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Recent ZNet
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Chomsky: “The Task Ahead Is Enormous, and There Is Not Much Time”
Interview on climate change, US empire, antisemitism, Venezuela, and much more
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Prashad: Revolutions are the Human Race Grabbing for the Emergency Brake
The powerful not only control social wealth; they also control the public policy discussion — and what counts as intellectually correct
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Mark-Viverito: Nearly 100,000 in Puerto Rico Protest
Demand Gov. Rosselló Resign over Lewd Texts & Corruption
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Cruz-Díaz: Ruminations on a Puerto Rican Revolution
This revolt-in-progress is the end product of a simmering anger fed by five centuries of uninterrupted imperialism
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I know that this is really hard for Israelis to...
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Nazarett, Juliet Barbara: Demand to #CloseTheCamps Escalates With Actions Throughout the Summer
Immigrant justice, faith-based and civil rights organizations are continuing to...
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Skibell: Ethiopian-Israelis Protest Police Violence in a Divided Israel
The fatal police shooting of an unarmed Ethiopian-Israeli, 18-year-old Solomon Tekah, on June 30th in the northern city of Haifa sparked a wave of demonstrations across Israel
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Hodes: Critics of Campus Activists Don’t Care About Free Speech
They complain when students protest hateful speakers, but not when shadowy conservative groups and politicians write laws to punish our speech
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Chomsky: “Worship of Markets” Is Threatening Human Civilization
The suicidal impulses of the fossil fuel industry have been strongly supported by Republican administrations, by now, under Trump, leaving the U.S. in splendid isolation internationally
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Feffer: Trump’s Send-Them-Back Doctrine
Trump’s war on immigrants recalls the absurdity of Stalin’s purges — and a few of his supporters, at least, are starting to notice
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Cohen: A California Bill Could Transform the Lives of Gig Workers
Silicon Valley Wants Labor’s Help To Stop It
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Benjamin: What’s Really Happening in Iran
This is a crisis manufactured by Donald Trump and his team
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Baker: The Coal Industry Is Not a Major Employer
While it is often traumatic for workers to lose jobs, especially long-held jobs, it is important to realize that relatively few jobs are at stake in the coal mining industry
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Solis: Amazon Workers Demand Fair Pay & Conditions
While online shoppers around the world flocked to Amazon’s mega-sale “Prime Day” this week, the retail giant faced growing outrage from protesters, workers and lawmakers
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Falk: Required Reading: Noura Erakat on Palestine and Law
A review of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat
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Solnit: In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream
In so many cases rapists have help in the moment and forever after, and the help is often so powerful, broad, and deep—well, that’s why we call it rape culture
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Farmworkers recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind
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Davidson: A Left Strategy for the 2020 Elections and Beyond
Election campaigns are not a sideshow. We use them to make our local base communities stronger, more connected and more aware
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Facundo: A Bus Tour Pushes For Higher Taxes
Tax cuts have funneled wealth upwards to the richest for decades. Activists have convened a nationwide bus tour to prove how unpopular those tax policies have been
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Miller: Amazon Warehouse Worker: Why I’m Taking Action
My experience working at the Amazon warehouse called Delivery Station DCH1 has been one of utter disrespect and complete disregard for our health and human dignity
JUNE ZMag
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Cook: Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
In the combined success-failure of the Mueller inquiry, the left has an opportunity to understand in a much more sophisticated way how real power works and in whose favor it is exercised
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Kelly: “Every War Is a War Against Children”
Atrocities of war accumulate, horrifically. We in the United States have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war
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Fuentes: Who are Venezuela’s Colectivos?
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Solomon: The Toxic Lure of “Guns and Butter”
The current political brawl over next year’s budget is highly significant
Recent Audio/Videos
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Roos: Global finance and the potential for social resistance
Talking about the world’s financial state and the potential for building social power to contest the financial powers that be
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Hoxie: Ten Years Without A Raise
Longest Period Without Fed Minimum Wage Increase Since Law Enacted in 1938
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Flanders: Aging Isn’t a Problem, Ageism Is
Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selves
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Petersen-Smith: Trump Oversees Death and Destruction in Syria, Afghanistan, and More
Amnesty International released a major report about US-led massacres of more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, Syria from June to October of 2017
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Interview on Bernie Sanders and the 2020 election to the challenges posed by Big Tech
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Sanders: Town Hall with Bernie Sanders, Part 2
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders discusses immigration, national security, Mueller's report, and more during his town hall
Recent Blogs
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The text was sent to the European Parliament, where I...
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Wittner: Billionaires and American Politics
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly...
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Santamaria: Dementia and changes.
I conclude, by means of interacting with pilgrims here, in...
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New York TImes, Meridith Kohut and Isayen Herrera, December 17,...
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Wittner: Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?
As U.S. college students―and their families―know all too well, the...
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