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James Bovard

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Roaming Charges: Grave Disorders

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The Left Wins the Irish Presidential Election in a Landslide

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Rage Against the ICE Machine

Sonali Kolhatkar

Trump’s Destruction is Not Creative

Daniel Warner

Many Americans threw other Americans Under the Bus. Will We Do It Again?

Laura Flanders

The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances

John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

U.S. Poor and Working Class Distress Grows

Seth Sandronsky

What Kind of Shut Down is This?

Erik Molvar

Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese in the White House

Binoy Kampmark

The Powerful Who Stand with Israel

Vijay Prashad

You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up

Jim Hightower

Why the Bill Gates Climate Memo is Full of Shit

Bill Wolfe

The Duplicity of Land O’ Lakes Cooperative

Jim Goodman

COP 30 and the Union Take on Brazil’s Offshore Oil Discovery

Brian Mier

Renewable Energy in the USA: Stupid is as Stupid Does

John K. White

The Land is a River, Not a Fortress: A New Path to Peace in Palestine

Aneta Galary

Blowing Up Fishing Boats Won’t Win the Drug War

Sanho Tree

Das Crazy

Peter Bach

Trump Is Bad at Running the Country

Rebecca Gordon

Rwandan Prisoner of Conscience Victoire Ingabire

Ann Garrison

The Silent Victim: Warfare’s Enduring Environmental Scars Across the Middle East

Hosein Pabarja

The Singularity of (AI) Shit

Steve O’Keefe

The Republicans’ Plan is in Plain Sight

Laura Flanders

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise

Walden Bello

No Kings, Fascism, and Democracy

Michael K. Smith

The Economics of Crazy

Dean Baker

Trump’s Politics of Defecation

Henry Giroux

The World Confronts the Genocide Washington is Trying to Bury

Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J. S. Davies

Elk, Not Wild Bison, Have Transmitted Brucellosis to Montana Cattle in Every Case

Mike Garrity

No Kings, the Second Time Around

Tom Engelhardt

Fake Boats and Bogus Admirals

Binoy Kampmark

A Western Financial Whip Was Lifted From South Africa’s Back – But Now We Need Another

Patrick Bond

The U.S. is Broken. Time to Think About What Comes Next

Patrick Mazza

The US Warships Off Venezuela Aren’t There to Fight Drugs

Guillaume Long

The Failed Coup d’État of 2026?

David Rosen

Untouched by Time: The Beauty and Vision of Freedom

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Let the Work Speak for Itself

Jeffrey St. Clair

True Crime: Murder on the High Seas