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1 May 2017 3 minute read

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Worldbeaters: Spotlight on Steve Bannon

Donald Trump's right-hand man is at the centre of global power. And he's dangerous.

28 Apr 2017 3 minute read

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Boosting the backlash against Trump

Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent, says Mark Engler.

21 Apr 2017 5 minute read

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Is Arkansas’s execution parade justice or expedience?

Although it has been put on hold, Arkansas' planned series of executions has raised again the issue of capital punishment,...

1 Apr 2017 9 minute read

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The Establishment is not a viable candidate

The Trump shock shows that the same old same old is no longer an option. Jonathan Matthew Smucker on building...

1 Apr 2017 6 minute read

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A personal welcome

In Canada, private sponsors are paying refugees’ resettlement costs. But should such a scheme be replicated elsewhere?...

1 Apr 2017 1 minute read

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Open Window

Pedro X Molina from Nicaragua with ‘American Honeymoon’.

1 Apr 2017 3 minute read

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When sanctuary is resistance

In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience, writes Mark...

14 Mar 2017 7 minute read

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Exclusive: Inside Diego Garcia, America’s highly secretive military base

A two year investigation reveals the US military’s poor treatment of contract workers on the controversial island. ...

2 Mar 2017 3 minute read

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Obama's legacy falls short on organizing

Technocratic liberals treat movement groups as another ‘special interest’ rather than a central pillar of their ability to...

9 Feb 2017 5 minute read

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Books against Trump: an anti-Trump reading list

As Orwell’s 1984 hits US top seller lists in the wake of Trump’s presidency, Ed Fairhead provides a few more...

1 Feb 2017 3 minute read

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Let’s stop pussyfooting. Trump’s presidency = fascism

Are we too scared to use the f-word? asks Vanessa Baird.

26 Jan 2017 3 minute read

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Don’t praise Trump for the defeat of TPP

It is good that the toxic Trans Pacific Partnership is dead, but it is unions and campaigners we should thank, argues ...

1 Jan 2017 3 minute read

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Trump can be beaten because he is the Establishment

We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege, writes Mark Engler.

1 Jan 2017 3 minute read

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Worldbeaters: Donald Trump

Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.

31 Dec 2016 5 minute read

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Bikini was just the beginning, bombs still threaten the islanders

John Pilger visits the Marshall Islands and its bomb survivors, still blighted by US nuclear weapons.

14 Dec 2016 4 minute read

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Indigenous rights: Justin Trudeau’s elephant in the room

The Canadian PM had promised change to the treatment of First Nations, but Jasmine Andersson shows how hopes...

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