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Savio: Destruction of Our Planet
April 24, 2016
The environment and the future - economic misdirection...
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Savov: The Klinika squat: revitalizing anti-capitalism in Prague
April 23, 2016
An autonomous social center in Prague that revitalized the city’s anti-capitalist politics and culture has come under attack from the establishment
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Kamal: Climate: Africa’s Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
April 23, 2016
“No continent will be struck as severely by the impacts of climate change as Africa”
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April 23, 2016
Saudi Arabia's million barrel a day output, plus its strategic location in the Middle East, means the West must pay obeisance to the regional head-choppers
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Queally: Death to America: Suicide Surge Parallels Era of Economic Woes
April 23, 2016
Across nearly all demographics, thirty-year trend shows increasing numbers of people living in the United States would rather not live at all
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Lamrani: How does US pursue ‘regime change’ in Cuba through ‘normalization’?
April 23, 2016
US-Cuba relations and how these relations are the continuation of the past painful US policies against Cuba
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Raina: Sheikh Peer of the Twenty Third
April 23, 2016
You died the day you were born. And immortalized The day you died
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Sturgis: After years of rollbacks, democracy movement making gains in the states
April 23, 2016
More than 1,400 people were arrested during protests in Washington, D.C., over the past week...
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Bradbury: Can Teamsters Save the Right to Retire?
April 23, 2016
Over 2,000 retirees and Teamsters from 20 states rallied in front of the U.S. Capitol April 14, calling on the Treasury Department to stop their pensions from being slashed by 50 to 70 percent
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Rasmus: The IMF and Troika Have Greece in Their Crosshairs — Again!
April 22, 2016
WikiLeaks reveals new austerity measures are planned for the southern European nation.
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Benjamin: President Obama Can Help Save Saudi Youth Facing Beheading
April 22, 2016
One concrete outcome that President Obama could pursue on his visit to Saudi Arabia is saving the lives of three Shia youth sentenced to be executed
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Prashad: Why the U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are Suddenly Involved in a Tense Geopolitical Drama
April 22, 2016
There's a reason we're suddenly talking about 9/11 all over again
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Johnson: When ‘Both Sides’ Are Covered in Verizon Strike, Bosses’ Side Is Heard More
April 22, 2016
In labor disputes, massive multinationals have the ability to spend millions of dollars on PR, while those representing the workers don’t.
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Fisk: Finally, Israel and Palestine is a US election issue
April 22, 2016
The ‘last taboo’ is not broken, but it’s splintering
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Dangl: The Right Rises Up as Latin American Left Faces Setbacks
April 22, 2016
The entire premise of 1990s neoliberalism was corruption and a war on the poor
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Street: Kagame Goes to Harvard
April 22, 2016
A recent event at the pinnacle of “liberal” academia offers a depressing epitome of the cold moral obliviousness and imperial complicity that marks U.S. higher education
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Contributors: The Leap Manifesto: A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
April 22, 2016
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory
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Guttenplan: Bernie Sanders Is Doing Something More Than Just Running for President
April 22, 2016
As the senator barnstorms New York state, he’s staging a modern-day, secular revival
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Chatterjee: Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows
April 21, 2016
In Washington’s Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
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Saggioro Garcia: The impeachment crisis shaking Brazil
April 21, 2016
The carnival of reaction on display by conservative Congressional deputies during the vote only demonstrates the contempt in which Brazil's elite hold the vast majority of the population
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Sawant: The (un)Democratic Primary: Why We Need a New Party of the 99%
April 21, 2016
Despite a decisive victory Tuesday providing further confirmation of her likely nomination, in many respects...
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Contributors: What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes
April 21, 2016
Immediate measures for moving towards socialisation By John Weeks , Eric Toussaint , Stavros Tombazos...
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April 21, 2016
In the coming weeks, Sanders and his supporters will need to make clear exactly what he’s fighting for, both inside the Democratic Party and beyond
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Baroud: At 80, Failed Abbas is Probed, Derided and Scapegoated
April 21, 2016
Abbas’ statement on life and death does not, in the least, address the context of oppression, the humiliation of military occupation and the prevailing sense of despair
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Palast: New York voting fiasco just the warm-up for the November game
April 21, 2016
In Brooklyn alone, over 125,000 names were quietly scrubbed from the voter rolls in the five months leading up to the primary
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Chenoweth: Did the Vatican Just Throw Out Its Just War Doctrine?
April 21, 2016
Among the arguments Pope Francis used to encourage the conference participants was the dramatic rise in the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance over the past century
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Dolack: Military spending is the capitalist world’s fuel
April 21, 2016
The entire history of capitalism is built on violence, and violence has been used to both impose and maintain the system from its earliest days
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April 21, 2016
BRAZIL’S LOWER HOUSE of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending...
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Hager: High Corruption: Hillary Clinton in the Hindu Kush
April 21, 2016
The American voter is beginning a revolt against the corrupt politics of catch-me-if-you-can operators like the Clintons
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Hiroaki: “The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime”
April 20, 2016
Interview with an influential voice and a central figure in the anti-nuclear movement since the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi of March 11, 2011
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Escobar: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
April 20, 2016
Wall Street, US Big Oil and the proverbial “American interests” win this round at the circus
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Wallerstein: The Left Loses the Election in Peru
April 20, 2016
The story of each country has its particularities. But Peru’s history seems to embody the difficulties for the Latin American left
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April 20, 2016
Governments have turned a blind eye to tax havens in order to protect corporate profitability
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Grandin: A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America
April 20, 2016
There’s no violence caused by over-militarization that more militarization can’t solve. There’s no poverty caused by “free trade” that more “free trade” can’t solve
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Godard: France: Reflections on ‘Nuit Debout’
April 20, 2016
After years of apparent apathy and advance of all the reactionary tendencies in French society, something has changed which renews hope
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Draitser: Venezuela’s Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
April 20, 2016
The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse. But that is not the case
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O'Kane: Verizon workers take over midtown Manhattan in the second week of their strike
April 20, 2016
Thousands of Verizon workers are in the middle of a strike across the northeast United...
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Cohn: Sanders and Clinton: Palestinian Defender vs. Israel Apologist
April 19, 2016
There is a vast difference between Sanders and Clinton on Israel
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Greenberg: Still in the Bush Embrace
April 19, 2016
What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantánamo
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Pepper: Living With Trumbo Under The Blacklist
“If Trumbo has a weakness,” writes Tim Cogshell, “it’s the film’s failure to convey the depth and breadth of the Red Scare. Or the fact that it forever diminished America as an idea. America was less after the blacklist and that diminishment can be seen in the myriad investigations.”
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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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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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Sanders: Bernie Sanders Slams Ted Cruz for His “New York Values” Talk
April 15, 2016
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders brings the hammer down on Ted Cruz in response to the GOP candidate's negative remarks about "New York values."
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April 13, 2016
The protest brought together activists from about 140 organizations
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Chomsky: German Weapons Exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia and the Refugee Crisis
April 11, 2016
Interview on the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighboring states as well as the European continent
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Goodman: Voices from Puerto Rico’s Students Leading an Anti-Austerity Movement
April 7, 2016
Puerto Rican college students have been waging a series of demonstrations to protest austerity measures they say endanger the higher education system
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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
Recent Blogs
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Evans: Addressing the Root Causes of Classism – much easier than you thought?
April 19, 2016
What About Classism? is a new UK based pressure group...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Young Environmental Activists and Ideas
April 15, 2016
Green Time TV Young Environmental Activists and Ideas by Don...
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April 13, 2016
I had this review posted years ago on Amazon but...
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Emersberger: Macri Tilts Argentina’s Media Landscape in his Favor
April 10, 2016
But don’t expect outrage from big “press freedom” advocates By...
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April 3, 2016
the infinitesimal is utopian; it falls behind the curve that...
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Khan: Ideology behind the terrorist killings in Lahore
March 30, 2016
Nasir Khan, March 30, 2016 A suicide bomber belonging to...
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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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