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Gaza requires urgent international attention. What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding…
Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the…
Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nationāa perfect counterpoint to the…
Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a…
Empire has never been only a matter of colonial occupation. The United States and Britain remain the most visible architects of widescale…
Most antiwar voters in Massachusetts don’t believe that the GOP’s Trump administration should be using the U.S. power elite’s permanent war machine…
What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national…
Tens of thousands of California educators joined forces statewide, wagering that they could win more by working together. The result was a…
When he ran for president in 2012, Mitt Romney famously declared that corporations are people. What brought laughter then has begun to…
The football World Cup starts this Thursday and the US regime has already guaranteed that it will be the most racist in…
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