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• Johnson: “You Can’t Eat GDP”

  Reminder That Most Workers Are Struggling as Trump and Corporate Media Tout Economic Growth
• MacLeod: The Utility of the RussiaGate Conspiracy

  New McCarthyism allows corporate media to tighten grip, Democrats to ignore their own failings
• Bapat: Domestic Workers in Seattle Win Bill of Rights

  Depending on how the November elections go, a federal domestic workers’ bill of rights may be something the domestic workers’ movement fights for as well
• Olsen: Shock and Awe Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right

  Reiner’s film reminds us why it’s so important to remember that there were traditional journalists, relying on low-level government sources, who got the story right
• Kyle: Militarization Redux

  Across the region, Latin America’s militaries are regaining power through the court system
• Vasquez: The Misery of Family Detention

  One Woman’s Story
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  Chomsky: Brutal and Sadistic

  Interview on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today’s Refugee Crisis
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  Prashad: Weapons Made in America

  A child dies every ten minutes in Yemen. Lockheed Martin, as much as the Saudi and Emirati governments, should be in the dock for those deaths
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  Hallinan: NATO: Time to Re-Examine an Alliance

  It is time NATO went the way of the Warsaw Pact and recognize that the old ways of thinking are not only outdated but also dangerous
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  Cole: Global Heat Wave

  This future can be stopped. It is in our hands. If we swing into action, we can keep global heating to half that amount and avoid the full calamity
• Decoodt: Surviving violence and Ortega in Nicaragua

  With no soon end of the conflict in sight, the stalemate between Ortega and a people behind barricades threatens to bring back the ghosts of the past
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  Baker: Trump’s tariffs unpopular with his voters

  The U.S. doesn't seem likely to win Trump's trade war, and consumers are quite likely to lose
• Campana: Trump Launches War on Federal Unions

  Like President Reagan’s mass firing of thousands of air traffic controllers (PATCO), these actions by the federal government could embolden other employers and state governments to go on the attack
• Haltom: Witnessing coal’s death march

  There is no "life cycle" of coal, just a death march with misery every step of the way from extraction to disposal
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  Benjamin: Who Will Stop Trump from Tweeting Us into War with Iran?

  Trump's crippling sanctions will go into effect on November 4th
• Smarsh: They thought this was Trump country. Hell no

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders visited Wichita, Kansas, to woo progressives in support of congressional candidate James Thompson. Is the red state ready to turn blue?
• Grajales Pineda: Popular Power: If Not Now, When?

  Only an emphasis on popular power, communal production and social property will allow the Bolivarian Process to maintain its strategic course toward socialism
• Mackey: Swedish Woman Shows Quiet Power of Civil Disobedience

  Elin Ersson, a Swedish college student, demonstrated this week how...
• Hussain: Pashtun Lives Matter

  In Pakistan, the police killing of a Pashtun social media star stirred a popular uprising for democracy and demilitarization
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  Engelhardt: Three Failing Experiments?

  Mine, America’s, and Humanity’s
• Cantor: Working Families Party chair regrets not endorsing Ocasio-Cortez

  Given our long history of battling the center-right of the Democratic Party, it’s fair to wonder why we weren’t in Ocasio-Cortez’s corner from the start
• Contributors: Denuclearizing the Middle East

  We call on others to endorse policies that favor denuclearization of the Middle East and a just and fair resolution of the Arab-Israeli dispute
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  Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism

  Honest, dedicated, courageous and persistent engagement, ranging from education and organization to direct activism, carefully honed for effectiveness under prevailing circumstances
• Gray: You Say You Want a Revolution?

  The Anti-Capitalist Film “Sorry to Bother You” Shows the Way
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  Cohn: Israel Illegally Enshrines Apartheid in Its “Basic Law”

  On July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset enacted a law that illegally...