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December 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Sunday Science: Star Talk With Special Guest Physicist and Musician Brian Cox

Sunday Science: Star Talk With Special Guest Physicist and Musician Brian Cox     Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox December 9, 2025 StarTalk Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? Discussing Emergence, StarTalk     Life Lessons From …
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December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism     Vivek Chibber, Melissa Naschek December 14, 2025 Jacobin Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonial…
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December 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM

Thailand and Cambodia: A Trump-Brokered Truce Falls Apart

Thailand and Cambodia: A Trump-Brokered Truce Falls Apart     Guardian Editorial December 14, 2025 The Guardian The US president’s claims to have ended eight conflicts look shakier than ever as conflict reignites in south-east Asia and the Democratic Repub…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Congo and Rwanda To Sign Symbolic Peace Deal in Washington As Fighting Rages

Congo and Rwanda To Sign Symbolic Peace Deal in Washington As Fighting Rages     Emmet Livingstone December 4, 2025 NPR Fighting rages on while President Trump declares deal "a glorious triumph." Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet also signe…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Israel’s Gaza Proxy Strategy Is Collapsing

Israel’s Gaza Proxy Strategy Is Collapsing     Muhammad Shehada December 12, 2025 +972 Magazine The killing of gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, a known felon and druglord, by one of his own men has exposed the bankruptcy of Israel’s vision for the Strip. …
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December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone As Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina

Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone As Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina     Matt Novak December 10, 2025 Gizmodo What happens when your country's public health system is run by anti-vaccine activists? ,   The South Carolina Depart…
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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

These Are the Companies That Rolled Back DEI Amid Trump Backlash

These Are the Companies That Rolled Back DEI Amid Trump Backlash     Jessica Guynn December 9, 2025 USA Today Here are some of the companies that made DEI changes, in alphabetical order, from Accenture and AT&T to Walmart. One of the companie…
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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

The Radical Who Invented Robin Hood

The Radical Who Invented Robin Hood     Mat Coward December 7, 2025 Morning Star An 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — and blacklisted writers popularized his story for a ne…
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December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM

NYC-DSA Strategy in Zohran’s Race

NYC-DSA Strategy in Zohran’s Race     Grace Mausser November 5, 2025 Convergence Shows the Path to Mass Municipal Governance , Kimmie Dearest   On September 6th, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani packed a public school auditorium in Broo…
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December 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 12, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | December 12, 2025     xxxxxx December 12, 2025 xxxxxx Surveillance Pricing: The Invisible Way We're Being Gouged. Know Your Rights When Dealing With ICE. Why Gerrymandering Won't Save Republicans. Brad Lander for Congress. Rescuing the I…
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December 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM

The Paris Climate Treaty Changed the World. Here’s How

The Paris Climate Treaty Changed the World. Here’s How     Rebecca Solnit December 12, 2025 The Guardian What we’ve done to rescue the climate is far from good enough, but we are “bending the curve.” Landmarks like the Paris treaty and the Vanuatu victory …
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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.

Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.     Rachel Cohen Booth December 11, 2025 The New York Times If Mamdani learns from the mistakes that have derailed past efforts, he could pull off something that could change the lives of hu…
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December 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Operation Condor: A Network of Transnational Repression 50 Years Later

Operation Condor: A Network of Transnational Repression 50 Years Later     National Security Archive November 26, 2025 National Security Archive Launched in 1975 from Pinochet’s Chile, Operation Condor was a secret police operation of “cross-border repress…
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December 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM

In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh

In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh     A.J. Goldmann December 3, 2025 Columbia Journalism Review The acclaimed filmmaker and investigative journalist on her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-tel…
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December 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Nameless in Hell

Portside Culture Nameless in Hell     Suzanne Lummis Poet Suzanne Lummis imagines the inconveniences our Fearless Leader might experience in a less comfortable place than Mar-a-Lago. , Ground   There's only one TV, an old Philcothe s…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM

2026: A Year of Reckoning

2026: A Year of Reckoning     xxxxxx Moderators December 11, 2025 xxxxxx As a reader of xxxxxx, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted th…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?     Harold Meyerson December 11, 2025 The American Prospect As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challeng…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree     Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith December 10, 2025 Common Dreams From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. Wh…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails     Anand Giridharada November 23, 2025 The New York Times As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the name of one fawning luminary after another, there is a collecti…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Why Walmart Wants To See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail

Why Walmart Wants To See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail     Derek Seidman December 8, 2025 Truthout Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions. The ongoing barista strike also represents something much broader: a pitched battl…
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December 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Tidbits-Dec. 11- Reader Comments: Trump’s Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump’s MRI Results; New Resource – Zohran and Municipal Socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity With Ukraine; More..

Tidbits-Dec. 11- Reader Comments: Trump’s Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump’s MRI Results; New Resource – Zohran and Municipal Socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity With Ukraine; More..     December …
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December 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM

The Mostest Anarchist

Portside Culture The Mostest Anarchist     Paul Buhle December 4, 2025 Portside These days “anarchism” has become an official swear word. A little history should help. Only with the middle of the 19th century does something clearly and (somewhat) str…