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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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Romano: We All Have a Right to the City
What are the systemic challenges to democratic and equitable control over public space? What kind of popular mobilizations can build towards systemic alternatives guaranteeing the human right to housing?
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WHISTLEBLOWING – June 1-7 is International Week to Support Whistleblowing....
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Early in Exposed, his fascinating and disturbing new book on surveillance, social media, and the state, Columbia University legal scholar and critical theorist Bernard Harcourt includes two illustrations
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Sally Denton’s book The Profiteers, demonstrates that the Bechtel Corporation—which spent an estimated $6.2 million in political contributions and $6.2 million in lobbying during the last election cycles—should be in the same class of villains.
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The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher.
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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
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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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86 Authors: Possible Program
Albert: Failing Ourselves?
Evans: Taking Activism Forward
Albert: What’s Next?
Fletcher, Sitrin, Albert: What Wins?
Albert: We Need New Priorities
Sitrin: From Paris, Love and Lessons
Highlighted Content
Albert: Innovate not Debate
Bond: Imperialism’s Junior Partners
Shiva: Seeds of suicide
Emanuele: Interviewing Albert
Kelly: Hammering for Peace
Chomsky: Activism on Campus
Horgan: Dear “Skeptics,”
Falk: On (Not) Loving Henry Kissinger
Brecher: Insurgency Looks Like
Wallerstein: Brazil’s Crisis
Chomsky: Almost a death knell
Albert: Failing Ourselves?
Boron: Brazil
Safatle: We Accuse
Hill: The Sharing Economy
Chomsky: Interview
Kouvelakis: Nuit Debout?
Stedile: Mobilize
Chomsky: Who Rules
Albert: What's Wrong With Us?
Cohn: Michael Ratner
Berrigan: Dan Berrigan
Feres Júnior: Brazil Coup
Greenwald: Brazil
Mcchesney: Cap & Tech
Bennis: Remembering Ratner
Prashad: Despair and Unrest
Falk: Celebrating Berrigan
Chomsky: US in Europe & Snowden
Weisbrot: Left in Latin America?
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
Albert: We Need New Priorities
The U.S. Presidential Election
Albert: The Bernie Question
Nichols: Platform Committee
Berlet: Insidious Lure
Buhle: Labor’s Sell-Out
Cohen: Unify? Hell No!
Tasini: Sanders and Class
Raina: Braveheart Bernie
Street: Hillary
Norton: Nominating Clinton?
Early: Toxic Entanglements
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”
Mason: Beltway Bullshit
Fletcher: Electoral Strategy
La Botz: Bernie and Beyond
Sanders: LA Times Interview
Albert: For Bernie…and More
Recent Ukraine, Isis, Syria, Turkey, Yeman
Cockburn: Isis losing?
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
Venezuela
Pearson: Media Wars
Sullivan: Venezuela’s Crisis
Lebowitz: Building Alternatives
Dangl: Openings and Labyrinths
Weisbrot: Economic policy
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?
Albert: Responsibility Is Ours
Wilpert: Key Factors, Part 2
Ellner: Set the Record Straight
Wilpert: On Venezuela
Wilpert: Roots of Situation
Mallett-Outtrim: Wake up Call
Denis:“Goodbye to Chavismo”?
Ellner: Chavista Government
Ellner: Maduro and the market
Albert: Organize for Venezuela
Highlighted Israel/Palestine
Prashad: Right to Exist?
Cook: Religious zealots
Baroud: Roots of the Conflict
Fernandez: Backward as It Gets
Falk: Major General Gola
Barghouti: Interviewing BDS
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
Avnery: Lady With A Smile
Gordon: Apartheid mantra
Falk: Two State Solution
Avnery: Optimism of the Will
Greece & Spain
Rasmus: IMF Exit Troika?
Savio: Punching Ball
Smith: ‘Everyone’s outraged’
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
Vilallonga: The Catalan Left
Vouloumanos: 1 / 2 / 3 /4
Albert: Greece Writ Large
Parecon / Parsoc
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