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Trump’s Texas tycoons
Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.
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With 350,000 in attendance, Claudia Sheinbaum’s Zocalo rally shows Mexico’s fourth transformation is thriving
Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.
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‘Complete surrender’: How Gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis
Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.
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Mass incarceration arose out of empire building across North America, Carribean and Pacific
The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]
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Why firing the prison guards involved in Robert Brooks’ death is neither quick nor easy
Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.
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COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke
As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution.
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Annexation redux: Trump’s expansionist threats unmask longstanding policy
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.
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Palestinian filmmakers are doing the impossible to capture their stories
Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.
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Buying Greenland: Trump’s Arctic manoeuvres
Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.
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‘The rich are on course to destroy all our lives’
World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.
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Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life.
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A radical voice in a dispossessed land (Yates interviews the translator of Paraguayan Sorrow)
Rafael Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen: Life and death of a Nazi
John Mullen writes about the Nazi and colonial origins of Jean Marie Le Pen, and how they continue to influence French politics today.
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‘The Fire Boom’
In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic book ‘The Ecology of Fear’, he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy “Los Angeles frontiers” and the massive public resources dedicated to keep it from igniting.
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The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism
Firefighters are being flown in from neighboring states like Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as local resources have been depleted. This shortage can be directly attributed to recent budget cuts signed by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, with the Los Angeles Fire Department seeing a $17.6 million reduction, while the police department received a $126 million increase.
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Targeting doctors and hospitals.. Killing life in Gaza
The latest is the martyrdom of 31-year-old Thabat Ibrahim Muhammad Salim, a volunteer doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on 5 January, 2025.
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Why be a doormat?
Canadian leaders are falling over themselves to placate the incoming Trump administration. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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The rule of the oligarchs and machines is here
2025 is set to be the ‘break-out year’ for artificial intelligence.
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Twisting the terrorism narrative
Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.
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Disaster Nationalism is the new fascism
Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.