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Lawyer Who Won $9.5B Case Against Chevron Spent 993 Days Under House Arrest
Steven Donziger, an American environmental and human rights lawyer, won a landmark case against Chevron, requiring it to pay 9.5 billion USD in damages to indigenous communities in Ecuador for...
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Big Tech Backs Trump to Cut Taxes, Boost Crypto, Replace Workers with AI:...
Silicon Valley and tech billionaires are lining up to support the incoming Trump administration. With the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, as one of Trump’s closest advisers, Trump has hosted Amazon...
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How We Built a Mass Socialist Party in 10 Years, w/ Belgian MP Peter Mertens
Peter Mertens, Secretary General of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) sits for a wide-ranging interview with Brian Becker, longtime socialist organizer and founding member of the Party for...
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Luigi Mangione’s Indictment Is Another Example of the Dangers of Terror Charges
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. While Mangione already faced...
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Israel Vows to Assassinate Houthi Leaders Amid Intensifying Airstrikes in Yemen
Emboldened by the results of 14 months of regional war, and backed by the U.S., Israel has steadily intensified its bombing attacks against Yemen. On Thursday, Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on...
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Here’s How Economic Populism Can Win
Economic populism is finally getting its due — at least in election post mortems. Even the most milquetoast of liberals have identified the prime culprit of Kamala Harris’s defeat as her failure to...
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Canada ‘Aids’ Palestine By Training PA Police To Repress Resistance
In recent days Palestinians in occupied Jenin have set up barricades and called a general strike to denounce PA repression. They were responding to PA security forces killing a child named Muhammad...
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‘This Is Murder!’: Industrially Poisoned South Baltimore Residents March On...
On Dec. 7, working-class residents of Curtis Bay and other South Baltimore neighborhoods marched through the streets of Annapolis and delivered a giant stocking full of coal to the Governor’s mansion....
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Andreas Babler Has Disappointed the Austrian Left
This was a year of national, European, and state-level elections in Austria — and it turned out disastrously for the Left. The surprise rise of the left-winger Andreas Babler to the leadership of the...
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MAGA Civil War Erupts Between Musk, Critics Over H-1B Visas
A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas for highly skilled workers, with the president-elect’s new tech industry allies like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on one side and the anti-immigration...
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Coalition Of Labor, Community, And Faith Groups Wins Victory For The BDS...
Organizers and workers from across Alameda County, California, scored a major victory for the BDS movement on December 10th, successfully pressuring the Board of Supervisors to vote to develop an...
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From Auschwitz to Gaza, With a Stopover in The Hague
This bitter and not-so-subtle irony of history supplies a surreal confluence that was nearly unimaginable before now : merely to imagine the prime minister landing in Krakow, arriving at the main...
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Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism
For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of...
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Capitalism, Inequality, and the Myth of Catch-Up Development
Prevailing narratives in international development hold that poorer countries can and will “catch-up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. But catch-up development is an...
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Imperialist Fantasy: Historian Greg Grandin on Trump Threat to Retake Panama...
Donald Trump has set his sights on the Americas, threatening to retake the Panama Canal if Panama doesn’t lower fees for U.S. ships. The United States controlled the waterway until 1977, when President...
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Israel Storms Northern Gaza’s Last Hospital As Remaining Residents Forced South
In the morning hours of Dec. 27, Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza....
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Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us
The decade-long battle over Karen Silkwood’s legacy — waged, on the one hand, by progressives who mythologized her as a courageous whistleblower and, on the other, by a corporation that vilified and...
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Is US Democracy A Sham? Biden Gave Us The Answer. Were You Listening?
Only in the world of political make-believe we inhabit in the West would the Wall Street Journal’s account of Biden’s years-long cognitive decline, and its concealment by his officials, count as a...
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12 Ways We Can Exploit Fossil Fuel Industry Vulnerabilities — Even Under Trump
Already widespread before, climate despair has likely reached new levels following former President Donald Trump’s reelection. With good reason: Trump is committed to policies that are projected to...
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Jimmy Carter Worsened the American Malaise He Decried
On July 15, 1979, then president Jimmy Carter went on live television to address the nation. The address he gave that evening — often called the “malaise speech” — is probably one of the...
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