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How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine
By Neela Banerjee / Inside Climate News.
One of the longest and most consequential campaigns against science in modern history is becoming more extreme—and turning against its originators.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Geneva Speech
Jeremy Corbyn / Socialist Project.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking in Geneva in honor of International Human Rights Day cited the need to: “Build a new social and economic system with human rights and justice at its core. Deliver climate justice and a better way to live together on this planet. Recognise the humanity of refugees and offer them a place of safety. Work for peace, security and understanding. The survival of our common humanity requires nothing less.”
The Real Story Behind Katharine Graham and “The Post”
By Norman Solomon
Movie critics are already hailing “The Post,” directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Millions of people will see the film in early winter. But the real-life political story of Graham and her newspaper is not a narrative that’s headed to the multiplexes.
Democrats Have Much to Learn and the Odious Have Much to Teach Them
By Andrew Levine / Counterpunch.
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Trading Jerusalem for Iran
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
US president Donald J. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem potentially sets the stage for a controversial American effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The United States and the two Gulf states see a US peace plan-in-the-making as a way of paving the way for more overt cooperation with Israel in confronting Iran, whom they accuse of destabilizing the Middle East.