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Recent ZNet
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Engelhardt: Three Exceptional Facts About America
September 29, 2015
It’s Safe to Be Paranoid in the U.S.
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Chomsky: Media, NATO, ISIS, Free Trade Agreements & Humanity
September 29, 2015
Interview on the significance and role of whistleblowers, the alternative media, activism and a host of other related issues
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Bernabe: Puerto Rico’s New Party of the Working People Fights Austerity
September 29, 2015
The struggles for radical reversal of the dominant economic and social policies and structures in Puerto Rico and in the United States must advance together
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Giroux: The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy
September 29, 2015
The time has come to develop a pedagogical language in which civic values, social responsibility, and the institutions that support them become central to invigorating and fortifying a new era
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Cole: Why Obama and Putin are Both Wrong on Syria
September 29, 2015
If Putin ties himself too closely to the sinking ship of Bashar, he will go down with it
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Fletcher: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter
September 29, 2015
Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter
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Milne: It’s the British establishment that has a problem with democracy
September 29, 2015
The elite has little time for elections that deliver the wrong results. And Jeremy Corbyn’s was one of them
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Mather: The global trade union movement: Stepping up to the plate?
September 29, 2015
An International Summer School brought union activists and leaders together to discuss the big questions facing the trade union movement
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Benns: American Slavery, Reinvented
September 29, 2015
The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”
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Gibler: ‘It Was the State’: Unmasking the Official Ayotzinapa Narrative
September 29, 2015
A year has passed and we still do not know the fate of the 43 rural college students from Ayotzinapa forcibly disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014 in Iguala, Mexico
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Nasser: Time for UN to shift mission in Yemen
September 28, 2015
Peace in Yemen will continue to be elusive unless the United Nations shifts its mission...
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September 28, 2015
How Henry Kissinger Helped Create Our “Proliferated” World
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Cole: Syria: Is Bashar al-Assad winning the Diplomatic War? Rebels Fret
September 28, 2015
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, widely regarded as a war criminal with tens of thousands of deaths on his hands, is nevertheless on a roll
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MacGabhann: Mexico’s Plan Merida on Trial
September 28, 2015
Plan Merida has been blamed for worsening the country’s security situation and allowing atrocities like the Ayotzinapa disappearances to flourish
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Knoll: Ayotzinapa: Necropolitics and the Media as Judge and Jury
September 28, 2015
Necropolitics: where the state has the “power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die”
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Fulton: Confidential Charter School Memo Blasted as ‘Outline for a Hostile Takeover’
September 28, 2015
Critic says billionaire's plan to "charterize" Los Angeles public schools is "a ham-handed effort to circumvent democracy in a major American city"
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Bohmer: Connecting $15 an Hour Movement to other Social Movements
September 27, 2015
Connecting issues and social movements and organizations to each other has the potential to build a powerful movement of movements that is stronger than any of its individual parts
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Bond: UN Millennium Development Goals replaced by new ‘distraction gimmicks’
September 27, 2015
The annual UN heads-of-state summits reconfirms inappropriate targets, processes and evaluation systems
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Zollmann: Refugees and the Crime Against Peace
September 27, 2015
“All time-high” refugee crisis has been fuelled by Western wars of aggression
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Lynd: The Alinksy Method: a Critique
September 27, 2015
It was an evening late in August 1968. I was in the bathtub. Believing that...
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Schulte: About That “Crime Wave”
September 27, 2015
The media hysteria about a supposed crime wave serves to undermine movements against police violence
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Swanson: Bernie Sanders Gets a Foreign Policy
September 27, 2015
After 25,000 people asked, Senator Bernie Sanders added a few words to his presidential campaign website about the 96% of humanity he'd been ignoring.
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Shirazi: PolitiFact Is Right That Ted Cruz Is Wrong, But Still Botches Iran Deal Facts
September 27, 2015
Iran can’t “cease” doing something it’s not–and never has been–doing
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NoiseCat: Indigenous Leaders Want Pope Francis To Rescind Bull Justifying Imperialism
September 27, 2015
The Doctrine of Discovery, which allowed taking indigenous land 500 years ago, still underpins Indian law in the U.S.
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Faculty: Imagine A Great Project
September 26, 2015
The World Institute for Social Change is a school that aims to raise consciousness across the whole universe of people concerned with creating a better world
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Bennis: Standing Before Congress, Pope Francis Calls Out the ‘Industry of Death’
September 26, 2015
“To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place”
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Lappe: “Occupy” Spanish-Style… Big Lessons For Us?
September 26, 2015
Instead of fading from sight, by early 2014 the Indignados had set the stage for the birth of a new political party: Podemos, “We Can”
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Falk: Yemen pays price for Saudis’ sectarian paranoia
September 26, 2015
The Shia-Sunni divide or the Riyadh-Tehran rivalry as an explanation of Yemen’s strife-ridden country is a cruel and futile fantasy
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September 26, 2015
The most potent such campaigns are often devoted to outlawing or otherwise punishing criticisms of Israel
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La Botz: The Agony of Mexican Labor Today
September 26, 2015
For the last year and a half, tens of thousands of Mexican teachers have been...
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Emanuele: High Tech Fantasies: Elon Musk, Nuking Mars and the Colonization of Space
September 26, 2015
The militarization of space is only the tip of the iceberg for the solar system's collective future
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Tosun: The Building Up of Fascism in Turkey
September 26, 2015
When a society is sharply divided vertically and various segments struggle against an oligarchic power we’re facing a fascist regime
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Swanson: War Is a Force That Gives Us Idiocy
September 26, 2015
A war is not an ennobling adventure. Watching lies about it on television is not the same as "living" it would be
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Muwakkil: Meet the Group of African-American Organizers Building Black Support for Bernie Sanders
September 26, 2015
Will grassroots organizing within the black electorate be able to challenge Clinton’s hegemony?
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Coles: Steinbeck and the Refugee Crisis
September 26, 2015
The Grapes of Wrath blasts the interlocking systems of land ownership, finance capital, and political cronyism
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Swanson: The War to End Slavery Didn’t
September 25, 2015
What ended mass slavery was the nonviolent educational and moral force of the civil rights movement a century later
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Burrowes: Disaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation
September 25, 2015
A review of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
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Podur: The most dangerous moment in Colombia’s peace talks
September 25, 2015
Regional political changes that could sink the accord
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Recent Audio/Videos
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Benjamin: Is the Pope a Man of the Left?
September 28, 2015
Interview on how the Pope is a powerful voice of the South
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Sanders: ‘I Am Running to Win’
September 21, 2015
Interview on the overwhelming audiences for his campaign events, the exhausting pace of the campaign, and spontaneous generation of as many as 200,000 grassroots volunteers
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Finkelstein: Amnesty’s Report on Gaza’s Offensive 2014
September 19, 2015
Interview with Norman G. Finkelstein
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September 18, 2015
Interview on the Islamic State, military action, human rights and refugees
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Sanders: From Greece to Puerto Rico, the Financial Rules Are Rigged to Favor the 1%
August 22, 2015
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders recently convened a panel of economists in Washington to discuss the debt crisis in Greece and throughout the world
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August 17, 2015
Alternate views on recent developments in the fight against austerity waged by Syriza and the Greek people
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Snowden: Edward Snowden Interview About Fellow NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake
August 16, 2015
Edward Snowden talks about mass surveillance, the NSA and Thomas Drake, the agency whistleblower who preceded him.
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West: The Betrayal By The Black Elite
August 13, 2015
Shoot us down. We keep coming. Lie on us. We keep coming. Subordinate us. We keep coming. That’s the fightback
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Porter: Obama’s Promoting Iran Agreement with One Hand Tied Behind Back
August 7, 2015
Supporters of the Iran agreement are hurting their own efforts to uphold it and to avoid war by promoting the lie that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons
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Klein: Obama Is Beginning to Sound Like a Climate Leader, When Will He Act Like One?
August 5, 2015
As scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the Earth’s hottest year on record, President Obama has unveiled his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from U.S. power plants
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Warren: I stand with Planned Parenthood
August 5, 2015
Senator Elizabeth Warren delivers a speech about the Republican vote to defund Planned Parenthood on the Senate floor on August 3, 2015.
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August 4, 2015
Susan George looks back at her four decades of scholarship to explain what led her to write her different books, how it formed her vision of power and the best ways to challenge the Davos class in order to deliver a more just world
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Chomsky: ‘What exactly is the threat of Iran?’
July 25, 2015
Interview on why there was no need for a nuclear deal.
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Benjamin: Assata, Guantánamo and Trade as Cuban Flag Rises in Washington
July 22, 2015
The last time the United States and Cuba had diplomatic ties, President Dwight Eisenhower was in office
Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Reuters covers for Colombia and the USA – the standard practice
September 29, 2015
This article by Alexandra Ulmer of Reuters says Venezuela will...
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Simpson: The fight for Dyett High School will go on
September 25, 2015
“And this hunger strike has taught people that we don’t...
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Wilson: Farm Justice and Neoliberalism: Feedback to Julie Guthman
September 23, 2015
Authors Note: This is an open letter of feedback to...
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Wittner: After the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers Also Play by the Rules?
September 22, 2015
When all is said and done, what the recently-approved Iran...
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Wilson: Food Sovereignty as Government Intervention
September 22, 2015
Subtitle: The Views of La Via Campesina and U.S. Family...
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Emersberger: Don’t be fooled by “leftists” who mimic the Right in Ecuador
September 18, 2015
A piece that Raul Zibechi wrote about Ecuador early this year has...
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September 18, 2015
What follows are my answers to a written interview with...
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Emersberger: Human Rights Watch – much less than truthful on Ecuador
September 1, 2015
Daniel Wilkinson – managing director of the Americas Division of...
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Wilson: Farm Studies Illiteracy Test
August 31, 2015
(A Farmers (latest) Test of Basic Hog Sense) INTRODUCTION This...
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Wittner: Militarism Run Amok: Russians and Americans Get Their Kids Ready for War
August 31, 2015
In 1915, a mother’s protest against funneling children into war...
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Simpson: The Chicago hunger strike for Dyett High School: Why it matters to us all
August 29, 2015
It’s been a tough week for the environment. A chunk...
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August 27, 2015
Recently a few state legislatures introduced bills intended to restrict...
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August 23, 2015
In 2012 an Amnesty official explained to me why Amnesty...
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Hermann: Animal rights in an age of corporate globalization
August 14, 2015
Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on HermannView and has been...
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Dubiel: Support for Tent encampment in Ballard
August 12, 2015
I just sent this email note to Honorable Ed Murray,...
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