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Zapatismo at 30: An Indigenous Rights Movement Faces Perilous Times
Thirty years ago, thousands of Indigenous people (as many as 12,000, primarily Mayan) rose up in armed rebellion and declared war against the Mexican state. While their arms were largely makeshift...
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Fact-Checker Alert
During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort...
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Displaced
1.2 million people have been forced from their homes and have become refugees. Each one is an individual human being, and they all had lives before this calamity. In many cases, their homes and all...
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RFK Jr. Praises Wacky Wellness Gurus, Blames Fauci For Everything
” . . . slimy, dishonest, [a] stunning display of ignorance . . . [A] god-awful book.” —–Molecular biologist Dan Wilson reviewing RFK Jr.’s “The Real Anthony Fauci” Son of the late Senator Robert F....
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Trump: Isolationist by Instinct, Unpredictable in Action
There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another is that it will be bad for American democracy. A third is that it will be...
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No, the Kids Aren’t Alt-Right
Among the shocks of the recent US presidential election, one statistic stood out. Exit polls appeared to show a momentous political shift among young men, with one poll putting Donald Trump leading...
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US Response to ICC Netanyahu Warrant Could Deal Death Blow to International Law
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) stunning issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against...
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Democratic Socialist Post-Election Musings
Had Bernie Sanders won the 2016 Democratic nomination and gone on to defeat Donald Trump — as most polls suggested he had a better chance of doing than Hillary Clinton, the actual nominee — he would be...
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Really Existing Self Gov’t and Communal Democracy in Venezuela and Beyond
The latest VA podcast episode dives into the recent Congress on Communal Democracy, exploring its history, participants, and its mission to build grassroots alternatives to “liberal democracy.” Host...
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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens
While academics debate whether smartphones are responsible for the recent surge in depression and anxiety among young people, and state and local governments across the United States experiment with...
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“Solidarity Is the Only Thing That Can Save Us”
Few words are more central to the left tradition, and uttered and sung by leftists more frequently, than “solidarity.” The concept is at the heart of any kind of progressive or socialist campaigning:...
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The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, after a campaign in which Trump threatened the press, the left and “the enemy within,” 204 Republicans and 15 Democrats in the House of Representatives decided...
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Lebanon’s Ceasefire is No “Divine Victory”
Could the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon be a new “divine victory”? That was how the agreement that ended the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in 2006 was characterized by Hezbollah. Then,...
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The Garden Vs. The Jungle
“Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works… Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.” That was the warning of the European Union’s...
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“Israel Wants Wars”: Gideon Levy on Lebanon Ceasefire, Gaza & Gov’t Sanctions...
We’re joined by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy as we continue our conversation on the Israeli-Lebanon ceasefire. We take a look at the mood within Israel, where Levy characterizes the Israeli public as...
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No More ‘Deals’ – What Palestinians Want and Will Fight to Achieve
A major problem in American thinking in the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental, if at all relevant, to the coveted peace and stability. Long before...
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People Are Creating The Green New Deal At The Grassroots Level
The federal government, whether under Democratic or Republican leadership, has failed to address the climate crisis, instead investing in greater production of and dependency on fossil fuels. Those who...
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Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous...
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and,...
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A Green New Deal From Below
To resist and eventually overcome the looming authoritarian national government, we need to create bastions of what the Polish activists who overthrew their country’s dictatorship called “social...
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The Alarming Censorship & Repression in the West
In the second and final part of our series on the state of free speech, the free press and social media censorship, we examine the common trends and legislative actions related to the press and online...
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