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Take a ride through Oakland with Boots Riley, frontman of the politically-charged hip-hop group ‘The Coup’, as he reflects on his music, his future, and his relentless revolt against capitalism
From Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit — The Nashville Sound
Noam Chomsky delivers the keynote address, “Fate of Humanity”
A talk on his political world view and on his vision and priorities for IBW moving forward.
Interview on the history of race and racism in the US from African slavery to today
Interview on the political upheaval in India with PM Modi at its front, fueled by increased violence towards Muslims, queers, Dalits, women, and more
Interview on Gaza, its people, and its future
Interview on Donald Trump, NSA Surveillance, Facebook Scandal, Russiagate, Syria, Israel, Gaza & Yemen
Interview on the state of nuclear geopolitics, international solidarity and more
Indian democracy is at crossroads because it did not experience any intellectual revolution
Noam Chomsky is Political Awareness Committee Student Organization Speaker at St. Olaf College
A discussion on nuclear policy and war
Talk on “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” recorded April 25, 2018 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle
A student-led group called Youth Against War and Racism is partnering with the community to lead a fight against Hopkins’ connection to government agencies like the CIA and end its role in military research
Interview on worker wins, challenges, and some new models for organizing
The post-Hurricane Maria recovery is seized by one overarching question: Who is Puerto Rico for: islanders or wealthy outsiders?
Dozens of farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have entered their last day of a 5-day fast
Stopping Zionist Genocide Against the Palestinians
With a deal reached in the West Virginia teachers strike, there is talk of revived labor activism nationwide
Lucas Koerner is a journalist at Venezuelanalysis based in Caracas, Venezuela. Gregory Wilpert a German-American sociologist who earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994. Between 2000 and 2008 he lived in Venezuela, where he taught at the Central University of Venezuela and then worked as a freelance journalist, writing on Venezuelan politics Read more…
Trump renewed Obama’s sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the US, violating international law in the process
Vincent Emanuele, Open University of the Left, 2-24-2018, Chicago, Illinois, Red State Rebellion In The Age of Trump.
Prisons aren’t “correctional” facilities, because they have no interest in correcting anything; the multibillion-dollar prison industry is interested in profits, and institutional racism keeps the money flowing
On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
Trump’s infrastructure privatization plan is a hat trick that optimistically turns $200 billion into $1.5 trillion, is designed to eliminate the public sector and to bankrupt cities and states
Bernie Sanders responds to Trump’s State of the Union speech
Brazil’s political elite is going after Lula and the Workers Party to stop them from running in this year’s presidential election
In Baltimore and around the world the second anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington prompted calls for unity in resisting the policies of the Trump Administration
Political parties in Spain are struggling to navigate an increasingly polarized political landscape
The bestseller Fire and Fury not only confirms the worst we suspected about the Trump White House, but it also puts the fights within the US ruling elite on display
Israel, with U.S. backing, has caused a “humanitarian disaster” in Gaza, and international human rights groups have failed to uphold justice for its besieged people
Trump’s “America First” Security Strategy is a defensive response to old rivals China and Russia reasserting their position in the world
Is it a currency that is going to replace the dollar or is it a classical commodity speculative financial bubble?
Catalan independence parties won the regional parliamentary vote, defeating the central government’s effort to weaken the movement
Career Politicians Against Radicals
After a massive neo-fascist march in Poland and new reports of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine, Lev Golinkin says both the US and Russia have troubling ties to Europe’s far-right
In this video Dr. Shir Hever talks about the history and evolution of the Israeli military industrial complex from the 1980s onwards until the modern era. Dr. Shir Hever is an independent economic researcher and journalist. He writes articles and research for various venues and gives lectures in political and academic venues. Hever also reports Read more…
Interview on a new report, “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” which examines the role of Democratic Party loyalists in the party’s 2016 defeat
A version of the legendary song
Interview about the state of economic and business education in universities today
Interview about about the Universal Dividend, it’s differences with the Basic Income, how it will be financed and whether it will burden the working class
In sabotaging the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump is listening to — and following the playbook of — the neocons behind the Iraq war
100 years of fire suppression and human-caused climate change are fueling California’s historic wildfires
Trump’s plans to extend the war he once supported ending are even more worrisome for their lack of transparency
Interview on what needs to happen next
Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, but massive debt and a crumbling infrastructure put the island in crisis long before the storm
As Republicans attempt a last-ditch repeal of Obamacare, Democrats have joined them to overwhelmingly pass massive spending on the military and war
Donald Trump’s comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account
The goal is to ruin you permanently, to make an example of you so that other people don’t take your cue and blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality