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Swanson: What About Theresa May Plagiarizing Genghis Kahn?
July 20, 2016
There are scandals and then there are the things that should be scandals. Melania Trump...
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Cook: Money talks as Trump does U-turn on Israel
July 20, 2016
It doesn’t get seamier than the battle to prove how loyal each candidate is to Israel
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Hochschild: Me Tarzan, You Adam
July 20, 2016
How I Met the Ghosts of My Own Work in a Local Multiplex
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Pilger: A Preview of The Coming War Between America and China
July 20, 2016
Interview on China, Okinawa, and U.S. policy in Asia
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Falk: Narrating Turkey at a Time on National Crisis
July 20, 2016
With the crisis of the failed coup seemingly effectively resolved, there is emerging what might be described as ‘the crisis of the aftermath’
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Lazare: The Myth of Upward Mobility in America
July 20, 2016
Researchers find that those who start out poor are likely to remain so
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Işıkara: What Happened in Turkey?
July 20, 2016
Turkey’s failed military coup wasn’t in service of democracy — but neither is Erdoğan’s countercoup
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Prashad: Cashing in on a failed coup
July 20, 2016
Turkish President Erdogan is using the botched bid to unseat him to further his authoritarian agenda
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Keppler: Popular Uprising Backs Striking Teachers in Southern Mexico
July 20, 2016
The ongoing blockade in San Cristóbal has become a living example of the popular labor movement that’s spreading across Mexico
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Anderson: Bikini islanders still deal with fallout of US nuclear tests, 70 years later
July 20, 2016
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Xulam: Kurdish Activist: Erdogan Should Be Pushed Out, But by the People, Not the Military
July 20, 2016
Turkey remains in a state of crisis three days after soldiers staged an attempted coup...
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Albert: Participatory Economics & the Bolivarian Revolution
July 19, 2016
From a talk given at the foreign ministry lecture hall in Caracas, Venezuela, July 18, 2016
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Falk: An Unlikely AMEXIT: Pivoting Away from the Middle East
July 19, 2016
The Case for Disengagement A few years ago Barack Obama made much of an American...
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West: Justice and Accountability are Necessary to End Tension over Killings by Police
July 19, 2016
Interview on the killing of the three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality
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Wainwright: A question of leadership
July 19, 2016
The ‘new politics’ Jeremy Corbyn proclaims must be an explicit agenda of institutional change, not simply a change of style
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Cole: Rep. Stephen King, White People and ‘Civilization’
July 19, 2016
Rep. Stephen King objected to a comment during a cable news discussion at MSNBC that...
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Bernstein: The True Cost of California’s Proposition 47
July 19, 2016
The tide is beginning to turn on criminal justice
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July 19, 2016
Inside the police’s playbook for repressing protests at national conventions
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Scher: Research Suggests the U.S. Discards Half of Its Fresh Produce
July 19, 2016
Around $160 billion of perfectly edible produce is discarded because it's less than perfect
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Malik: Nigerian officials grow rich on the hunger of the poor
July 19, 2016
Endemic corruption in Nigeria’s camps for the internally displaced
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July 18, 2016
Did you think the debt crisis in Greece was over because it's not in the news anymore? It's still going on because there's more to be looted from that country
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July 18, 2016
An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance
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Cole: Newt Should Check out Mike Pence’s Christian Sharia
July 18, 2016
Muslim Americans are a tiny group and are in no position to impose anything on anyone. But Pence represents a quarter of Americans and nearly half of Republicans
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Schiavoni: Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
July 18, 2016
You may have seen the headlines about Venezuela – headlines that allude to food scarcity,...
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Cockburn: Erdogan is using this failed coup to get rid of the last vestiges of secular Turkey
July 18, 2016
The attempted coup is serving as an excuse for a massive round-up of members of the judiciary and army officers, far greater than anything seen in Turkey for years
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Taibbi: In Police Violence Cases, Time Works Against Justice
July 18, 2016
While the nation is gripped by new police killings, hope quietly fades in the Eric Garner case
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Wallerstein: France’s Ultra-Confused Present
July 18, 2016
The multiple uncertainties within the parties in France make the recent back-stabbing within the British Conservative Party pale by comparison
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Escobar: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Teflon Sultan
July 18, 2016
God apparently uses Face Time. It was via that iconic iPhone footage from an undisclosed location shown...
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Chomsky: Anarchism, Communism and Revolutions
July 18, 2016
Revisiting some of the great radical traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries -- namely, anarchism and communism
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Freeman-Woolpert: Repression backfires in Serbia, fueling anti-corruption movement
July 18, 2016
The protests in Belgrade have swelled in the wake of these violent and illegal actions, and the movement now symbolizes a larger struggle against corruption and state-sanctioned crime
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Fletcher: Changing the Paradigm: Women, National Liberation & Revolution in the 21st Century
July 17, 2016
A review of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax
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Amin: National sovereignty: for what purpose?
July 17, 2016
Neoliberal globalisation continues a massive attack against peasant agriculture in Asia, Africa and Latin America
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Cole: Nice, France, Attack: A Gandhian Response to Serial Killers
July 17, 2016
You want to reply effectively to Nice? Reject fear and reject hate
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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
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Rasmus: Labor Uprising in France
July 17, 2016
Massive labor actions have been roiling France, as unions protest the policies of the nominally Socialist government
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Harrison: Wikileaks: Interview with Investigations Editor Sarah Harrison
July 16, 2016
Interview on the case of Julian Assange, the findings of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, national security, international law and how one can support whistleblowers
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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
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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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Wittner: Superpowers Are Violent Powers
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Being Left
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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
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Highlighted Content
Pilger: China War
Cook: Money Talks
Albert: Venezuela
Wainwright: Leadership
West: Justice
Rasmus: Looting Greece
Gordon: Trojan Drone
Fletcher: Women & Revolution
Amin: National Sovereignty
Dolack: Housing
Klare: Hooked
Swanson: Drones
Alexander: Something More
Jensen: White Supremacy
Pollin: Just Transition
Falk: Arms Control?
Prashad: Ceasefire
Figlerowicz: Gatekeepers
Hahnel: Climate Change & Capitalism
Giroux: Racist Killing Machine
Slaughter: Union Power
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
Albert: Hello – Are We Serious?
Chomsky: Anti-Intellectualism...
Recent Brexit and After…
Rasmus: Brexit
McDonnell: The leadership battle
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
The U.S. Presidential Election
Cook: Money Talks
Swanson: Plagiarizing
Cole: Civilization
Hermes: Battling Convention
Cole: Christian Sharia
Knight: GOP Convention
Prins: Trump’s Scam
Bennis: War
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
Cohen: Unify? Hell No!
Tasini: Sanders and Class
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
Falk: Narrating Turkey
Isikara: What Happened?
Prashad: Cashing In
Xulam: People
Cockburn: Failed Coup
Escobar: Teflon Sultan
Hussain: After Nice
Fisk: Turkey's Coup
Cole: Turkish People Power
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
Albert: Venezuela
Buxton: After Chavez
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
Cook: Money Talks
Falk: AMEXIT
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
Rasmus: Looting Greece
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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