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  Rasmus: Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal

  While Trump himself will make further threats and claims, likely aimed at the Europeans, no country will agree to any changes this year when the possibility exists of Trump leaving the presidency next November 2020
• Rockhill: France’s Strike

  Another Symptom of Neoliberalism’s Legitimation Crisis
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  Rossi: Chicago’s little-known experiment in radical democracy

  In the 1970s, Chicago’s 44th Ward was placed under direct democratic control of its residents, challenging the corrupt mayor’s near-total control over the city
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  deBuys: Making America Great Again in a New Wild West

  The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall
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  Read: The Tory victory, XR, and the coming storms

  There’s no chance of Boris Johnson’s government implementing any of Extinction Rebellion’s “three demands” to save the climate and biodiversity. So what now?
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  Swanson: #CNNisTrash

  CNN, which added right-wing journalists to its panels of questioners at all four of its Republican primary debates in 2016, has adamantly refused to add progressive journalists to its panels at Democratic debates
• Barber: We Can’t Be Silent Anymore

  As the final Democratic debate ahead of the Iowa caucuses took place Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa, more than 100 protesters gathered outside the debate venue at Drake University to demand a televised presidential debate on poverty
• Koehler: Nuclear Hubris

  One thing that becomes clear to me when I wander into the world, and the minds, of geopolitical professionals — government people — is how limited and linear their thinking seems to be
• Winstanley: Labour’s fake anti-Semitism crisis outlives Corbyn

  Candidates for the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party have capitulated to new demands from the Israel lobby
• Contributors: ‘Little Difference If You Die Here or There’

  Hundreds of Hondurans Set Out for US Border
• Easley: 18 progressive groups sign unity pledge amid Sanders-Warren feud

  “When progressives fight each other, the establishment wins”
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  Prashad: Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right

  It is hard to watch these young people speak with such confidence and with such chilling precision about their desire to hurt those with whom they did not agree
• Licata: Climate Crisis: We Need Radical Change Now, Not in the Future

  Reading Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is similar to watching a mega-disaster movie in a theater. Except, you can leave your fears behind when you exit the theater
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  Solomon: Not Bernie, Us. Not Warren, Us

  Their Clash Underscores the Need for Grassroots Wisdom
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  Feffer: Trump: Make Space Great Again

  The U.S. military is creating an imaginary “space gap” to pour money into closing, wasting funds while increasing the risk of conflict
• Isser: Climate Activists Can’t Afford to Ignore Labor

  A Shuttered Refinery in Philly Shows Why
• Jacobs: Iranian Opposition—1970s to 2020

  As residents of those nations working to return Iran back to its previous status as a client of imperialism, our task is to oppose the sanctions demanded by the United States and the war moves accompanying those sanctions
• Surin: Politics and Business in Seattle

  The culture of deception and duplicity fostered in Boeing also arose in a political context that made lax oversight the norm
• Corbett: ‘CNN Is Truly a Terrible Influence on This Country’

  Democratic Debate Moderators Pilloried for Centrist Talking Points and Anti-Sanders Bias
• Adler-Bell: Sanders-Warren Spat Overtakes the News Cycle

  “Infighting between Sanders and Warren only benefits big oil, fossil fuel billionaires, the GOP, and the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.”
• Hopkins: Sports Illustrated Staffers Become Latest to Try to Unionize

  The 2019 trend of newsrooms unionizing shows no sign of running out of steam as a new year begins
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  Greeman: France at the Crossroads

  The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point
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  Bello: Democracy and charisma: a dangerous liaison

  In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?