Politics

US Asks Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera News

By Robert Tait The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has reportedly asked Qatar to moderate Al Jazeera’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, amid concerns within the Biden administration that the channel is inflaming…


Colombian Indigenous March

Indigenous and social organizations march against violence in Bogotá by Peoples Dispatch Over 15,000 Indigenous people from 10 departments of Col­ombia arrived in the capital Bogotá between September 25 and 27 to draw the national…


Building Cross-Border Solidarity

Mexican journalist José Luis Granados Ceja visits the Triangle By Sharmîn Aziz On October 21st and 22nd, José Luis Granados Ceja visited Durham and Raleigh as part of the “Mexico Solidarity Tour.” José Luis lives…


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Homeless in Portland

Camping bans are cruel and inhumane Commentary by Kaia Sand Imagine you have to carry everything you own — bedding, the food you’ve secured for the time being, your clothes. You’ve lost so much, but…


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Rent Stabilization Victory in Maryland

Landmark bill shows how communities can fight the housing crisis By Mel Buer On July 18, the Montgomery County Council passed a landmark rent stabilization bill, intending to curb predatory landlord practices in the county….



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Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works

Address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway By John Pilger In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at…



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Hostile Takeover

The Dystopian Future of U.S. Public Education Is On Display in Houston By Jackie Anderson, Ruth Kravetz and Jay Malone On June 1, the state of Texas removed Elizabeth Santos, an elected school board trustee,…


No Action on Climate? Blame Big Oil

By Linda McQuaig With outright climate denialism largely be­hind us, we keep moving on through more sophisticated stages of climate inaction. Currently, even as large swaths of North America became engulfed in wildfire smoke, we…