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The No Kings Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience

Phil Wilson · I am not going to discount the value of having 7 million people show up to protest the fascist, genocidal Trump regime, but we need more from the movement.

Elon Musk’s Comment on Empathy Is Much Worse Than You Thought

Philip N. Cohen · The short version of Elon Musk’s comment about empathy, from his interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, has been going around, like this: “empathy is ‘the fundamental weakness of Western...

The World Has Lost Its Humanity: UNRWA Warns of Unprecedented Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza

Philippe Lazzarini · "The attack and the taking of hostages are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. But the answer to killing civilians cannot be to kill more civilians. Imposing a siege...

No More Money for the Police

Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris · Redirect it to emergency response programs that don’t kill black people.

This Is Water (Or Is It Neoliberalism?)

Philip E. Mirowski · A meditation on Vercelli, Vernengo and Levitt & Seccareccia

Neoliberalism: the Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name - American Affairs Journal

Philip Mirowski · Reactions against the use of the term neoliberalism have usually taken one of two forms: first, that “neoliberalism” is nothing more than a fevered delusion or a mirage perhaps shared...

Conspiracy Theorists Are Falsely Claiming That the Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Elaborate Hoax

Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai · In the midst of a global pandemic, conspiracy theorists have found yet another way to spread dangerous disinformation and misinformation about COVID-19, sowing seeds of doubts about its...

Fighting Back Against the Israel Lobby

Philip Giraldi · Ordinary Americans can organize and win

Why Our Imagination for Alien Life Is so Impoverished

Philip Ball · It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around...

Rising up to the Trump Moment: We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

Dawn Phillips · The Trump victory is devastating. Devastating for communities of color, immigrants, women, Muslims and queer communities. Devastating for us. Trump has given new voice to deeply rooted...

Beautiful Trouble is a Treasure Trove of Inspriational Stories of Resistance from Around the World

Phil Wilmot · Men wielding helium balloons stepped out of a car in Kampala’s bustling downtown on the morning of August 1, releasing them one by one into the open sky. Onlookers watched and wondered...

Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade

Michael Phillips · Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine for VP may trigger the sea change progressives have been dreaming of and working towards for decades. Please hear me out.

Extreme Inequality as the Antithesis of Human Rights

Philip Alston · Extreme inequality directly undermines human rights, and is a cause for shame for the human rights community.

Dozens of Fathers Among Migrants Forcibly Deported from Britain

Phil Miller · Men with strong family ties to the UK are being forcibly removed on ghost flights, leaving pregnant partners and young children behind.

Solar Power And Desalination Join Forces In California's Central Valley

ARI PHILLIPS · Solar power turns the sun’s energy into electricity. Desalination removes unwanted minerals from saltwater so it can be used for drinking or agriculture.

Body Image Advertising and the media

Angela Phillips · Professor of Journalism and contributor to Spare Rib, Angela Phillips, analyses the relationship between women's perceptions of themselves and the way they are seen by others, exploring...

So, the Government Got in...

Phil · The election results are in. The Tories can form a majority government to rule for the next five years. Now what? The result was, admittedly, a surprise. With the Scottish National...

Why Riot?

Phil A. Neel · Two years ago in Seattle, on May 1st, 2012, roughly four to five hundred people engaged in the largest riot the city had seen in more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of...

Origins Of The Nerves Of Us

Nico Phillips · One young adult with Spastic Cerebral Palsy grew in to adolescence seeing and feeling no way to get medical help for his condition once he wasn't a kid any more. What shocked him the...

World's richest woman would prefer to pay her miners $2 an hour

Philip Bump · Meet Gina Rinehart. Born Georgina Hope Hancock, Rinehart is heir to her father’s fortune built at Hancock Prospecting in Australia, where Rinehart remains as executive chair. Hancock...

Forget the gloom—new ways of living and organizing our economy are flourishing

Tom Philpott · The last couple of days have been gloomy ones. I kept checking in with the vague and dire reports from the nuclear-power bleeding edge in Japan. For part of the time I was also...

Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model

Peter Phillips and Project Censored · In Manufacturing Consent (1988; and updated in Herman,1996). Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly imbedded in the market system, it reflects the class values and...

Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?

Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff · “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and...

Leaked EPA Memo Links Pesticide to Mysterious Bee Deaths

Tom Philpott · An internal EPA memo released Wednesday confirms that the very agency charged with protecting the environment is ignoring the warnings of its own scientists about clothianidin, a...

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