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A short history of the United States' long war on drugs in Latin America, with the president's kill zone expanding from the Caribbean waters off Venezuela to the Colombian and Peruvian coasts in the Pacific Ocean.
Greg Grandin
Forget chasing fleeting joy. The pursuit of happiness can leave us isolated, but cultivating contentment and wonder builds resilience, deepens connection, and makes life more enduring.
Martina Moneke
In the wake of new Jeffrey Epstein emails implicating Trump, the GOP unhelpfully backed up the president by releasing 20,000 new Epstein files of their own, and Josh Johnson unpacks new revelations, including the two men’s frenemy relationship and apparent connection to...
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Francesca Albanese’s new report examines how 60+ countries are complicit in Israel’s war crimes — and how their contributions will come back to haunt their own citizens.
45 min
To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks down his suggestions into actionable steps.
Tim Hjersted
Dear friends and critics, I care a lot about what our supporters think. I read most of the comments on our Facebook posts and I try to take in as many as I can.
Tim Hjersted
Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7...
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In the wake of Democrats' decision to end the government shutdown, Jon Stewart returns to his prediction that they were going to piss away last week’s hard-earned electoral victories. With nothing to gain from caving, momentum on their side, and a deeply unpopular president...
22 min
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
Chris Hedges
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
Chris Hedges
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, "Kreisler" associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.
Cléo Mieulet
The video Douglas Murray doesn’t want you to see.
11 min
I mean do we want to live in a society or nah: anti-social is the way to go?
6 min
Zohran Mamdani was an unlikely frontrunner in New York’s mayoral election. His promise to make life more affordable for working-class New Yorkers, combined with his outspoken criticism of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, earned him a powerful coalition of...
25 min
Jordan Klepper dives into the big wins for Democrats across the country last night, including in the hotly contested mayoral race in New York City, which ended in a historic victory for Zohran Mamdani that sparked threats of a mass exodus of Cuomo supporters from the city...
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The results are in - and Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor-elect of New York City. With a platform to make the city more affordable, he’s made history as New York’s first-ever Muslim mayor and the youngest to hold the office since 1917.
24 min
Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York City is not simply a local upset. It is a breach in the ideological dam that has kept American politics safely contained for generations.
Tim Hjersted
Krystal and Saagar discuss Fox News falling for welfare queen AI slop videos.
12 min
The US government is politically isolated on the world stage. This can be seen in the UN General Assembly votes demanding an end to the USA's embargo of Cuba. Almost all of the world opposes the illegal economic blockade. Ben Norton explains how the CIA has waged a terrorist...
28 min
It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Richard Eskow
I keep hearing a similar story. Someone steps into “privilege” work hoping to grow, and instead walks away feeling shamed and under attack, as if their identity is the problem. One reader online put it starkly:
Tim Hjersted
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
Peter Cole
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know...
Films For Action
Donald Trump is losing the trade war on China, which he started. The agreement he made at the meeting with President Xi Jinping shows how the US is much more dependent on the Chinese economy than vice versa. Political economist Ben Norton explains how Trump's tariffs have...
40 min
Trump used to say that Big Tech is a horrible thing for our country.
12 min
By the end of "1984," Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump's attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resisted.
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
We've known how to cut off fascism at its roots for 81 years.
7 min
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss building a campaign on delivering politics that “aspire for more than what you’re living through,” ensuring his tax plans aren’t just popular but precedented, taking safety beyond the NYPD to...
22 min
Monopolistic business practices have been illegal in the United States for more than a century. Yet, monopoly power continues to accelerate in our modern commercial landscape. Large, powerful corporations edge out smaller businesses, often citing scale, “efficiency”, and...
88 min
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
Richard Heinberg
In this week’s Frankly, Nate considers the ways in which our social species overvalues false-confidence rather than the more honest and inquisitive response of “I don’t know.” He invites us to consider the science behind this cultural bias towards certainty: from our...
27 min
Recalling William Appleman Williams' vision for a continental confederation of regional commonwealths.
Patrick Mazza
Watch Zeteo’s editor in chief Mehdi Hasan educate the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh on the history of slavery, including Muslim slavery, in the United States; point out the many and varied contributions of Muslim Americans to this country; and debunk his lazy conservative talking...
9 min
A family is threatened with deportation by ICE. Everyday Americans—including heroes and survivors, come forward with lessons from history.
4 min
The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire's hegemony in Latin America, waging war on Venezuela, imposing sanctions on Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, hitting Brazil with tariffs, and meddling in Argentina's election. Ben Norton explains how...
37 min
Would it be okay for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico, even if they offered no evidence? Would that be acceptable to this administration?
Sanho Tree
“Never again” means each of us taking a stance. This starts with protecting and using our words.
Maria Perez
"The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement." Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about...
17 min
New video every other Friday!
18 min
By declaring all opposition to themselves anti-fascism, MAGA isn’t leaving much mystery about their leanings.
Kyle Schmidlin
This post is dedicated to men, however you define yourselves. Because right now there’s so much talk circulating about masculinity, touting warrior culture and the need for men to be more manly men, that it’s important to understand what patriarchy actually is.
Starhawk
Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
45 min
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28 min
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone...
3 min
The word communism has been dragged through history as a banner for human politics. However, its Latin origin, communis, means shared, as in belonging to all. Long before Marx or Lenin, this was not an ideology but a condition of existence. Everything that lives participates...
Don Christoff
Fascism, like communism, is an abstraction to Americans. We know little about it. We have not lived under it. Given current circumstances, let’s see if we are fast learners.
James Rothenberg
The US economy depends more and more on enormous bubbles in the stock market and AI. The richest 10% of Americans drive half of all spending, while the real economy in many states is in recession. When the bubble pops, it could cause a severe crisis. Political economist Ben...
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Jon Stewart examines the "No Kings" protests that failed to meet Fox News’s violent expectations, why Trump fits the mold of a gold-smeared monarch, and how even the Declaration of Independence foreshadowed Trump’s king-ish antics.
20 min
Dr. Geoffrey Grammer discusses an unusual protest trend in Portland where demonstrators wear inflatable frog costumes. These protestors aim to disarm the projection of violence onto them by the Trump administration. Using the concept of projective identification from...
5 min
Krystal and Saagar discuss the possibility of a new Dem Tea Party wave.
24 min
America’s richest often push for shutdowns to dodge taxes, avoid regulation, and slash benefits for working people.
Igor Volsky
AOC tackles the problem of the right successfully courting young men with a toxic message on masculinity. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report.
9 min
Zohran Mamdani torches the mayor debate in New York
14 min
As Trump demolishes the old and drives America toward a darker future, the Democrats’ instinct has been to grieve, resist, and dream of restoration. But restoration may be the wrong goal.
Richard Sclove
Zohran Mamdani went into the lion’s den on Fox News and seemingly won over their host AND the audience. The typical ‘hOw ArE We GoING tO pAy FoR iT’ questions didn’t throw him off one bit, and he had a clear and concise answer to every question he was asked. We’ll talk about...
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The United States is waging a war on Venezuela. Donald Trump authorized the CIA to carry out "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, the US military has killed innocent people in boats in the Caribbean, including citizens of Colombia and...
24 min
Eugene Puryear discusses the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, now entering its third week, as Republicans refuse to budge on cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies that would strip healthcare from over 14 million Americans. He explains how Republicans are trying...
11 min
Millions across the United States gathered together on Saturday, October 18 to oppose the Trump administration’s authoritarian agenda in a second-round of ‘No Kings’ protests.
10 min
Common-sense immigration reform points to the world the Turtles fought to build; militarized dragnet deportations point to Shredder’s vision for the world. Any kid can see that. Why can’t we?
Tim Hjersted
Mass “people power” uprisings, general strikes, and other forms of withdrawal of popular acquiescence in tyranny have established or restored democracy in many countries. While the conditions for such “social strikes” are far from mature in the US at present, a time may come...
Jeremy Brecher