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Klein: We Still Need a Future to Believe In
July 24, 2016
A forum on how to build the political revolution with Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Michael Moore, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Reich, Kshama Sawant, Josh Fox, and more.
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Falk: How the United States Government Obstructs Peace for Israel/Palestine
July 24, 2016
Obstacle to Peace is the book we have long needed, utterly indispensable for a correct understanding of why the conflict has not been resolved up to this point
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Selwyn: Rethinking Recovery: Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism
July 24, 2016
Reorienting value generated within ‘global poverty chains’ is essential to improve the lives of an impoverished world labor force
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July 24, 2016
It all comes down to the same thing in the end. If Muslims attack us, they are terrorists. If non-Muslims attack us, they are shooters. If Muslims attack other Muslims, they are attackers
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Sturgis: Striking a Blow Against Debtors’ Prisons
July 24, 2016
Amount that Jennings, Missouri, has agreed to pay out to people jailed because they were...
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Marshall: Turkey’s Nukes: A Sum of All Fears
July 24, 2016
Although Turkey offers an egregious case of nuclear risks, questions about nuclear weapons deployment should go well beyond that country
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Rasmus: Trump, Trade, and Working-Class Discontent
July 23, 2016
Trump is in that great U.S. presidential candidate tradition, promising voters what they want to hear and then, if elected, doing whatever the economic elites want them to do
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Cole: Top 6 Graphs that Refute Donald Trump’s Lies about the United States
July 23, 2016
AP’s Fact Check found that as usual Donald Trump’s statistics in his GOP acceptance speech...
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Weisbrot: Brazil’s impeachment crisis undermines investor confidence
July 23, 2016
The interim government is doubling down on austerity, and has generated all the investor confidence of a big, fat banana republic
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Schwarz: Donald Trump’s Convention Speech Rings Terrifying Historical Alarm Bells
July 23, 2016
Trump had just one message for Americans: Be afraid. You are under terrible threats from forces inside and outside your country, and he’s the only person who can save us
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Benjamin: “Build Bridges, Not Walls”
July 23, 2016
CodePink’s Medea Benjamin disrupted Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention by holding...
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Lund: Pedagogy of the Oppressor
July 23, 2016
The bureaucrats of education, personificated in Aurelio Nuño, as all personifications of the Capital, naturalize violence and seek to spread the message that human lives are not worth crying for
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Kromm: NBA’s decision to pull All-Star game could have big political fallout in North Carolina
July 23, 2016
This week, the National Basketball Association made good on a threat to pull its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte due to North Carolina's passage of HB2
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Fulton: As Major Parties Embrace Fracking, Report Shows Natural Gas ‘Bridge to Climate Disaster’
July 23, 2016
Proposed natural gas expansion in the U.S. stands to undermine national climate goals as well as public and environmental health
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Shiva: Biodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarised Mind
July 22, 2016
A recent report from the National Academy of Science of The United States, titled Gene...
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Hallinan: The Big Boom: Nukes And NATO
July 22, 2016
“Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was...
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Swanson: Top 10 Reasons Why It’s Just Fine for U.S. to Blow Up Children
July 22, 2016
This latest story of blowing up 85 civilians in their homes has some people confused and concerned. Let me help you out
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Street: Political Correctness: Handle with Care
July 22, 2016
Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to Left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice
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July 22, 2016
What to expect in the coming weeks and months
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Godoy: Germany’s Energy Transition: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
July 22, 2016
In Germany, wind and solar energy coexist with energy generated by burning fossil fuels. A...
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Rankin: 10 Arrested as Movement For Black Lives Takes on Police Unions
July 22, 2016
Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter and Million Hoodies launch protest actions to demand accountability for police officers who commit violent acts against citizens
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Feffer: The Surprising Popularity of Military Coups
July 22, 2016
The attempted military coup in Turkey and the possibility of a President Trump may have more Americans considering the military option
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July 22, 2016
Hear the voice of the populace Who past, present, future weave; Do not wish away...
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Winslow: Teachers Arrested Protesting Police Brutality in the Twin Cities
July 22, 2016
With 3,000 teachers gathered in Minneapolis for the American Federation of Teachers convention, the two...
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Feffer: Loss of Manufacturing Jobs and Lack of Housing Policy Have Led to Homelessness in Hungary
July 21, 2016
Homelessness in Hungary no longer means exile or alienation as during the Soviet era, but no roof over one’s head
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Baroud: From Nice to the Middle East: The Only Way to Challenge ISIS
July 21, 2016
For many western commentators and politicians it is much easier – let alone safer – to discuss ISIS within impractical contexts, for example, Islam, than to take moral responsibility
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Surya: India’s Heart of Darkness Exposed by the Crackdown in Kashmir
July 21, 2016
There is no escaping the implications of the horrors with which innocent, mostly unarmed civilians of India-held Kashmir have been bombarded ever since the present crisis erupted
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Zunes: Is anti-Zionism inherently anti-Semitic?
July 21, 2016
As the U.S. movement in support of Palestinian rights gains momentum, it has come under...
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Baker: Brexit, Austerity, and the Future of the European Union
July 21, 2016
If the EU leadership continues to set policy based on folk wisdom from their parents rather than serious economics, the hardships among the population will continue
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July 21, 2016
The more urgent the environmental crisis becomes, the less we hear about it
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Cohen: What Will Bernie Delegates Do in Philadelphia?
July 21, 2016
Nearly 45% of Democratic voters and caucus goers supported Bernie. So nearly half of the party has said, “No, we’re progressives.”
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Swanson: Could Hillary Be Any Worse? Sure, Add Tim Kaine to the Ticket
July 21, 2016
Tim Kaine has been consistently ranked as one of the least progressive Democrats in the U.S. Senate
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Emersberger: Chavismo Must Stop the Economic Bleeding
July 21, 2016
People who care about the success of progressive change in Venezuela – and in Latin America – must do all they can to ensure that huge self-inflicted problems are avoided
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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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Giroux: Trump and the Enablers of American Authoritarianism (2/2)
July 23, 2016
'Lesser evilism' is the wrong way to frame the elections - it's about what's better for the strategic interests of an independent people's struggle
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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
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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Recent Blogs
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Wittner: Superpowers Are Violent Powers
July 17, 2016
If asked to identify the world’s superpowers today, most people...
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Khan: Kashmiris Right to Determine Their Future Is the Only Solution to the Kashmir Conflict
July 16, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 16, 2016 Today Professor Raj Bhat, himself...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Preparing for Danger
July 16, 2016
Green Time TV Preparing for Danger by Don Fitz Many...
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Khan: Brtual Indian oppression continues in Kashmir
July 15, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 15, 2016 The partition of India in...
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edwards: The Self Segregation of Retail Workers
July 15, 2016
REI workers in Seattle are stirring. Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant...
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Ganchev: Graduate schools for public policy/affairs?
July 13, 2016
My friend wants to do graduate study in public affairs...
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edwards: The Comfort of Customized Facts
July 13, 2016
Being a veteran, many of my Facebook friends are conservative....
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Wittner: Are We in for Another Increase in Military Spending?
July 12, 2016
At the present time, an increase in U.S. military...
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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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Highlighted Content
Shiva: Militarised Mind
Street: Political Correctness
Feffer: Military Coups
Surya: Kashmir Crackdown
Feffer: Hungary Homeless
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!
Turse: Leaker, Speaker...
Ness: Working-Class Militancy
Bacon: Farm Worker Overtime
Godoy: “Right to the City”
Albert: Sliding Toward Hell?
Sturgis: A win for women
Street: Working Class Nativism
Chomsky: Plenty of Possibilities
Albert: Hello – Are We Serious?
Chomsky: Anti-Intellectualism...
The U.S. Presidential Election
Cohen: Bernie Delegates
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
McKibben: Democratic Platform
Leopold: Bernie’s Next Big Task
Ferguson: Defying the Investors
Albert: We Need A United Left
Sawant: Still Not With Her
Sanders: Not Dropping Out
Sanders: Here’s what we want
Albert: Don’t Sell Out!
Scher: Meet Jill Stein
Sanders: Political Revolution...
Albert: Lesser Evilism
Chomsky: Lesser Evil Voting
Ben-Meir: Fascist?
Glick: Open Letter to Jill Stein
Engelhardt: Trump Is Not Virus
Chomsky: Legacy of Obama
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
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Albert: We Need A United Left
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Shalom / Wilpert / Bohmer
Albert Responds
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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
Cockburn: Turkey coup
Baroud: Nice to Middle East
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?
Venezuela
Emersberger: Economic Bleeding
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
Zunes: Anti-Semitic?
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
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
Iglesias: Spain’s Socialists
Malaboca: Spain: insiders’ perspective
Vouloumanos: 1 / 2 / 3 /4
Albert: Greece Writ Large
Parecon / Parsoc
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