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  • Stunning New Film Exposes “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”

    Activists tend to see the climate crisis and US militarism as two separate issues. However, the hard-hitting documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy persuasively argues that, in fact, the two are inextricably connected. But not only because many of Washington’s countless wars – especially in the Middle East – have been linked to securing and maintaining American […]

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  • The Cold War According to Al McCoy

    “Killing African nationalists is like killing animals. My men and I killed between five and ten thousand Congolese rebels.” – Mike Hoare, British-Irish military officer and the author of Congo Mercenary, quoted in Cold War on Five Continents. Unlike D. F. Fleming, the godfather of cold war historians, Alfred McCoy argues that the cold war […]

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  • The Sabotage of Single Payer Healthcare

    The United States: Failing In a Class by Itself How did this wealthy nation drift into the twenty-first century with such a backward and class-divided healthcare system? The United States certainly has world-class centers of medical research and teaching, but it also has “the highest rate of maternal death among its economic peer nations,” according […]

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  • Canada’s Cowboy Calvinism and the Polyester Gospel

    “Given the chance, I could see the old man’s anti-immigrant rant sliding seamlessly into a screed about Ottawa strangling Alberta as he moaned about what he paid for at the pumps. But here’s the cosmic joke, like all gospel, it was based on myth and like most prairie scripture, it was printed on the thinnest […]

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  • Fear at the Gate

    Immigration today provokes some of the fiercest political passions in the UK. It changes the shape of communities, stretches housing and public services, and unsettles those who feel the familiar slipping away from them. These concerns, in themselves, are not signs of prejudice. They deserve to be heard and addressed honestly. As George Eliot wrote, […]

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  • The Return of Woody Guthrie

    Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications) Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications) Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications) Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications) Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications) Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications) Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie […]

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  • Resisting Australia’s Role in US Space Domination 

    The Milk Way Galaxy is on full display as it passes by a ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescope located on White Sands Missile Range–the location of Detachment 1, 20th Operations Group and their space surveillance mission, March 29, 2017 in New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri) The Milk Way Galaxy is on […]

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  • My Trip to Hiroshima, 80 Years Later

    Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil […]

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  • How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

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  • Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change

    Unprecedented numbers of heat records have been broken in locations throughout the Northern Hemisphere this summer, and even more records will fall in coming years. Meanwhile, Israel’s mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians is escalating day by day. And the United States is a central player in creating and sustaining both catastrophes. 

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  • Evil Under the Sun

    At some point in Israel’s starvation of Gaza, hunger stopped being just physical, and started to erode the mind. You would see people wandering aimlessly, not even asking for food anymore. Children stopped playing. Conversations became quieter, slower. People forgot certain tastes. The memory of sweetness faded. – Mahah Hussaini Israel is doing its evil […]

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  • French Nuclear Power’s “Crazy Gamble”

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  • Canine Loyalty in Gaza and Western Indifference

    Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney Chummoungpak. Image by Cortney […]

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  • The Secret Behind the Secret

    I’d like to be a pig. Man alone can be ridiculous. – Gaugin Last night I had a strange dream. I was sitting in an old Uptown lounge called the Saxony. It was darkest midday and the only other occupant of the place was a very old and sickly man. He leaned into me, trying […]

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  • Why Shutter USAID?

    100117-N-6247V-083 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Jan. 17, 2010) Pallets of food, water and supplies sit on the flight line at the airport as a MH-53E helicopter from Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 awaits to be on loaded with supplies. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation […]

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  • A World in Search of Its Conscience

    Living in Gaza now requires a choreography of absence. We don’t walk; we drift. We don’t eat; we search. We don’t sleep; we remain alert, ears tuned to the sound that will send us running. Survival is a ritual of adaptation in a world that offers none…And yet I persist. I speak. I write. Because […]

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  • Through the Eyes of Lee Miller

    When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In fact, during her first week in France, Miller violated orders from the Army and entered the besieged village of St. Malo. She was the only photographer to capture the decimation of this small French town. She also rode into Paris on the day of its liberation.

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  • Confucius Speaks About Palestine

    Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but the unsaid thing is that it is alright because that’s what those people do … – Omar El Akkad, One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been […]

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  • The True Unemployment Rate May be 25%

    How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are some measures that purport to give a better answer than the standard unemployment rate, such as the […]

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  • The Dead End of Liberal Futurism

    In an era of runaway climate change, ecological collapse, global fascism, and heightened economic insecurity, it is only natural that readers to the left of Mussolini would be looking for a reassuring book which presents an easy route to a better world. A new bestseller, Abundance, by Ezra Klein of The New York Times and […]

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  • Healthcare and Food as Means to an End: Extermination 

    For 21 months, Israel has obsessively attacked Gaza’s health-care infrastructure and personnel, using weaponry and munitions provided by the US Congress. Over the same span of time, Israel has created a far greater need for health care by targeting Gaza’s civilian population with bombing, gunfire, and blockade-induced starvation—also with Washington’s wholehearted support. When it comes […]

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  • Eighty Years After Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, the Horror Lives On

    The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National Monument. Image by Ray Acheson. The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National Monument. Image by Ray Acheson. The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National […]

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  • The Mob Murder of Saif Musallet

    His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the family’s ice cream parlor in Tampa. He liked cars, hiphop, soccer and the beach. He was an American kid with Palestinian roots. A few weeks before his 21st birthday […]

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  • Biopic About New Zealand’s Prime Minister Omits Socialism

    Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda […]

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  • The Welsh Resistance to Trump’s Golden Dome

    In 1990, it was revealed that the Pentagon planned to build an over-the-horizon radar at RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. PARC was born: Pembrokeshire Against the Radar. With sponsored walks in the nature threatened by the proposed radar, together with events such as Rock Against the Radar, the activist group single-handedly drew public and Parliamentary attention to the proposed radar. Alan Clark, the Minister of Defence Procurement, attempted to ease locals’ concerns by appearing in person at the St. Davids City Hall. Clark was met by hundreds of residents wielding No Radar placards. By then, a dozen other campaign groups from across the UK had joined the action.

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  • What Would You Wear to Celebrate a War Criminal?

    + What would you wear to the feting of a man wanted for war crimes, who is currently supervising a genocide? Jackie Rosen wore pink. Amy Klobochar chose navy blue, while Maria Cantal went with a discrete off-white. Cory Booker cowardly hid his attire and face behind Dave McCormick. The Democrats who attended a Senate […]

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  • Police and Their Urban War Horses

    Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. Photo: Harrison Haines, via Pexels/Canva. […]

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  • What If the Axis of Evil Served You Watermelon?

    Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan Canty. Image by Jan […]

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  • On Board the Madleen, Trying to Break the Seige of Gaza

    Berlin. Yasemin Acar is a Berlin-based activist who was aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ship “Madleen”, a mission followed by millions on social media, as the ship tried to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. After attending Berlin’s largest Palestine protest ever last weekend, with over 60,000 protesters hitting the streets, she recounts her experience during the […]

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  • The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

    Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia […]

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