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Through the Eyes of Lee Miller

When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter....

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Canine Loyalty in Gaza and Western Indifference

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Jamal Kanj

French Nuclear Power’s “Crazy Gamble”

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Jean-Luc Porquet

Teenage Atomic Spy Ted Hall and Nagasaki Atom Bombing

Eighty years ago this week, Manhattan Project workers at the top-secret bomb development lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico were rushing to get the...

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Dave Lindorff

The Verdict of History: How Political Calculations Betrayed Gaza

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However,...

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Ramzy Baroud

Roaming Charges: Empire of the Downpresser Men

Just days after a federal appeals court upheld a ban on ICE using roving patrols and racial profiling to target immigrants, Trump’s secret police...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Middle East Turmoil and the Tragedy of the Forgotten King-Crane Commission Report 

Counterfactuals – what if so and so had happened? – are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam War if President...

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Daniel Wagner

Trump’s Policies Will Make China Great Again

China has transitioned from one of the poorest nations in the world to the second-largest economy with nuclear-armed forces growing at a record...

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Melvin Goodman

Bearing the Mark of Cain for Naming the Gaza Genocide

I began publicly invoking the word “genocide” in July 2025 to describe the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza in response to the horrific...

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Michael Zoosman

Fae Myenne Ng, Preservationist: An Asian American Author Who Refuses to Assimilate

There are lost periods in the history of California.  How many people know that well after California banned slavery, entering the Union as a free...

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Carla Blank

War Causes Cancer

The following is an excerpt from Nafis Hasan’s new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, published...

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Nafis Hasan

In Israel’s Genocide of Gaza, We See the Face of Five Centuries of Western Colonialism

There are times when it is difficult to bring myself to my writer’s desk, when I know there is something that desperately needs to be acknowledged,...

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Patrick Mazza

Can Trump and the GOP Avoid the Midterm Curse?

Incumbent presidents are notoriously vulnerable to losing control of whatever House and Senate majorities they might come to power with. It’s one...

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Stewart Lawrence

The Recession Door Opens

This past week was punctuated by a perfect storm of negative US economic reports and events. Together they mean the door to recession in the US has...

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Jack Rasmus

Critical Mass Achieved: Why the World Can No Longer Ignore Palestine

I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the Campo de’ Fiori to pay homage to Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who, in 1600, was brutally...

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Ramzy Baroud

Trump’s Team of Cowards

Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brought his administration to a new...

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Dean Baker

How Black Workers Drove Interracial Labor Solidarity

The elusive promise of interracial solidarity is an age-old question, one made all the more urgent in the current political climate. Can Black and...

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Cedric De Leon

The Treaty Meant to Control Nuclear Risks is Under Strain 80 years after the US Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thrusting humanity into a...

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Stephen Herzog

America the FUBAR

As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws — not of special...

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William Astore

Wolves Can’t Go to Court, So We Went for Them…and Won!

In an amazing court victory for wild wolves and advocates who tirelessly speak on their behalf, the federal district court in Missoula,...

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Mike Garrity

Children With No Childhood

Recent US events have called attention to children’s trafficking and exploitation, a phenomenon that is widespread and causes enormous suffering....

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Cesar Chelala

On Creating a Cover for Genocide

In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal...

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Aviva Chomsky

On Starvation Hasbara

August 2nd to 3rd 2025 marked the “holiday” of Tisha B’av. Jews observe it with readings of Lamentations, a part of the extended Torah, chronicling...

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Lynn Feinerman

 “Out, Damned Spot!” The Actively Complicit Try to Launder a Genocide

A week ago, a grotesque parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for...

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Adam Rzepka

An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology

Proponents of the theory and praxis of social ecology – the holistic approach to reharmonizing society and nature originated by social theorist...

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Brian Tokar

Trump’s Tariffs Come for Your Morning Wake-Up Routine

On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee...

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Thomas Knapp

Remember When the Democrats Lost the Elections Because of Fears About Inflation? The NYT Doesn’t

As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.”...

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Dean Baker

Foiling the Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March

There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia...

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Binoy Kampmark

As Gaza Starved, NPR’s Coverage Expanded but Didn’t Get Any Better   

Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes...

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Stan Cox

U.S. Atomic Bombings Didn’t Save Lives or End the War

August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was...

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John Laforge

It’s As If 

wrapped in red ribbons and sparkles that blind they drone on about war as if they were talking about stock prices as if it were a bloodless event...

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Mimi German

Trump’s Latest China Moves are not Concessions

A recent Washington Post report suggests a concerning “softening” in the Trump administration’s approach to Beijing, highlighting what it views as...

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Jianlu Bi

The War Economy at the Border

While Venezuela Reunites Families, the U.S. Builds a $131 Billion Border War Machine In July 2025, the U.S. Congress passed a budget that commits...

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Michelle Ellner

The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique

The war economy—a system driven by conquest, territorial control, and profit accumulation—relies on the enclosure of the commons to commodify...

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Caitlin Hoyland

The Proud Republican History of Paranoia and Anti-Semitism About Government Statistics

Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brings back memories of Richard Nixon’s...

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Dean Baker

A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation

The recent wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez in Venice set off quite the furor over tax avoidance. An enormous banner in the Piazza San...

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Bob Lord

Anti-Capitalist Road Trip

It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and...

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Ron Jacobs

Gaza’s Starvation, Israeli Lies and the Tail that Wags the Dog

Whenever Israel yields to international pressure and allows aid trucks into Gaza, it devises other methods to ensure the food is never delivered....

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Jamal Kanj

A Nobel Moment: Recognizing Francesca Albanese’s Moral Courage

In a world dominated by Western hegemony and silence in the face of injustice, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stands apart. Through her...

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Jonathan Urmeneta

The Cancer-Industrial Complex w/ Nafis Hasan

On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Nafis Hasan about his new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and...

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Josh Frank