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How Biden Allows Netanyahu to Walk All Over His ‘Red Line’

Biden’s words are the latest in a series of statements and actions meant less to deter Netanyahu than to deter protesters and the voters who have...

yesterday 10

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Mitchell Plitnick

This Mother’s Day, Take a Stand Against War in Gaza and Everywhere

As a creative force, mothers must speak out now to counter the destructive force of war and violence.

yesterday 30

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Christine Ahn

Trickle-Down Economics, Not Immigrants, Threaten the American Dream

The ongoing attacks on the humanity of immigrants pose a threat to all of us, and we lose sight of our nation’s abundance and the promise upon...

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Victoria Ballesteros

Forget 'Clash of Civilizations,' Gaza Has Proved the Ultimate Unifier

Once upon a time, such self-serving theories as that of an impending ‘clash of civilizations,’ was all the rage among many US-western academics.

yesterday 30

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Ramzy Baroud

Student Encampments Are the Laboratory of Our Future

When I visited demonstrators at the University of Washington, I entered a skeptic and left a believer. Overall, there was a spirit of peace and...

yesterday 10

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Bill Conroy

Macklemore’s Understanding of Palestinian History Beats Hillary Clinton’s

Her recent placing of all the blame on the Palestinians is typical of inside-the-Beltway Goy Zionism, and is profoundly ahistorical.

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Juan Cole

These University Presidents Aren’t Leaders—They’re Lackeys

“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” We know the answer now.

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Richard Eskow

1968 and 2024: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

The Gaza War has not created the kind of turmoil that nearly ripped apart the country in 1968, at least not yet.

previous day 20

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Les Leopold

Trustee's Report Reminds Us: Social Security's Future Is on the Ballot

If benefits were suddenly slashed, not only would members of Congress lose re-election, they likely wouldn’t be able to appear in public without...

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Nancy J. Altman

Two Sides of the Same Coin: the Carceral State from Guantánamo Bay to Death Row

After September 11, 2001, the federal government saw an opportunity to legalize torture in a way that targeted another BIPOC community, and...

previous day 10

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Lyle C. May

Against Global Indifference to Atrocities in Darfur

As this genocide unfolds before our eyes, it’s clear that the international community’s promise of “Never Again” is not even a rhetorical...

previous day 10

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Mutasim Ali

Intuitively Shredding Democracy

Because it's an election year and lying white guys gonna lie, Repubs are feverishly working to cheat their way to power by getting rid of all the...

friday 20

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Abby Zimet

Trump Would Sell Anything for Personal Gain—Even Planet Earth

Trump told oil and gas executives to raise $1 billion to return him to the White House and he’d reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules...

friday 10

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Robert Reich

Courageous Students Disrupt America's Culture of Death and War

Leaders of the most powerful American institutions want to continue as usual, as if official participation in genocide were no particular cause for...

friday 10

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Norman Solomon

The World Bank Must Stop Pushing Fossil Gas in Africa

If the bank maintains its stance on gas, it risks perpetuating a neocolonial narrative by anchoring the continent in a fossil fuel-dependent...

friday 10

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Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe

Let’s Wish Corporate Constitutional Rights a Very Unhappy Birthday

The actual “birth” of corporate constitutional rights, often referred to as “corporate personhood,” wasn’t Citizens United; it dates to May...

friday 4

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Greg Coleridge

It’s Not Complicated: Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza

The concept of genocide means nothing at all if it is allowed to exclude Israel’s intentional and/or indifferent mass killing and injuring.

friday 8

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Jared Keyel

Weaponizing Antisemitism

Why we must maintain our focus on the agonies of Gaza and the West Bank, denouncing them and calling for an end to Israel’s assaults.

friday 20

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Ellen Cantarow

Big Oil's Un-American Scheme to Price-Gouge Consumers

From ExxonMobil's long-running climate denial to Pioneer's recent price-fixing, it's clear this rogue industry's business model is deny, deceit,...

09.05.2024 40

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Cassidy Dipaola

First They Came for the Homeless, Now the Students

As healthcare workers, we see haunting similarities in the use of expanded police power and the weaponization of public health and safety to...

09.05.2024 30

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Ghulam Karim Khan

America—Democracy or Plutocracy?

What happened to the middle class in the United States? The rich ate it.

09.05.2024 20

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Frances Moore Lappé

What I Told House Republicans About Their Dangerous Attempt to Defund NPR

We need more—not less—public media.

09.05.2024 3

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Craig Aaron

Biden and Blinken—Weapons to Israel Violates US and International Law

Will the U.S. government finally do the right thing when it comes to holding Israel to account for its clear violations of human rights standards?

09.05.2024 6

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Kevin Martin

Over and Over Again, The Corporate Media Spews GOP Propaganda on Social Security

09.05.2024 2

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Eric Kleefeld

Mexico GM Corn Case Update: U.S. Assertions Rebutted by Civil Society Experts

The U.S. position in support of corporate interests is stuck in a mythical past, when massive agribusiness claimed their products would save family...

09.05.2024 20

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Karen Hansen-Kuhn

The Price We Pay for Bezos and Gates? Less Moral Societies

The longer we let inequality define our contemporary daily lives, new research helps us understand, the more the unethical behavior all around us...

08.05.2024 2

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Sam Pizzigati

Anti-Genocide Students Are Fulfilling Their Duty to Prevent War Crimes; Will You?

Are students who protest war and genocide in Gaza criminals? International law says no.

08.05.2024 40

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Jeremy Brecher

Big Oil Should Pay for the US to Reach Net Zero

The cost of climate action must shift from taxpayers to fossil fuel producers, in other words, to those who profit from the products that pollute...

08.05.2024 20

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Hugh Helferty

Tom Cotton: The Nation's Very Worst Veteran

At a time when the United States needs to be careful and clear-headed about how it responds to the Middle East crisis, Cotton’s cheerleading for...

08.05.2024 30

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Bob Keeler

The Main Obstacle to Peace in Gaza? The United States

Now that the Biden administration has established that it will not tolerate any criticism of Israel, the siege of Gaza is likely to continue.

08.05.2024 9

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Edward Hunt

Hind's Hall: Unfurling Love From a Window

A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.

08.05.2024 7

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Kathy Kelly

They Walk Among Us: Mississippi Goddamn, Still

As the dystopian movie Civil War sets records depicting the "colorful horrors of the American future" on its current trajectory, we saw the same...

07.05.2024 7

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Abby Zimet

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