Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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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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Politics
U.S. government’s legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions
June 15, 2020The people are not waiting for politicians and pundits to decide what's possible. They're making their own demands and looking for transformational change.
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Opinion
Trump wants repression and police violence to be capitalism’s new normal
June 3, 2020For those who believe fascism is a deviation from capitalist norms, the truth has been laid bare.
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Politics
Trump administration weaponizes lies and conspiracies instead of solutions
May 26, 2020The contradiction in the Trump administration's information reflects its divided, disorganized, ill-managed, ill-tempered, and at many times imbecilic leadership.
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