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In Baku, At The Latest Global Confab On Climate, Hand-Wringing Abounds
The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered this month by the Caspian Sea for the 29th annual global...
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When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job...
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Liberals Are Giving Up on America
The election takes are still flowing as freely as the Dom Pérignon at one of Kamala Harris’s Silicon Valley fundraisers. Many liberals agree on one thing: the American people suck, especially the...
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The Cuba Embargo Is a Cold War Grudge That Won’t Die
At the United Nations General Assembly on October 30, 187 countries voted for a nonbinding resolution to end “the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America...
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“Let This Election Galvanize and Radicalize Us”
While Democrats are looking for scapegoats to blame for their losses on election day, Donald Trump is busy making cabinet and administration appointments. When it comes to US policy on issues ranging...
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Gangsters of Capitalism
U.S. interventions at the turn of the 20th century were numerous and widespread, including bloody operations in Cuba against the Spanish and then against the Cubans themselves, in northern China...
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Activists’ Alternative to COP29 Brings Frontline Communities Together
It took Samoan activist Tunaimati’a Jacob Netzler three flights and a bus ride over the course of 24 hours to reach the big climate conference. The plan was to join nearly 200 other campaigners from...
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Liberals’ Favorite Election Story Is Wrong
If you listen to some liberals — I’m too discreet to name names, but you might know whom I have in mind — Donald Trump’s election was the reflection of a resurgent hegemony of white patriarchy. These...
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RFK Jr. Is a Whacked-Out Crank, but He Is Right About the Pharmaceutical...
RFK Jr.’s main claim to fame, apart from his ancestry, is from saying crazy things about vaccines. As has been well-documented, vaccines have not led to autism or killed thousands of people. They have...
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Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush Anticolonial Resistance
Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden administration’s hypocritical denial of American complicity in Zionist genocide, war crimes...
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The Trump Effect
First published in Russian at Rabkor. Translation by Dmitry Pozhidaev for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Alas, I must begin this article with inevitable self-criticism. When the...
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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Donald Trump pitched himself to voters as a supposed anti-interventionist candidate of peace. But when he reenters the White House in January, at his side will be a phalanx of pro-military Silicon...
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My Rage Against Trump Supporters Is Killing Me
We have just elected a cruel and ruthless monster who represents the worst of humanity and I feel my blood vessels pulsing with rage. I’m boiling with fury at the misguided electorate who were duped...
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‘COP Fatigue’: Experts Warn That Size and Spectacle of Global Climate Summit...
BAKU, Azerbaijan—If speeches and slogans could save the climate, COP29 would already be a success. But there are few signs the current round of climate talks will deliver on the only thing proven to...
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Notes on Fighting Trumpism
I am baffled, as I was in 2016, as to why so many liberals are still shocked by Trump’s victory—and why, in their efforts to dissect what happened, they can’t get beyond their incredulity that so many...
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End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?
Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on October 29, the UN Special Rapporteur deviated from the typical line of...
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What To Do Now
As I argued before the election, Trump’s victory creates favorable organizing conditions for the left. Trump’s first term created a sense of crisis among people who oppose fascism, and that compelled...
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María Alejandra Díaz (Popular Democratic Front): ‘Institutional avenues for...
Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist María Alejandra Díaz has become a symbol of why, as she puts it, the rule of law in Venezuela is “in frank deterioration” after the July 28 presidential...
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Weaponizing Jewish fear, from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam
“Tomorrow, 86 years ago, was Kristallnacht — an attack on Jews just for being Jews, on European soil. It’s back now; we saw it yesterday on the streets of Amsterdam. There’s only one difference: in the...
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Seeds of Resistance
When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush’s tainted...
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