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A decade-long battle over a proposed pipeline is helping shape the Canadian national election even as a historic legal case may make or break the development. First Nations are playing a central role. First proposed in 2004, the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was planned...
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Ray McGovern and Jason Leopold: The intelligence agencies had the information, the question is why didn't they use it.
24 min
Tuesday night at the Democratic presidential debate, leftist favorite Bernie Sanders clarified his feelings about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Evan Greer
Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs.
Mark Hertsgaard
“Whoa Canada” is about Canada’s surveillance programs in an era of climate change. We’ve interviewed some of the countries leading experts and people who have actually been wrongfully targeted by this surveillance and intimidation. Together with members of the SHD community...
60 min
Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
George Monbiot
Whether you are for or against gun control, it is undeniable that gun violence is a huge problem in America and something needs to change. I wrote This Is Home nearly three years ago after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and it is sadly just as relevant today as it...
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Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government.
Christine Berry
"Marx Is Back" takes place in todays' Argentina, which suffers like other countries the blows of economic crises. Workers of a printing house are facing suspensions and lay-offs; a group of workers are organizing to fight back as the union officials try to push them aside. At...
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America deserves a new kind of the same old politician.
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Chris Spannos speaks with the acclaimed public intellectual about the shift in US policy toward Cuba and what it signals.
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September 2015, US President Barack Obama said that ‘for 50 years, the United States pursued...
31 min
Everyone everywhere complaining about grassroots activists not being ‘strategic’ or ‘effective’ by targeting so-called Left politicians – you’re wrong.
Harsha Walia
I keep writing about soft fascism. Why is that, anyway?
Stephen Elliott-Buckley
After years of protesting, the Native American community can officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of Columbus Day in Lawrence.
Jessica Larson
Schools across the country are adorned with posters of the 44 U.S. presidents and the years they serve
Clarence Lusane
4-minute video of Darth Vader’s choice to serve love, family, and community rather than vicious psychopathic hatred:
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Carl Herman
Twelve nations have signed a trade agreement that puts corporate profits before the needs and rights of citizens
Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Council, leaked diplomatic cables have revealed the UK was a key player in the election of the Gulf State ─ despite the Saudis’ appalling human rights record.
Michaela Whitton
What would gun rights look like in America if we treated them like abortion rights? The Supreme Court has ruled that owning guns and getting abortions are both rights granted to Americans, but the laws governing each are remarkably different. Republicans are the primary...
William Hamby
Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely
Nick Cohen
George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised. The information age is a...
John Pilger
Ten people were killed and seven wounded recently in a mass shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. Such shootings are more than another tragic expression of unchecked violence in the United States, they are symptomatic of a society engulfed in fear, militarism...
Henry A. Giroux
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, October 1. According to Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, the shooter was a 20-year-old male, and was killed by officers who...
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The United States exports more weapons than any other nation - which means American companies profit from other countries' wars.
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More people lately are identifying capitalism as the underlying cause of our current global troubles and crises. That’s certainly positive: the first step toward cure is a proper diagnosis. But most of the approaches being offered to treat the problem are placebos, an endless...
Stephanie McMillan
Thinking of a joke after the masses have trampled a subject is a bit like looking for your contact lenses just after the Battle of Agincourt. It seems that everyone’s a topical comedy writer when the PM puts his willy in a pig’s mouth. Where were the general
Frankie Boyle
Trevor shows his appreciation for the show’s former host and discusses Speaker of the House John Boehner’s recent resignation.
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Corporate data from numerous sources, including annual reports directly from the companies themselves, has been merged and matched and managed into two spreadsheets that reveal state-by-state corporate tax avoidance. The results show how people all over America are being...
Paul Buchheit
Saul Williams, the "poet laureate of hip-hop," is troubled by society's rising reverence for ignorance and prestige. This is a stark departure from pop culture and music from the past, which laid more focus on rooting for the underdog and questioning authority. It's this...
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I’ve been really angry and depressed for the last few months. I’ve finally pieced together why.
Derrick Lemos
To mark The Nation's 150th anniversary, John Nichols was joined in conversation by the eminent radical intellectual Noam Chomsky at the Tucson Festival of Books in Arizona on March 15. Discussing issues ranging from media accountability and voter participation, to money in...
84 min
The Republican party counts on poor voter turnout to win. That's how they won in 2014, and it's how they'd like to win in 2016. If you want to do your part to help the GOP and the billionaire class, STAY HOME. And whatever you do, don't get involved in politics in any...
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Bernie Sanders talks about the one issue the billionaire class wants us to avoid discussing.
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Socialism, turns out the dirtiest word in U.S. politics is as American as apple pie. From the U.S. labor movement to the New Deal to corporate subsidies, America relies on a healthy dose of socialism.
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When CounterPunch published my essay “The Sanders Paradox: A Brief for Bernie” two weeks ago, I was hoping that it would trigger constructive, spirited discussion and debate on the left about the Sanders candidacy. With some 1,400 Facebook shares fromCounterPunch, and some...
William Kaufman
Rest in Power, Gil Scott-Heron (1949 - 2011). Watch a music video of 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' via Part 2.
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In today's political world, idealism is seen as the enemy of realism and getting things done. But, argues Gary Younge, idealism is absolutely necessary for society to continue progressing into the world we want to see. It's what makes things that seem impossible today into...
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How much power does the monarch really wield? How much does the Royal family cost us? These and many other questions answered in this video.
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In case you haven’t heard, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called for political revolution. That’s gargantuan news, which poses an equally gargantuan paradox to wrap our heads around. Now, it’s not as if some civic-minded voice in the wilderness like...
Revolt Against Plutocracy
Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change.
Noam Chomsky
Abby Martin examines the two major wars launched under the "Global War on Terror" – their historical development and their aftermath. Featuring former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, this episode digs into the tragedy of a region shaped by Empire.
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The politicians, plutocrats and pundits of the Democratic Party establishment have no answer to Bernie Sanders' blistering critique of their failure to defend the interests of the voters who have kept them in power. Neither have they a substantive case against his policy...
Jeff Faux
The Journal wants to shock and awe voters with big numbers, but Sanders’s proposals would save America big bucks.
Joshua Holland
"With a swelling slave population, the masters faced the prospect of white freedmen with disappointed hopes joining forces with slaves of desperate hope to mount ever more virulent rebellions. The elites’ race strategy decreased the probability of such class rebellions. The...
Thandeka
The real story behind the refugee/migrant crisis in Europe is much stranger than fiction.
If you watch the news, you've probably heard about the refugee crisis in Europe (or the "migrant crisis" as some are referring to it). Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from the...
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The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political...
Chris Hedges
Mashup artists Cassetteboy take on David Cameron after the Conservative party released a video attacking Jeremy Corbyn. The Tory scare movie took the new Labour leader’s words on the death of Osama bin Laden out of context. So what does David Cameron think about fairness, the...
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Yanis Varoufakis talks to Paul Mason about Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, the media and capitalism.
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The London Arms Fair comes to the ExCel centre this week. You'll find guns, tanks and killer drones - and you may also find offers of illegal torture equipment. Want to know more? Visit Torture on Your Doorstep.
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Corbyn has said that his campaign is about turning the Labour Party into a social movement. That’s the only chance he has.
Richard Seymour
As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, has released a new booklet to teach young people "the right facts" -
Abby Zimet
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
William Kaufman
When Congressman Thomas Massie first arrived in Washington, DC as a freshman from Kentucky, a long-tenured North Carolinian, Walter Jones, asked him an intriguing question.
28pages.org
The long-suppressed 'Trump: What’s the Deal?' is now available to be streamed online.
Sola Agustsson
Find out how anchor institutions like hospitals and universities can help worker cooperatives create green jobs in the neighborhoods that need them most.
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It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
Ryan Calhoun
Author and humourist PG Wodehouse once wrote that “it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine”. He was absolutely right when it came to American presidential hopeful and property mogul Donald Trump’s attempts to insinuate...
Gavin Foster
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests
Nafeez Ahmed
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader
Recently, on All Things Considered—you know, that bastion of liberal media—Mara Liasson, talking about the prospect of Joe Biden running for President said:
There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because she'd have a serious opponent, and it...
John Atcheson