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  Grossman: Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands

  The success of these unlikely alliances challenges political stereotypes. Some progressives tend to dismiss rural whites as recalcitrant and unwilling to treat people who are different as equals
• and Marta Popadiak: Organizing for governing power in Chicago

  Interview on this election cycle and how it relates to the long-term project of building progressive infrastructure in the city
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  Cole: ExxonMobil wrecked a planet to make a few bucks

  Are ExxonMobil Executives the most evil people in the 200K-yr-long History of Humanity?
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  Raina: Gargoyles

  Gargoyles loom from the firmament, Monstrous mouths at the ready—...
• Fry: Venezuela Up Close

  It was 7 AM April 30th in Caracas when I awoke to hear gun shots outside my hotel. Our group, seven US citizens and one Canadian, had been in here since April 27 attending a housing conference and looked forward to the next day’s May Day celebration
• Koehler: War’s unanswered questions

  Donald Trump and his team, led by National Insecurity Advisor John Bolton, are playing rogue right now with two countries not currently under U.S. control, Iran and Venezuela
• Rebellion: Eco-action sweeps the globe

  The environmental narrative has been irrevocably changed: public concern is at an all-time high, with a clear majority of UK voters now backing (comparatively) radical action
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  Greeman: Yellow Vests Six Months Later

  The Yellow Vests represent a spontaneous, self-organized social movement has ever held out for half a year in spite of repression while retaining its autonomy, resisting cooptation, bureaucratization and sectarian splits
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  Cohn: US Illegally Evicts Protectors From Venezuelan Embassy

  On May 16, law enforcement agents broke into the Venezuelan...
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  Raina: VVPAT Verification: The Supreme Court Must Defend Democracy

  Judges of the highest court were anguished that democracy was in "peril”, but seem to be reluctant to take the necessary steps to ensure elections are "free and fair"
• Hashem: How to Lobby Washington to Death

  A Business Model From Hell and the War in Yemen
• Kliff: Medical Madness

  A Mother's Choice Between a Child's Care and Bankruptcy
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  Zunes: The Threat of War with Iran

  Is the U.S. lurching towards another illegal war in the Middle East?
• Farooq: The Second Drone Age

  How Turkey Defied the U.S. and Became a Killer Drone Power
• Pine: Academic Arrested for Protecting the Venezuela Embassy

  As a scholar and educator, there are times when standard tools of teaching, publishing, and public speaking aren't enough. There are times when we need to put our bodies on the line
• Shanahan: Human wellbeing threatened by ‘unprecedented’ rate of biodiversity loss

  Major UN report warns 1 million species are at risk of extinction
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  Monbiot: Saving the life in our seas

  Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?
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  Benjamin: We Need to Build Up the Antiwar Movement

  Interview on the growing threat of war with Iran and the role of National Security Advisor John Bolton, who Benjamin says has been pushing for war with Iran for years
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  Cole: 9 Easy Propaganda steps to War with Iran

  The Trump administration is now in full disinformation mode, using all the classical techniques of propaganda to put the gullible US public on a war footing with Iran. Here is how it is done
• Hughes: Organising the ‘unorganisable’

  In this new union movement a new attitude to workplace organising can be found, one based on action, militancy and unconditional support
• Johnson: Undermining Trump-Bolton War Narrative

  British General Says No Evidence of 'Increased Threat' From Iran
• Russo: Locking people up won’t help combat sexual violence

  We need look beyond individual punishment to tackle a crisis which pervades the fabric of our society