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Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard look behind the Republican Party’s victory in the United States election, why the Democratic Party lost and the challenges ahead.

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Boeing workers in the United States voted to accept a deal and end their seven-week-long strike, reports Malik Miah.

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Rank and file members of Boeing’s largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, voted resoundingly to reject a tentative agreement and to extend their strike, reports Malik Miah.

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A year after the launch of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has released a new documentary that exposes Israeli war crimes through photos and videos shared by Israeli soldiers, writes Barry Sheppard.

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Port workers on the United States’ Eastern and Gulf coasts took three days of strike action on October 1 and won an average wage rise from $39 an hour to nearly $63 an hour over six years, reports Malik Miah.

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Support for Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and Vice Presidential candidate Butch Ware is the highest since the party’s candidate Ralph Nader ran for president of the United States in 2000, report Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.

Boeing workers on picket line

Workers at Boeing’s commercial division in the United States overwhelmingly voted on September 12 to reject a tentative collective agreement and take strike action, reports Malik Miah.

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Whatever the outcome of November's United States election, the situation looks grim for migrants at the border and those already in the US without documentation, writes Barry Sheppard.

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The United States’ anti-Russia campaign took a new twist on September 2, when four activists were put on trial, accused of being Russian agents and conspiring against the US government, report Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard.

Mexico’s senate passed a judicial overhaul that will see nearly all the country’s judges elected by popular vote instead of by government appointment. The hypocritical nature of the US reaction to the reforms is laid bare when looking at the deeply undemocratic judicial system in the US, writes Barry Sheppard.

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Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard look behind the hype around Kamala Harris' presidential nomination in the United States.

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Capitalism cannot achieve the economic, political and scientific planning and cooperation needed on the scale required to address the climate crisis, argues Barry Sheppard.