As Gentrification Persists in San Francisco, Evictions Take New Forms
Adam Hudson, Truthout: As San Francisco rents continue to rise and gentrification spreads, unscrupulous landlords are using new tactics to evict tenants from affordable housing, including bullying residents, going “out of business” and misusing zoning laws.
The Increasing Concentration of Capital Precludes Democracy
Tariq Ali, Verso Books: The contradiction between the dense concentration of capital and the needs of a majority of the population is becoming explosive. But the hollowing out of democracy is not a process that can be reversed by parliamentary decree alone.
UN Security Council: Right Venue for Iran Deal, Right Venue for Israel-Palestine
Robert Naiman, Truthout: The Netanyahu lobby has too much power in Washington for DC to be the center of a resolution to the conflict. That is precisely why the Netanyahu lobby has insisted that Washington must be the center of Israel-Palestine diplomacy.
Women Up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
Charlotte María Sáenz, Other Worlds: Women are increasingly represented on governing councils and active in the armed ranks of resistance groups, but the real revolution is seen within the domestic sphere, where caring for children, health and home are shared labor between men and women.
Richard Falk on ISIS and Islamic “Essentialism”
Dan Falcone, Truthout: The international law and foreign relations scholar deconstructs “essentialism”: right-wing political commentators’ attribution of recent events in the Middle East, such as the ISIS beheadings or the destruction of Assyrian artifacts in the Mosul Museum in Iraq, to the essential character of Islam.
Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: “This Is A Big Deal”
Alexandros Orphanides, In These Times: Proponents of the TPP argue that the agreement will encourage global economic integration, increase US competitiveness in a “dynamic Asia region” and stimulate political reform leading to more open markets. All this, they claim, will result in better jobs, wages and products.
Consumers Getting “Skinned” by Health Insurers
Wendell Potter, Center for Public Integrity: Conventional wisdom holds that consumer-driven health care has contributed to a slowing in the rate of medical inflation. It also undoubtedly has contributed to a very troubling phenomenon: people with health insurance who are no longer getting the care they need.
Why Did Miriam Carey Die After Wrong Car Move at White House Checkpoint?
Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, Democracy Now!: As new details have emerged about two Secret Service agents accused of drunk driving into a White House security barricade, we look back to another Secret Service scandal – the shooting of Miriam Carey on October 3, 2013.
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Guiding Obama Into Global Make-Believe
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: This US pattern of exaggeration – making scary claims about Ukraine without releasing supporting evidence – has even begun to erode the unity of the NATO alliance, where Germany is openly criticizing the Obama administration’s heavy-handed use of propaganda against Russia.
Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: It could take years to restore the equilibrium Big Oil banked on just a year ago. In the meantime, disruptive energy innovations will keep reducing and displacing demand for fossil fuels, and governments will step up green-energy mandates.
Science Denier Ted Cruz Doesn’t Understand NASA’s Core Mission at All
Steve Williams, Care2: Putting science-denier Senator Ted Cruz in charge of NASA’s funding oversight was never going to go well. Last week the Republican lawmaker really began flexing his muscles, claiming that NASA should focus only on space exploration and stop looking at more earthly matters.
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: People like Senator Jim Inhofe, America’s climate change-denier-in-chief, would tell you that this winter was proof that climate change and global warming are a big joke. But here’s the thing: In most of United States, this winter was not cold.
Fitness Devices Make it Harder to Lie to Ourselves
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: You might say that the truth will show up on the scale and your waistline eventually. Yes, but that’s too future-oriented. You need to guilt-trip yourself in the here and now.
BuzzFlash
Rick Scott’s Ban on State Officials Acknowledging Global Warming Imperils Florida
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Although Florida’s coast is in danger of permanent flooding due to global warming, Governor Rick Scott has reportedly issued a gag order on state officials, prohibiting them from even mentioning climate change.
Community Rights vs. Corporate Rights: Citizens Fight for Home Rule Against Fracking and Pipelines
UN Panel to Consider US “Failure” to Clear Up Racial Murders of Civil Rights Era
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Charles P. Pierce: There Is No Republican Middle
Black Women’s Lives Matter: A Chant Less Often Heard
We’re Pumping So Much Groundwater That It’s Causing the Oceans to Rise
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Obama Proposes Mandatory Voting, Says it Would Be “Transformative”
The Unbearable Cruelty of the GOP Budget
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