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Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who...

 
  More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive...

 
  Catherine Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D. Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025),...

 
  A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

 
  There is no question that DJT is a destroyer. Consider the separation of powers. He has appointed intensely loyal followers to key legal positions,...

 
  While our cultural memory about the McCarthy era romances the refuseniks, hundreds of Americans did comply with the Red Scare, identifying...

 
  Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk...

 
  Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit,...

 
  What kind of a shutdown is this, anyway? Congress has deadlocked over the terms of funding the government, so (in theory, at least) there is a...

 
  The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony...

 
  Genocides are, by their nature, asymmetrical. But to describe these past two years as asymmetrical is obscene: this was one-directional violence,...

 
  Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich diversity of...

 
  The fact that billionaire Bill Gates wrote a memo recommending that the world shift its focus on climate (particularly on emissions reductions) to...

 
  Land O’ Lakes dairy cooperative was founded in 1921 in St. Paul Minnesota by 320 small cooperative creameries. They hoped to improve the quality of...

 
  With COP 30, the United Nations Climate Change conference, kicking of in Belem next month, some voices in the Global North are using the...

 
  “The days of stupidity” are alive and well in the USA after the Department of the Interior cancelled a Nevada solar farm slated to become the...

 
  For decades, the world has watched a tragic cycle repeat itself in Palestine and Israel: violence, Western-led “peace processes” that go nowhere,...

 
  The Trump administration has been blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean — and now one in the Pacific — claiming without evidence that they’re “...

 
  Joseph Beuys on his lecture “Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler – Auf dem Weg zur Freiheitsgestalt des sozialen Organismus” photographed by Rainer...

 
  I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been recruited...

 
  Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was celebrated in October...

 
  The human cost of war is measured in lives lost and families displaced. However, a growing body of evidence from international organizations points...

 
  On the horizon lies a confluence of catastrophe. One stream is the wealth-concentrating power of capitalism, leading to existential battles between...

 
  What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that makes commercial media ignore what’s lying in plain sight? With Congress at a standstill, the...

 
  In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current...

 
  “The disease gets worse and worse every year, and the only remedy that will have permanent effect is to abolish private ownership of industry and...

 
  It is striking that many people feel the need to claim that Donald Trump has some coherent economic plan for the country. It’s understandable that...

 
  Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”– an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with the...

 
  On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s...

 
  With 2.1 million cattle in Montana, one might expect Governor Gianforte and our congressional delegation to know where cattle actually get...

 
  Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the “hate America” rally in New York...

 
  The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme. The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from...

 
  The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems of...

 
  The problem of centralized power The United States is broken, and it’s time to think about what comes next. Images of the White House East Wing...

 
  Ten thousand soldiers on board 10 US warships, including a nuclear submarine, several destroyers and a missile cruiser, patrol the southern...

 
  Are Donald Trump and his associates planning a coup if they lose control of Congress following a possible Democratic victory in the 2026...

 
  Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October 2025, I was on the...

 
  So my appeal to you in these desperate hours for the Republic is an appeal to reason, an appeal to the importance of facts, an appeal to political...

 
  In the past few weeks, the US military has killed around thirty people in cold blood. The murders occurred on boats traveling in waters on both...

 
  In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they...

 
  The nature of the United States’ relationship with Israel defies logic and reason. It is a parasitic one-sided benefit, entangled in the tentacles...

 
  President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering...

 
  This week’s news brings us another story that’s starting to get very old — especially for Montana’s existing residents. Namely, the City of East...

 
  Since August, U.S. warships, fighter planes, and troops have deployed in Caribbean waters off Venezuela and in Puerto Rico. Venezuela’s neighboring...

 
  “Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But...

 
  Recently, a friend was asked, “What church do you go to?” to which he replied he was an atheist. I heard his response and was left contemplating...

 
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