Subjects Archives: Movements

On April 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to approximately 1,500 of its workers—these mass layoffs represent a nearly 90% cut to the agency.

By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world’s most powerful firms.

Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.

Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.

Let us forget for a moment the fact that the very existence of Israel is an instance of ruthless settler colonialism that has displaced millions of Palestinians and taken over their land.

A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.

The squatter and RFK Jr. have it all figured out—except for the figured out part.

Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism.

The Department of Education will withhold money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits, garnish federal employee wages, and withhold federal pensions from people who have defaulted on their student loan debt.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies raided multiple homes in Michigan, reportedly targeting a number of student activists connected to Gaza solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.

Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover.

How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy.

The leadership of the Democratic Party nationally and especially in Massachusetts–who run the state from the U.S. Congress to its governor to Boston-area mayors and city councils–are championing the Harvard Corporation’s “standing up” to the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing attacks on Harvard.

The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

Bob McChesney, that prescient seer on the subject of media consolidation and much more, died last month.

On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

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