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December 12, 2018

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Op-Ed Politics & Elections

Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Helped Bush Sr. Get Away With Murder

William Barr, an Iran-Contra alum, is a menace to the cause of justice.

by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

December 12, 2018

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News Culture & Media

The Trump Administration Just Killed Net Neutrality for Text Messages

Republicans say it will combat robotexts, but the lone Democrat on the FCC called it doublespeak for censorship.

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout

December 12, 2018

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Photo Essay Immigration

Tijuana Crossing: Asylum Seekers Hold Out Hope in the Face of Trumpism

The dual threats of violence and poverty are forcing thousands to move away from their families.

by Nadia Tecuapetla, Truthout

December 12, 2018

The exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians.

Op-Ed Prisons & Policing

US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

The exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians.

by Noah Habeeb, Craig Willse, Truthout

President George H.W. Bush listens to Deputy Attorney General William Barr at a White House portico ceremony announcing Barr's nomination to succeed Attorney General Dick Thornburgh on October 16, 1991, in Washington, DC. — Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Helped Bush Sr. Get Away With Murder

The Trump Administration Just Killed Net Neutrality for Text Messages

Tijuana Crossing: Asylum Seekers Hold Out Hope in the Face of Trumpism

Police exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians. — US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

Featured

Activists march in New York City on September 5, 2017. Ongoing efforts to sabotage Medicaid and deny coverage to immigrant families will increase the uninsured.

Under Trump, More People Live Without Health Coverage

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

PresidentTrump walks to board Marine One and depart from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, December 7, 2018, in Washington, DC.

If There’s No “Smocking” Gun, Why Is Trump So Terrified?

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

A Yemeni mother holds her malnourished child as they wait for treatments in a medical center in the village of Al Mutaynah in the Tuhayta province in western Yemen on November 29, 2018.

Public Pressure Could Halt US Support of Yemen War

by: Marjorie Cohn,; Truthout

Disabled activists on Capitol Hill lobby Congress to approve the Americans with Disabilities Act, May 17, 1990.

The ADA Is Not Bush Sr.’s Legacy. It Belongs to Disability Activists.

by: Kara Mannor,; Truthout

Politics & Elections

Then US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley attends a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East including the Question of Palestine at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on October 18, 2018.

Will Trump Dump Pence for Nikki Haley?

by: Heather Digby Parton,; Salon

President George H.W. Bush listens to Deputy Attorney General William Barr at a White House portico ceremony announcing Barr's nomination to succeed Attorney General Dick Thornburgh on October 16, 1991, in Washington, DC.

Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Helped Bush Sr. Get Away With Murder

by: William Rivers Pitt,; Truthout

More than 1,000 young protesters lined the halls of Congress and lobbied at congressional offices on Monday to demand that their elected representatives back the Green New Deal.

Over 140 Arrested as Youth-Led Demonstrators Demand Green New Deal

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

State ballot measures to fix gerrymandering were popular this year with both Democratic and Republican voters.

Support for Redistricting Reform Crossed Party Lines in 2018

by: Peter Miller &; Brianna Cea,; Brennan Center for Justice

LGBTQ Rights

"Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."

The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

The annual Pride Parade makes its way past the The Stonewall Inn on June 24, 2018, in New York City.

Gay Emancipation Goes to Market

by: Roderick A. Ferguson,; Polity Press

"Butterflies and Dandelions."

Trans Communities of Color Survive, Thrive and Fight Back

by: Jordan Scruggs,; Truthout

Educational institutions must once again become sites of fascist resistance and defend their trans students.

Schools Must Be Crucial Sites in the Struggle for Trans Liberation

by: Aleo Pugh and Victor Ultra Omni,; Truthout

Exclusives

Richard Wolff: There Are No Blueprints for Revolution

Richard Wolff: There Are No Blueprints for Revolution

For socialism to succeed, power and control of production must lie with the working people, says the economist.

by: Vaios Triantafyllou,; Truthout

Can the Nation’s First Charter School Strike Transform the Industry?

Can the Nation’s First Charter School Strike Transform the Industry?

Illinois state reps, in solidarity with Acero charter network strikers, announced bills to reform the charter industry.

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

Progressive Activists Are Winning in Red States

Progressive Activists Are Winning in Red States

Organizers have broken with tradition to set up a grassroots infrastructure that could lead to future wins.

by: Michael Arria,; Truthout

Environment & Health

A young boy contemplates his next move as he trudges through knee-deep marsh mud to view the Assateague wild ponies' arrival during the annual Chincoteague Island Pony Swim in Chincoteague Island, Virginia, on July 26, 2017.

Trump Guts Protections for 60 Percent of US’s Streams, Wetlands and Waterways

by: Julia Conley,; Common Dreams

Typhoon Haiyan Survivor: Fossil Fuel Companies Killed My Family

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Trump’s Energy Adviser Runs Away at UN Climate Talks

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Teen Climate Activist Confronts World Leaders at UN Summit

Teen Climate Activist Confronts World Leaders at UN Summit

by: Amy Goodman,; Democracy Now!

Economy & Labor

There’s a Hunger Crisis in North Carolina

by: Tina Tru,; Socialist Worker

Low-Income People Suffer When Government Tech Contracts Change

by: Debbie Weingarten,; TalkPoverty.org

A demonstrator throws a tear gas canister back at police outside the Argentine Congress as deputies began discussion on the government's austere 2019 budget in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 24, 2018.

Richard Wolff: There Are No Blueprints for Revolution

by: Vaios Triantafyllou,; Truthout

Trade: It’s Still About Class, Not Country

by: Dean Baker,; Truthout

Art & Cartoons

Unindicted and Excited

by: Matt Bors,; Andrews McMeel Syndication

Tips for Holiday Cheer

Cartoons

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Progressive Picks

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"Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."

LGBTQ Rights

The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive

Author Roderick A. Ferguson discusses the commodification of queerness.

by: Samantha Borek,; Truthout

Book

One-Dimensional Queer

We have told ourselves that queer politics came to issues of race, colonization, incarceration and capitalism later in its development. This book tells a different story.

War & Peace

A Yemeni man goes through the wreckage of a building that was reportedly destroyed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the capital Sanaa on September 5, 2018.

Yemenis Seek Asylum on Island That Resists US Militarization

by: Kathy Kelly,; Voices for Creative Nonviolence

A Massive US Propaganda Machine Bolstered George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq

by: Amy Goodman &; Juan González,; Democracy Now!

US Owes Reparations to Panama Over Bush’s Invasion

US Owes Reparations to Panama Over Bush’s Invasion

by: Amy Goodman &; Juan González,; Democracy Now!

Yemenis dig graves for children, who where killed when their bus was hit during a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Saada, on August 10, 2018.

The Long, Brutal US War on Children in the Middle East

by: Kathy Kelly,; Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Prison & Policing

Sheriff’s Deputies Protect Corporate Interests in Bayou Bridge Case

by: Karen Savage,; Bridge the Gulf

Police exchange programs have been devastating for both communities of color in the US and Palestinians.

US and Israeli Police Are Sharing Violent and Repressive Tactics

by: Noah Habeeb &; Craig Willse,; Truthout

French soldiers stand guard in front of the entrance of a synagogue in Lille, northern France, on January 13, 2015. France announced on January 12 the unprecedented deployment of 10,000 soldiers to boost security, including at Jewish schools, a day after almost four million people marched in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

On Hanukkah, Let’s Challenge Militarized Security Responses to Anti-Semitism

by: Brant Rosen,; Truthout

Tear Gas at the Border: Trump and the Endgame of Capitalism

Border Patrol Officer Who Shot Unarmed Teenager on Mexican Soil Is Acquitted

by: Amy Goodman &; Juan González,; Democracy Now!

Series

After the Raid

After the Raid

Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.

Visions of 2018

Visions of 2018

Activist leaders address what they would like to see created, built or begun this year.

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Human Rights and Global Wrongs

Marjorie Cohn analyzes human rights and executive branch lawbreaking.

Planet or Profit

Planet or Profit

Investigating systemic threats to the ecosystem from transglobal corporate profit-seeking.

Progressive Picks

Progressive Picks

Books and DVDs that we find thought-provoking and insightful.

The Public Intellectual

The Public Intellectual

Progressive academics address important social issues.

Education & Youth

Educators from the Acero charter school network hold signs as they protest during a strike outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters on December 5, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

Can the Nation’s First Charter School Strike Transform the Industry?

by: Candice Bernd,; Truthout

When Schools Use Child Protective Services as a Weapon Against Parents

by: Rebecca Klein &; Caroline Preston,; The Hechinger Report

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos talks with with Bill Cordes of the department's Budget Service before testifying in front of a Senate subcommittee on the department's budget request for fiscal year 2019 on June 5, 2018.

Betsy DeVos Uses Our Taxes for Koch Brothers’ Agenda

by: Jeff Bryant,; Campaign for America's Future

Why Don’t Detroit Public Schools Have Safe Drinking Water?

by: Judy Molland,; Care2

Culture & Media

The Trump Administration Just Killed Net Neutrality for Text Messages

by: Mike Ludwig,; Truthout

What Marc Lamont Hill’s Pro-Palestine Message Means to a Palestinian

by: Osama Alkhawaja,; Truthout

New Film Warns Against Spain’s Fascist History Repeating Itself

New Film Warns Against Spain’s Fascist History Repeating Itself

by: Amy Goodman &; Nermeen Shaikh,; Democracy Now!

Marc Lamont Hill visits "Sway In The Morning" on Eminem's Shade 45 channel with Sway Calloway at SiriusXM Studio on August 1, 2016, in New York City.

CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill for Daring to Denounce Oppression of Palestinians

by: Jake Johnson,; Common Dreams