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Thank You for Emitting: The Hypocrisies of COP29

COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of...

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Binoy Kampmark

Unplugging the News (and History) in San Francisco

Reporters are tasked with wading into the maelstroms of current events—fires, hurricanes, battle spaces, crime scenes, accidents, political...

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Peter Byrne

Can Politics Merge with a Sane Future?

America is for Americans – Americans only!” The words are those of Stephen Miller, speaking last month at the infamous Madison Square Garden...

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Robert Koehler

Climate Change and the Insurability Crisis

Home insurance rates are rising in the United States, not only in Florida, which saw tens of billions of dollars in losses from hurricanes Helene...

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Andrew J. Hoffman

The Precarious Precariat & the Garrison State

If the Garrison State isn’t already here, it’s sure to be here very soon. Wait and watch and observe the arrival of a suped-up American political...

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Jonah Raskin

Free Trade’s Legacy of Grief for Families of the Disappeared in Mexico

In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.”...

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Shaylih Muehlmann

Going Out With a Bang? Biden Plays Nuclear Chicken with Russia

Biden and his ironically-dubbed national security “brain trust” of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan...

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Dave Lindorff

“Inequality”: The Missing Word in the 2024 Election

In 2022, the Council on Foreign Relations warned, “Income and wealth inequality in the United States is substantially higher than in almost any...

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David Rosen

This Chicago Community Envisions a World Without Prisons and Police

Often referred to as the most segregated city in the U.S. by media outlets like WBEZ Chicago and 14East, Chicago, Illinois, is riddled...

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Damon Orion

The Democratic War Party and Its Loss of Legitimacy

When a political party loses its legitimacy, its traditional priorities and moral compass, its candidates lose elections. Opting not to hold an...

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L. Michael Hager

Biden’s Legacy: Handing a Resurgent American Empire to Trump

One of the lasting legacies of U.S. President Joe Biden will be that he reinvigorated the American empire despite the risk of an increasingly...

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Edward Hunt

The Aroma Round 

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been back to my hometown of Lake Placid, New York. On a recent FaceTime conversation with my mother, she...

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Jon Hochschartner

Political and Climate Storms Rolling In: Look Homeward to Make Real Change

Never has it been more important to build strong places capable of weathering the storms barreling down on us, both the physical storms of a...

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Patrick Mazza

Trump’s Outrageous Disregard for Climate Change Endangers the World

World leaders, negotiators, lobbyists and NGOs are meeting in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for COP29. COP (Conference of Parties) is comprised...

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Chloe Atkinson

The EU’s Dual Approach: Green Subsidies and Tarriffs on Chinese EVs

On October 29, 2024, the European Commission unveiled new countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicle (EV) imports, effective the following...

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Imran Khalid

Requiem for an Empire

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus...

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Alfred W. Mccoy

Mike Leigh Sings the Blues

According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase[es] the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a...

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Ed Rampell

Implication for National Security: What If a Top Leader is Willing to Sell His Soul?

J.D, Vance explained in 2020 why he put aside the elitist atheism he picked up in college and law school to become a Catholic (“How I Joined the...

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Walter Clemens

In Baku, at the Latest Global Confab on Climate, Hand-Wringing Abounds

The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered...

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Sam Pizzigati

“We Will Smoke Them Out!” Escalating Xenophobia in South Africa

In 2002, the state of Gujarat in India erupted in horrific violence that would shape and define Narendra Modi’s political career. The pogrom,...

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Imraan Buccus

Donald Trump’s Tariff Fantasies

Tariff Man Donald Trump thinks the world of tariffs. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said in September at a town hall event...

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Mel Gurtov

Palestinians, Both Civilian and Military, are Transcending the Horror We’ve Unleashed

In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the...

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Stan Cox

Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other?

In the wake of the latest presidential election, it’s morning in America! Well, maybe not, but a lot of people seem to be talking about Bluesky,...

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Thomas Knapp

Western Media: Whitewashing Israeli Genocide and Manufacturing Consent

A UN Special Committee has characterized Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide, while Western "free" media has abandoned its ethical responsibility to...

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Jamal Kanj

Nursery Rhymes and Politics

Do people still recite nursery rhymes? If so, they might switch from shock at a not so good “little Jack Horner” in Washington, pulling  a...

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Victor Grossman

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment...

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Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J. S. Davies

The Trump Conundrum

When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to...

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William D. Hartung

Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush Anticolonial Resistance

Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden administration’s hypocritical...

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Yoav Litvin

The Democratic Senate Must Hold These Public Hearings Before January 3, 2025

Biden’s executive agencies, like the EPA and the NLRB, are racing to complete important work before the Trumpster gang of Der Führer Donald...

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Ralph Nader

Losing Honestly and Gracefully

After election defeats, political writers are quick to explain that if only the politicians had read my book and followed my advice, things would...

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Robert Jensen

The Winner of the US Presidential Elections? Prime Minister Netanyahu

The results are in and the clear winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election is undeniably Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Netanyahu...

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Melvin Goodman

Trump May Be Among the Most Vile of Anti-Immigrant Demagogues, But He is Not Original

Immigration to the U.S. southern border has long been subject to cold-hearted racial demagoguery. The Statue of Liberty may have welcomed some of...

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Bruce Neuburger

Ending the Gaza Healthcare Horror (and the US one) Requires Working Class Power

U.S. laws require healthcare practitioners and anyone else to report to “the state” their suspicion of abuse of any child they’ve encountered....

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Tom Whitney

Chickens Are Smarter Than You Think

Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of 31 books of nonfiction for adults and children, including Hummingbirds’...

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Sy Montgomery

When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?

The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his...

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Kathy Kelly

Natural Resources and Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation

Two more United Nations committee resolutions.  Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current.  While disease, hunger and death continue...

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Binoy Kampmark

A Government for the World

Donald Trump’s latest rollout of his hyper nationalist “America First” policy underscores the world’s long-term slide toward catastrophe....

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Lawrence Wittner

My Rage Against Trump Supporters Is Killing Me

We have just elected a cruel and ruthless monster who represents the worst of humanity and I feel my blood vessels pulsing with rage. I’m boiling...

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Sarena Neyman

The Fight for Palestine and the Fight for Socialism is The Same

Charlotta Bass, the first African American woman to serve on a major presidential ticket as part of the Progressive party, stated in 1952, “We...

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Sudip Bhattacharya

Biden as Lame Duck

Right now, it’s still up to Joe “All War, All the Time” Biden to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He has the power to do so, and to pretend...

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Eve Ottenberg

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