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Recent ZNet
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Kelly: Building Trust in Afghanistan
May 31, 2016
U.S. people should earnestly ask how the U.S. could help build trust here in Afghanistan
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Bacevich: Milestones (Or What Passes for Them in Washington)
May 31, 2016
A Multi-Trillion-Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the Greater Middle East
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Branford: Brazil: Recolonising a continent
May 31, 2016
Examining the past failures and future prospects of the left in Brazil in the face of a concerted US-backed right-wing offensive
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Rosenberg: What Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know About the Opioid Epidemic
May 31, 2016
The Pharma-driven opioid epidemic may be as big a con as the mortgage housing bubble collapse
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Cole: Dear Mr. Holder: Why Ed Snowden can’t get a Fair Trial in your National Security State
May 31, 2016
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder said in an interview that what NSA whistle blower...
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Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner: Machine Bias
May 31, 2016
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks
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May 31, 2016
This Memorial Day, let’s remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam
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Contributors: Big Gains for Striking Verizon Workers in New Agreement
May 31, 2016
Company agrees to add 1,300 new call center jobs on the East Coast, 10.9% raise over four years, first contract for wireless retail workers
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Shiva: Women Around the World Are Leading the Fight Against Corporate Agriculture
May 30, 2016
Agro-biodiversity bolsters food security at many levels
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Feffer: The Music of Hopelessness
May 30, 2016
From the comfortable alt-rock of PJ Harvey to the hypnotic antagonism of Anohni, new protest music offers a relief from the official rhythms of war and peace
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Turse: Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering
May 30, 2016
America's Forgotten Vietnamese Victims
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Hoodbhoy: A Balance Sheet for May 28
May 30, 2016
The way forward lies in building a sustainable and active democracy, an economy for peace rather than war
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Fisk: President Erdogan knows that visa-free travel for Turkey could solve his ‘Kurdish problem’
May 30, 2016
Europe’s growing Kurdish diaspora would be vastly increased if the crushed and war-suffering masses of Diyarbakir could find their way to Germany, Denmark and Sweden
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Avnery: The Center Doesn’t Hold
May 30, 2016
“The best lack all convictions, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity!” Is...
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Raina: Prepare, the Muslims are Coming
May 30, 2016
While Donald Trump forges ahead to be the world’s most powerful CEO and then to...
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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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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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Cole: Obama in Hiroshima, Memorial Day and the Iran Deal
May 29, 2016
The MIC is so powerful that sooner or later they will get a candidate into the White House and turn some ramshackle third world piggy bank upside down and shake out its billions into their accounts
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Brooks: Long-Term Organizing Bears Fruit for Grocery Local
May 29, 2016
“We do everything in our power to show the employer that we aren’t going to rest and they won’t catch us off guard”
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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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June ZMag
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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?
The recent 0.5 percent growth rate is the latest in a steady declining U.S. GDP growth trend over the past year.
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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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Harnecker: Strategies for Social Change
May 29, 2016
A talk on people's power and political instruments.
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Warren: Donald Trump can NEVER be the President
May 29, 2016
A talk on Donald Trump rooting for the 2008 housing market crash, his plans to dismantle Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, and his decision not to release his taxes
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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
Recent Blogs
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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
May 28, 2016
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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