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Demographic shifts mean that, for the first time in half a century, Democrats have a real chance at winning states in the South and Southwest.

In testimony at his manslaughter trial for summarily executing a disarmed Palestinian attacker, Elor Azaria, an Israeli Defense Force sergeant, is openly describing the violence, de-humanization, hatred, and settler domination that define the Israeli occupation. But make no mistake; he’s not breaking his silence, he is unrepentant. This is the trial of a soldier who committed a crime, and of an entire system mobilized to brand him as an “unrepresentative” lone gunman.

Fifteen states will have laws in place this Election Day that have never before been tested in a presidential election.

What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond.

TPP "will cost American jobs, harm the environment, increase the cost of prescription drugs, and threaten our ability to protect public health".

Armed with drums, tribal flags, and cell phones, demonstrators moved to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion dollar crude-oil conduit slated to cut just 1,000 feet from the perimeter of native land. Confrontations began on Wednesday, August 10, when construction crews and private security hired by Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based developers overseeing the pipeline, arrived to break ground. Fourteen Arrests were made on Thursday...

In an era of too-big-to fail generals, an age in which top commanders from winless wars retire to take prominent posts at influential institutions and cash in with cushy jobs on corporate boards, AFRICOM chiefs have faced neither hard questions nor repercussions for the deteriorating situation. (Similar records -- heavy on setbacks, short on victories -- have been produced by Washington’s war chiefs in Afghanistan and Iraq for the past 15 years...)

Immigrant rights leaders in the U.S. show how to concretely build solidarity between the immigrant rights and Black Lives Matter movements.

Love and Solidarity, a new film directed by Mike Honey and co-produced with film maker Errol Webber. Non-violence is NOT passive, but is militant and effective theory and practice. Portside Moderator Will Jones interviews Honey about the film and highly respected, long time RELIGIOUS LEADER, organizer, and educator James Lawson.

The typical millionaire receives about $145,000 in public tax benefits, while working families get a grand total of $174 on average. In 2043, minorities will be the majority and the will have doubled. The lingering effects of generations of discriminatory and wealth-stripping practices have left black and Latino households far behind white families, and may impact their economic trajectories in the decades to come.