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This letter is a result of a joint effort between myself and the "Grans United", a working group within the "Omas Gegen Rechts" (Grannies Against the Far Right) movement.
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Trump’s Board of Peace serves as a multidimensional attempt to maintain international dominance in the face of China’s rise — but is there anything "new" about Trump's colonialism?
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The Donald Trump administration is waging a war against all multilateral institutions and international law itself. He withdrew the US from most global organizations and created a "Board of Peace" as an alternative to the UN that is entirely controlled by the USA. Ben Norton...
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Today, free markets are championed as the foundation of capitalism, while socialists argue that free markets cause growing inequality and exploitation of the working classes, and thus need to be constrained by the state, or else abolished entirely.
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“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
Sharon Zhang
Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts, mass noncompliance, & withdrawal of labor—by contrast, operates at the level Friedrich...
Rachel Hoopsick
The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
Tim Hjersted
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder
A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm global health over the next couple of decades.
Jessica Corbett
"How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted?"
Jake Johnson
9 min
Robin Williams talks about depression and the addiction to substances that ruined his life. Robin opens up about mental health struggles and how alcohol made him go to rehab. Talking to many interviewers Robin Williams expresses his comedy to get him through sadness.
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F.D Signifier discusses the "masculine urge to join a fascist death squad" by exploring the complex relationship men are socialized to have with violence in American society. Signifier, a gun owner who has used a firearm in self-defense, shares his personal experience of...
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186 min
This is me thinking out loud, carefully and practically, about how real political change actually happens — based on history, organising in Brixton since I was imprisoned, and a lot of experience inside movements that worked… and some that didn’t.
186 min
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab
405 min
When we let algorithms and politicians decide what's true, the internet isn't the biggest casualty.... our humanity is.
405 min
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ICE executed Alex Pretti on the street, in cold blood.
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33 min
From televangelism to Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and today’s internet trolls, this video essay unpacks how alt-right media and the internet age have monetized fascism—often in more ways than one. And what does it mean when edgelords are in office, and Trump fascism means that...
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LJ explores how Christian identity in the United States has been weaponized for political power, racism, and social hierarchy. He clarifies that the video is not an attack on Christianity itself but rather on a specific political ideology that uses Christian symbols and...
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Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Qasim Rashid
The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.
Chris Hedges
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.
Chris Hedges
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.
Chris Hedges
15 min
In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.
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We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements unprepared for the work ahead.
Tim Hjersted
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter
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As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power —...
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Ryan Grim, Meghnad Bose, and Rana Roudi discuss the killing of Alex Pretti. The Drop Site team analyzes the available footage and examines the implications of what it shows.
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If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.
Tim Hjersted
37 min
Heater Cox Richardson discusses the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, providing a detailed account of the incident and its broader implications for American democracy. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot and killed by what appear to be Customs and...
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This video discusses how to approach life's inevitable difficulties through the lens of Stoicism, emphasizing that pain and suffering are unavoidable and have always been a part of the human experience. Focusing on what is within one's control is crucial for navigating...
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So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war...
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Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.
Robert Reich
11 min
We uploaded everything. Now AI is remixing it all.
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56 min
Jordan Peterson was once one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. Millions turned to him for guidance in an increasingly chaotic cultural moment. But over time, something shifted in his message, and in how that message was received. The climate of the...
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17 min
Ryan Holiday shares his strategies for effective reading, emphasizing quality over quantity and deep engagement with texts. He reads hundreds of books annually while managing multiple businesses, writing, and being a father, without using speed-reading or summaries (0:00-0:22).
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Michigan is taking on Big Oil in a groundbreaking lawsuit, accusing companies of operating as a "cartel" to impede the transition to clean power and transportation.
Jessica Corbett
43 min
Never in American history have we had a police force that routinely conceals agents’ names and identities – until now. We dug into government documents, court filings, and hundreds of on-the-ground videos to understand not only why ICE wears masks, but the deeper agenda...
43 min
Federal agent in Maine labels legal observer a "domestic terrorist" for recording, sparking outrage.
Brad Reed
19 min
DHS is instructing ICE cops to break down doors without obtaining a warrant, a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment
19 min
Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
Mary Papenfuss
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Norm Finkelstein discusses the dire situation in Gaza, highlighting the seizure of territory by Israel, the blocking of reconstruction aid, and the severe lack of humanitarian aid, clean water, and medical facilities.
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Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
My friends, stay informed. Stay engaged. Be aware. Don’t fall into apathy. But please, don’t let the bad news kill you. We need you here to help twist the plot.
John Pavlovitz
24 min
Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a civil rights leader. He was a Christian witness who understood the true cost of following Christ in a world ruled by injustice, violence, and corrupt power.
24 min
The conversation about masculinity has long been poisoned by those who mistake dominance for strength and conquest for achievement. This corruption is not new—it is the logic of tyrants and slavemasters that men of conscience have resisted throughout history.
Tim Hjersted
Progressives vote for Democrats because they make better opponents, are less opposed to our goals, and do less harm than Republicans, but we also see that they are beholden to corporate and imperial power just like Republicans and both parties must ultimately be confronted.
Tim Hjersted
118 min
In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that terms like socialism, communism, and Marxism function as empty abstractions that obscure...
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A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani. So we went to talk to them. These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: "As Americans, we can realize it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's more of like a class war."-----
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We took a deep dive into Trump's tariffs, and his real approach became painfully clear.Make tariff threats, extract money from companies willing to pay, then grant exceptions to those who play the game.It's another lucrative scam for a wildly corrupt president.-----
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The largest nurses' strike in New York City history has reached its 10th day, as negotiations stall. Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay, a staffing increase to manage patients, improved benefits and workplace protections...
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The time has come, I can no longer remain silent. The current US administration is perpetrating a fascist takeover of our democracy, and Big Tech CEOs and companies are complicit. It's time to reckon with the inextricable ties between the companies we turn to for innovation...
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We’re now one year into Trump’s second term; domestically, he’s converted the U.S. into a full-blown authoritarian regime. On the international front, well… the entire world hates our guts. In fact, the world’s frustration with America’s fascist dictator has reached a boiling...
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The city is the solution.
Patrick Mazza
The reality is that while ICE’s violence has become more public, what we are seeing today is not a deviation from how it has always acted. .
Jordan Liz
Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.
Jaboa Lake
The problem is Democratic fecklessness—and it isn’t limited to just the future of ICE. Dismantling the ICE regime needs to be the floor, not the ceiling, and any Democrat in Congress who doesn’t get with the program can—and should—be replaced in the primaries.
Will Bunch
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It's not about illegal immigration. That's a pretext. This is political punishment, suppression, & a play for more power. They want to execute the plan quickly and brutally, because they have until November to get it done.
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An observational documentary following total liberation activism in Denmark, one of the world’s best democracies, where a group of activists is met with an unfiltered police response.
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66 min
What does Superman tell us about the ethics of closed borders?
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The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the power of corporate Democrats are largely the same fight.
Norman Solomon
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Once, unions shook nations and promised a better future for working people. Some even sought radical social transformation. But today, their once booming voice has felt more like a whisper. Their mass mobilisation has retreated into passive bureaucracies. All while their...
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There’s a profound contradiction at the heart of contemporary American Christianity: the disconnect between claimed allegiance to Jesus and actual allegiance to state power.The irony is devastating when Christians defend ICE killings and deaths in custody with appeals to “law...
Tim Hjersted
There's a pattern in left politics that's both understandable and ultimately self-defeating: we're brilliant at articulating what we oppose, but often struggle to define what we're for. We can catalog the horrors of capitalism and empire in exhaustive detail, but when pressed...
Tim Hjersted
ICE tactics are designed to instill fear in people and create chaos in communities as part of an overarching strategy aimed to silence opposition to Trump’s overall domestic agenda and let citizens know that this is the dawn of a new era.
C.J. Polychroniou
Nina Turner's insight cuts to a crucial distinction in movement work: there's a difference between trying to win arguments and trying to build power. But I'd take it further—the deepest purpose of activism isn't even primarily about changing minds or mobilizing the...
Tim Hjersted
A year into Trump's second term, Amnesty International warns of escalating authoritarian practices in the US. Will we stand by as human rights are eroded, or will we take action to protect our democracy and the rights of all?
Julia Conley
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Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis, where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Patty O'Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE...
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Coalition urges Congress to defund ICE's mass surveillance programs, citing privacy concerns and lack of accountability.
Brad Reed
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Former UNRWA Chief spokesman Chris Gunness Powerful Speech to the UN
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The January 3 attack on Venezuela culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The LTS in Venezuela, together with the CRP-CI internationally, calls for active mobilization to defeat Donald Trump’s imperialist military onslaught and...
Milton D'León
Both the American and Israeli deep states are addicted to hybrid warfare. Acting together, the CIA, Mossad, allied military contractors and security agencies have fomented chaos in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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We can abolish ICE by the end of January. We can shut down any more talk of invading other countries. And we can force the immediate release of the Epstein files. By demanding congress filibuster to shut down the government until our demands are met.
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"Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.
Jake Johnson
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Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also...
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If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see.
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While U.S. imperialism escalates sanctions, military threats, and interventionist pressure, the Islamic Republic is brutally repressing popular resistance to preserve clerical rule. Only the independent self-organization and mobilization of the Iranian working class, youth...
Left Voice
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to.
George Monbiot
We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.
Steven Donziger
We need to build independent economic bases where we live.
Patrick Mazza
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AI and robots are making a dangerous leap.
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The US has kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. They may use the language of freedom, but what this is really about – is theft, which is what the U.S. was built on. Venezuela is just a window into how American power and wealth have always worked –...
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Labor organizations and advocates unite to launch a campaign for taxing the ultrawealthy to fund public goods and combat GOP budget cuts.
Brad Reed
The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.
Chris Hedges
Schindler built a list to save lives. Natanson built one to save the truth. The FBI just seized it. Whose list are you on?
John Marks
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It feels like they’re everywhere lately - women online calling themselves feminists while turning against trans women, warning that “men are invading women’s spaces.”
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Watching America from the outside, it's hard not to ask the obvious question. How the hell did this happen? Why would anyone vote for this guy?
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Confronting the brutality of the ruling dictatorship and the designs of U.S. and Israeli imperialism are the dual tasks of the uprising, according to Tudeh.
C.J. Atkins
This article presents 3 statements from Iranian workers’ organisations. As one group writes, "Long live the workers’ strikes! No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism. Yes to class organisation, yes to the working-class revolution."
Leftcom
Let’s be clear. The problem is not the protesters. It’s the armed thugs who are shooting and murdering them.
Robert Reich
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In this video, Mike Figueredo argues that the current political climate, fueled by the Trump regime's actions, is pushing America towards collapse. He suggests that the government is waging a war against its own people, particularly those in blue states.
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A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing. "These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses," says ProPublica...
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We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action by the end of January, funding for ICE will lapse.
Sarah Van Gelder
29 min
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has always sold itself as a technocratic arm of “law and order.” But in Trump’s second term, that façade has slipped.
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Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
While the current protests are largely driven by a record-high Rial to USD exchange and a 60 percent food inflation rate, the transition from labor strikes in South Pars to coordinated urban violence points towards a deeper level of intervention.
Vijay Prashad
Now is a good time to choose what you believe. Are we here to tend the webs of connection, to care for one another and our beautiful earth, as the core of not only indigenous but every major religion would tell us? Or are we here to maximize our material gain and destroy all...
Starhawk
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.
Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare
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Reporter Ken Klippenstein's latest investigation into the inner workings of the Trump regime finds that immigration enforcement agencies ICE and Border Patrol have relaxed recruitment and deployment guidelines in an effort to fulfill the administration's sweeping deportation...
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It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it.
C.J. Polychroniou
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Revolution: Food is all about the positive changes taking root in our modern food system. It focuses on real farmers who are growing, raising real food and the consumers who are demanding it.
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