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“The impeachment yesterday is a culmination of sorts of the kind of violence and racism that has been at the heart of the Trump administration that finally boiled over”

Maybe if we were able to have complete agency and autonomy over our individual and collective lives, our self esteems would be stronger, love would be less broken, and we’d all get better at making good decisions

Silicon Valley corporations are far from neutral moral arbiters, and have a history of abusing their power

The forces that led to the evisceration of working-class security is now extending to those ensconced in historically well-paid jobs, from lawyers to IT engineers

Democracy reform is the first step toward a sustainable future

Do we really want to say that cops who are unjustly killed should be commemorated but people of color who are killed by cops do not deserve any recognition?

Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily?

The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol attack will be used as an excuse to severely curtail our civil liberties

The fossil fuel industry pioneered massive political disinformation with climate denial. It also fed the “Stop the Steal” movement

A letter to Congresspersons and Senators

The Invest in Our New York Campaign, involving more than 100 groups, is urging legislators to take action amid the COVID-19-induced recession

The United States has a long history under Republican and Democratic regimes of thwarting democracy abroad, even as it weaponizes language of support for democracy against official state enemies

Trump’s announcement that the thousands who literally carried his banner into the Capitol are not really his people anymore amounts to a grim look in the mirror

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.”

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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 Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians

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

Interview on the One Democratic State Campaign

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

Debate on Twitter & Facebook Banning Trump