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The far-right mob that took over the Capitol never would have gotten past the front door if the federal police hadn’t allowed them to storm in. The simple fact is that left-wing protesters get treated with brutality, while right-wing protesters get coddled

Whatever form your purposeful action eventually takes, if it is grounded in relationships that sustain you, it will keep you on your feet for the many struggles still ahead

I think that people can be better than that, and I know that people can be better than they are.  We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is a reality and arrive where reality is

Republican state lawmakers from across the country traveled to D.C. on Wednesday. At least one joined the siege of the U.S. Capitol Building

What struggle is harder than The keeping up of hope

So we can reasonably ask, who thought, however wrongly, that there was benefit to be had by permitting Trumpian thugs access up the steps and into the Capital?

Today, I add January 6, 2021, to the long hall of bleak murals that have decorated my passage through this lethally erratic thing called the future. We were supposed to have flying cars by now. Instead, we have this

All those Times you didn’t Resign or Even criticize his Monstrous Deeds

The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come

The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

Washington has wanted Assange permanently silenced and made an example of – by demonstrating to other journalists its terrifying reach and powers of retaliation

Wednesday’s events were the expression of a dangerous authoritarian movement that has been long in the making

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?

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

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

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

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

Demining America After The Donald

Interview on domestic policy, economics, and international policy

“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.”

“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.”