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Thanksgiving Offers a Way Forward

Mary Annette Pember Indian Country Today
Indigenous connections to the earth provide blueprint for halting climate change. After COP26, the great climate change summit and its lack of hard action in addressing climate change, I was reminded of the human relationship to the earth.

Tidbits - Nov. 25, 2021 - Reader Comments: Rittenhouse Verdict - Danger for Country; Removal of Gosar; Cubans Don’t Want Regime Change; Public Libraries; Tolstoy, Gorki, children's books; Dan Georgakas - R.I.P.; Native American History and Life; more...

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Reader Comments: Rittenhouse Verdict - Murder, Judges, Juries, Danger for Country; Removal of Gosar; Cubans Don’t Want Regime Change; Public Libraries; Tolstoy, Gorki, children's books; Dan Georgakas - R.I.P.; Native American History and Life; more.

Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela

Leonardo Flores CODEPINK
These include good governance in health, housing and food, an improving economic situation, a (mostly) united left, a divided opposition, and an opposition that is extremely unpopular.

Cuba’s Vaccine Could End Up Saving Millions of Lives

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government’s deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine, and it's poised to help millions around the world.

Republicans are Taking Their Terror Campaign to the Next Level

Lindsay Beyerstein AlterNet
In addition to elections officials across the country being subjected to death threats from voters who have been duped by the Big Lie of election fraud, Wisconsin Republicans are now threatening them with felony charges.

A Look at How Unions Lift Workers

Steven Greenhouse American Prospect
Unions aren’t just about strikes and politics—the stories the media covers. There’s a big story the media usually misses about unions: how, concretely, they improve workers’ lives.