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Venezuela: Calls For Military Intervention, Repression Mark Presidential...
Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on January 10, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared he won Venezuela’s disputed July 28 elections without...
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How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda
This is a frightening time for immigrant workers. President-elect Donald Trump ran on the slogan “mass deportations now,” and has appointed a team of anti-immigrant hardliners. The leadership of the...
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After LA’s Fires, Don’t Weep for the Insurance Companies
The fires that ravaged residential areas in Los Angeles County, which likely began with the eruption of the Palisades fire on January 7 due to strong Santa Ana wind events, have killed at least...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?” It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant...
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Solidarity Will See Us Through the Second Trump Term
During the springtime of 2017, I told a good friend that I was worried about almost everyone we knew. Anyone politically left of center seemed to be anxious, depressed, addicted to everything bad, and...
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Dr. ML King: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
In the organizing meetings over the last two months leading up to and at yesterday’s positive March of Resistance in Newark, NJ, endorsed by 308 organizations, African American leaders of this...
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People’s March: Thousands Rally Against Trump in Washington Ahead of Second...
Ahead of President elect-Donald Trump’s second inauguration, thousands of people rallied in Washington, D.C., on Saturday at the People’s March to oppose his policies on immigration, abortion, LGBTQ...
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Trump vs. Labor: The Coming Clash Over Class Power, w/ John Russell
John Russell, freelance labor reporter for More Perfect Union and author of The Holler newsletter, joins the show to discuss the powerful resurgence of organized labor in 2024. From Amazon and...
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Bring Back Ngonnso
Every evening, I would gather with my late grandparents around the fireside, where their stories wove a tapestry of history and memory. This ritual was a clever ploy to keep me awake for dinner—too...
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The Big Lesson Progressives Need to Learn to Counter Right Wing Populism
With the inauguration of Donald Trump and the emboldening of right wing populism in the UK – we need to be focusing on building power in communities The inauguration of Donald Trump raises lots of...
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A Public Model for Home Insurance
With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters...
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Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could...
We continue our coverage of the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire by going to Jerusalem to speak with Israeli activist Gershon Baskin, who has experience negotiating with Hamas, including during this latest...
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What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country
The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term President has taught us a great deal about our society. He will teach us even more as his dictatorial regime,...
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To Confront the Oligarchy, We Need to Build Power At the Community Level
Wrong way world A consistent theme through my life has been to understand our world, to assemble a comprehensive picture the best I can, respecting the world’s boggling complexity and the limits of any...
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How Trump 2.0 Could Herald a New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism
After four years of narrowly avoiding prison, Donald Trump is back in the White House. For many observers outside the US, the re-election of a convicted felon who tried to illegally overturn an...
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To See the Future We Want to Create, We Just Have to Look Outside of Our Own...
I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata. I think the lessons could be for anywhere on Earth. They...
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The Hurting Part: This ‘Wait’ That Almost Always Means ‘Never’
On Monday we mourned and honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., preacher, radical, orator, warrior and leader of America’s civil rights movement; on the same dark day, of course, a loathsome...
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Biden Commutes Sentence of Leonard Peltier
Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, the elderly American Indian Movement activist who supporters say was framed for the murder...
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Situation Critical: UNRWA and Its Continued Operations
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is under way, with serious implications...
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Review of Steve Bell’s ‘If…Stands Up’
“Pound of flesh.” “Sorry? You what?” “Pound of flesh; Jewish bloke; obvious anti-Semitic trope.” Recounted in If…Stands Up (Verso), that brief exchange is what ended cartoonist Steve Bell’s four-decade...
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