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More than 600 environmental, rights and religious groups to present draft order amid widespread shutoffs despite pandemic
By just tinkering with that power, by conducting little ‘experiments’, it can make or break news businesses
Join World Beyond War, CODEPINK and dozens of other organizations opposing neocon Nuland’s confirmation as a threat to peace and diplomacy

The nation needs a reckoning for the dark deal the GOP has made with President Donald Trump in edging us so dangerously close to fascism
“We are undoing a history of voter suppression and injustice in Black and Brown communities. The changes we are seeing now didn’t happen overnight, and we are not solving our challenges with just one vote.”
Please Help ZNet This is the second of two posts about the media. The first part is entitled ‘How the Media Distort Reality – Filtering Out the Important Stuff’ “We don’t understand how your government gets the media to repeat propaganda without question. In our country we have to tear Read more…

Can He Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?
As troubling as the president’s de-platforming might be, some of the most dedicated defenders of free speech and individual rights said they agreed with the ban
The top ten billionaire donors to the Trump Victory Fund

The pain from the recession is heavily concentrated among the long-term unemployed
In the France of today, it would mean democratizing the response to the virus, not imprisoning it in the closed corridors of power
Thousands of U.S. Public Housing Residents Live in the Country’s Most Polluted Places
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised Africa a “Green Revolution” to fight hunger and poverty. It hasn’t worked — but it has upped corporate agriculture’s profits. Local farmers are being left empty-handed, and hunger is rising
“When your house is on fire,” says Greta Thunberg, “you don’t wait for 10, 20 years before you call the fire department; you act as soon and as much as you possibly can.”

The global reaction to the events of 6 January shows that the authority of the United States is greatly dented
The failure of law enforcement to be better prepared for this assault on the Capitol is an indictment of the law enforcement intelligence apparatus that we’ve invested in for the past 20 years

“This is not something that’s unusual that has happened in the Capitol. Right-wing groups, when they begin to lose electorally, … they resort to the streets and to violence in order to stop that process”

The new contemporary term for what Europe experienced a century ago holds sway over a significant population in the US, but also in many countries around the world
The 911 system needs to become much better at routing calls to the appropriate services and more appropriate services should be developed

Venezuela, with a new National Assembly, is exercising its political sovereignty against the hybrid war attempt to destabilize the country

This Trump experience requires more than censorship, whether by the state or private sector. Above all, it calls for renewed attention to the deficiencies of citizen education

In a pandemic people deserve and are demanding bold action, and DSA must help lead these efforts rather than stymie them
The Only Thing Scarier than QAnon Is the Reaction to It
How can this civil war of the digital age, using disinformation and propaganda as its main weapons, be resolved?
The solution to the stock buildup is to put purchasing power in the hands of the people through transfers and through an enlargement in the scope of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Congress must vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump. This isn’t a complicated vote. It’s a matter of right or wrong. You’re either with the People or you’re with that mob.
Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealed
“Scientists now find that catastrophic climate change could render a significant portion of the Earth uninhabitable consequent to continued high emissions, self-reinforcing climate feedback loops and looming tipping points.”

I will always regret that I did not do more to stop war with Vietnam. Now, I am calling on whistleblowers to step up and expose Trump’s plans
The real motive behind this move is to offer a parting gift to the Cuban exile community and its allies that have been loyal supporters of the Trump administration

Portugal assumes the EU presidency at a crucial moment. Amid a fluid scenario and systemic risks, the way Europe emerges from the pandemic may be relevant in terms of rebalancing a disparate global agenda

Trump, the riot, and the storming of the Capitol building on January 6th, and the response of the Democratic Party

Trump was extremely useful to McConnell for four years, and McConnell swallowed the extreme right white supremacy promotion for all that time, because thereby he could serve the billionaire class

It matters because a precedent has to be set for presidents who try to overturn elections through fraudulent actions, dishonest demagoguery, and the instigation of violence

In the aftermath of the riot he incited, Donald Trump’s world is falling apart around his ears

Workers in South Africa and the Philippines were able to accomplish the unimaginable under circumstances far worse than the ones we encounter in the U.S. For me, this is a source of great inspiration
By allowing the statewide eviction ban to expire, Gov. Whitmer has indicated she wants to slowly strip away the minimal eviction protections that exist while both the pandemic and economic depression intensify
Starting on January 16, the bulletin says, these groups will be armed and are planning to “storm” government buildings in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
“We can’t have a democracy if too many members of our police and our military are acting to overturn it and undermine it.”
The Pentagon has done little to address the growing threat

the rising cost of graduate education, often in the form of exorbitant fees, reflects and exacerbates structural violence
When Will America Free Itself From War?

The legal evidence is damning: Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for “seditious conspiracy” and “inciting insurrection” for his role in stoking the events of January 6,

These moves threaten to widen the tribal divide between the Democratic and Republican parties into a chasm, and open up a damaging rift among liberals and the left on the limits of political speech
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, whose work focuses on fascism, authoritarian leaders and propaganda, says the storming of the Capitol was “a logical result” of Trump’s legitimization and encouragement of right-wing extremism since 2016
It is worth reminding that Trump was effectively made by these technology firms who gave him the mass divisive audience he craved

Neo-Nazis and Boogaloo Bois plan another Insurrection Jan. 20