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Hallinan: The Brexit & Spain: Europe On The Edge?
July 8, 2016
The xenophobia stems from the anger and despair of people who have been marginalized or left behind by the globalization of the labor force
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Barrington-Bush: Defeating fear: lessons from Mexico’s housing movement
July 8, 2016
Los Panchos has taken back land and collectively built thousands of homes since the late-1980s. What could Global North movements learn from its successes?
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Shea Baird: Spanish elections: ceiling or turning point for the ‘new politics’?
July 8, 2016
Creating a real democracy is about more than winning elections. It’s about changing how politics is done from below, starting with our daily lives, in our homes, neighbourhoods and cities
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Prashad: End of exceptionalism
July 8, 2016
The U.S. does not have the economic or political power to thrust its agenda on a multipolar world and this is not because, as Donald Trump claims, of the policies of Barack Obama
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July 8, 2016
The massacre in Orlando triggered a predictable sandstorm of political and pundit opinion on the causes and prevention of these horrible events
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Bacevich: Presidential Candidates Push American Supremacy, Not National Defense
July 8, 2016
Interview on how both parties are committed to maintaining U.S. global hegemony through military power
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Olson: Israel and U.S. Schmooze About Arabs and Indians
July 8, 2016
Rabbi Irgun Kahane-Ariel, Israel’s Deputy Minister for Occupation Affairs, sat down with George Armstrong Winthrop,...
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Baird: Smiley-faced monopolists: how Google, Facebook and Amazon won the world
July 8, 2016
Real change requires a shift in social norms and a realization that the monopolizing billionaires who are providing us with ‘so very cheap’ or ‘for free’ have a totalitarian agenda
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July 7, 2016
Lives of innocent people caught up in these brutal wars do not matter provided the safety and property of the people outside, and of the people sent in to quell disorder, are rigorously protected
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July 7, 2016
In the middle of June 2016 the US House Committee on Natural Resources approved HR...
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Swanson: Impeach and Prosecute Tony Blair
July 7, 2016
The key supporter of U.S. war plans was the UK, and there is some possibility that a UK refusal to join in this crime might really have done some good
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Gerson: Imperial NATO: Before and After Brexit
July 7, 2016
Spiraling tensions that come with military alliances, arms races, military-industrial complexes and chauvinistic nationalism can be overcome with commitments to mutual respect
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Khan: Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder responds to Pride action criticism
July 7, 2016
"Our action was in the tradition of resistance that is Pride. We didn’t halt progress; we made progress"
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Monbiot: Chilcot’s judgment is utterly damning – but it’s still not justice
July 7, 2016
The inquiry made it as clear as its terms allowed that Tony Blair committed the crime of aggression. Can he now be held to account?
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Ali: Tony Blair is a War Criminal for Pushing Us into Illegal War
July 7, 2016
While Iraq is marking a third day of mourning, a long-awaited British inquiry into the Iraq War has just been released
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Blum: If you like Obama you’ll love Trump
July 7, 2016
If we look at what comes out of the mouth of The Barack is there any reason to castigate The Donald for his supposedly outrageous or weird way of expressing himself?
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Cohn: How Justice Scalia’s Absence Has Affected the Supreme Court’s Decisions
July 6, 2016
If Justice Antonin Scalia had survived to participate in the remainder of the 2015-2016 Supreme...
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Baroud: People above Politics: Political Deal will not hamper the Turkish-Palestinian Bond
July 6, 2016
Hyped emotions, and political opportunism aside, the Israel-Turkey normalization deal, signed on June 27 is unfavorable for Palestinians – and for Gazans, in particular.
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July 6, 2016
The Labour Party can survive, but only if it’s prepared to form an alliance with other parties
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Cole: H. Clinton and Ed Snowden: Some Animals are more Equal than others
July 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly attacked Ed Snowden for being careless with government information. So it...
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Wallerstein: Brexit: Symptom, Not Cause, of Turmoil
July 6, 2016
Great Britain’s withdrawal from Europe deals a further blow to the ability of the United States to maintain its dominance in the world-system
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Cohn: Numbers in Obama’s Drone Deaths Report Just Don’t Add Up
July 5, 2016
As expected, the administration’s numbers are significantly lower than tallies documented by leading nongovernmental organizations
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Dunbar-ortiz: July 4th: No Time for Celebration for Indigenous Peoples in US
July 5, 2016
July 4 symbolizes the beginning of the “Indian wars” and “westward movement” that continued across the continent for another century of unrelenting U.S. wars of conquest
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Ness: Working-Class Militancy in the Global South
July 5, 2016
A profound movement is emerging among workers in developing countries, demanding radical action on grievances outside the system of established unions
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July 5, 2016
It is notable that this latest phase of Palestinian national struggle is mainly being waged nonviolently, and in a manner that accords with the best traditions of constitutional democracy
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Mathews: Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford to Live Anywhere in the U.S.
July 5, 2016
Housing should be a right, not a privilege
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Knight: Report Shows How War Profiteers Are Now Refugee Profiteers, Too
July 5, 2016
Arms dealers flood war-torn Middle East with weapons and then lobby EU to militarize borders against refugees—profiting from both ends of conflict
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Bacon: The Fight Isn’t Over for Farm Worker Overtime
July 5, 2016
ARVIN, CA – Two farm workers pull weeds in a field of organic potatoes. By...
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Street: Against the Quadrennial Intra-Leftist Bloodletting
July 5, 2016
it really doesn’t matter which side of the debate you back if we don’t get our act together to form “ongoing, dedicated, popular movements that don’t pay attention to the election cycle”
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Glick: Can the Green Party Make a Course Correction?
July 4, 2016
I have serious problems with the current direction of the national Green Party, but first...
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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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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
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Recent Blogs
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Khan: Remarks on Luis L. Tijerina’s essay ‘The Russian and Syrian Alliance’
July 3, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 2, 2016 In his paper Luis Lazaro...
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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...
Being Left
Vincent Emanuele interviews Michael Albert Activism and vision
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Left Unity!?
An essay on left unity in this election season, and responses to it. Feel free to add comments under each, or under the original article, but also to submit longer pieces, if you like!
Albert: We Need A United Left
Fletcher Replies
Emanuele Replies
Hawkins Replies
Shalom Replies
Wilpert Replies
Recent Brexit and After…
Hallinan: Europe On Edge?
Gerson: Imperial NATO
Monbiot: Labour Savers
Wallerstein: Brexit
Mercille: Coup against Corbyn
Feffer: The Hangover
Mercille: Coup against Corbyn
Feffer: The Hangover
Read: Brexit’s Aftermath
Todd: After the Brexit
Roos: Brexit Confirm
Burtenshaw: Stand With Corbyn
Monbiot: Roots in the Rubble
Mason: Making Sense of Brexit
Finger: A Victory for the Right
Faulkner: Crisis on the British Left
Lazare: Hate Attacks Sweep the U.K.
Feffer: Writ Large
Kagarlitsky: Great Day?
Cook: Diseased liberal mind
Hudson: What Shaped Brexit Vote
Highlighted Content
Evans: Without Due Process
Baird: Google, Facebook & Amazon
Kelly: Don’t Move
Fitz: De-Privatize!
Ali: War Criminal
Monbiot: Chilcot’s judgment
Turse: Leaker, Speaker...
Ness: Working-Class Militancy
Bacon: Farm Worker Overtime
Sturgis: Texas abortion case
Godoy: “Right to the City”
Sadik-Khan: Quality Urban Life
Albert: Sliding Toward Hell?
Sturgis: A win for women
Sadik-Khan: ‘Streetfight’
Street: Homo Sapiens
Bennis: From Paris to Istanbul
Street: Working Class Nativism
Falk: Heading Toward What?
Cockburn: Age of Disintegration
Peltier: 500 Years of Trauma
Albert: We Need A United Left
Feffer: Poland B, U.S. B
Chomsky: Plenty of Possibilities
Balhorn: Die Linke: Ten Years On
Lopez: Emancipation Proclamation
Turse: The Numbers Racket
Kelly: What’s at Stake
Braatz: Restorative Justice
Bricmont: European Dead End
Chomsky: “Perpetual Peace”
Albert: Hello – Are We Serious?
Chomsky: Anti-Intellectualism...
The U.S. Presidential Election
Glick: Course Correction?
Sanders: Need to Wake Up
Porter: Take on the War State
McKibben: Democratic Platform
Leopold: Bernie’s Next Big Task
Ferguson: Defying the Investors
Albert: We Need A United Left
Sawant: Still Not With Her
Swanson: Now What?
Sanders: Not Dropping Out
Sanders: Here’s what we want
DeMoro: Historic Source of Ed
Albert: Don’t Sell Out!
Scher: Meet Jill Stein
Sanders: Political Revolution...
Albert: Lesser Evilism
Chomsky: Lesser Evil Voting
Ben-Meir: Fascist?
Jones: The Tyranny of Trump
Husseini: Sanders in Brazil...
Glick: Open Letter to Jill Stein
Engelhardt: Trump Is Not Virus
Borosage: Does Platform Matter?
Chomsky: Legacy of Obama
Palast: Placebo Ballots
Solomon: Solomon vs. Hayden
Dreier: A Five-Point Plan
Albert: The Bernie Question
Berlet: Insidious Lure
Cohen: Unify? Hell No!
Tasini: Sanders and Class
Sanders: Community Conversation
Albert: For Bernie…and More
Share Left Program
86 signers have collectively offered diverse ideas for left program. They seek wide discussion and debate to move toward synergy across constituencies. Z supports the effort and welcomes responses/reactions like the one included below as well...
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
Recent Ukraine, Isis, Syria, Turkey, Yeman
Fisk: ‘Kurdish problem’
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
Snider: Betray Kurds
Leverink: Frame Syrian Kurds
Prashad: Descent into Chaos
Venezuela
Ellner: Boliburguesía Thesis
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
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
Ellner: Chavista Government
Albert: Organize for Venezuela
Highlighted Israel/Palestine
Falk: Smearing BDS Supporters
Baroud: Water as a Weapon
Baroud: Resistance Poetry
Hass: Sweep Palestinians
Baroud: The Paris Peace Gambit
Falk: Zionism, BDS, and the UN
Cole: Israel-First McCarthyism
Avnery: Day of the Rhinos
Hass: Vanquished History
Baroud: Roots of the Conflict
Prashad: Right to Exist?
Cook: Religious zealots
Baroud: Roots of the Conflict
Fernandez: Backward as It Gets
Falk: Major General Gola
Barghouti: Interviewing BDS
Pappe: “It is the future”
Greece & Spain
Nichols: Spanish general election
Cutillas: What’s at Stake in Spain
Nichols: Podemos Left
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
Iglesias: Spain’s Socialists
Malaboca: Spain: insiders’ perspective
Vouloumanos: 1 / 2 / 3 /4
Albert: Greece Writ Large
Parecon / Parsoc
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