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Diplomacy or Deception? Trump’s North Korea Strategy

At a glimpse, the 7-foot cylindrical silhouette of the MK-82, a 500-lbs bomb manufactured by General Dynamics, could be mistaken for a human being...

yesterday 10

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Ju-Hyun Park

Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers

In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the...

yesterday 7

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Rebecca Gordon

Guantánamo: Decades of Detentions

On January 29th, newly installed Pres. Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the...

yesterday 7

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David Rosen

‘Oppressive’ Taxation That Isn’t

What is the mission of the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation? Even a quick review of the Tax Foundation’s output makes it perfectly plain: to...

yesterday 6

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Bob Lord

Crazy Horse and Anti-Colonial Resistance

In recent months, I have focused on reexamining Lakota texts and influential figures who have significantly impacted my perspective. A recent...

yesterday 7

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Nick Estes

Paschal Promises: Danger, Death and Resurrection in Our Times

Easter, recently passed, is not a holiday I have ever celebrated in any way beyond the long-ago dyeing of eggs and covert disposal of sub-par milk...

yesterday 5

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Elizabeth West

I Am in Prison, But Not Imprisoned

Mohsen Mahdawi, dictated this statement from ICE detention to his lawyers: I don’t want people to lose hope. Stay positive and believe in the...

yesterday 0

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Mohsen Mahdawi

National History By Executive Order

It is fascinating to witness Donald Trump’s ability to project onto his opponents pretty much what he himself is doing or intends to do. For...

yesterday 10

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Lawrence Davidson

Iron Dome Technology: Elon Musk’s License to Steal Taxpayers’ Dollars

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making corruption and graft the main business of the US government. They have fired all the cops who might try to...

yesterday 10

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Dean Baker

Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality

In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies...

yesterday 20

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Shealeigh Voitl

The Truman Show: The Responsibility of Public Libraries

On April 18, 2024 the Truman Presidential Library held its premier fund-raising event, an awards dinner called “Wild About Harry,” at a downtown...

previous day 10

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Margot Patterson

Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It

Virtually every progressive — and many people who are not at all progressive — are bothered by the ability of the rich to buy elections with their...

previous day 10

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Dean Baker

Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance...

previous day 10

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Binoy Kampmark

French Contradictions: Macron’s Palestine Play – Too Little, Too Late?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that...

previous day 9

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Ramzy Baroud

Blowing Smoke: Trump’s Energy Plan

The administration of Donald Trump is making an unbridled push to block renewable energy projects—including last week halting the placement of 54...

previous day 20

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Karl Grossman

Trump’s Lust for Minerals: The Latest from Oregon’s Lithium Prospect

The Trump 2.0 administration is possessed by a lust for minerals. Trump’s latest critical minerals edict, Immediate Measures to Increase American...

previous day 6

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Katie Fite

Francis: a Pope Who Cared Deeply for the Poor and Opened Up the Catholic Church

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was 88. Francis had served...

previous day 10

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Mathew Schmalz

Worst Day of My Life

I got one of the worst text messages a parent can receive at 12:05 p.m. on April 17. “Active shooter.” My daughter is in her final two weeks of...

previous day 10

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Laura Finley

Trump’s First 100 Days: Meaner, More Mendacious, More Unstable

While the mainstream media was copiously tracing the physical and mental decline of President Joe Biden during the presidential campaign of 2024,...

previous day 10

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Mel Goodman

De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East.“Security...

monday 2

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Binoy Kampmark

This Disintegration of North America

Almost exactly 30 years ago, Canadian Bacon depicted a U.S. president picking on his neighbor to the north to boost his sagging approval ratings....

monday 10

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John Feffer

How Sanders Won Montana Again

How strange that due to the disastrous policies of “their president,” Montana’s all-Republican Congressional delegation and governor are now too...

monday 9

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George Ochenski

Forgive Me, Gaza…

I write forgive me, not forgive us, because this guilt is deeply personal. It’s a burden I carry in the comfort of my home, sipping clean water...

monday 9

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Jamal Kanj

Latin America Three Months Into the Trumpocalypse

Roger D. Harris is with the Task Force on the Americas, the US Peace Council, and the Venezuela Solidarity Network. Nicaragua based John Perry is...

monday 4

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Roger D. Harris - John Perry

Towards a Counter Anthropology

It goes without saying that the study of any subject seeks to deepen understanding through careful analysis, employing all available methodological...

monday 10

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Osama Esber

Corporal Punishment in America: Most Adults in US Support Spanking Children and 19 States Allow It in Schools

Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states...

monday 3

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Christina Erickson

Beneath the Surface: Is the Trump-Netanyahu ‘Unthinkable’ About to Erupt?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few...

monday 8

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Ramzy Baroud

Climate Change Kills Capitalism

Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by excessive levels of CO2 emissions which cause radical...

monday 7

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Robert Hunziker

Trump’s Dangerous Drone Strike Threat 

Unmanned aerial vehicles – “drones” –are widely known for their controversial role in overseas military conflicts, most recently in Ukraine, and...

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Stewart Lawrence

Manifestations of Israeli Impunity

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19.04.2025 1

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Daragh Cogley