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• Nelson: “Solidarity Is a Force Stronger Than Gravity”

  A speech on the labor movement's power to defeat bigotry, the proud legacy of democratic socialists, and why solidarity is the "greatest force for good in human history
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  Early: A GI Rebellion: When Soldiers Said No to War

  While student demonstrators and draft resisters drew more mass media attention at the time, many military draftees, reservists and recently returned veterans also protested the Vietnam war—with equal fervor and often greater impact
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  de Sousa Santos: Portugal as a strategic target of the far right

  The main goal is to destroy the European Union and send Europe back to being a continent of rival states, where nationalisms will be free to flourish and social and racial exclusion will lend themselves more easily to political manipulation
• Newkirk II: The Great Land Robbery

  How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres
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  Engelhardt: 2084

  Orwell Revisited in the Age of Trump
• Oliver: Meet the Parkland father keeping his son’s message alive through art

  Since the murder of his son Joaquin in the Parkland shooting, Manuel Oliver has been tackling the gun violence epidemic through “nonviolent creative confrontation.”
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  Falk: Banning U.S. Congresspersons from Israel

  I believe that by singling these two members of Congress, who happen to be the first two Muslim women ever elected to the House of Representatives, in the manner of Trump’s tweet is a clear instance of racism and hate speec
• Austin Jr: Attorney General Barr’s license to kill

  Barr’s call for absolute compliance with unjust police commands can basically be read as a license to kill
• Rojas: Rebuilding the Hegemony of Chavismo

  An intellectual committed to the communal project talks about the contradictions that the popular movement is facing in Venezuela today
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  Cole: America as a Company Town

  Royal Dutch Shell Workers in Pennsylvania Coerced to Show up for Trump
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  Cohn: Candidates Must Commit to Immediate US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

  Of the Democratic presidential candidates, only Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Buttigieg have committed to withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan during their first year in office
• Alexander: ‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants

  The high profile, religiously based moral outrage at Trump’s immigration policies does seem to be spurring some long-overdue rethinking of what it means to be Christian in America
• Mier: Media Blackout on Brazil’s Anti-Bolsonaro Protests

  Why are New York Times and Guardian downplaying resistance to Brazil’s far-right president?
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  Street: Uncle Sam was Born Lethal

  Fascism won’t come to America. It will emerge out of American history
• Rosenfeld: 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies

  Burt Neuborne, one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs
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  Cole: Offshore Wind a “New Industrial Revolution”

  The costs of wind, both onshore and offshore, are falling rapidly
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  Gupta: Riotlandia

  Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence
• Moore: Seattle and the Socialist Surge in the U.S.

  A victory in Seattle, re-electing Sawant, will be a victory for workers and socialists everywhere
• Essertier: Japanese and Koreans Stand Up

  Japanese and Koreans Stand Up for Freedom of Expression, Peace, Memorialization of the ‘Comfort Woman’ Atrocity, and Women’s Rights in Nagoya, Japan
• Draitser: “Bernie is Trump” (and other Corporate Media Bullsh*t)

  A dead-end street with a lemonade stand Where is the...
• Mackey: Appeasing Trump

  Netanyahu Blocks Tlaib and Omar Visit to Israeli-Occupied Palestine
• Young: Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans

  Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive
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  Raina: Tenderness

  Are you a tender human being? Do you resonate To...
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  Skandier: Time has come to nationalize the US fossil fuel industry

  As we gear up for a war-type of mobilization to mitigate the climate crisis, a federal takeover of the oil, gas and coal industry should be on the table