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Immigrant Songs

With the New Cold War heating up, and American citizens under siege at home, it’s no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can still claim to...

yesterday 20

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David Yearsley

The Dog That Didn’t Bark

The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president,...

yesterday 1

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Stephen F. Eisenman

Br’er Vivek

“If you believe in normalizing hatred towards any ethnic group, towards whites, towards blacks, towards Hispanics, towards Jews, towards Indians,...

yesterday 1

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Ishmael Reed

Dr. King’s Forgotten Warnings About “the Rise of a Fascist State in America”

As Americans gather next Monday to celebrate the legacy of the great martyred civil rights and social justice leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in...

yesterday 10

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Paul Street

What is the True Death Toll in Gaza?

According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health (GMoH) on December 23rd 2025, Israel had killed at least 70,937...

yesterday 10

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Nicolas Sawaya

Roaming Charges: What a Fool Believes

It's revolting, but hardly surprising, that a woman (Kristi Noem) who thought bragging about the time she shot her puppy in the head for disobeying...

yesterday 10

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Trump’s World Vision: Honest, Yet Precariously Primitive

United States presidents are not known for telling the truth. From Thomas Jefferson’s denial of a relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings...

yesterday 10

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Daniel Warner

The Absurdity and Barbarity of the “Immigration Debate”: Breaking Free of the “Colonial Framework”

Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed...

yesterday 10

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David Masciotra

The Toxic Innocence Of Empire

There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s...

yesterday 10

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Phil Rockstroh

Vance and the 2028 Election

Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly...

yesterday 10

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Clarence Lusane

The Billionaires and the November Elections

The lack of market reaction to the news that Trump ordered his Justice Department to investigate criminal charges against Fed Chair Jerome Powell...

previous day 30

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Dean Baker

I Used to Be a Critic of the Two-Party System – Now I Wish We Had One

I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write to “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note...

previous day 40

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Roger Harris

The Rhyme: Kent State and Renee Good

On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the...

previous day 20

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James C. Nelson

The Epstein Files Spark Class Conflict

An undated photograph from Epstein’s estate. Class conflict in America has been primarily framed either in economic terms favored by the left or in...

previous day 20

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Nick Licata

Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Albums of 2025

Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted...

previous day 10

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Data Centers Might Break the Grid? Good, Something Needs To

A quick headline roundup from the last couple of weeks: “US Electric Grid Heading Toward ‘Crisis’ Thanks to AI Data Centers” (Common Dreams,...

previous day 10

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Thomas Knapp

What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex...

previous day 10

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Biljana Vankovska

We’re Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World

Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don’t bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we’re doing nothing less than cooking...

previous day 10

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Stan Cox

War Only Helps Iran’s Leaders

If President Donald Trump cares in the slightest about Iranian protestors — and our country — he must not attack or threaten to attack Iran. Doing...

previous day 10

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David Vine

The Lesson, Again: We Look Away When People Are Hors de Combat

For years, I’ve asked my students a difficult question: What do we owe people who can no longer fight back? What would you do for a wounded soldier...

previous day 4

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Wim Laven

Big Oil’s Win in Venezuela

Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There...

previous day 3

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Basav Sen

Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran

Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and...

wednesday 2

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Vijay Prashad

The Kidnapping of Venezuela’s Sovereignty

On January 3, 2026, the United States did not merely bomb a sovereign country and capture its president. It displayed, in the most unambiguous...

wednesday 50

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Atul Chandra – Tings Chak

Donald the Destroyer: Act II

There are no in-house critics in Trump’s second term (2025-2029), which may be more apocalyptic, leading to the derogation of America’s democracy...

wednesday 20

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Melvin Goodman

Modest Gain, Major Headwinds: The Energy Transition at the Crossroads

This past November, the United Nations annual Emissions Gap Report found modest progress in the fight against global warming over the past year....

wednesday 10

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Joseph Grosso

Cold War Context for the Killings of Four US Political Leaders

The imperialist U.S. state stops at nothing; anything goes. Really?  After victory in World War II and with U.S. manufacturing in high gear, the...

wednesday 20

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W. T. Whitney

The Glee You See From Fascists About State Violence is a Sexual Fetish

There is a psychology at the root of what we are seeing behind the behavior MAGA fascists and far-right media these past few weeks that isn’t being...

wednesday 20

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Kenn Orphan

Protest, Pressure, and the Risk of Misreading Iran  

Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran, released a video in Farsi last week calling on Iranians to go outside on Thursday and Friday evenings at...

wednesday 20

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Peter Bach

Right Message, Wrong Messengers: A Brief History of Oil and U.S. Empire in Iran

Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has...

wednesday 10

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Eric Ross

The Fukushima Coverup, Fifteen Years On

Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs.[1] I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a...

wednesday 10

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Arnie Gundersen

Venezuela and the Trump Administration’s “Hemisphere First” Agenda

Conventional wisdom tells us that the primary motivation of Trump's Venezuelan operation was to secure American access or control over the nation’s...

wednesday 10

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Omar Ocampo

Is ICE Trump’s Gestapo?

“Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You...

wednesday 9

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Robert Koehler

Will Trump’s Residential Investment Ban Really Make Housing More Affordable?

In a Truth Social post, US president Donald Trump says he’s “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-...

13.01.2026 10

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Thomas Knapp

Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil 

It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the...

13.01.2026 30

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Binoy Kampmark

Political Climate Boomerang and World Chaos

President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the legal bedrock for...

13.01.2026 8

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Evaggelos Vallianatos

Michael Klare: Radical Politics With Passion and Conviction

Every movement needs researchers and writers who present technical matters in ways that activists and organizers can understand and apply. Michael...

13.01.2026 40

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Jonah Raskin

West Papua and the Genocide Mosaic

The patterns of genocide, or the various ways humans go about killing large groups of other humans and their attempted justifications for doing so,...

13.01.2026 20

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Julie Wark

Donald Trump’s $6 Trillion Tax Hike and Increase in Military Spending

Donald Trump is now apparently planning to request a $600 billion increase in annual military spending starting in October, financed by another...

13.01.2026 6

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Dean Baker

Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade

“Tom, I got nothin’.” That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check...

13.01.2026 2

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Rebecca Gordon

Trump to Venezuelans: Give Me Your Oil, Obey My Commands or Die!

In the aftermath of President Trump’s deadly military attack on Venezuela and his abduction and rendition of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro...

13.01.2026 4

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Jacob G. Hornberger

Ex-Presidents and Democratic Leaders Silent on the Impeachment of Donald Trump

The staggering cowardliness by four ex-Presidents vis-à-vis Tyrant Trump’s wrecking of America cannot escape history’s verdict. However, there is...

13.01.2026 8

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Ralph Nader

#TakeBackTikTok From Ellison-Let Palestine Live

CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans call on TikTokers across the world to flood the platform for Palestine to #TakeBackTikTok from...

13.01.2026 10

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Marcy Winograd

Support for the People’s Struggle: A Statement on the Developments in Iran

During the current uprising in Iran, the perspectives of labour activists should have been central. Instead, because they ran against the dominant...

12.01.2026 9

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Vahed Bus Workers

How American Israel-First Sayanim Enabled and Protected Epstein

In an article last week, I argued that Jeffrey Epstein was not a lone rogue predator. This week, I turn to the more troubling question: how did...

12.01.2026 10

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Jamal Kanj

The Politics of Premature Adjudication: The Bondi Royal Commission

Royal commissions are often held to confirm the obvious and squeak for modest change.  They offer no binding remedies, have no compellable powers...

12.01.2026 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Chronicle of a Foretold Coup: The Attack on Venezuela and the Narco-Terrorism Fairy Tale

Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and...

12.01.2026 30

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Daniela Ortiz – Gisela Cernadas

The New York Times Support for Israel Never Ends

The New York Times' one-sided support for Israel began with Israeli independence in 1948.  Last week’s front-page piece on Israel and New York...

12.01.2026 5

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Melvin Goodman

The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill

The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in...

12.01.2026 8

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Alex Crisp

Legitimizing Hip-Hop: the Legacy of James Bernard

James Bernard, one of the co-founders of The Source magazine and a man who helped legitimize hip-hop to the world, has died. This loss hit those of...

12.01.2026 6

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Lawrence Ware

Renee Good and the Rage that Fuels State Violence

There are many of us who recognize this word, "bitch," and the hot, scorching punch of it in this kind of context. After the shots are fired in the...

12.01.2026 10

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Ruth Fowler