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Category: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

Presidential Endorsement Neutrality

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Learning from such experience, an even more devious Trump intends, if reelected, to populate his administration with men and women willing to carry out his orders unconditionally.

Preferring to remain neutral as opposed to endorsing a presidential candidate resulted in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post attracting significant attention. These two major…

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Followers of Donald Trump

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Trump is falling concerningly short of any standard of fitness for office and displaying alarming characteristics of declining acuity.”

To those of you who have been avid followers of Donald Trump, you will notice that his public appearances follow a typical direction. He has a…

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Trump and His Racism

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Although there are some conservatives who have denounced the tactics of their more extreme brethren, they seem to be isolated voices in the wilderness rather than taken seriously among Republicans as rational voices of reason.

Over the past few months, Donald Trump has engaged in a passive-aggressive approach in his sporadic, sinister practice of stoking White and supremacist sentiment. Recently, he…

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What We Can Learn From Gen Z Workers

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Rather than blame young workers for bad attitudes, we need to understand why Gen Z prioritizes its well-being over company health—and learn from them.

My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications and future careers. So,…

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Trump’s VP Choice Delights, Disappoints and Repels Republicans

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Is there anything J. D. Vance sincerely believes?

After all the speculation about whom he would choose, Donald Trump selected J. D. Vance, the junior senator of Ohio, as his running mate in the…

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Who’s a Bigger Threat to Democracy—Immigrants, or Billionaires?

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Don’t be distracted by the anti-immigrant rhetoric this election. The real impact on democracy comes from moneyed elites.

When President Joe Biden said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe recently, “I’m getting so frustrated with the elites… the elites of the party.…

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Assassination Attempt Reaction

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

it did not take long for partisan politics to emerge.

We all are aware of the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump that occurred on July 13th at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. What makes…

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The Imperative To Reduce the Chances of a Trump Victory

By Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen Guest Commentators

Biden’s presence at the top of the ticket promises to not only deliver the White House to Trump but also the House and Senate to Republicans.

Let’s face it: Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November, with his active supporters even more motivated…

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Project 2025 and the Alarming Plan It Lays Out

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Anyone who believes Trump did not have any knowledge of this plan, is as gullible as they come.

On July 3, Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat , author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, commented that “one of the most alarming things” about “Project 2025” is…

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Grocery Workers File Union Democracy Lawsuit

By Lisa Xu, Labor Notes Guest Commentator

If the lawsuit succeeds, members of other unions with similar complaints might successfully sue their unions (and likely recoup the cost of their legal fees as well).

Members seeking to transform the United Food and Commercial Workers have added a new weapon to their arsenal: legal action. Grocery workers Kyong Barry (Local 3000…

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