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It was the largest protest in US history. More than 3300 rallies in all 50 states and more on every continent across the globe. It’s an understatement to say No Kings III was an overwhelming success. It wove a rich tape... f.mtr.cool/nagzhamgvl

Income inequality has been escalating in this country since around 1980 and continues to get worse. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing since the late 1970s, and the jobs that have “replaced” them have been substa... f.mtr.cool/yvrxvfalko

China’s conduct in the UN Security Council often disappoints those who expect it to openly confront what they see as an unrestrained American imperial machine. This expectation was especially evident in China’s abstenti... f.mtr.cool/wjhtvasttp

After decades of bipartisan deference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the likely contenders for the next Democratic presidential nomination have been distancing themselves from the powerful orga... f.mtr.cool/sdlevqpaow

Europe’s steel sector is in crisis. The obvious culprit is the continent’s high energy prices, now further escalating in the wake of the Iran war. But the deeper problem lies elsewhere: the industry risks returning incr... f.mtr.cool/jzcbyyurla

STEM graduates once clamored for jobs in Big Tech, but not so readily anymore. Since Israel began its genocide in Gaza, it has relied on AI and surveillance systems developed by once-dream-job companies like Google, Ama... f.mtr.cool/pynpepeyzh

“With ones’ eyes to the ground, the march resumesuntil the next stumble, just a few steps away.And history repeats itself…” Subcomandante Marcos, Instructions for falling down and getting up Six days after the United St... f.mtr.cool/cmkghpcsif

I was honored to be in Paris with 40,000 attendees at this amazing summit of changemakers towards a livable planet: f.mtr.cool/nzvlmuffkg I spoke to 300+ attendees on “War, Climate, and Power: Decolonizing Crisis... f.mtr.cool/qbtldljtne

Trumpism is waging a war against the people of U.S. and the rest of the world. It is an authoritarian, bullying playbook that violently oppresses, exploits, and dehumanizes immigrants and poor people at home and abroad.... f.mtr.cool/vkyyqjdkpj

Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting crises that aggravated each other and made solutions appear impossible. In the yea... f.mtr.cool/zgsdqlsmbi

“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they ... f.mtr.cool/abhgxnizoi

As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take their clamor for justice from the mountains of El Quiché to the streets of Guatemala City. For the ... f.mtr.cool/oygplwnyco

In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people specifically, has bee... f.mtr.cool/lkqnggpfrw

In Silivri Prison, more than three and a half years had passed since I wrote a transfer petition at the urging of Maraşlı Ahmet Kayabaşı. In fact, an inner voice did not want me to write it; I had written it only for th... f.mtr.cool/rdbhdpajmr

Does President Donald Trump have an endgame in Iran? Are personality traits a factor in Trump’s foreign policy behavior? How different is Trump from his postwar predecessors? Will he end US democracy? Political scientis... f.mtr.cool/fdeqaxumvb

The war on Iran has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history, as oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz falters. Taken together with this year’s invasion of Venezuela, home to the world’s largest pro... f.mtr.cool/acpyxslwog

In 2006, I returned to Northwest Indiana and reconnected with family and friends after processing out of the United States Marine Corps. As a combat veteran, the transition to the civilian world is, at first, particular... f.mtr.cool/ccbwiabwge

I am frustrated. I’ve written an article, and I know it’s good because the editors who rejected it actually loved it. They were ready to publish — if only the future I described had already arrived. This is the “Specula... f.mtr.cool/ykduhqmlug

The Airwaves Radio was introduced commercially in 1920, when the Westinghouse Corp. launched station KDKA in Pittsburg. Other stations followed. Because transmission frequencies could be chosen arbitrarily, stations int... f.mtr.cool/tsofyzeltg

The foisting of a Jewish state in the heart of Palestine was an arrogant imperial decision that has left a trail of carnage in West Asia; most recently, the genocide in Gaza. How much bloodletting will satiate Israel an... f.mtr.cool/pyxjlrwmko