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Hedges: The Socialist Alternative
May 3, 2016
The disintegration of the ruling political parties, along with the discrediting of the established political and economic elites, presage radical change
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McGovern: Hillary Clinton’s Damning Emails
May 3, 2016
Before the Democrats lock in their choice for President, they might want to know if Hillary Clinton broke the law with her unsecure emails and may be indicted
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Williams: Do We Want Our Children Taught by Humans or Algorithms?
May 3, 2016
In the long term, the mutation of schools into joyless exam factories won’t be halted by resistance alone, we also need to make a proper account of what education is for
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Maguire: From Violence To Nonviolence – From War To Peace
May 3, 2016
It was a joy for me to join eighty people from around the World meeting in Rome ll/12th April, 2016
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Kouvelakis: Europe’s Border Guards
May 3, 2016
Syriza’s capitulation to the troika has made the plight of refugees even worse
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Finkelstein: On Sanders, the first intifada, BDS, and ten years of unemployment
May 2, 2016
Bernie’s campaign took the Occupy movement, which was localized, and he elevated it to the national level. I don’t know what will come next. I doubt anyone knows. But it’s exhilarating to be part of it.
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Dolan: It’s Time to Get Cops Out of Schools
May 2, 2016
There’s only one way to make sure no more young girls are body-slammed by uniformed officers
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Swanson: A Pro- and Anti-War Dialogue
May 2, 2016
When you go back 75 years to find a justification for the institution of war, the biggest public project of the United States for each of the past 75 years, you're going back to a different world
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Dear: The Life and Death of Daniel Berrigan
May 2, 2016
Thank you, Dan. May we all take heart from your astonishing peacemaking life, and carry on the work to abolish war, poverty and nuclear weapons.
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Nader: The Long-Distance Rebound of Bernie Sanders
May 2, 2016
Before the spotlight moves on, he needs to use the enthusiastic political capital he and his colleagues have amassed to lay the foundation for fundamental progressive change rooted within the local communities of America
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Linebaugh: The incomplete, true, and wonderful history of May Day
May 2, 2016
The real meaning of May Day has been obscured by the designing propaganda of the American and Soviet governments. The truth is totally different
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Yates: Let’s Get Serious About Inequality and Socialism
May 2, 2016
The word "socialism" no longer has a deeply negative connotation
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Cole: Al-Qaeda Everywhere: US support for Oppressive Gov’t’s made Bin Laden’s Killing Moot
May 2, 2016
Washington shouldn’t fool itself that “taking X out” is an equally good option, or that targeted assassinations will do more than call forth more resistance to an unbearable and unjust status quo
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Kneese: Portland Fast Food Workers Don’t Just Want a Raise—They Want a Union Too
May 2, 2016
Employees at Burgerville offer an alternative model for organizing low-wage workers
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Rasmus: Is the US Economy Heading for Recession?
May 1, 2016
The United States is experiencing its fifth relapse in five years
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Lindorff: Bernie Sanders’ Real ‘Political Revolution’ Could Happen This Fall
May 1, 2016
If Bernie Sanders is reluctant to make the jump to running as a Green, he needs to be pushed by his supporters
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Halimi: Why firefighters are against free trade
May 1, 2016
The French demonstrators in the Nuit Debout movement (Up All Night) hope that a convergence...
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Swanson: What Is a Global Citizen, and Can it Save Us?
May 1, 2016
If people would stop speaking in the first person about the crimes of their country's military, and start identifying with all of humanity, we might achieve peace
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Romano: “We all have a right to the city and must fight to win it!”
May 1, 2016
We must evolve our model to be more flexible to allow people anywhere to organize
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May 1, 2016
Clinton left a rhetorical door open for Sanders to connect Wall Street and race, but he didn’t do it
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Cole: The End of American Iraq: Poor Shiites invade Parliament over corrupt Spoils System
May 1, 2016
The Bush administration presided over the installation of an Iraqi spoils system more rowdy and rapacious than anything Andrew Jackson ever imagined
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Pope: The Big News in the Union Rift Over the Working Families Party
May 1, 2016
If anybody can provide the organizational infrastructure and political expertise to reap long-term gain out of the Sanders campaign, it is the WFP
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Hightower: Why Bernie Sanders Will, Should and Must Refuse To Drop Out Against Hillary Clinton
May 1, 2016
The keepers of the Established Order fear a grassroots uprising by no-name “outsiders”
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May 1, 2016
This fraud being perpetrated here is as blatant as it is devastating
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April 30, 2016
The families behind curtains like these, in camps, or in repurposed or unfinished buildings, have for the time a desperately welcomed measure of security
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Anderson: The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
April 30, 2016
The challenges unionized co-ops historically faced, however, continue to affect the evolution of real-life alternatives to traditional capitalist business
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Stedile: “Dilma’s mistake was to promote class conciliation”
April 30, 2016
It’s time to put more energy into bringing awareness and organizing people, because in the coming years we’ll see a new rise in mass movements in our continent
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Fisk: Saudi efforts to ‘modernise’ its economy away from oil are just PR tactics
April 30, 2016
For years, oil analysts have suggested that Saudi reserves are nothing like the kingdom claims them to be
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Glass: Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
April 30, 2016
There is a loyal cadre of intellectuals and pundits favoring war after war, laying the moral ground for invasions and excusing them when they go wrong
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Didierjean: The Race to the Bottom
April 30, 2016
Bike couriers risk life and limb for unpredictable pay, little job security, and almost no workplace protection
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Zirin: Meet Two Women Tackling Misogyny in Sports Journalism
April 30, 2016
Women don’t want white knights to ride and and defend us. We just want a voice to defend ourselves
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Borosage: Clinton’s Defense of Big Money Won’t Cut It
April 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s heated defense of the money she has raised from Wall Street and other...
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Bernish: Trump and Hillary Refuse to Explain Why They Both Share the Same Address in Delaware
April 30, 2016
Reportedly dozens of Fortune 500 companies — Coca-Cola, Walmart, American Airlines, and Apple, to name a few — use Delaware’s strict corporate secrecy laws and legal tax loopholes
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Lopez: Where the Bern is Fizzling
April 29, 2016
If you're flying the flag of "different and progressive politics", you have to organize a campaign that emanates, not from a candidate winning people over, but from people, communities and movements educating the candidate
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Baroud: Did the Arabs Betray Palestine? – A Schism between the Ruling Classes and the Wider Society
April 29, 2016
The outcome of the ill-fated ‘Arab Spring’ was a massive letdown, if not betrayal, not just of Palestinians but of most Arabs
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Dolack: Verizon sticks it to its workers because $45 billion isn’t enough
April 29, 2016
Conservative ideology insists the question should be “Why does someone have something you don’t have” (such as a pension), instead of “Why do you not have something that you should be entitled to but don’t have”
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Breen: Arriving in Erbil and Wondering: What Lies Ahead
April 29, 2016
Wherever I look, tall, unfinished concrete buildings, accompanied by construction cranes, loom over the city. It is somewhat eerie because I see no movement inside or around any of the buildings, none whatsoever
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April 29, 2016
Popular protests have erupted against efforts to dismantle France’s labor code
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Events and other items of note for progressives
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Moore tells the history of how racial segregation came about here and considers a variety of ways through which it might be reversed
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the Left is the movement that is in favor of all decent things—freedom, justice, peace. Of course we have to define it for ourselves, but traditionally it’s the movement that’s been in favor of more freedom, more justice, more equality, more participation, more control over our own lives—all decent things. That’s the Left.
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Over the last months France has been rocked by mass protests, occupations, and strikes
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Herman: News Fit to Print But Not Printed, Part Two
In Part 1, I began with a case where the New York Times belatedly acknowledged that it had failed to print news fit to print, news which, not coincidentally, contradicted a party-line theme the editors had enthusiastically and uncritically supported five years earlier
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Recent Audio/Videos
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Sanders: Bernie Sanders Rally in Oregon
April 30, 2016
Bernie Sanders Rally 'A Future to Believe In' in Springfield, OR, April 28
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Varoufakis: Massive IMF Bailouts are “Ponzi Austerity” Scheme
April 30, 2016
Negotiations between Greece and international creditors hit an impasse over the bankers’ demands for extra austerity measures
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Varoufakis: Europe’s “Hot Spot” Refugee Registration Centers are “Concentration Camps”
April 29, 2016
Interview on the refugee crisis in Europe, and so-called hot spots that are registration centers for refugees in his country
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de Sousa Santos: Brazilian Senate to Vote on President Rousseff’s Impeachment
April 29, 2016
A look at why Rousseff's impeachment is a highly political process and not a legal one and how this "legislative coup" can be compared to others in recent Latin American history
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April 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders says Clinton will have to defy the oligarchs if she is to earn active campaigners from his supporters
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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
Recent Blogs
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Corporate Watch UK: Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan
April 25, 2016
First published: Mon, 18/04/2016 – 16:05 Lead photo caption: A...
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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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