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Peter Certo

Donald Trump
No Trump 'Blue Collar Boom':  1/2 of Americans work Low-Wage Jobs and Manufacturing is in Decline

No Trump ‘Blue Collar Boom’: 1/2 of Americans work Low-Wage Jobs and Manufacturing is in Decline

Peter Certo

(Otherwords.org) – Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its roots? By Peter Certo | February 5, 2020 There’s an image burned into my brain from childhood: the graffitied train tracks along the intersection of Fifth and Patterson in downtown […]

Constitution
Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

Peter Certo

(Afterwords.org) – Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden. “Has Trump finally gone too far?” There’s a headline you’ve seen a thousand times. At last, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he has. A whistleblower says Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine to pressure the country’s […]

Democratic Socialists of America
It isn’t Just Trump: It is Washington DC out to get The Squad

It isn’t Just Trump: It is Washington DC out to get The Squad

Peter Certo

Trump’s not the only one terrified of these four congresswomen — leading Democrats apparently are, too

Plutocracy
It's the Corporations, Stupid.  Russia Collusion was never the Real Scandal

It’s the Corporations, Stupid. Russia Collusion was never the Real Scandal

Peter Certo

Arm in arm with the private prison industry, they’ve loosened federal restraints on private detention facilities

Donald Trump
Trump Hawks don't Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

Trump Hawks don’t Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

Peter Certo

This fall, the same Pompeo shared a photo of himself beaming and shaking hands with the murderous Saudi Arabian crown prince

Immigration
Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rant

Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rant

Peter Certo

The point is systematic disinformation, to the point that facts mean nothing.

Supreme Court
The Gorsuch Court is Crushing Workers and Democracy: Can Dems find the Courage to Fight Back?

The Gorsuch Court is Crushing Workers and Democracy: Can Dems find the Courage to Fight Back?

Peter Certo

Progressive grassroots groups are on the march, but is it too little too late?

Immigration
Nevermind the Wall — They’re Building Warehouses for Refugee Children

Nevermind the Wall — They’re Building Warehouses for Refugee Children

Peter Certo

The newest plank of immigration enforcement? Kidnapping children and piling them into detention centers.

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