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Recent ZNet
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Devereaux: Why Exxon Mobil Is Being Taken to Court Over Climate Change
“We’re at the very beginning of what will be a long, official reckoning for one of the really astonishing crimes of our time.”
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Grossman: The Wall and General Pyrrhus
Media jubilation reaches a climax on November 9th, thirty years...
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Warren: Environmental Justice, Pipelines, Capitalism & Billionaires
Highlights of Warren speaking about the climate crisis, public health, shutting down pipelines, capitalism, the order of primary states and more.
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Marin: Venezuela Teachers’ Strike
‘Those of Us Who Continue to Teach Do So Out of Love’
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Tanaka: Response to Pete Dolack Articles on WBAI and Pacifica
The real danger to Pacifica is not a ‘corporate coup’. The real danger is a financial failure which is what the current governance structure has brought about
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Weisbrot: “This Is a Military Coup”
Bolivian President Evo Morales Resigns After Army Calls for His Ouster
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Protesting outside OAS
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Cook: Israel is silencing the last voices trying to stop abuses against Palestinians
It has been a week of appalling abuses committed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank – little different from the other 2,670 weeks endured by Palestinians since the occupation began in 1967
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Engler: Canada backs coup against Bolivia’s president
Once again our government has prioritized the interests of Canadian corporations over the interest of indigenous people. Shame on Trudeau for supporting the ouster of Evo Morales
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Can Socialism Be Restored?
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Barber: The Failure of Higher Education: A Tale of Two Diplomas
For the majority of students in the United States, black students in particular, education has never meant anything more than a training to stay in one’s place
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Cole: “Catastrophic” Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia
While Australia’s population of about 25 million is small and therefore its proportional contribution to global heating is also small, the country is especially vulnerable to the effects of burning fossil fuels
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Non Disponsibles: For the Gilets Jaunes, there won’t be an “after”
The Gilets Jaunes are not just another strike or protest movement. They are in perpetual movement. There isn’t an “after.” Because there isn’t an end.
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Zhou: New York City Adopts Ranked-Choice Voting
The biggest city in the US is joining a voting reform movement
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Given the nature of neoliberal recessions, the U.S. is but one recession away from wholesale economic and political rebellion. And that recession is on the way. The value of left analysis is that it opens the range of political possibilities
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Jorden: Evo Steps Down, New Government Orders Arrest, Mexico Offers Asylum
As a result of widespread rioting and international accusations of election fraud, Bolivian President Evo Morales has stepped down from assuming a fourth term at the head of his country “to keep the peace”
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Oreskes: The Greatest Scam in History
How the Energy Companies Took Us All
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Albert: RevolutionZ / Next American Revolution Update
The following is a transcription of a very recent session...
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Solomon: Biden and Bloomberg Want Uncle Sam to Defer to Uncle Scrooge
The grassroots strengths of the Warren and Sanders campaigns have jolted some key oligarchs into overt action
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Weisbrot: The Trump Administration Is Undercutting Democracy in Bolivia
Will the US and the Organization of American States once again be able to overturn election results?
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Laven: Serve with honor, honor those who serve; or support Trump?
Veterans have not fought to remove dictators in other countries to see a President ignoring checks and balances while insisting that he is above the law in their home country
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Karakatsanis: Criminal Justice System Is Doing What It Was Designed to Do.
Alec Karakatsanis’s “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System” clearly lays out a case for why our criminal legal system is not broken, but doing exactly what it was designed to do
OCTOBER ZMag
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Cohn: Amazon Fires Will Have Global Consequences. The UN Must Act
We must act internationally to save the precious Amazon rainforest
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Baroud: Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-U.S. border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past
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Solomon: The Primary Contradiction: Corporate Power vs. Progressive Populism
For plutocrats, this summer has gotten a bit scary. Two feared candidates are rising. Trusted candidates are underperforming
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de Sousa Santos: Seeing Horizons in the Clotheslines
We are at this juncture where the small, detailed horizon of hanging our clothes to dry needs to be articulated with the broader horizon of the social, economic, political, and cultural meteorology of our time
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Wittner: Trump has Blocked Wage Gains for American Workers
Although the pundits say the U.S. economy is booming―and it certainly is for the country’s billionaires―it’s not doing much for the incomes of American workers
Recent Audio/Videos
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A working class hero is something to be
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Pilger: Julian Assange’s Extradition Case is a Show Trial
Interview on the lack of mainstream media coverage of Julian’s persecution, his health and conditions in Belmarsh prison, CIA spying on Julian Assange and more
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Sanders: Talking Politics and 2020
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Politics and 2020 with The Intercept’s Ryan Grim
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Varoufakis: Brexit & Jeremy Corbyn
The coming UK general election and his plan for the global economy
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Note to Shami Chakrabarti about the John McDonnell – Alastair Campbell interview
Hi Shami, John McDonnell was recently interviewed by Alastair Campbell.for...
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Wittner: The Widening Gap Between the Super-Rich and Other Americans
Despite the upbeat words from America’s billionaire president about the...
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Wittner: Why Are Americans So Confused About the Meaning of “Democratic Socialism”?
The meaning of democratic socialism―a mixture of political and economic...
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Wittner: The Two Internationalisms
In recent years, internationalism―cooperation among nations for promotion of the...
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Markland: Burt Neuborne, holocaust huckster
Z Net recently ran a valuable review of Burt Neuborne’s...
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