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“This War Is About Money”
The war in Ukraine may or may not be winding down with ongoing US/Russian negotiations, but this leads to a key question: what was the war really about in the first place? We were told by the US...
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On Transitioning to a Participatory Economy
I wrote a recent essay on how the model of a participatory economy (MPE) can help preserve the environment. I reposted that essay on Daily Kos, a website aligned with the Democratic Party in the United...
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Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron
“Tell our story!” the man in the checkpoint cage yelled, in English. He and a crowd of Palestinian Muslim men were jammed together waiting to be checked out, one at a time, by an Israeli soldier in a...
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Speak, Claudia!
Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came back with an imaginary scene I found pleasurable and instructive...
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Marcos Jr. On the Same Path as Zelenskyy – Discarded by Their US Imperialist...
The way Donald Trump has treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a sobering lesson in how US imperialism treats its so-called allies – used when convenient, abandoned when no longer needed....
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Israeli Army’s Internal October 7 Probes Decisively Reaffirm That Hannibal...
A top-level internal probe of the Israeli army’s failures on 7 October 2023 has reaffirmed that the air force was ordered to carry out the Hannibal Directive a few hours after the Palestinian...
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Curbing Federal Overreach? Start With the Most Critical — Power to Declare War
I almost never agree with Mr. Trump. However, having wasted a life as a lawyer trying to resurrect the Constitution of “limited, specifically enumerated powers” and checks and balances to avoid...
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The Possible Between Two Impossibilities
Not everything that apparently has no beginning or end is infinite. For example, a circle, which is a confined space-time. It is precisely in a circle that contemporary societies live due to the...
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Why We Launched The Hague Group
What remains of the international order? For more than 500 days, Israel, enabled by powerful nations providing diplomatic cover, military hardware, and political support, has systematically violated...
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How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know...
Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation and...
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Yes, Trump Is Vulgar. But the US Global Shakedown Is the Same One as Ever
If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the United States is a benign...
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The West’s Support for Israel Is Its Greatest Threat to Free Speech
President Trump has made a post on Truth Social saying federal funding will be cut to universities which allow “illegal protests” on their campuses, obliquely referring to pro-Palestine demonstrations...
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The Right Wing Politics of Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi
Review of How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Eoin Higgins (Bold Type Books, 2025) Glenn Greenwald In the mid-2000s, Glenn Greenwald decided to leave his...
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Unions and Nazis in a German Election
The recent election in Germany showed that trade unions are no longer an overtly progressive force nor are they a safeguard against German Neo-Nazis. Instead, in the 2025 election, trade union members...
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Millionaires, Medicaid, and the Military – The Key Fight!
I’ve been doing a chalk-talk/PPT on “The Three M’s – Everything You Need to Know About the Federal Budget” for many years. Facing the new Trump/Broligarchs Regime, it’s no longer what we need to know,...
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Donald Trump’s Reverse Kissinger Strategy
US President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin and told him that the US government is committed to a peace process in Ukraine. As part of the deal, Trump’s administration made it...
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The Freeing of Russia’s Political Prisoners Must be Part of Any Putin/Trump Deal
Russian sociologist, author and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky has recorded a message from his prison cell. In it he demands that the release of the thousands of political prisoners in the Russian...
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Third Way And Its Regressive Politics Should Have No Place In The Democratic...
Over the weekend, Politico reported that, in early February, a group of Democratic “consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders” had convened in Virginia to chart a course...
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A Chance To Break Free: Africa In The Post-U.S. Era
What is unfolding before our eyes with the right-wing shift in the U.S. and Europe is not merely an aid cut, but a fundamental reconfiguration of the global economic order. These shifts are undeniable...
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What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Ukraine?
The whole thing is a fiasco. The theatrical drama in the White House’s Oval Office triggered a series of predictable responses around the world. Outrage at US President Donald Trump for his rudeness...
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