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 Vol. 084 Issue 005 (October 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Getting Things Right
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EDITOR’S NOTE GETTING THINGS RIGHT
T here is a correction on page 12 of this issue to which I would like to call your attention. It is about how our obituary for a longtime contributor who...
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The Death of Truth
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LUEDERS, BILL
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS THE DEATH OF TRUTH
A recent, chilling article in The New Yorker quoted Ryan Kelley, the head of a Michigan-based militia known as the American Patriot Council,...
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Four Years of Taking It to the Streets
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Davis, Joeff
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ON THE LINE by JOEFF DAVIS FOUR YEARS OF TAKING IT TO THE STREETS The presidency of Donald Trump has, from its start, sown national discord. People have organized around a myriad of issues,...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Survival of the Un.ttest Aides to President Trump routinely soften and downplay critical comments about Russia and its strongman President Vladimir Putin, knowing they otherwise will...
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Letters
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LETTERS Reform the Whole System Dean Strang hit the nail on the head as far as what needs to be done to successfully transform the criminal justice system (“It’s Not Just the Cops,”...
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Blast from the Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST TAKING ON THE PRESIDENT In the very first issue of La Follette’s Weekly, later The Progressive, founder Robert M.“Fighting Bob” La Follette declared that his magazine “will...
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Trump's Contempt for the Disabled
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN TRUMP’S CONTEMPT FOR THE DISABLED
A bout three months before the last presidential election in 2016, a Bloomberg poll revealed that, of the countless crass and...
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Leadership by the People
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF LEADERSHIP BY THE PEOPLE
V ice President Mike Pence has been working the Midwest, holding rallies touting the Trump Administration’s fantastic job-creation...
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Donald Trump's Transformative Powers
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SMOKING GUN DONALD TRUMP’S TRANSFORMATIVE POWERS How does one go from being widely recognized as a dangerous fraud who is un.t to hold office to a celebrated incumbent who deserves four more...
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The Rules Be Damned
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Kuhlenbeck, Mike
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The Rules Be Damned Trump, at home and abroad, has served as a proponent of lawlessness and disorder. F rom the beginning, the administration of Donald Trump has shown nothing but contempt for...
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King of the Swamp
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Rosen, David
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KING OF THE SWAMP
How Trump has turned the federal government into a thieves’ paradise.
BY DAVID ROSEN During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared, “It is
time to drain...
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Lock Him Up?
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Blum, Bill
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Lock Him Up? Trump’s misconduct in of.ce could lead to criminal prosecution. A
Bill Blum, a Los Angeles lawyer and a former state of California administrative law judge, is a columnist with the...
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Is Donald Trump Pro-COVID-19?
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Shure, Natalie
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Is Donald Trump Pro-COVID-19?
His bungling of the crisis raises questions about which side he is on. Back in mid-March, when broad swaths of the country were mere days into an unprecedented...
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Trump's Endless Wars
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BENJAMIN, MEDEA; Davies, Nicolas J. S.
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The pretend peacemaker has repeatedly endangered the nation and world. BY MEDEA BENJAMIN AND NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES In the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq...
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'Sheer Cruelty, Racism, and Disregard'
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Goodman, James
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An interactive digital satellite map,showing where the remains of migrantswere found in Arizona’s desert terrain, is a grim reminder of the deadly toll ofTrump’s anti-immigrant policies. Click on...
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Killing Worker Safety
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Cook, Christopher D.
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Killing Worker Safety Amid a deadly pandemic, Trump’s OSHA puts companies
ahead of workers.
BY CHRISTOPHER D. COOK Christopher D. Cook (www.christopherdcook.com) is an award-winning...
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'They Think They're Untouchable'
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Thomhave, Kalena
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‘They Think They’re Untouchable’ Anti-choice zealots get a bump from Trump. BY KALENA THOMHAVE In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as the virus began to spread, Republican...
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Trump's War on the Environment
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Moffitt, Lena
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Trump's War on the Environment How terrible can one administration be? Let us count the ways. BY LENA MOFFITT It's hard to convey the scope of the Trump Administration's attacks on the...
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The Breakage Machine Meets the Climate Crisis
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Mckibben, Bill
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The Breakage Machine Meets the Climate Crisis
Trump’s response to this existential planetary threat has been uniquely destructive. BY BILL MCKIBBEN One pities the historians who will have to...
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Trump to Ocean: 'Drop Dead!'
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HELVARG, DAVID
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Trump to Ocean: ‘Drop Dead!’
The President has shown a callous disregard for the public seas. BY DAVID HELVARG If you truly want to understand what Donald Trump has done to our public seas...
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Stopping the Cycle of Disbelief
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Felton, Ariel
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Stopping the Cycle of Disbelief It’s time to stop rediscovering America’s racial divide. A s the November 3 presidential election draws closer, conversations about race in America cannot be...
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Q: What Is Needed to Have a Free and Fair Election This November?
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McClure
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ONE QUESTION Q: What Is Needed to Have a Free and Fair Election This...
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Failing Upward: The Donald Trump Story
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Sexton, Jared Yates
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BOOK EXCERPT Failing Upward: The Donald Trump Story A new book zeroes in on Trump’s lifelong knack for being a fraud. BY JARED YATES SEXTON Born the son of a wealthy real estate tycoon,...
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'You Vote Out Trump and Then Fight'
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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‘You Vote Out Trump and Then Fight’ Actor John Cusack on the need
to beat the President—and take
on neoliberalism. BY JOHN NICHOLS D onald Trump has no critic more outspoken and...
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Books
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BOOKS Ringing Them Bells
BY BILL LUEDERS
In the early 1970s, Joan Baez moved to the Bay Area, buying a modest home on the San Francisco Peninsula. One of her neighbors was Ginetta Sagan,...
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No Time to Panic
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD NO TIME TO PANIC
I am one of those people who think the relentless coverage of Donald Trump in 2016 essentially handed him the election. He...
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Laughing Matters
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Higgins, Maeve
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MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS LAUGHING MATTERS
W hen The Wall Street Journal writes about comedy, you know it’s going to be funny. Not intentionally funny, of course, but funny. Not...
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Trump's Wrath for Black Athletes
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN TRUMP’S WRATH FOR BLACK ATHLETES
O ne aspect of the upcoming presidential election that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention is whether we are comfortable with a...
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normaleo tropifatalista
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Rivera, Raquel Salas
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POEM by RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA normaleo tropifatalista estar normal en el fatalismo facho;
macanear en vez de batir;
romper tus colmillos cepillando;
que te salgan moretones con el sol;...
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The Better Part of Patriotism
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER THE BETTER PART OF PATRIOTISM
I ’m flying a flag these days. The Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, America’s flag, OUR flag! I’ve strapped it to my 2011...
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