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Obama in Promised Land acknowledges and somewhat addresses the criticisms of progressives on a range of issues

“During a two-hour telephone interview, she claimed that her conduct had been spontaneous, contrary to widespread speculation that she had acted in coordination with an organized group.”

Why the rest of the world should be worried, and think hard about how to create a data protection culture

Last week’s statements by the Biden appointees made the matter unnecessarily more complicated, sounding more like a continuation of the Trump policy rather than its refutation

It’s not about revenge, it’s about creating safety. We are not safe with people who hold political power who are willing to endanger lives for political gain

Despite millions of years of finding ways to survive, these species failed to outlast that most destructive force — unfettered capitalism

“We do not know what our future holds right now. But we do know that any further fossil fuel extraction will only further perpetuate this”

“It feels good to let people know that they don’t have to take that kind of stuff as an H-2A worker. Workers don’t have to just sit back and accept it.”

Across America, right-wing politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers discriminate against gays

Sedition charges are just the latest attempt by Narendra Modi’s government to undermine a free press. They must be opposed

Students are demanding the university lower the cost of attendance and boost financial aid

Joe Biden’s Peace Force?

The energy company’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay out over a 2008 case, Court of Appeal in The Hague rules

To fully address profit-driven punishment, the Biden administration will need to take aim at every tendril of the private prison industry — including immigration detention centers

“We indigenous Papuans ask you all for moral and social responsibility to save us from the genocide of indigenous Papuans and ecocide in the land of West Papua”

Interview with director Shaka King on Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers & COINTELPRO

Led “predominantly by working-class Puerto Rican activists” from Manhattan’s West Side, El Comité developed organically

Lloyds is an organization generally not exposed to the danger of harboring socialist or radical environmentalist thoughts. Yet, its factual evidence contradicts virtually all key elements of neoliberalism’s belief system

This reliance on big pocketed financiers will be a continuing obstacle to truly reorienting finance to serve society

Latinx farm owners stand at the intersection of racial justice and food justice and offer new hope in the future of sustainable farming in the U.S.

To date, 43 states have considered and 26 have enacted some type of anti-protest law

The human brain is capable of great insights and independent thought, but we have conditioned ourselves not to ask too many difficult questions, because we are afraid of the answers

Industrial workers know their unions can’t stop plant closures

This history makes clear that nothing will be given to us.  We need and deserve a better unemployment insurance system. And to get it, we are going to have to fight for it

Concentrating wealth hasn’t just disrupted our major cities. It’s now changing our towns and countryside. Author Justin Farrell shows us how

Review of Asylum For Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry, Edited by Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (PM Press, 2020)

The National Women’s Strike in Poland called for countrywide protests after the controversial judgment by the Polish constitutional court banning abortions in case of fetal defects came into effect on Wednesday

When it comes to traditional economic activity, artists are square pegs in round holes

We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both

To give high marks merely for excelling in comparison to right-wing Republicans is to cheer high jumps over very low standards

The current mode of production and distribution — of private ownership motivated by unlimited growth and profits — is incompatible with ensuring the survival of humanity, serving the common interest, and staving off ecological collapse

Amid a rising billionaire tide, could a blip help change our national economic conversation?

“We owe it to future generations, to the Indigenous communities we’ve signed treaties with, and to every living being on this planet to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure.”

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The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the utter uselessness of the stock market

The Imperial Presidency Comes Home to Roost

The cover-up has to stop – and with it, the huge sums in aid for a country with oppressive policies towards Palestinians

“Our hopes are still high. The company is hard-headed and they’re not budging, but they’ve got some good workers out here who they can’t replace.”

Democrats promised to provide a near-universal benefit of $2,000 checks. Billionaire-owned media is trying to convince them to ignore history and gut their proposal

Demonstrators form human chain as they rally against Amazon’s plan to set up facility in small southern town of Fournes

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, will soon vote on forming a union. If they vote yes, their warehouse will become the first Amazon facility in the U.S. to unionize

“This is an important first step in ending our material support for war globally, and the genocide in Yemen in particular,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar

At least 1.6 million California households, or one in eight, have water debt, and they could face shutoffs when Newsom ends the state of emergency

Why do we value lies more than lives?

We should be less concerned about day traders getting burned, and more about the tens of millions of Americans families going hungry, jobless, being evicted from their rents, and dying in the hundreds of thousands due to a failed health care system and gross government mismanagement

Leaders are setting their sights on a national collective bargaining agreement

Interview on QAnon’s origins and evolution

Check back for our regular updates on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency

“Oh look, another billionaire is mad that he might have to pay more taxes while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep on the street.”

Examining the underbelly of the military industrial complex