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The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of social movements in bringing about transformative change. This article was produced by Human Bridges. The U.S. and many other...
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Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza
Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page — “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” — was accurate...
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The Second 1st Presidential Debate
Nearly all public polls in the USA today, and since the beginning of 2024, show that the number #1 issue for American voters is the condition of the economy. But listening to the debate this evening...
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How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. In August 2024, due to a $4 million budget shortfall, Idaho’s Caldwell School District terminated its...
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Oil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry
A new international coalition is disrupting airports to make one demand: the adoption of a treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030. Under the banner Oil Kills, small groups of activists have occupied...
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Resisting The Algo-Boss
Despite being told by the apostles of neoliberal capitalism that technology is neutral, natural, and even non-political, emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of the so-called...
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Why the Far Right Lies About Immigrants
When my dad moved to southwest Ohio in the early 1970s, the Dayton-Springfield area’s second city was home to over 80,000 people. When I was growing up nearby in the 1990s, it was 70,000. Today, it’s...
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The Law of Force or the Force of Law
Are the nations of the world doomed to go on fighting the brutal, horrifying wars that have long characterized human history? We might well wonder about that as we watch, aghast, while Israeli armed...
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Recycling the Discarded
The stigma of a criminal conviction can be a major barrier to community reentry for recently released prisoners. A December 2021 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics highlighted the employment...
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Worker Solidarity Is the Best Strategy to Defeat Rising Fascism
Donald Trump and his accomplices want working people to look at each other with distrust and divide ourselves over banal differences. The prejudices they foment against Latino immigrants, Black people,...
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The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech
Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly those risky banks with trillions of dollars in...
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South Sudan Floods: The First Example Of a Mass Population Permanently...
Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of...
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Israeli Tanks, Bulldozer Attack UN Convoy En Route to Support Polio Vaccination
Israeli forces detained and attacked a UN convoy on its way to support the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza this week, using tanks and bulldozers to terrorize the UN staff and firing their...
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Cartography of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine from the Map
When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer. “I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown...
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Even the National Intelligence Director Admits Government Secrecy Is a Problem
Deception, lies and secrecy — including lies to cover secrecy — characterize authoritarian regimes. However, the politics of lying and official secrecy are no less common in democratic governments. For...
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Vic Police Use Excessive Force Against Anti-War, Palestine Solidarity...
Excessive police violence against some 1500 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists protesting a Labor government-sponsored weapons expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre on September 11 has been...
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“Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”
“We are on the precipice of something big,” says Movement for Black Lives organizer M Adams. “This is a moment that is going to be looked back on 50 years from now, 100 years from now, and what is...
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Can Distributed Organizing Unionize Millions?
Tens of millions of workers in the United States want a union at their workplace, but do not have one. This unfortunate state of affairs is normally blamed on external obstacles such as our country’s...
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Jeremy Corbyn: Austerity Is Labour’s Choice
After 14 years of billionaires doubling their wealth, the political elite’s choice of starving pensioners and children shows austerity as a complete con job. Every day, my constituents make tough...
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How Should the Global South Look at the U.S. Elections?
As the U.S. elections come closer, there is growing pressure on many progressives in the Global South to make our voices heard in support of the candidacy of Kamala Harris. No act on your part is...
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