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Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses
The United States will be complicit in the Israeli government’s grave violations in Gaza so long as it continues to provide arms and other military aid, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of a meeting...
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Trump’s Tariffs Are a Gift to Capital, Not Workers
Within weeks of assuming the presidency, Donald Trump announced tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. It’s a centerpiece of a turn toward protectionism that the White House has touted as a way of...
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The Strike at Kaiser
2400 striking behavioral health care workers in Southern California have taken to the streets – literally. On February 8, workers sat down in the middle of Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, blocking traffic...
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Curfews, Roadblocks, House Raids—Israeli Military Entrenches Inside Syria
In the small Syrian village of al-Hamidia, some 50 kilometers southwest of Damascus, most homes, like that of sheep herder Abu Mo’ath, are built from black basalt stone, a hallmark of the region’s...
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The Catastrophic Resolution
Donald Trump’s absurd, immoral and flagrantly illegal plans to acquire the Gaza Strip and expel its inhabitants has incited rage and disbelief around the world, but his unhinged gambit has its origin...
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Defending The Palestinian Resistance Has Become A Crime In The UK
Today, in that renowned citadel of freedom of expression and freedom of the press that was once the UK, if you profess your support for the Palestinian resistance you can be arrested and imprisoned,...
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Time to Junk the Munich Analogy
No sooner had the announcement about a new policy for Ukraine from the Trump administration been made than the cries of “appeasement! Munich! Hitler! Neville Chamberlain” began to ring out from almost...
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Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza!
A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes. What were...
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Princeton Students Head to Trial Nearly a Year After Gaza Encampment
Nearly one whole year after students at Princeton University held an encampment on their campus in solidarity with Gaza, 12 students and one postdoctoral fellow will head to trial. In a statement...
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U.S. Rulers Versus South African Rulers – Versus Both Their Peoples and...
Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm – which is increasingly beyond the protagonists on each side to manage given the lack of cool heads in U.S. President Donald Trump’s maniacal...
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Data on Corporate Pollution and Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump
Since the late 1980s, just 100 companies have been responsible for 71 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of...
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Behind Trump Tariffs Is Capital’s Warfare Against the Working Class
What is behind the tariff war that Donald Trump has launched against Mexico, Canada and China, with a promise to extend the war to the world as a whole? Moving beyond the smoke and mirrors, we must...
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How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence
Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, nicknamed “the Black Pasionaria.” Born under French colonial rule in what is...
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Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Green Light for Ethnic Cleansing?
Let’s be clear: the forced displacement of Palestinians is not a new idea. US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to take “long-term ownership” of Gaza, to “clean out” the “mess”, and to turn it...
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Fascism, the War on Complexity, and the End of Science
On February 11, 2025, the current US government published a website of the US Senate Commerce Committee (Chairman Ted Cruz) announcing the results of an “investigation” into research grants funded by...
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A New Plan To Create a World Without Elon Musks
Americans these days don’t much like billionaires. Our ultra-rich, Americans overwhelmingly believe, aren’t paying enough in taxes. Polling earlier this month found that nearly three-quarters of the...
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Trump’s Fake Refugees
Amidst the slew of executive orders issued by US President Donald Trump—ranging from reinstating plastic straws, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, and proclaiming that only two genders exist—one, in...
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Africa and Europe’s Green Opportunity
The re-election of Donald Trump in the US – with its rollback of Biden-era clean energy policies, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and focus on fossil fuels – has thrown global climate leadership...
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The Very Important Hindus and the Ones That Are Not Counted
Even as much has been said about the grand event of the Maha Kumbh festival, one rather telling thing remains to be observed. It has been the defining ideological pitch of the Hindutva players over the...
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Trump’s Munich Strategy
“The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll, uh, well, you’ll say hello to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you, and he won’t even notice you....
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