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Workers in South Africa and the Philippines were able to accomplish the unimaginable under circumstances far worse than the ones we encounter in the U.S. For me, this is a source of great inspiration

By allowing the statewide eviction ban to expire, Gov. Whitmer has indicated she wants to slowly strip away the minimal eviction protections that exist while both the pandemic and economic depression intensify

Starting on January 16, the bulletin says, these groups will be armed and are planning to “storm” government buildings in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

“We can’t have a democracy if too many members of our police and our military are acting to overturn it and undermine it.”

The Pentagon has done little to address the growing threat

the rising cost of graduate education, often in the form of exorbitant fees, reflects and exacerbates structural violence

When Will America Free Itself From War?

The legal evidence is damning: Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for “seditious conspiracy” and “inciting insurrection” for his role in stoking the events of January 6,

These moves threaten to widen the tribal divide between the Democratic and Republican parties into a chasm, and open up a damaging rift among liberals and the left on the limits of political speech

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, whose work focuses on fascism, authoritarian leaders and propaganda, says the storming of the Capitol was “a logical result” of Trump’s legitimization and encouragement of right-wing extremism since 2016

It is worth reminding that Trump was effectively made by these technology firms who gave him the mass divisive audience he craved

Neo-Nazis and Boogaloo Bois plan another Insurrection Jan. 20

To understand the real reason for the ever-increasing death toll, look no further than the American way of leaving citizens to fend for themselves in the service of capitalism

Over 10,000 CTU members have pledged their opposition to the reopening plan put forward by the mayor and Chicago Public Schools (CPS), citing serious concerns over safety and transparency

Right now, more than 40% of the state’s income relies on the boom-and-bust fortunes of oil and gas. Now, according to a trio of New Mexico’s leading economists, the time has come to change course

A South African tip led to the discovery of mutations around the world. With infections skyrocketing, “it’s a race against time.”

The revolution is bigger than any of us. So we must go on, in spite of ourselves, to a better tomorrow

The United States government will never live down the ignominy of failing to remove Donald J. Trump through readily available legal and parliamentary means

We are at a turning point. Despite Trump’s defeat, internationally the forces of the right promote rampant free-market economics, racism and militarism to protect a failed status quo. This year we need to promote the alternative

This is one of the most worrying aspect of the case – the willingness of the media to stand to one side during one of the greatest attacks on press freedom in modern history

As Florida sets new records for daily coronavirus cases, we speak with a whistleblower who was fired in May from the Florida Department of Health after she refused to censor information

COVID-19 and climate change are two sides of the same coin. To overcome both we must confront their root cause: an economic system that is killing the planet

The US is as vulnerable to authoritarian adventures as any other country

“The old way of thinking is what brought us Donald Trump.”

Or Let the Markets Go Wild While the People Go Down

It is not that Trump himself urged or planned the breach of the Capitol or the infliction of harm on the legislators, it is that he was attempting to create an unnamed chaos, which he viewed as advantageous to his efforts to remain in office

No group of white anarchists has ever tried to do what they did. If we did, we’d be shot

Published warnings about Trump’s interest in insurrection were largely unheeded by the mass media and even by the independent progressive media

Such violence has a long history in the U.S. and has been normalized under the aegis of Trumpism as a right-wing populist movement

This shows that what Trump was doing was more than just incitement. He was using the mob and the storming of the Capitol for a targeted purpose

Republican leaders stoke same conspiracies while others brag of involvement

Deplatforming Trump is only the beginning of a megalomaniacal crusade against all those who would question a government by the algorithms, of the algorithms, and for the algorithms

This attack on the Capitol was an Inside Job in which some Republican members of Congress and their staffs assisted the mob in getting into and through the Capitol building.

Rather than relying on the state and social media platforms to take on Trump and his supporters, anti-fascists need to build their own strength to do so

Freed from Trump’s electronic fatwas, moreover, some of the younger Republican senators may prove to be much more formidable competitors for the white college-educated suburban vote than centrist Democrats realize

A lot of extremely rich people seem to be against the idea of giving money to the rest of us

Significant blows have been dealt to the Trump terrorist network in the past two days, but the vast well of support it has built up among less violent supporters, and among media enablers like Fox, Breitbart and Newsmax, will make it very difficult to root out

The ForeverTrumpers are challenging the Constitution. They should be penalized for their efforts

The force and power of far-right media must not be underestimated; after all, it played a seismic role in paving the way for Trump’s presidency

“What has shaken the U.S. population so badly, this assault on the Capitol yesterday, is really nothing by comparison to what U.S. operations have done in Latin America, in Asia, in Africa, in the Middle East, to other democratic movements and elected governments over the years”

Progressives face a serious challenge: push their agenda too hard and give fodder to the Trumpites; refrain from pushing hard and wind up with weak reforms or nothing at all

Conspiracy theories aren’t the preserve of a minority – they lie at the heart of US politics

Did Trump really think the “wild protest” he called for three weeks ago would succeed in stopping the ascendancy of Joe Biden? Perhaps. The line between fantasy and reality is weak in his delusional mind

It is finally possible that energy geopolitics will also exert an influence over how relations with Iran evolve

The fate of the planet depends on whether we can put in place just transition policies for workers and communities that will be negatively impacted by the decline and shuttering of the fossil fuel industry

Despite billions spent on intelligence and surveillance, U.S. law enforcement permitted an armed Trumpist mob to sack the Capitol

The street thugs following Trump have now shown their willingness to spring into action. Are the rest of us willing to step up and out-organize them?

We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up

This violence was fomented in the open, and not for the first time. Right-wing activists have made a habit of organizing in the open and galvanizing supporters to express their desire for violent confrontation

The answer to Charlottesville, to ever-intensifying racism, to the accelerating climate crisis, and to Donald Trump himself is first, to resist, and then to get serious about changing the system that has created them, from the bottom up and in a radically decentralized way