Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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Opinion
As Trump era closes, Washington cannot rule in the old way
January 19, 2021A return to a neoliberal agenda will only deepen the crisis. People can no longer accept a system dominated by billionaires and millionaires—from either major party.
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Politics
The people, not the military, must protect democracy in America
September 29, 2020The generals’ call for the Joint Chiefs of Staff to drag a resisting Trump out of the White House is not sufficient to protect democracy.
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Opinion
Barr echoes Trump’s white supremacy by comparing mask-wearing to slavery
September 18, 2020If white workers want to abandon white supremacy, which offers no hope of ending the unemployment and disease with which they are being plagued, they must join Black Lives Matter and other popular movements for democracy.
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Opinion
Racism and anti-communism: Why the U.S. has no real health system
September 9, 2020Racist hatred of Black people and ideological hatred of socialism fueled the political movement against a national system that makes sense.
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Opinion
Impeachment seems forever ago, but Trump’s Washington still a swamp of corruption
September 4, 2020Trump's impeachment and trial seems like a lifetime ago. Since the onset of the pandemic, it has been mostly forgotten. But the corruption keeps on rolling.
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News
Demands grow to free ‘Grace,’ Black teen jailed over homework
August 3, 2020A Michigan judge’s outrageous sentence is only one of the latest examples of the immoral school to prison pipeline destroying the lives of young people across America.
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News
Trump’s fascist political strategy
July 27, 2020Since Trump's U.S. Senate allies protected him from prosecution during his impeachment, he has a powerful incentive to continue disobeying the law. There remain few forms of Constitutional authority to check his power.
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Politics
We cannot have the police viewing the people as the enemy
July 17, 2020Systemic racism will not end because some city leaders participate in painting “Black Lives Matter.” Those are valuable gestures, but deeper social changes are necessary.
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