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Building a Government That Answers To People, Not Profit
It’s October, and it’s election season. Which means that in my neighborhood – and probably yours too – political flyers are everywhere. Glossy, full-color, and expensive. On every porch. Littered...
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Morning Joe: Dems’ Favorite Show, Blatant Pro-Israel Propaganda
More than half a year into Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was reflecting on the campus protests against the US-backed war that had multiplied across the country — ones...
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“Little Secret”? Elie Mystal on Trump’s Likely Plan to Steal Election with...
With just days to go before the November 5 presidential election, fears are growing that Republicans intend to interfere with the official results in order to install Donald Trump as president. At...
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Trump Is Planning a Third Red Scare
This election season has been a tumultuous and widely debated one for the Left, on both moral and strategic terms. But strangely absent from these discussions have been the explicit promises and...
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In Fencing China Out, Is Washington Fencing Itself In?
As Washington doubles down on its semiconductor embargoes, a troubling paradox emerges: in trying to stymie China’s technological advances, the United States might just be fencing itself in. Each...
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Unanimous Rejection of U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Cuba
On October 30, 2024, at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, and for the 32nd consecutive year, 187 countries demanded the lifting of unilateral U.S. economic sanctions that have...
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Answering Critics
I have gotten feedback on what I have been doing. Questions. Criticisms. Anger. Even outrage. So perhaps it will be useful and even help my case for stopping Trump to offer some clarifications. First,...
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Billionaires Who Aim to “Disrupt” Education May Get a Chance Even If Trump Loses
If reelected U.S. president, Donald Trump, echoing other Republicans, has said he would shut down the Department of Education. All signs point toward a second Trump term expanding school privatization...
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Calling Trump a Nazi Is Giving Our Own History a Pass. The Racism of MAGA Is...
Former President Donald Trump and his campaign threw an event at Madison Square Garden over the weekend with tens of thousands of attendees. What we heard from the speakers about Black people, Latinos,...
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Why I Regret My Antiwar Protest Vote in 1968
In 1968, I was a full-time anti-Vietnam War organizer and voted for a third-party candidate. I now regret that protest vote, which has led me to think differently this time around. I certainly...
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If We Ever Needed a Voice and a Vote, We Sure Do Need Them Now
Delivered Sunday, October 23, 2024, at the Riverside Church in New York City. We are in more than a serious time. What I want to talk about this morning is: “If we ever needed a coice and a vote, we...
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The BRICS Summit Should Mark the End of Neocon Delusions
The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its...
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It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Ditch Cowardice and Bravely Change Course
Over the years, the Democratic Party’s blunders, arrogance and dependence on commercial campaign money and corporate-conflicted political/media consultants have put the two-party duopoly races for the...
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November 2024: A Swing States Déjà vu Election?
With the November 2024 election now just days away, the political marketing passing as political polling is intensifying. If one were to believe the in-house CNN or Bloomberg polls, Harris is leading....
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Decision 2024: Neoliberal Fascism or Neoliberal Business as Usual?
With just a few days left until Election Day, the fact that the race to the White House between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains extremely tight is truly...
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Trump and Trumpism Are the Violent Threat—And They Must Be Stopped
William Jacob Parsons was arrested recently in North Carolina on charges of appearing at a FEMA office carrying a semi-automatic handgun and making threats against employees. According to the...
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In Response to Michael Albert’s “Answering Critics”
Michael Albert has argued at “Answering Critics” (Nov. 2, 2024), cogently in my opinion, that people who live in swing states and have yet to vote should vote for Kamala Harris by November 5th; I agree...
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Vote to End the Nuclear Threat
Much of significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11 p.m. PDT on November 5th. While everyone’s attention will be on who our next president will be, the U.S....
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Vote Like A Radical
We never vote for them. We always vote for us. This election and every election. Thank you to our all-star crew: Nick Tilsen, Bill Fletcher Jr., Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Gaby Strong, Sadia Abbas,...
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This California Ballot Measure Could Change the Way America Feeds Itself
Every fall, Mary Bull prepares for the olive harvest at her small-scale permaculture farm, Chalice Farm, in Sonoma County, California. She expects this year to be their biggest harvest yet, with more...
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Running Through the Tape
Last week, from Saturday October 26th through Saturday November 2, I took part in the Harris/Walz ground game in the Allentown, Pa. area. Each of those eight days I left the place where I was staying...
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The GOP Playbook for Sabotaging Environmental Regulations
The devastation throughout the southeastern United States in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton has laid bare the importance of strong climate policy, including adaptation and mitigation...
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10 States Will Vote on Abortion Rights This Election
On the eve of a potentially historic presidential election, Natasha Sutherland is tired. The born-and-raised Floridian and senior advisor to the Yes on 4 campaign has been fighting to expand and...
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No Matter Who Wins For President, Our Work Has Just Begun
Those of us who “enjoy” a particular type of pain, the kind reminiscent of warm needles being inserted into your cornea, have spent the past few months trying to understand the strategy of the...
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‘Tis the Season to Organize Amazon
I recently toured an Amazon fulfillment center; anyone can do it. From what I can tell, they mostly give tours of their robotics sortable facilities, the newer ones dominated by Kiva robots and other...
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Want More Equality of Opportunity and Social Justice? Copy Massachusetts’...
This past summer, the Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey signed a budget bill that guaranteed universal access to in-state community colleges. No matter age or socioeconomic background,...
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Trump Would Be an “Extinction-Level Event” For the Planet, Turbocharging...
UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate monitoring agencies and even undermine the Endangered...
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‘Harris Voters for Human Rights’ Work to Defeat Trump—and Fight for an End to...
Warning that a victory for Republican nominee Donald Trump would bring even greater catastrophe for Palestinians, a coalition of progressive organizers and activists is vowing to both back Democratic...
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DSA Statement On the Presidential Race
Workers deserve more than Trump vs. Harris. Every four years, working people are faced with the same “choices” for president: a conservative Democrat, a deranged Republican, and a gallery of...
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Disaffected Voters May Want to Consider What Decades of Right-Wing Minority...
It is widely believed, including by experts, that this presidential election could be one of the most important in U.S. history. And polling data still marks it as too close to call. Various groups of...
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