Why American Students Don’t Protest The Iranian Government
We owe persecuted dissidents around the world our solidarity. But we, like the Iranians, should focus first on the crimes our own government is committing.
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In their new documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the same—because the U.S. military is the worst polluter of all.
The Decolonial Mind of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Kenya’s greatest novelist was never shy about confronting the politics of empire and capitalism.
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