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  Klein: Climate Crisis Demands Radical Change

  Responses to the climate crisis have for too long focused on individual consumer choices rather than the collective action needed to save the planet
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  Engelhardt: On the Precipice

  The Collective Asteroid of Human History
• Saltmarsh: Make public transport free

  It's time for radical proposals to rebuild Britain's social fabric and combat the climate crisis. Here's one: make public transport free
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  Cole: Trump Has been Waging a Brutal War on Iran for over a Year

  The economic war Trump launched on Iran acts as a blockade
• Dikerdem: Take part in building a people’s manifesto for the movement

  Winning elections is not enough. To transform society we need to involve the people in policy making
• Levy: The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content

  Corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance
• Jacobs: Support the Climate Strike, Not a Military Strike

  The US government is owned by the energy industry and until that yoke is broken, our future will be one of environmental destruction, war and threats of war. That yoke will not be tossed off by those who wear it willingly. That task is left to the rest of us
• Tumber: Land Without Bread

  A Green New Deal frames guidance on state and local policy, farmland protection must be central—foundational—to its goals and funding priorities
• Jamieson: The Real Reason General Motors Workers Are On Strike Nationwide

  It’s not that complicated. GM has been highly profitable, and workers haven’t forgotten the sacrifices they made to prop up the company
• DSA: DSA stands with UAW strikers

  We hope that this strike will help workers build a vibrant reform movement in the UAW and rebuild a union that is able to fight against the corporations
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  Raina: Too Damn Too Many

  Thank heavens we now know what is wrong With this...
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  Solomon: The ‘Official Secrets’ Movie vs. Joe Biden’s Lies About the Iraq War

  Joe Biden’s recent efforts to deny his record of support for invading Iraq are marvels of evasion, with falsehoods that have been refuted by one well-documented appraisal after another after another
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  Baroud: Apartheid Made Official

  Deal of the Century is a Ploy and Annexation is the New Reality
• Cohen: What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission

  As with Medicare for All, moneyed elites want to omit the other score – the price tag of sticking with the status quo
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  Cole: Trump asked of Egypt’s al-Sisi, ‘Where’s my Favorite Dictator?’

  Trump has long been accused of having a soft spot for dictators, but now he has admitted it, even if only in the form of a jest
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  Baker: Health Care: Premiums and Taxes

  The key issue here is that workers with employer-provided health care insurance are effectively already being taxed for their health care insurance
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  Sturgis: How current climate policy deepens Southern inequality

    Of the 10 U.S. states at greatest risk from...
• Mackey: Trump Calls His Own Offer of Iran Talks “Fake News”

  Trump’s rage at the news media for accurately reporting his prior comments came just minutes after he informed Americans that he had put the United States military at the disposal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Contributors: Climate Groups to Shut Down Washington D.C.

  Youth leaders around the world have called for a Global Climate Strike and week of action, September 20-27
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  Street: Joe Biden’s Answer to Slavery’s Legacy: Phonographs for the Poor

  Biden’s jumbled, incoherent, and halting prose probably left most viewers too confused or bored to register his noxious neoliberal-racist parent-blaming paternalism
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  Albert: To Participate or Not To Participate

  Because Trump winning would literally threaten civilization, and because Sanders winning would not only stop Trump but take us a good distance in good directions, this election is the most important in my lifetime and perhaps ever - and thus worth serious participation
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  Klein: Only a Green New Deal Can Douse the Fires of Eco-Fascism

  Organizers are expecting huge numbers to turn out for the Global Climate Strike, beginning on September 20 and continuing through September 27
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  Hedges: The Capitalists Are Afraid

  The capitalists have the power to destroy, but no longer to create. And out of their relentless destruction, which they are incapable of halting, will come the social unrest they fear and monstrosities more terrifying than Donald Trump
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  Dimaggio: Teaching the “War on Terror”: Lessons for Contemporary Politics

  As we move past the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, it helps to be aware of the changes in U.S. political culture that have transformed this nation over the last two decades