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  Chomsky: “Real politics is constant activism”

  Interview on the pandemic, the election, the word Bernie Sanders needs to stop using, the Harper's letter, the 1619 Project, patriotism, and the greatest social movement in U.S. history
• Bernd: Climate Activists Push Biden to Cut Ties With Industry-Friendly Energy Advisers

  “We must work to get in climate hawks who understand that every fossil fuel permitting decision is a potential step away from 1.5 degrees.”
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  Daniels: Repaying the debt owed to Black people requires a democratic and reparative economy

  The entire racial capitalist system that extracts labor and blood from Black lives must go
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  Brecher: Self-Help in the Coronavirus Depression

  Self-help strategies like rent strikes and mutual aid may develop in response simply as a means of survival. But that doesn’t mean they can’t also be the starting point for collective action for something more
• Brannan: On Right-Wing Violence in Texas, Media’s Silence Sends Message

  The end result of national media’s neglect and local media’s muddling is the erasure of right-wing political violence, sending a message to would-be future attackers that there will be no consequences for their actions.
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  Fox Piven: What If Trump Won’t Leave?

  Trump is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep power. Can he be stopped?
• Green: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives

  “We believe that organizing in rural spaces with progressive, multiracial solidarity messaging is the future”
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  Cole: Ilhan Omar defeats Corporate Democrat, Israel Lobbies in Overwhelming Primary Victory

  Although the Israel lobbies put a lot of money into defeating Omar, the issues on which she won, of progressive policing and health care, were largely disconnected from the geopolitical ones where her straight talk had attracted so much vitriol to her
• Abu-Rish: Lebanon’s Gov’t Resigns, But Protesters Demand Structural Change

  “The fall of cabinets and even the holding of early parliamentary elections are not necessarily signs that fundamental transformation is underway in Lebanon”
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  Chomsky: Trump Is Quite Capable of an “October Surprise”

  Popular support for autocracy runs disturbingly high. Almost one-fourth of Republicans agree “President Trump should close down mainstream news outlets, like CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times.”
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  Cohn: Federal Judge Sets Out to Bring Down Law Shielding Police From Legal Liability

  As the Massachusetts legislature debates whether to water down its qualified immunity defense, a federal judge in Mississippi filed a stunning 72-page opinion blasting the doctrine
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  Cook: How the Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy

  The Guardian, like the rest of the corporate media, has derided and vilified as “populism” the emergence of any real political alternative.
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  Trautman: The ‘Wall of Vets’ Continue Long Legacy of Veteran Activism

  Veterans are mindful of the crimes that an authoritarian government and occupying military force are capable of. They know that we have a civic duty to stand up to these existential threats to democracy, freedom and liberty
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  Pitt: Trump’s Social Security Sleight of Hand Is Another Scam. Don’t Fall for It.

  Saturday’s press conference and executive order spectacle was nothing more or less than a splash of the amniotic fluid from which Trump first emerged into national politics: an episode of reality TV. The papers took the headline bait over the weekend
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  Prashad: Growing Force Is Charging That Bolsonaro Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity

  The lawsuit says that Bolsonaro’s disregard for the danger of the pandemic has put “the Brazilian people at the edge of the abyss.”
• Visser: Meet Alabama’s feminist doctor protecting women giving birth under COVID-19

  "The US is the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world."
• Kunich: Alba TV’s New Model for Communication

  The coordinator of a media platform that works with social movements talks about the history and challenges of popular communication
• Schuhrke: The US Labor Movement Needs More of the UE’s “Them and Us” Unionism

  UE's model of militant, democratic unionism can revive labor
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  Cole: Lebanon’s Leaders Resign over deaths of 200, but Trump refuses Accountability for 163,462 Deaths

  Trump by his peculiar combination of narcissism, contrarianism, irrationality, and political guile, has polished off more Americans than died in the entire Vietnam War
• King: “Prisons Are Not Fit for Human Occupation”

  San Quentin Prisoners Speak Out as Virus Deaths Reach 25
• Dreyfuss: October Surprise

  Will War with Iran Be Trump’s Election Eve Shocker?