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Sudan Faces “World’s Worst Displacement Crisis” After 2 Years of War

Sudan Faces “World’s Worst Displacement Crisis” After 2 Years of War

The Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces “and their funders need to be held accountable,” says Emtithal Mahmoud.

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Facebook Whistleblower: Breaking Meta’s Monopoly Would Improve Children’s Safety

Facebook Whistleblower: Breaking Meta’s Monopoly Would Improve Children’s Safety

“We’ve let one company, one man, influence the information environment for the world,” says Frances Haugen.

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Ecuador’s Contested Presidential Election Rocked by New Cover-Up Allegations

Ecuador’s Contested Presidential Election Rocked by New Cover-Up Allegations

President Noboa’s leftist rival is challenging the results, calling Noboa a “dictator” who committed election fraud.

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Trump Admin Is Buying Time in Federal Court to Speed Mahmoud Khalil Deportation

Trump Admin Is Buying Time in Federal Court to Speed Mahmoud Khalil Deportation

A judge ruled the Trump administration has grounds to deport Khalil, despite his being a legal permanent resident.

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Lawyer Representing Pro-Palestine Protester Detained at Airport, Phone Seized

Lawyer Representing Pro-Palestine Protester Detained at Airport, Phone Seized

Amir Makled believes he was targeted for his work: “They had a whole profile about me,” he says.

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Trump Threatens US-Israeli Attack on Iran If Talks on Its Nuclear Program Fail

Trump Threatens US-Israeli Attack on Iran If Talks on Its Nuclear Program Fail

Journalist ​​Negar Mortazavi discusses the Trump administration’s negotiation strategy of “threats and pressure.”

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Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Calls for $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget

Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Calls for $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget

Silicon Valley militarists don’t need to lobby this administration because they’re embedded in it, says William Hartung.

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Legal US Resident Languishes in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling

Legal US Resident Languishes in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling

Immigrants expelled to El Salvador have been largely denied their legal rights and detained without clear evidence.

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Outrage Grows Over Israel’s Execution of 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers

Outrage Grows Over Israel’s Execution of 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers

Diana Buttu, a Palestinian human rights attorney, calls the incident “the height of dehumanization.”

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Supreme Court Weighs Cutting Off Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Funding

Supreme Court Weighs Cutting Off Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Funding

The case would especially impact low-income patients who rely on Planned Parenthood for a range of health care services.

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Trump’s Trade War Is Desperate Ploy as US Empire Declines, Says Richard Wolff

Trump’s Trade War Is Desperate Ploy as US Empire Declines, Says Richard Wolff

Trump’s global tariff plan will have grave economic effects on US consumers and lead to a recession, the economist says.

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Musk’s Money Didn’t Win Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Says John Nichols

Musk’s Money Didn’t Win Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Says John Nichols

Nichols also discusses special election results in Florida and Abbott’s delay in calling a special election in Texas.

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As Trump Attacks Education, Chicago Teachers Reach Powerful Tentative Contract

As Trump Attacks Education, Chicago Teachers Reach Powerful Tentative Contract

It reaffirms sanctuary school protections, assures the ability to teach Black history and gives veteran teachers raises.

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New Film Follows Mahmoud Khalil and Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests

New Film Follows Mahmoud Khalil and Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests

“The Encampments” offers a view inside the wave of protests and repression that swept across universities in 2024.

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Macklemore: “Collective Liberation Is the Only Solution”

Macklemore: “Collective Liberation Is the Only Solution”

The hip-hop stars speaks about “The Encampments,” his new documentary on last year’s student protests for Palestine.

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Musk Offers Voters $100 Each to Support Republican in Wisconsin Judicial Race

Musk Offers Voters $100 Each to Support Republican in Wisconsin Judicial Race

As Trump attacks voting rights with an executive order, Musk is virtually bribing voters in a key state election.

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Drastic DOGE-Backed Changes Put Social Security Benefits for Millions at Risk

It’s really hard to imagine what their endgame is, other than destroying our Social Security system, says Nancy Altman.

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Journalist: Gaza“Much Worse Than Ever Before” as Israel Weighs Broader Invasion

There’s nothing left in Gaza to be destroyed because it’s all already been destroyed, says Abubaker Abed.

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Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Is Targeted Again for Deportation

This is what happens when universities don’t stand by their students: Cornell has placed a target on my back, Taal said.

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Project 2025 Lays Out Broader Goal of Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Ed Dept.

The real target is anything that the government does to make the country more equal, says journalist Jennifer Berkshire.

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Trump Fuels the Right-Wing Effort to Silence Journalists, Protect the Powerful

Trump’s remarks in 2016 sparked a movement of lawyers devoted to suing and threatening news outlets, says David Enrich.

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We’re in a Constitutional Crisis Now as Trump Admin Openly Defies Court Orders

One man’s whim alone is controlling the country and the courts can’t save us, says Elie Mystal of The Nation.

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US Strikes Kill Dozens in Yemen as Houthis Oppose Resumption of Genocide in Gaza

The US bombed towns across Yemen after Houthi leaders pledged to resume attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea.

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Progressives Say Chuck Schumer Has Voted to “Surrender” to Trump and Musk

Waleed Shahid described the senator's vote for Trump's spending bill as an “utterly embarrassing strategic blunder.”

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Trump’s Policies Show “Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand”

Russian American writer M. Gessen discusses Trump’s agenda, a possible ceasefire in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and more.

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A New UN Report Calls Israel’s Attacks on New Mothers in Gaza “Unprecedented”

The report cites destruction of women’s health facilities, and notes the use of sexual violence as a strategy of war.

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Over 250,000 Have Signed Petition Supporting Impeachment Investigation of Trump

“When we see these abuses of power, we have to invoke this impeachment clause,” says Free Speech for People’s president.

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With Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest, US Violence Abroad Is Coming Home

“Paying attention to Palestinians will allow you to understand what is coming,” says human rights attorney Noura Erakat.

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ICE Arrest of Palestinian Grad Has Brought Fear to Columbia University Campus

Attacks on the Palestine protest movement have not been making anyone safer, says professor Joseph Howley.

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Rep. Al Green Shares Why He Disrupted Trump’s Address to Congress

Green has repeatedly called to impeach Trump and says he is currently preparing another such effort.

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Scholar: USAID Often Reproduces Inequality, But Trump’s Cuts Aren’t the Answer

Anthropologist Kathryn Mathers shares how the humanitarian-industrial complex invisibilizes causes of global inequality.

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Why a NJ Rep. Brought a Doctor Who Worked in Gaza as Her Guest to Trump’s Speech

Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress discussed the Middle East without any mention of Palestinians.

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DAPL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Also Aims to Silence Indigenous Protest

“If they can try to shut down Greenpeace, they’re going to shut down everybody,” says Indigenous activist Winona LaDuke.

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US-Europe Rift Widens as Putin Welcomes Trump’s Shifting Ukraine Stance

Kenneth Roth, visiting professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, discusses new developments.

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Gaza Surgeon Describes Surviving Israeli Prisons After a Raid on His Hospital

Dr. Khaled Alser was held for seven months, and he says he was beaten, denied medical treatment and tortured.

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Amid Fragile Ceasefire, Israel Still Illegally Occupies 5 Locations in Lebanon

Reporting from southern Lebanon, journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous says Hezbollah has entered a new phase.

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New York Prison Guards Strike, Denouncing Limits on Solitary Confinement

Prisons are institutions of warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control, says an anthropologist.

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VA Employee: Musk’s Goal Is to Pave Way for Privatization of Public Services

Reporters, workers and now judges across the country are disputing the cost-cutting claims of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government...

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Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Is Accused of Rights Abuses

The U.S. military transported 17 new immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay military base on Sunday, just before efforts to jail an anticipated...

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Keith LaMar Speaks From Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life

We speak with death row inmate Keith LaMar live from the Ohio State Penitentiary, after the release of The Injustice of Justice, a short film about...

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Universities Face Trump’s Ultimatum: End DEI or Risk Losing Federal Funding

The Trump administration has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities across the United States to end all programs related to...

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As Rwanda-Backed Insurgents Wage War in Congo, Western Nations Stay Silent

Advocates call for artist boycotts and public pressure on Rwanda over the resource-driven conflict in the DRC.

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Study: 20 Million People Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under GOP Bill

Proposed cuts for Medicaid and food assistance match the tax breaks they want for the 1 percent, says Sharon Parrott.

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Oscar-Nominated Palestinian Director Condemns Global Inaction Against Israel

“The world just keeps watching and not taking serious actions,” says Basel Adra, director of “No Other Land.”

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Critics Warn of Rising European Fascism as Security Conference Begins in Germany

More than 40 protest rallies are planned against the security conference in Munich this weekend.

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How Is the Trump Family Profiting From the New Cryptocurrency Memecoin?

Journalist Eric Lipton discusses Trump and his allies’ cryptocurrency schemes, Elon Musk’s operations, and more.

13.02.2025 4

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Trump Embraces Authoritarian Playbook of Hungarian Dictator Viktor Orbán

Princeton professor Kim Lane Scheppele points out that Orbán was actually involved in the design of Project 2025.

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Palestinians Face “Impossible Demand” to Be “Perfect Victims,” New Book Argues

“We should shift our focus and scrutinize the perpetrators, the oppressors, the colonizers,” says Mohammed El-Kurd.

11.02.2025 4

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Trump Cuts Off South Africa Aid in Push to Further Interests of White Landowners

White South Africans make up about 7 percent of the population but own more than 70 percent of the farmland.

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Communities of Color Hit Hardest as Trump Shutters Environmental Justice Office

“I’m very concerned about the deregulation and the focus on corporate profits,” says the former head of the EPA program.

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