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Invisible Rulers: An Establishment Liberal Reads Chomsky, Fights Taibbi and...
Until recently, Renee DiResta–author of the book under review–was the research manager at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory. She has served as a consultant to social media platforms about...
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Solar Power vs. The Darkness of Trump
To understand the primal stakes in this year’s election, and to understand the very exciting possibility for rapid progress in the climate fight, a new set of numbers is extremely useful. They come...
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Rivals in the Service of Empire: Abu Dhabi, Qatar and the United States
Abu Dhabi and Qatar are the two brother enemies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Their consanguinity is evinced in several areas. The two emirates have comparable demographic features—3.8 and 2.8...
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When Oh When—and How—Will the War in Ukraine End?
Some Western supporters of Ukraine have been presenting the Ukrainian incursion into the Russian province of Kursk as a great victory that will significantly change the course and outcome of the war....
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Trump’s Own Words Define His Delusionary State of Mind
Even if I have to say so as co-author with Mark Green of “WRECKING AMERICA: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” I know of no book on Trump to be as practically useful for the 2024...
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The Robots Are Coming for Our Souls
I have been thinking a lot about Ted Chiang’s piece on artificial intelligence (AI) in the New Yorker. His basic argument is that AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT that...
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From Gaza to the Occupied West Bank, Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of...
There is a pretense of novelty in Israel’s most recent offensive in the West Bank, which it has glibly called “Operation Summer Camps.” Even before it began, Israel announced that the operation was the...
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Everyone Talks About the Economy, But No One Does Anything About It!
The number one issue in the election this year, polls tell us, is “the economy.” But what does that mean? That depends on who you are and where you sit in the vast structure of inequality that engulfs...
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Where Can We Live?
In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of...
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Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New; They Are What Provoked the Violence of...
For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I...
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A Shit-Hole Country?
The unprecedented dimensions of the economic and social tragedy that Argentina is experiencing under the semi-dictatorship of Javier Milei and his cronies -servants of both domestic and foreign big...
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How the U.S. Enabled Netanyahu to Sabotage a Gaza Ceasefire
After the bodies of six more Israeli hostages of Hamas were found in the Gaza Strip, pressure in Israel is mounting on the government to secure a ceasefire deal and free the remaining hostages and...
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Serbia Is a Showcase of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
During the 1990s, the government of Slobodan Milošević led Serbia into a third Balkan war. His allies in Bosnia were responsible for a litany of war crimes, including the massacre at Srebrenica. The...
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60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad,” the Silence on Nuclear War Is...
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on NBC. The ad began with an adorable...
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The Climate Movement Must Shift Gears Or It’s Done
Dear climate movement friends, As we return from another hot and smoke-filled summer of unnatural disasters, let us admit that we are in our own form of denial. This piece may upset some friends and...
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The Genocide In Palestine – How To Prevent The Next Stage From Happening
As many of us had warned, eleven months into the genocide of Gaza, Israel is now focusing on the genocide of the West Bank. In this case, it is a more cautious policy, since Israel cannot find easy...
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Who’s Afraid of Mexican Democracy?
Following its landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, the MORENA coalition is wasting no time in getting to work. Even before president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office on October 1,...
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Environmental Justice Before, During And After A United Ireland
[This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing...
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A Note on the ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ Voting Argument in 2024
One of the most bewildering reactions on the part of certain segments of the U.S. left (whatever that means these days) is that every time there is a crucial election, and the voice of reason dictates...
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Profiles in Political Cowardice: Tempest and the National Leadership of DSA
Fighting effectively for social transformation is hard. Socialists and revolutionaries don’t square off against our class enemies on any kind of level playing field. The country’s political structures...
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