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Tells the facts, names the names.
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When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger. That danger is no longer theoretical.
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When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger. That danger is no longer theoretical. In the same
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Privatizing the VA will be a disaster for rural vets.
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James Jones is a 54-year-old disabled Army veteran. After four years of active duty and four in the reserves, Jones says he has a “multitude” of health
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More signs the South won the Civil War: Troops from the slave state of Texas are now being sent to occupy Abe Lincoln's Illinois. It's Reconstruction in reverse.
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The most damning condemnations of Israel's war have always come from the Israeli soldiers who actually fought it:
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Calling it now: There will be no consequences for the creators of the AI bubble that is about to take down the US economy. The main culprits will be made whole by the taxpayer, and the gullible fools in media who promoted the bogus tech will remain in cushy positions of influence
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A federal judge just cited this incident as grounds to issue a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit challenging the indiscriminate use of riot control weapons against journalists and nonviolent protestors.
The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball.
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A more ominous way to read this poll is that 42% of Americans fully support sending federal troops into US cities to suppress people whose politics they don't like. https://t.co/G2xOXGmCLh
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The poll also showed the president's approval rating ticking down to 40%.
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The Trump Gaza plan and the politics of coercion.
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In this interview, international legal scholar Richard Falk breaks down Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan. He discusses its coercive nature and the politics of the
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A response to Ezra Klein’s call for “Big-Tent” politics.
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I argue in my book, Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, that the divides among the political left can be
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The Christian right is moving toward becoming an explicitly fascist movement.
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Pres. Donald Trump is imposing a right-wing political ideology and practice that increasingly resembles what Christ Hedges has dubbed “Christian fascism.”
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If I move this cash from my left pocket to the right, will I get richer?
With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like home mortgage securitization at the peak of the housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.
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General Pinochet and the vans of death.
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Pinochet and his generals. Detail from the cover of 38 Londres Street. Early in the afternoon of March 24, 1999, my wife, Angélica, and I were seated high
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The new phase of the conflict against Iran carries all the foul trappings of a “forever war".
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With the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, the United States risked becoming “plugged … into some of the fiercest conflicts in the world,” according to veteran Middle...
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With Congress compliant, the Supreme Court complicit, and media corporations compromised, President Trump’s vision for America and its place in the world has become the nation’s destiny.
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In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American
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The transition being promoted today is not a break from fossil capitalism—it is its reinvention as a kind of fossil gattopardismo, in which energy demand expands and the extraction of hydrocarbons intensifies as part of the approach to energy transition.
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In the Americas, old forms of extractivism and accumulation are being rebranded under the guise of “green” development. But beneath the surface, the reality is stark: the transition being promoted...
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As a new academic year begins, attacks on students, academic freedom and free speech have exponentially increased.
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At the time of this report, over 3,100 students and faculty at American universities have been arrested at protests since October 7 in support of Palestinian liberation and opposing U.S. involvement...
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Recent weeks have seen a significant deployment of US naval assets to the Caribbean Sea, including a nuclear submarine, a squadron of F-35 planes, 7 warships. The real intention is not to curb drug trafficking but to destabilize the Venezuelan government.
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On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking to the United States with being blown “out of...
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Donald Trump’s “peace plan” was carefully constructed to benefit Israeli interests. All matters of interest to the Palestinians were either ignored or obfuscated to create the illusion of future stability and security in a “new Gaza.”
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The Washington Post and its leading national security columnist, David Ignatius, have labeled the so-called “peace plan” for Gaza the “real deal.” Ignatius’ view of the plan, which is essentially an...
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As the situation in Gaza becomes increasingly dire, domestically, we are entrenched in a fight for the essence of our democracy as this administration erodes all fundamental human rights.
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Silencing Dissent on U.S. Campuses to Gaza’s Streets Desperate to silence dissent and critics of Israel, the Trump Administration made its appeal to
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