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Recent ZNet
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Albert: Why Are We Sliding Toward Hell…?
July 1, 2016
Most working people have never encountered a capitalist. Not once. But, they routinely encounter doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, and others who have highly empowering jobs
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Street: Homo Sapiens in the Exterminist Age of Capital
July 1, 2016
The project of building a united, militant, revolutionary, organized, durable, environmentalist, powerful, antimilitarist, and global Left is now an urgent life or death matter for many of us and for future generations
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Dolack: Brexit will only count if everybody leaves the EU
July 1, 2016
The EU is a bonanza for multi-national corporations and an autocratic disaster for working people across Europe
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Read: Brexit’s Aftermath: Xenophobia and the Rising Right
July 1, 2016
A renewed impetus to combat the myriad and far-reaching problems now brought to light under Brexit may be in the cards
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Holloway: Cheap Meals From Big Pharma Can Make Doctors Prescribe Expensive Drugs
July 1, 2016
A new study suggests pharma can spend a little and get a lot in return
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Hopkins: Activists occupy major park in Budapest to stop unwanted development
July 1, 2016
To correct the power imbalance, Ligetvédők activists are demanding the public be involved in the plans to renew the park
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Yepe: The Southern Giant Will Have to Fight
July 1, 2016
The first three governments of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) –two with Lula and one with Dilma Rousseff– represent the best in the republican history of the South American giant
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Baroud: Palestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
June 30, 2016
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had...
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Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up
June 30, 2016
We must create national and global economies that work for all, not just a handful of billionaires
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Porter: Why the Sanders “Revolution” Must Take on the Permanent War State
June 30, 2016
The People’s Summit in Chicago June 17-19 dramatically displayed both the strengths and the vulnerabilities...
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Bennis: From Paris to Istanbul, More ‘War on Terror’ Means More Terrorist Attacks
June 30, 2016
U.S.-led military campaigns “against terror” continue to set the stage for more terror attacks, and to create more terrorists, as anger turns to rage
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June 30, 2016
Terror acts like these can produce a dangerous kind of nationalism
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King: The “Free State of Jones” in Trump’s America: Freedom Beyond White Imagination
June 30, 2016
“[H]istory is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since...
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June 30, 2016
You did not heed my counsel sane, And are now at sixes and sevens; In...
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Slaughter-Johnson: Mamie Till and Tarsha Jackson: ‘Mothers at the Gate’
June 30, 2016
Jackson is one of a growing number of family members nationwide, mostly mothers, who have taken up the mantle to advocate for juvenile justice reform
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Mesbahi: The intersection of politics and spirituality in addressing the climate crisis
June 30, 2016
The following interview with STWR’s founder, Mohammed Mesbahi, examines both the contemporary political and profounder...
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June 29, 2016
Resurrecting Occupy and Breathing Life into Shared Program by Taking it to the Streets
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Street: Understanding and Defeating Working Class Nativism
June 29, 2016
If you don’t believe immigration is used by employers to depress living and working standards in the U.S., then take a job in any U.S. factory that has a significant number of unpleasant low-skill tasks
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Falk: Are We Heading Toward Global Autocracy, Ecological Collapse, Political Malaise?
June 29, 2016
What follows are preliminary reactions to both the BREXIT vote and the world according to...
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Roos: Brexit Confirms: The Center Cannot Hold
June 29, 2016
Brexit has less to do with Britain’s relationship to Europe than it has with neoliberal elites losing control over the monsters they have created
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Todd: Building a progressive majority: Left strategy after the Brexit vote
June 29, 2016
After the EU referendum we are seeing both horror at anti-migrant sentiment and pandering to it
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McKibben: The Clinton Campaign Is Obstructing Change to the Democratic Platform
June 29, 2016
The Democratic platform process is finally underway, and the main issue is this: Did the campaign of Bernie Sanders really alter the Democratic Party?
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June 29, 2016
The idea that loving each other more will solve this problem shows that most of us are unaware of the regular U.S. drone killings of Muslims beyond our borders. Perhaps we need to love more peoples than just ourselves
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Burtenshaw: Stand With Jeremy Corbyn
June 29, 2016
The embattled Labour Party leader is hated by his opponents for all the right reasons
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June 29, 2016
The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal
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Leopold: Bernie’s Next Big Task: Build a Large-Scale, National Progressive Movement
June 29, 2016
Sanders should concentrate on launching a new movement organization right now — one that would mobilize for his democratic socialist agenda
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Slaughter: In Push for Education Reforms, Mexican Government Kills Teachers in the Street
June 29, 2016
Teachers said they would hold “demonstrations, protests, blockages, marches, and rallies, till we have something definite from the government”
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Ferguson: Defying the Investors
June 28, 2016
Alienation from corporate candidates produced this year’s dizzying election results
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Cockburn: The Age of Disintegration
June 28, 2016
Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World
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June 28, 2016
Interview on Britain's growing economic and political crisis
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Peltier: 41 Years Since Jumping Bull, 500 Years of Trauma
June 28, 2016
As the First Peoples of Turtle Island, we live with daily reminders of the centuries of efforts to terminate our nations, eliminate our cultures, and destroy our relatives and families
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Finger: Brexit: A Victory for the Populist Right
June 28, 2016
The left needs to make the case that it has an alternative, a credible alternative; and that this alternative is implementable on the path to social transformation
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July/August ZMag
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Vivas: What Remains of All Our Outrage?
However, real change does not come about only through conquering institutions, but through gaining support from a mobilized society. What remains of all our outrage? A regime in crisis, not ready yet to fall, but ready to be reconfigured
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Winship: All The Presumptive Nominee’s Men
You will know our presidents and presidential candidates by the company they keep
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Street: Hillary Clinton’s Not-So-Strange Right-Wing Bedfellows
Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters got churlish when they heard media...
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Chaffee: Upcoming Events for Progressives
EVENTS SOCIALISM – The Socialism Conference is scheduled for...
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Pimentel: HISTORY HANDBOOK: Seeing Red: Nixon and the Presidential Election in Chile, 1970
That Nixon facilitated the ousting of Allende via collusion with the Chilean military and Allende’s political enemies comes as no surprise to students of the American war in Vietnam
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Recent Audio/Videos
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Nutt: The real harm of the global arms trade
June 24, 2016
In some parts of the world, it's easier to get an automatic rifle than a glass of clean drinking water
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Cohen: Why Is The Western Media Ignoring The New Cold War?
June 17, 2016
Interview on Russia, NATO, and our mainstream media's refusal to report on the New Cold War
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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
Recent Blogs
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Khan: The Forces of Darkness and Ignorance in Pakistan
June 23, 2016
Nasir Khan, June 23, 2016 The tragedy that started in...
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Emersberger: Will the Guardian Correct an Atrocious Article by Julian Borger?
June 22, 2016
This article by Julian Borger on Venezuela’s economy sates that “By IMF...
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June 20, 2016
Resurrecting Occupy and Breathing Life into Shared Program by Taking...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Broken Systems – Real Alternatives
June 16, 2016
Green Time TV Broken Systems – Real Alternatives by Don...
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Emersberger: Another day, another outrageous lie in the WAPO about Venezuela
June 16, 2016
To see how terrible the western media is, just follow...
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Emersberger: Mariana Zuñiga takes her rotten journalism to the Washington Post
June 14, 2016
Zuñiga’s recent BBC article was horrible (and never corrected by...
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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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