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Muhammadu Buhari and the Soldier’s Paradise

This article summarizes historian Samuel Fury Childs Daly’s perspectives on Nigerian history and the armed rule that shaped its national identity...

22.07.2025 30

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Daniel Falcone

Updates on the Iran-Israel War: Conversations with Leading Analysts

In this latest and extensive discussion on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, CounterPunch features international relations scholar Stephen Zunes,...

01.07.2025 30

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All Politics Is Global: The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Insurgent Victory

Andrew Cuomo’s attempt at a comeback served as a case study in civic fragility, hypocrisy, party loyalty, and political amnesia. Aside from the...

25.06.2025 10

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Activists and Empires, Old and New

Greta Thunberg and crew threatened to commit the unthinkable – deliver food, first aid, clean water, and child prosthetics to the people of Gaza....

10.06.2025 10

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History and the Plague of Fascism

Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor Cornelissen, (1935–2021)...

02.06.2025 20

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End Times Militarism

End times militarism is both a sociopolitical and sociopathic movement categorized by an aggressive preparation for apocalyptic conflict. It is often...

26.05.2025 9

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The Trump Presidency Continues Its Destruction of the Ruling Class

Introduction The concept of the “ruling class” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist...

05.05.2025 9

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Shirley DuBois and Scholars of Color Resistance Efforts Parallel 2025 Visa Struggles

March 27, 2025, marked 48 years since the death of Shirley Graham DuBois, the prominent African American writer, scholar, and social activist. She was...

31.03.2025 9

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K-12 Leaders Rejected Weaponization of Antisemitism Claims. Why Won’t Higher Ed?

Columbia has capitulated in what one scholar calls “an ideological battle to shut down any dissent” against Trump.

22.03.2025 4

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In a World Run by Fascists Can Humans Survive?

On March 9, 1970, editors of The Intercontinental Press, Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livio Maitan, Ernest Mandel, and George Novack wrote an...

10.03.2025 10

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Scholar Says AHA’s Vote on Gaza Scholasticide Shouldn’t Be Controversial

Professor Rebecca E. Karl explains why she voted in favor of the American Historical Association’s resolution.

09.01.2025 4

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: A Productive Misunderstanding

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, originally a four-hour film, is still a very long 151-minute experiential and observational film by Johan Grimonprez....

01.01.2025 4

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The Amsterdam Attacks: The Politics of Collective Violence

Introduction This article contains and curates Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson’s collection of Mouin Rabbani’s tweets on the 2024 Amsterdam...

12.11.2024 5

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Trump Was Never a “Moderate” on Foreign Policy

Former President Donald Trump is sometimes depicted as having a less interventionist foreign policy than his Democratic rivals, but this is a myth,...

21.08.2024 4

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