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20 Apr 2022 3 minute read

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Hall of infamy: Joe Manchin

The US Republicans’ favourite democrat.

3 Dec 2021 6 minute read

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‘Our whole truth will come out’

Roxana Olivera reports on the indigenous women who could make legal history by holding a Canadian mining...

Marjorie Taylor Greene

4 Oct 2021 3 minute read

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Hall of infamy: Marjorie Taylor Greene

Welcome to the US Congress member’s alternative Far Right universe.

Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States during the Inauguration Day ceremony held at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2021. Credit: Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA

21 Jan 2021 4 minute read

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Could a Biden presidency end America’s ‘forever wars’?

Joe Biden is unlikely to scupper corporate-military interests of his own accord. It will take pressure from the grassroots,...

Celebrations in Washington D.C. after Joe Biden is announced as the winner of the US presidential elections, 2020. Credit: Victoria Pickering /Flickr

9 Nov 2020 4 minute read

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US election: what does it mean for democracy?

Let’s enjoy Trump’s defeat, writes Vanessa Baird. But with realism and greater ambition.

Jose Caceres, a migrant who was deported back to Honduras, holds up a picture of his sons. He was separated from his 11-year-old Brayan (right) five months ago as they tried to enter the US. Brayan is now living in a shelter in Maryland. Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/PA Images

2 Mar 2020 6 minute read

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Deported by Silicon Valley

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports...

20 Mar 2019 2 minute read

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A Green New Deal for the US and beyond

Can this much lauded proposal help advance internationalist aims? Mark Engler argues that it could.

12 Feb 2019 4 minute read

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Beware Americans bearing gifts

US ‘humanitarian aid’ ups the risk of violent conflict in Venezuela, writes Vanessa Baird.

14 Jan 2019 1 minute read

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Looking through Five Eyes

Britain’s spies and special forces are some of the most secretive in the Western world. Phil Miller reports...

7 Jan 2019 7 minute read

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A rustbelt romance

Enter the ‘new protectionism’ – and Trump’s trade wars.

7 Jan 2019 6 minute read

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Investor rex

The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.

People take part in a smudging ceremony organised by the First Nations Indigenous Warriors and the American Indian Movement on the Cote First Nation, near the town of Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada, August 6, 2017. Smudging is a common practice among some indigenous peoples in North America and is believed to cleanse a person or place of negative energy. REUTERS/Zachary Prong

30 Nov 2018 6 minute read

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The coerced sterilization of Indigenous women

The shocking eugenicist policies can be seen as attempted cultural genocide, argues Jaipreet Virdi

Jeff Bezos must be stopped, writes Mark Engler. Nobody is calling to task Amazon's dirty work. About 165 billion packages are shipped in the US each year.

24 Oct 2018 3 minute read

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The Amazon effect: sweat, surveillance and exploitation

Jeff Bezos must be stopped, writes Mark Engler.

16 Sep 2018 3 minute read

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How Trump’s migration policies are linked to a violent national legacy

Mark Engler argues that US foreign policy historically has helped give rise to the current administration's...

9 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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What does institutional justice look like?

Lola Olufemi examines what institutional justice means after the Avital Ronell controversy.

CETA

17 Aug 2018 5 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Why CETA is no better

The agreement between Canada and the EU remains the wrong type of trade deal. Alex Scrivener writes.

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