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Michael Laxer
3 days ago3 min read
My Community Will Remember the Biden Administration for One Thing: Genocide
In less than a year, more than a dozen U.S. officials publicly resigned in protest of Biden's policy on Israel-Palestine. I was one of...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 86 min read
Harris, Trudeau, and the Fall of Our Neoliberal Saviors
What is that lesson that corporate-friendly so-called "centrists" refuse to learn? That you cannot save democracy while preserving the...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20247 min read
The Democratic Party Faces Its Day of Reckoning
By Leonard C. Goodman Following its crushing defeat in the 2024 election, the Democratic Party might finally face its day of reckoning....
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Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20246 min read
A Reformist Program on Immigration (or What Harris Might Have Said)
Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard D. Wolff The immigration issue...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20243 min read
Establishment "liberalism" fails yet again: On the victory of Donald Trump
A The Left Chapter Editorial. In the end it was not even close. The overtly fascistic and authoritarian Donald Trump easily defeated...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 14, 20246 min read
Far-Right Endorsements Unmask Democratic Charade
The fight against Trump's authoritarianism, while certainly necessary, is being used as cover to shore up support for a status quo that...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20248 min read
Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S
While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20242 min read
Thousands Kick Off DNC With Protest in Chicago Over Gaza
"For Palestinian Americans, this is a fundamental issue," said one marcher. Jewish Voice for Peace protestors in Chicago outside the DNC...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20249 min read
Capitalism, Mass Anger, and 2024 Elections
Public domain image By Richard D. Wolff In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20243 min read
Families Flee Khan Younis 'Wasteland' as Israel Hammers Gaza With US-Supplied Bombs
"The most effective action the U.S. could take to halt Israel's genocidal war would be cutting off weapons." Long line of people fleeing...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 30, 20245 min read
The Venezuelan People Stay With the Bolivarian Revolution
Image via X By Vijay Prashad On July 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Nicolás Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20243 min read
Israeli Snipers Firing at 'Anyone Who Is Moving' in Khan Younis
The southern Gaza city is the latest region where Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order, displacing hundreds of thousands of...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20242 min read
Peace Activists Assaulted and Forcibly Removed From Jimmy Kimmel Live Taping With Vice President Kamala Harris
Image via CODEPINK CODEPINK Press Release: CODEPINK Inland Empire and CODEPINK Southeast LA joined a coalition of peace activists at last...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 26, 20242 min read
Puerto Ricans Take to the Streets Against Kamala Harris’s Visit
Protesters in Puerto Rico take down flags of the U.S. and colonial Puerto Rico and replaced them with Haitian, Palestinian, and Puerto...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20226 min read
The Keystone Koup and the whiff of Weimar: Reflections on a very American Fascist dress rehearsal
The failed fascist Koup on Jan. 6th, 2021 has quickly become Myth to liberal and conservative regressives as well as the increasingly...
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