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  Chomsky: By Focusing on Russia, We Ignore Trump’s Existential Threat to Climate

  Interview on the growing extremism of the Republican Party, Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, Democrats’ abandonment of the working class and impending threat of the climate crisis
• Rebellion: Murder in the Amazon

  Rebels staged actions outside Brazilian embassies in over a dozen countries last week to demand an end to the government-sanctioned destruction of the Amazon rainforest and violence against its indigenous people
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  Olson: Whither the Resistance to our Capitalist Overlords?

  If the truth sets us free, why do so many opt for ignorance and implicit compliance with a wretched, immoral system?
• Timmons: How to have an all-renewable electric grid

  Research from me and others shows that fully renewable electric grids are feasible with current technology at current prices; barriers to using renewable electricity are more political and cultural than technological or economic
• Sarkar: Fifty Years after Stonewall

  LGBTQ Workers Seek Equality
• Otterbein: What Sanders’ political revolution looks like in real life

  He's enlisting his massive volunteer base to pressure companies to change their labor practices — and joining several protests himself
• Richman: A Union in Every Workplace

  Where Bernie Sanders’ labor platform is most exciting is its proposal for new workers’ rights and forms of union representation that transcend the National Labor Relations Board framework of enterprise-based contract bargaining
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  Raina: Honourable Wicket

  Last  night I did a ruthless thing— I shut off...
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  Sanders: Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum

  10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa
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  Glick: Young and Old Together in the Global Climate Strike

  It is always encouraging when an international call for unified action on the climate crisis is put out and there’s a widespread, positive response to it at the grassroots
• Sun: Tapping into People Power

  Here are seven ways we can connect to the power of removing our consent and cooperation, refusing to go along with injustice, and intervening in the destructive practices that cause harm
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  Cole: Bernie Sanders’ Manhattan Project

  The Game-Changing Green New Deal
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  Aronoff: Sanders’s Climate Plan More Radical Than His Opponents’

  And More Likely to Succeed
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  Weisbrot: Who is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?

  What are we to make of Argentina’s surprise election results on August 11, which jolted pollsters and analysts alike, and roiled the country’s financial markets?
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  Baker: On Those Downward Jobs Revisions

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its benchmark revision to its job numbers shows that the economy created 501,000 fewer jobs between March of 2018 and March of 2019 than previously reported
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  Street: Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse

  Establishment Democrats would rather lose to the right, even to a proto-fascistic white-nationalist and eco-exterminist right, than lose to the left, even to a mildly progressive social democratic and environmentalist left within their own party
• Conway: ‘New’ NAFTA Fails Workers On Both Sides Of Border

  Over the past 20 years, the United States lost 5 million manufacturing jobs and nearly 90,000 factories. Some went to China or Vietnam or India. But a lot went to Mexico
• Fakude: Sudan achieves a miracle and disappoints sceptics

  What started as “food protests” grew into a political movement
• Blain: Should We Fight a War on White Terrorism?

  There’s a strong argument to shift law enforcement resources from Muslim organizations to domestic white terrorists — but expanding the war on terror is a riskier proposition
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  Winslow: A Brief History of Harlan County, USA

  There is a spirit that lives in Harlan, along with the ghosts of battles past
• Koehler: Participatory evolution

  How is nonviolence more powerful than the weapons of war? It may not appear to be the case in the moment, but in the long run, the weapon-wielders lose. The opposite of nonviolence isn’t violence. The opposite is ignorance
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  Zeese: The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

  The myth of American Exceptionalism is being exposed
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  Cole: 74,000 Amazon Wildfires Plunge Sao Paulo into Darkness

  If our supposed 24-hour news channels can’t tell us about the truly central story for our lives, then they are pretty useless
• Pino: LA County Votes to Stop Construction of New Jail-Like Facility

  Adding Momentum to National Abolition Movement