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Suicide by Rental Truck
Recent headline-making events in two of America’s most famous party-hardy cities sent us back to our well-thumbed copy of Touching the Dragon, a 2018 memoir by James Hatch. Never heard of Hatch? Well...
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Block and Build 2.0
Recalibrating our strategy to block MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda is essential in building enough progressive power to go on the offensive. Key adjustments: tighter synergy of electoral and non-electoral...
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Israel’s “Ceasefire” In Lebanon Does Not Augur Well For Gaza
Qatari mediators’ announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza to begin on 19 January ending the 15-month genocide inflicted on the besieged and decimated territory has brought relief to Palestinians at the...
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‘How Does It Feel to Have Your Legacy Be Genocide?’ Asks Journalist Thrown...
“Physically dragging out a reporter from the State Department briefing room while preaching press freedom to the rest of the world is the perfect example of the Biden administration’s love affair with...
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United States in 2025: Social Problems Denied via Rhetorics of Refusal
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems arise...
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Keir Starmer’s Support For The Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies
There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line. Starmer:...
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Vijay Prashad: Ending the War in Ukraine
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet. He, like other secretaries general of NATO, is a mediocre European politician who has been given the...
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Israel Is Refusing To Release Key Political Prisoners In Ceasefire
The Palestinian delegation negotiating the Gaza “ceasefire” agreement in Doha made an eleventh-hour effort earlier this week to push for the release of two of the most high-profile political prisoners...
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Diagnosing Activist Burnout, Elite Media Fuel It
Ten months before the 2024 election, high-profile news outlets were already sounding the alarm: If Trump were to win another term, widespread fatigue, despair and activist burnout would probably...
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Gideon Levy & Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything...
Israel’s security cabinet has approved a long-awaited ceasefire deal with Hamas. If finalized, the ceasefire is expected to go into effect on Sunday. “The main challenge will be the second phase, and...
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Biden Reveals Netanyahu’s Determination To Turn Gaza Into Hiroshima, And His...
President Joe Biden’s interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell demonstrates that the project of right-wing Zionism, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is to repeal post-World War II...
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Biden Worked ‘Tirelessly Around The Clock’— To Prevent A Ceasefire
There is little doubt that President-elect Donald Trump’s posture vis-a-vis Israel is a key reason why a ceasefire in Gaza has finally been achieved. According to a diplomat briefed on the matter, this...
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On Foreign Policy, Biden Leaves a Global Trail of Destruction
On the domestic front, Joe Biden’s record has been such a hodgepodge of contradictions that it’s difficult to properly rate it. There is no such ambiguity when it comes to his foreign policy, which was...
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Pivoting To A Strategy Based In Climate Adaptation: The Path Forward From...
As we all know, a dreadful new yet familiar regime is about to begin across the pond. Meet the new President, same as the old President: …I mean, the 2016-2020 President. Or perhaps worse: for this...
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France’s Parti Socialiste Agrees to Bad Deal With Macronists
François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran centrist became France’s prime minister. The January 16 vote, called by the...
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Trump Is Packing His Cabinet With Crypto, Oil and Private Prison Profiteers
Money in U.S. politics is nothing new, but the scale of crass intervention in 2024 by mega-billionaire donors through super PACs was unprecedented. Now, corporate elites are indicating they could exert...
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The Urgency of Interracial Solidarity in a Divided Nation
In this polarized moment in America, where disinformation fuels division and mistrust, the stakes for our communities could not be higher. Systemic inequalities continue to affect Black and Brown...
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Maduro’s Constitutional Reform: ‘New Economy’, Same Objectives
Putting the cart before the horse is an apt expression for the tendency to stick to strictly circumstantial analyses of reality. The smoke left behind by the polarisation between Nicolás Maduro and...
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