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Loving Sports in an Age of Authoritarians w/ Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
For many around the US and around the world, the World Cup was a welcome distraction from the dismal state of the world and the daily overwhelm of re…
3 hours ago
Want Less Prison Violence? Make Prison Phone Calls Free
A groundbreaking new report reveals a direct link between prison phone call rates and prison safety: higher rates fuel more violence within prisons; …
2 days, 1 hour ago
Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Most Famous Doctor. Time Is Running Out to Save Him.
Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israel’s military and has…
6 days, 6 hours ago
Fighting Disinformation in Europe: Media Education, Regulation, & Organizing
Disinformation is impacting our lives. Much of it is being pushed by unregulated Silicon Valley tech companies and their billionaires owners. But peo…
6 days, 12 hours ago
Data Centers Are Not a “Red State” or “Blue State” Problem; They’re a Working-Class Problem
In so-called “red states” and “blue states” around the US, from rural areas to urban centers, the explosion of new data center projects is impacting …
1 week ago
Harsha Walia: Abolishing ICE Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
While calls to "abolish ICE" have exploded during the second Trump presidency, critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigran…
1 week, 2 days ago
Brazil’s Battle Against Fake News & the US War to Undermine it
This is really a tale of two countries: The United States and Brazil. In both countries, far-right presidents come to power — Donald Trump and Jair B…
1 week, 6 days ago
Establishment Democrats PANIC as Socialists Keep Winning
Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins? T…
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Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?
10 years before the catastrophic train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the deadliest rail disasters in North America…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Rebels with a Cause: The Black Panther Party and Socialism in Practice
On this episode of Rattling the Bars, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, host and former politic…
2 weeks, 2 days ago