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Daniel McGowan is now serving the last six months of his seven-year sentence for an environmentally motivated arson at a halfway house in Brooklyn. The Bureau of Prisons has retaliated against McGowan for writing constitutionally protected political blogs by placing him in a special prison unit and then after he was released, re-imprisoned him when he exercised his free speech rights by writing an article complaining about it. Kafka is twirling in his grave.

States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work

Technocrats and far rightists on the move

Tariq Ali on the Ukraine mess and the UK peace movement, and labor news from all over

A dress rehearsal for fascism, or did we just miss the opening credits?

Introducing the AI Bill of Rights, and more hot flashes from media land

Open season on protesters, but the fight to defend rights is on

The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil

Activist and scholar says he is being denied tenure at Harvard University because of his views on Israeli occupation. There is a long history of attempts to suppress or have outspoken critics of Israel fired from academic posts.