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The Lie We Keep Telling About Wounded Knee

Levi Rickert Native News Online
Today (12/29) marks the 135th anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee, which occurred during the wintry week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1890.

This Week in People’s History, Dec 31-Jan 6, 2026

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Photo of a multi-media exhibit concerning the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march Black Power Grows in a Tent City (1965), Lead Pollution Is Profitable, So Shut Up! (1996), ‘Two, Three, Many Vietnams’ (1966), No Responders Left Behind (2006), Protecting Kahoʻolawe from Bombs (1976)

What’s in a Year

Sarah Jaffe
This world feels fragile like a bomb right now, one misstep could detonate, and yet it makes me think of one of my favorite revolutionary cliches, too: be careful with one another so you can be dangerous together.

The Narco-Terrorist Elite

Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson Is Caught in a Trap

Preston H. Smith II Convergence
The challenges Chicago’s progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has faced demonstrate that Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York will have to out-organize what’s soon to be a mighty opposition to his every move from finance, insurance, and real estate intere

Escalation in West Papua

Douglas Gerrard London Review of Books
The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the TPNPB’s fighting capacity, but they still often face Indonesian jets and missiles armed only with bows and arrows.
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