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Recent ZNet
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Bacon: A New Farm Worker Union Is Born
June 28, 2017
Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest
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Peltier: The Struggle is Never for Nothing
June 28, 2017
Well, here we are, another year, another memorial. After 42-years this does not get any...
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Cook: Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried
June 28, 2017
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the...
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June 28, 2017
We end the show today in Jackson, Mississippi, where just one week from today social...
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Bryce: The Speaker and the Ironworker
June 28, 2017
I know, being a working person myself, what my values are and my values include looking out for each other, helping each other, and holding the ladder for people to get up to the top and not kicking it off once you get to the top yourself
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Blumenthal: Another Strike in Syria?
June 28, 2017
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have...
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June 28, 2017
I’m amazed at how little people in Britain know about the DUP
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June 28, 2017
By demanding the end of Al Jazeera, Saudi Arabia is trying to turn Qatar into a vassal state
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Roy: The Rising Hindu Right in India
June 27, 2017
Interview on the rise of Hindu nationalism and the pressures she experienced as the "face of the new India," which came at a time when the Hindu nationalist BJP party came to power
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Coleridge: Democracy Convention
June 27, 2017
The Next Step toward Creating a Diverse Democracy Movement
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June 27, 2017
All the police have to do is utter those five magic words—”I feared for my life”—and most likely they’re going to be acquitted
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Lamont Hill: Neoliberalism’s “Nobodies”
June 27, 2017
"The Vulnerable Have Entered a More Precarious State Than Ever"
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Cook: No longer fooling young American Jews
June 27, 2017
American Jewry is becoming polarised, between an older generation whose ignorance allows them to advocate unthinkingly for Israel and a young generation whose greater knowledge has brought with it a sense of responsibility
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June 27, 2017
When the choleric man was brought to hospital, His haemoglobin was somewhat under five; The...
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World Desk: The World Is Burning
June 27, 2017
Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to...
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Rosenberg: Mainstream media does Pharma’s bidding
June 27, 2017
Taxpayers are stuck paying for the opioid crisis created by Big Pharma to make more...
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Turse: A Wide World of Winless War
June 26, 2017
Globe-Trotting U.S. Special Ops Forces Already Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017
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Giroux: Manufactured illiteracy and miseducation
June 26, 2017
A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There's hope
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June ZMag
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Chomsky: Undermining Our Survival: Daniel Falcone Interviews Noam Chomsky
Right now, the United States is supporting Saudi Arabian military attacks and a famine policy—a starvation policy—overt policy of starvation in Yemen that is going to kill tens of thousands of people; it already is, in fact.
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Bergstein: Trump And The Courts
As a candidate, Trump displayed a shocking misunderstanding of settled constitutional values. On one occasion, he suggested that flag burners go to jail and lose their citizenship. He has also repeatedly threatened to change the libel laws to make it easier to sue the media over perceived falsehoods
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Ever since he rode a Trump Tower escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and swore to build his “great wall” and stop Mexican “rapists” from entering the country, undocumented immigrants have been the focus of Donald Trump’s ire. Now that he’s in the Oval Office, the news has been grim. A drumbeat of frightening headlines and panicked social media posts have highlighted his incendiary language, his plans and executive orders
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Solomon: Killer Drones in the Empire State
From January 2012 to February 2013, those drone attacks in northeast Afghanistan killed more than 200 people, but only about one-sixth of them were the intended targets
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No, you can’t really make this stuff up: orthodox economists continue to tell us that the reason for ongoing economic stagnation is that wages and unemployment benefits are too high. Yes, that’s right. You haven’t suffered enough
Recent Audio/Videos
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June 28, 2017
Interview on the recent failed prosecutions of the officers who killed Samuel DuBose, Sylville Smith and Philando Castile
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Fletcher: The Future of the Labour Movement
June 26, 2017
Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of the Labour Movement
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& The Void Pacific Choir: In This Cold Place
June 21, 2017
Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - In This Cold Place Official video by Steve Cutts
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Sanders: On Republican Health Care
June 21, 2017
Sen. Bernie Sanders delivers a speech on the Senate floor regarding Republicans' health care plan.
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: The Fight for Health in California
June 21, 2017
A look at how the California Senate passed the "Healthy California" plan and the coming battle to make it into law
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Sandberg: Learning from Corbyn
June 16, 2017
Former Sanders Campaign Digital Organizing Director Claire Sandberg speaks to the Real News after spending...
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
June 13, 2017
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
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Lenchner: Is a National Progressive Broad Front Possible?
June 13, 2017
Discussing the Peoples Summit and what comes next
Recent Blogs
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Auer: On Fighting The Toxic President
June 23, 2017
Five principles for fighting the toxic President Rolf Auer, Tuesday...
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June 16, 2017
I recently published a new book titled Practical Utopia with...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Responsibility and Food
June 15, 2017
Green Time TV Responsibility and Food by Don Fitz Showing...
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Wittner: National Illusions and Global Realities
June 11, 2017
For as long as they have existed, nations have clung...
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June 10, 2017
One could on and on about the many ways this article...
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Practical Utopia
Michael Albert's new book from PM Press is available at PM and via Amazon. Part one offers tools for understanding society and history, the nature of the oppressions people suffer and the potentials they harbor. Part two promotes a vision for a better way of organizing economy, polity, kinship, culture, ecology, and international relations. Part three investigates the means of seeking change using a variety of tactics and programs.
Being Left
Vincent Emanuele interviews Michael Albert Activism and vision
Spanish activist David Marty interviews Albert on : Being Left
Belgian activist Paulo Rodriquez interviews Albert on: Thoughts and Deeds
Parecon / Parsoc
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Polychroniou: What Is ParEcon?
Albert: Intro to ParEcon
Albert: Parecon's History
Albert: Addressing Criticisms
Albert: Interrogating Parecon
Sargent: Post Sexist Society
Podur: Life After Racism
Peters: Kinship Vision
Shalom: Visionary Pol
Shalom: Future Pol
Albert: Parecon & Parsoc
Albert: 7 Reasons for Parecon