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What Time Is This?
The easy answer to this question would be to say that we are in a time of transition. After all, all eras are times of transition between one reality and a different one. But there are transitions and...
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Forging Resistance to the War on Cuba at New York’s Malcolm X Center and Beyond
As the Trump/Rubio diabolical duo devise new attacks against Cuba, hundreds of activists gathered at New York City’s Malcolm X Center over the March 15-16 weekend to strategize how to strengthen...
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How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Fighting Attacks on the Palestine Movement
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to...
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What To Do If The Insurrection Act Is Invoked
With President Trump constantly flooding the zone, there’s a chance to think ahead about the possible implementation of the Insurrection Act. One of Trump’s presidential actions calls for the Secretary...
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Small-Dollar Donors Are Asking John Fetterman for Their Money Back
Close to 100 people have requested their money back from the campaign of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. Refund requests can be routine part of campaigns, either because donors decide for some reason that...
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No, Israel is not a democracy
US politicians like to say that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But Israel is not a democracy. Not by a long shot. In fact, it functions as one of the most undemocratic countries in...
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Reverse Reparations: Zimbabwe’s Perfect Trap, South Africa’s Looming Danger
On February 7, the White House cut aid to South Africa, citing a nonexistent threat to white farmers from government land expropriation. To see what might lie beyond Trump’s executive order, South...
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The Resistance Will Not Be Televised
“Resistance is alive and well in the United States.” So declared the headline of a March 19 article on the nonprofit news site Waging Nonviolence. Authors Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha...
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Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they...
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MLK and the Black Freedom Struggle
MLK was murdered 57 years ago today…and many of us have still not come to grips with the fact that there is no one leader of the Black Freedom Movement (or, for that matter, any movement!). King...
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Yemen Is Acting Responsibly To Stop Genocide And The U.S. Is Bombing Them For It
The U.S. is bombing Yemen because Yemen is acting, as required by international law, to stop the genocide and unlawful siege in Palestine. This is not an editorial opinion. It is a statement of both...
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“Stop the Oligarchs” Is a Winning Message
It’s clear that Americans don’t like oligarchs. When the broad left is campaigning against oligarchy and oligarchs, we are on solid ground. Politico reported Wednesday that Donald Trump has told...
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“Can’t Look Away”: New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can...
Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media is a new documentary that exposes the real-life consequences of the algorithms of Big Tech companies and their impact on children and teens. In 2022,...
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The Real Scandal of Yemen Bombing Is Not That They Used the Wrong App
The Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, are the de facto government in northwest Yemen. The group began as a religious movement among the Zaydis, an idiosyncratic branch of Shia Islam, before...
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Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?
When the Peoples’ Power movement brought down Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, land reform was one of its most important demands. But even after Corazon Aquino had been elected President...
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Trump Promised Free Speech Defense and Delivered the Opposite
After more than a decade of liberal-driven censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump’s second election win was meant to have, in his own words, “saved free speech in America,” starting with an...
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Yoon’s Impeachment Ratified: A New Era For South Korean Democracy?
South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally ratified former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment on April 4, 111 days after parliament voted to remove him for his attempted December 3 self-coup....
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Germany in Crisis —The Lost Man of Europe
This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. I thank...
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Elon Musk’s Goal Isn’t Efficiency — It’s a Liquidation Sale
Earlier this week, the Economist asked plaintively whether Elon Musk was fixing the federal government, as promised, or destroying it. “This newspaper looked forward to what Mr Musk might do with some...
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Palestine Is Not So Complicated
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World (2024) “Either apartheid is right or wrong. It’s really, really simple,” the Black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates replied to a CBS Morning Show anchor. One of the...
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