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Laura Flanders

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A Tipi Village Takes on Healing and Homelessness

Thousands of people in the U.S. die from extreme heat, cold, and lack of care every year, including many of our unhoused neighbors. As climate change...

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Laura Flanders

Building a New Economy in New York City

New York City’s history is rich with examples of winning people’s movements and progressive change — and we’ve shared many of those stories on...

23.06.2026 10

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“Can I Be Frank?” is the Most Important Show in New York Right Now

If I’d gone to see Morgan Bassichis’s show “Can I Be Frank?” when I meant to, when it premiered at La Mama in 2024, or even at the SoHo...

08.06.2026 10

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Remembering the Anti-War Women of Waterloo

This Memorial Day, I found myself thinking about Waterloo. Not the Waterloo of Nelson vs. Napoleon, battleships, and London’s Trafalgar Square, but...

28.05.2026 30

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Cooperation vs. Authoritarianism in Spain

Spain is home to some of the world’s largest and most successful worker-owned co-ops, but you might be surprised to learn that these businesses...

24.05.2026 10

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Life in Cancer Alley, When a Liquified Natural Gas Facility Moves In

21 years after Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States, Louisianans are facing a whole new kind of storm. Liquefied...

18.05.2026 20

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The Past is Present: History is Organizing With Us Now

The workers who built Britain’s warplanes in 1976 had a problem. Their factory was about to close. Instead of conceding to a “downsizing”, they...

04.05.2026 40

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What Will Come of This Shooting?

Comparisons have been drawn to the events of March 1981, when an assassination attempt was made on Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. as he entered...

28.04.2026 20

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What Happens After a Prison Shuts Down?

In New York City, some of the most vulnerable incarcerated people will now have dedicated hospital beds and access to medical care like never before....

27.04.2026 30

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A Civilization May Yet Die

As our power-mad president tapped out that genocidal threat, a whale shark in the Persian Gulf was navigating waters it has known for millennia. It is...

13.04.2026 10

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Laura Flanders

A Civilization May Yet Die

As our power-mad president tapped out that genocidal threat, a whale shark in the Persian Gulf was navigating waters it has known for millennia. It is...

13.04.2026 30

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Laura Flanders

Vessels of Revolution: On Akinsanya Kambon, Suppressed History and the Fire We’re Living Through

I could have talked with Akinsanya Kambon for hours. As the full, uncut version of our conversation reveals, Akinsanya is simply full of stories —...

08.04.2026 20

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Thanks to Trump, the Cruel Hand of Exploitation is Invisible No More

We’ve always had inequality. Go back to feudal Europe — the peasant bound to the lord’s land, the serf who could not leave, the villager whose...

30.03.2026 20

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Israel Is Also Committing Genocide In the West Bank

Ahmad Ibsais

26.03.2026 10

The Nation

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Hawaii’s Storm Damage Is Deeply Rooted in the State’s Plantation Past

Matthew Vickers

26.03.2026 20

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26.03.2026 30

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Board of Peace, Machinery of War

We live in an attention economy, and it’s important to look at how ours is being squandered. Take Gaza: nothing screams caring for the people of...

23.02.2026 150

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The Trafficking Never Stopped

There’s a reason we talk more about power than individual people. Take Jeffrey Epstein. The man is dead, but the power problem lives on. The files...

17.02.2026 20

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Guthrie, ICE and the Teaching Moment Media are Missing  

Many Americans have been gripped for weeks by the terrifying abduction story of “Today Show” host Savannah Guthrie’s mother. A beloved...

11.02.2026 20

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Laura Flanders

Has the Mainstream Media Failed Us?

05.02.2026 20

The Nation

Laura Flanders

From Venezuelan Communes to U.S. Blocks: Same Struggle, Same Fight.

It’s a different country, but the same question: who does a government serve? By now it seems clear that with the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and...

09.01.2026 30

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A Moment for Desire

I’ve been thinking about moments. Under the heavy onslaught of the last year, the moments of relief I’ve felt in these last twelve months have...

01.01.2026 30

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Trump’s IRS Witch Hunt Can’t Touch What Matters Most

Besides, if you really want to worry about politicized audits, how about racism? Multiple large‑scale studies and Treasury’s own advisory bodies...

19.12.2025 30

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From Doxxing to Dot.Gov: the White House Has Set Up a Taxpayer Funded Enemies List

Doxing, swatting, bogus FBI calls, stalkers live-streaming outside their homes — it used to be marginal maniacs who saw journalists as targets to be...

10.12.2025 30

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Can These Politician Activists Make it to Congress?

05.12.2025 20

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A Tale of Two ICEs

This Saturday, DHS apparently had another of their so-called “enforcement surges” planned, this time involving some 600 agents and an even bigger...

03.12.2025 10

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Laura Flanders

A Tale of Two ICEs

This Saturday, DHS apparently had another of their so-called “enforcement surges” planned, this time involving some 600 agents and an even bigger...

02.12.2025 10

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Laura Flanders

Silenced Reports & Epstein Files: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women Still Don’t Make News

Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. The MMIW...

24.11.2025 20

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One Aircraft Carrier or Health Care Coverage for Tens of Thousands?

There’s an old protest sign I can’t stop thinking about. It read, “It will be a great day in America when our schools have all the money that...

19.11.2025 20

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Who's City? Our City!

11.11.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Caribbean Catastrophes: The Hurricane We See and the War We Don’t

On September 23, in a thuggish address to the United Nations Donald Trump explicitly threatened to blow “Venezuelan terrorist drug smugglers”...

05.11.2025 20

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Federal Whistleblowers Sound Alarm Over Civil Rights at HUD

31.10.2025 20

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Laura Flanders

Caribbean Catastrophes: The Hurricane We See and the War We Don't

31.10.2025 20

Common Dreams

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

While our cultural memory about the McCarthy era romances the refuseniks, hundreds of Americans did comply with the Red Scare, identifying colleagues...

31.10.2025 20

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The Republicans’ Plan is in Plain Sight 

What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that makes commercial media ignore what’s lying in plain sight? With Congress at a standstill, the...

29.10.2025 30

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Niemöller Was Wrong: When They Came for the Communists, People Didn’t Just Stay Silent

25.10.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Why Can't the Corporate Media See the Trump-GOP Shutdown Plan Lying in Plain Sight?

18.10.2025 20

Common Dreams

Laura Flanders

Mahmoud Khalil and the Israelification of the US: Wake Up!

12.10.2025 30

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Mahmoud Khalil Warns That the US Is Failing the Palestine Test

09.10.2025 20

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“There Are No Illegal Strikes—Only Unsuccessful Ones”: A Conversation With Sara Nelson

01.09.2025 20

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Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement

05.08.2025 20

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“They Targeted Me”: Mayor Ras Baraka Speaks About His Arrest And Wanting to Lead New Jersey

09.06.2025 10

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