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I recently read "A Bed of Red Roses" by Nelofer Pazira, an Afghan journalist and filmmaker. It is a powerful…
For every daft working- or middle-class Trump supporter who thinks he's looking after their interests, there's also a daft working-…
Right, a progressive agenda isn't guaranteed. What IS guaranteed is a non-progressive agenda. Because a) it's the Democratic Party and…
I buy them all, but I am skeptical behind the motivation for selling them. Are they just ... apples, to…
An additional point on this. I remember a large anti-austerity meeting in London at which, after a talk or two,…
I have been interested in and followed events in Venezuela for some time. I think that the leadership of Hugo…
There has always been great diversity in the US that is not reflected in the leadership class, which usually has…
As always, Medea Benjamin and Code Pink teach in succinct detail what we must dedicate our very lives to struggle…
"George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist." says it all. Guardian is now only slightly less pro-capitalist and pro-status quo than…
Two movies related to this topic to watch on a cold evening: InterReflections by Peter Joseph https://youtu.be/1LJB4b-thP4 Planet of the…
Absolutely. You would think these would be 'no-brainer' first priority items on anyone's to-do list. My guess though, nothing, not…
It could be said that now it's Bidenism we should be fighting. The signs already are not good.
The " facts " speak for themselves. Read Professor Phylis Bennis 2007 Primer - Understanding the Palestinian - Israeli Conflict.…
I feel like if you're gonna make claims about the reason polls were off in Florida you probably need to…
Moreover, Beatles songs were playing in my room at the time when I received the mail. Stacked coincidences?
2013, by the way, was the year when I was doing post-doc in QE, i.e., Quality Estimation for machine translation…
Well, that leads to the first argument. I am trying to improve the article. Still, thanks for pointing out, so…
Well, actually, the article I received was this: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-fed-man-song-to-the-music-of-beatles-the-taxman/ Which also directly mentions QE (without elaboration). We are symbolic creatures,…
I received this article today in my mailbox and was puzzled by what QE means. The thing is, it was…
Paul Street isn't a scholar, he's a polemicist, and a lunatic one at that. DiMaggio's granular survey analyses are obtuse,…
The interview seems to assume that Trump voters were working class. While working class voters were undoubtedly a part of…
I've been away from here too long, obviously. And now I don't know what to say. I can only thank…
Totally agree with Vincent and Max. Too bad Veteran's Day couldn't be changed to Smedley Butler Day. or at minimum…
Thanks for posting ZNET. In May 2013 I purchased a," reprinting " of the 1935 book," War is a Racket"…
Excellent interview. While I am not Puerto Rican, I have lived for a number of years in Latin America and…
The 2014 "bi-partisan" Farm Bill turned out like we feared. Passed under the banner of "risk management, in hindsight it…
'3. Intelligence: Anything and everything that the full variety of human beings are capable of, both individually and collectively, as…
We look back to progressive politicians - McGovern, Robert Kennedy, Gough Whitlam in Australia - who were all destroyed one…
The trouble is, the polls that show so much support for Bernie and Elizabeth and the progressive agenda are ...…
I came to know Robert Fisk while living in Latin America and for weeks daily carried his 1600-page Spanish edition…
The success or failure of AOC says something, perhaps a lot about the Democratic Party leadership, which like the Republicans…
The issue of dominance-seeking and wealth disparity are key to understanding the US, its history and culture. This is never…
Mat Grind's sober comments below are very much worth pondering. And Mike's original article needs to be remembered.
I believe from a lifetime's observations and experience that the current situation is every bit as dark as Noam describes.…
" amicable way back for Corbyn" ? I don't believe he has a choice. The facts speak for themselves. Zionism…
I don't see how competitive moralization is a good thing, especially if it encourages taking sides in a nationalist war…
After every election, pundits come out and point out how they predicted things (and not mentioning the predictions they got…
I Lost 39 Members of My Family in the Holocaust, Jeremy Corbyn is No Antisemite | Andrew Feinstein October 29th…
Thank you! Best article yet making the case for a vote for Biden, with the DATA supporting his case.
Bill Blum's books have been an important part of my self-education, and fortunately in the later years of his life…
Excellent article.Let us hope Biden will at least begin to briing the US into some sort of more cooperative and…
"Sure, some countries have successfully managed the crisis." The author gives 6 examples, and then: "It's not too late for…
Fluctuations during the first 35% of the country's history are not fluctuations "thoughout the country's history".
No we wouldn't be in that progressive world as "lesser evil voters", or progressives or leftists over the last 25…
Agree, however Green voters are not thinking of the world a week from now. They are thinking of 8 years…
Sounds reasonable, but history has proven that absolutely nothing will change if you vote this way. The only way change…
choices, choices. Let's see, a) a right wing nutbar with delusions of grandeur, where you never know what's coming next…