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Opinion: Measuring intelligence – Little black ants vs neo-cons
Ants and neoconservatives are not comparable entities when it comes to measuring intelligence. Little Black Ants (Monomorium minimum): Neoconservatives: Why the comparison is inappropriate: In conclusion, while ants demonstrate remarkable collective intelligence and problem-solving abilities within their ecological context, neoconservatism is a human political movement characterized by its own set of ideas and values. They…
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‘We’re Building a New Way of Life’: A Conversation with National Assembly Candidate Albanys Montilla – Venezuelanalysis
May 24, 2025 / Cira Pascual Marquina / Venezuela Analysis The Venezuelan youth has faced special hardships under the US blockade. The new parliament could help. Albanys Montilla is a 27-year-old communard from rural Trujillo state. Born into a working-class family deeply committed to the Bolivarian Revolution, she became politicized early in life through grassroots…
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The American Political Regime in a Post-neoliberal Moment
June 26, 2025 / leftvoice / Daniel Kóvacs Crisis from above and class struggle from below are reshaping a fraying bipartisan regime in a post-neoliberal moment, opening paths toward authoritarianism and increased activity by the working class and oppressed. These tensions come to the fore as the remnants of the old political order brush against…
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The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained
Jun 17, 2025 / Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report – The United States and Israel are waging war on Iran, but why? What are their real goals? Ben Norton explains the imperial strategy to impose US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East), destroy the Axis of Resistance, colonize Palestine, destabilize the revolutionary…
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As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey
The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt. By Marjorie Cohn , Truthout PublishedJune 11, 2025 Four and a half months after his inauguration, Donald Trump is exercising his authoritarian chops, targeting immigrants in the state he most despises — California. Making good on Trump’s nativist pledge to deport millions of…
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Reminds Us How Civil Liberties and Collective Action Go Hand in Hand
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is one of the most important and dynamic champions of worker power in U.S. history. For nearly six decades, from 1906 to 1964, she devoted herself to what she called “the working-class movement.” Inspired by the Irish freedom struggle and appalled by the exploitation and grinding poverty she saw around her, Flynn…
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Trump, Nixon, Reagan and the Alger Hiss Case
May 2, 2025 | Matthew Stevenson Alger Hiss testifying before Congress in 1948. Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Although the details of the case would be lost on him (don’t forget, presidential aides had to explain the historical rudiments of Pearl Harbor when Tropical Storm Donald made landfall in Hawaii), Trump’s…
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William Barber arrested for praying in Capitol Rotunda
Mark Wingfield | April 29, 2025 i U.S. Capitol Police surround William Barber and others praying in the Capitol Rotunda April 28. (Screencap) Just days after President Donald Trump’s task force to fight anti-Christian bias held its first meeting, a prominent pastor was arrested for praying in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Pastor William Barber and…
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Trump is Satan
Paradise Lost in Washington, DC May 10, 2019 | Jeffery R. Wilson | Harvard University Donald Trump is Satan. The Satan in question is perhaps the greatest literary character in the finest epic poem in the English language, John Milton’s Paradise Lost. That makes Washington Republicans the other fallen angels. In 2016, Republicans made a…
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Our bodies can no longer hold us
It’s been six weeks since Israel has cut off all aid to Palestinians in Gaza. AFSC’s Serena Awad shares her firsthand account of daily life under the total blockade. Apr 11, 2025 | Serena Awad | AFSC Since March 2, Israel has prevented all aid from entering Gaza. This is the longest period that humanitarian…