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Michael Laxer
3 days ago6 min read
The Possibility of a War Against Iran
Public domain image By Vijay Prashad In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 64 min read
How a Community Collaborative in Arkansas Is Pioneering Solutions to Long-Standing Social Problems
Sankofa Village Arkansas is building an “intentional community centering Black healing, liberation, and regeneration.” Brandonrush, CC...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 36 min read
The Banana Road From South America to China
Representational image. By Vijay Prashad In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 202411 min read
How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship Works to Uproot Racism in the Food System
This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system. By Damon Orion Racism has been embedded in America’s...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 202410 min read
The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems
Fish are sentient beings subjected to cruelty to maximize profits for the multibillion-dollar industry. By Vicky Bond The unsustainable...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20246 min read
Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration
The “migrant crisis” was manufactured and is the fault of both Trump and Biden. We need to understand that the U.S. needs immigrants more...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 3, 20246 min read
The Carbon Soil Opportunity: Organic Farming Helps Counter Climate Change
Switching to organic products is an easy way to eat healthier and support the environment. Elina Mark, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20246 min read
Why Do the Israelis Bomb Palestinian Homes in the Middle of the Night?
By Vijay Prashad At 10 p.m. on the night of October 28, 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20245 min read
Peru’s Choices Between a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars
Joe Biden participates in a bilateral meeting with president Dina Boluarte Zegarra of Peru, Friday, November 15, 2024, during the APEC...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 18, 20244 min read
This Chicago Community Envisions a World Without Prisons and Police
The #LetUsBreathe Collective offers a hub for art, activism, and healing to those impacted by mass incarceration. By Damon Orion Often...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 8, 20245 min read
How Local and Federal Institutions Are (and Aren’t) Taking Care of North Carolina’s Hurricane Survivors—and What Mutual Aid Groups Are Doing to Help
Grassroots organizations are helping rebuild North Carolina communities after Hurricane Helene. Haywood County North Carolina after...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20244 min read
Community Support Helps the Olympia, Washington Orca Book Cooperative Stay Afloat
When COVID-19 hit, U.S. bookshops were an endangered species. Olympia, Washington’s largest independent bookstore survived by embracing...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 1, 20244 min read
Montana’s First Worker Cooperative Is In It for the Long Haul
How the custom steel fabrication and design company Crucible built a “gravel road” for other Montana worker co-ops to follow. Photo of...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 202414 min read
The U.S. Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
Our existing water supplies could go further by turning wastewater into drinking water. Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir on the Colorado...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 202410 min read
Why Is Prehistory Inspiring So Many Artists?
What draws us to such a distant and long-gone time? A fruitful relationship has always existed between prehistory (a scientific...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 202410 min read
How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
Profit-driven urban development has disconnected us—particularly children—from the wilderness. The effects are unhealthy. An urban...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 21, 20246 min read
Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?
It’s not just about women’s increasing power and independence—it’s about capitalism failing us all. By Sonali Kolhatkar It has been a...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 20, 20248 min read
The Corporate Vehicles Changing International Commerce
The unchecked rise of financial entities designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity has created a global, collaborative...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 19, 202418 min read
The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
Protecting the Earth’s oceans is problematic when profit is the leading concern. kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/lic...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 20245 min read
When Children Are Murdered, What Is There to Celebrate?
By Vijay Prashad After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist...
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