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  Chomsky: The train wreck of the 2020 US election

  Interview on the 2020 US election, the state of humanity, the breakdown of democracy, the rise of conspiracy theories, the prosecution of Julian Assange, the role of satire – and what helps to keep him going amidst all this
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  Mahdawi: Trump’s 1776 commission is proof America is spiraling toward fascism

  Trump is setting up the commission to teach students ‘the miracle of American history’ – which sounds like a core part of the fascist process of taking power
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  Raina: Some Cacti Are Blooming in the Dreary Desert Sands of Indian Unreason

  I trust the soul of the nation to find tongue again, and, in simple but decisive syllables, say no to hate and bigotry, and yes to love and camaraderie
• Benjamin Tausig: The Thailand Uprising: “For the Rightful Owners of the Land”

  For the past months, a broad political movement, primarily led by Thai youth, has advanced a series of increasingly provocative protests against the military government
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  Cole: If McConnell Packs the Court on behalf of Minority Rule, Dems must Expand and Reform it

  If the Democrats win both the presidency and the senate, they must do something about the dictatorship of the minority on the court
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  Wakes: What the Flint Water Crisis Meant for My Family

  Take it from me: You don't want to go through what we did. Every community deserves water, life, and dignity.
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  Bradbury: School and Campus Workers Say: Not Until It’s Safe

  For those who have defeated unsafe reopenings, the next battle may be against mass layoffs, as in Rochester, New York, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
• Ashwill: Balancing Solidarity & Individualism in the COVID-19 Era

  A View from Vietnam
• Aludaini: We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer

  The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip
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  Nader: Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations?

  It starts with us being indoctrinated into being powerless
• Stein: Environmental Movement Founders: Don’t Vote for the Green Party

  They spearheaded the breakthroughs in the ’70s; saw the damage of the ’80s; witnessed Nader’s role in ’00 and Jill Stein’s in ’16. Now, they have thoughts to share
• Collective 20: Greenwashing Capitalism Won’t Heal the Planet

  As we move along the road to a post-capitalist, post-carbon world, we must be mindful of the pitfalls, and we must not allow our work or ourselves to be hijacked, sabotaged or seduced by those who have only their own selfish, short-term interests at heart.
• Rovics: Diary of a Smoke Refugee

  The fires here in Oregon have further exposed the deep divisions in this society, as have all the other previous or ongoing catastrophes, from the 2008 financial crisis to the current global pandemic
• Palmater: What we’re seeing in 2020 is Idle No More 2.0

  A much larger and more powerful movement than the last, led by Black and Indigenous peoples and supported by millions of Canadians
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  Engelhardt: Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen: 2020 Version

  Four more years of Trump will consign us to a hell on Earth of a sort still only faintly imaginable today
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  Loick: Europe’s necropolitics sparked the fire at Moria camp

  The disaster at the Moria refugee camp exposes European authorities’ utter neglect for human life. To resist means to imagine a different politics altogether
• Buell: The Many Ugly Faces of Climate Science Denial

  A politics of public good is especially important in reshaping visceral attitudes toward consumption and harsher forms of individualism
• Moyn: Socialists Have Long Fought to Disempower the Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has been a reactionary institution for most of its history. We need to take on its power and fight for real democracy in the United States
• Weiner: What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.

  Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back
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  Jamail: Life in the US Has the Hallmarks of a “Low-Grade War Zone”

  Are we going to accept that we have a government that is out to get us?
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  Hightower: Beware Corporate COVID Propaganda

  So middle-income workers get the boot, while the boss still has his job, gets more than $21 million in annual pay, and claims bragging rights for being an “ethical” corporate chieftain.