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  • Canada’s Oil Province Wants Out

    National self-determination is no bad thing. After World War I, during which imperial powers such as Britain, France, and Germany squandered millions of lives for nothing, President Woodrow Wilson called for an end to the old order. In his speech of January 8, 1918, to a joint session of Congress, he said: “The day of

  • The Power of Power Structure Research

    Today it’s almost taken for granted that activist campaigns and organizing drives, including within the labor movement, have some form of a power research component to help shape strategy and tactics. But this wasn’t always the case. In the 1960s, power structure research — which maps who holds power in society, how those entities are

  • The Fallout Series Hits Close to Home

    Since 1997, the Fallout video game franchise has imagined an alternate America in the shadow of nuclear annihilation. Players wander the Wasteland, trying to survive and piecing together how things went so horribly wrong. They eventually discover that, having captured Mexico in 2072, the United States annexed Canada as part of an oil war with

  • Gambling on the Wisdom of Crowds Is a Bad Bet

    In the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election, Donald Trump cited political prediction markets (PPMs) as evidence that he would defeat Kamala Harris and return to the White House: “A gambling poll, as they call it . . . I don’t know what the hell it means, but it means that we’re doing pretty

  • Wall Street–Backed Lawmakers Want to Help Banks Gouge You

    State lawmakers across the country have moved to shield residents from sky-high interest rates charged by out-of-state banks — in some cases as high as 199 percent on credit cards and loans. Now two Republican members of Congress who have received nearly $5 million in financial sector donations are pushing federal legislation that would override

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  • Venezuela after the Abduction of President Maduro

    The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence. The response within the US political establishment to the attack on Venezuela has been striking. Without the The post Venezuela after the Abduction of President Maduro appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming

    Wes Jackson’s career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only by the strong but by the stubborn. Straight-A students don’t always lead the way. Jackson, one of the last half-century’s most innovative thinkers about regenerative agriculture, has won a MacArthur Fellowship, The post Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational

    This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic. It is a visionary peace proposal that save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin. A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity — benefitting Greenland, the Arctic, and the rest of us. I. Four Principles for a New Arctic Vision The Arctic The post A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational appeared first on Dissident Voice.

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  • The US Government Keeps Using Dangerous Chemicals on Protestors

    On January 31, federal agents fired tear gas into a crowd of civilians, clergy, and children gathered outside the ICE building in Portland, Oregon. Witnesses say, and video shows, that the demonstration was largely peaceful before the gas was deployed. In the weeks since, a federal judge moved to restrict the use of these chemical

  • Trump Made Us a Soundtrack to World Peace

    In the run-up to the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, which began about 40 minutes late on Thursday at the recently renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, representatives from over 40 countries jammed out to a mix of disco, ’80s hits, and Sinéad O’Connor classics. “Does everybody like the music?” the president

  • Tennessee Said Yes to ICE—and Turned Into a Deportation State

    On a rainy evening in early May, several armed ICE agents in tactical vests closed in on a small red sedan at a gas station in South Nashville. The driver, a frightened 55-year-old Salvadoran man named Edgardo David Campos, gripped the steering wheel while bystanders took out their phones and began recording video. As agents

  • Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Congressman Cory Mills

    Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to more than a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills, watched hours of court testimony, and reviewed hundreds of pages of public records to piece together the rise of a Florida Republican now plagued by numerous scandals. What I heard and saw was often shocking. To a

  • Everybody Hates Cory

    Over the past few months, I have spoken to over a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills. Nearly everyone, I found, dislikes him. Some outright despise him: “repulsive and vile,” “schmuck,” “little bitch.” Others were more formal. “I have no use for people with no honor,” an Idaho firearms instructor who worked with Mills

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  • From Tehran to Gaza: Frontlines of Resistance

    Forty-seven years ago, after a millennia of monarchical rule, Iran reinvented its political system. The Islamic Republic was birthed by the Revolution of 1979; considered one of the most consequential historical events of modern times.  The Iranian Revolution profoundly altered the geopolitical landscape of West Asia. By removing the Shah, Iranians severed one pillar of

  • How the ‘Language of Humiliation’ is Engineering a Second American Civil War

    A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of its most decisive midterm elections ever. Gallup, however, was stating the obvious. It is a surprise that not all Americans feel this way, judging by the coarse, often

  • Do Workers in Germany Vote Neo-Nazi?

    In Germany’s recent election – held in February 2025 – the AfD managed to become the second-strongest political force, winning 21%. Four years earlier, the neo-fascist party’s share had been 10.4%. In East Germany, it even reached 32%. The AfD thus succeeded in doubling its share of the vote. Worse, this is not because fewer

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    • Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

      After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and threaten Iran. This is the third Atlantic crossing for the Ford’s crew since it set sail from Norfolk, Virginia, in June 2025, and the