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President Musk Will See You Now (If You’re Bearing Money or Power)
In this so-called holiday season, welcome to America’s “Mump regime,” governance of, by and for the oligarchs in which an erratic unelected white supremacist gazillionaire whose new hobby is buying...
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A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power
In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that “8.5 percent of the global...
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Chris Hedges Report: How Fascism Came
For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion of...
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A Mourner’s Prayer for Gaza
Strange now to think of you while I read the words of a Jewish poet long gone on his boat of metaphors and flowers for the constant beat of time and all it brings forth. I think of you and how once you...
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Across the Middle East, the BDS Movement Is Thriving
In the bustling streets of Cairo, a bold banner hangs outside the Writers’ Syndicate, confronting passersby with a piercing statement: “Every pound you spend on their products returns as a bullet in...
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A National Rideshare Cooperative Takes Aim At Uber and Lyft
After seven years of driving for Uber, Phred Riggs had enough. Riggs said the company deactivated his account five times over the last five years for no reason. He also didn’t like how Uber would...
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Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO) End of Year Statement
After our historic Johannesburg launch in December 2023, Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO), an eco-socialist, feminist organisation seeking to regroup militants active in grassroots movements and trade...
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Deception and Politics From Washington To Tel Aviv
In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the final resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that...
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How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power
Scott Houldieson had some questions. He had worked at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 551, since 1989, but in the late 2000s the company was in a financial hole following...
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“Blue Collar, Not Billionaires”: How We Build Coalitions that Win
As progressives brace for the return of Trump at the head of an emboldened MAGA movement, pundits struggle to understand how Democrats failed in the 2024 federal elections and argue about what to do...
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From the Warehouse to the World: Sultana Hossain on Organizing Amazon From...
On midnight on Saturday December 21st, members of Amazon Labor Union Local 1 began their strike at the JFK-8 warehouse in Staten Island. They joined eight other striking Amazon warehouses across the...
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The West Bank’s Men of the CIA – Why Is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin?
Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The PA security forces used similar tactics as used by...
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The West, Gaza, and the Global Majority: A Relationship Reshaped by Genocide...
Since the beginning of this century, triggered by the US’s illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan, and aided by the arrival of the turbo-charged digital age, there has been a...
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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group
The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn from that busiest of cyber outfits in the Israeli...
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The Ambedkar Millstone Around the Sanatan Neck
When the honourable Union home minister blurted “Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar” in parliament last week, it was as though he had finally succeeded in ejecting something that had been stuck in...
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Good and Bad War Criminals
Very little is known about Operation Tango, a secret SAS mission to capture suspected war criminals in Bosnia in 1997. It was one of several clandestine special forces missions ordered by Tony Blair’s...
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Reimagining Socialism: An Interview With David Kotz
In the 1990s, all the talk was about the end of socialism and the unchallenged military and economic superiority of the United States. Nonetheless, two decades later, socialism was revived as a...
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The Real War on Christmas Is a Class War Waged by Bosses
In the right-wing imaginary, the War on Christmas had a good run. Fox News host John Gibson alleged in a 2005 book that liberals were planning to “ban the sacred holiday,” and a moral panic was born,...
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Kurds Under Threat in Syria as Turkey Launches Attacks and Kills Journalists...
As foreign powers look to shape Syria’s political landscape after the toppling of the Assad regime, the country’s Kurdish population is in the spotlight. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
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Palestinians Endure Another Christmas of Genocide and Displacement
Over the past 14 months, I have watched in horror as fellow Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to Israel’s relentless bombardment — targeting refugee camps, residential neighborhoods, schools,...
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