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Berlin Votes on Whether to Expropriate Corporate Landlords
Instead of just complaining about the city’s rampant gentrification, the Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen campaign offers Berliners a chance to do something to increase the supply of affordable housing overnight.
Andrew PasquierPick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance
The line from defeat in Afghanistan to deputizing bounty hunters in Texas can be traced in blood—and history.
John Scagliotti and JoAnn WypijewskiChina Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions
Empowered workers would be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party.
Maya WangLatest World Coverage
Uniting Against the American War Machine
Twenty years and trillions of dollars later, the US counterinsurgency in Afghanistan failed—so when will we stop rewarding the military-industrial complex?
William Astore
It’s Time to Break Up the Military-Industrial Complex
Despite the end of two decades of war, a congressional committee just voted to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $24 billion.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Progressive Democrats Fight to Limit Defense Spending
The House is poised to pass a military budget this week that’s even bigger than President Joe Biden requested, but left-leaning lawmakers are putting up a fight.
Aída ChávezContinuing World Coverage
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September 21, 2021
Russia’s War Against the Cold
A new history considers how the struggle with Siberia’s permafrost redefined the country.
Jennifer Wilson -
September 20, 2021
When Biden Met Bennett—and Gave His Blessing to Impunity
No country has been in a better position to impose pressure on Israel than the United States, but most presidents never tried—including the current one.
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September 16, 2021
America’s Afghanistan Amnesia
To scapegoat Joe Biden, the national security establishment covered up two decades of lies.
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September 16, 2021
What Can We Learn From the War in Afghanistan?
Four lessons worth considering.
Rajan Menon
US Foreign Policy
Blinken Derangement Syndrome
The party that brought us the Benghazi hearings has a new obsession.
John Nichols
Germany’s Secret Success: Turning Immigration Into a Nonissue
Despite predictions of electoral disaster, Angela Merkel’s decision to admit 1.7 million asylum seekers has become politically popular.
Linda MannheimAfrica
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July 22, 2021
3 Things Biden Can Do Right Now to Stop Covid and Save Lives
Unless the president changes course, and confronts Big Pharma, the past six months will indelibly tarnish his legacy.
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July 15, 2021
What Will Be the Language of Our Digital Future?
Without online diversity, only a handful of people will dictate the fate of the world.
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June 11, 2021
Do African Lives Matter?
The response of the outside world to the latest disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo suggests the answer is no.
James North -
April 30, 2021
Voices Are Raised Against the NBA Launching Its New African League in Rwanda
Human rights groups are concerned that using Rwanda as a backdrop would provide a public relations boost for its autocratic leader.
Dave Zirin
Asia
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September 7, 2021
The War on Terror: 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion
From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price.
Tariq Ali -
September 7, 2021
Congress Has the Power to Rein In Presidential Military Overreach
The commander in chief’s power to invade and inflict carnage is far too expansive.
Danny Sjursen, Lawrence Wilkerson and The Nation -
September 3, 2021
What’s Left of Communism in China?
Capitalists, once detested, are now welcomed into the Chinese Communist Party.
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August 26, 2021
The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet
By 2049, China will be too busy dealing with climate disasters to launch a war with the United States.
Michael T. Klare
Europe
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August 23, 2021
Emma Rothschild’s Family Sagas and Microhistories
Can one tell the story of a country through one family?
David A. Bell -
August 20, 2021
America’s Global Imperialist Footprint
With hundreds of military bases around the world, America’s imperialist ambitions won’t stop with failure in Afghanistan.
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August 2, 2021
“We Will Live in a Completely Different World”: A Conversation With Svetlana Alexievich
The Nobel laureate on a new wave of repressions in Belarus, the role of women in revolution, and life after the pandemic.
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July 29, 2021
Two Cheers for the Free Press
And why Democratic attempts to cure excesses through censorship are not only wrong but stupid.
Benjamin Moser
Latin America
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August 31, 2021
Ed Asner, American Socialist
The actor, who died Sunday, championed democratic socialism long before Bernie Sanders ran for president.
John Nichols -
August 20, 2021
The Groundbreaking Decision That Just Struck a Blow to Our Racist Immigration Laws
Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed.
Elie Mystal -
August 18, 2021
Documents of the Revolution: Unpublished Che Guevara Letters
The singular Cuban revolutionary’s correspondence reveals his struggles to merge ideology with praxis.
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August 10, 2021
The Arrest of Dora María Téllez Marks a New Low for Nicaragua
One of the beliefs that animated the Central American solidarity movement then was that we were not powerless. We are not powerless now, either.
Linda Mannheim
Middle East
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September 15, 2021
A Night With Palestine’s Defenders of the Mountain
For months, the people of Beita have been engaged in a fierce—and fiercely creative—struggle against the illegal Israeli settlement threatening their village.
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September 13, 2021
George W. Bush Still Owes the World an Apology
In his speech marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Bush made no attempt at taking responsibility for the tragedies that followed that awful day.
Joan Walsh -
September 9, 2021
How the War on Terror Created the “Muslim American”
Before 9/11, Muslims were just another of this country’s many religious groups. After, they became a targeted, racialized minority.
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September 9, 2021
Why America Goes to War
Money drives the US military machine.
Andrew Cockburn