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Western-Backed NGOs: A Hollow Version of Civil Society
Among the executive orders rushed out the day President Donald Trump took office was one ordering a ninety-day pause to all foreign aid, to assess “programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United...
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Palestinians Reject Trump’s Vision of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
On Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. would take over Gaza and permanently relocate its Palestinian residents to neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan. Israeli Prime...
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This Clinic in Chicago Offers Free Legal Aid to Solidarity Economy Groups
Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s efforts to improve local economic and social conditions and the Black...
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Who Will Manage Global IP Protections?
Amid the military posturing, economic sanctions, and political power struggles shaping the U.S.-China rivalry, intellectual property (IP) disputes remain a major battleground. In January 2025, Chinese...
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Dying for Care
They chain sick prisoners to benches for hours without treatment. They ignore pleas for help until it’s too late. They watch as people die. This investigation exposes how Centurion Health transforms...
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A Nation in a State of Despair
Every year the President of the country makes all kinds of promises in the State of the Nation Address. Every year the President tries to create the impression that the nation is moving forward and...
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The Fragile Ceasefire: Gaza Tribunal More Relevant
In 1 November 2024, a coalition of concerned individuals and organisations launched the Gaza Tribunal (GT) in London in response to the international community’s failure to halt the genocide in Gaza....
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff...
Jeff Goodell’s latest book is a detailed examination of heat and its dangers on a warming planet. It deserves wide readership. Presented cogently and beautifully written in an accessible style, he...
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Who is Peter Mandelson, Starmer’s pick for U.S. ambassador?
Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer’s choice for British ambassador to the US, co-owns a business that helps companies “see opportunities in politics, regulation and public policy”. Mandelson, who has a long...
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Letters from an American February 5, 2025
Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial. Trump immediately vowed retaliation against those who tried to hold him...
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Solidarity Under Siege
For more than six decades, the USA has subjected Cuba to a blockade designed to destroy its economy — an act of aggression met with a global solidarity movement that has helped keep the country alive....
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Peoples’ Platform Europe To Meet In Vienna
Progressive, left, socialist and ecology activists from across Europe are set to gather in Vienna this February for a major conference aimed at strengthening grassroots organising. The three-day...
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Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by...
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FDR’s Wartime Strategies Can Power a Just Transition Now
Economist Martin Hart-Landsberg underscores the importance of planning for a just transition and transformation of socio-economic relations. Hart-Landsberg examines FDR’s Defense Production Corporation...
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Palestinian March of Defiance and Israeli Trashing of International Conventions
Palestinians for decades have stood their ground and against all odds have continued to live where they rightfully belong: their ancestral homeland. Beginning with the current ceasefire of 19...
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How to Win, Together: Lessons from Organizing in Rural Washington State
During the 2024 election, rural Washington state did something unexpected: People in deep red counties like mine protected funding for our schools, childcare, land, and water, and we did it by taxing...
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Google Drops Pledge to Not Use AI to Develop Weapons, Surveillance Technologies
Weeks into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, Google on Tuesday removed from its Responsible AI principles a commitment to not use artificial intelligence to develop technologies that could...
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Will It Matter Who Wins Germany’s Upcoming Election or Will Country’s Fate...
Germans will go to the polls in less than a month after the collapse of the hapless government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The German economy is in an awful state with no reason for hope on the...
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United Nations Censures UK Over Abuse of Terrorism Act Against Journalists...
Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written jointly to the UK government demanding explanation of its inappropriate persecution of journalists and political activists under the Terrorism Act. They state...
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Interview With Gilbert Achcar
On October 7, 2023, Gaza-based armed group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing approximately 1,200. They demanded that Israel free Palestinian prisoners from its jails and withdraw its...
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