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More than half of Miami-Dade residents struggling to get by, according to report - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
MIAMI (WSVN) - A new report from United Way Miami says more than half of residents across Miami-Dade County are struggling to afford their monthly<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/ne...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension
The Walt Disney Company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."
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September 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Death of the Holocaust Industry
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Death of the Holocaust Industry - Read by Eunice Wong
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Universal Benefits Are Actually Cheaper Than Means-Tested Ones
The argument that means-tested welfare programs reduce inequality and poverty more than non-means-tested programs is based on an accounting trick. Universal benefits are the best and cheapest way to a...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Chris Hedges Confronts the N.J. State Assembly on Dangerous Antisemitism Bill
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Chris Hedges Confronts the N.J. State Assembly on Dangerous Antisemitism Bill
The bill would accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism with antisemitism.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty
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How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty
Episode 2594: The Religious Origins of Money from Temple Scribes to Bitcoin
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July 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Healthcare Workers Stand Strong 11 Days Into Open-Ended Strike - PopularResistance.Org
Duluth, MN – On Friday, July 19, striking workers were on the picket line at Essentia Health, Duluth Clinic 2nd Street. Friday marked the 11th day of an open-ended strike by around 700 Registered Nurs...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes
A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on key issues and how they differ from wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic p...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Michael Hudson: How the Global Majority can free itself from US financial colonialism - Geopolitical Economy Report
Economist Michael Hudson: China created alternative to Western neoliberal order, how Global South can challenge rent extraction of US financial colonialism.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme, which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hit $120,000.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Against the Logic of the Guillotine
Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Rojava’s economic vision and cooperative model under self-governance - I
The Rojava Revolution, which began in Kobanê on 19 July 2012 and later spread across all of Northern and Eastern Syria, is now in its thirteenth year and continues to draw attention with its econom...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Zohran Mamdani, a political response to Donald Trump’s country
If New York City elects the winner of the Democratic primary as mayor in November, it will do something even more necessary than choosing a politician with progressive credentials. It will demonstrate...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Township Rebellion: The Zapatista Movement, Three Decades Later
This piece assesses the future of the Zapatista movement in the context of crises that threaten to alter the fabric of Mexican politics—thirty years after the EZLN uprising and over a century after th...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Weapons of Capitalism | Countercurrents
The dominant narratives around the invincibility of capitalism continue to undermine all other available alternatives by employing various tools and strategies of governance that domesticate not only…
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July 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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America’s Brutal Capitalist Class Tamed Its Labor Movement
Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The quiet violence of peace deals
Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.
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July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank
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As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank
"They are dealing with the West Bank as if the war is right here."
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July 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Trump sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese are illegal and represent further U.S. complicity in genocide mondoweiss.net/2025/07/trum...
Trump sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese are illegal and represent further U.S. complicity in genocide
The Trump administration’s sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese show how far the U.S. is willing to go to ensure impunity for Israel as it commits genocide.
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July 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The rise, rise and rise of capitalism (XXVII) - The Nation Newspaper
The Nation Newspaper The rise, rise and rise of capitalism (XXVII)
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July 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Inequality has risen from 1970 to Trump − that has 3 hidden costs that undermine democracy
The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the social fabric as well as the economy.
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July 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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How Unequal Exchange Shapes Our World - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Jason Hickel on the persistent inequalities of the post-colonial order
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July 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A Different Revolution consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/a...
A Different Revolution
There were two original sins that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin. By Ace Thelin Special to  Consortium News  It...
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July 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM