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  Gautney: Mike Bloomberg’s Education ‘Reforms’ Would be a Disaster for Public Schools

  Like Trump, Bloomberg is a fervent backer of privatizing and dismantling public schools across the country
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  Penny: Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?

  Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?
• Martin: The Wet’suwet’en Take Another Anti-Pipeline Struggle Mainstream

  Protests have brought rail travel in Canada to a standstill and introduced the fight against Coastal GasLink to the broader public
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  Cole: Methane Emissions Crisis and Rapid Global Heating

  It is all Fossil Fuel Drilling and Fracking
• Konicz: Bernie Sanders in Las Vegas

  This fear of the election victory of the left-wing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, which many prominent politicians and media representatives in the United States have long since openly articulated, is now taking on strange characteristics
• Floyd: Which Side Are You On?

  I think of them, and I think of my friend — a parole-violating drug-addicted repeat-offending criminal of no use to the society he lived in — and I know — by God, I know! — which side I’m on.
• Rebellion: More courage. More collaboration. More love.

  Rebels are taking to the streets with ever more innovative and theatrical actions
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  Hayase: Assange’s Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-War Movement

  The US government’s extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange is a critical moment for press freedom, but also for the anti-war movement
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  Feffer: Cleaning Up Trump’s Global Mess

  Democratic candidates offer a wide range of foreign policy views. These won’t decide the election, but they could have a huge post-Trump impact
• Abramsky: Trump Is Unleashing Militarized Goon Squads Against Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities

  By the time you read this column, elite US Border Patrol Tactical (BORTAC) units might be battering down the doors of immigrant families in sanctuary cities in California, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere around the country
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  Cohn: Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent

  The Trump administration singled out Assange to send a clear message to journalists that they publish material critical of U.S. policy at their peril
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  Pizzigati: A Silicon Valley Life Lesson

  A new civic group report is calling living conditions ‘harsh’ in California’s high-tech hotspot
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  Scipes: Is it Time for a New Labor Center in the United States?

  New Thinking on the Crisis of Labor
• Dudzic: Take My Benefits—Please

  Employment-based Health Care Has Become an Anchor Around the Neck of the U.S. Working Class
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  Zeese: Mistrial Is Another Blow To US Coup In Venezuela

  Last week, we along with Adrienne Pine and David Paul were unsuccessfully prosecuted by the Trump administration for our protection of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC from April 10 to May 16, 2019
• Bryant: How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools

  In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is shaping the K-12 curriculum in local communities
• Elbaum: Trump Unbound, Bernie Surges, Hard Road Ahead

  Donald Trump’s post-acquittal, gangster-style revenge campaign underscores the dangers from a President who can act with impunity and the high stakes in next November’s balloting
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  West: Elites Underestimate the Power of the People

  Interview on Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg
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  McChesney: If Bloomberg Wants to Buy an Election, He Should Run as a Republican

  The mega-billionaire should be running against Trump in the Republican primaries, not as a Democrat. If he actually cared about this country more than stroking his massive ego that is exactly what he would be doing
• Ludwig: Sanders and AOC’s Fracking Ban Angers Centrists and Their Fossil Fuel Backers

  Source: Truthout Photo by J. Bicking/Shutterstock.com House Democrats have finally...
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  Pilger: Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed

  When we speak about dictatorships, we call this brainwashing: the conquest of minds. It is a truth we rarely apply to our own societies, regardless of the trail of blood that leads back to us and which never dries
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  Gordon: “The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President”

  Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)