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Alexander: Following Horrific Violence, Something More is Required of Us
July 12, 2016
Our entire system of government is designed to protect and serve the interests of the most powerful, while punishing, controlling and exploiting the least advantaged
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Savio: International Is out and National Is Again Back
July 12, 2016
The post-ideological world, which has accompanied globalization, has transformed political parties into machines of public opinion, directed to solve administrative problems
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Hedges: Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror
July 12, 2016
If we do not revolt, the savagery, including legalized murder, that is the daily reality for poor people of color will become our reality
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Reyes: Five keys to understanding the Spanish election
July 12, 2016
A second Spanish general election in six months saw gains for the right-wing PP, which is again expected to form a government. But the insurgent left has also shown that it is here to stay
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Sturgis: Questions linger after suicide ruling in suspected lynching of N.C. teen Lennon Lacy
July 12, 2016
Too many facts about the case did not add up
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Newman: Chicago Does Little to Control Police Misconduct – or Its Costs
July 12, 2016
People know about the high-profile police shootings of civilians and the multimillion-dollar settlements that result. But most cases are lesser known and settle for far less
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Fulton: Latest Leak Shows How TTIP Puts US-EU Clean Energy Goals in ‘Mortal Danger’
July 12, 2016
European Commission urged to 'call time on this failed corporate coup'
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Prins: Donald Trump’s Anti-Establishment Scam
July 11, 2016
The Insider Posing as an Outsider Trying to Get Back on the Inside
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Lesher: When Mourning Is Complicity
July 11, 2016
What looks from the outside like silence is really anger. Anger at the way the occupation corrupts all it touches
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Bennis: What the Democratic Party Platform Tells Us About Where We Are on War
July 11, 2016
It shows the limits of party politics—and the necessity of social movements to challenge those limits
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Pollin: A Just Transition for U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Workers
July 11, 2016
A combination of better jobs and pensions will remove one political obstacle to a green transition—and it’s the right thing to do
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el Kotni: Chiapas health workers strike against reforms
July 11, 2016
Workers of the Chiapas Health Jurisdiction have been on strike for one month, in protest against the structural reforms the government intends to pass
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Cole: Clintonites in Democratic Party Back Settler Colonialism (Not a 1905 Headline)
July 11, 2016
The Clinton loyalists debating the Democratic Party platform have defeated an amendment that would have...
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Bignell: Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
July 11, 2016
Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq
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Fisk: After receiving a gun for my birthday, I reconsidered my relationship with firearms
July 11, 2016
In an age when guns and bombs are used to kill the innocent in Paris, Belgium, London and Dallas as well as Baghdad, Aleppo and Kabul – indeed, in Birstall – even an old blunderbuss must acquire a disturbing symbolism
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Cole: 8,124 Murders by Firearm in US vs. 29 (144 equiv.) in UK
July 10, 2016
The US is downright weird compared to civilized Western Europe or Australia, which enacted gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 and there have been no further such incidents
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Falk: Why Arms Control is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament
July 10, 2016
By encouraging a new norm against first-use of nuclear weapons, Obama could help ensure, for this generation and those to come, that nuclear weapons are never used again
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Haga: Policing isn’t working for cops either
July 10, 2016
The more we focus our anger on the individual who pulled the trigger, the more we are letting the system off the hook
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July 10, 2016
Development is necessary to prevent Colombia from its sure descent into being a failed state. The peace treaty is a step towards the creation of a new Colombia
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Savio: Is a Referendum a Valid Tool for Democracy?
July 10, 2016
William Shakespeare would have loved to witness the Brexit. Many of his themes are evidently...
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July 10, 2016
The insistence on ideological purity could prove fatal for India’s Left
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Grady II: A Black Police Chief on the Dallas Attacks
July 10, 2016
One veteran officer speaks from the heart, on the intersection of race and policing
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Figlerowicz: The Gatekeepers Aren’t Gone
July 10, 2016
Viral content seems democratic. But it’s still mostly controlled by big media companies
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Hahnel: Economic Growth, Climate Change, and Capitalism
July 9, 2016
In this interview, radical economist Robin Hahnel argues that ecological sustainability is perfectly compatible with increases in economic well-being
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Dolack: CETA’s specter of corporate dictatorship still haunts Canada, EU
July 9, 2016
CETA, like its cousins TTP and TTIP, would cement into place the right of multi-national corporations to dictate to governments without any democratic input
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Giroux: The Racist Killing Machine in the Age of Anti-Politics
July 9, 2016
Let’s hope that the current crisis we are witnessing as it appears to unfold daily will transform cries of collective outrage into a social movement that is organized around a call for economic and social justice
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Swanson: If Afghan Lives Mattered, Dallas Lives Would Matter
July 9, 2016
The man who murdered police officers in Dallas, Texas, this week had earlier been employed...
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Scipes: Open Letter to the Chicago Teachers Union
July 9, 2016
The purpose of a union is to give workers’ power at their workplace. From there, a strong and progressive union will expand its concerns into the community and fight for social justice
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McDonnell: The leadership battle
July 9, 2016
A look at the attempted coup against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
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Cole: The Real Problem with the Iraq War: It was Illegal
July 9, 2016
The Bush-Blair war of aggression in turn authorized many others, and other countries have sometimes openly cited the Iraq War as justification for their own belligerence
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Tariq: Migration, fundamentalism & terrorism in Asia
July 9, 2016
A mass working-class alternative in the shape of trade unions and political parties linked with social movements is the most effective manner to counter religious fundamentalism
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Slaughter: Three Recent Wins Prove Old-Fashioned Union Power Isn’t Dead Yet
July 9, 2016
Unions should use this power. That’s how you build the kind of movement that can inspire more workers to join
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Greenwald: Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — Until Hillary Clinton
July 9, 2016
A system that accords treatment based on who someone is, rather than what they’ve done, is the opposite of one conducted under the rule of law
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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
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...
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