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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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For the second time this year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with his Georgian counterpart on March 24. The meeting, held in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, saw both leaders reaffirming...
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A Reply To Glenn Loury’s Appeal to the Court of Public Opinion on Behalf of...
Capitalism, the plastic bucket we are all crammed in for (give or take) 77.5 years, incentivizes the Seven Deadly Sins of the Roman Catholic Church. So much so that In March of 2008, the Vatican...
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Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report
The average U.S. taxpayer was forced to contribute more to militarized programs than to Medicare and Medicaid combined in 2023, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the National Priorities...
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There Is Only One Spaceship Earth
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very...
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Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears and Jeffrey Sachs. —...
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A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include...
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State Department Has Seen Historic Amount of Internal Dissent Over Gaza
The State Department is seeing a potentially historic amount of internal defection over the Biden administration’s policies on Gaza, with at least nine dissent memos and two high-profile resignations...
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Five Years At Belmarsh: A Chronicle Of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
At the behest of the United States government, the British government has detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh for five years. Assange is one of the only...
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TikTok Exposed Youth to Genocide in Gaza — Is That Why Electeds Want It Banned?
On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act by an overwhelming 352 to 65 margin. If legislated, it would ban the...
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The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
Last week, the nation’s largest prison and jail telecom corporation, Securus, effectively defaulted on more than a billion dollars of debt. After decades of preying on incarcerated people and their...
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When the State Comes for Your Estate
When Tammy Crowder’s phone rang late one evening in February 2018, her eldest sister, Joy, sounded panicked. Their mother, Cleveland Hager, had slipped and fallen on her side, injuring her leg. Unable...
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“Models and Bottles” Clubs’ Extravagance and Exploitation
Much of the discussion of the massive economic inequality that characterizes American society in the twenty-first century stays in the realm of abstract, bloodless statistics. We don’t often get much...
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Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table
On February 13, 2024, eight tenants met with three representatives from their new corporate landlord in a conference room at the office of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (HRC). The...
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Not Enough War On The Ground, The US Is Taking It To Space
Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX recently secured a classified contract to build an extensive network of “spy satellites” for an undisclosed U.S. intelligence agency, with one source telling Reuters...
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Two Years In, These “Progressive” Companies Still Haven’t Negotiated First...
Claire Chang and Steve Buckley knew it wasn’t going to be easy. But the two retail workers-turned-union organizers had been heartened by progress made during the first year of contract negotiations...
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Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving — and Workers Writhing
How do you know when you can finally rate as certifiably super rich? One simple test: You can look at the menu that greeted the over 100 wealthy souls who gathered earlier this month at the Palm Beach...
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Daimler Truck Workers Are Strike-Ready in the Anti-Union South
Autoworkers in the South are currently engaged in a historic, high-stakes labor struggle against the multinational corporation Daimler Truck North America (DTNA). The labor contract between DTNA and...
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Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, Baits Iran Into His...
Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated Negev Desert (where it was mainly Palestinian Bedouin...
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The Power of Finance Is Inherent to Capitalism
Much of the Left sees finance as being parasitic on industry. Financialization, in this view, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state, hollowing out the “real” economy, and hastening the...
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