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Recent ZNet
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Bello: How Middle-Class Chileans Contributed to the Overthrow of Salvador Allende
September 24, 2016
American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another
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Gupta: The Left Underestimates the Danger of Trump
September 24, 2016
In reality, all the recent organizing gains will whither as the left is forced to wage losing defensive struggles against violent white nationalists
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Weisbrot: Is Human Rights Watch Too Closely Aligned With U.S. Foreign Policy?
September 24, 2016
It is vitally important that human-rights organizations stick to their avowed principles and defend human rights without regard to the objectives of US foreign policy
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Barber: Release Video of Keith Scott Shooting, It Belongs to the Public
September 24, 2016
Understand, the public owns these videos. This is taxpayer money. It is wrong-headed. It is not the kind of openness that we need
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Queally: As Tribes Fight Pipeline, Internal AFL-CIO Letter Exposes ‘Very Real Split’
September 24, 2016
Leaked letter circulated within nation's largest labor federation illustrates troubling disconnect when what working people deserve and what climate science compels are actually the same thing
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September 24, 2016
It is time that we organize a passionate, committed, economic boycott. It must be painful. It must be unified
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Zirin: A symbol that spread through the sports world
September 24, 2016
Interview about the tide of protest that has rolled over football at all levels and far beyond since Kaepernick's action
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Hamilton: Why I am on the Women’s Boat to Gaza
September 24, 2016
In twenty-four hours, I will join the women on the third leg of the trip to Messina, Sicily, and from there the Zaytouna-Oliva will proceed to its final destination: Gaza
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Cole: Number of US Troops in Iraq Heading toward 6,000
September 24, 2016
The US plans to send another 500 troops to Iraq to help with the massive...
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Dolack: Global warming will accelerate as oceans reach limits of remediation
September 24, 2016
If we are to be serious about reversing global warming, we have to create an economic system based on human need that is stable as a steady-state system and under democratic control, rather than our present authoritarian system
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Singh: Farmworkers Taste the Fruits of Victory
September 24, 2016
After three years of tireless organizing, 500 farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington state have finally won union recognition
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Kaufman: Elizabeth Warren Seems To Be Staking Out Her Place In A Clinton Presidency
September 24, 2016
Earlier this summer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) became the spear tip of Hillary Clinton’s campaign,...
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Lunstrum: Militarizing game parks and marketing wildlife are unsustainable strategies
September 23, 2016
CITES comes to South Africa
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Emanuele: The Riots Will Continue
September 23, 2016
The issues of policing, systemic racism, systemic economic inequality and political corruption will only become more prominent as existing institutions become increasingly militarized and violent
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Lazare: Charlotte Cops Dig In, Won’t Release Video; Opposition to Police Terror Builds
September 23, 2016
"One of the major problems with reporting on police violence is the degree to which police statements are treated as the gold standard of information instead of being treated with the skepticism they deserve"
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Grossman: An Omen for the 2017 German Federal Elections?
September 23, 2016
Last Saturday, one day before the Berlin vote, there were demonstrations against CETA and TTIP in seven major cities, supported by many organizations on the left
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Naureckas: Dakota Access Blackout Continues on ABC, NBC News
September 23, 2016
Rock legend Neil Young released a song called “Indian Givers” in support of the Dakota Access mobilization. The chorus of the song repeats, “I wish somebody would share the news.”
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Zirin: Bigots Beware: White Athletes Are Becoming Sympathetic to Anthem Protests
September 23, 2016
Do you want to make 1968 Olympic medalist John Carlos angry? Describe the iconic black-gloved...
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September 23, 2016
Car use takes a huge toll on our health and on the planet. We need to kick our addiction to driving
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Yong: The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science
September 23, 2016
A simulation shows how the incentives of modern academia naturally select for weaker and less reliable results
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Scipes: The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration
September 23, 2016
A review of The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration, by John Marciano
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Ansara: The lousy reason I didn’t vote in 1968 — and why Sanders supporters shouldn’t fall for it
September 22, 2016
I thought there was no difference between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. I was wrong.
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September 22, 2016
Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, when hundreds took to the streets to express outrage over the police shooting of 43-year-old African American Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday
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Hanrahan: ‘The Bodies of Prisoners Are Commodities’
September 22, 2016
Every single budget decision in local, state, county, federal–is based almost entirely on what we’re spending for our prisons
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Prashad: The Perils of Humanitarian Wars
September 22, 2016
The limits of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine
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September ZMag
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For nine years Mateen worked for G4S Security, a British-based corporation that contracts with the U.S. and Israeli governments for work that often violates human rights on a massive scale
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Baskin: Massive Deployment of U.S. WMDs
“20 miles west of Seattle is the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S.”
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Pizzigati: For the Wealthy, A Taxing New Worry
Thanks largely to Fleischer, this preferential tax treatment of “carried interest” has now become the single most notorious loophole in the federal tax code
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The Incirlik air base in southeast Turkey—from which U.S. pilots launch bombing raids on ISIS forces in Syria—is home to about 50 B-61 hydrogen bombs. That makes it NATO’s largest nuclear storage facility, with about a quarter of all theater nuclear weapons in the alliance’s stockpiles
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Events VETERANS/ANTI-MIL – The IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War)...
Z Books
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Recent Audio/Videos
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Prashad: US and Russia Agree to Cessation of Hostilities in Syria
September 16, 2016
As Syrian opposition groups retreat from the demand that President Assad step down, a ceasefire agreement becomes more feasible
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Eisenstein: Race, Gender and Socialism
August 23, 2016
A discussion on race, gender, feminism, and socialism
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Wise: How Trump Uses Race to Divide & Conquer
August 15, 2016
The Trump campaign is just the latest in a centuries-long strategy of rich whites duping poor whites into channeling anger toward people of color, rather than the elite
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Giroux: Trump and the Enablers of American Authoritarianism (2/2)
July 23, 2016
'Lesser evilism' is the wrong way to frame the elections - it's about what's better for the strategic interests of an independent people's struggle
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Rasmus: Labor Uprising in France
July 17, 2016
Massive labor actions have been roiling France, as unions protest the policies of the nominally Socialist government
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Harrison: Wikileaks: Interview with Investigations Editor Sarah Harrison
July 16, 2016
Interview on the case of Julian Assange, the findings of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, national security, international law and how one can support whistleblowers
Recent Blogs
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Looking Forward
September 17, 2016
Green Time TV Looking Forward by Don Fitz Did you...
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Wittner: Isn’t It Time to Ban the Bomb?
September 12, 2016
Although the mass media failed to report it, a landmark...
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Khan: Kashmiris and Pashtoons – Reply to a commentator
September 5, 2016
Nasir Khan, September 4, 2016 In response to my today’s...
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Emersberger: Media uniformity and the latest attack on Jeremy Corbyn
August 27, 2016
Check out the following headlines as captured by Google today:...
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Wittner: Does the Democratic Party Have a Progressive Platform–and Does it Matter?
August 27, 2016
Shortly after the Democratic Party’s platform committee concluded its deliberations...
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Khan: Review of the paper on the Dome of the Rock and its Arabic text from the Omayyad period
August 21, 2016
Nasir Khan, August 21, 2016 This is a scholarly paper,...
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Venkat: Progress in linguistics after the Chomskian muddle
August 21, 2016
Chomsky has been pursuing his simple method to generate the...
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