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Water Protectors Use Novel Legal Tactic to Challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline
It’s about the water. I’m returning to Mni Sose, the Missouri River, eight years after the saga of Standing Rock, when thousands of Water Protectors came to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from...
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Are You OK with Your Country Going Fascist?
Recently, many opinion polls indicate that Donald Trump―a convicted criminal, a pathological liar, and the latest in a long string of rightwing demagogues―is likelier than not to be elected President...
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What’s Certain About Results of the Presidential Election
While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance: Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are supporters of boosting already-huge Pentagon...
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Gulf Arab States Will ‘Pay a Very High Price’ If They Back a US-Israeli...
As Iran braces for Israel’s anticipated attack following Tehran’s ballistic missile strike, fears of an all-out regional war are mounting. According to Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, the...
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$1 Billion US Weapons System Lands in Israel Amid Preparation to Attack Iran
A U.S. weapons system has landed and is “in place” in Israel, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin said on Monday, as the Biden administration beefs up U.S. support of Israel and Israeli forces...
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Election Throws Uncertainty Onto Biden’s Signature Climate Law
President Joe Biden’s signature climate change law passed Congress by the narrowest of margins, without a single Republican in favor. GOP leaders have attacked the bill and promised to repeal it. Yet...
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COP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth
All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and international Indigenous...
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How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
The free-roaming range of a child has been reduced dramatically in only a few generations. About three generations ago, most children were free to travel the full range of their town, but they rarely...
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France’s Persecution of Pan-Africanist Kemi Seba
Masked men violently seized one of Francophone Africa’s leading anti-colonial activists, Kema Seba, in Paris on October 14. The 42-year-old is the President of Urgences Panafricanistes (Pan-Africanist...
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Review — Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global...
Jeff Schuhrke begins his new book, Blue Collar Empire, with a powerful story: how the CIA, operating through the offices of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),...
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The Myth of Greater Israel Drives Zionist Genocidal Expansionism
On October 7 2023, Hamas breached the 17-year-long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with a brutal, coordinated attack on at least seven Israeli military installations surrounded by more than 20...
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Give Peace a Chance? No Way
Three Developments That Might Lead to Talks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented a week or so ago: “We will do to Lebanon what we did to Gaza.” That arrogant and ugly prediction has...
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Liberal Interventionism From Past to Present
“What’s happened to the Democrats? They used to be antiwar!” Such is one of the many questions being bandied about by an online commentariat seeking to make sense of a litany of Republican endorsements...
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The US Isn’t Moving Right — the Democrats Are
Some alarming news is brewing for the Left. It turns out that after a brief flirtation with progressive and socialist politics, the United States is now turning back to the right. “Five years ago, as a...
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Israel Injured UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon With White Phosphorus, Report Finds
Israeli forces have attacked UN peacekeepers in Lebanon at least a dozen times in recent weeks, including one attack in which 15 peacekeepers were injured by white phosphorus, according to a new...
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U.S. Government Documents Acknowledge Illegal Israeli Nuclear Weapons — Yet...
Drop Site News reports: “A set of classified U.S. intelligence documents purporting to show information about Israel’s plans to strike in Iran have been confirmed as authentic in a report by CNN. “Drop...
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What Can Iran & Palestine Expect from the US Presidential Elections?
[Prefatory Note: The following interview is in responses to questions addressed.to me by Kayhan New Agency in Iran. It is focused on an interpretation of how the forthcoming American elections are...
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Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Fearmongering Exposes Extent of Fascism’s Rise in 2024
Stoked by vitriolic political rhetoric spread by the right and increasingly left unchallenged by leading Democratic politicians, the normalization of a hostile and violent attitude toward immigrants is...
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Israel’s Biblical Wars of ‘Self Defense’: The Myth of the ‘Seven War Fronts’
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli...
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Outrageous Anti-Protest Laws Can’t Silence the Climate Movement
In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City....
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