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 Vol. 087 Issue 006 (December 1 2023)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 There Must Be a Ceasefire in Gaza
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EDITOR’S NOTE THERE MUST BE A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA As this issue of The Progressive goes to press, Israel’s war in Gaza begins another grim chapter with the advancement of a ground invasion...
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Our View of an Eye for an Eye
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Stockwell, Norman
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COMMENT by NORMAN STOCKWELL OUR VIEW OF AN EYE FOR AN EYE Bombs and missiles are not the only tools to confront evil and violence in our world. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL With the death toll in...
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The War on Gaza: How a Colonial Mentality Assures Western Failure
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Loewenstein, Jennifer
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THE WAR ON GAZA:
HOW A COLONIAL MENTALITY ASSURES
WESTERN FAILURE M uch has been made of the spectacular failure of Israeli intelligence and surveillance capabilities in the wake of the...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Diversity (“Yuck!”) and Acceptance (“Barf!”) Two librarians in Sterling, Kansas, were fired for putting up displays that featured rainbow colors with the words “We all think...
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Letters
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LETTERS On Following the Golden Rule The Golden Rule (“Sailing the Seas of Conscience,” August/September 2023) not only gathers hope and sparks joy, but it also offers the path toward solutions...
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Blast from the Past
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Raising Our Voices for Peace in the Halls of Power
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Voice, Jewish
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RAISING OUR VOICES FOR PEACE
IN THE HALLS OF POWER
Many of us are mourning our Israeli and Palestinian friends and loved ones. We are in pain and grief, trying to process the horri.c violence...
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Getting Beyond 'Us Versus Them'
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Conniff, Ruth
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GETTING BEYOND ‘US VERSUS THEM’
A war on truth has been raging in the United States for most of the last decade, making it hard to imagine productive civil discourse, democratic...
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Fixing Our Broken System of Long-Term Care
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Ervin, Mike
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FIXING OUR BROKEN SYSTEM OF LONG-TERM CARE
I have a very strong reaction to advertisements for investment products. The bedrock message of these ads is that you can’t count on anyone else to...
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On the Line
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Barre, Wayan
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SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED
W e exist in a strange interregnum. The Trump era, like the COVID-19 pandemic, isn’t really over despite repeated professions to the contrary. And the...
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Don't Oppose Trump's Right to Run
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LUEDERS, BILL
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DON’T OPPOSE TRUMP’S RIGHT TO RUN
M any people across the land are cheered by efforts to address the threat that Donald Trump poses to Ameri can democracy by attempting to keep him off...
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Organize or Die
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Nolan, Hamilton
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BY HAMILTON NOLAN T he nature of movements is that they keep moving forever (or until their goals
are achieved, which often means forever). They can’t be understood until we pull
back far...
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Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right's Plan for a New Confederacy
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MacLean, Nancy; Pearson, Arn
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The Far Right’s Plan
for a New Confederacy
The rightwing subversion of U.S. democracy is closer than you think. BY NANCY MACLEAN and ARN PEARSON rustrated by the surprise defeat of...
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Forging a New Path as Partners with Latin America
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Abbott, Jeff
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Forging a New Path
as Partners with
Latin America
A group of U.S. lawmakers recently visited
South America with a fresh perspective on
U.S. foreign policy in the region.
BY JEFF ABBOTT...
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Why Are We Still Here, and How Will We Survive?
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Devon, Jeanne Chilton
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Why Are We
Still Here?
AND HOW WILL WE SURVIVE?
Finding answers in the third-oldest city on Earth.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JEANNE CHILTON DEVON
A s the co-author of what I like to think of...
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Breaking's Storied Road to the Olympics
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Reeves, Marcus
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Breaking’s Storied Road to the
OLYMPICS
From the South Bronx to the Summer Olympics, this urban dance style .nally gets its due. BY MARCUS REEVES A s the world celebrates the fiftieth...
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Don't Blame the Squad; End the Killing
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LUEDERS, BILL
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Don’t Blame the Squad; End the Killing
Please, don’t send more of my tax dollars for death. BY BILL LUEDERS O n October 10, days after Hamas launched its depraved attack on Israel, White...
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Truth Should Not Be a Casualty of War
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Badawi, Samer
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ALI HAMAD/APA IMAGES Truth Should Not Be a Casualty of War Instead of questioning the news from Gaza, international media should be free to report it for themselves. BY SAMER BADAWI...
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'This Is a Very Dangerous Time'
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Stockwell, Norman
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INTERVIEW ‘This Is a VeryDangerous Time’ An interview with activist and
commentator Phyllis Bennis.
BY NORMAN STOCKWELL P hyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project...
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Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024
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Andersen, Robin
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BOOK EXCERPT Last Year, Americans Were Battered by News Abuse How critical news stories were compromised by lies, misdirection, and propaganda in the service of elite interests. BY ROBIN...
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Favorite Books of 2023
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ELEANOR J. BADER
T he idea that all people can live creative and inspired lives, even if they are in jail, is at the crux of American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (Coffee House Press),...
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I Protest This Bloodshed
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Zimmerman, Rabbi Laurie
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In 2000, it was easy to travel to Gaza. Four massive Israeli military incursions and this current devastating war had not yet pounded it to rubble, had not yet destroyed its fragile economy, water...
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Statement-Making in an Age of Statement-Making
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD STATEMENT-MAKING IN AN AGE OF STATEMENT-MAKING I don’t know where we’ll be with the state of our many wars by the time you read this. The geopolitical...
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Why the Politics of the Sports World Has Been a Hot Mess
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN WHY THE POLITICS OF THE SPORTS WORLD HAS BEEN A HOT MESS E ven leftists who believe there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Demo crats and...
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My Son Throws a Blanket Over My Daughter
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Toha, Mosab Abu
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POEM by MOSAB ABU TOHA My Son Throws a Blanket Over My Daughter
At night, at home, we sit on the floor,
close to each other and
far from the windows and the red
lights of bombs. Our backs...
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How Things Work: Congress's Revolving Door and The Billionaires Behind School Privatization
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER HOW THINGS WORK: CONGRESS’S REVOLVING DOOR
H ear it? What’s that sound? “Whoop, whoop, whoop!” Ooh, it’s Washington’s revolving door, allowing...
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