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October 17, 2020

The Armenia and Azerbaijan War: How Can We Support Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

Nicolas J S Davies CounterPunch

Map of the region where a war rages between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Instead of exploiting the Armenian and Azerbaijan conflict, the U.S. should work with the OSCE Minsk Group to support a ceasefire and a stable negotiated peace that respects the human rights and self-determination of all the people of the region.

October 17, 2020

Will Escaping Americans Test Canada’s Capacity for Sympathy?

Leo Panitch Socialist Project

We wait, helplessly, to see whether the forces opposed to Trumpism inside the United States will succeed.

October 17, 2020

How Unions Can Lay the Ground for the Next Upsurge

Mark Meinster Labor Notes

What if the key to union growth isn’t simply more “smart organizing” but an entirely different strategic approach?

October 17, 2020

Amy Barrett and the Corporate Crusade for Control of the Supreme Court

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) NBC

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing October 13th.

This week US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) charged corporate dark money is behind a plot, bearing all the marks of a covert operation, to control the Supreme Court and undermine the independence of the judicial branch of the federal government.

October 16, 2020

The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances

By Martín Espada Poem-a-Day

Martín Espada gives an eloquent elegy to Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, a Puerto Rican abolitionist and revolutionary who addressed issues of pandemic and racial oppression.

October 16, 2020

Labor’s Electoral Strategy: It’s Not Enough to Reach Our Members

HAROLD MEYERSON The American Prospect

Two extensive union programs—one long established, one new—are focusing on swaying working-class voters who, like most Americans, don’t belong to unions.

How Systemic Racism Shaped the Ecosystems of U.S. Cities

October 16, 2020

Historically Black and immigrant communities are more vulnerable to environmental stressors

Demi Lovato | Commander In Chief

October 16, 2020

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Totally Under Control | Documentary

October 16, 2020

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the stark disparity between Covid 19 deaths in the U.S. and South Korea. With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Gibney exposes a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of Presidential leadership.

Trump’s Covid Rally | Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse

October 16, 2020

Jordan Klepper hits a Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to finger the pulse on Trump's COVID response, the SCOTUS pick, QAnon, and the legitimacy of the election. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #JordanKlepper