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Israel Has Killed 2,100 Babies Under 2 Years Old in Gaza, Rights Group Says
Israeli forces have killed thousands of newborns and babies in Gaza in the last 10 months of its genocide, a rights group reports after Israel killed a pair of twin newborns who were just 4 days old on...
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The Responsibility of Western ‘Liberal Democracies’ for Gaza Catastrophe
[Prefatory Note: This is the text of an interview with Mike Billington of the Schiller Institute modified for clarity and style, with no changes in substance.] Mike Billington: This is Mike Billington...
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The US Needs a “Robin Hood” Tax
This year’s presidential race has unfolded like a made-for-TV drama, with twists and turns aplenty. But no matter who wins the White House or Congress, a giant tax fight awaits them next year — when...
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Living — and Dying — In the Moment
I stroke the unknown . . . Bear with me as I finish my short walk. I was ambling through my neighborhood the other day, wielding a pair of walking sticks, “forcing myself,” you might say, to enjoy the...
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Building Rank & File Power to Fight Fascism
The following is an edited transcript of a speech delivered by Bill Fletcher, Jr. to the Southern Workers Assembly on August 8, 2024. Bill will share more about the threat of fascism and what must be...
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Interview with Çiğdem Doğu, KJK: Questioning Male Hegemony and Becoming Oneself
As KJK, we have a long history of struggle. The body and spirit of this struggle came to life with the principles of PAJK (Partiya Azadiya Jinen Kurdistane, Party of Free Women in Kurdistan). How do...
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Black Leadership and Progressive Change
I became politicized and then radicalized during the 1960’s as a result of two distinct mass movements: the anti-Vietnam war movement and the civil rights/Black Freedom movement. My research while a...
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A Brief History of the Right-Wing Takeover of the US Judiciary
This is part of a Convergence series, Dispatches on Democracy. In previous Dispatches, we looked at the playbook being used by authoritarians around the world, and how lawyers can best help organizers...
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JD Vance is No Pauper − He’s a Classic Example of ‘Poornography,’ in Which...
JD Vance has climbed to his current position as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, in part, by selling himself as a hillbilly, calling on his Appalachian background to bolster his...
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Violence is Everywhere. So Are the People Trying to Stop It.
I’m tired of the violence. Aren’t you? Some days, it seems relentless. A mass shooting at a school. Another youth killed by gun violence. A family on the street after fleeing an abusive partner. A...
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Cultivating Combative Feminist Strength
Alessandra Chricosta is a small woman with an easy smile who practices martial arts and embraces philosophy as a way of life. She is Italian by birth, but circumstances led her to spend a decade in...
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The Decimation of Gaza’s Academia is ‘Impossible to Quantify’
Dr. Refaat Alareer was a good friend of mine. A poet, writer, and prominent activist for the Palestinian cause, Refaat taught English literature and poetry for many years at the Islamic University of...
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Home Improvement
In 1969, a group of civil rights activists in Southwest Georgia came to the aid of Black sharecroppers who had been dispossessed of their homes and jobs for registering to vote. According to the...
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DRCongo Quagmire Poses an Existential Question to Southern Africa’s Leaders
I write on behalf of all the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We women who are bearing the brunt of a war we did not start; a war we do not want; a war in which our children’s futures...
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Give Us Our Land Back
Since October 7, social media accounts have circulated “viral” images of the genocide in Gaza that are actually from Syria. For example, social media users have posted an image of Palestinian children...
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The Most Toxic Place in America
It may seem odd to say it during this Trumpian era of extreme political polarization, but there is one area where Republicans and Democrats share a remarkably similar policy perspective.That common...
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Economics Behind the Fall of Autocracy in Bangladesh
Naheed Islam was not yet born in 1996, when prime minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh began her first term in office. In 2009, when she was elected to her second term, Islam had just turned 11. On...
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Student Protesters Were Suspended With No Chance to Defend Themselves. Will...
Amid the brutal police crackdowns at more than 100 campus protests against the war in Gaza the spring, one university in California stood out for its especially harsh treatment of student protesters....
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Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Big Tech Must Reveal Their Roles in Tech Used in...
This is part two of an ongoing series. Part one on unjust content moderation is here. Since the start of the Israeli military response to Hamas’ deadly October 7 attack, U.S.-based companies like...
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Democratic Innovative Finance
The world is crossing a threshold, and now is the moment to take a pause, catch our breath, and perhaps look more at the sky, the earth, our neighbors, and each other. A new era is emerging that is...
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