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Chris Hedges In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with Kshama Sawant, a revolutionary socialist based in Seattle, Washington, who is challenging long-time incumbent Democrat Adam Smith for Congress. Sawant served in the Seattle City Council for more than a decade during which she and her supporters won unprecedented victories for higher wages, affordable housing, taxing Amazon, LGBTQ rights and more. She then went on to organize a national working-class movement, Workers Strike Back. Sawant is building on that work by running a courageous and unabashed anti-capitalist campaign for the working class. Her platform includes…

In May of last year, the Los Angeles City Council voted to raise the minimum wage for hotel workers in the city to $30 an hour by 2028. This represented the culmination of over a decade of hotel-specific minimum wage rises in the city, which have hampered the hotel industry and reduced employment. But last month, at the last minute, the city council voted to delay the enactment of the $30 wage by two years to 2030, buying a temporary reprieve for the hotel sector. While a delay is better than nothing, the City of Angels—and progressive politicians across the country—should use the experience of…

Jonathan Cook [First published by Middle East Eye] Keir Starmer’s announcement on Monday that he was stepping down as Labour leader – and therefore as Britain’s prime minister – is a remarkable turnaround for the man whose election victory less than two years ago was uniformly heralded as a triumph. In fact, Starmer rode into 10 Downing Street on a grand deception, propped up by the UK’s establishment media, that has proven the key to his undoing. This was a disaster foretold. And Andy Burnham, his likely successor, could well find himself in the same boat a year or two hence – unless…

The American right has a long history of stereotyping Jews in pernicious ways. Vice President Dan Quayle, running for re-election in 1992, denounced the Hollywood “cultural elite” for contravening traditional American values. In response, actor Billy Crystal said, “Every time they say the phrase ‘Hollywood elite’ you can hear the unspoken word ‘Jew.’”, a sentiment which, according to essayist Frank Rich, was echoed at the time by many entertainment executives. Those who resisted the Civil Rights Movement saw Jews as the evil geniuses behind this disciplined, effective movement. The American Right at times has blamed Jews for feminism, communism, socialism,…

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Dahj Voytek, People’s World. In 2026, with the rising costs of food, rent, and healthcare in the United States, one might ask: Where are our tax dollars going?   Well, since World War II, Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. Foreign assistance from 1940 to 2026, the United States Congress has sent an estimated $174 Billion dollars to Israel for military spending. In 2016, the U.S. Government pledged to give Israel another $38 billion in military spending over the next 10 years. As if sending away billions of taxpayer dollars annually wasn’t enough, Israel also drives a vast majority…

Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire GenXGirl’s recent article, “Backdoor Alliance With Israel,” does a good job of tracing the policy architecture behind the deepening U.S.-Israel security relationship. She correctly identifies how NSPM-12, several legislative vehicles, and Pax Silica are being used together to create pathways for greater integration. Her framing is useful and timely. What GenXGirl’s piece does not fully develop is the operational layer already in motion beneath those policy instruments. The reporting maps the intent. This article today is the part that moves the story from mapping the policy architecture to showing the operational layer already in motion. It shows how access is already moving through…

Giovanni, who was picked up in October by federal agents from the car wash where he worked, has returned to his San Fernando Valley home after spending six months in detention. Photo: Karla Gachet for Capital & Main.  Elizabeth Aguilera and Ben Poston for Capital and Main When immigration agents arrived at the Los Angeles car wash where he worked, Giovanni didn’t see them until one was standing beside him. Giovanni’s thoughts turned to his family: How would they get by without him? Would he have to uproot his school-age children from the only home they had ever known? Giovanni…

Still from Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). Warner Bros. The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of artificial intelligence over media, culture, education, and labor continues to expand, and in which economic policies and strategies are formulated on the basis of big data and algorithmic analysis, the left finds itself confronted with an existential question: how can movements that still organize themselves according to traditional logic confront a digital capitalism that has become technologically advanced to…

In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country’s founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson In 1790, the British statesman Edmund Burke published the work that made his name. Part diatribe and part manifesto, Reflections on the Revolution in France denounced that world-shaking upheaval not only for its “crude and violent schemes of liberty,” but also for its “prattling about the rights of man.” Aghast at what he called the “tyranny and cruelty employed to bring about and to uphold this revolution,” Burke preached the virtues of “a monarchy directed by laws, controlled and…