December 2016

Introducing the New Pledge of Allegiance

December 30, 2016

ROBERT kOEHLER - The challenge presented by Trump requires something more than resistance. I believe it requires reaching for, and pledging our allegiance to, a much larger, more compassionate and peace-oriented country than the one we have now. It requires pledging allegiance to the planet and the future.

Tags: cabinet, democracy, legitimacy, Robert Koehler, Standing Rock, Trump, war
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Yes, Dubya, Now I Miss You

December 28, 2016

DAVID SWANSON - When George W. Bush made the case for attacking and destroying the nation of Iraq, he made claims that, if true, would have justified nothing. And he proposed as evidence for those claims fraudulent, implausible, and even ridiculous pieces of information. But he was expected to produce evidence. There was no...

Tags: Barack Obama, Craig Murray, David Swanson, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks
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Climate-Change Effects Happening Faster Than Expected

December 26, 2016

ERIC TEGETHOFF - Many of the effects of climate change scientists did not expect to happen for decades into the future are happening now. According to a new study in the journal Science, researchers found that every ecosystem on Earth is being impacted by a warming globe, from the genetic level up.

Tags: Eric Tegethoff
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Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

December 24, 2016

NORMAN SOLOMON - Many big factors affect any presidential race, and the Russian government may have tried to be one of them for the 2016 election—though it’s hardly the slam dunk that agencies like the CIA and U.S. mass media are now claiming. But in any event, this month it has become routine for...

Tags: CIA, DNC, Donald Trump, Electoral College, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Hillary Clinton, McCarthyism, Norman Solomon, TPP, Vladimir Putin
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A Visit to Russia for “Life Extension” of the Planet

December 22, 2016

BRIAN TERRELL - The life extension of our planet needs to be a universal goal. To speak of, let alone pour a nation’s wealth into a program of “life extension programs for weapon systems” is nothing short of madness. Our Russian friends’ confidence in our collective sanity and the steadiness of our leadership, especially...

Tags: Brian Terrell, National Nuclear Security Administration, NATO
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How to Scrap the Electoral College

December 20, 2016

JOHN LAFORGE - The Electoral College is based on state law, so when enough additional states pass the National Popular Vote bill -- enough to add up to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House -- then the “electors” would be legally bound to vote for the popular vote winner and...

Tags: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John LaForge
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People Are in the Streets Protesting Donald Trump. But When Does Protest Actually Work?

December 18, 2016

ERICA CHENOWETH - The politics of dissent is back in the United States. Since 2011, the country has witnessed the resurgence of popular action — from Occupy Wall Street to Flood Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to Standing Rock. Since Nov. 8, many Americans have participated in protests and marches in nearly every...

Tags: Donald Trump, Erica Chenoweth
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Détente Now: A New Call for Peace, Security, and Cooperation

December 16, 2016

GILBERT DOCTOROW, UTE FINCKH-KRAMER, LUDGER VOLMER, ROLF EKEUS and NOAM CHOMSKY - A transatlantic appeal for a new policy of détente with Russia has been launched. The declaration’s authors invite the general public to join leading political figures and social activists who have publicly rallied to support the call.

Tags: American Committee for East West Accord, Association of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, Baltic countries, Chancellor Willy Brandt, Charter of Paris, Daniel Ellsberg, European Union, Gilbert Doctorow, Ludger Volmer, NATO, Noam Chomsky, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Rolf Ekéus, Syria, Ukraine, Ute Finckh-Krämer, Veteran Intelligence Officials for Sanity, World Council of Churches
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Coalition Applauds Final Denial of Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline

December 14, 2016

NEWS RELEASE FROM ROGUE CLIMATE (SENT BY HANNAH SOHL) - Late Friday, December 9, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request from Canadian oil and gas companies for rehearing of the case surrounding the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline, finalizing the commission's rejection of the...

Tags: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Hannah Sohl, Rogue Climate
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The Road Ahead in Saving the Climate

December 12, 2016

HUNTER CUTTING - Saving the climate and reaping the power of renewable energy is a vision that can help power the climate/sustainability movement as we go back to work. We will get no help from the Republican Congress or the Trump presidency in this effort. But the economics of the ongoing revolution in the...

Tags: Hunter Cutting, Paris Agreement
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What Being a Refugee in Afghanistan Means

December 10, 2016

KATHY KELLY - December 10th marks the U.N. Human Rights Day, celebrating and upholding the indispensable and crucial declaration of universal human rights. On the eve of this event, I visited a refugee camp housing 700 families in Kabul. Conditions in refugee camps can be deplorable, intolerable. Here, the situation is best described as...

Tags: Department of Defense, Kathy Kelly, Marshall Plan, Taliban, U.N. Human Rights Day, UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites

December 8, 2016

NORMAN SOLOMON - We still don’t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting “The List” -- the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper’s fawning coverage on November 24. The project of smearing 200 websites with one broad brush wouldn’t have gotten far without...

Tags: Hillary Clinton, McCarthyism, Norman Solomon, President Harry Truman, Rachel Maddow, The New Yorker
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Congress Must Drain the Swamp, Not Clog the Drain

December 6, 2016

PRESS RELEASE, PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY - Congress must take the shackles off of federal agencies trying to drain the Washington swamp and fix government, nine newly elected members of Congress told their future colleagues in a letter circulated November 28..

Tags: IRS, Laura Epstein, People for the American Way, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Trump’s Possible Path out of Ukraine Crisis

December 4, 2016

JONATHAN MARSHALL - If Donald Trump wants to make a decisive and constructive mark on U.S. foreign policy early in his presidency, there’s no better place to start than by helping to end the brutal war in Ukraine that has claimed some 10,000 lives.

Tags: Crimea, Donald Trump, Jonathan Marshall, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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Focus on the Silver Lining

December 2, 2016

PETER BERGEL - The election is over and Trump won. In a country with a sane election system, he would not have, but we have the Electoral College, so he did. In Joe Hill’s immortal words, “Don’t mourn; organize!”

Tags: Dakota Access Pipeline, Peter Bergel, President-elect Donald Trump, Sanctuary Cities, Vladimir Putin
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