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Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, Fifty Years Later
For forty years I have been writing an article about each decade of the revolution of April 25, 1974 that brought democracy back to Portugal after 48 years of dictatorship. The analysis of...
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Old Man World
Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than Joe Biden and almost two years older than Donald Trump. And, honestly, I know my...
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the...
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How Reaganomics Fueled America’s Homelessness Crisis
Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of...
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Opening Statements: Catch-and-Kill to Elect Trump
For starters, some important news: The state of New York will make daily transcripts of the trial available. They announced each day’s transcript would be available by the end of the following day. You...
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Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against...
Democracy Now! speaks with the celebrated labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to...
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Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done for Veterans?
From mocking John McCain’s military service to disparaging American soldiers who died abroad as “losers” and “suckers,” Donald Trump has shown plenty of disrespect to veterans over the years. By...
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In Philly, Cass Green Is Running Against Billionaire Cash
Today, in one of the most expensive elections in Pennsylvania State House history — in large part due to donations to the incumbent from billionaire and charter school advocate Jeffrey Yass — Cass...
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Restaurant Workers Deserve a Livable, Too
Growing up, I looked up to my father and aunt, who began restaurant industry careers after immigrating from Eritrea in the 1970s. When I started working, a restaurant job was a natural choice. While I...
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Fifty Years Ago This Spring, Millions of Students Struck to End the War in...
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o . . .” —“Ohio,” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) President Richard Nixon prided...
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More Than 4 Dozen Unions Demand ‘End of Repression’ of Columbia Protests
More than four dozen labor unions across numerous industries on Tuesday signed a letter expressing solidarity with students who have been suspended and arrested in recent days for protesting at...
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Handling — and Mishandling — the Iran Nuclear Program
Trump Blew Up the Deal, Can Biden Still Fix It? One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama’s second term. He then...
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You are Formally Invited to a Livable Future (Empty chairs will be noted)
Earth Day 2024, Washington, DC | The red carpet had been rolled out from the high doors and down the polished steps of the Mayor’s offices into Freedom Plaza. A procession of large puppets representing...
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Carceral Imperialism
“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about...
View ArticleFeeding War, Killing Peace: Why the US Vetoed ‘Palestine’?
The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a...
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Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be Used to Criminalize Librarians
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state’s criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries, and the people who...
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Campus Activism for Gaza Ignites
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity movement by setting up encampments on their campuses. They...
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Beat the Bold Marauder — Ceasefire Summer, Education Summer, Freedom Summer,...
The events now happening on campuses are profoundly uplifting, ethically inspiring, and strategically wise. As I write, thirty-eight U.S. College campuses have encampments, with one in France and two...
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Where Militant Unionists Come to Plan
The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has been the big news on the labor front. For the first...
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Why Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Voting to Unionize Is A Huge Victory for The...
Tennessee Volkswagen workers achieved a historic victory on April 19 by overwhelmingly voting to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union. This victory marked the first time since 1941 that a...
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