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Cohn: The Threat of a Right-Wing Supreme Court: Analyzing Trump’s Prospective Justices
October 23, 2016
The new president will change the Court's ideological makeup for the next four decades
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Chomsky: The Perils of Market-Driven Education
October 23, 2016
What is the actual role of education and its link to democracy, to decent human relations and to a decent society?
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October 23, 2016
No single party can defeat neoliberalism. A broader social movement is needed
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Rasmus: Behind The 3rd US Presidential Debate—What’s Coming in 2017
October 23, 2016
What the 3rd—and indeed all three debates—reveal beneath the surface is a growing loss of legitimacy by the US political elite and their parties in broad segments of the US
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Cockburn: Mosul braces itself for next bloody chapter having been ravaged by 13 years of war
October 23, 2016
Mosul has been a dangerous place since the US-led invasion of 2003. It is the...
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Glick: Organizing Among Trump’s White Supporters, Part 1
October 22, 2016
Two and a half weeks before the big election, it’s looking good, though not a...
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Chichilnisky: Climate Change and its Effects on Global Industrial Civilization: What’s Next?
October 22, 2016
For the first time in human history, we are systematically anticipating the next 50-200 years and trying to modify our practices and institutions accordingly
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Brecher: Climate Emergency: Global Insurgency
October 22, 2016
There is no choice but to escalate today’s campaigns against global fossil fuel infrastructure
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Sanders: Why Vote for Hillary?
October 22, 2016
Why Bernie Sanders supporters should vote for Hillary Clinton
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Wallerstein: Colombia: A Bright Light is Extinguished
October 22, 2016
The stalemate and the ensuing battle fatigue led each side to reconsider its all-or-nothing position and to enter into political negotiations. How did this happen?
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Sharoykina: Europe – “Green” Alliance with Russia or experimental field for genetic Monsters?
October 22, 2016
In September 2016 it was announced that German chemical & pharmaceutical giant Bayer agreed to...
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Prose: When Librarians Are Silenced
October 22, 2016
Whatever the outcome, the case adds to a growing history of attacks on libraries—simply for upholding the bedrock values that have historically made them so important
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Gordon: Israel’s boycott hypocrisy
October 22, 2016
How Israel criminalizes BDS while boycotting Palestinian Knesset members
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Bohmer: There is a Way Out of Here: Trump, Clinton, Stein and Beyond
October 22, 2016
Trump's significant support by whites, and especially by white workers, and his easily winning the Republican nomination for President needs to be understood
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Biehl: The revolution in Rojava: an eyewitness account
October 21, 2016
An interview with the three authors of a new book — “Revolution in Rojava” — about their experiences and observations witnessing the birth of a new society
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Garza: Issues Ignored at the Debates
October 21, 2016
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Let’s go back to last night’s showdown in Las Vegas. This is debate...
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Breen: “Today Is One of the Heaviest Days of My Life”
October 21, 2016
Finland is granting residency to only 10% of asylum seekers
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Early: In Bay Area Refinery Town: Berniecrats & Clintonites Clash Over Rent Control
October 21, 2016
In June, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wound up his presidential primary campaign by urging his...
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Monbiot: Climate change means no airport expansion – at Heathrow or anywhere
October 21, 2016
Sorry, but you cannot build new runways and prevent climate breakdown
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Achcar: Standing Against Barbarism
October 21, 2016
Both the Syrian regime and the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen aim to bury the aspirations of the Arab Spring
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Makalani: The Many Costs of Campus Carry
October 21, 2016
We chose our profession believing that, while we might encounter resistance to new ideas, we could safely push our students to think more deeply about their inherited beliefs and assumptions
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October 20, 2016
The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn’t rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats,...
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Greenwald: Is Disclosure of Podesta’s Emails a Step Too Far? A Conversation With Naomi Klein
October 20, 2016
This sort of indiscriminate dump is precisely what Snowden was trying to protect us from
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Baroud: The many ‘truths’ on Syria: How our rivalry has destroyed a country
October 20, 2016
Regardless of how the war ends, Syria has been destroyed and its future is bloody and bleak
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Daniels: In Defense of Kaepernick
The uproar continues over San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s...
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To force the VA to use its drugs, Big Pharma set up dummy foundations and turned to existing veterans’ organizations for support
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Chomsky: Global Struggles for Dominance
It’s easy to say, “Let’s strike back with violence”—police repression, carpet-bomb them to oblivion (Ted Cruz), etc.—very much what al-Qaeda and ISIS have hoped for, and very likely to intensify the problems,
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Solomon: The Debut of Our Revolution: Great Potential, But…
It’s all to the good that Our Revolution is encouraging progressives around the country to plan far ahead for effective electoral races, whether for school board, city council, state legislature or Congress
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Baroud: War to Stop War: Libya’s Operation Odyssey Lightning
The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East
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Lewis: Why the poorest county in West Virginia has faith in Trump
October 14, 2016
A look at the power of the Republican presidential nominee’s message in the poorest county of West Virginia
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Bennis: In Second Presidential Debate, Clinton Escalates Her Call for Military Solution in Syria
October 12, 2016
Interview on the foreign policy aspects of the second presidential debate
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Chomsky: After the Electoral Extravaganza
October 1, 2016
This talk was the second presentation in Massachusetts Peace Action's Distinguished Peacebuilders Series
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Chomsky: On Power and Ideology
September 30, 2016
Noam Chomsky Chicago’s at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, hosted by Haymarket Books and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
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September 29, 2016
Excerpt on foreign policy from Jeremy Corbyn's address to the 2016 Labour Party Conference on September 28, 2016 in Liverpool, England
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Prashad: US and Russia Agree to Cessation of Hostilities in Syria
September 16, 2016
As Syrian opposition groups retreat from the demand that President Assad step down, a ceasefire agreement becomes more feasible
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Eisenstein: Race, Gender and Socialism
August 23, 2016
A discussion on race, gender, feminism, and socialism
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Wise: How Trump Uses Race to Divide & Conquer
August 15, 2016
The Trump campaign is just the latest in a centuries-long strategy of rich whites duping poor whites into channeling anger toward people of color, rather than the elite
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Emersberger: The WSJ declares Venezuela worse than Syria
October 19, 2016
The Wall Street Journal just published an article with the...
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Kavanagh: Hillary’s Hide-and-Seek
October 17, 2016
Go to source This Sunday’s New York Times (NYT) article...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Barriers to Better Being
October 15, 2016
Green Time TV Barriers to Better Being by Don Fitz...
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Evans: A Reply to Daguerre, Ozarow and Upchurch
October 14, 2016
This is a reply to a specific part of this...
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Khan: Why did the U.S. rulers destroy Iraq?
October 12, 2016
Nasir Khan, October 10, 2016 The Twin Towers in New...
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Khan: The Kashmir Conflict Needs a Solution Now
October 12, 2016
Nasir Khan, October 7, 2016 Despite Indian army’s blinding of...
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Emersberger: Avoidable Child Deaths in Various Countries in the Western Hemisphere in 2015
October 8, 2016
The chart below lists avoidable child deaths in various countries...
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Emersberger: Higher profits boost private investment. WRONG!
October 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton, in the first presidential debate, pointed out that...
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Highlighted Content
Baroud: many ‘truths’ on Syria
Grossman: Stop the Next War
Fisk: When Mosul falls
Cole: Mosul
Nader Interviews Chomsky
Magdoff: A New Economy
Taibbi: Goodman Arrest
Bond: Fantasies & Revelations
Prashad: Passport from ‘Nowhere’
Monbiot: Society
Zunes: Syrian voices
McGovern: Fly at Your Risk
Hahnel: Participatory Economics
Zunes: Gaza to Aleppo
Cockburn: US and EU Sanctions
Ellner: Chavismo’s Future
Hallinan: Spain’s Turmoil
Fisk: Afghanistan
Escobar: New Silk Roads
Contributors: On Syria!
Polychroniou: New Deal
Prashad: Lost opportunity
Feffer: Disturbing the Peace
Polychroniou: The New Deal
Spode: Wolfe vs Chomsky
Lopez: Yahoo
Albert: Sellout or Sense?
Chomsky: US & Fascism
Brecher: Dakota Access Pipeline
Feffer: Syria as Metaphor
The U.S. Presidential Election
Swanson: Rigged
Klein/Greenwald: Emails
Gupta: Left Isolates Itself
Sun: The Millennial Vote
Bouie: Trump Time Bomb
Koeppel: Trumpeters
Glick: Candidates on Climate
Feffer: Trump the Arsonist
Khazan: Precarious Masculinity
Giroux: Mass Terror
Rasmus: Political Telenovela
Koh: Defeat Trump
Hightower: Rebranding Bernie
Rosenfeld: Sanders Delegates
Kuttner: Hidden Injuries
Hochschild: Trump Supporters?
Albert: Sellout or Sense?
Fletcher: Ballot “Blank-Out”?
Aronoff: Left Deserves Better
Shalom: Some Left Arguments
Gupta: Underestimating Danger
Ansara: I didn’t vote in 1968...
Etelson: Flip a Trump Voter
McCauley: Clinton, Then Mobilize
Albert: Vote Stein!?
Albert/Shalom: Thinking About Election
Hahnel: What Can We Learn?
Albert: Answering Swanson
Swanson: Lesser Evilism
Our Revolution
Albert: A Tale of Two Groups
Albert: Support and Improve
Glick:Election and Beyond
Albert:Promise and Problems
Albert: Dear Us and Dear Bernie
Albert: Our Revolution!?
Solomon: Great Potential. But
Foran: Failing Tim Canova
Rasmus: Statement or Question
Cohen: Staffers Protest
Rosenfeld: Progressive Agenda
Sanders: Launch Event
Onley: Just getting started
Venezuela
Ellner: Populist Failure?
Fuentes: Latin America’s left
Chavez: Chávez on self-management
Ellner: Unlikely Referendum
Albert: Miguel Rodriguez
Serrano: Venezuela’s Future
Telesur: US Sabotage
Sankey: Pink Tide?
Emersberger: Economic Bleeding
Albert: Venezuela
Buxton: After Chavez
Ellner: Boliburguesía Thesis
Pearson: Media Wars
Sullivan: Venezuela’s Crisis
Weisbrot: Economic policy
Teruggi: Venezuela On Fire
Weisbrot: Left in Latin America?
Weisbrot: Venezuela
Mallett-Outtrim: How Bad?
Albert: Errors and Prospects
Albert: Venezuela’s Future
Albert: Responsibility Is Ours
Wilpert: Key Factors, Part 2
Ellner: Set the Record Straight
Wilpert: On Venezuela
Wilpert: Roots of Situation
Ellner: Chavista Government
Albert: Organize for Venezuela
Highlighted Israel/Palestine
Falk: History
Greenwald: Apartheid Regime
Falk: Shimon Peres’ Legacy
Fisk: Shimon Peres
Hamilton: Boat to Gaza
Falk: Israel, Palestine, & Peace
Cook: Israel’s bogus civil war
Cook: Israel to colour-code
Engler: ‘Anti-Semitism’
Falk: Beyond Jewish Identity
Falk: Dreaming of Freedom
Zunes: Anti-Semitic?
Falk: Smearing BDS Supporters
Hass: Sweep Palestinians
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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