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• Manokha: Workplace Surveillance Is Central to Capitalist Exploitation

  Current surveillance technologies have greatly increased employers' power over workers
• Urie: The Green New Deal: First, Shoot the Economists

  The question for a GND should be: what is needed to transition from the environmentally apocalyptic path we are on to long-term sustainability while insuring that everyone— every last person, has their material and social needs met?
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  Fuentes: Venezuela: Why the US coup is failing

  For many, it is impossible to understand how, despite presiding...
• Fernández Campbell: Thousands of workers at US factories in Mexico are striking for higher wages

  The movement is now spreading beyond factories in the border region, with cashiers at US-owned supermarkets and fast-food chains demanding raises too. That includes Sam’s Club stores and Walmart stores
• Ocasio-Cortez: “Tell That to the Families in Flint”

  Demolishing GOP Claim That Green New Deal Is “Elitist”
• Postel: Progressive Surge Propels Turning Point in US Policy on Yemen

  The House resolution was the first time Congress flexed its War Powers muscle in the 45 years since that resolution’s passage
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  Monbiot: How the media let malicious idiots take over

  Be it Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage, blusterers and braggarts are rewarded with platforms that distort our political debate
• Holthaus: Mozambique floods cover more ground than NYC, Chicago, D.C., and Boston

  Aid workers in Mozambique describe the floodwaters as “inland oceans extending for miles and miles.”
• Epstein: Trump’s 2020 Budget Rewards the Wealthiest Individuals

  For the first time in decades, we have a set of policies that provide a basis for discussion, and progressives running for election and moving legislation, that could, if implemented, make a big difference
• Barber: Trump wants to give 62 cents of every dollar to the military

  A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech, or political slogan
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  Prashad: The People of Palestine Are on the March

  Israel has begun to bomb from the sky
• Molloy: Grand Wizards, Cultural Marxism and Blueshirts

  In the midst of the Brexit chaos, prominent Tories are using language that encourages the crank right and the wannabe militia. And the media is ignoring or making excuses for them
• Gunes: Pro-Kurdish HDP fights an uphill battle in Turkey elections

  In Turkey’s increasingly repressive political climate, the HDP is facing off against the ruling AKP in a battle for the Kurdish vote at local elections
• Samuel: Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted

  A stunningly successful experiment has the potential to upend the mainstream US approach to deviance
• Neuburger: Braceros Then and Now

  The level of abuse, the intensity of the racial hatred being directed against immigrants (and others outside the narrow frame of white supremacy), is such that we are in ugly, dangerous territory
• Meier: Origins of the Opioid Epidemic

  Purdue Pharma Knew of OxyContin Abuse in 1996 But Covered It Up
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  Kelly: ‘Every War Is a War Against Children’

  We in the United States have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war
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  Benjamin: War and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates

  While we can't guarantee that candidates will stick to their campaign promises, we still must ask this vital question: What prospects for peace might each of them bring to the White House?
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  Bennis: On AIPAC, Golan Heights and Israel

  Interview on the dispute over Golan Heights, Netanyahu and Trump’s relationship, AIPAC, and more
• Jackson: Florida’s Poll Tax is a New Low

  Republicans in the state legislator are moving to frustrate the will of citizens, adding a new burden to exclude voters, a new form of one of the most loathsome Jim Crow tactics — the poll tax
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  Cole: How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel

  By this new far-right Israeli and Trumpian principle, Iraq would have a claim on US territory– say, Alabama, given that the Bush regime launched an illegal war of aggression on Iraq
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  Cook: Allowing Israel to operate with impunity

  Israel’s right can now plausibly argue: “If Mr Trump has consented to our illegal seizure of the Golan, why not also our theft of the West Bank?”