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How mainstream journalists created fake news from a Julian Assange interview.

Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi explains how her recent interview with Julian Assange was distorted by the Guardian, Washington Post and across social media to manufacture a pro-Trump agenda from the Wikileaks founder, and reflects on the political realities faced by Assange under detention and his organization under attack by the establishment press. Stefania's interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was distorted by the Guardian's Ben Jacobs, as covered by Glenn Greenwald for the Intercept.

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A report from the wrong side of the fake news scare.

Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith talks about ending up on a bizarre list of Russian propagandists posted by the anonymous website PropOrNot - a inept group being legitimized by the Washington Post - and explores the larger context of misinformation as a tool wielded by political interests and media organizations to their own ends. Yves wrote the recent blog posts We're Under Attack and We Demand That The Washington Post Retract Its Propaganda Story Defaming Naked Capitalism and Other Sites and Issue an Apology.

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Fuck work: The case against full employment, and for guaranteed income.

Historian James Livingston examines the deep problem with employment in the 21st century - the broken relationship between work and income, and explains why we must look beyond capitalism's intellectual decrepitude, and to the rising rate of transfer payments, if we are to reclaim our labor, our happiness and our time from the demands of capitalism. James is the author of the new book No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea from UNC Press and the Aeon essay Fuck Work.

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How the left can build (and control) a truly democratic party.

Jacobin's Seth Ackerman explains why the Democratic Party is neither of those two things, and sketches the blueprints for a working class political party - from the need for the left to organize and exert power beyond the constraints of restrictive ballot laws, to the surprising new opportunities to influence politics and elections in the wake of Citizen's United. Seth wrote the article A Blueprint for a New Party in the latest issue of Jacobin.

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For water, for our children's future, for the land: A report from Standing Rock.

Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle reports from the frontlines of the #NoDAPL fight at Standing Rock - a struggle against overwhelming state violence and police misinformation parroted by uncritical mainstream news sources - and explains why the worldwide fight for water, land and a healthy future is only just beginning. Sarah will be updating us on the struggle for water and land she last talked about with us in September.

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The city provides a frame: Radical municipality in the age of Trump.

Kate Shea Baird and Steve Hughes examine the revolutionary potential of a reclaimed municipal politics - as a tool to resist the rightward slide of nationalism happening across the US and Europe, and as a path to recapturing the radical potential of horizontal, inclusive democratic action across the globe. Kate and Steve wrote the article America needs a network of rebel cities to stand up to Trump at Medium.

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History is not decided: Understanding the legacy of the Attica prison uprising.

Historian Heather Ann Thompson examines the 1971 Attica prison uprising - from the movement's democratic origins, to the government's brutal response - and explains how Attica shaped decades of public opinion and political decisions on civil rights, mass incarceration and state violence against organized citizens. Heather is author of the book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy from Pantheon.

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The big takeover: Why the left must capture power, not just protest it.

Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White explains why political power will not be captured in street protests, but in the synthesis of social movements with political parties, and how the left must ditch palliative progressivism and re-engage with the mechanisms of power on the local level if it hopes to become a revolutionary force. Micah wrote the essay Two Paths Forward at his website, and the op-ed Protests won't stop Trump. We need a movement that transforms into a party for the Guardian.

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On the possibilities of President Trump's inherited surveillance state and war machine.

Journalist Trevor Timm explains why the most catastrophic mistake of the Obama administration was to strengthen and expand the worst crimes of the Bush regime, and then hand them over to Donald Trump - from CIA torture and NSA mass surveillance, to a weaponized drone program hovering across the globe and outside democratic control. Trevor's most recent Guardian op-eds are Obama has handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac and If Donald Trump gets his way, his administration will be disastrous.

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Power for the last time: Trump devours American politics.

Writer Richard Seymour surveys the wrecked landscape of American politics after Trump's victory - from the collapsed neoliberal center, to the abandonment of politics from the top and bottom of American society - and calls for the left to embrace militant disruption - as resistance in the face of Trumpism, and uniting factor in forging a new political class. Richard and his fellow editors at Salvage wrote the essay Saturn devours his young: President Trump.