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  Rasmus: Biden’s ‘American Rescue Plan’ & Its Opponents

  Biden and the Democrats are thus confronted with making the same error that the Obama administration did in early 2009—not providing a sufficient fiscal stimulus to generate a sustained recovery
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  Marcetic: We Should Cause Trouble, Not Make Nice With Biden

  History suggests that it’s not making friends, but making the administration’s life difficult, that gets results for the Left
• Theoharis: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s True Legacy

  The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
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  Baroud: By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?

  Unquestionably, the storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy
• Collective 20: Overcoming Our Suicidal Tendencies

  From Defensive Traits to Participatory Ego States
• First-Arai: Republicans Are Using Capitol Breach as Excuse to Promote Anti-Protest Bills

  Legal advocates say the proposed laws will do nothing to curb white supremacist violence, and will instead grant law enforcement increasing discretion and pressure to crack down on and harshly sentence progressive activists
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  Wittner: The Great Evasion

  The new nuclear weapons are designed to not only win the arms race, but to intimidate other nations and even “win” a nuclear war
• Lippy: Honoring Dr. King

  I know we can finish the work of Dr. King, together.  We must if we are to survive this terrible hate. The choice lies within each of our hearts.
• Driver: Toxic Sludge is Good for You – Corporate Propaganda and Public Relations

  Most people are simply unaware of the scale of the manipulation, and the extent to which businesses influence governments and their citizens
• Lexchin: Big Pharma Is Fighting to Deny Canadians Access to Treatment

  It’s time to stand up big pharma bullying and implement universal pharmacare so everyone can get the treatment they need
• Queally: ‘A Jim Crow Relic That Must Be Abolished’: Demand to End Filibuster Grows

  "Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?"
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  Flanders: Learn From Georgia

  Over slow generations, they built a broad enough “we” and an effective bottom up force that formed not just a victorious voting block this year, but a caring community dedicated explicitly to dismantling white supremacy
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  Giroux: Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous

  Trumpism is a worldview that defines culture as a battleground of losers and winners, a world in which everything is rigged against whites
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  Feffer: America and the Mob

  The far right has come out in support of Trump. After the failed coup attempt of January 6, what’s next?
• Wilson: Swarming Solidarity

  How Contract Negotiations in 2021 Could Be Flashpoints in the U.S. Class Struggle
• Nichols: Last Trump sale of public lands for fracking prompts outrage and hope

  President-elect Biden must follow through with commitment to ban sale of public lands for fracking, put climate, justice, public lands first
• Todd: ‘Deaths of despair’ point to working-class calamity

  Many working-class Americans, and Canadians, are falling rapidly to ‘deaths of despair,’ characterized by suicide and chronic drug and alcohol use
• Salk: Would You Patent the Sun?

  Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVID Vaccine
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  Cole: Pompeo passed ‘Death Sentence’ for Millions in Yemen

  Also poisoned Biden’s well in Cuba, China, Iran
• Scher: Illinois Will End Cash Bail — and Limit Use of High-Tech Incarceration

  Reformers typically propose predictive algorithms and electronic monitoring as alternatives to money bail. Illinois is different
• Sainato: Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle

  Companies’ attempts at hazard pay have been paltry and fleeting as employees are threatened for protesting working conditions