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Gutiérrez D.: Insurgency, conflict and communalism in Colombia
May 29, 2016
For decades, the FARC has led the revolutionary struggle in Colombia, but now farmers are taking over control by means of communal assemblies.
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Fang: Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal
May 29, 2016
The emails show an aggressive effort to engage private energy companies and use Poland as part of a larger campaign to sell fracking throughout the region
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May 29, 2016
We need integrated solutions, solutions that radically bring down emissions, while creating huge numbers of good, unionised jobs and delivering meaningful justice
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Dolack: Millions for the boss, cuts for you
May 28, 2016
The relentless competition endemic to capitalism mandates that corporations engage in an endless race to the bottom
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Hallinan: As Brexit Approaches, Europe’s Left Is Divided — and for Good Reason
May 28, 2016
Can the EU still unite a continent shattered by world wars, or is it little more than a vehicle for austerity capitalism?
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Pilger: Silencing America as it prepares for war
May 28, 2016
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence....
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May 28, 2016
The conversations include discussions of the important role played in Dilma’s removal by the most powerful national institutions, including — most importantly — Brazil’s military leaders
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Breyman: A Brief and Cheery History of an American Future
May 28, 2016
An exercise in utopian imagination
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Fisk: The US is dropping calls for Assad to go because the Syrian regime is a better bet than Isis
May 28, 2016
The Americans seem to have left the air bombing to the Russians (after complaining about it) and Putin is not afraid to say the obvious: that the government in Damascus is a better bet than Isis
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Raventos: Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe
May 28, 2016
In the last few months basic income—an unconditional cash payment to every member of the population—has been getting more and more attention in the media and social networks
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Germanos: Protests Intensify, Spread Across France as Workers Refuse Submission
May 28, 2016
'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says unionist.
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Dreier: A Five-Point Plan for Sanders Going Forward
May 28, 2016
The best thing Bernie supporters can do is to help him build a progressive legacy
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May 27, 2016
Classism is a form of social discrimination that has its roots in rigged economics
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Klare: The Desperate Plight of Petro-States
May 27, 2016
With a Busted Business Model, Oil Economies Head for the Unknown
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May 27, 2016
All politicians say that job creation is a better solution to poverty than welfare spending. But these are empty words. Jobs are simply not being created
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Swanson: “Looking Forward” Comes to Hiroshima
May 27, 2016
Never mind an apology, Obama should admit the truth
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Falk: Assessing Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s Departure from Government
May 27, 2016
These issues of leadership and constitutional structure, although serious, are clearly secondary to the great challenges facing the Turkish nation
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Walton: From Immunity to Impunity
May 27, 2016
Erdoğan’s government is laying the legal groundwork to arrest Kurds and other dissidents in parliament
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McKibben: Keep Oil in the Soil
May 27, 2016
Bill McKibben on Being Named by Sanders to DNC Platform Committee on Being Named by Sanders to DNC Platform Committee
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Fernandes: The Right Marches on Brazil
May 27, 2016
Brazil’s interim government is orchestrating a stunning transfer of power to the country’s elites
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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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Chomsky: The Costs of Violence
The global war on terror sledgehammer strategy has spread jihadi terror from a tiny corner of Afghanistan to much of the world, from Africa through the Levant and South Asia to Southeast Asia. It has also incited attacks in Europe and the United States. The invasion of Iraq made a substantial contribution to this process, much as intelligence agencies had predicted
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Herman: Foreign Engagement v. Aggression
The United States has been intervening and fighting wars abroad almost continuously since World War II. This has involved frequent aggressions, using standard definitions of the word, with many of them extremely destructive But these cannot be designated “aggression” in our well-honed propaganda system
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Finley: Changing the Conversation About the “Woman Card”
The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity politics because she, well, actually discussed the fact that the U.S. still has much to improve in terms of gender equality.
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Rasmus: Is the U.S. Economy Heading for Recession?
Recently, the government announced that the U.S. economy rose from...
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Dolan: It’s Time to Get Cops Out of Schools
There’s only one way to make sure no more young girls are body-slammed by uniformed officers
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Finkelstein: A Dialogue on Israel and Palestine
May 28, 2016
This is a panel from the 2016 Left Forum, held May 20 -22 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The conference theme was "Rage, Rebellion, Revolution: Organizing Our Power."
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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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Khan: Inherited beliefs and freethinking
May 28, 2016
Nasir Khan, May 28, 2016 All human children are born...
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Emersberger: Venezuela’s Recall Process and the International Media’s Lies of Omission
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The international media and the president of the OAS, Luis...
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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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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
Evans: What About Classism?
Klare: Desperate Plight of Petro-States
Fernandes: Right Marches on Brazil
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
Bello: Stealing elections
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
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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