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Recent ZNet
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Albert: The Bernie Question – We Should Innovate not Debate
May 26, 2016
Let’s avoid sterile debate and splintering. Let’s innovate and seek real change.
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Bond: Imperialism’s Junior Partners
May 26, 2016
The response to the Brazilian coup shows that the BRICS powers are not a real alternative to US imperialism
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Rasmus: Greek Debt Negotiations: Will the IMF Exit the Troika?
May 26, 2016
Expect an intensification of austerity for Greece between now and 2018
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Baroud: Time to End the ‘Hasbara’: Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
May 26, 2016
Not only are Palestinians expected to demolish many years of Israeli disinformation but also to construct their own narrative that is free from the whims of factions and personal gains.
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May 26, 2016
A common question is: Why do farmers adopt Bt cotton which harms them? But farmers do not choose Bt cotton. They have to buy Bt cotton as all other choices are destroyed
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Parry: NFL’s War Against Science and Reason
May 26, 2016
Perhaps it’s because I just watched the movie, “Concussion,” which tells the story of the...
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Emanuele: Activism and vision: an interview with Michael Albert
May 25, 2016
Interview on vision and strategy on how to move forward on the left
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May 25, 2016
The fire our friends wanted to ignite was inside us. With what work can we replace war? If we are no longer training for war, what else could we be doing?
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Hartung: The Pentagon’s War on Accountability
May 25, 2016
Slush Funds, Smoke and Mirrors, and Funny Money Equal Weapons Systems Galore
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Landy: The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton: America and the World In 2016 and Beyond
May 25, 2016
A U.S. government that carried out a different foreign policy based on principles of democracy and social and economic justice could indeed come about only through a “political revolution”
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Pearson: Media Wars: The Role of the Left When Venezuela’s Imperfect Revolution is Under Attack
May 25, 2016
The best way to counter the media war on Venezuela is to do what they don't do: offer in depth, contextualised, critical coverage
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Nichols: The Democratic Platform Committee Now Has a Progressive Majority. Thanks, Bernie Sanders.
May 25, 2016
Bernie Sanders indicated in early May that his campaign was “going to the Democratic National...
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Berlet: US History Groomed the Insidious Lure of Trump’s Bigoted Right-Wing Populism
May 24, 2016
Helping organizers and strategists to understanding the lure of right-wing populism and how it bends people toward bigotry
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Cook: Religious zealots ready for takeover of Israeli army
May 24, 2016
Israeli commentators pointed out that, with Lieberman’s inclusion, the government will be the most extreme in Israel’s history – again.
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Lebowitz: Building alternatives to neoliberalism in Latin America
May 24, 2016
Interview on the opposition to neoliberalism and the prospects for a socialist alternative in Latin America today
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May 24, 2016
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business is offering a new course this Fall: BUS 415: Concealing Your Psychopathic Identity
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Buhle: Labor’s Sell-Out and the Sanders Campaign
May 24, 2016
Rebelliously democratic union locals and a handful of internationals offer an alternative to the slow death of American unionism
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Hudson: The Financial Invasion of Greece
May 24, 2016
MF's concern about Greek debt is bogus, this is full scale financial war, forcing Greece give up ports, pensions, properties and much more
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Kolhatkar: The Real 9/11 Conspiracy
May 24, 2016
Our post-9/11 military incursions all point to the singular fact that the “War on Terror” has been a “War of Terror”
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Chomsky: The Battle for the Soul of American Higher Education
May 23, 2016
Student Protest, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Rise of the Corporate University
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Hunziker: Fukushima Flunks Decontamination
May 23, 2016
The Abe government is desperately trying to clean up and repopulate as if nothing happened
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Klein: Black And Latino Students Lose Out To White Peers. And It’s Getting Worse
May 23, 2016
Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, a U.S. agency finds we still have a two-tiered education system
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Dangl: Openings and Labyrinths of Latin America’s Left
May 23, 2016
The leftist wave wasn't without its grave pitfalls and perhaps structural flaws. Maybe it will take this crisis to build an even more enduring political front and movement alternative
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Horgan: Dear “Skeptics,” Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
May 23, 2016
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
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Jacobo: Bernie Sanders Responds to Nevada Convention Debacle
May 23, 2016
Bernie Sanders released a lengthy statement on the recent Nevada convention disaster
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Cockburn: Sir Richard Dearlove is right, visa waivers for Turks are dangerous
May 23, 2016
There is something bizarre about EU policy when it comes to migration from this part of the world
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Lancaster: Imagining the Socialist Bathroom
May 23, 2016
Instead of epitomizing an oppressive gender system, public bathrooms should be open to all and enjoyable to use
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Brecher: This Is What Insurgency Looks Like
May 22, 2016
The action denied the right of the existing powers and principalities – be they corporate or governmental – to use the authority of law to justify their destruction of the earth’s climate
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Bohmer: A Year Later: The Struggle for Justice Continues
May 22, 2016
A year ago, two young black men, Andre Thompson and Bryon Chaplin were shot by white police officer, Ryan Donald
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Falk: On (Not) Loving Henry Kissinger
May 22, 2016
It is indeed strange that the only point of public convergence between free-swinging Trump and war-mongering Clinton should be these ritual shows of deference to the most scandalous foreign policy figure of the past century
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Gourevitch: Chronicle of a Strike
May 22, 2016
Verizon strikers are fighting against the oppression and indignity of the American workplace
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Sullivan: Venezuela’s Crisis From Up Close
May 22, 2016
The solution to this problem needs to be determined by the Venezuelan people with support from other Latin American people
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Rosenfeld: A New National Progressive Movement Is Emerging in the Shadows of the Sanders Campaign
May 22, 2016
As Sanders fights for a California primary season finale, activists look ahead
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RT.com: Snowden laughs off CIA’s ‘mistaken’ destruction of secret torture report
May 22, 2016
“When the CIA destroys something, it's never a mistake”
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Savoulian: Sadiq Khan becomes mayor of London, but Britain faces deep-seated problems
May 22, 2016
Khan has to make a serious choice – to govern for the ultra-wealthy one percent, or for the rest of us
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Recent Audio/Videos
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Varoufakis: Privatization, Human Rights & Capitalism
May 26, 2016
Interview on privatization, human rights, media, experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform
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Uygur: Brazillian Impeachment Is Actually A Corporate Coup
May 16, 2016
The change in government marks a dramatic political shift in Brazil
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Greenwald: Goal of Rousseff Impeachment is to Boost Neoliberals & Protect Corruption
May 13, 2016
The real goal is to protect corruption
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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
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
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: BBC article runs wild with unsourced whoppers about Venezuela
May 27, 2016
This BBC article by Mariana Zuniga says “This situation...
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Wittner: The Return of Democratic Socialism
May 23, 2016
Democratic socialism used to be a vibrant force in American...
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Emersberger: To the NYT editors, a coup government is simply a “new” government – UPDATED
May 23, 2016
Today’s NYT editorial “The Left on the Run in Latin...
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Corporate Watch UK: New Book: Struggles for autonomy in Kurdistan
May 23, 2016
Kurdistan is currently divided between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Tough Environmental Decisions
May 17, 2016
Green Time TV Tough Environmental Decisions by Don Fitz The...
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Kavanagh: Plan B Is Not Bernie
May 16, 2016
Go to source. I admit: It’s all speculation. On April...
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Cooper: How will Sanders take on Trump going forward?
May 16, 2016
Barring some unforeseen catastrophes, the well-greased campaign of Hillary Clinton...
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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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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of American Politics by the Press
May 6, 2016
Ever since the foundation of the American Republic, there has...
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Zoomkawala: A visualization of Eqbal Ahmad’s paper, “Postcolonial Systems of Power”
May 6, 2016
I have posted a visualization of Eqbal Ahmad‘s paper from...
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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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