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Omar Hassan speaks to Algerian scholar and activist Hamza Hamouchene, coordinator of Environmental Justice North Africa and co-founder of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign, about the mass movement sweeping the country.

Janine Jackson interviewed Amee Chew about the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte for the April 19, 2019 episode of “CounterSpin.” This is a lightly edited transcript.

“After two months of confinement, and using every legal mechanism available so far, I can – without any hesitation – state that nothing that will convince me to testify before this or any other grand jury for that matter.” – Chelsea Manning

Despite a hostile labor climate and weak labor laws, workers in Tennessee still have power! They have pressured Target to drop a contractor that has been the subject of many lawsuits alleging racist practices, retaliation, and stolen wages.

Dan Clawson, who passed away on May 7, will be remembered fondly as a tireless organizer and strategic thinker who was always inviting activists into the labor movement.

You can't stop empathy, compassion, generosity, and heroism. Even on HBO's notoriously violent and cynical hit series!

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unveiled a new endorsement process for the 2020 presidential race, shifting influence from its top brass to state union leaders and the rank and file.

Can the Vermont senator win over Trump voters and harness his grassroots army to transform the Democratic Party?

Bolton is an old hand at using allegedly damning intelligence on Iran to advance a plan of aggressive U.S. war.

After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change.