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To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

This video explains how the Fermi Paradox - the fact that aliens should mathematically be abundant in the universe and yet we haven't heard from any - actually makes sense when you take into account quantum technology.

Cilia Flores brought feminism to the Bolivarian Revolution. She is one of the most prominent political prisoners in the world, yet most women’s rights organizations have not said a word in her defense.

Would we be here if there were any real repercussions for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, or the continuing genocide in Palestine? We need true accountability for these crimes. And the only way to get it is to wage a struggle against militarism every day.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.

A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.

Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.

As war spending surges again, America’s largest weapons manufacturers are funneling more money to shareholders than into expanding production.

Poet Beau Beausoleil offers witness to the acts of courage required in this time of tyranny.

After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas.