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Fifty years after exposing US lies about the Vietnam war, Daniel Ellsberg said the culture of official secrecy had gotten worse. He urged whistleblowers: ‘Don’t wait years till the bombs are falling and people have been dying’

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The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. A Foreign Policy in Focus commentary by John Feffer posted on Portside criticized CODEPINK's position on the war in Ukraine. Here is our response.

While writers like me struggle to make ends meet, Hollywood studios get rich off the content we create.

If recent developments in the Kennedy campaign have demonstrated anything, it’s that denial is not a viable political strategy. His sycophantic treatment of Elon Musk is about as un-populist as a person can get...

As those Canadian wildfires suggest, we’re now living on a new, not terribly recognizable, ever more perilous world in which not just this country but Planet Earth itself is in decline. Climate change is quickly becoming the climate emergency.

The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression.

A first-of-its-kind study from Jacobin, YouGov, and the Center for Working-Class Politics finds that economic populism can help progressives win more working-class voters.

"It will always be profit over people and planet for polluters," said one campaigner. "Shell simply cannot be trusted—with either their own meager targets or our futures."