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  de Sousa Santos: Toward A New Universal Declaration of Human Rights I

  The supposed historic triumph of human rights is leading to an unprecedented degradation of the expectations of a decent life for the majority of the world's population
• Opaso: How new creative actions are fueling Chile’s uprising

  In response to repression by Chilean police, decentralized performances — sparked by small artist collectives — are replacing traditional barricades
• Prado: The New Society Will Emerge in the Commune

  A grassroots leader talks about the commune as a means to transform the society and the economy from the ground up
• Muller: We Need Candidates Who Will Fight to Get Money Out of Politics

  In the decade since this disastrous Supreme Court ruling, just 11 wealthy people have made 20 percent of super PAC donations
• Madeloni: Paraeducators Join the National Uprising of School Employees

  Recently paraeducators, a vital—and criminally underpaid—part of the public school workforce, are starting to rise up too
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  Monbiot: If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label

  Anyone seeking to defend life on Earth is now labelled an extremist. Yet the real extremists are those in power
• Hollar: Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump

  Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat
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  Cohn: On Impeachment

  Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations & Corruption
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  Prashad: What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence

  This extreme violence undermines the possibility of democracy and allows the oligarchy to be re-elected in polling booths where the Left not dare enter
• Bradbury: XR: the case for deliberative democracy

  Climate Assembly UK begins this weekend. It's a good start, but does not meet XR's third demand for a Government-commissioned Citizens’ Assembly
• Paoluzzi: Stop celebrating neoliberal academia: boycott your graduation

  Graduation ceremonies at UK universities are a clear representation of their financialized mentality, valuing profit over quality education
• Koehler: FBI, King and the tremors of history

  That the FBI — the agency that saw King and the civil rights movement as a communist plot, subjected him to merciless surveillance and may have tried to get him to commit suicide — should, 50-plus years after his murder, purport to honor him was simply too much
• Baskin: Prejudices and ignorance among Israeli settlers in the West Bank

  The main, by far, obstacle to Palestinian economic development is the Israeli occupation and its strangling impact on the Palestinians
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  Chávez: California’s New Gig Economy Law

  Strengthening a Stripper-Led Labor Movement
• Moser: Ten Best Messages for Waging Peace

  We need stories that help reveal to millions of people the true nature of empire. We need stories that can help us organize actual constraints on the war machine. We need stories that help us to find the beginnings of freedom in the end of empire
• Z: An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy

  An open letter about election 2020 from Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathy Kelly, Ron Daniels, Leslie Cagan, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert
• Hunziker: A Climate Time Bomb With Trump’s Name Inscribed

  Thwaites, in West Antarctica, is the world’s most dangerous glacier. As of January 15th, scientists have labeled it: “A Climate Time Bomb.”
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  Cohn: First the Trial, Then the Evidence? Impeachment in Wonderland.

  In a scene straight out of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the GOP-controlled Senate has refused to allow timely testimony from witnesses who had front row seats to Donald Trump’s abuse of power
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  Prashad: When Will The Winter Come to An End?

  Source: Tricontinental On 17 January, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali...
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  Owliaei: Americans Need to Hear More from Iranians. Here’s Where to Start

  Here are a few illuminating and emotionally resonant pieces by real Iranians on life under sanctions, the brutality of war, and the recent crisis
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  Pizzigati: The Evolution of ‘Davos Man’ into . . . Trump Fan!

  With everything from tax cuts to deregulation, the president has made himself indispensable to the world’s mega rich
• Sjursen: The American Chaos Machine

  U.S. Foreign Policy Goes Off the Rails
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  Cole: Back to 1924

  Trump mulls adding Pure anti-African Racism to Visa ban, in Addition to anti-Muslim Hate