CLIFTON ROSS and MARCY REIN – Venezuelan democracy defenders are showing that the conflict isn’t about left versus right — it’s about opening a space to struggle for genuine freedom and democracy.
Project 2025 Provides a GOP Blueprint for Destroying America’s Labor Unions and the Rights of America’s Workers
LAWRENCE S. WITTNER – Project 2025 provides a powerful reminder to the labor movement and its supporters of how important it is to defeat the election of Trump and his MAGA Republicans this November. In addition, if anyone had any doubts about what Trump and his MAGA Republicans would do in the future about workers’ rights, they had only to look at the labor record of the first Trump administration. That record included sabotaging America’s labor unions, presiding over massive plant closures and job losses, blocking workers’ wage gains, and undermining the health and safety of American workers.
In CNN Interview, Harris Dodged Gaza Genocide and Damaged Her Election Prospects
NORMAN SOLOMON – Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies that enable Israel to continue with mass murder and genocide in Gaza. Polling shows that a pivot toward moral decency would improve her chances of defeating Donald Trump. But during her CNN interview Thursday night, Harris remained in lockstep with President Biden’s unconditional arming of Israel.
New metric in OR will make social-emotional health care more accessible
ERIC TEGETHOFF – Oregon aims to make social and emotional health care for young children more available with a new metric.
The US Operates the Largest Military Base Empire on Earth
GRETA ZARRO – U.S. foreign military bases provoke war, pollute communities, and steal land from Indigenous peoples. If the peace movement is serious about ending the United States’ and its allies’ warmaking, then this global constellation of bases must be curtailed.
How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
LAURIE PARSONS – Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”