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Trump attacks Colombia, and its President Gustavo Petro fights back: ‘We are...
Donald Trump has kicked off his second administration with a very aggressive foreign policy. Trump is threatening trade restrictions and sanctions on countries around the world, including 100% tariffs...
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Hand in Hand for the Future of Farming – Call For Courage at #WHES25
On Saturday, January 18, in Platz der Republik in front of the federal parliament building in Berlin, the 15th annual Wir haben es satt! (WHES, or We are fed up!) demonstration brought together a...
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Panama, Greenland, Palestine, Ukraine: What About National Self-Determination?
Ever since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine I’ve been thinking about the issue of the right of nations to self-determination. I’ve done so because some on the Left, since that war began, have been...
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The Limited Future of the Cease-Fire in Gaza
The Israel-Hamas cease-fire has brought a measure of relief to Israelis and Palestinians. But everyone recognizes that what comes next is the real question—next, that is, assuming the prisoner-hostage...
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The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist
Over recent decades, a computer programmer and prolific internet commenter has risen from the obscurity of forums and pseudonymous blogs to the pages of this newspaper, as a friend to Vice President JD...
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Mustafa Barghouti on Israel’s “Defeat” in Gaza, Saudi Normalization, and the...
I’m Jeremy Scahill from DropSite News, DropSiteNews.com. This weekend, there is going to be another exchange of captives. Some are going to come out of Gaza and be returned to the Israelis. We’re also...
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The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Who Want to ‘move fast and break...
I’m a propagandist, I’ll twist the truth, I’ll put forward only my version of it if I think that’s going to propagandise people to believe what I need them to believe. This is not a soundbite from a...
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We Used to Fight Inflation With Boycotts
It was a revolution of peanut butter sandwiches. Hundreds of thousands of American women — mostly suburban, middle-class mothers who did not work outside the home — boycotted the meat industry from...
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There’s One Word for Trump’s Erratic Negotiating Strategy: Stupid
Donald Trump is carrying through his campaign pledge in threatening every country in the world with big taxes on the goods we import (tariffs) from them. However, he does keep changing the size of the...
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Independence and the Indian State: Bhagwat, Rahul and the Left
You may recall that after winning the general election in 2014, Narendra Modi prostrated himself at the portal of parliament house (a moment captured for history by the inevitable camera that goes...
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Turning the Tide on Plastic: Philippines Joins Regional Push for Reuse...
In celebration of International Zero Waste Month, the Philippine Reuse Consortium, the Philippine Chapter of the Asia Reuse Consortium, was officially launched this month. This marks a significant step...
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World Leaders at Davos Need to Tax Millionaires Like Me. The Fate of Our...
This past Monday, the world marked two noteworthy beginnings: the second inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump and the start of the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos,...
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Climate Disasters Are Political — So Let’s Politicize Them
Los Angeles is burning. Dozens are reported to have died, while hundreds of thousands had to evacuate their homes when the fires were at their peak. The wildfires have blanketed much of the region in...
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The Shame of What We’ve Done
The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redemption by creation of the Jewish nationalist State of Israel. This narrative is critically examined in...
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City University of New York Union Votes to Divest from Israel
Thursday night, delegates of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), the union representing faculty, graduate assistants, and many staff titles at the City University of New York (CUNY), voted...
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Israel’s Use of Domicide to Further Its Colonial Endeavours
As Palestinians continue to make their way back to the remnants of Gaza – a place that is now unrecognisable since Israel destroyed nearly 70% of all buildings in the small but densely populated area,...
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Gaza’s Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective on the War and Its...
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events. The current analysis of the Israeli war on Gaza falls victim to this narrow...
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‘All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees’
And now Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one else, damnit! But of course that level of selfishness – mine,...
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Social Housing Emerging in Cities Needs Local Govt Support
Six cities and a county have initiated social housing programs to provide permanently affordable, publicly owned, and controlled housing for lower and middle-income working families. Seattle, Atlanta,...
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The Forever Charade — Gitmo, Yesterday, Today… and Tomorrow
On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17...
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