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The gunman seems motivated by a vision of history, pushed by the right, in which American racism never existed and Black people are undeserving takers

We are not being honest about the horrific racist violence that took place in Buffalo this weekend and the racial inequality throughout the U.S. if we ignore how capitalism brought us here

In Bolivia, since the beginning of this century, we have battled some of the most important and decisive questions for the future of the human race

Please Help ZNet         Source: Truthout Just two weeks before Israeli forces assassinated beloved Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the International Federation of Journalists, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians had submitted a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court accusing Israel of systematically targeting Palestinian journalists. “The targeting of Read more…

Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians is racist to its very core, and one cannot create hierarchies of racism or a club of “accepted” racism, or a legitimate one

There is an unprecedented economic and humanitarian crisis as the Taliban, divided and without a strategy, rely on edicts against women and repression

They Must Challenge For-Profit Health Care

One ACLU attorney declared that every child, “regardless of whether Gov. Abbott and Border Patrol agents consider them ‘our child’ or not, deserves food and love.”

This new memoir by a union organizer recounts dramatic organizing campaigns with laundry workers and offers thoughts on building worker solidarity and power

 While they will likely be defeated in their efforts to make the U.S. a “white-only” country, the rest of us will pay a heavy price

One speaker at the Ban Off Our Bodies rally in the nation’s capital said that Saturday was just “day one of a ‘Summer of Rage’ where we will be ungovernable. Ungovernable!”

As the climate changes, we begin to see where the bodies are buried—literally

The billionaires and corporations claim to hate government action. In reality, they love it. The only thing they hate is governments acting in your interests

“I am ready to speak with Putin, but only with him, without his intermediaries and on the terms of dialogue, and not ultimatums,” said the Ukrainian president

Please Help ZNet           Source: Truthout Photo by John Gomez/Shutterstock   California voters will likely soon get a chance to vote on raising the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour, as proponents of the proposal have gathered enough signatures for the measure to appear on the ballot this November. On Read more…

Interview with Giorgio Boccardo, Undersecretary of Labor

The White House appears to have no plans to break Big Pharma’s stranglehold on global Covid-19 vaccines

The following is excerpted from a new book Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too

On May 12, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers held a rally and street performance outside the office of Wendy’s board members

The progressive opposition movement, Citizens in a State, is seeking to rebuild the country through a radical redistributive agenda

To effectively fight back, disjointed movements must find ways to come together into a larger emancipatory project, and develop creative strategies to push such a project forward

Please Help ZNet           This interview with world-renowned scholar and leading dissident Noam Chomsky has two goals. The primary goal is to understand America’s role in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 21st century, the Syrian civil war. While there has been a lot of commentary on the Syrian civil Read more…

Interview on a descent into nuclear war hell

The racism that permeated the age of criminalization now lurks throughout the phase of decriminalization

Squandering our national moment of opportunity at capitalism’s casino

The American labor market is characterized by high levels of employer power

Progressive Populists need to understand the current struggle as a long-term battle over whose interests the Democratic party and the broader U.S. political system serve

Please Help ZNet           I am an academic, with publications in peer-reviewed journals and a terminal degree. And today I want to make what many certified smart people would regard as an anti-intellectual argument in one specific area. I abhor the emotional and social corrosive effects of many aspects of “wokeness” Read more…

Censorship is an ineffective solution that only complicates the threats posed by fake news

The Working Class Will Have to Organize Itself

Members of the PI Council gather in Greece to call for “support for victims of war and a new Non-Aligned Movement.”

Youth, especially youth of color, are not only viewed as a liability, much of their behavior is also being increasingly criminalized

Alito’s draft opinion is full of specious legal and historical language — but it’s just religious doctrine in drag

“The only way out,” said one climate scientist, is to “fight side by side and to strip power away from the rich corporatists who are leading us deeper into catastrophe, even as their own homes burn.”

In the last seven years, the trends we identified in the book of promoting military and security solutions to the climate crisis have sadly become more entrenched

“It is time for the U.S. to commit to no new offshore oil and gas leasing and to invest in the clean energy future that we—and our planet—need.”

During 20 years of reporting on the conflict, I learned first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted

Did the Long Pandemic Spawn a New Kind of Repression?

The tragic, illegal war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine should end now, with a ceasefire and then a comprehensive peace agreement

After the USSR’s breakup, the OSCE knew that the large number of Russian speakers in Ukraine would become an issue

The out-of-stock rate began to rise in July, eventually reaching 31 percent

“It’s really important to Israel that nobody see what’s going on in the Occupied Territories.”

Please Help ZNet           Source: Extinction Rebellion Introduction Dear rebels, Winter has retreated from the Northern hemisphere, and seeds of rebellion have been sprouting in some of its largest and most iconic cities. Last month saw three sustained campaigns of direct action launch across London, New York, and Paris in quick Read more…

And holding back the contemporary U.S. Left

We should honestly assess our failures — and then build a movement that ties together labor, feminists, and health care organizing

The legalization of abortion, had dramatic effects on the ages at which and the circumstances under which women became mothers

Defense contractors like General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin hide behind a veneer of serving the U.S. government, but ultimately only care about selling weapons and making profits

The Defense Department promised a memo on mitigating U.S.-inflicted civilian harm in April. With the deadline passed, Congress members call for an ICC investigation — of Russia

“Book bans are about limiting kids’ freedom to read and teachers’ freedom to teach”

The following is excerpted from my a book Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too