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The global climate strike on Sept. 20. will almost certainly be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history, writes Bill McKibben. “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”

Salvador Allende died 46 years ago in a US-backed coup. Here's his final address, broadcast over the radio while he was barricaded in the presidential palace. The generals that overthrew Allende coordinated with the CIA and the U.S. State Department.

A new supergroup — Highwomen — is making music with a mission. They proudly call themselves a movement as much as a band, whose mission is clear: solidarity, specifically with other women in country music. Their debut album came out Friday.

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The prestige of classical music obscures a range of unseemly realizations: arts managers are union-busting bosses like any other. Case in point: the lockout of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members.

Kim Moody reviews "Riot.Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings", by Joshua Clover.

This Memorial Day weekend we need to focus on the crisis of militarism and war that plagues humanity on planet Earth. As Martin Luther King, Jr. so eloquently said decades ago, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

The ILRI’s African Chicken Genetic Gains project was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of their mission to end world hunger.

The US government terrorizes immigrant families and families of color with thousands of raids each year.

The Zionist conquest of Palestine, which began haphazardly in the early 1880s and intensified after the turn of the century, reaching its apogee with British invasion and occupation of the country before the conclusion of World War I, was the inaugural moment of what became known as the Nakba.