Tag: 2020 presidential candidates
‘CNN is truly a terrible influence on this country’: Democratic debate...
“This is an unusually vile performance by CNN,” tweeted Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi.
The big loser in the Iowa debate? CNN’s reputation
One really does get the impression that if CNN were holding a debate on the Titanic, the first question would literally be about rearranging the deck chairs.
Biden, Buttigieg and corporate media are eager for Sanders and Warren...
Keeping eyes on the prize this year will require a united front that can strengthen progressive forces, prevent any corporate Democrat from winning the party’s presidential nomination, and then go on to defeat Donald Trump.
Biden and Buttigieg are showing how corporatism and ‘the madness of...
Devastating impacts of nonstop war are all around us in the United States, from deadly federal budget priorities to traumatic effects of normalized violence.
Buttigieg and Biden are masters of evasion
It’s understandable that corporate-backed candidates don’t want to be cornered by questions that touch on realities of political and economic power.
Corporate media and ‘moderate’ democrats are defending the oligarchy against Bernie...
If Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar or Bloomberg win the Democratic presidential nomination, that would be a triumph for oligarchy in the midst of rising grassroots opposition.
Progressives need a united front for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
The need for a Sanders-Warren united front should be clear -- as clear as the imperative of rolling back the monstrous right-wing power that has controlled the presidency during the last three years.
“You’ll know the tree by the fruit it bears”: Bernie Sanders’...
The fruit of Bernie Sanders’ labors are not just in the realm of policy, they’re also in the people who support him.
We can breathe life back into democracy
“We make meaning together, build and deepen relationships, and take collective ownership for our country.”
Big tech platforms have had a “profound negative effect on democracy.”...
“People of all political stripes understand that there’s a problem here.”
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
How the psychology of oppression perpetuates harm to animals and the environment
To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .
Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.