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Rowlands: Antibiotic Resistance Requires Global Response Similar to AIDS, Climate Change
June 13, 2016
Any potential global regulations should be able to draw on positive examples from countries which have successfully regulated the use of antibiotics in farming
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Greenwald: Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media
June 13, 2016
Last night, the Associated Press — on a day when nobody voted — surprised everyone...
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Contributors: A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
June 13, 2016
The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada’s version of the burst of Left and...
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Ellner: Beyond the Boliburguesía Thesis
June 12, 2016
Why critics of Chavismo are wrong to suggest that socialism is to blame for corruption in Venezuela
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Swanson: “Modern Warfare Destroys Your Brain” in More Ways Than One
June 12, 2016
The most likely way to die in a U.S. war, by far, is to live in the country that the United States is attacking. But the most likely way in which a U.S. participant in a war will die is by suicide
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June 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s State Department Gave South Sudan’s Military a Pass for Its Child Soldiers
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Schwalbe: Things My Students Don’t Know
June 12, 2016
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with...
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Raina: A Triumph Only On Television
June 12, 2016
Sifting truth from hype is now a patriotic task. Look how the BJP's Assam win was pitched as an India-shaking success
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Bennis: Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism
June 12, 2016
And he called them out fearlessly
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Cole: Is Tel Aviv Mayor Right that Israel is unique in Occupation & denying Civil Rights?
June 12, 2016
Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel Aviv, reacted with enormous sadness to Thursday’s terrorist attack...
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Husseini: Sanders Shouldn’t be in Vermont, He Should be in Brazil
June 12, 2016
The power of the establishment rests in large part because of its global connections. But progressive forces have been reluctant to wield such power
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Warren: Trump and Republicans’ Attempt to Bludgeon the Judiciary Into Submission
June 12, 2016
Elizabeth Warren escalated her attacks on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump
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Albert: Hello – Are We Serious?
June 11, 2016
It is time to develop and support shared left program,
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June 11, 2016
« We’ve had enough » is the phrase on everyone’s lips as – against all expectations –the...
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June 11, 2016
A study shows that the remarkable tendency of unions to support environmental policies and even to take the lead in environmental efforts is not an aberration
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Baroud: The Paris Peace Gambit: Everyone Gains except the Palestinians
June 11, 2016
There is nothing to celebrate about this
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Virasami: Brexit referendum: in-out, in-out, shake it all about
June 11, 2016
The EU vote offers a mirror to the British left. The right-wing “remain” and “leave” coalitions are both monstrosities. It is up to us to liberate ourselves
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Tefft: Strikes Sweep France, Opposing Labor Law Rollbacks
June 11, 2016
Just as the tourist season is starting in France, strikes are preventing half the trains...
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Trasciatti: The Fighting Tradition
June 11, 2016
The Verizon strike recaptured some of the uncompromising militancy of the early American labor movement
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June 11, 2016
The more ferocious Israel’s threats, the more publicity their cause receives – and the more frightened the world becomes
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Harris: Beyond Bernie, Beyond Capitalism
June 11, 2016
It seems to be a law of modern politics that the health of a democracy stands in inverse proportion to the length of its presidential campaign season
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Landy: The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton: America and the World in 2016 and Beyond
June 10, 2016
The world today is faced with crises on virtually every front, and any assessment of...
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Sullivan: Calling ALL Venezuelans to the Table
June 10, 2016
The solidarity and natural bartering system that has unfolded in our Venezuela-in-crisis is beautiful, and it is what has allowed us to survive until now
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Buhle: This Feminist is #Still Sanders
June 10, 2016
A single woman in higher office pales before the vision of a social democracy that brings a higher standard of life to so many
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Ford: Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize over Spilled Milk
June 10, 2016
If we want to build a world where administrators can’t treat students as if they’re their property over a carton of free milk, then we should consider alternatives such as democratic schooling
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Fisk: How do we separate the truth from the lies when reporting war crimes?
June 10, 2016
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come
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Alberts: The Art of the Patriotic Con
June 10, 2016
The immorality of America’s entrenched patriotism is revealed by Donald Trump even urging the committing of war crimes
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June 10, 2016
New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s war against BDS is an effort to isolate and suppress the Democratic Party’s left-wing critics
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June 10, 2016
The rage driving our politics stems from cruelty of capitalism. So why do we vote for those who worship the market?
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Prashad: Europe Is Slamming Its Doors Shut to a Growing and Historic Humanitarian Crisis
June 9, 2016
There is no real refugee crisis. There is, however, a crisis of humanism in Europe and North America
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Dolack: Regulation of financial industry is history if Trade In Services Agreement passes
June 9, 2016
The most secret of the international “free trade” agreements being negotiated around the world is...
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Singh: B&H Workers Train to Win
June 9, 2016
Union elections are often close—but not at a pair of Brooklyn camera warehouses last fall....
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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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Sanders: Rally in Washington, DC
June 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders Live from Washington DC - A Future to Believe in Rally Live Event
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Solomon: Trump, Sanders’ Next Steps & Media Coverage of the 2016 Race
June 10, 2016
The debate continues on racist remarks, Clinton’s plan to reach out to Sanders supporters, and the decision by the Associated Press and NBC to call the race for Clinton on the eve of the California primary
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Solomon: A Debate on Best Path Forward for Democratic Party
June 9, 2016
Where does the race go from here?
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Chomsky: Noam Chomsky & Yanis Varoufakis discuss Basic Income (Universal Income)
June 4, 2016
Talking about the concept of a basic income guarantee also known as a universal income
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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
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Email to Tracy Wilkinson of LA Times Re. Venezuela
June 3, 2016
Re: U.S. nudges the Vatican, other allies to help rescue...
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Emersberger: To its credit, Reuters sets the record straight on Venezuela’s recall process
June 2, 2016
To anyone who values honest journalism, it was nice to...
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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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