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Kenya’s Congo Debacle: How Crony Elite Politics Lost The Fight Against M23
A few minutes after 5 AM on Sunday, the 3rd of December 2023, Kenyan soldiers loaded themselves into a Kenya Air Force plane and took off from the eastern DRC town of Goma, bound for Nairobi. Not long...
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Musk’s DOGE Accused of Seizing Sole Control of Essential Federal Databases
Reporting Friday that aides to Elon Musk — the billionaire backer of Republican President Donald Trump who runs the Department of Government Efficiency — locked career civil servants out of computer...
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School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump’s Anti-Trans...
On Thursday, multiple school systems and representatives issued statements rejecting Trump’s executive order that directs schools to discriminate against transgender students or face legal...
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The Super Bowl and the Super Rich: Partners in Slime
About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s historic first “Super Bowl.” A good bit has changed...
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Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans To Build An Iron Dome For America
Trump signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America, which aims to defend the homeland “against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”...
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The Democratic National Committee Is Undemocratic. That’s by Design.
This morning, the Democratic National Committee will begin a multi-round election to choose its new chair. Former President Joe Biden’s appointee, Jamie Harrison, is on his way out, and an array of...
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Another Way Out: In Fighting Fascism, We Must Choose Our Fights Wisely
“They’re not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they’re trying to impose it from a position of weakness, and fear.” – Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin “In the midst of discontent, talk,...
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Syria’s De Facto Authorities Execute ‘Sweeping’ Neoliberal Reforms
The self-appointed transitional government in Syria is undertaking sweeping internal reforms, including privatizing state-run enterprises and laying off a third of the public sector, as authorities say...
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Serbia’s Mass Protests Against a Crony-Capitalist Government
Soon after the roof canopy of Novi Sad’s central train station collapsed last November 1, killing fifteen people, a TV reporter asked local journalist Igor Mihaljević to respond to the event. With...
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The Limits of Tyrants
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will...
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We Must Create a Broad Anti-Fascist Movement to Fight Back Against Trump 2.0
A few years ago, Noam Chomsky warned about the return of fascism in contemporary capitalist societies. He pointed out that 40 years of neoliberal policies—a one-sided class war launched by the business...
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A Coalition of Slovenian NGOs File Indictment Against Israeli Politicians and...
On Friday, November 22nd 2024, a coalition of eight Slovenian non-profit NGOs and the Slovenian movement for the rights of Palestinians filed an indictment against eight Israeli politicians and army...
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Immigrant Solidarity in 2025 – with Zafiro Patiño, Aviva Chomsky, & Peter Bohmer
Panelists highlight the key dangers for immigrants in Trump’s new administration, underlying causes of migration, vision and strategy for what a truly just immigration policy would look like, and...
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The Politics of the Woking Class
Review of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi (Princeton University Press, 2024) Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke is an ambitious and...
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Future Natures: On Seeing Commons Through Popular Genres
In academic research about the commons, few scholars are as venturesome in their creative approaches than the scholars and researchers associated with the Centre for Future Natures, at the University...
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Elon Musk and the Hypocrisy of the West
When Elon Musk marked Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed very much like a Nazi salute and was defended by a lobby that claimed to fight anti-Jewish racism, he and his defenders confirmed the...
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ElonGate: The Scandals Stretch Out
It is on. Elon is burrowing into a hostile takeover of the US government, regulations, and economy. He is clearly quite used to getting everything he wants by any devious means or blatant powerplay....
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Why Trump’s Tariffs Can’t Solve America’s Fentanyl Crisis
Americans consume more illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world; about 6% of the U.S. population uses them regularly. One such drug, fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that’s 50 to 100 times...
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How Africa Can Make Demand for Its Mineral Wealth a Race to the Top
This week, the Mining Indaba begins in Cape Town, drawing industry leaders, investors, and stakeholders united by a common interest in tapping into Africa’s vast mineral wealth. The world is hungry for...
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The Antiabortion War on Telehealth Care Isn’t Working
The antiabortion movement is desperately doing everything it can to block access to abortion pills. In the nearly three years without the protections of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions in the...
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