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Analysis, December 2018

A Mandate for Left Leadership

by Oregon PeaceWorks • December 17, 2018 • 0 Comments

KATE ARONOFF – Democratic socialism will be defined by what its most public adherents—people like Sanders, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez—are able to accomplish once they have the opportunity. At least in the short term, turning their ambitious bills into law will mean prying open the Overton window in policy debates to accommodate what might elsewhere be considered fairly basic social-democratic demands. But with just 12 years left to prevent a total climate catastrophe, time is a luxury that progressives simply don’t have.

Analysis, December 2018

Election Analysis Leads to Important Conclusion for Progressives

by Oregon PeaceWorks • December 15, 2018 • 0 Comments

JAMES HAUGHT – In the 2018 election, America’s shrinking segment of white evangelicals mobilized strongly for the Republican Party – but the rising cohort of nonreligious Americans failed to exert their full political power.

December 2018, What's Happening In the Movement

Climate Change Strike: Thousands of School Students Protest across Australia

by Oregon PeaceWorks • December 13, 2018 • 0 Comments

NAAMAN ZHOU – Thousands of schoolchildren across Australia walked out of class on Friday, November 30, to demand action by the federal government on climate change.

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What It Means That Hillary Clinton Might Run for President in 2020

by Oregon PeaceWorks • December 11, 2018 • 0 Comments

NORMAN SOLOMON – Twenty-five years ago — when I wrote a book titled “False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era” — I didn’t expect that the Democratic Party would still be mired in Clintonism two and a half decades later. But such approaches to politics continue to haunt the party and the country.

Analysis, December 2018

U.S.-Supported Mid-East War Has Killed 85,000 Children

by Oregon PeaceWorks • December 9, 2018 • 0 Comments

KATHY KELLY – Recent polls indicate that most Americans don’t favor U.S. war on Yemen. Surely, our security is not enhanced if the U.S. continues to structure its foreign policy on fear, prejudice, greed, and overwhelming military force. The movements that pressured the U.S. Senate to reject current U.S. foreign policy regarding Saudi Arabia and its war on Yemen will continue raising voices. Collectively, we’ll work toward raising the lament, pressuring the media and civil society to insist that slaughtering children will never solve problems.

Analysis, December 2018

War With Russia?

by Oregon PeaceWorks • December 5, 2018 • 0 Comments

STEPHEN F. COHEN – War With Russia?, like the biography of a living person, is a book without an end. The title is a warning—akin to what the late Gore Vidal termed “a journalistic alert-system”—not a prediction. Hence the question mark. I cannot foresee the future. The book’s overarching theme is informed by past and current facts, not by any political agenda, ideological commitment, or magical prescience. This article is adapted from the concluding section of Stephen F. Cohen’s War With Russia? From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate, just published, in paperback and e-book, by Skyhorse Publishing.