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Chomsky: Organizing for a next system
March 30, 2016
The Great Depression was objectively much worse than today, much more severe. Subjectively, it was much better. It was a period of hopefulness
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Early: A Last Hurrah in Richmond? The Mayoral Candidate With Major Funding From Chevron
March 30, 2016
Without campaign finance reform of the sort advocated by Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein in their current presidential campaigns, there’ll be no last hurrah for big money in politics
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Escobar: Brazil, like Russia, under attack by Hybrid War
March 30, 2016
The Wall Street-centered global financial system – which rules over virtually the whole West – simply could not allow national sovereignty in full expression in a major regional actor such as Brazil
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Conway: The bitter fruits of alienation: Belgium’s struggle is the problem of our age
March 30, 2016
“What we feared has happened,” remarked Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium, in the...
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Porter: How Putin’s leverage shaped the Syrian ceasefire
March 30, 2016
When Russian President Vladimir Putin had a substantive meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John...
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March 30, 2016
Brazil’s Workers’ Party thought accommodating capital could save them. That was a fatal mistake
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Draitser: President Trump? US War Machine Rolls On
March 30, 2016
There’s little doubt that, as president, Hillary Clinton will enact the same sorts of disastrous...
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Hallinan: Terrorism: Then and Now
March 30, 2016
If we are to seriously look for solutions, that requires asking “why,” even if the answers are uncomfortable
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Greenwald: FBI-Apple Fight Tied to U.S. Effort to Access the Communications of Everyone Everywhere
March 30, 2016
The FBI’s decision to drop its case now raises new concerns about the strength of security in Apple devices given law enforcement’s ability to unlock the iPhone without Apple’s assistance
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Cockburn: US ground troops are back in Iraq as Iraqi division hides in the mountains
March 30, 2016
The speed with which Isis responded to the arrival of the 15th Iraqi Division and the US Marines at Makhmour shows that they are by no means a spent force
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Kersley: Drones, drugs and death
March 30, 2016
The war on terror’s methods of mass surveillance and remote warfare are not unique. The US is also addicted to covert tools in its ‘war on drugs’, with disastrous consequences
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Grossman: Nuclear Power Plants: Pre-Deployed WMDs
March 30, 2016
Pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction. That’s what nuclear power plants are
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Pilger: Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
March 29, 2016
There is a need, a compulsion, for many liberals in the United States to embrace a leader from within a system that is demonstrably imperial and violent
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March 29, 2016
We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet
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Evans: “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” Abandoned for Forced Asylum
March 29, 2016
The Jungle is an impressive example of how people from different nationalities and ethnicities can live together in relative harmony, despite oppressive hardship
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Prashad: How the Kurds Will Save Syria
March 29, 2016
As the Russian aircraft began their partial withdrawal from Syria, the Syrian Kurds declared their...
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Wilson: Labor for Bernie Activists Take the Political Revolution into Their Unions
March 29, 2016
Can the unions backing Bernie agree on an ongoing strategy to build working-class political power?
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Saxena: A Coup is in the Air: The Plot to Unsettle Rousseff, Lula and Brazil
March 29, 2016
Like past presidents Vargas, Quardos and Goulart, if Dilma Rousseff has to leave office, oil firms would have won. And Brazil would once again have fallen to a coup
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Fisk: Why is David Cameron so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis?
March 29, 2016
The biggest military defeat that Isis has suffered in more than two years. The recapture of Palmyra
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Riexinger: What Die Linke Should Do
March 29, 2016
The German right made stunning gains in this month’s regional elections. The Left must rise to the challenge
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DeMoro: The Remarkable Bernie Sanders Journey That Will Overcome the Crowning of Clinton
March 29, 2016
A look at how the establishment has sought to orchestrate the results, and why the race has a long way to go
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Street: Paul Krugman: a Prizefighter for Hillary Clinton
March 29, 2016
Krugman has chosen to be a prizefighter for the Clintons, the trailblazing champions of the neoliberal
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Engelhardt: Entering Uncharted Territory in Washington
March 28, 2016
Are We in a New American World?
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Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat
March 28, 2016
This state of affairs will invigorate more courageous candidates to follow his lead in challenging establishment, commercialized politics
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Kang-Brown: The Rise of 1,000 Small Jails
March 28, 2016
Very small counties have more people of color behind bars on a given day than NYC and LA
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Mogulescu: Time to Transform Bernies’s Campaign Into a Permanent Organization
March 28, 2016
Committing resources during the campaign to start building a permanent organization would give substance to his call for a political revolution
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Doyle: Why Finland has the best schools
March 28, 2016
What if high-poverty students are the children most urgently in need of the benefits that, for example, American parents of means obtain for their children in private schools?
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Quigley: Texas Mothers Jailed Five Days in Louisiana Over Two Hot Dogs
March 28, 2016
According to The Marshall Project, more than 450,000 people are in jail awaiting trial every day, five out of six of whom are there because they could not make bond
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Rosen: What is Really Behind the UC’s Statement on Anti-Semitism?
March 28, 2016
This is a report that dangerously conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism in ways that make the report a very real threat to the free speech of pro-Palestinian student groups on campus
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Glick: Draft Boards Then, Fossil Fuel Companies Now?
March 27, 2016
The grassroots and activist wing of the climate movement should reflect upon the tactics used by the draft resistance movement, particularly the “ultra resistance” movement
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de Sousa Santos: Brazil: democracy on the edge of chaos and the dangers of legal disorder
March 27, 2016
The first and most pressing task is to save the Brazilian judiciary from the abyss into which it is sinking
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Alberts: An Easter Message on Building Walls or Opening Tombs
March 27, 2016
Being “a good Christian” is not about saying “Merry Christmas” during the holidays. It is about Christians creating “good will” and “peace” among all men and women and children
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Prupis: Nixon’s War on Drugs Began as Strategy to Attack ‘Antiwar Left and Black People’
March 27, 2016
Amid new global discussion about ending prohibition, a buried admission by a former presidential aide goes viral
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Falk: Reflections on the Brussels Attack
March 27, 2016
The colonial, and even post-colonial patterns of intervention were all one-sided with the combat zone reliably confined to the distant other
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Cole: What would effective Counter-Terrorism look like after Brussels?
March 27, 2016
When Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the FBI did not suggest armed patrols of lower middle class white neighborhoods
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Appelbaum: Sanders’s Super Saturday Sweep
March 27, 2016
The Vermont senator swept the Democratic contests in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii, where voters handed Clinton a stunning rebuke
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Oikonomakis: Nicaragua and the Ghosts of Revolution
One could suggest that Nicaragua and its people are suffering more than anything else from a collective trauma
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Finley: Stifling Academic Freedom the NRA Way
The state of Texas passed a campus carry law that is set to take effect on August 1, 2016. Already, professors at the University of Houston were told that once the new law is effective, they might want to “be careful discussing sensitive topics,” “drop certain topics from your curriculum”
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Rasmus: Money And the U.S. Presidential Elections
Poll after public opinion poll in the U.S. today consistently show that U.S. voters overwhelmingly share the opinion that big money billionaires and their corporations were increasingly dominating U.S. elections.
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Herman: News Fit to Print But Not Printed, Part One
The daily front page claim by the management of the New York Times that they provide “All the News That’s Fit to Print” is comical in its audacious scope. “All” covers an awful lot of ground, and if pressed the editors might even concede that something “fit to print” might occur in places not covered by their journalists or correspondents
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Chomsky: A Conversation on Privacy
March 27, 2016
Two-hour panel discussion, which was organized by the Center for Democracy and Technology
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Scahill: Think the NSA Can’t Hack an iPhone Without Apple’s Help? Think Again
March 26, 2016
Interview on surveillance devices developed for military and intelligence purposes but increasingly used by law enforcement agencies to spy on people and convict them of crimes
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Greenwald: Hillary Clinton Has Embraced Some of the Most Brutal Dictators in the World
March 25, 2016
Interview on the election, the attacks in Brussels and more
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March 23, 2016
Brussels attacks is the latest blowblack against western regime change
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Klein: Is capitalism driving climate change?
March 20, 2016
Interview on the link between capitalism and climate change
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Sanders: Bernie Sanders Phoenix Arizona Rally on Super Tuesday 3/15/16
March 16, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally Tuesday evening at the Phoenix Convention Center, ahead of Arizona's March 22 presidential preference election.
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Clemente: Ferguson Solidarity Protesters Fight Charges For Blocking Busy LA Freeway
March 14, 2016
Of the over 300 arrested in those four days, the only people that have been charged and put up for trial have been members of the BLM LA chapter
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Prashad: The Foreign Policy of the 1%
March 11, 2016
Keynote at 2016 Saudi Arabia Summit organized by Code Pink in Washington DC
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Chomsky: On Gitmo and the Security State
February 28, 2016
Interview on his new book, Because We Say So, as well as the closing of Guantanamo Bay and the security state
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Azmy: Will Obama’s Guantánamo Plan Close the Prison or Just Relocate It to a New ZIP Code?
February 26, 2016
Interview on Prresident Obama's plan to Congress to close Guantánamo Bay military prison
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February 25, 2016
Bernie Sanders has the "best policies", but little chance of winning in a "mainly bought" election
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Wainwright: Has Corbyn changed politics?
February 24, 2016
Hilary Wainwright, Liz Davies, Stephen Bush and James Schneider discuss Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
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Goodman: Michigan’s Water Wars
February 19, 2016
In October 2014, General Motors recognized the Flint water was corroding its engines. They got...
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Coates: Voting for Bernie Sanders Despite the Senator’s Opposition to Reparations
February 12, 2016
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities
Recent Blogs
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March 26, 2016
Re-post from 3-18-2011. [historical info taken from American Experience presentation...
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Khan: ISIS terror attacks in Brussels in a wider context of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
March 23, 2016
Nasir Khan On 22 March 2016, some suicide bombers carried...
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Lichtenstein: The Democrats Ignore the Poor at Their Own Peril
March 22, 2016
The Democratic presidential primaries have been upended by Bernie Sanders’s...
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Wittner: The Trillion Dollar Question
March 16, 2016
Isn’t it rather odd that America’s largest single public expenditure...
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libbyliberal: Dr. Jill Stein & the “Green New Deal” Recovery Plan for Ailing America
March 14, 2016
According to the Green Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate, Dr. Jill...
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Zoomkawala: the myth is not the fairytale
March 11, 2016
the myth is not the fairytale, though it pretends to...
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Khan: Gross exploitation of religion by using the blasphemy laws in Pakistan
March 11, 2016
by Dr. Nasir Khan People around the world have become...
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Wilson: Brad Wilson’s Farm Bill Proposal
February 29, 2016
INTRODUCTION (This introduces and supplements my recent op-ed, linked just...
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Wilson: George Monbiot Misinterprets Farm Subsidies 1
February 23, 2016
(This blog is Part 1 of a 2-part article.) Monbiot’s...
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libbyliberal: Dr. Jill Stein as Savior Not Spoiler of 2016 Prez Election
February 17, 2016
Caught in an undertow of ever-escalating amorality, we, the American...
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libbyliberal: Tweeting #JillStein
February 16, 2016
INTRODUCTION TO JILL & GREEN NEW DEAL! #JillStein: Green Party...
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Wittner: Bernie Sanders: The 2016 Peace Candidate
February 12, 2016
On February 10, 2016, Peace Action—the largest peace organization in...
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Evans: What About Classism? The Basic Plan…
February 8, 2016
Below is a presentation of the basic plan, in three...
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Khan: The Palestinians and their Struggle for Freedom
February 8, 2016
Nasir Khan, February 8, 2016 To murder any person, Israeli...
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Emersberger: Sweden and the UK unmasked. Only the UK corporate media could miss it.
February 6, 2016
Below are what I regard as the key excerpts from...
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