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Category: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

The Xi-Trump Summit Runs on Oil That Isn’t Moving

By Imran Khalid

Both countries are dependent on what's trickling right now through two critical chokepoints.

Somewhere in the briefing papers prepared for this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping sits a request that quietly retires a decade of American…

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An Abolitionist Vision for the World We Want

By Independent Media Institute

Ahead of the midterm elections, voters need to clearly articulate a radical framework for spending our collective wealth.

A recent New York Times editorial by Tim Wu, a former antitrust adviser for the Biden administration, caught my eye for the criticism it leveled at…

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How Trump Is Criminalizing Dissent and Normalizing Fascism

By Henry A. Giroux Guest Commentator

From ICE raids and protest prosecutions to attacks on universities, journalists, and historical memory, authoritarianism is being embedded in American life.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently – Rosa Luxemburg Every democracy worthy of the name recognizes a simple but indispensable…

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Elon Musk, Trillionaire Politics, and the Rise of Techno-Fascism

By Henry A. Giroux Guest Commentator

The world's richest man embodies an oligarchic system that turns exploitation into achievement, racism into political spectacle, and unchecked private wealth into a weapon against democracy.

You can't have capitalism without racism.—Malcolm X Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue,…

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$3 Trillion a Year for U.S. Military Spending

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

Trump promised not to start any wars and to end existing ones easily and swiftly.

Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Already unpopular with…

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The NAACP’s Challenge of Boycotting Black Athlete Participation in Colleges in Racially Gerrymandered States

By Dr. Al-Tony Gilmore, PhD Guest Commentator

The purpose of the boycott is to inflict economic damage and cause wider public disapproval of the gerrymandering plans that have been awarded the green light by the enabling SCOTUS decision.

The NAACP has launched a campaign called “Out of Bounds” whose aim is to counter the race-based gerrymandered maps being drawn all over the South, that…

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How To Stop an Autocrat

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus Guest Commentator

The citizens of Brazil, Poland, and South Korea defeated the dragons threatening their democracies. What can Americans learn from their examples?

The best way of preventing authoritarian leaders from overthrowing democracies is to make sure that they never get into power in the first place. That’s what…

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The United States of Debt

By Bill Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

No one in the government, it seems, wants to live within their means.

The U.S. government’s solution is to wage wars while giving $500 billion more to the Pentagon and military contractors in FY2027. The Iran War costs more…

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The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend To Hate

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

For years, MAGA has attacked minority groups in the name of "protecting women and children." It turns out the real abusers are wealthy and powerful.

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s contentious House hearing about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files offered a clear message to the nation: sex trafficking of…

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ICE Is at War With the United States

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

Trump has taken a couple of practices used abroad for many decades and brought them home in new ways.

The U.S. government has the world’s most expensive military waging wars around the world. It also now has a military aimed at the United States itself.…

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