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The DNC and Beyond
Some of you may remember the line, I think it was from an Alka Seltzer commercial, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” Well I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. What an upside down, inside...
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Uncommitted Delegates Stage Sit-In to Demand Palestinian Speaker at DNC
On the third night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Uncommitted delegates from around the US staged an all-night sit-in outside the United Center, demanding that Kamala Harris and the...
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Solving the Housing Crisis via the Commons
This is Part 1 of a two-parter, about how the housing crisis causes debt-bondage and wage-slavery, and how the housing Commons can release people from debt and give them freedom to do what they know...
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Climate Crisis & Election Roundtable: From Tim Walz’s Record to Project 2025...
Climate activists disrupted a DNC-adjacent event sponsored by ExxonMobil on Wednesday, the same day that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz formally accepted his nomination as vice-presidential candidate for...
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In Defense of Atitlán Lake
The blue of Lake Atitlán fades into the dark green vegetation on the slopes of the Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro volcanoes in the department of Sololá, Guatemala. Over one hundred thousand people live...
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Ukraine’s Hiroshima Moment is Drawing Closer (The Consequences of Neocon...
In August 1945, the US atom bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, nuclear weapons have never been used in conflict. That may soon change as Ukraine faces the increasing...
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Venezuela: A Contested Election or is the U.S.-Backed Opposition Crying...
On 28 July a presidential election took place in Venezuela. Expected to be one of the closest presidential races in years, soon after midnight, the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared that, with...
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Message from the DNC: The Democrats Do Not Care About Palestinians
The Democratic National Convention did not go well for supporters of Palestinian rights. The one positive to emerge from the DNC was that the first panel ever officially sanctioned by the DNC on the...
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Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees...
This article was produced in partnership with Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute
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Amber De Botton: From Downing Street To The Guardian
“Our quality, investigative journalism is a scrutinising force at a time when the rich and powerful are getting away with more and more”, says the Guardian in a fundraising plea to its readers. So why...
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Israel Perpetrating War Crimes In Plain Sight In Gaza, Says Ex-UK Diplomat
Israel is “flagrantly and regularly” committing war crimes in Gaza, according to a former British diplomat who recently resigned over ministers’ failure to ban arms sales to Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
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Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Hostage Says IDF Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her
“I cannot ignore what happened here over the past 24 hours, taking my words out of context,” said Noa Argamani. “As a victim of October 7, I refuse to be victimized once again by the media.” An Israeli...
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Interest Rate Cuts Now Could Help Workers. But That’s Not Who the Fed Serves
The Federal Reserve hasn’t changed interest rates since July of last year, after 11 hikes between March 2022 and July 2023 in the hope that higher borrowing costs would slow down consumer and business...
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Shawn Fain Has Been a Light in the Darkness
UAW president Shawn Fain’s speech was the best part of the DNC. It featured a direct focus on workers otherwise absent from party rhetoric, and sidestepped the culture wars to identify the “one true...
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Israel, Gaza, and the “Merchants of Death”
On July 24, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, where nearly half of the House and Senate Democrats were not present. In...
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Will Bangladesh Be Another Egypt?
The day after former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka, I was on the phone with a friend who had spent some time on the streets that day. He told me about the atmosphere in Dhaka, how...
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Harris’s Failed Opportunity?
During her nearly 40-minute-long speech on the final day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her economic plan for the nation as “an opportunity...
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Radical Municipalism Is Paving The Way For Direct Democracy In LA
Home to almost 10 million residents in 2022, Los Angeles County can sometimes seem like a vast political paradox. Known as a quintessential example of urban sprawl, it is also the most overcrowded...
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Why Do So Many Workers Love Trump?
In the wake of Teamsters chief Sean O’Brien’s remarks at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July, liberal commentators were aghast at the very idea of a labor leader validating Donald Trump’s...
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Delegates to Both Parties’ Conventions Are Sick of Endless Wars
In a terminally polarized America, it can sometimes seem like there’s nothing that diehards of both major parties can agree on. Yet at both the party conventions this year there were signs that...
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