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Interview
Educator Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade: Teachers Must Fight Inequality, Not Create It
Schools typically see children as broken and try to fix them, but it’s our schools and society that is broken.
“You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train”: Remembering Howard Zinn at 100
“To be neutral … is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to allow it to happen.”
As Settler Colonialism and Genocide Continue, So Too Does Indigenous Resistance
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock.
We Are Running Out of Time to Use Failing Strategies Against the Climate Crisis
Author Peter Gelderloos describes the limits of governmental and market solutions and argues for bottom-up insurgency.
Will Iranian Protests Grow Into a “Nationwide Revolution” Despite Crackdown?
The UN Human Rights Council is set to discuss a proposal to establish a fact-finding mission on the crackdown.
Chomsky: US Sanctions on Iran Don’t Support the Protests, They Deepen Suffering
The sanctions harm the Iranian economy, causing enormous suffering. But that has been the U.S. goal for over 40 years.
COP27 Is Over But Alaa Abd El-Fattah Remains a Political Prisoner
El-Fattah’s mother and sister discuss his health, his case, his family and his hopes for freedom.
5 Dead in Colorado LGBTQ Club Shooting on Eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance
Denver mayoral candidate Leslie Herod describes a “clear connection” between hateful rhetoric and anti-LGBTQ violence.
Capitalism Has Ended the Issue of Scarcity But Worsened the Crisis of Inequality
Capitalism will never deliver material well-being for all. We need a new system.
Russia’s Uranium Sales Help Fund Ukraine War, Exiled Environmentalist Says
If the U.S. and Europe continue to pay Putin, that means more people will die in Ukraine, says Vladimir Slivyak.