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If We Can’t Stop Trump From Taking Over Greenland, I Will Cry

We cannot allow our nation to stomp all over our friends and neighbors just because our president and his minions get high by pushing weaker...

yesterday 20

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Les Leopold

Trump's Attack on Venezuela Would Be Wrong Even If It Were Legal

Making a a war “legal” doesn’t make it just or moral. Legal wars still kill and maim innocent people, still destroy communities, still create...

yesterday 4

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Robert C. Koehler

ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat

The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and...

yesterday 30

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Jordan Liz

Venezuela and the Return of Empire

The global rallying cry of the Global South should, by now, be unmistakable. Down with imperialism: not as a slogan of nostalgia, but as a...

yesterday 6

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Jawad Khalid

Sick of Illegal Wars and Staggering Healthcare Costs? Blame Congress

Members of Congress passed a $1 trillion war budget at the same time that congressional Republicans voted to refuse help for millions of Americans...

yesterday 4

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Lindsay Koshgarian

Trump Sees Women as the Enemy

The president’s deep and abiding contempt for females has taken a giant leap forward (or do I mean backward?) in policy terms in the Trump 2.0...

yesterday 4

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Karen Greenberg

The Killing of Renee Good Should Change How We Talk About ICE

yesterday 1

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Suleiman Adan

It Was Trump, Not America: The Criminal Abduction of Venezuela’s President

Nicolás Maduro, regardless of how one views his politics, was the sitting head of state and therefore entitled to full diplomatic immunity under...

previous day 20

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Angel Gomez

Gobsmacking Fabulists 'R Us

For the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power have concocted a...

previous day 20

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Abby Zimet

The Planetary Crime of a Trump Invasion of Greenland

In a rational world, the conversation about the island would be about the melting ice sheet that could easily add a foot or more to the level of...

previous day 5

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Bill Mckibben

The US Is Acting Like a Rogue State in Venezuela

The chaos, suffering, and violence about to unfold will be a reminder of why coups are so destructive. Whoever celebrates this should own whatever...

previous day 5

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Joseph Bouchard

Until Democrats Confront the Lawlessness of Trump's Venezuela Assault, Expect More War

The primary focus of Congressional Democrats appears to be more with Trump’s failure to follow proper Constitutional procedures than his flagrant...

previous day 4

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Stephen Zunes

Major US Newspapers Just Love a Good Illegal Military Intervention

With his kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump proved he is no less an imperialist than his predecessors, and...

previous day 4

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Ari Paul

Somali-American Day-Care Hysteria Is Latest Attempt To Distract Americans with Hate

It's 2025. No one should have to point out how evil and irrational it is for elected officials to smear an entire race or ethnic group because of...

previous day 4

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Edward Ahmed Mitchell

Trump and Hegseth's Boat Strikes Are International Terrorism

It falls on us, the American people, to hold the president and secretary of defense to account by strongly voicing our objection to their acts of...

tuesday 3

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Everett Wohlers

Mad Kings Don't Stop Themselves. They Must Be Stopped.

Insane rulers rarely stop themselves: they’re stopped when the people around them decide the country matters more than the crown.

tuesday 4

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Thom Hartmann

From Jan. 6th to Maduro Kidnapping, the Threat Trump Poses Is Existential

Trump’s blatant lawlessness will haunt America and the world for a long, long time.

tuesday 3

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Robert Reich

Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign

Every one that goes up incrementally reduces the attractiveness of the oil that underlies so much conflict and tyranny, including Trump's latest...

tuesday 1

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Bill Mckibben

Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom

Venezuela was not liberated. Overnight, it became a US-occupied colony whose lands and resources will be stolen and exploited; whose people will be...

tuesday 9

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Jordan Liz

Venezuela Invasion Proves There's No Limit to Trump's Abuses... Unless We Impose One

What concerned Americans want is not some ever-diminishing chance at maybe turning things around in November. We want impeachment, and we want it...

tuesday 3

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Kirk Freudenburg

If You Liked Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, You'll Love What Trump Is Offering in Venezuela

Meet the 'Donroe Doctrine,' a foreign policy created by the very worst US president ever.

05.01.2026 20

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Steven Harper

Trump's Attack on Venezuela Is Not Your Average American Imperialism

Anyone who cares about democracy in the US or in Venezuela ought to be very concerned about what is happening now.

05.01.2026 10

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction

Hopefully, the sociopolitical reaction to the US invasion of Venezuela will, instead of deepening our oil dependency, actually contribute to our...

05.01.2026 3

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Rick Steiner

Trump Is Making US Imperial Decline the Whole World's Problem

Trump and crew have decided to actively intensify the ongoing climate disaster. And if that isn’t the definition of a once great imperial power...

05.01.2026 3

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Tom Engelhardt

My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela

The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s...

05.01.2026 7

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

What Happened to Tulsi Gabbard’s Non-Interventionist Principles?

Trump's director of National Intelligence used to warn against "regime change wars." Now she's enabling one.

05.01.2026 7

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Ann Wright

A Softening of Hearts: The Mayor Is Listening

In a new year that promises to be as wretched, rancorous and bloody as the last one - cue oil lust and delusions of empire - we opt to celebrate...

04.01.2026 3

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Abby Zimet