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ExxonMobil wants to start a war in Latin America
It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two Latin American countries
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Half of Americans under 35 see Hamas attack as ‘justified by Palestinian grievances’
Democrats are terrified because they are losing their grip on the young. A new poll says half of Americans under 35 see Hamas’s October 7 attack as justified by Palestinian grievances. Young Americans are seeing the enormity of genocide.
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Tel Aviv’s man in Washington
In a city awash in foreign interests, dual citizens, and intersecting and at times conflicting loyalties, sometimes the most egregious examples are hiding in plain sight.
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Harry Bridges and the ILWU – then and now
A review of Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.
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Biden became ‘Genocide Joe’ thanks to the Israel lobby
Why is Biden helpless to do what any decent person would do and oppose Israel’s apocalyptic destruction and massacres in Gaza? Because he worries about losing the organized Jewish community’s support.
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The dark side of SpaceX’s flight of innovation
While Elon Musk grabbed headlines again after Starship’s second test flight, his workers continue to toil under high stress and the lack of safety.
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Cause and Effect: Chicago City Hall’s pro-Israel resolution and the murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume
The Chicago City Council’s demonization of Palestinians set the stage for the murder of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume. We refuse to accept the grief of elected officials who would rather stand with our corpses than support our freedom.
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The Right’s persecution of Palestine supporters looks a lot like a new Red Scare
Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.
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Informal workers in the Global South and the Global Labor Movement
Samir Amin, the late Africanist, Marxist, and revolutionary theorist, wrote in 2019: “the proletariat seems to disappear just at the moment it has become more widespread.” Samir was not wrong.
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Gender, Labor, Democracy, and Americanism: U.S. History in the (Un)Making
In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive rights was taken down. The marker was formally approved and erected by the State, following years of community effort on behalf of this locally-born female hero. It stood […]
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The Israeli perspective–on genocide–dominates our airwaves
The Israeli ambassador to the United States was on CNN this morning assuring us that when the truce is over, “the operation will resume”—i.e., the vengeful destruction of life and property in Gaza will continue.
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ExxonMobil’s land grab
In 2014/15, the most sinister and predatory oil corporation in the world, ExxonMobil-an avowed enemy of Venezuela-discovered oil in land and sea of the disputed territory.
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A look at Assange from inside the CIA, State Department & U.S. Military
You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and U.S. military.
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Israel-Palestine war: Jewish students say they won’t be silenced by Brown University
In their first interview since they were arrested for holding a sit-in, some of the students vow to continue their activism until the US university divests from Israel.
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Hostile takeover: NATO’s annexation of Montenegro
NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to U.S. global hegemony.
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Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine
Genet was one of the most original and combative writers of the 20th century.
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The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing
Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.
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Inside AIPAC’s strategy to back Israel’s cheerleaders and punish the Squad
The powerful lobby and allied groups have poured money into defeating candidates who voice any criticism of Israel. Amid calls for a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re back at it again.
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Washington Post lifts the veil on CIA’s shadow war against Russia waged since 2014
In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter.
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After a long defeat, Labor is rising from the ashes
Stephen Franklin on labor’s losses—and explosive resurgence.