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Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings

James Bovard

Dissecting the UN’s “Comprehensive Plan” for Gaza and the Inevitable Dead End

Jamal Kanj

So Long as You’ve Got Your Health!

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Venezuela, Wars of Aggression, and Nuremberg Law

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Operation ‘Just Cause’ Redux? Trump’s Attempt at Regime Change in Venezuela

Stephen Kimber – John Kirk

The Unpardonable Pardoning of Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández

Bruce J. Janigian

Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide

Norman Solomon

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Children

Sean Carlton

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Evaggelos Vallianatos

A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

Binoy Kampmark

Community Space in a Privatized Land

Ron Jacobs

The Crack in the Sky

Peter Bach

The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders

John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

How Trump Fueled an Affordability Crisis

David Mccall

How the Game is Played

Pete Tucker

Five Days in Palestine

László Molnárfi

DOGE is Dead, the Damage Lives On

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On Beauty Queens, the Press Corps, and the Collapse of Journalistic Courage

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Trumpian Nonsense on Employing Native-Born Workers

Dean Baker

Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed

Roger Harris

NATO’s Five Percent Gamble

Imran Khalid

Apocalypse Soon?

William Astore

Shootings, the National Guard and ‘Thoughts and Prayers’.

Robert Fantina

Faunalytics, Cultivated Meat and Left-Wing Populism

Jon Hochschartner

Murder Most Foul—Double Tap Survivors

Kary Love

COP30 Was Underwhelming, But a Path Away From Fossil Fuels Still Exists

Daphne Wysham – Trina Chiemi

I Bet I Know Where You Got Your Jackboots: Immigration Sweeps in New Orleans

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The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will

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Environmental Crisis: It’s All About the Money

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The Angry Tide of the Latin American Far Right

Vijay Prashad

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Increase in Social Security Payments Undercut by Greater Medicare Deduction

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