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  Brecher: The Biden Climate Plan: Part 1: What It Proposes

  While the Biden plan is not as comprehensive as that proposed in the Democratic primaries by Jay Inslee or as radical as Bernie Sanders’, it has the potential to make very substantial reductions in GHG emissions while creating substantial numbers of climate jobs and a more equal society
• Freeman: The Economy Isn’t Working. That’s Exactly the Plan

  Forty years ago, around 1980, the uber-wealthy decided they wanted to get their money out of the economy. So, they engineered a controlled demolition of the U.S. economy
• Carrington: World Is ‘Doubling Down’ on Fossil Fuels Despite Climate Crisis – UN Report

  Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases
• Davies: Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team

  Are Joe Biden, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan the kind of leaders to just say "No" to the Military-Industrial Complex and consign this cross of iron to the junkyard of history, where it belongs? We will find out very soon.
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  Bader: Right-Wing Orgs Are Enlisting Students in Their War Against Campus Progressives

  Groups like Campus Reform work hard to create the illusion that conservatives are a beleaguered minority on campuses
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  Prashad: We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything

  Around 250 million people across India joined the general strike on 26 November, making it the largest strike in world history
• Gilroy-Ware: The marketization of truth

  As Trump continues to contest the validity of the US election, it’s time we look deeper at the causes of our post-truth malaise
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  Cohn: Trump’s Support for Israel’s Killing of Iranian Scientist Could Lead to War

  In the weeks remaining before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Donald Trump is taking actions — including aiding and abetting murder — to prevent his successor from pursuing diplomacy with Iran.
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  Monbiot: Caught in the Crossfire

  Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism
• Staff: Labour Unions’ Nationwide Strike: Near Total Shutdown in Bengal, Kerala

  The strike, on the same day as farmers' 'Delhi Chalo' protest marches across north India, is also in solidarity with the farmers' cause
• Crowley: “This Is a Revolution, Sir”

  Workers in India last week launched a general strike that brought out an estimated 250 million people, arguably the largest in human history. Now, they’re joining hands with farmers to protest Narendra Modi’s pro-corporate, far-right agenda
• Mari: What’s Between 30 Million Americans and an Eviction Tsunami?

  Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed
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  Nichols: Trump’s Trying to Take the Internet Down With Him

  A sore-loser president is promoting a last-minute assault on the underpinnings of discourse on the web
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  Pitt: As COVID Spikes, It’s Normal to Feel Helpless. Let’s Turn Fear to Activism

  I feel utterly helpless before this bilge tide of astonishing official malfeasance and self-destructive ground-level stubbornness, and this sense of helplessness is the fuel that feeds my fear.
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  Hynes: Book Review of The Inner Level

  As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying
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  Buchheit: Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers

  Something has to be done to heal the rupture in the sickened body of our nation
• Perez: Solidarity Beyond the Crisis: How to Truly Build Back Better

  Joe Biden must be bold if he wants to truly build back, let alone build back better. The authors spoke to leading movement organizers and thinkers across the United States and asked: What does it truly mean to build back better?
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  Engelhardt: The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire

  Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet
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  Pizzigati: The Rich Cheer Wall Street’s Records While Americans Drain 401(k)s

  The nation’s woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures
• Todhunter: Land Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’

  Those farmers who survive the profiteering strategies of dispossession and imperialism are to become incorporated into a system of contract farming dictated by global agri-food giants
• Armstrong: Spreading the Virus

  “In some ways, the whole country is essentially living with the strategy of the least effective states because states interconnect and one state not doing a good job will continue to spread the virus to other states”