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We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Image from a Roger Waters concert, Portugal, 2023 -- Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Roger Waters The following is a...
The Left Chapter
18 hours ago12 min read
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Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
By Vijay Prashad In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is...
The Left Chapter
2 days ago5 min read
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First, They Came for the Venezuelans
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized...
The Left Chapter
3 days ago5 min read
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Bomb with Everything You Have: Israel Sets the Tone for the Genocide of the Palestinians
Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of...
The Left Chapter
4 days ago5 min read
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How US News Reporters Are Being Deceived by Fake Groups of ‘Moms’ and ‘Parents’ Attacking Public Schools
These groups are the creation of deep-pocketed conservative networks, not “grassroots” advocates. By Maurice Cunningham “If your mother...
Michael Laxer
5 days ago11 min read
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Germany and the EU Embrace Military Keynesianism
German armored personnel carrier in Bavaria, Germany, November, 2024 -- public domain image By Matthew Read Just days before its...
Michael Laxer
Mar 214 min read
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Trump 2.0: US Revivalism Driven by Tech Oligarchy
Trump purchases a Tesla at the White House, March 11, 2025 - public domain image By Bappa Sinha Trump 2.0 has had a tumultuous start....
Michael Laxer
Mar 204 min read
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Israel’s Hellish Attack on the Palestinians on 18 March
Gaza residents amid the devastation on March 18 -- image via video screenshot By Vijay Prashad On 18 March 2025, Israel unilaterally...
Michael Laxer
Mar 194 min read
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Corruption and Greed Kill in Macedonian Fire
Image of the destroyed "club" from a news video -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska On 15 March 2025, at least fifty-nine...
Michael Laxer
Mar 184 min read
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What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...
Michael Laxer
Mar 167 min read
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Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. Participatory budget...
Michael Laxer
Mar 134 min read
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Israel Inflicts Revenge on Palestinians for Its Own Intelligence Failure
People trying to resume their daily lives in Gaza, February 22, 2025 -- Jaber Jehad Badwan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay...
Michael Laxer
Mar 124 min read
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Trump’s Address to Congress Highlights the Absence of Opposition
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him...
Michael Laxer
Mar 116 min read
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New Yorkers Protest Trump’s Arrest of Palestinian Student Activist
Protest in New York, Marc 10, 2025 -- Image via X By Saurav Sarkar As chants of ‘No ICE , No KKK , No Fascist USA!’ echoed through...
Michael Laxer
Mar 113 min read
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What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...
Michael Laxer
Mar 918 min read
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Donald Trump’s Reverse Kissinger Strategy
Putin and Trump in 2019 - Kremlin.ru , CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad US President Donald Trump called Russian...
Michael Laxer
Mar 66 min read
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Why Wikis Are a Useful Tool to Protect Online Information From Being ‘Disappeared’
Wiki sites are at the forefront of a shift toward decentralized information sharing. Moheen Reeyad, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons...
Michael Laxer
Mar 65 min read
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How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....
Michael Laxer
Mar 612 min read
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What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Ukraine?
Macron, Starmer and Zelenskyy, March 2, 2025 -- Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The...
Michael Laxer
Mar 55 min read
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Trump 2.0 – The View from China
Donald Trump, 22 February 2025 -- Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Wang Wen Donald Trump’s second term may not be...
Michael Laxer
Mar 33 min read
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