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Sunday, December 1, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


Major Plastic Polluters Win as UN Treaty Talks Conclude Without Agreement

"Every day that governments allow polluters to continue flooding the world with plastic, we all pay the price," said one campaigner.

By Jon Queally



With Vow to 'Fight for Working People,' Wikler Goes for DNC Chair

"The Democratic Party can win," the former progressive organizer argued, "when voters know that we're the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account."

By Jon Queally



Trump Picks 'Deeply Strange' Kash Patel—Who Vowed to 'Come After People in the Media'—for FBI Director

Kash's nomination to lead the FBI, said one watchdog, "represents the cronyism that is coming to define the second Trump administration. Loyalty to President-elect Trump is what matters above all else."

By Jon Queally



Sanders Says There Is No Choice: 'We Must Defeat the Oligarchs'

The U.S. Senator from Vermont is asking big questions about how to achieve—even in the face of Trump's return—an "economy and government that works for all, not just the few."

By Jon Queally



Over 125,000 March in London Against Israel's Gaza Genocide

"All of you here are beacons of hope in this darkness," said one demonstrator in a speech to the massive crowd.

By Jon Queally



World Central Kitchen 'Heartbroken' After Israel Bombing Kills Five in Gaza

The humanitarian aid group, which lost seven workers earlier this year in an attack by Israeli forces, said it was working with "incomplete information" about the latest strikes in Khan Younis.

By Jon Queally


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■ Opinion


The Democratic Party Reaped What It Sowed

Without a return to authentic working class politics, the party has no future at all.

By Bruce T. Boccardy


Just How Fully Will Trump Embrace Hitler's Fascist Playbook?

Trump has muscled unquestioned loyalty of the Republican Party, and weak resistance by a Democratic Party establishment that appears to detest the left more than it does the far right. Now our challenge begins.

By Chuck Idelson


100 Years After Mussolini's Dictatorship, a Trumpian US Flirts With the Long Night of Authoritarianism

The comparisons between Mussolini's declaration of dictatorship in 1924 and Trump’s re-election are striking.

By Brian J. Griffith