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  Rasmus: Ginsburg’s Death & Trump’s Emerging Legal Coup D’Etat

  In 2020 the Supreme Court will be even more likely do the same–i.e. stop the vote count and ‘select’ Trump’– with a 6-3 vote. Except this time it will not even be a vote recount; it will be a first count of mail in ballot votes
• Davis-Cohen: Mutual Aid Response During Fires Shows Black Lives Matter Is Building Community

  “We have come together efficiently and quickly because we know each other.”
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  Thomas Whitfield: All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety

  On parents’ impossible decision
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  Lerner: As the West Burns, Trump Administration Races to Demolish Environmental Protections

  Polluters and their agents in government want to finalize as many environmental rollbacks as possible before the presidential election
• Peggs: After the virus: no return to the old economy

  Alternative economic proposals the Labour left should be demanding
• Madeloni: New York City Teachers Work Outdoors after a Co-Worker Tests Positive

  When New York City educators were supposed to be in their third day of “professional development” held inside school buildings, teachers and other staffers at a Queens middle school, IS 230, took their work outside.
• Ludwig: Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill

  Please Help ZNet Source: Truthout Millions of children across the...
• Moore: When Police Repression is Not Enough

  A U.S. Corporation is Suing Guatemala to Crush Local Mining Opposition
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  Zinn: Trump Calls Howard Zinn’s Work “Propaganda.” Hear the Historian in His Own Words

  Teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom
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  Sanders: Justice Ginsburg’s replacement

  Every issue we care about is at stake: abortion rights, campaign finance reform, voting rights, workers' rights, health care, LGBTQ rights, climate change, environmental rights, gun safety and more.
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  Chomsky: “The fate of humanity hangs in the balance”

  The means to manage the crisis are available. But not for long. One primary task of the Progressive International is to ensure that we all panic now — and act accordingly.
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  Brecher: Workers vs. the Coronavirus Depression

  This summer has seen two significant national strike actions–for Black Lives and for safe reopening of schools. These are hardly conventional strikes–indeed, they represent historically unprecedented forms of protest
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  Elbaum: Socialist Strategy and the Biden Debate

  The left forces whose strategy translates into sending the first message have much better prospects to grow their ranks and expand their influence, power and coalition relationships
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  Pitt: Another Day of COVID, Another Failed Stimulus, Another Thousand Deaths

  With an election looming just 47 tiny days away, fury at vicious Republican intransigence has begun to give way to something close to horrified awe
• Hartmann: Trump’s Destruction of America Started With Reagan

  If America is to recover from this hellscape that right-wing billionaires and their bought-off politicians have inflicted on us, it’s going to require a massive, nationwide awakening and a nonstop multiyear effort.
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  Monbiot: Extinction Rebellion is showing Britain what real democracy could look like

  The protest movement’s call for meaningful participation highlights the failings of dysfunctional Westminster politics
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  Feffer: Trump’s Scorched-Earth Doctrine

  Trump is doing whatever he can to make it impossible for his successor to resolve some of the world’s most intractable problems
• Elbagir: Yemen on Brink of Famine After U.S. Cuts Aid While Fueling War

  The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening amid the pandemic and cuts to international aid from the United States and its allies, leaving millions of Yemenis facing famine after years of a brutal U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign that has devastated the country
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  Cavanagh: Trump trade wars have led to lost US jobs and factories

  Trump is making false claims about his record in struggling states like Ohio and Michigan. The jobs haven't come back. They've been offshored to China
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  Adler: Internationalism or extinction

  The Progressive International is convening its inaugural Summit this weekend to reclaim our shared future
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  Cole: Trump doesn’t Understand History any more than he Understands Epidemics

  Professional historians have always been skeptical and the very tools of their profession are seditious, because history teaches us that things could have been different (contingency) and can still be different