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• Thunberg: Our House Is Still on Fire

  “We don’t need a 'low-carbon economy.' We don’t need to 'lower emissions.' Our emissions have to stop"
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  Baroud: In the Name of “Israel’s Security”

  Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
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  Baker: Trump Wants to Funnel More Income Upward

  Human progress is not the goal of the Trump administration. Rather, it is payoffs for his wealthy friends. And that is what this new China trade deal is about
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  Falk: Contesting Nuclearism

  The goal of nuclear disarmament will never be reached so long as arms control and nonproliferation of nuclear weaponry are seen as the pillars of global stability in the nuclear age
• Manning: Personal reflections from a woman in the extremist underground

  Within the radical right, men have always out-numbered women; I was one of those women for five years of my life
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  Fisk: Iran has been changed forever by admitting its great mistake

  Now let’s remember that we in the West have grown so used to our own dishonesty – and being caught out – that we scarcely flinch at the word “lie”
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  Raina: Indian Spring

  An Indian Spring is underway— Will it lead to a...
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  Brown: Facebook Warrant Targets Student Journalists in Puerto Rico

  As seven University of Puerto Rico students prepare to face trial in February for participating in a nonviolent protest more than two years ago, documents released to their defense attorneys reveal that Facebook granted the island’s Justice Department access to a trove of private information from student news publications
• Cohen: Seven Pointed Questions for Corporate Media About Their Biases

  Bias is stark when journalists obsess on the estimated cost of reform while ignoring the estimated cost of the status quo
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  Solomon: The Energizer Bernie and the Power Behind Him

  By remaining part of social movements, Bernie has made himself especially antithetical to the elite sensibilities of corporate media. Elites rarely appreciate any movement that is challenging their unjust power.
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  Flanders: Iowa is not the Twitterverse

  Given a choice between covering tit-for-tat tweets and reporting on voting rights or publicly-owned generic drugs, the brought-to-you-by-Big-Pharma news networks will always go where it’s easiest
• Garcia: Invest in Communities, Not Cops

  Reclaim the Block, a coalition of local organizations, looks to a future where Minneapolis divests from the police department and invests in community-based solutions and safety
• Smithberger: Never the Pentagon

  How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
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  Mokhiber: PBS Public Editor and the Disease of Contempt

  For too long, PBS has been afflicted by a disease of contempt for its viewers. Corporate sponsors come first. Corporate critics have been systematically filtered out of PBS news programs.
• People's Campaign: The PPC Demands National Debate on Poverty

  When 250,000 people die every year from poverty, it is time for the presidential candidates to make good on the promises they made during the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Action Congress in June 2019 to push for a debate on poverty
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  Cockburn: The US and Iran’s Perpetual Almost-War is Unsustainable

  The US maximalist demands on Iran’s nuclear facilities, ballistic missiles and regional influence effectively mean that it wants regime change or capitulation
• Burns: Oakland’s Moms 4 Housing Evicted by Giant Corporation

  The California company that evicted a group of homeless mothers from a West Oakland, California, home this week is the force behind a sprawling national home-flipping operation
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  MLK: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

  While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice
• Pierre: Learning from King’s Last Campaign

  Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful
• Burnett: MLK and the Ghost of an Untrue Dream

  King’s dream of economic justice and equality required America’s power structures to change
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  Greenwald: Bolsonaro Under Fire

  Dismisses His Culture Minister For Giving a Nazi Speech, But It Is Still Representative of Brazil’s Governing Ethos
• North: The Drive to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment, Explained

  The resurgence of interest stems from a combination of factors like the Women’s March, the Me Too movement, and the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court even after he was publicly accused of sexual assault
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  Greenberg: Guantánamo’s Indelible Legacy

  Or How This Became a Gitmo World