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Recent ZNet
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Chomsky: How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
August 23, 2017
If we truly want to challenge racism, oppression, and inequality, we should turn our attention away from the few hundred marchers in Charlottesville and towards the real sources and enforcers of our unjust global order
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Cole: Trump Deepens Racial Divide Again
August 23, 2017
In a long, rambling speech full of falsehoods, Trump again equated immigrants with criminals and blamed them for joblessness among whites
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August 23, 2017
Donald Trump is threatening to withhold grants that fund local police if California passes legislation to become the first “sanctuary state”
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Huston: “Democracy is coming to the USA”
August 23, 2017
The real Leonard Cohen lyric we should be listening to
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Edwards: Afghans’ suffering has no end
August 23, 2017
The president’s decision to expand US military intervention condemns Afghanistan to escalating conflict, and its people to further misery and death
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August 23, 2017
Not highlighting the distributional aspects of our policy on intellectual property is an enormous failure of the media even using the real numbers
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Kronfeld: Americans, Criminals, and Thelma & Louise
August 23, 2017
Many Americans will pay no concern for the cruelty and suffering that our society’s criminals face; yet this same “tough on crime” culture frequently sympathizes with fictional criminals in film and television
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Singh: Solidarity’s No Heavy Lift
August 23, 2017
Last year personal trainers at Canada’s largest chain of gyms became the first fitness workers in North America to unionize, joining Workers United
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August 22, 2017
The GOP is at a critical juncture. It must decide whether it wants to become the official party of the white supremacists
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Rushe: Working six days a week and homeless
August 22, 2017
Fran Marion and Bridget Hughes are leading voices in Stand Up Kansas City, part of the Fight for $15 movement that aims raise the minimum wage across the US
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Falk: Evolving International Law
August 22, 2017
The politics of effective control often cruelly override moral and legal norms that stand in its way, and this is what has happened over the course of the last hundred years with no end in sight
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Cole: Trump flip-flops on Afghanistan
August 22, 2017
In his speech on Monday night, Trump was primarily attempting to manipulate American domestic politics
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Feffer: Trump and the Geopolitics of Crazy
August 22, 2017
The Times They Are A-Changin’ in North Korea
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Cook: Encounters With Dick Gregory
August 22, 2017
The late comedian, civil rights/anti-war activist, and nutritional guru Dick Gregory is remembered by Joan Rivers, Malcolm...
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Foner: White Nationalists & Neo-Confederates
August 22, 2017
Interview on how racism is part of the Trump family DNA
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Perry: Theodore W. Allen’s Work
August 22, 2017
On Centrality of Struggle Against White Supremacy Growing in Importance on 98th Anniversary of His Birth
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Parsi: Iran as a Regional Power
August 22, 2017
The Trump administration, leading Democrats and much of the foreign policy and military establishment believe the U.S. should be more aggressive towards Iran
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Oren: U.S. Generals Lead Unprecedented Revolt
August 22, 2017
Army brass knows that if every Back soldier quit in protest over Donald Trump’s comments, the U.S. military would collapse
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Grossman: Charlottesville and Thuringia
August 21, 2017
The sirens and shouted curses from Charlottesville resounded all too audibly even here in far-off...
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Finley: A Feminist Perspective on Trumpcare
Although the American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 is rife with problems, one of the most disturbing is its shocking gender bias. But why should we be shocked that the AHCA, or “Trumpcare,” privileges males, as it was crafted by a group of privileged males
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Dolack: Housing Is A Human Right
A basic problem of housing is that housing is a commodity instead of a human right. We’re not accustomed to seeing housing as a basic right for everybody, but why isn’t it?
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from U.S. Media Coverage
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified.
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The one barrier to the threat of destruction is an engaged public, an informed, engaged public acting together to develop means to confront the threat and respond to it. That’s been systematically weakened, consciously.
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The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam, especially the sect known as Wahhabism or Salafism, whose principal custodian and banker is the oil kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Britain’s biggest weapons customer.
Recent Audio/Videos
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Benjamin: Opposing war and militarism
August 12, 2017
Speaking about the urgent need for grassroots movements to oppose war and militarism in the U.S. and around the world
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Chomsky: Building Sustainable Economies
August 7, 2017
Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America
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August 5, 2017
Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Wilpert: Venezuelan Vote Count
August 4, 2017
The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes
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Pilger: The Coming War On China
August 2, 2017
Interview on a new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Caracas Chronicles and Madman Theory
August 23, 2017
The guy who wrote this blog post is a self-described...
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Emersberger: The UK Observer’s latest “news” article about Venezuela
August 22, 2017
RE: President Maduro strips Venezuela’s parliament of power Legislative powers...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Shaping Up
August 18, 2017
Green Time TV Shaping Up by Don Fitz September 2017...
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Emersberger: The Spectator’s Latest Effort to Use Venezuela to Attack Corbyn
August 11, 2017
Excerpts below from a Spectator editorial entitled “Jeremy Corbyn still...
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Wittner: Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
August 10, 2017
What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally...
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Practical Utopia
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