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• Vallianatos: The Heat is Definitely On

  Outside America’s air conditioned homes the world is burning and the billionaires of TV and newspaper media are filling the brains of hundreds of millions with gossip and thousands of advertising images.
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  Klikauer: Trump’s United States of Lies

  What right-wing conspiracy theorists achieve when peddling conspiracy theories is that it decreases political engagement because people are left feeling powerless
• Krehbiel: Rolling Up Our Sleeves to Beat Trump

  We must work hard, including calling millions of voters in battleground states daily until November 3, to deliver a crushing electoral defeat to Trump and all the Trumpists – so massive that it will be impossible for Trump and his supporters to force their will on the American people
• Koehler: Standing Up to Trump . . . and Biden

  In a crazy sense, Trump’s unwillingness to concede or acknowledge defeat could wind up pushing real democracy forward, by forcing citizens to vote not just with their ballots but with their bodies and souls
• Schirmer: We Need a People’s Bailout as Inequality Worsens Amid COVID-19

  The time for an emergency refund is now — all money acquired through price-gouging and loopholes needs to be returned. The choice is between collapse and giving people what is rightfully theirs
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  Pitt: It’s OK to Mourn When “Back to School” Means Staying at Home

  The experts and their statistical models are forecasting more than 410,000 COVID fatalities by the New Year
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  Cole: Aztec Politics

  Trump sacrificed 200K by Downplaying Covid-19 to save the Stock Market from Panic
• Soto: Mutual Aid and Survival as Resistance in Puerto Rico

  Faced with an onslaught of disasters and the injustices of colonialism, Puerto Rican communities have bet on their own survival. Their mutual aid efforts testify to both the power of grassroots organizing and the scale of state neglect
• Higgins: The Sunrise Movement, a Growing Electoral Force, Faces “Painful Moment”

  Sunrise feels growing pains amid a slew of electoral victories, raging arctic wildfires, and a vanishing ice sheet
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  Baker: The U.S., China, and the New Cold Warriors

  The U.S.-China confrontation is a game for the elites. The rest of us would be best served by sitting this one out
• Esquivel: For a new World Social Forum

  We would like to invite you to participate in this collective reflection. It is an urgent task that can contribute to shape the ‘other world’ we so urgently want and need
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  Feffer: Trump and the Troops

  The alternative to Trump is not the glorification of military service. It’s promoting the kind of service that gets fewer people killed
• Gebre: On the State of the Unions

  The 2020 platform of the Democratic Party is the most pro-labor it has ever been. But the onus is on us [to make sure that] once we get him elected, we don’t get bought off by coffee at the White House
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  Rasmus: America’s Current Job ‘Great Depression’

  What follows is a debunking of the 8.4% unemployment rate and a quantitative explanation why that rate is 25%–as well as a statement of the forces that will likely result in an even further deterioration in the unemployment rate in the 2020-21 period ahead
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  Pitt: Trump Is Throwing Billions at the Pentagon But Wants Us to Believe He’s a Dove

  The alchemy of the liar poisons the necessary truth, and we are all the real losers in the end
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  Sanders: Fighting for the working class

  Let us create an economy that works for all, and not just the few. Let us come together to defeat Donald Trump in November, and then let us keep fighting and organizing for the progressive change our country desperately needs
• Busby: ‘Freeing the truth’ – Extinction Rebellion activists on their week of action

  From blockading printers to meditating outside Barclays, the climate crisis campaign has drawn a variety of participants
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  Solomon: The Presidential Election: “A 200-Pound Sack of Concrete” vs. “The Orange Menace”

  Being in denial about Trump’s fascistic momentum is, to put it mildly, unwise
• Gordon: Under Trump, Military Veterans and Service Members Have Been ‘Losers’

  A far bigger problem than Trump’s hurtful private comments about them is his Administration’s policy of privatizing their health care coverage
• Derysh: More Than 550,000 Mail Ballots Have Already Been Rejected in 2020

  “Anything that is going to decrease people’s voices being heard is just terrible for the country”
• Stancil: UN Warns Pandemic-Intensified Famines Are Looming

  "A lack of funding for emergency relief and the complications created by the coronavirus scourge have now pushed some of the world's neediest populations closer to famine conditions."