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Post Harris/Walz-Trump Same As the Old Trump
Late last night Donald Trump spoke publicly for the first time since Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential partner. Trump for some reason spoke in non-battleground state Montana. This...
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Project 2025: Authoritarian Rule and Foreign Policy Mayhem (Part 1)
A Far-Right Conspiracy in the Open Project 2025, the far-right’s ambitious policy planning guide published as Mandate for Leadership, is designed to dismantle the “Deep State” and install a president...
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A Note on Noam Chomsky and Climate Collapse
In many of his recent writings, Noam Chomsky has warned that humanity has reached a very dangerous point because we are now living in a world of cascading crises. Indeed, when we look around us, we see...
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“What Did You Learn in School Today?” And, Was Ms Brown Fired?
“Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as...
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“New Dawn” in Bangladesh?
We go to Dhaka for an update as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus is sworn in to lead Bangladesh’s caretaker government just days after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned...
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Economic Overlords Are Destroying Democracy — and Our Lives
Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity, the upcoming book from Peter Phillips, professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, explores the influence of the “titans” — the...
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How Our Struggles Are Contained by Those In Power
After decades of involvement in trade union and anti-poverty struggles, I find myself thinking more and more about the lessons I have learned along the way and how some of these might be of use to...
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A Path Forward
Over the past 45 years, I have been active on the streets and on the internet for our people struggle for return and self-determination in the face of a most brutal and merciless colonial regime. I...
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We Are The Bad Guys
In Murder in Samarkand I describe how as a British Ambassador, when I discovered the full extent of our complicity in torture in the War on Terror, I thought it must be a rogue operation and all I had...
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Putting War And Peace On The Ballot
The corporate media report on elections — especially the biggie coming up — as though they were sporting events. If you win, hurray! You get the gold cup or whatever. The election process is a matter...
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De-escalation vs Self-defense: Double Standards or Racism?
On the evening of July 30, an Israeli drone targeted a residential building in South Beirut, killing a woman and two children, and injuring 74 civilians. Israel claimed the attack was aimed at an...
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The Pentagon Church Militant and Us
When it comes to our nation’s military affairs, ignorance is not bliss. What’s remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which we find ourselves, is how many Americans seem content not to...
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The Geneva Conventions At 75: Do The Laws Of War Still Have A Fighting Chance...
Today marks 75 years since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions on August 12 1949. In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely violated...
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Gaza Confronting Israeli-Created Famine As Kerem Shalom Food Aid Trucks drop...
Although the United Nations has not officially declared a famine in Gaza, people living there are in no doubt about it. The New Humanitarian quotes Diana Harrara, a 33-year-old mother of three in Gaza:...
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The Incompetence of Masters of War
The ineffectiveness of “cutting-edge” military technology shown in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the spillover conflicts undermines the notion that the military-industrial complex aims to win wars....
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Back To The White Elephants – The West’s New Development Strategy in Africa
‘Europe’s new external investment strategy needs to reconnect with historical business models we are going back to white elephants of 1970s – because that’s what partners want. – G7 official in a...
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2024 Paris Olympics Highlights and Lowlights: From Hijab Bans to Social...
With the 2024 Summer Olympics just concluded in Paris, we look at the highlights and lowlights of the past few weeks, both on and off the field. Journalist Shireen Ahmed discusses the victories for...
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Palestine Has Mobilized a Global Movement. For It to Last We Must Get Organized.
In the weeks after October 7, abolitionist and civil rights activist Angela Davis offered some pointed advice to people on the left during an Al Jazeera interview: “If we are not prepared to think...
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Where California Goes, There Goes the Nation
California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to be taking climate change seriously, at least when he’s in front of a microphone and flashing cameras. His talk then is direct and tough. He repeatedly points...
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How British Elites Lit the Torch for Far-Right Mobs, Then Feigned Horror At...
Decades of anti-migrant, Islamophobic politics in the United Kingdom culminated in an egregious far-right attack targeting mosques, public infrastructure, and hotels housing asylum seekers last...
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