressives have far more potential than generally realized to build our majority in politics, the workplace, legislation and social programs. We ought to be ardently appealing to the public's innate preference for a society that's equitable and cooperative. Read more |
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Robert Reich Dear Joe Biden: Back-to-Normal Complacency Would Be Deadly Fighting these systemic problems is not a matter of ideology. It’s a matter of morality and common sense. Read more |
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Richard Eskow After One Hundred 9/11's, Here Are 9 Life-Saving Actions Progressives Must Demand Now Why aren't more of us demanding action to save lives now? Read more |
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Chuck Collins MacKenzie Scott’s Bold and Direct Giving Puts Shame to the Billionaire Class and Their Perpetual Private Foundations Scott, a newcomer on the billionaire wealth scene, has surrounded herself with advisors that come from under-resourced communities, not the folks that typically sit on foundation boards. Read more |
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Laura Flanders The Times They Ain’t a-Changing Charity doesn’t change the times. Redistributing assets does. Read more |
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Rajan Menon Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity Hunger in America. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich The Endless War to Preserve American Primacy Unable to achieve victory abroad, the United States has been battered by an accumulation of crises at home. The two are related. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The Here and Now Dangers of 'Standing Down' and 'Standing By' for Donald Trump Why we need nonviolent citizen action—not street fighting with the Proud Boys—to protect the election results and democracy. Read more |
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Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock The Biden Administration Can Reverse Much of Trump’s Bad Labor Policy Without Congress The Trump administration has consistently advanced a pro-corporate, anti-worker agenda. It is critical that the Biden administration work with the same diligence from day one to reverse these actions. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Mitch McConnell Wants to Let Corporations Kill You Without Consequence This is beyond immoral. This is ghastly, and should have been at the top of every news story in America for the past six months. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson In Georgia It Will Be Voter Turnout vs. GOP Voter Suppression Voters purged are likely to be "young voters, voters of lower income and citizens of racial groups that have been denied their sacred right to vote in the past," a report from the Georgia American Civil Liberties Union states. Read more |
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Juan Cole Rouhani to Biden: If US Comes Back to Nuclear Deal, So Will Iran If Biden, on becoming president, lifts the US financial and trade blockade on Iran, Tehran will immediately return to scrupulously observing the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Read more |
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Robert Reich Jeff Bezos, Mitch McConnell, and Killer Covid-19 Capitalism Bezos, as well as every major employer in America, can easily afford to protect their workers. Read more |
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Steve Macek, Andy Lee Roth How the Biden Administration Can Help Rejuvenate Journalism After Four Years of Carnage It will require pressure from grassroots movements and concerned citizens to put these timely and urgent ideas on the agenda of the new administration. Read more |
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Stephen Prince Wanna Win Georgia, Democrats? Go All-In for $15 Minimum Wage As the Democratic party searches for a path forward after an underwhelming election, the answer should be clear. Double down on an issue that an overwhelming majority of Americans support. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists? We hope Biden will finally renounce hare-brained, militarized policies that destroy societies and ruin people’s lives for the sake of unattainable geopolitical ambitions, and that he will instead invest in humanitarian and economic aid that really helps people to live more peaceful and prosperous... Read more |
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Robert Freeman It’s Time We Called It What It Is: Fascism The epic thrash we’re witnessing is because the forces of capitalism, seeing a terminal economic crash approaching, are attempting to preemptively replace democracy with authoritarianism—fascism—so that they can control the outcome. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis The Ghosts of Christmas Present: GOP Kick the Most Vulnerable Amid Pandemic Vaccine thinking applied to all of American life. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Right-Wing Conservatives Have Laid Waste to America for 50 Years Thanks to a half century of insidious "trickle-down" philosophy—which astoundingly continues to be preached by many of the super-rich—inequality has stretched our nation nearly to the breaking point. Read more |
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Juan Cole Pandemic Failure, Vaccine Success Indict American Monopoly Capitalism This vaccine victory is bittersweet. We have lost so many Americans to the virus, who didn’t have to die. Many of them died because of stubbornly pro-capitalist public policy. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Bernie Sanders and Our Winter of Progressive Discontent While Sanders is ill-positioned and uninclined to push back very hard against the evident trajectory of Biden's decisions, many progressives are starting to throw down gauntlets against the corporate and militaristic aspects of the incoming presidency. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres If Democrats Want to Succeed, They Will Have to Implement Policies That Primarily Benefit the Working Class Progressives cannot just sit by and expect Biden or the Democratic Party to do the right thing. Read more |
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Elizabeth Cerceo Lighter Coal Regulations May Mean More Covid-19 Deaths Addressing emission standards, pollution, and environmental protections are necessities now. Read more |
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Tim Koechlin America's Political Divide: A Modest Proposal The idea of "one America" might be passé. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston A Roadmap for the Biden-Harris Administration: Redesigning Farm Systems for the Climate Crisis A just transition for farming must not only consider reforms to farm policy, but also aligned reforms in financial, trade, environmental, and competition policy. Read more |
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Stephen Prince To Win Georgia and the Senate, Democrats Need to Go All-In on $15 Minimum Wage Georgia is ripe for this kind of economic message. Read more |
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Patrick Stephens Let Everybody Vote, Even If They're Incarcerated What value is a democracy that actively seeks to silence the voices of its most vulnerable citizens? Read more |
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Jill Richardson Failing Students Need Support, Not Blame Students don't fail because they are lazy. They fail because something is wrong in their lives—and right now, so much is wrong. Read more |
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Kari Lydersen Warehouse Workers on the Front Lines of the Covid Crisis Are Worried They'll Be Passed Over for the Vaccine Low-wage warehouse workers, many of whom are temporary, are demanding access to the vaccine. Read more |
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Juan Cole How Biden Could Save $437 Billion and Create Millions of Jobs by Reversing Trump Tariffs on Solar Panels The tariffs did not prevent the industry from growing, but it slowed its previously exponential growth and probably cost 60,000 jobs. Read more |
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Michael Brune To Combat the Climate Crisis, We Need a Government-Wide Mobilization Hopefully Biden will nominate leaders who understand the severity of the climate crisis and the environmental injustices that burden communities of color and low-income communities. Read more |
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Annie Levin Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During Covid-19 The pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown New York's mutual aid collectives how to navigate the line between mutual aid, solidarity, and charity. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. Read more |
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Vania Leveille, West Resendes & more The Biden Administration's Disability Rights To-Do List When President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris take office, their administration must act quickly to protect the rights of and promote opportunities for people with disabilities. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Our Youngest 'Self-Made' Billionaire, Our Wealthy's Oldest Bogus Claim The super rich owe their super fortunes to factors that have little to do with their "genius." Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Want to Defund the Police? Then Vote for Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia Senate Run-Off Race When police (and teachers and firefighters and other essential state and local government workers) are defunded and fired in the next few months, blame it on Republicans like Purdue and Loeffler. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac What Trump's Doing Is Crazy and Dangerous—and It Ain't Over Yet Trump still threatens us, and discussing the election in the past tense is stupid. Read more |
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Bryce Oates, Jake Davis Tom Vilsack Is the Reason Urban and Rural Progressives Must Unite to Fight Corporate Agribusiness Control Over Democracy If progressives ever want to gain more votes in rural America, they must rid the Democratic Party of the Corporate Agribusiness stranglehold over everything rural and strike fear into any politician who attempts to pander to those interests. Read more |
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Juan Cole How US Sanctions Have Contributed to the 50K Dead of Coronavirus In Iran Iran suffers the worst pandemic outbreak in the Middle East. Read more |
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Mike Lux When Justice and Politics Match: Deb Haaland Should Be Biden’s Interior Secretary It would be a big disappointment to the environmentalists, progressives, all those members of Congress who supported her, and the tribes Haaland organized and mobilized to help elect Joe Biden to overlook such a well-qualified candidate for his Cabinet. Read more |
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Arshad M. Khan Food Fight in India Becomes a Matter of Life and Death Under the new system, private agricultural businesses, grocers and supermarkets can buy directly from farmers and government price supports have been eliminated. Farmers believe it puts them at the mercy of agro-business. Read more |
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Paul Pillar Why Using Trump’s Sanctions as 'Leverage' To Get More From Iran Won’t Work Punishing the target country regardless of its behavior does not create leverage; it destroys it. Read more |
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ReNika Moore, Jennifer Bellamy The Biden Administration Must Prioritize Reversing Trump's Damage to Racial Justice Policy When President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris take office, their administration must make racial justice a top priority. Read more |
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Sonya Acosta Preventing Spike in Evictions Will Help Limit COVID-19’s Spread Evicted families’ limited housing options increase their contact with others and limit their ability to social distance, quarantine, access appropriate health services, or practice recommended hand hygiene. Read more |
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Samer Shehata Trump Is Inciting Domestic Terrorism Trump’s repeated false claims about the presidential election add fuel to the already simmering fire of right-wing extremism in the US. Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt Is 2020's Record-Breaking Hurricane Season What the Future Holds? "Globally, tropical cyclones are about 25 percent more likely to be at major-hurricane intensity now than four decades ago. The chances of rapid intensification in the 1980s was about one in 100 in the Atlantic. Nowadays, the chances are 1 in 20." Read more |
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Leonardo Flores Low Turnout, but Free, Elections in Venezuela Are a Blow to Regime Change After four years of sanctions, sabotaged industries, attempted coups, an assassination by drone attempt, a mercenary incursion and paramilitary attacks, among others, Venezuela managed to survive the Trump administration’s maximum pressure. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Embracing Ecological Realism Human exploitation of Planet Earth has reached a point where what we do and how we live reverberates across the circle of life—and could destroy it, for every species, for all life. Read more |
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Richard Lachmann, Michael Schwartz How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally) And here's the real question: Is a planetary Green New Deal possible? Read more |
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Elise Gould Any Hope for a Quick Recovery Off the Table Unless Congress Acts Now The job openings and labor turnover survey continues to show weaker levels of hires than before the recession hit. Read more |
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Johnny Miller Sixteen Years Later, a Helicopter Returns to the Site of the 'World’s Most Famous Photograph of Inequality' As we recreated his legendary aerial shot of Sao Paulo, I connected with Brazilian photographer Tuca Vieira around our shared passion for creating provocative images of spatial inequality. Read more |
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Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams Anthropocene: Human-Made Materials Now Weigh as Much as All Living Biomass, Say Scientists The science-fiction scenario of an engineered planet is already here. Read more |
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Chris Hedges In the End We Will All Pay for the Cowardice of the Liberal Class No one should take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing. Read more |
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Bill Quigley 19 Tragic Facts About Covid-19 At least 106,000 nursing home residents and staff died from COVID as of early December, around 39% of the overall deaths reported. Read more |
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Udi Ofer, Jeffery Robinson Bold and Visionary: A Criminal Justice To-Do List for the New Administration Biden and Harris have a mandate from the electorate to fight against mass incarceration, and it's past time to tackle this crisis. Read more |
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Pelenise Alofa, Tasneem Essop Climate Change Should Be Our Priority in the Post-Pandemic Era As we prepare to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, governments trying to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 are digging us deeper into the climate crisis. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare Biden’s Defense Secretary Pick Shows the Revolving Door for Military Contractors Remains Industry ties were simply taken for granted in Biden’s defense secretary sweepstakes. Read more |
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John Buell Where’s the Second Relief Act? The US Safety Net Is Working, but There Are Capitalists Who Don’t Want It To If the current model of capitalism is incompatible with the guarantee of quality jobs, it is time to talk about alternatives that provide workers more leverage within labor markets and a broader voice in compensation and investment decisions. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Thinking of Amazon Workers This Holiday Season Jeff Bezos is no Santa. His treatment of workers is downright disgusting. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson Our Real Security: Preventing a New Cold War with China Pressing for peaceful resolution of U.S.-China tensions in ways that provide mutual benefit for both sides and other Asia-Pacific nations needs to become a peace movement priority. Read more |
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Jim Goodman As The Pandemic Worsens, Politics and Ego Are More Important Than Public Health If we truly want to get the pandemic under control and save lives, people must stay home. If we truly want to avert an economic meltdown, Congress must pass new stimulus funding. Read more |
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Natalie Shure Biden's HHS Pick Will Be In a Position to Finally Take On the Healthcare Industry Xavier Becerra has been a longtime supporter of Medicare for All and has shown willingness to confront pharmaceutical monopolies. There’s a lot he could do to make U.S. healthcare more progressive. Read more |
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Neil M. Maher Biden Needs to Go Big to Rebuild America The Biden administration should take a page from FDR’s playbook and immediately create a new and improved Civilian Conservation Corps. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Biden Should Revive the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights An active commission could help spearhead the investigations and reforms vital to addressing civil and human rights in this country. Read more |
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Robert Reich Biden Says He’ll Take on Inequality. Good! You Need to Hold Him to It As it was in the time of FDR and LBJ, power is redistributed only when those without it demand it. Read more |
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William Astore, Danny Sjursen Spilling Ink and Spilling Blood: Fighting and Writing Against America’s Forever Wars Pen pals of war. Read more |