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Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’
When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
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Twenty-five days of debt-service payments could emancipate African women from 40 billion hours of water harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
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UN investigation accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza through targeted destruction of health facilities
A United Nations investigation released on Thursday has concluded that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip by systematically targeting and destroying reproductive health care facilities.
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Seven silent measures against Cuba
Marco Rubio—Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him—is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize.
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Against Žižek’s Pessimism: Hope, Will, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.”1 In it, Žižek argues that communists should turn their backs on humanist optimism and embrace radical pessimism, seeing life as an immanent […]
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The fog of class war
A class consciousness among the working masses, one that takes the issue of race seriously, is critical at this moment. Still, the democrats are working to disrupt this effort to organize against the capitalist elite.
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The scramble for Greenland
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.
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Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
The Trump administration told U.S. government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report—the latest move to withdraw the U.S. from global climate action and research.
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Professor at center of Columbia University deportation scandal is former Israeli spy
Although she is now an academic, she has never left the world of international security, making the subject her area of expertise. She has made a point of trying to lift women’s voices in the field. One of these was the then-U.S. Director of National Security, Avril Haines, whom she spoke with in 2023.
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U.S. media’s sorry history of abetting immigration panics
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.
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We are duped into blaming our problems on everyone except our rulers
What poses a threat to you is the political status quo which robs your country of riches and resources to inflict military violence on innocent people overseas while strangling your civil rights and poisoning your planet.
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More than 7000 massacred in Syria
7,000 Christians and Alawites have been “slaughtered” in Syria according to Greek Member of the European Parliament, Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security & Defense, who visited Damascus on 8-9 March.
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Feminism and revolution: A conversation with Alejandra Laprea
Despite many obstacles, popular feminism is advancing grassroots struggles in Venezuela.
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At my Texas prison, solitary confinement all but guarantees sexual exploitation by guards
Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”
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Momentum builds behind calls for release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention
Federal judge orders that the recent Columbia graduate not be deported while the court considered a challenge brought by Khalil’s lawyers.
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Universalism the panacea for Palestine
In total contrast to the ideals of universalism, the Trump-Vance swagger to defend and increase only U.S. interests is apparent in their MAGA doctrine and was revealed in their gangsterish Oval Office thuggery towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Trump’s censorship Czar orders NPR and PBS investigation
“In a healthy democracy, we would be investing enough in our public-media system that it wouldn’t need to seek any corporate underwriting,” says Craig Aaron
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Romania, a captured state: How democracy was stolen before our eyes
This is not just another episode in a dirty electoral game.
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UNRWA chief says Israel is clearly weaponizing aid into Gaza
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has condemned Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, as well as its decision to cut off electricity to the Palestinian enclave.