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Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense.

A US State Department official says waiver needed to allow for technical discussions key to talks on nuclear deal return.

Short of the emergence of a progressive people’s movement in Ukraine, there may be little that can be done to stabilize the country and prevent bloodshed. What is needed is a strategy the Bolsheviks called “revolutionary defeatism.”

The Biden administration’s violent deportations underline America’s racist treatment of Black migrants.

Only when China and the United States elevate the threat of climate change above their geopolitical rivalry will it be possible to avert disaster.

To make these submarines, including Australia’s, we are talking about commitment to a very long-term and large-scale program involving funds, funds, and more funds.

The United States, the largest owner of nuclear power plants, promotes nuclear power as “safe and clean energy,” a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Too often, the militant, radical history of Mexican American workers is omitted or forgotten. But from resisting racist exclusion to building CIO unions in the 1930s, Mexican American workers have been central to left-wing politics in the U.S.

The new cold war resounds with echoes of the old one, including geopolitical maneuvering and proprietary competition over technological innovations.