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Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become?
After his election victory in July, which by the UK’s first-past-the-post system gave his party a disproportionate majority in parliament (h/t Vesa), Keir Starmer promised that his new Labour...
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Why Trump Won And Some Consequences
It’s now more than 48 hours after the election, the dust has settled, and the results are in except for a late counting in the state of Arizona–the outcome of which won’t affect the results of the...
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Grassroots Organizations Are Helping Rebuild North Carolina Communities After...
Hurricane Helene, which was a Category 4 hurricane, hit on September 26 and claimed around 227 lives as of October 5, 2024. The hurricane is now considered one of the deadliest “of the modern era.”...
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The NYT Version of the Big Lie: Technology Created Inequality
There is a Big Lie pushed by centrist types that is almost as pernicious as the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It is that inequality was driven by technology, an autonomous force in...
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How Harris Lost the Working Class
For liberals, Donald Trump’s victory this week prompts adjectives like “scary,” “terrifying,” “depressing,” and “demoralizing.” But one word it should not evoke is this: “surprising.” In a downwardly...
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Despite Red Wave, Election Brought Some Victories for Economic Equality
If you’ve ever questioned whether our country has an inequality problem, this election should provide all the evidence you need. As billionaires used their financial firepower to throw support their...
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Human Nature, Hope & Ice Cream
Political scholar Noam Chomsky used to do a thought experiment to combat cynicism about human nature involving an ice cream cone. This video explores Chomsky’s rhetorical arguments on the topic through...
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A New Wave of Movements Against Trumpism Is Coming
For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of deep despair and mourning. There has been plenty of commentary trying to make sense of Trump’s...
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Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Back in May 2015, the New York Times’ Isabel Kershner decided to moonlight as an Israeli military propagandist by penning an alleged exposé (5/12/15)—headlined “Israel Says Hezbollah Positions Put...
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Billionaires Own US Climate Policy
Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump...
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How Did I “Predict” That Trump, Despite His Repulsive Persona and Politics,...
Nearly a month before the November 5 elections, I anticipated that Donald Trump would win and wrote about it in a couple of articles. My “prediction” created some controversy, especially since the...
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Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge. On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate...
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Germany’s Coalition Collapsed, but Recession Is Here to Stay
“Scholz ditches Lindner.” Three words that pack a punch for Germans, after three years in which Free Democrats (FDP) leader Christian Lindner set an austerian tone for the coalition government. The...
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Trump’s Win Casts Shadow over US Climate Progress, Global Leadership
Former president Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday jeopardizes the hard-fought climate progress of the past four years in the United States and sets back the global effort to curb warming at a time...
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The World According to Trump – The Chris Hedges Report
Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report is Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. With his extensive...
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African Women and Girls Will Die From Unsafe Abortions Thanks to Trump Win
Trump’s presidency already looks set to have a catastrophic effect on sexual reproductive health and rights on the African continent. I work as a reproductive and gender health specialist in Uganda and...
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What Rough Beast?
President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian...
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No Justice, No Peace in Mozambique
On October 9, Mozambicans cast their ballots in the general election. After widespread fraud during last year’s municipal vote, many believed that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The ruling...
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Alienation or Repression?
§1. We are told that certain tactics by the European climate justice movement “alienate” the public. For all practical purposes, this discourse could be a pseudo-argument by the “opinion-making” elites...
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Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.
This election cycle was defined — yet again — by Donald Trump’s fearmongering over immigration. Like his previous two campaigns for president, Trump fueled a racist panic over “migrant crime” and...
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