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Recent ZNet
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Rasmus: ‘Greek Debt Negotiations at 11th Hour’: The Troika’s ‘Carrot and Stick’
June 27, 2015
What Syriza represents is an attempt to return to a Social Democracy of a previous day and age. And that’s just not acceptable in the new, global neoliberal world system
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Tsipras: An End to the Blackmail
June 27, 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announces that a referendum will be held on the Troika bailout deal
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June 27, 2015
California’s healthcare unions are being reorganized. Again
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Roos: What Greece Needs Is a Plan C
June 27, 2015
Only an intensification of the struggle from below and the reinvigoration of a project of the commons can save Greece — and turn it, once again, into a beacon of democracy
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Cockburn: Why join Islamic State?
June 27, 2015
On 16 June, Kurdish militiamen, with the support of US airstrikes, captured the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria, a major crossing point on the Syrian-Turkish border
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Podur: The Beginning of the End for Kagame?
June 27, 2015
If Kagame can't shake off the stench of crimes against humanity, he may find himself becoming another one of the West's dispensable dictators
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Russia: “Here There is a State That Respects Human Rights”
June 27, 2015
Liberation Theology entails the transformation of the human being towards unity and harmony with Earth and all other human beings
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Queally: Sanders’ Socialist Message Translating to Fresh Gains in Key States
June 27, 2015
New early-state polling in New Hampshire and Iowa shows populist message is gaining on Clinton's name recognition
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Ornelas: Food Sovereignty and the US Social Forum
June 27, 2015
Food Empowerment Project seeks to encourage people to look at their food choices as a force for social change
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Holmes: As Kobane comes under ISIL attack, Kurds Encircle, cut off “caliphate”
June 27, 2015
The Kurds of Kobane remained surrounded on all sides by adversaries
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Habermas: Why Angela Merkel Is Wrong On Greece
June 27, 2015
The veil cast over this institutional deficit of an empowered European Parliament based on a European-wide system of political parties has not yet been really shredded
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Street: Democracy Wrecked Again: On the Fast Track of Corporate Authoritarianism
June 26, 2015
Washington runs on corporate and financial cash, connections, reach, and propaganda, not public opinion
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Bond: ‘World Political Economy’ Meets South Africa’s Many Marxisms
June 26, 2015
The time has not been more ripe for a Marxist regroupment here and globally for at least a quarter century
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Buren: Five Things That Won’t Work in Iraq
June 26, 2015
When at First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again
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Solomon: Would Jeffrey Sterling Be in Prison If He Were White?
June 26, 2015
Sterling was one of the CIA’s few African-American case officers, and he became the first to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency
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Lapavitsas: Greece is being blackmailed. Exiting the eurozone is its way out
June 26, 2015
Instead of acceding to the troika’s devastating demands, Syriza should free the country from the trap of the common currency – if the Greek people agree
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Bello: Great Power Rivalry Threatens Smaller States in Western Pacific
June 26, 2015
The latest chapter in the superpower collision is Washington’s strategy of holding low altitude aircraft passes on spots in the South China Sea where China is building military structures over reclaimed land
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O'Hagan: For a Global Fight For a Woman’s Right To Choose
June 26, 2015
It's time for women across the world to unite to forge a global pro-choice movement
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Greenwald: The Greatest Obstacle to Anti-Muslim Fearmongering and Bigotry: Reality
June 26, 2015
The think tank New America issued a report today documenting “the lethal terrorist incidents in the...
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June 26, 2015
Please join the movement to save worker education at CUNY
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Johnson: Federal Documents Debunk Baltimore ‘Gang Threat’ Narrative
June 26, 2015
The fever pitch of panic resulting from the anonymous “gang” threat and “the purge” narrative is what ultimately led to curfews and a severe dampening of the largely lawful and peaceful protests in the wake of Freddie Gray’s funeral
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Bernie: Over 1,000 local union leaders and members back Bernie Sanders for President
June 26, 2015
Grassroots labor initiative urges Democratic primary support for Sanders by AFL-CIO and national unions
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Serwer: Why We’re Finally Taking Down Confederate Flags
June 26, 2015
Slavery was the cause of the war, white supremacy was the cornerstone of Confederate society
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Wainwright: Higher aspirations: politics beyond the ballot box
June 25, 2015
As with the Scottish referendum, electoral defeat can be transformed into political success. A new movement is rising
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Isaacs: From Baltimore to Palestine
As I witness the increasingly militarized attacks on the rebellious neighborhoods in the “leading democracy” of the world, they seem more and more like the massive armed force brought to bear on Palestinians in the “only democracy in the Middle East.”
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LaTour: Feminism Unfinished; What Women Want
Two terrific books have arrived at the same time and serve as complementary entry points to a similar topic. Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements, is the more accessible—a book in three parts, each by a different author. The historian Dorothy Sue Cobble tackles the period between what is often called the First Wave of the women’s movement
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American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century is the most comprehensive and thoroughly-researched account of the life of A.J. Muste yet to appear. It is particularly valuable in its treatment of the years that Muste devoted to building a labor movement—1919 to 1936
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Laursen: Why Things Are Going to Get Worse…And Why We Should Be Glad
Ask 50 people when the capitalist era began, and you’ll probably get close to 50 different answers, ranging from Italy in the 15th century to England in the 18th.
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Herman: Soft Power Dictatorships
The New York Times is a very good newspaper, except where ideology and party line demands intrude. Unfortunately these intrusions occur often and are of great importance.
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Visram: EU’s Military Strategy to deepen Mediterranean Tragedies
More than 800 migrants died on April 19 this year when their overcrowded boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. The tragedy sent soaring this year’s Mediterranean death toll which was by then around 1,500
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Breiner: Why We Should Spend Billions More On Trains
Getting cars off the roads would help combat climate change and improve air quality. Government policy could make this happen. From Acela to Alaska, U.S. train travel offers a practical, affordable, and green alternative to travel by car and plane.
Recent Audio/Videos
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June 19, 2015
According to a report, even the killing of the boys playing ball on the beach by Israeli military last year before the international press was deemed a legitimate act of war
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Brand: Why Would Fox Defend Police Pulling Guns On Children?
June 15, 2015
Discussion on how Fox News reacts to the video that shows a policeman pointing a gun at children at a pool party in Texas
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June 13, 2015
Newly revealed details of the draft show the TPP would give major pharmaceutical companies more power over public access to medicine and weaken public healthcare programs
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Greenwald: Extremely Vulnerable
June 5, 2015
The large tech companies like Google and Microsoft and Apple collaborated very aggressively with the NSA in turning over their users' data without much protest
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Begley Jr: ‘Climate Change Deniers Are Like Alcoholics’
May 30, 2015
Interview on environmental activism, climate change, the California drought and the future of our planet
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Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Politico article on Argentina and Greece is grossly inaccurate
June 28, 2015
Argentina defaulted on its foreign debt in December 2001. Its...
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Khan: Killing of the Shia Muslims in Kuwait on June 26, 2015
June 27, 2015
Nasir Khan, June 27, 2015 Those who commit such crimes...
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Hermann: The dilemma of CorporateCare
June 27, 2015
Reposted from HermannView. The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of...
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Khan: The ‘Special’ Relationship of the United States and Israel
June 25, 2015
Nasir Khan, June 25, 2015 In a comment on a...
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Bourgault-Christie: Compassion Fatigue and Charleston
June 24, 2015
The shootings in Charleston have captured a nation’s attention. There...