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‘The Genocide Gentry’: Weapon execs sit on boards of universities, institutions
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sept 18, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. A trio of human rights groups on Wednesday...
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What’s good for Boeing workers is good for the public
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Sep. 18, 2024. It is shared here with permission. On Friday, some 33,000 Boeing workers went on strike after voting down a tentative agreement (TA) reached...
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The Right wants us to submit to nihilism. Here is where i’m searching for hope.
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Sep. 19, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Every day I encounter, in some form or another, the idea that everything is doomed to always get worse....
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Oakland prosecutors kept Black, Jewish people off juries to promote death...
The role of the death penalty as a toll of the racist system of criminal punishment has been long documented. In the case of Alameda County, California, the inside story of how prosecutors influenced...
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Anti-Zionist Jews must play a role in Palestinian liberation
Israel’s almost year-long genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has brought many long-simmering questions of politics and identity within the international Jewish community to the fore. What does it mean...
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Hezbollah says Israel dropping leaflets with ‘very dangerous’ barcodes in...
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 24, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. As the death toll from the Israeli bombing of...
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Can the machinists save Boeing from its management?
This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Sep. 23, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Boeing has increased its offer to striking Machinists, hoping to end a work stoppage that entered its...
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Workers at ‘progressive’ Trader Joe’s face rampant union busting two years...
Two years ago, workers from several different Trader Joe’s grocery stores joined the wave of unionization efforts spreading across the country. Workers in Hadley, Massachusetts, made history in 2022...
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‘Arrest Netanyahu’: NYC activists call mass march during Israel’s UN address
Editor’s Note: This interview was recorded on Thursday, Sept 19. On Wednesday, Sept 25, The Jerusalem Post reported Netanyahu has cancelled his trip to New York. Nearly a year into Israel’s genocide...
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“We can’t arrest our way to liberation”
This story was originally published by In These Times on Sep. 25, 2024. It is shared here with permission. In a lot of ways, an attack on Nabala Cafe always felt inevitable — and we didn’t even have a...
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Are Ft. Worth police running a car towing racket? A dubious and violent...
Like many cop watchers, Carolina Ft. Worth has an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of her local city. So when she noticed Fort Worth police seemed to be targeting the vehicles of bar workers...
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NYT, Guardian parrot Israel’s absurd ‘bombing to de-escalate’ framing
This past week, Israel massively escalated its attacks on Lebanon, killing 32 and maiming over 3,000 in so-called “pager attacks” (e.g. a textbook war crime), and killing 558 people, including 34...
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‘I Am Maroon’: The life of Black Panther Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz
For nearly half a century, Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz was a political prisoner of the United States. Prior to his incarceration, Shoatz fought against US capitalism and imperialism as a member of the...
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Dirty Cops, Dirty Data
by Megan Kenny and Brandon SoderbergData analysis by Megan KennyIllustrations by Evangeline Gallagher On the heels of 2023, a year when Baltimore’s annual homicide number significantly declined for...
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With green light from Biden White House, Israel invades Lebanon
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Oct. 1, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon early...
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‘A land that we own’: Palestinian farmers resist Israeli expansion in the...
For Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, land and livelihood are deeply intertwined concerns—and the only way to defend them is through organization. Faced with a hostile legal apparatus, a military...
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AI data centers are draining water from this drought-stricken Mexican town
As the climate crisis intensifies, billions of poor and working people around the world are suffering from lack of regular (or any) access to clean water, but the dawn of “AI” is about to make the...
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The Walz-Vance VP debate was a civil display of our appalling politics
Tuesday night’s VP debate took place in the context of multiple overlapping crises: Iranian missiles raining down on Tel Aviv, intensifying the threat of a regional war; a catastrophic hurricane...
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Cornell is about to deport a student over Palestine activism
The student encampment movement last school year turned institutions of higher education into flashpoints of struggle over Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, US support for it, and the right...
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Behind enemy lines: ‘Blacks for Trump’ and Pennsylvania progressives play for...
As the 2024 presidential election enters its final month, a clear result has yet to materialize. Both parties are campaigning for undecided votes, and making some possibly unconventional choices along...
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