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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Bhabani Nayak |Michael Albert |Liz Theoharis
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such unwanted intrusion are embellished and magnified. In the case of Australia, these have varied from straying Indonesian fishermen who are seen as terrors of border security, to the threatened establishment of military bases in the Indo-Pacific by China.
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1 month ago | 
juancole.com | Liz Theoharis |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – “There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
truthout.org | Liz Theoharis |William D. Hartung
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate renewal, trans rights, and other movements for change are bracing for hard times. The new administration will be doggedly opposed to so many of the values we hold dear, as well as programs that have helped keep millions of Americans above the poverty line.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Bhabani Nayak |Liz Theoharis |William D. Hartung
A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA, has stated that 771,480 people were homeless in the USA in 2024, an 18 per cent rise from the previous year 2023 and a whopping 33% rise from 2020. This has surprised those who thought that the economic recovery in the post COVID phase will reduce homelessness.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
portside.org | Liz Theoharis |Shailly Gupta Barnes
Lifting From the Bottom: How To Survive Donald Trump’s America Published November 30, 2024 “If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:31)Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses… and, of course, the list only goes on and on.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Arnold R. Isaacs |Kim Petersen |Romi Mahajan |Liz Theoharis
During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump’s specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day).
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Liz Theoharis
“If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:31)Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses… and, of course, the list only goes on and on.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Petersen |Romi Mahajan |Liz Theoharis |Jeremy Brecher
RT ran a headline: “Putin must be ‘adult in the room’ on Ukraine conflict.” This is according to left-leaning comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore. “Joe Biden and the neo-cons in his administration have been constantly escalating war… What they’re trying to do is start a war that Donald Trump can’t stop,” warns Dore about a potential WWIII.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Romi Mahajan |Liz Theoharis |Jeremy Brecher |Binoy Kampmark
Since the US Presidential Election of November 5th, 2024, I have seen a lot from Democrats and Harris supporters. I’ve seen a great deal of introspection. I’ve seen a great deal of hand-wringing. I’ve seen articles and posts asking for curiosity and courage. I’ve seen calls for reform. I’ve seen a ton of Monday-Morning Quarterbacking. Fair enough. Once again, the Democrats lost a crucial election to an odious political outsider (at least in 2016) who traffics in hatred, racism, and misogyny.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Liz Theoharis |Shailly Gupta Barnes
“If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”–(Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses… and, of course, the list only goes on and on.
