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What You Need to Know About Trump’s Tariffs and the Rest of Trump’s Madness
Understand this: The reason Trump has raised tariffs on Canada and Mexico is not to have more bargaining leverage to get better deals for the United States from Canada or from Mexico. Hours before the...
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A Major Movement Win for the Environment is Under Threat in Panama
“We were four cats,” recalled Aubrey Baxter with a laugh. It’s an expression that, in Panama, means a handful, and Baxter was casting his mind back to Panama City in 2021, when protests to close a vast...
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As Trump’s War on Migrants Transcends Borders, Resistance Grows in Latin America
Colombia, along with Mexico, Brazil and Honduras, are already resisting the Trump administration’s neo-imperial regional aspirations. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former political prisoner who...
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‘Symbolic and Contagious’: Union Documentary Captures Amazon Labor Breakthrough
Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island shocked the world in 2022 when they voted to form the first American union at the e-commerce giant. A new documentary — Union — gives a...
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Africa Cannot Wait on Climate Finance. We Need a Global Shipping Levy Now
2025 could be a milestone on climate finance, providing the much-needed and much-overdue funds for the world’s most climate vulnerable. The unique opportunity to make this happen is rapidly approaching...
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As Part of West Bank Offensive, Israel Conducts Largest Demolition in Years
Israeli forces conducted an unprecedented escalation in the West Bank over the weekend by detonating 20 apartment buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. According to some...
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LA Should Requisition Empty Housing for Fire Victims
About a week after the Los Angeles wildfires began, it seemed safe to sleep without a go bag packed. The smoke had dissipated, and even though everyone knew the air-quality sensors couldn’t detect...
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The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance Against Erasure
The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on 27 January felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory. Hundreds of...
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Bison, Not Prison: Activists Buy a Prison Site to Rewild the Land
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ancestor,”...
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Control, And Worse: Trump is Criminalizing All of Latin America
From preparing to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labeling cartels “terrorist organizations,” Trump has been using both language and policies to frame Latin American countries and Latinx migrants...
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Is This Democracy or Muskocracy?
I am trying to get my head around our new reality: a private citizen who happens to be the richest man in the world, who owns half of all the satellites orbiting our beleaguered planet, who controls...
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This Scientist, President of Mexico Since October 2024, Is Not Afraid of...
Claudia Sheinbaum’s direct message to Donald Trump! “So you voted to build a wall… well, my fellow Americans, even if you don’t understand much about geography, since to you America is your country and...
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The Western Way of Genocide
Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from...
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The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump
It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison...
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Appropriate Response
The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general inclination of New Left times and other...
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Abdullah Öcalan’s Isolation May Be Coming to an End
After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the many Turkish channels. Most show the same heated discussions. The so-called...
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To Hell With Exceptionalism
Exceptionalism is a major root of evil. If you can say with a straight face that one’s people are the quintessence of uniqueness or imply your own national, ethnic or religious greatness, then you will...
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Fighting Fascism from Within: A Guide for Federal Employees Under Siege
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with messages from concerned federal employees. Many of you have reported disturbing developments involving Elon Musk and his inner circle—including private...
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Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China
The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine learning program. The U.S. stock market Nasdaq shuddered, with technology stocks collapsing. This...
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Trump’s Balance-of-Payments War on the Whole World
The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance...
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