Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Nuland?
by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies and Marcy Winograd
on January 16, 2021
Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland.
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Denouncing Republican Evils Can’t Do Much for the Biden Presidency Without Demanding Progressive Policies
by Norman Solomon
on January 11, 2021
The Republican plunge into Trumpism has made the party especially unhinged and dangerous, but its basic ideology has long been a shameless assault on minimal standards of human decency. Now -- while Democratic leaders and most corporate media outlets are suitably condemning the fascist tendencies of Trump and his followers -- deeper analysis and stepped-up progressive organizing are urgently needed.
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Restoring the Threat of Impeachment for Future Office Holders
by David Swanson
on January 11, 2021
In the past 150 years, U.S. presidents have lied, cheated, stolen, warmongered, incited hatred and violence, driven inequality and corruption through the roof, taken over major powers from the Congress and abused them, gained the power of nuclear war and abused it through numerous threats, accelerated the destruction of the earth’s environment, failed to protect the basic rights of people, pardoned their cronies for outrageous crimes, committed thousands of specific, open, public, and indisputable impeachable offenses, and been impeached for only two things.
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Will Unprovoked War With Iran Be Trump's Parting Gift to the World?
by Dan Ellsberg, Common Dreams
on January 11, 2021
I will always regret that I did not do more to stop war with Vietnam. Now, I am calling on whistleblowers to step up and expose Trump’s plans.
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Now Is the Time for Congress to Deliver
by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, The Nation
on January 11, 2021
Too many people no longer believe that government is helping lift all boats. The solution is clear: a progressive agenda that makes a transformative difference in people’s lives.
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The Julian Assange extradition ruling: right result, wrong reason
by Owen Jones, The Guardian
on January 04, 2021
Refusing to extradite Assange to the US on mental health grounds is humane, but it doesn’t protect future whistleblowers.
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Top 10 Questions for Antony Blinken
by David Swanson
on December 31, 2020
Before Antony Blinken can become Secretary of State, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask.
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Drone Murder Has Been Normalized
by David Swanson
on December 29, 2020
If I search on Google for the words “drones” and “morality” most of the results are from 2012 through 2016.
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Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken Personify the ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party
by Norman Solomon
on December 28, 2020
Sometimes a couple of nominations convey an incoming president’s basic mindset and worldview. That’s how it seems with Joe Biden’s choices to run the Office of Management and Budget and the State Department.
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Biden wants to convene an international 'Summit for Democracy'. He shouldn't
by David Adler and Stephen Wertheim, The Guardian
on December 28, 2020
To undo the damage Trump has wrought at home and abroad, the US must move beyond outdated foreign policy ideas
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