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At the beginning of this midterm election year, we received an urgent fundraising appeal from US representative Jake Auchincloss, a centrist Democrat…
World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky joins The Chris Hedges Report for the first of a two-part interview. Chomsky…
Why do some of us stick with it, continue to organize and take action for a better world? The longer Iāve lived,…
Have we, humans, passed the point of no return down the path to ecological ruin? Does ruin-without-end loom black across the land,…
New Jersey on TuesdayĀ sued five oil and gas companies and a leading fossil fuel lobby group for knowingly lying to the public…
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings have witnessed protests in Washington and many other sites. Nearly 100 protesters from…
LOS ANGELESāThe site of huge urban uprisings in 1965 and 1992 is once again a city on fire. The current blaze was…
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. congressional vote to authorize the deadly war on Iraq, which according to some…
Social Security is one of the most popular and progressive government programs in the United States. But Republicans, who try to obscure…
Brazil is now headed toward a rocky presidential runoff vote on October 30, after its October 2 election produced no clear winner…
Itās easy to forget that, as of several months ago, political pundits and prognosticators were sure that the Democrats were going to…
A week of directĀ action targeting the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group continued in Washington, D.C. on…
An advocacy group “dedicated to dismantling the prison industry” on Wednesday unveiled an interactive database of over 4,000 corporations it says are…
Noam and Daniel discuss the rising fascist movement and its roots in American history. They analyze the significance of the coming elections…
Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about…
Anthony Burnett, a friend, comrade and collaborator, just published an article in openDemocracy, a splendid and much loved source of progressive ideas…
The Biden administration has ruled out the idea of pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia to end the war, even though many…
An interview with Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist and political activist and institute professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy…
A report published thisĀ week by Save the Children revealed that 1 in 3 of the world’s poorest nations spend more on paying…
Two activists from theĀ women-led peace group CodePink crashed a Tuesday afternoon debt restructuring panel during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank…
Russia has launched its largest strikes on Ukraine in months, attacking civilian areas in Kyiv and nine other cities just two days…
Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills…
Brazilās first round of elections, held on October 2, yielded a major victory for the man who held the presidency from 2003…
Noam Chomsky has been a leading voice on the U.S. left for more than half a century and one the worldās most-cited…
21stĀ Century Revolution: through higher love, racial justice and democratic cooperation, Ted Glick, Bloomfield, NJ: Future Hope Publications, 2021, 114 pp. $10,Ā https://tedglick.com/2021/09/12/21st-century-revolution/. Ted…
The University of Wisconsin at Madison was a hotbed of student radicalism in the 1960s. Unlike some other centers of campus opposition…
Update: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday afternoonĀ issuedĀ a “full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to people convicted of simple federal marijuana possession. Earlier:…
Brazilians made history Sunday by electing not just one but three transgender womenāall progressivesāto the country’s National Congress in federal elections that…
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly was, in many ways, similar to the 76th session and many other previous…
Proponents of a negotiatedĀ diplomatic solution to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week decried the Biden administration’s latest military assistance package for…
We speak to world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky and political writer Vijay Prashad about the Russian war in Ukraine, now in its…
Last evening I watched the October 1, āSave America,ā Trump/Republican campaign rally, 108 minutes of it, in Warren, Michigan. I did so…
In mid-September, for just a few days, Indian industrialist Gautam Adani entered the ranks of the top three richest people on earth as per…
We have spent the past week reading and listening to speeches by world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York. Most of them…
Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Norman Solomon for…
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMYĀ GOODMAN:Ā This isĀ Democracy Now!, democracynow.org,Ā The War and Peace Report.…
September 21 is the day that dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines. For 49 years, it had been a…
The war in Ukraine has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Putting to rest his own ludicrous claim that the invasion…
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Thousands of high schoolĀ students walked out of classrooms across Virginia on Tuesday to protest a plan by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that…
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Thousands of African activistsĀ and members of communities on the frontlines of the worsening climate emergency turned out Friday to call on world…
What do Pakistan, Puerto Rico, and Jackson, Mississippi, have in common? Theyāve all recently experienced climate-related catastrophic rains and flooding, resulting in…
In his anticipated speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to, once more,…
Seven months on, the war in Ukraine has entered a new phase. Ukrainian forces are running a counteroffensive in the east and…
Progressive politicians and activists on Wednesday congratulated unionized workers at a Boston Starbucks who declared victory after a historic 64-day strike. “This…
What does South African president Cyril Ramaphosaās visit last Friday to the White House – and the trip last month by U.S.…
Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ābewildered herdsā and the fragility of the present in the context of the…
With less than two weeks remaining until the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, new polling figures show democratic socialist frontrunner Luiz…
Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg discuss the significance of the life of Mikhail Gorbachev and what the deconstruction of the Soviet Union…
