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  Roos: “The Gilets Jaunes have blown up the old political categories”

  France’s neoliberal order trembles as the yellow vest revolt shatters established political conventions. The new terrain presents both dangers and opportunities
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  Prins: Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens

  The Inequality Gap on a Planet Growing More Extreme
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  Bricmont: ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Emerged Spontaneously, without Leadership

  The ‘yellow vest’ movement is an expression of decades of frustration with declining living standards due to the dismantling of France’s welfare state
• Zavis: Love Knows No Borders

  A look at an interfaith action in San Diego today with over 400 faith leaders and activists representing an extremely diverse range of spiritual traditions in support of the human right to migrate and seek asylum
• Pizzigati: If Democrats Fracture, This Will Be the Fault Line

  Should we treat the super rich as a distraction or a clear and present danger? No question more deeply divides the opposition to The Donald
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  Abunimah: Lessons from ‘The Lobby’ Documentary

  While Al Jazeera’s undercover investigation into Israeli influence in the United States, “The Lobby – USA,” was completed in October 2017, it never aired
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  Swanson: Former Sanders Delegates Vote to Relaunch Bernie Delegates Network

  Former Bernie Sanders delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention have voted to reactivate the independent Bernie Delegates Network
• Pepper: US sanctions have caused a crisis for Iranian Kurds

  An economic recession and a brutal government crackdown have put the people of Rojhilat in a precarious situation
• Sreenivas: It’s time to take back your data

  To safeguard our privacy, we need a decentralised internet where personal data is no longer stored on massive servers owned by a handful of corporations
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  Street: Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News

  Corporate Media Doing its Job
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  Cohn: Public Pressure Could Halt US Support of Yemen War

  US tax dollars are supporting Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen,...
• Owliaei: Inequality at the Center of Chicago Charter School Strikes

  Teachers won the first charter school strike in the U.S. by demanding everything from pay raises to sanctuary for students
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  Early: The Housing Affordability Crisis and What Millennials Can do About It

  Skyrocketing prices for all three forms of housing have created a generational divide, with major political implications for progressive city governments and advocates of affordable housing
• Conley: The Sanders Institute’s Gathering Was About Saving the World

  It was a small conference with big ideas and a deep sense of urgency. "We need to do it all," said one attendee. "We just simply need to do it all."
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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade Policy Towards China

  A Distraction to Benefit the Rich
• Lewis: Over-Representing Anti-Semitism Protests

  The News Media’s Partisan Visual Vocabulary
• Brewer: How we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight

  Stopping a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger
• Countess: Illicit Financial Flows Thwart Human Rights in Africa

  Corporate malfeasance saps the African continent of billions in badly needed funds each year — and the U.S. is a top destination
• Doherty: US accused of obstructing talks at UN climate change summit

  Vanuatu’s foreign minister says worst offenders on global warming are blocking progress
• Nathanson: Activists Found Guilty of Terrorism-Related Offense

  “We are guilty of nothing more than intervening to prevent harm"
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  Raina: A Hint of Spring

  The spell is broken. The bewitching wand turns To wood....
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  Banerjee: Biological Annihilation

  A Planet in Loss Mode
• Finley: Congress Must Reauthorize VAWA

  Sadly, this isn’t the first time that Republicans have attempted to block VAWA, literally using women’s lives as a bartering tool
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  Olson: A Few Thoughts on Politics and Personal Identity

  Over my career I learned that college teaching permits one to hide behind a role without necessarily disclosing much about oneself
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  Bennis: Marc Lamont Hill Was Arguing for the Rights of Humans, Not of States

  The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech