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Falk: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Daniel Berrigan
May 12, 2016
Dan was an exceptional human being, transparent in moral and spiritual coherence, mindful in his attentiveness to the suffering and wellbeing of others, a powerful and unforgettably vivid and loving presence, a challenge to our daily complacency
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May 12, 2016
The statistics explain the anger. Seven women are killed every day in Mexico. Over the past three decades, over 45,000 women have been killed
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Early: Toxic Entanglements: Big Oil’s Democratic Primary Favorite in California
May 12, 2016
Chevron’s history of social irresponsibility and political-influence buying reveals much about the policy outcomes it could obtain with an old friend in the White House
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Dolack: We all pay for low wages
May 12, 2016
The relentless scramble to survive competition eventually closed the brief window when rising wages were tolerated and government investment encouraged
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Cockburn: How close is Isis to losing the war?
May 12, 2016
The real test over the coming months will be the extent to which the US and Russia have the desire and capability to enforce a ceasefire
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Smith: ‘Everyone’s outraged’: angry Greeks foresee Grexit and drachma’s revival
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Greece faces its toughest austerity measures yet, with €5.4bn of budget cuts backed by the leftist government of Alexis Tsipras
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Speri: Striking Prisoners In Alabama Accuse Officials Of Using Food As Weapon
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May 12, 2016
Brazil’s left must prepare itself for a post-impeachment landscape
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May 12, 2016
An emerging grassroots, family-based movement, sustained by the love of mothers across the nation, reminds us that mothers are leaders as well as nurturers, teachers as well as advocates
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Fitz: Historic Preservation Wins Big in U City
May 11, 2016
Prop H does more than change politicians. It empowers citizens to have veto power over a type of decision that politicians can make
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Chomsky: US Military Presence in Europe & the Case of Edward Snowden
May 11, 2016
Snowden, it’s important to recall, performed an enormous service, a patriotic service in fact, to the people of the United States and the world
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Early: A Tale of Two Teamsters: Building a Community-Minded Union in Mid-Century St. Louis
May 11, 2016
A look at Fighting For Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working Class Citizenship, by Bob Bussel
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Swanson: Seymour Hersh Erases Public’s Role on Syria
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We once again owe the great reporter Seymour Hersh a serious debt for his reporting,...
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Weisbrot: Has the Left Run Its Course in Latin America?
May 11, 2016
Hardly. Despite recent setbacks, it has led the region’s “second independence,” benefiting hundreds of millions
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Litchfield: French Government Forced to Use Emergency Powers to Push Through Labour Law Changes
May 11, 2016
Hard line union federations say the changes would, in effect, end the principle of a single nationwide body of legal protections for workers
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Frum: The Great Republican Revolt
May 11, 2016
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Quigley: From Cancer Patient to Medicines Activist
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RT.com: ‘Nuit Debout’ goes global: France’s youth-led movement urges worldwide protests on May 15
May 11, 2016
The French protest movement “Nuit Debout” (Up All Night) plans to go international, urging people...
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May 11, 2016
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Cole: Sadiq Khan and Trump: Why KKK Donald’s values are Unacceptable
May 10, 2016
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Stein: Thinking and voting outside the two-party box
May 10, 2016
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Elbaum: Trump, Racism and the Left in 2016
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The perilous consequences of a Trump presidency should be a wake-up call for the left
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Hawkins: Safe States, Inside-Outside, and Other Liberal Illusions
May 10, 2016
There is no shortcut through the Democratic Party to building a mass party on the left. That shortcut is a dead end
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Savio: Islamophobia is a Political Tool
May 10, 2016
The rising tide of nationalism, populism and now Islamophobia, which has paralyzed the traditional political system, is not only the decline of democracy. It is also a path to insecurity
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Hunziker: The Ugly Truth Behind The Greek Bailout
May 10, 2016
Christine Lagarde, the Queen of Troika and the Head Honcho of the IMF, on May...
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Sturgis: N.C. produces flawed study to dismiss cancer-cluster fears near Duke Energy coal plants
May 10, 2016
Is it surprising that people living near these plants report unusual patterns of illness?
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Street: Break Free or Burn in Hell: a Message From Canada
May 9, 2016
We cannot depend on the carbon-caked corporate and financial powers that be
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Cole: London’s Muslim Mayor is nothing New
May 9, 2016
1300 yrs of Muslims who Ran Major European Cities
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Holloway: Compared to Rest of World Americans are Delusional, Prudish, Selfish Religious Nuts: Study
May 9, 2016
More than any European country, Americans, at 57 percent, said they disagreed with the idea that “success in life is pretty much determined by forces outside our control"
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Dirik: Challenging privilege: on solidarity and self-reflection
May 9, 2016
Solidarity fundamentally means to empathize and respect each others’ struggle and to understand ourselves as fighting on the same side
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Atencio: Peru: In Defense of Land, Culture and the Female Body
May 9, 2016
Rooted in an ancestral cosmovision of their indigenous communities, a central struggle has been the fight for their subsistence, in maintaining land, water and seed sovereignty
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Rasmus: Is Donald Trump at War with the Republican Party?
May 8, 2016
One of the several things that are unique in this 2016 electoral cycle is that a majority, if not a big plurality, of American voters are becoming increasingly fed up with the two party system
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Sawant: Debate Whether to Vote for Clinton If She is Democratic Nominee
May 8, 2016
A debate between Kshama Sawant and Mike McGinn
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Pearson: Mexico Already Has a Giant Wall, and a Mining Company Helped to Build It
May 8, 2016
Some walls are made of concrete and razor wire. Others are made of soldiers, violence,...
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Moody: U.S. Labor: What’s New, What’s Not?
May 8, 2016
This revival of grassroots activism along with new forms of rudimentary class consciousness and political openness could spill over into permanent worker organization
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Sanders: Community Conversation on Poverty
May 8, 2016
In 2014, over 35 percent of the residents in McDowell lived in poverty, including nearly half of the children
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May 8, 2016
“At best, this government will isolate Poland, but at worst they can be quite harmful for Europe”
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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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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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Nader: The U.S. Political & Media System Is Designed to Obstruct, Silence Third-Party Candidates
May 12, 2016
Interview on the elections
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de Sousa Santos: The Most Honest Politician in Latin America Will Be Removed By the Most Corrupt
May 11, 2016
Brazil's Supreme Court is able to intervene on procedural grounds in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, not on the merits of the case
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Panitch: Corbyn and Sanders Reigniting Democratic Socialism
May 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are laying the groundwork for economic democracy and a breakthrough into socialism
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Greenwald: “The Assassination Complex”
May 4, 2016
During one five-month period, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets
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Sanders: Bernie Sanders Rally in Oregon
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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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Evans: Taking Activism to the Next Level
May 10, 2016
The Right are winning – not because of their great...
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Ever since the foundation of the American Republic, there has...
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Emersberger: Macri Tilts Argentina’s Media Landscape in his Favor
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Highlighted Content
Chomsky: All Decent Things
Kouvelakis: Overturning a World
RT.com: ‘Nuit Debout’
Albert: What’s Next?
Chomsky: The Costs of Violence
Chomsky: Power Challenged
Moody: U.S. Labor?
Pearson: Giant Wall
Street: Message From Canada
Jones: RISE for Scotland
Brand: “Nuit Debout”?
Bello: Stealing elections
Snowden: Assassination Complex
Williams: Taught by Algorithms?
Finkelstein: Interviewed
Rasmus: Recession?
Greenwald: Understanding Brazil
Stedile: Dilma’s mistake
Klare: Debacle at Doha
Birch: A French Spring
Weisbrot: Dog-Whistle Diplomacy
Jalal: Hunted by Drones
Pizzigati: The Death Gap
Miranda: Brazil’s Elite
Kamal: Africa’s Existence
Prashad: U.S. and Saudi Arabia
Johnson: Verizon Strike
Street: Kagame Goes to Harvard
Contributors: Leap Manifesto
Dangl: Right Rises in Latin Amer
Saggioro Garcia: Shaking Brazil
Sawant: We Need a New Party
Greenwald: Brazil & Washington
Hiroaki:Fukushima
Escobar: Hybrid War Hyenas
Godard: France
Stedile: “Our Mauricio Macri”
Campesina: Democracy in Brazil
Albert: We Need New Priorities
The U.S. Presidential Election
Sanders: Community Conversation
Elbaum: Trump, Racism and the Left
Hawkins: Safe States, Inside-Outside...
Sawant: Debate Vote
Stein: Outside the two-party box
Turse: Trump in Sudan
McGovern: Clinton’s Emails
Nader: Long-Distance Rebound
Lindorff: Sanders This Fall
Hightower: Sanders Will Stay
Lopez: Where the Bern is Fizzling
Engelhardt: Donald Trump
Guttenplan: Keep Running
Hager: High Corruption
Palast: New York voting fiasco
Cohn: Sanders & Clinton: Palestine
Sawant: Hillary & Fight for 15
McGovern: Is Clinton Above the Law?
McGill: Sanders and Labor
Lee: “Wake Up”
McGovern: Clinton’s Gender Argument
Mason: Beltway Bullshit
Glick: Long Live the Bernie Movement
Engelhardt: Believe
Sanders: At the Vatican
Shenkman: Lies?
Cole: Sanders Miracle
Fletcher: Electoral Strategy
Sanders Interview by Spike Lee
La Botz: Bernie and Beyond
Klein: Problem With Clinton
Chomsky: Republican Base
Sanders: LA Times Interview
Albert: For Bernie…and More
Fletcher: Memo to Bernie
Albert: Arguing About Sanders
Albert: Thinking about Sanders
Recent Ukraine, Isis, Syria, Turkey, Yeman
Porter: Putin’s leverage
Achcar: Arab spring?
Baroud: Pandora’s Box
Bennis: Russia is Withdrawing
McGovern: Putin Shuns ‘Quagmire’
Cockburn: End for Caliphate?
Karadjis: Bloody Counterrevolution
Kinzer: The media are misleading
Dorsey: Saudi Arabia Syria strategy
Cockburn: Syrian civil war
Snider: Betray Kurds
Cockburn: Syrian civil war
Leverink: Frame Syrian Kurds
Prashad: Descent into Chaos
Cockburn: Syria crisis
Prashad: War Against Kurds
Cole: Iraqi Shiites
Venezuela
Teruggi: Venezuela On Fire
Weisbrot: Left in Latin America?
Draitser: Venezuela’s Opposition
María: Chavismo From Below
Weisbrot: Venezuela
Dominguez: Right Wing Majority
Mallett-Outtrim: How Bad?
Fidler: People’s Power ?
Albert: Errors and Prospects
Pearson: Struggle Ahead
Katz: What Lies Ahead?
Suggett: Venezuela’s Paths
Albert: Venezuela’s Future
Weisbrot: Venezuela?
Boothroyd: Workers’ Councils
Hetland: Chavismo?
Koerner: Return to Roots
Pearson: Election Results
Albert: Responsibility Is Ours
Wilpert: Key Factors, Part 2
Ellner: Set the Record Straight
Weisbrot: U.S. Meddles
Harnecker: Venezuela
Wilpert: On Venezuela
Emersberger: Venezuelan Opposition
Wilpert: Roots of Situation
Mallett-Outtrim: Wake up Call
Denis:“Goodbye to Chavismo”?
Ellner: Chavista Government
Ellner: Maduro and the market
Albert: Whispering Venezuela?
Albert: Organize for Venezuela
Albert: Understanding Venezuela
Highlighted Israel/Palestine
Baroud: The Logic of Murder
Pappe: “It is the future”
Avnery: Under the Lime Trees
Cook: Israel’s military culture
Baroud: Why BDS Cannot Lose
Fisk: Sabra and Shatila
Aronoff: BDS faces threat
Fernandez: Flatten Beirut
Hass: Hunger Striker
Abunimah: Obama military aid
Avnery: Lady With A Smile
Gordon: Apartheid mantra
Falk: Two State Solution
Avnery: Optimism of the Will
Falk: Shoots the messenger
Baroud: Hunger Striking
Falk: Representation
Dixon: South Hebron Hills
Falk: Israeil Apartheid
Greece & Spain
Hunziker: Ugly Truth
Wallerstein: Spanish Drama
Rasmus: IMF and Troika Again
Hunziker: Greece Loses its Soul
Assange: Greek ‘Disaster’
Horner: Greek dock workers
Hallinan: Triumph or Trap?
Iglesias: Government of change
Varoufakis: On Greece...
Spourdalakis: Rekindling Hope
Milios: Austerity Unbroken
Nulman: Podemos
Vouloumanos: 1 Year Later
Rushton: Sea Change In Spain
Roos: European Dream Caved In
Iglesias: Spain’s Socialists
Weisbrot: Spain votes ‘no’|
Hallinan: Spain Says “No”
Iglesias: Spain’s Socialists
Malaboca: Spain: insiders’ perspective
Fernandez: End of an Era
Fernandez: Catalonia
Delclos: Spanish elections
Karitzis: Creative Resistance
Vilallonga: The Catalan Left
Vouloumanos: 1 / 2 / 3 /4
Albert: Greece Writ Large
Parecon / Parsoc
Recent Comments
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- mike sheck on Safe States, Inside-Outside, and Other Liberal Illusions
- mike sheck on Trump, Racism and the Left in 2016
- Paul Street on Break Free or Burn in Hell: a Message From Canada
- Tom Johnson on Thinking and voting outside the two-party box
- Mark Evans on What’s Next?
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- mike sheck on Compared to Rest of World Americans are Delusional, Prudish, Selfish Religious Nuts: Study
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- Tyler Healey on Break Free or Burn in Hell: a Message From Canada
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- Tom Johnson on American Power Under Challenge
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- Tom Johnson on RISE: New Politics for a Tired Scotland
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