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Across the country, protesters have rallied outside, as well as inside, state capitol buildings over Trump’s false claims of voter fraud

I no longer call myself a Zionist. I don’t know what it means to be a Zionist anymore. Is building settlements in the West Bank Zionism? Is building more homes in settlements a Zionist response to Palestinian violence?

What is next for the English Left after Corbyn-led Labour’s crushing electoral defeat in last year’s election?

An interview on participatory economics

Tenant activists, have not been conned, but have entered a new stage of the struggle

Belgium has suffered the world’s worst rate of coronavirus deaths

Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck

While the Biden plan is not as comprehensive as that proposed in the Democratic primaries by Jay Inslee or as radical as Bernie Sanders’ plan, it has the potential to make very substantial reductions in GHG emissions while creating substantial numbers of climate jobs

According to a recent United Nations report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human activities

Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock.com India’s farmers are revolting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in a mass movement that has drawn international attention. The world’s largest democracy is witnessing a collective groundswell of protest as hundreds of thousands of farmers, largely from the states of Punjab and Haryana, have laid siege to the outskirts of the Read more…

We must push our politics beyond the cul-de-sac of so-called political realism

Photo by grandbrothers/Shutterstock.com Bernie Sanders is not in a good political position right now. Yes, he continues to speak vital truths to—and about—power. His ability to reach a national audience with progressive wisdom and specific proposals is unmatched. And, during the last several decades, no one has done more to move the nation’s discourse leftward. Read more…

The good news is that new polls show growing support for vaccination amidst an unfathomable rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths

So, on the basis of my experience on Nazis and on assorted dictators, my guesstimate as to the number of Nazis and crypto-Nazis in any given population is: around 30 %

More than 12,000 Americans had died from coronavirus by April 7, but once we knew that most of the non-elderly victims were Black, things were suddenly very, very different. Now it was time to quit talking about people dying and start talking about getting people back to work

Members of Congress are calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, or for Trump to be impeached again

Structural reforms will be needed just to make the country into enough of a democracy so that we can actually vote for governments that might treat some of the pathologies that have been cultivated over the past few decades

With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say Party Has Mandate to Go Big

“You have a union when you say you have a union.”

People in advanced nations assume that their governments do not torture prisoners, but it is practized by the US, and was used by Britain in its colonies and in Northern Ireland

But the Balance of Power in Europe has Tipped Permanently Against It

The situation in Chicago continues to develop. CTU has notified members about the potential for a protest action on Jan. 8

198,000 Georgia Residents Were Illegally Purged from Voter Rolls

For U.S. presidents, the torture and killing of civilians is forgivable but mafia-style accounting and hush money payments are not

In a stunning decision, British judge Vanessa Baraitser denied Donald Trump’s request for extradition of Assange to the United States, ruling that he was at high risk of suicide if he were extradited because the U.S. prison system could not protect him

What that means to American History

Global problems of this scale require global cooperation

The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues

While the apex court on January 6 will take up pleas for anti-conversion laws, two views of citizen’s rights will be in direct contention – one propagated by the right-wing and the other enshrined in the constitution

Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual

As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution

For there to be true peace we need an end to secrecy, to toxic security culture, to violence.  Come out of the shadows and let’s speak face to face, as humans do

Let us hope it does not take 30 years, and immense additional suffering, for the sovereign American people to recognize that it is time to achieve a higher form of democracy that will finally fulfill the promise of a more perfect union

Blackstone was a big winner of the last crisis. Now, it hopes to repeat the feat, albeit using a somewhat different playbook

Hallel Rabin, who was jailed for a total of 56 days for refusing to serve in the Israeli military service, faced severe backlash, including accusations of “treason” and death threats on social media

The cost: The crushing of press freedom, and the labelling of dissent as mental illness

A look at the conscientious objectors of law enforcement

The Debt Collective operates as a debtors’ union that provides useful tools for debtors to dispute any debt in collections, errors in a credit report, wages or a tax return being taken, and tools to defend against repayment for federal student loans

Historical human rights abuses are not explained well in most school textbooks or by the mainstream media

Allowing wealth to accumulate from one generation to another is a recipe for unacceptable inequalities. We should abolish inherited wealth

U.K. Blocks WikiLeaks Founder Assange Extradition to U.S. on Espionage Charges

Demining America After The Donald

“If your anger is getting out of control, your work life is perfect, but marriage is a mess, or you think of harming yourself, deal with it now, so you don’t end up as the next cop making headlines.”

Interview on domestic policy, economics, and international policy

“It may be the case that his most erratic, most reckless lashing out is yet to come.”

“We must hold him fully accountable, even after he leaves office. There must be justice.”

What’s imperative for progressives is not to “speak truth to power” but to speak truth about power — and to drastically change an economic system that provides humongous wealth to a very few and worsening misery to the countless many

America’s Continuing Crisis of Democracy

What the elite from both ruling parties want is division

He needs to act with the same urgency that inspired FDR to create the Office of War Mobilization during World War II