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Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by...

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Binoy Kampmark

Fear of Protesting Trump Policies Spreads in US

Cambridge, UK — I just returned to this medieval English university town last week after a three-and-a-half week visit to the US where my...

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Dave Lindorff

A Death Sentence for Thousands and Thousands of People

The American people, whether they are Democrats, Republicans or Independents, understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system which...

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Bernie Sanders

Letter from London: Connecting and Healing in Ukraine

My first exposure to key work done in Ukraine on the spiritual and psychological rehabilitation of veterans and families came via a recent private...

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Peter Bach

The Times That Try Men’s Souls: America in 1776 and 2025

Biden’s indulgence of the Israeli regime laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s more draconian measures.  A fateful precedent was set...

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M. Reza Behnam

Trump’s Trade Deals Endanger Farmers and Our Food System

with the details of the UK-US trade deal becoming known, the signal - that is, the truth - of the Trump administration's vision for agriculture is...

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Anthony Pahnke

Trump Is Making America Constitutionally Literate—By Violating the Constitution 

Few modern political figures have done more to prompt spontaneous national discussions about the Bill of Rights and constitutional limits on...

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

Letter to My Newborn Son

Yaba Deen,* it has been two weeks since you were born, and these are my first words to you. In the early hours of 21 April, I waited on the other...

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Mahmoud Khalil

The Few Repressing the Many: Trump and Bukele

On March 15, President Trump’s rendition of immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador stunned the world. They include 23 alleged members of...

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Margaret Knapke

Tariffs Are Taxes on Us, Not Them

Tariffs are a tax that a country imposes on itself. It imposes costs in the same way that a tax on gas or beef imposes costs. Tariffs can also harm...

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Dean Baker

Vietnam Celebrates Fifty Years of the End of Its Colonial Period

Fifty years ago, on 30 April 1975, the revolutionary forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front entered Saigon, then...

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Vijay Prashad

What Color Was He? The Killing of Deris Kogoya

What kind of place is this where the lives of young people can be taken from them, leaving a mangled mess of tissue and bone behind, and where a...

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Julie Wark

Freeing the American-Israeli Soldier vs. Smotrich’s Zionist Supremacy

This week, the Resistance in Gaza released American-Israeli dual citizen Eidan Alexander, who had been serving in a foreign army, as a goodwill...

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Jamal Kanj

Charging the US Government with Genocide Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

This statement was prepared by Tariq Ra’ouf, a Palestinian American writer, human rights activist, and member of Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG)....

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Tariq Ra’Ouf

To “Defend Democracy,” We Must Defend… Wall Street Law Firms?

Perhaps you nodded in solidarity as protests began around the country following the mass firings of federal workers, some 30% of whom are veterans....

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Tom Blakely

Sabotage Is On The Menu

It is the final week of February 2024, and the City of London, the capital’s ancient financial district, where corporations cluster like woodland...

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Adem Ay

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s Major Nuclear Power Push

“Governor [Kathy] Hochul is making a major push to not only build new nuclear plants in New York State but to make N.Y. the center of a nuclear...

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Karl Grossman

The Department of Injustice

The DOJ is arguably alone among federal agencies in its degree of opacity and in its lack of accountability: it is the only federal government body...

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David S. D’Amato

U.S. War on China, a Long Time Coming

Movement toward war with China accelerates. The public, focused on troubles currently upending U.S. politics, does not pay much attention to a war...

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W. T. Whitney

The Triumph of Realism in Foreign Aid

Among the Trump administration’s many disturbing shifts in foreign policy, one of its more shameful moves has been to use foreign aid as a tool for...

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Edward Hunt

BRICS nations and Israel: Hype, Hope and Helplessness

The BRICS Bank actually sanctioned its 20% member Moscow because of the credit rating agencies in New York… I think the reparations we should be...

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Patrick Bond

Israel’s and Its Backers’ Abuse of Victimhood, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism

With competing narratives of victimization, one narrative is abused. One man looks up to the sky crying at the top of his lungs as their wife and...

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Peter Crowley

Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep

People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very much true of the leading intellectuals...

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Dean Baker

In Death Penalty Cases, the Quest for Justice is Not America’s Highest Value

Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the...

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Austin Sarat

When ‘No’ Means ‘No’: Selling Public Lands or Taking Over Canada

Every kid has heard “No means no!” when they want something their parents don’t think they should have. This week that phrase got a couple high...

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George Ochenski

The Suicide of American Empire

Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry. The American empire...

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Grant Inskeep

Poisoning New York Waters

New Yorkers can count among their fortunes both their plentiful waters and the many organizations that protect lakes, rivers, and reservoirs from...

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Karan Mehta - Bernd Blossey

Vanity on Parade

Military parades are a joke, like an old man driving a convertible or marrying someone fifty years younger than them (or both). In other words,...

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Ron Jacobs

Q1: China Adds More than $400 Billion to GDP, Trump Loses $25 Billion

Donald Trump is not very good with arithmetic, but that is not a reason the rest of us should not use it. The US economy shrank at 0.3 percent...

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Dean Baker

White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it.  It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first...

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Binoy Kampmark

Will Trump Greenlight Netanyahu’s Endgame in Gaza?

It’s hard to recall, given the unfathomable desperation now stalking Gaza, but for a fleeting moment earlier this year there was joy in the air...

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Brian Kelly

In Trump’s Trade War, It’s Advantage China

Without Rhyme or Reason “We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they...

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Josh Frank

CELDF and the Rights of Nature

The Earth is “on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,” according to “The 2024 State of the Climate Report.” Sounding the alarm on the “...

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Caitlin Hoyland

Missouri Puts Profits Over People’s Lives with New ICL Facility: A Dangerous Legacy

Early this year, as snow froze into sheets of solid ice, covering the ground for weeks, almost 20% of St. Louis Public School students were...

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Lauren Filla - Seraph Kunkel

‘Tis a Fine Old Conflict:  The Class Struggle Inside the Democratic Party

s the Democratic party losing touch with working class voters? It’s hardly a debatable claim anymore. Exit polls from last November’s presidential...

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Stewart Lawrence

Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done?

In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest...

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Ellen Brown

From Oak Flat to Ukraine: Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources

Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This is Oak Flat (Chi’ chil...

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Joshua Frank

Who Has Taken Whom Hostage?

The Israeli bombing of Gaza since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has been marked by one demand: the release of all Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. As has...

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Khalid Afsar

On Genocide and Gazan Resilience

In this exclusive interview, renowned international law scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falkengages with educator and journalist...

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Daniel Falcone – Richard Falk

When Your Government Shatters the Lives of Two Million People in Gaza, Don’t Expect It to Make Life Better for You

The Trump regime’s approval numbers are sinking. Americans are in the streets protesting the regime’s cruel abuses of power. And Democratic voters...

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Stan Cox