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  Benjamin: Ending Regime Change – in Bolivia and the World

  Please Help ZNet   Less than a year after the...
• White: This election can’t contain the rage of young Americans

  In the most important election in my lifetime, who speaks for my generation?
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  Rasmus: Why the Record Vote Turnout May Not Matter

  While Democrats are pushing voter turnout, Trump and Republicans are planning to prevent the counting of the votes
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  Solomon: Why Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg Are So Adamant About the Imperative of Defeating Trump

  “Sometimes it’s worthwhile to take a little time away from real politics, an interlude, and make sure you get somebody out. This time it is critically important”
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  Garza: Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on GOP’s Supreme Court Power Grab

  The rushed confirmation shows that the Supreme Court “is not a neutral body — it is incredibly political.”
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  Rosenberg: Is Pharma Our Covid Savior?

  Pharma has already eceived $1 billion of our hard earned tax dollars to develop Covid vaccines
• Fara’na: The Palestinians must try to win over disillusioned Israelis to their cause

  Winning over those Israelis who are disillusioned with the way that their government is going ever more to the extreme right can help to tip the balance in the Palestinians’ favour. When that starts to happen, anything is possible
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  Falk: The Politics of Hunger Strikes

  The inspirational example of the Irish hunger strikers who did not abandon their quest for elemental justice at the doorstep of death was not lost on the Palestinians
• Johnson: “An election is not a reality show with a big reveal at the end”

  Top Federal Election Official Corrects Trump: 'Counting Ballots—All of 'Em—Is the Appropriate, Proper, and Very Legal Way to Determine Who Won'
• Wilkins: Warning of the ‘Many Trumps… in Waiting,’ Ocasio-Cortez Says Democrats ‘Have to Be Better’

  "We're not good enough right now," the New York Democrat says of her party, and unless the material lives of working-class people are improved the nation's dangerous slide to the right will continue
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  Rosen: After Covid: Will the Recession Become a Depression?

  More ominous, a greater economically structured and unequal system – a postmodern caste system — may come to define the next new normal
• Queally: ‘Expand the Court’

  Ocasio-Cortez Leads Charge With 3-Word Democratic Strategy After Barrett Sworn In
• Contributors: Vermont AFL-CIO To Hold General Strike Authorization Vote In Event Of Political Coup

  The Vermont AFL-CIO finds these Trump assertions to be gravely troubling and unprecedented in contemporary U.S. politics
• Stancil: Chile Votes to Rewrite Pinochet Era Constitution

  'Let This Echo Around the World'
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  Feffer: A Pandemic Pivot

  COVID-19 is an early alert for more serious global crises. So far, the international community has failed — but it’s not too late to get it right
• Ball: Afghanistan Diary

  Sarah Ball’s account of her visits in Bamiyan and Kabul where she was a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers
• Fabricant: Bolivia Has Provided Us a Radical Vision of Hope

  Bolivia’s MAS party will confront numerous challenges when returning to power. But its resounding victory against the authoritarian right and its roots as a party of social movements represent a radical vision of hope at a time when we need it most
• Mazzarino: How the War Came Home, Big Time

  Perspectives From a Military Spouse
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  Ellner: US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Deadly — and Facing Mass Resistance

  For years, right-wingers have sought to destabilize Venezuela, and even proclaimed their own rival “president,” Juan Guaidó. But average Venezuelans understand that US sanctions hurt them — and should be resisted
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  Mokhiber: NPR and the Corporate Criminal Element

  Ever wonder why you rarely hear serious discussion on National Public Radio (NPR) about corporate crime and violence?
• McGowan: Celebrations as Chile votes by huge majority to scrap Pinochet-era constitution

  A plebiscite called in response to street protests in 2019 sees 78% of people back a new charter to replace one imposed by the military dictatorship of of General Augusto Pinochet