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Trump’s Attack on Socialism
It is significant that Trump, while showing his indifference to popular needs, chose to denounce socialism.
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Pacific Northwest Shows Path to Green New Deal: End Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
“Saying no to new fossil fuel infrastructure is the first step to saying yes to real climate action, yes to a just transition and yes to a healthy climate future for all. Now it’s time for our elected officials working on a Green New Deal in Washington, D.C. to do the same.”
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After U.S. INF Withdrawal, Plowshares Activists, Facing Years in Prison, Warn of Nuclear Peril
“This is not the first failure by the U.S. to either endorse or abide by treaties which would reduce the threat posed by the mere possession of weapons of mass destruction. The crucial Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996, and has been ratified by 166 countries, but the U.S.…
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Venezuela Analysis
“Venezuela’s Guaido refuses to rule out accepting U.S. military support amid escalating political crisis.”
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Sanders and Khanna Move on War Powers Against Saudi Bombing of Yemen
“Congress is poised to face off with President Trump for a second time over his administration’s policy toward Saudi Arabia, as lawmaker groups in both chambers reintroduce resolutions to end U.S. involvement in the Yemen civil war.”
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“Bolsonaro Wants to Plunder the Amazon. Don’t Let Him”
“The rise of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has put the environment and human rights in peril. His promises to open the Amazon for business could result in huge deforestation and the release of vast greenhouse-gas emissions. His threats to slash fundamental environmental and indigenous rights standards that help keep the Amazon standing are a…
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Kamala Harris: “More AIPAC Than J Street”
“is being embraced by many progressive Democrats, and she’s branding herself as a progressive. Yet in the course of her little more than two years in the U.S. Senate, she’s taken some foreign policy positions that should give pause to supporters of human rights and international law.”
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Will Elliott Abrams, “Abettor of Genocide,” do to Venezuela What he did to Guatemala?
“Elliott Abrams does indeed represent longstanding U.S. policy. The problem is that that policy is to be willing to abet genocide, as the U.S. did in Guatemala (under Abrams), as a Guatemalan court ruled last September after hearing evidence in a genocide trial in which I testified. … Last September 26 a Guatemalan court ruled…
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Venezuela Intervention: Pretexts and Solutions
“The U.S. government refusing to withdraw its officials from Venezuela may well set up a pretext for further intervention or blockade.”
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Jerry Brown: Democrats’ Posture on Putin is “Stupid”
“I think it is stupid for Democrats to be attacking Putin on all issues and not holding open the channel of nuclear dialogue. Yes, deal with the issues in Syria, and killing diplomats, and Ukraine, and Crimea and all the rest of that, but that doesn’t warrant a nuclear blunder that kills billions of people,…