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The Pentagon We Don’t Think About
A New Perspective on the Department of Homeland Security
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Why Student Body Leaders are Calling on Biden to Cancel Student Debt
By canceling student loan debt, Biden can bring us closer to a nation where everyone can obtain an education regardless of geography, race, or class
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How India’s Farmers Launched a Movement Against Modi’s Farm Bills—and Won
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers spent a year relentlessly protesting the Modi government’s push to corporatize Indian agriculture. Their fight offers a model for social movements worldwide
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Continuing King’s ‘Revolution of Values’
King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today
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talian co-ops hire inmates to make food and fashion
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Unions Have the Potential and the Responsibility to Advance a “Just Transition”
The costs of achieving a green economy should not be borne by those who have suffered and been excluded by the injustices associated with industrialization
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How Billionaires Devour the World & Fuel Global Inequality, Prolonging the Pandemic
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Bernie Sanders: The Time for Senate Talk Is Over. We Need to Vote.
If we cannot pass a comprehensive piece of legislation, we should divide it up into separate bills and members of the Senate should have to vote on the very popular agenda we are fighting for. That's how you win elections
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Fetterman Calls Fall of Union Membership ‘A National Disgrace’
New government statistics show union membership declined by 241,000 workers last year
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COVID-19 and Privatization in Germany
Public health is no longer measured on public health needs. Now they are based on abstract formulas about hospital bed and ICU occupancy
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Bank Blocks Donations Supporting Cuban Effort to Vaccinate World
"A European bank, established in the Netherlands, has decided to put the interests of the U.S. government above the lives of millions of people."
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Rein in Runaway Pentagon Spending
The Pentagon’s budget takes up roughly 50% of the nation’s annual discretionary spending
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Nursing Unions Say For-Profit Health Care Is Driving Omicron Staffing Crisis
“We need our employers and our elected officials at the federal state and local levels to give us protections based on science, not just what’s good for business.”
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U.S. Economy, Omicron, and Moving Forward
We have the opportunity to build and participate in these social movements, in minor and major ways, while educating ourselves and not isolating ourselves alone or in small cliques
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Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise US $2.52 Trillion a Year
A new analysis by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking rise in global wealth among the world's richest people despite deepening inequality during the pandemic
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Worshiping Markets, Genuflecting to Grand Fortune
Today’s ‘utopians’ have reserved heaven on Earth for the richest among us
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As We Honor Dr. King, We Must Remember What He Truly Stood For
It would be easy for us to assume that he was universally admired and respected by the Establishment during his lifetime. Nothing could be further from the truth
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Hospital greed caused nurse shortage, not COVID-19
The country’s largest nurse labor union maintains that hospitals are deliberately understaffing units and forcing nurses to work long hours to increase profits
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Student Debt Cancellation Is a Racial Justice Issue
Presidential executive action to cancel up to $50,000 in student debts would increase Black wealth by 40 percent
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Warren Demands Private Equity-Backed Firms Answer for Role in Rising Rent Prices
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from housing corporations with backing from private equity, who she says are involved in inflating housing prices for both renters and buyers.
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Rentier capitalism and class warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country’s recent protests
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Activists Are Challenging Laws That Enable Vulture Funds to Exploit Global South
Solidarity, education and direct action are needed to mount pressure on lawmakers to establish a multinational framework that either improves upon or goes beyond the prevailing contractual approach
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The Real Estate Industry and New York Progressives Are Headed for a Showdown
Progressives and socialists in the New York State legislature are bracing themselves for a titanic fight with the state’s real estate industry and landlord lobby over “good cause” eviction protections
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California Could Become the First US State to Offer Universal Health Care
The bills to create and fund universal healthcare face opposition from powerful lobbies for doctors and insurance companies
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What Does Modi Have In Common With The Monarch Who Caused The French Revolution?
Modi's remark on farmers who died during protests clearly seems to indicate that he conflates his persona with the majesty of the state, in a throwback to Louis XIV
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25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
The book, Seeds of Power, offers important insights on the complex dynamics of power and compliance and how they can play out in a broad national context
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GOP Offers Preview of Brutal Climate Policies in Texas
As Americans are subject to the brutal impacts of inevitable climate change, we face a clear choice: strong government intervention to save our lives, or a “survival of the fittest” dystopia
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Your Privileges Are Not Universal
We praise the hopes and struggles of the people, whose desire to advance history will cut through your repression
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The debate over the minimum wage has been lopsided for a very long time
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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
Poor, dark-skinned people should not be made to die when their lives can be saved by a simple vaccine, which is available in abundance
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Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty
Manhattan’s skyscrapers aren’t really built for people anymore
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Interview on a many topics, including the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Interview on the role of US labor internationally including the National Endowment For Democracy NED and the AFL-CIO "Solidariity Center"
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Interview on how the media landscape has changed in the age of social media, inspiring activist movements, the Republican's sharp movement toward an insane style of politics, and the dangers of the new Cold War with China
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A look at China’s efforts since 2010 to tame its foreign ‘shadow banks’ that have been playing a central role in creating financial bubbles in its residential housing, local infrastructure, and currency markets
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Dissecting key provisions in the Republican Congress’s recently passed ‘Omnibus’ Appropriations bill
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Oil Deflation, Russia’s Recession, and Ukraine Depression
Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy
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The Consequences of the Global Oil Price Crash
Talk on how the net effect on the global economy will likely prove to b significantly negative overall, and that the price decline could fall as low as $40/barrel in coming months
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Understanding and Responding to the Global Economic Crisis
Understanding and Responding to The Global Economic Crisis Peter Bohmer...
