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Noam Chomsky on the Occupy Wall Street movement
Noam Chomsky is linguistics and philosophy professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Author of nearly 100 books, Chomsky is one of the world's most widely read progressive dissident intellectuals. He talks about his new book, "Occupy," about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the wider issues of class warfare in the America today.
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Show date: Aug. 28, 2017
Trump Afghan War Policy Follows Failed US Strategy Across the Middle East
Interview with Matthew Hoh, senior fellow with the Center for International Policy
Matthew Hoh a former State Department official who resigned in 2009 in protest of US strategic policy in Afghanistan. Mr Hoh assesses President Trump's recently announced policy on the 16-year U.S. war in Afghanistan, citing his recent article, "Trump's Turn To Lie About Afghanistan."
NAFTA Re-Negotiation Must Prioritize Labor, Environmental and Human Rights
Interview with Melinda St Louis, international campaigns director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Melinda St. Louis discusses the Trump administration's re-negotiation of NAFTA, the balance between corporate and public interest, and the need for labor, environmental and human rights protections.
Texas Flood Linked with Extreme Weather Patterns Long Predicted by Climate Science
Interview with John H. Cushman Jr, managing editor of Inside Climate News
John H. Cushman Jr. talks about a recent Harvard University Study that confirms his publication's earlier investigation that concluded that oil company giant Exxon misled the public about climate change. He also discusses issues related to fossil fuel industry accountability for the destructive consequences of climate change, including the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey in East Texas.
Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents Pressure New Haven, CT to Divest from Wells Fargo Bank
Interview with Melinda Tuhus, veteran social justice activist and WPKN/Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine producer
Melinda Tuhus discusses the upcoming Aug. 31st rally at New Haven's City Hall to pressure Mayor Toni Harp to move the city's operating funds out of Wells Fargo bank, a financial institution that invested in the Dakota Access pipeline, other dirty energy projects and immigration detention facilities. Wells Fargo has been heavily fined in major scandals involving money laundering and stealing from its own customers. [Correction: During this interview Melinda Tuhus stated that Wells Fargo bank had invested $482 billion over three years in all fossil fuel projects. The correct figure is $4.82 billion.]
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August
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Linda Sarsour: Effective Resistance in the Age of Trump
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Michell McIntyre: Coalition Organizes to Stop Trump, GOP Bill to Deregulate Corporate America
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Naomi Ages: Federal Report on Climate Change Impact Leaked Before Trump Can Censor
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Dax Crocker: Connecticut Clergy Group Stands in Solidarity with Immigrants Facing ICE Deportation Orders
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Brenda Shum: Trump Department of Justice Gears Up to Sue Universities Over "Discrimination" Against White Applicants
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Jackie Vimo: Trump-GOP Propose RAISE Immigration Act that Would Severely Cut Number of Legal Migrants Entering U.S.
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Gabriel Hetland: Economic, Political Crisis Consuming Venezuela Threatens Civil War
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Hilary O Shelton: NAACP Issues Travel Advisory Against Missouri for Jim Crow State Policies and Rise in Hate Crimes
July
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Paul Kawika Martin: War for Profit: Trump Aides Propose Deploying US Mercenary Force to Afghanistan
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Matt Gardner: Trump Tax Cut Plan Would Benefit Wealthiest Americans
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Josh Ruebner: Congressional Bill Would Criminalize American's Support for Israel Boycott
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Ben Martin: Gathering to Tackle Climate Change Policy Agenda for Connecticut
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Tomas Lopez: Presidential Commission on Election Integrity a GOP Trojan Horse to Expand Voter Suppression
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Karen Hobert Flynn: Common Cause Files FEC Complaint Charging Donald Trump Jr. Russia Meeting Violated US Election Law
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Dr. Susan Rogers: Proposed GOP Senate Healthcare Bill is a Death Sentence for Tens of Thousands
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Sunsara Taylor: Protests in 19 US Cities Demand Trump-Pence Regime be Removed from Power
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Cassady Craighill: G20 Nations Move to Reaffirm Support for Paris Climate Accord
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Annie Bird: DEA Drug Interdiction Operations in Central America Demand Oversight, Investigation
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Ryan Clayton Jason Charter: Group Uses Sharp Edged Humor as Weapon to Push for Trump Impeachment
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Carlos Moreno: Taxing the Wealthy, Not Austerity is Key to Settle Connecticut Budget Deadlock
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Tim Shorrock: Newly Elected South Korean President Seeks Dialogue, Not Confrontation with North
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Alka Pradhan: Trump Nominates a Bush Administration Lawyer Who Justified Torture
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Jessica J. Gonzalez: Trump FCC Initiates Effort to Dismantle Net Neutrality, Threatening Open Internet
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Ann O'Brien: Refugee Re-Settlement Agency Upended by SCOTUS Ruling on Trump Travel Ban
June
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Gerald Friedman: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Cause 22+ Million to Lose Health Insurance
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Mike Oxford: Disability Rights Activists Arrested in Direct Action Protest Targeting GOP Healthcare Legislation
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Corey Dolgon: With US Political & Economic System Failing, Americans Look for Solutions
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Kaitlyn Shake: Southwest CT Indivisible Group Organizing Local Residents to Oppose Trump Agenda
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Kate Kizer: Senate Vote Nearly Stops US Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia: Saudi-US Rôle in Yemen War Scrutinized
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Melissa Mays: Charges Brought Against Michigan State Officials Linked to Flint Water Crisis
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Morris Pearl: GOP House Guts Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations, Inviting Another Financial Disaster
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Jill Stein: Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Assesses the Post-Election Political Crisis
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Marge Baker: Senate Select Committee Must Be Appointed to Conduct Credible Investigation of Trump
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John Nichols: US Progressive Movement Looks to Broaden Agenda to Go Beyond Resistance
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Mark Weisbrot: Labor Party's Jeremy Corbyn Surprises Pundits with UK Election Gains
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Chris Hedges: Trump is a Symptom of Broken US Politics and Economy
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Karen Orenstein: Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing US from Paris Climate Accord Based on Lies
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Cathy Kennedy: California Senate Takes First Step to Move the State to Single-Payer Universal Healthcare
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Maria Luisa Mendonca: Political Crisis in Brazil Threatens Democracy Itself
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Leslie Cagan: Strategies and Tactics to Sustain Effective Resistance for the Long Haul
May
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Ron Fein: Momentum and Evidence Grows for Trump Impeachment
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Alex Lawson: Trump Budget Poses Grave Threat to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
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Paul Kawika Martin: Pentagon Gives Trump Recommendation to Deploy 5,000 More US Troops to Afghanistan
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Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Receives 2017 Gandhi Peace Award
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Marjorie Cohn: Evidence Mounts that Trump Attempted to Obstruct Justice In Russia Probe
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Tom Swan: Joe Lieberman Not Qualified to Lead FBI
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Emily Sessions and Julia Power: New Yale Graduate Teachers' Union Pressures Admin to Negotiate a Contract
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Kathy Kelly: Saudi Arabia and U.S. Fuel Escalating Carnage in Yemen's Civil War
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Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Industry Quietly Supports GOP Decimation of Obamacare
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Richard D. Wolff: French Election Highlights Political Elite's Failure to Address Unemployment & Inequality
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Frederick Clarkson: Trump Executive Order on "Religious Liberty," Fails to Satisfy his Christian Right Supporters
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John Humphries: CT Roundtable on Climate and Jobs: State Initiatives More Important Than Ever in Trump Era
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Matthew Gardner: Trump "Tax Reform" Plan Revives Voodoo Economics
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Rick Claypool: Trump's First 100 Days: Unbridled Giveaway to Corporate America
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Christine Ahn: Women Peacemakers Calls on Trump to Initiate Negotiations with North Korea
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Nancy Mello Miller: Action Together Connecticut Mobilizes Opposition to Trump Agenda
April
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Marcy Wheeler: Trump Prosecution of Julian Assange Would Pose a Threat to Freedom of the Press
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Adam Green: Progressive Activists are Mobilizing to Win Elections and Reform the Democratic Party
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Mark Weisbrot: French Electorate Focused on Economy, Immigration Rejects Major Party Candidates
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Omar Barghouti: Palestinian BDS Founder Omar Barghouti & Ralph Nader Are Recipients of 2017 Gandhi Peace Award
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John Feffer: Trump's Threats Against North Korea Risk Triggering Deadly Conflict
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David Gibbs: US "Humanitarian" Military Interventions: A History of Failure
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Walt McRee: Public Banking Advocated by Leading Democratic Candidate for New Jersey Governor
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Stanley Heller: Israel Blocks Palestinian BDS Organizer from Traveling to Receive Gandhi Peace Award in New Haven, CT
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Paul Kawika Martin: Trump Syria Missile Strike: Empty Gesture or Prelude to Wider US War?
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Peter Montgomery: Nuclear Option Detonated by GOP to Confirm Gorsuch, Key Cases Now Hang in the Balance
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Sarah Evanega: March For Science Calls on Legislators to Enact Evidence-Based Policies in the Public Interest
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Greg Palast: Koch Brothers Big Winners in Trump Healthcare Defeat, Approval of Keystone XL Pipeline
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Tim Donaghy: With Rollback of Obama Climate Regulations Trump Declares War on Planet Earth
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Chris Calabrese: GOP Congress and Trump Strip Americans of Internet Privacy Protections
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James W. Carden: Trump Escalates US Military Campaigns, Civilian Deaths Spike
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Mira Revesz: "If Not Now" Movement Protests US-Israel Policy on Palestine at AIPAC Conference
March
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Dr. Carol Paris: GOP's Failure to Replace ObamaCare Opens Opportunity to Debate Medicare For All System
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Jim Dean: Progressive Groups Pressure Senate Democrats to Block Trump Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch
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Alexandra De Luca: After November Trump Election Victory, More Than 10,000 Women Drawn to Run for Public Office
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Dina and Raji Odeh: Palestinian Teen Rappers and Dancers Tour U.S., Communicating the Reality of Life Growing Up in Refugee Camps
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Lisa Gilbert: Trump's Proposed Slash and Burn Budget Hurts the Vulnerable Most
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Jay Riestenberg: Right Wing Campaign to Convene Constitutional Convention Jeopardizes Bedrock American Values
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Arun Gupta: President's Second Travel Ban Blocked by Federal Judges Citing Trump's Words Targeting Muslims
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Po Murray: GOP/NRA Weaken Restrictions on Severely Mentally Ill Veterans Ability to Buy Guns
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Gerald Friedman: Congressional Budget Office Projects GOP Health Plan Will Cause 24 Million Americans to Lose Health Insurance
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Jeff Carter: Scott Pruitt, Trump's Man at EPA, Doubles Down on Climate Change Denial
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L.A. Kauffman: 40 Years of Radical Activism Offers Useful Lessons for Today's Trump Resistance Movement
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Robert Davey: Journalist Pursues Inconsistencies in Bush Administration Drive to Expand Authority to Conduct Post-911 Surveillance
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James S. Henry: Links Between Trump, Russian Oligarchs, The Bank of Cyprus and Wilbur Ross Explained
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Richard Eskow: Caution Advised in Merging Opposition to Trump with Forces Pushing New US-Russia Cold War
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Kevin Martin: Trump's New Travel Ban: Same Hateful Policy in a New Package
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Luis Luna: Campaign Waged to Declare Bridgeport, CT's Largest Municipality, a Sanctuary City
February
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Bob Dreyfuss: Perez Defeat of Ellison for DNC Chair Won't Deter Progressives
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Ben Schreiber: Trump / Pruitt Plan to Dismantle EPA with Deep Budget Cuts, Staff Layoff
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Shannon Jackson: Our Revolution Carries on Bernie Sanders' Vision to Move US Political Debate Left
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Tom Swan: Feb. 28th Connecticut Special Election Could Determine Control of State Senate
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Christopher Vials: Trump's Attack on the Media & Constant Stream of Lies, Echo of Fascist/Authoritarian Leaders
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Phyllis Bennis: Trump Administration's Muddled Middle East Policy Views, Likely to Deepen Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Norman Solomon: Early Drive for Trump Impeachment Launches with Petition Drive
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Mike DeRosa: CT Green Party Supports Public Banking and National Popular Vote Compact in Legislative Session
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Allegra Chapman: As Attorney General, Jeff Sessions Will Be Watched Closely for Bias and Injustice
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Leslie Cagan: Unity, Diversity of Tactics and Local Focus All Necessary to Sustain Anti-Trump Activist Movement
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Matt Wood: Trump FCC Chairman Aims to Derail Net Neutrality, Consumer Protections
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Jesus Morales: New Haven Group Organizes to Protect Immigrant Community from Stepped up ICE Raids
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Elliott Mincberg: If Senate Confirms Gorsuch for Supreme Court: Corporate America Wins, Workers Lose
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Mongi Dhaouadi: Outpouring of Opposition to Trump Muslim Ban Generates Spirit of Solidarity Nationwide
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William Hartung: Trump Administration Issues Threat, Ratchets Up Dangerous Tension with Iran
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Carol Burris: Nothing Less Than the Future of Public Education Is at Stake in Battle to Stop DeVos Nomination
January
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Womens March: The Trump Resistance Starts Now: Voices from the Revival of the US Progressive Movement
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Aaron Scherb: Lawsuit Claims Trump Conflicts of Interest Violates US Constitution
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Five Mualimm-ak: Campaign to End Prison Solitary Confinement Comes to New Haven, CT
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Melvin Goodman: Trump, Russia and the future of US Foreign Policy
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Katie O'Connor: Katie O'Connor, director of policy and programming at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
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Jeremy Brecher: What We Need to Know About "Social Self-Defense" Under the Incoming Trump Regime
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Dante Barry: Racial Justice Movement Pledges Five Days of Resistance Leading Up to Trump Inauguration
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L. George Friday: Occupy Inauguration Protest Aims to Build an Independent Movement for the 99%
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Robert Borosage: As Trump Moves into the White House, Democrats Need a Bold New Vision
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Philip Weiss: Israel Moving Toward Apartheid and Global Isolation
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Henry Lowendorf: Syrian Conflict Can Only be Resolved if Outside Powers Disengage
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Yasmina Mrabet: Group Wins Permit for Protest on Trump Inaugural Parade Route
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Richard Silverstein: Obama Break with Netanyahu's Settler Expansion Too Little, Too Late
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George Lakey: Scandinavian Economic Model Provides Blueprint for Egalitarian Society
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Chip Gibbons: Trump Regime Poses Grave Threat to Civil Liberties
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Arlene Goldbard: US Dept. of Arts & Culture Incites Social Imagination to Cultivate Empathy, Equity and Belonging
December
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Greg Palast: Here's Why the GOP Fought So Hard to Stop the Rust Belt State Vote Recounts
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Wendell Potter: GOP Vulnerable to Severe Political Backlash in Their Pledge to Repeal Obamacare
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Jon Rainwater: Trump's Frightening Tweets on Re-Igniting Nuclear Arms Race Are No Joke
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Mike DeRosa: CT Green Party Gains a Place on State Ballot, Pursues Public Banking Initiative