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Longest Period Without Fed Minimum Wage Increase Since Law Enacted in 1938

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Khury Petersen-Smith: Trump Oversees Death and Destruction in Syria, Afghanistan, and More

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Noam Chomsky: The 2020 election

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Bernie Sanders: Town Hall with Bernie Sanders, Part 2

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Roger Hallam: Why International Rebellion?

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Jaisal Noor: Hopkins Students Sit-In to Oppose University Police and ICE Contract

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Gregory Wilpert: The Origins of Venezuela’s Economic Crisis

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Glenn Greenwald: The Media and Political Humiliation from the Mueller Report

I obviously intended to write about the fallout from Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report: specifically his definitive finding that “the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government” and that “the report does not recommend any further indictments, nor Read more…

Aaron Bastani: The Coup in Venezuela, Explained

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Steve Ellner: Trump Putting Venezuela on ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ List?

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Glenn Greenwald: The Lessons from the Victory of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro

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Michael Albert: Planting Seeds of the Future in the Present

This talk took place on 10th October 2018 at The Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow

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Norman Solomon: On the Democratic Party

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The siege-like conditions which Venezuela has been subjected to from both foreign interference and domestic opposition present a myriad of challenges for the country to move forward

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“Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)” by Marc Ribot (feat. Tom Waits) from the album ‘Songs Of Resistance 1942 – 2018,’

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