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Laura Flanders

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Can These Politician Activists Make it to Congress?

05.12.2025 2

The Nation

Laura Flanders

A Tale of Two ICEs

This Saturday, DHS apparently had another of their so-called “enforcement surges” planned, this time involving some 600 agents and an even bigger...

03.12.2025 40

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

A Tale of Two ICEs

This Saturday, DHS apparently had another of their so-called “enforcement surges” planned, this time involving some 600 agents and an even bigger...

02.12.2025 60

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

Silenced Reports & Epstein Files: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women Still Don’t Make News

Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. The MMIW...

24.11.2025 7

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

One Aircraft Carrier or Health Care Coverage for Tens of Thousands?

There’s an old protest sign I can’t stop thinking about. It read, “It will be a great day in America when our schools have all the money that...

19.11.2025 10

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

Who's City? Our City!

11.11.2025 10

Common Dreams

Laura Flanders

Caribbean Catastrophes: The Hurricane We See and the War We Don’t

On September 23, in a thuggish address to the United Nations Donald Trump explicitly threatened to blow “Venezuelan terrorist drug smugglers”...

05.11.2025 8

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

Federal Whistleblowers Sound Alarm Over Civil Rights at HUD

31.10.2025 4

The Nation

Laura Flanders

Caribbean Catastrophes: The Hurricane We See and the War We Don't

31.10.2025 4

Common Dreams

Laura Flanders

Many Americans threw other Americans Under the Bus. Will We Do It Again?

While our cultural memory about the McCarthy era romances the refuseniks, hundreds of Americans did comply with the Red Scare, identifying colleagues...

31.10.2025 10

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

The Republicans’ Plan is in Plain Sight 

What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that makes commercial media ignore what’s lying in plain sight? With Congress at a standstill, the...

29.10.2025 30

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

Niemöller Was Wrong: When They Came for the Communists, People Didn’t Just Stay Silent

25.10.2025 4

Common Dreams

Laura Flanders

Why Can't the Corporate Media See the Trump-GOP Shutdown Plan Lying in Plain Sight?

18.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

Laura Flanders

Mahmoud Khalil and the Israelification of the US: Wake Up!

12.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

Laura Flanders

Mahmoud Khalil Warns That the US Is Failing the Palestine Test

09.10.2025 4

The Nation

Laura Flanders

“There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson

01.09.2025 3

The Nation

Laura Flanders

Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement

05.08.2025 3

The Nation

Laura Flanders

“They Targeted Me”: Mayor Ras Baraka Speaks About His Arrest And Wanting to Lead New Jersey

09.06.2025 30

The Nation

Laura Flanders

Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise Hell

06.02.2025 3

The Nation

Laura Flanders

Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise Hell

06.02.2025 3

The Nation

Laura Flanders

Claud Cockburn’s Legacy of Guerrilla Journalism

26.12.2024 6

The Nation

Laura Flanders

Why Black Voter Turnout Is Dropping in Wisconsin

09.09.2024 8

The Nation

Laura Flanders

What Is Political Violence?

16.08.2024 1

The Nation

Laura Flanders