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The DOGE Charade
Donald Trump and Elon Musk keep claiming that their scorched-earth approach to remaking the federal government is made necessary by the prevalence of fraud and waste. Musk’s DOGE attack-squad tabulates...
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Trump’s Plan for Gaza Would Make Colonial Plunder Great Again
Can economics fuel conflict and war? Absolutely, and history is full of such examples. But economics can also pave the way to lasting peace, according to progressive economist James K. Boyce. In the...
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Corporate Media Offer Excuses for ‘Powerless’ Democrats
As oligarchs Donald Trump and Elon Musk continue their pursuit of power unfettered by the Constitution, many citizens wonder why their elected representatives in Washington are doing so little to stop...
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China Tackles Trump’s Trade War and Global Headwinds
China’s political calendar is again focusing on one of the most anticipated events of the year, the Two Sessions. To be held from March 5, these annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
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“Detained, Tortured & Starved”: Report Details Abuse of Gaza Doctors & Staff...
We continue to look at Israeli torture of Palestinian detainees with Naji Abbas from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which has just released a new report detailing the mistreatment of medical...
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The Plunder of Ukraine: A Story of Debt, Greed, and Betrayal
The systematic plundering of Ukraine by international financial institutions and governments is underway. As history has shown in countless other countries, predatory terms will cripple Ukraine’s...
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The West has Long Demanded of Palestinians what Trump Demanded of Ukraine —...
David Smith of The Guardian reminds us that Trump is a fan of World Wrestling Federation matches, in attempting to explain the sad spectacle at the White House on Friday. Trump is demanding that...
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Abdullah Öcalan: ‘The PKK Has Reached The End Of Its Life Cycle And Should Be...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was born in the 20th century, the most violent century in history. The political and ideological landscape in which the PKK emerged was shaped by two World Wars, real...
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Priests as Freedom Fighters
For months, Serbian citizens have been protesting against the repressive regime of Aleksandar Vučić and the entire corrupt, clientelist system developed or escalated under his rule. The protests were...
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Jeff Bezos Is Scared to Have an Open Debate on Economics
Jeff Bezos has finally dropped the pretense. The world’s third-richest man has decreed that the Washington Post, which he purchased back in 2013, will no longer publish opinions that challenge free...
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Trump Approves $3B in Arms to Israel as Freed Palestinians Recount Torture
As Palestinians released from Israeli imprisonment recount torture and other abuse suffered at the hands of their former captors, the Trump administration on Friday approved a new $3 billion weapons...
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To Cozy Up to Trump, Bezos Banishes Dissent From WaPo
“Bravo, Jeff Bezos!” That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022 and subsequently turned into a pro-Trump bullhorn. Musk’s “bravo” was in...
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Trump Plans To Make Ukraine A US Economic Colony, Exploiting Its Critical...
The fight that broke out in the White House between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, on February 28 was a stark symbol of the colonial relationship between the two...
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Islamic Resistance Movements and Israel
We were searching for a site in the northern Bekaa valley recently bombed by Israel. Hadi knew near which village it was located but, as we drove between large expanses of fertile, well-cultivated...
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Organizing the Battery Belt
On a bright winter afternoon in Hardin County, Kentucky, I drive through a snowy residential neighborhood, rural enough for a bird of prey with a critter in its talons to fly above my windshield. Then,...
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Pipeline Resistance Gets the Goods
I’ve believed for many years that in the race against time to prevent ecosystem and societal meltdown because of climate heating and climate disruption, a key front in that struggle is the prevention...
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We’re Seeing The Beginnings Of Mass Noncompliance
The dynamics of this administrative coup are taking shape. Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has called the approach “muzzle velocity” and “flood the zone.” It has been relentless and already there are...
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The Challenge of Our Time
Rapid technological and social change is a powerfully disruptive force – a wave of creative destruction – leaving in its wake a residue of vulnerable people. People are losing a sense of control over...
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No Trains, No Planes and Huge Protests: Strike Brings Greece to a Halt
A general strike in Greece on Friday halted trains and ferries, grounded flights and disrupted public services as thousands of workers walked off the job on the second anniversary of Greece’s...
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