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The Dangerous Illusion of Climate Resilience
Throughout the past few decades, discussions about how to address climate change have become dominated by two broad categories of response: adaptation, or adjusting to the realities of a warmer, more...
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Germany in Crisis Part 2 — A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines
This is the second of four reports on Germany’s various crises, the history that produced them and how Germans, other than the neoliberal elites who now hold power, think about their way forward. Part...
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Trump’s Tariffs Have Done What No US Adversary Could
Often in history, there’s no blow struck by the enemies of a great power more fatal than the one it inflicts on itself. The British invasion of Egypt in 1956, for example, and the ensuing pushback,...
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Deporting Dissent: The Dangerous Precedent Set by the Persecution of...
“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This poignant statement came soon after a judge ruled that...
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Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission
This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN— I return briefly to those singular moments when Olaf Scholz stood next to President Joe...
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Kashmir and the Indus
India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the “terrorist attack”,...
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Algeria: Decolonizing the Mind, Liberating Water, Inventing the Future
Sixty years after its independence, Algeria stands at a crossroads. Though it has broken the political chains of colonialism, it remains shackled by invisible bonds: mental alienation, disastrous water...
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As Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the...
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Chris Hedges and the Limits of Mainstream American Criticism of Israel
Review of A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges (Seven Stories Press, 2025) Sometimes, living in this rapidly decaying late capitalist United...
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‘We Don’t Have An Option Not To Fight’: How Black Women Are Resisting Now
Where are the 92 percent? That has been a persistent question since the presidential election, referring to the Black women who overwhelmingly organized and voted for Kamala Harris and then seemingly...
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“Most Workers Don’t Want Their Money Going to Foreign Wars”
Labor unions in the United States were starting to build some momentum in recent years after decades of decline when Donald Trump took office again. Despite his pro-worker pretensions, the president...
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Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s...
The FBI arrested a sitting judge in a Milwaukee County court in Wisconsin on Friday, claiming that she obstructed immigration enforcement agents from detaining an undocumented immigrant in her...
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Harvard’s Resistance to Trump Is a Start. Universities Must Go Farther.
After Columbia University’s craven and apparently futile acceptance of all the conditions Donald Trump set before it to even start a conversation about getting its federal funding back, Harvard’s...
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The Myth of Conquest: Why Gaza Will Never Be Subdued by Israel
To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign “occupying...
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US Fascist Iconography – Masculinism, Kristi Noem’s Cosplay and The...
Masculinism has always driven fascist ideals – alienated men have time and again become fodder for movements that idealize violence, conquest and power. The MAGA version of masculinism has been built...
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What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?
Back in 2016, I was convinced that, had Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential nomination, he would have beaten Donald Trump because he would have taken some of Trump’s White working-class...
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Tradwives Are the Harbinger of Systemic Breakdown
Women’s magazines, once replete with arcane rules for female submission, have evolved beyond recognition since the publication of Betty Friedan’s feminist classic The Feminine Mystique. Now...
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How to Avoid Trade Wars – and World War Three
Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors around the world from the Trump administration. On April 22nd, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its forecasts for...
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Energy Transition: the End of an Idea
Pretty much the last nail in the coffin for the idea that there’s going to be a smooth transition out of fossil fuels and into renewables that can rescue the existing high-energy global economy in...
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Learning From the 1970 Postal Workers’ Strike
Unless they are able to act successfully to protect themselves and their rights, 2.4 million federal workers face a grim future. Alongside the prospect of hundreds of thousands of layoffs, Donald Trump...
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