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Recent ZNet
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Owliaei: Teacher Strikes Continue to Spread
A Symptom of Public Education Underfunding
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Richardson: The Latest Attack on Food Stamps
Adding a work requirement to food stamps is a mean-spirited and short-sighted move that will harm our economy while exacerbating hunger
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The U.S. Frontier as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice
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Wainwright: Creating an economy that works for all
A Labour government could overhaul a struggling, unjust economic system
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Rall: Stop Letting Trump Distract You From Your Wants and Needs
It’s time to stop being reactive. This is our country. This is our time
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and Molly C. McCafferty: Harvard Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Unionize
This vote means roughly 5,000 eligible students can now begin to collectively bargain with the University as members of Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers
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Zeese: Earth Day: Conflict Over The Future Of The Planet
In order for people to create transformative changes, we need a well-educated activist community
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Buford: Canary in the Coal Pond
New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills
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Chelala: Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
In spite of a systemic policy of demonization against him, Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government crimes against the Palestinians
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Lalaguna: When did rape become entertainment?
Destroying gender inequality once and for all, is an essential precondition for both race and class equality to be achieved
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Watts: Goldman prize awarded to South African women
Winners of the world’s leading environmental award faced down Vladimir Putin and the country’s recently deposed leader, Jacob Zuma, to overturn a multibillion-dollar nuclear deal
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Cockburn: We should be skeptical
None of the arguments currently being used in Britain and the US to smear those skeptical of the governmental and media consensus are new
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Davis-Cohen: Police Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States
And that may be the tip of the iceberg
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Greenwald: Silencing Julian Assange
Many of the recent media claims about Assange — which have centered on the alleged role of Russia in the internal Spanish conflict over Catalan independence — range from highly dubious to demonstrably false
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Swanson: Dear World, The U.S. Is Just Not That Into You
From outside the United States, the U.S. government looks like an endless war machine
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Rhoades: Building alternatives to mining in Colombia
Interview with local activists and businesspeople determined to kick the mining industry out of their town
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Barrows-friedman: Barnard students vote for divestment
In a major victory for the Palestinian rights movement on...
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Dayen: Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office
His war on Amazon expands to include the right-wing’s campaign to abolish America’s oldest—and still successful—public service
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Finnie: Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again
Young people have redirected their activism toward different kinds of outlets, where their efforts may actually bring about tangible results. Outlets like unions
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April ZMag
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Malkin: Rock ‘n Roll Resistance at Big Mountain, Arizona
I recently spoke with Clayson and Jeneda Benally about their bands Blackfire and Sihasin, their indigenous roots and the power of punk rock to change the world.
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Emanuele: Red State Organizing in the Age of Trump
Reflections on the sort of organizing work I’m currently doing in Northwest Indiana, where I live and work. I hope people will find some of my insights interesting and useful.
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Rasmus: Trump’s tax Cuts, Budget Deficits, Trump’s Recession 2019?
The U.S. budget deficit consequences of the Trump tax cuts are therefore massive. Instead of averaging $150 billion a year on average (the $1.5 trillion) the effect will be three to four times that, or around $300 to $400 billion a year.
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Donald Trump and his generals are making fossil fuels a crucial ingredient for bulking up our national security. In that way, they will turn anything (or any group) standing in the way of the extraction and exploitation of oil, coal, and natural gas into obstructers of the national interest and, quite literally, of American national security.
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Flowers: No Foreign Bases: Challenging the Footprint of U.S. Empire
The footprint of U.S. empire are what Chalmers Johnson called an “empire of bases.”
Recent Audio/Videos
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Graham: New Student Movement Seeks to Change Hopkins from Within
A student-led group called Youth Against War and Racism is partnering with the community to lead a fight against Hopkins' connection to government agencies like the CIA and end its role in military research
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Flanders: Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
Interview on worker wins, challenges, and some new models for organizing
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Klein: The Battle for Paradise
The post-Hurricane Maria recovery is seized by one overarching question: Who is Puerto Rico for: islanders or wealthy outsiders?
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Chavez: Farmworkers Bring Human Rights Fight to Wendy’s
Dozens of farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have entered their last day of a 5-day fast
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno’s war on crime requires a war on roads?
One of the most important achievements of former Ecuadorean President...
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Wittner: Review of Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”
It’s not every day that an insider tells us how...
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Wittner: Which Nations Are the Happiest — and Why
America’s oft-quoted Declaration of Independence, when discussing “unalienable rights,” focused...
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Emersberger: Corbyn allies buckle under pressure from the UK’s pro-war establishment
Anyone who has been following the career of Jeremy Corbyn,...
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