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Eighty Years After Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, the Horror Lives On

The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National Monument. Image by Ray Acheson. The world’s first...

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Ray Acheson

Healthcare and Food as Means to an End: Extermination 

Israelis blocking food aid from entering Gaza. Wikimedia media commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Israelis blocking food aid from entering Gaza. Wikimedia...

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Stan Cox

The Mob Murder of Saif Musallet

His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Roaming Charges: Masked and Anonymous

George Retes was pulled over by ICE as he was driving near the violent raid on farm workers outside of Camarillo last Thursday. The ICE agents...

friday 2

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Republic of Fear

The new Florida concentration camp, likely the first of dozens that will be funded by Trump and congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation...

friday 9

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Stephen F. Eisenman

A Catastrophic New Normal Has Arrived

A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that...

friday 10

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Robert Hunziker

The City We Can Call Ours

The deafening racket we’re getting here in Spain from US politics or, more like it, from Donald Trump’s chaotic and volatile presidency, tends to...

friday 9

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Joan Subirats

High Noon for the Mexican Wolf? 

A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre Occidental in...

friday 8

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Kent Paterson

How to Kill a Dragon: Late Petro-State Politics in Trinidad, the US, and Venezuela

As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept...

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J. Brent Crosson

The Bully Pulpit Reveals Trump’s Bullying the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine

President Theodore Roosevelt often referred to the term “bully pulpit” to mean he would use the country’s highest office to present his program. “...

friday 6

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Daniel Warner

The Word That Wouldn’t Die: Awake in the Age of Forgetting

It was a warning — a spoken-word portent of the dangers lurking in plain sight. A call to vigilance. A whispered watchword passed between those who...

friday 20

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Troy Nahumko

Trump Hits Amazon with 50 Percent Tariffs

Since we seem to again be in a tariff-crazy phase of Donald Trump’s presidency, it is worth explaining the meaning of a tariff so that even...

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Dean Baker

Remember When Code Was Speech? It Still Is

On July 14, Roman Storm’s trial  — on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and...

17.07.2025 2

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Thomas Knapp

The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You

Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic,...

17.07.2025 7

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

The Diary of Ana Francisco 

“Concentration Camp: A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their...

17.07.2025 2

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John G. Russell

Is It Strategic to Refocus Towards Climate Adaptation?

In London, UK, last week, on a rare overseas trip, I attended the launch of a new campaign initiated by the Climate Majority Project to refocus the...

17.07.2025 40

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Adam Aron

NEA Teachers Celebrate Motion to Drop ADL– Israel Lobby Fumes

National Education Association teachers in support of Palestinian rights are celebrating their breakthrough success at the NEA’s Representative...

17.07.2025 10

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Marcy Winograd

Can International Organizations Survive the Rightwing, Nationalist Onslaught?

At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe,...

17.07.2025 1

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Lawrence Wittner

Architecture of Cities: Playing for Time

The clocks’ vibrating gears- – A books’ final page: The sounds softly pillow-pocketed in the mind: Quietly, passages and time vanish before closed...

17.07.2025 2

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Stclair

Sudan: A War of Attrition, a War on Civilians

On July 11, the US-derided International Criminal Court (ICC) told the UN Security Council that war crimes and crimes against humanity are being...

17.07.2025 10

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Peter Bach

Escape to Vatra Dornei

The heat dome tour finished its “Old Europe” dates, e.g., Iberia, France, Italy and even the Swiss Alps, of which I caught the last sweltering...

17.07.2025 2

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Jeffrey Sommers

From Chiapas to Gaza w/ Acción Palestina Chiapas

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with activists in México about the parent-led response to Israeli combatants "volunteering" in Chiapas in an...

17.07.2025 2

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Josh Frank

Vietnam and Palestine

Over the last fifty years, the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s occupation has been described in various ways by friend and foe alike. The...

17.07.2025 4

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Ron Jacobs

Escape to Vatra Dornet

The heat dome tour finished its “Old Europe” dates, e.g., Iberia, France, Italy and even the Swiss Alps, of which I caught the last sweltering...

17.07.2025 10

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Jeffrey Sommers

Sanction Boravia!

(Yeah yeah, spoiler alert) Before now I didn’t know the fictional country of “Boravia” was first made up and depicted in 1930s comic books by the...

17.07.2025 1

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Nicholas Levis

Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win

In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral...

16.07.2025 20

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Nick Licata

Trump’s Cuba Memorandum Provokes Strong Criticism Amid New US Aggressiveness Abroad   

The Trump administration on June 30 released its “National Security Presidential Memorandum 5” on U.S. plans for Cuba. Criticism from Cuba’s...

16.07.2025 2

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W. T. Whitney

Donald Trump’s Greatest “Triumph”

Yes, he’s done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn’t be simpler to describe. Somehow, he’s managed to take the greatest looming threat to...

16.07.2025 1

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Tom Engelhardt

Should We Garden Our Forests?

A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape, Oregon,”...

16.07.2025 2

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George Wuerthner

Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest

The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body...

16.07.2025 10

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Rick Baum

Trump Confuses Telling Blatant Lies With a Straight Face With Competence

We all know and expect that a president’s top appointees are picked in large part because of their willingness to carry out a president’s agenda....

16.07.2025 4

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Dean Baker

In the Spirit of BRICS, Criminal Defendant Jair Bolsonaro Should be Immediately be Transferred to China: a Modest Proposal

In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be...

16.07.2025 4

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Brian Mier

The Remarkable Career of Jim Abbott: How a Kid Born Without a Right Hand Became One of the Best Major League Pitchers of His Generation

I watched a great sports documentary Sunday. “Southpaw. The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott” on ESPN.  I’ll sum it up first. If this film, which far...

16.07.2025 3

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Michael Donnelly

Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?

As a political journalist, I typically monitor about six or seven print publications and a somewhat absurd number of online ones. But I recently...

16.07.2025 3

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Tom Valovic

Death, Humor and the Looming Unknown

Let’s call it the human guessing game. There comes a point in life when we find ourselves playing it whether we want to or not. Hallelujah for a...

16.07.2025 1

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Robert Koehler

Is There Anybody Out There?

As children roam empty streets Their eyes dried of tears As the mentally challenged Find no solace, no help As single mothers Ask in vain for food...

16.07.2025 4

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Cesar Chelala