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Risking it All: Momodou Taal’s Fight for Free Speech
“Anything that shows solidarity of Palestine is being mischaracterized quite erroneously as antisemitism. That’s the way in which they are trying to get us to stop speaking about Palestine,” says...
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CERAWeek, the ‘Superbowl of Energy’ – A Spectacle of Billionaire Power to...
Last week, thousands of people gathered in Houston, Texas for CERAWeek 2025, perhaps the most significant annual meet-up of the network of oil executives, investors, consultants, government officials,...
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Do It Like a Tax Haven: Deny 24,000 Children An Education to Send 2 to School
Our latest research published last week in the journal PLOS Global Public Health reveals the world has decided the educational rights of 2 Dutch children are more important than those of 24,000...
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Washington-Pretoria Power Spasms Part 1: The Ambassador’s Trauma
Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and TruthSocial dispatches from Donald Trump’s White House, Mario Rubio’s...
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It’s Time to Go On Offense For Democracy
No matter who we voted for, no one wants to see our grandparents forced onto the street, our schools without teachers, or our babies dying because there are no more hospitals. Yet all of these things...
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Trouble at Tesla and Protests Against Trump’s Tariffs Suggest Consumer...
When the United States starts a trade war with your country, how do you fight back? For individuals, one option is to wage a personal trade war and boycott products from the US. President Donald Trump...
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Sanitizing Resumption of Genocide as ‘Pressure on Hamas’
The New York Times produced an article on Friday, March 21, bearing the headline “Israel Tries to Pressure Hamas to Free More Hostages.” In the first paragraph, readers were informed that Israeli...
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Giving Putin All He Wants
One thing seems clear to me about these talks: Vladimir Putin is in an enviable position to get what he wants—maybe not all of what he wants, but most of it. In the two-hour conversation between Putin...
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Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption....
Early in her chilling account of life as a Facebook executive, Sara Wynn-Williams drops an intriguing detail: Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite president. The young founder – still in his twenties at the time...
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Fascism and Resistance: All Of Us Or None
“The Democratic Party’s failure to address the cost of living crisis, its refusal to maintain the expanded pandemic safety net, and its continued funding of a genocide fueled much of the despair that...
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The Ukraine War and Europe’s Deepening March Of Folly
In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries sometimes pursue policies that are fundamentally contrary to their...
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Bomb With Everything You Have: Israel Sets the Tone For the Genocide Of the...
On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of the general staff of the Israeli military. He had held that post since 16 January 2023 and therefore led the military during...
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Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have ignored the advice of Democratic thought leaders to “roll over and play dead.” Thank God. Their anti-oligarchy mass rallies have brought out...
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Starmer’s Thatcherite Economics
You can only support the current manifestation of late stage capitalism, if you believe that massive inequality of wealth is necessary to wealth creation, or if you believe that the total amount of...
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Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Hossam Shabat is dead. I am beyond rage and despair as I write these words. The Israeli military bombed his car this morning as he was traveling in Beit Lahia. Videos fill my screen of his body lying...
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Peoples’ Platform Europe 2025: Looking Back
The Peoples’ Platform Europe took place in Vienna from February 14-16, 2025. Under the motto “Reclaim the Initiative”, it brought activists from across Europe into strategic exchange with the aim of...
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Public Lands are an Essential Part of the Nation’s Heritage
A few weeks ago, I watched a pack of wolves in Yellowstone National Park with perhaps several dozen other visitors. Everyone was excited to glimpse one of the Park’s packs. People with scopes and...
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The United Nations Is Not a Poker Chip
Sixteen years after the fateful day the United Nations (UN) charter was promulgated in San Francisco, President John F. Kennedy memorably intoned on a return to that city that the UN “remains mankind’s...
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Protecting the Freedom to Read
Many Americans fear that the institutions protecting our democracy are under threat. Democracy originated in the city-states of ancient Greece, where citizens met in open forums to voice their opinions...
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Irrelevance Breeds Defiance in Europe
A few weeks ago, I paraphrased Marx’s words from nearly two centuries ago: “A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of irrelevance”. Recent events suggest that the spectre is rapidly becoming a...
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