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• Lerner: How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

  Audio from a meeting of recycling leaders obtained reveals how the soda giant’s “green” philanthropy helped squelch what could have been an important tool in fighting the plastic crisis
• Rebellion: Rebellions don’t end – they regenerate

  ‘Burn-out’ is a major risk in movements such as ours, where our hearts can demand more selfless action at the cost of our own individual well-being. It’s for this reason that regeneration is our third core value
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  Terrell: The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National “Black Eye”

  The number of overseas US military bases, estimated at more than 800 in some 70 countries, is hard to gauge, given that they often are camouflaged as bases of the host country
• Party: PKK letter to the American people and President Trump

  “We are not guilty of terrorism; we are victims of state terrorism. But we are guilty of defending our people”
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  Pizzigati: Can an Economic Stat Help Narrow Our Grand Economic Divide?

  Egalitarian-minded economists are pushing for a ‘GDP 2.0’ — and getting some lawmaker help
• Estes: U.S. stole generations of Indigenous children to open the West

  Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions
• Fitzherbert: The ceasefire that never was: betrayal in Rojava

  After being stabbed in the back by the US — twice — the Rojava administration is left with little choice but to turn to Assad in the face of Turkey’s invasion
• Kilian: How Left-Wing Parties Abandoned Working Class Voters

  A new book argues that parties across the spectrum have been catering to elites
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  Brooks: Privatizers Said It Was Impossible for Chicago Teachers to Strike.

  How Wrong They Were
• Dwamena: Closing Rikers

  Competing Visions for the Future of New York City’s Jails
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  McKibben: Changing What It Means to Be Human

  Interview on why the human race may be reaching its final stages
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  Raina: The Gods We Make

  When a man you voted for Begins to speak of...
• Gayle: Extinction Rebellion protester removed from Big Ben’s tower

  Police move in after Ben Atkinson scaled scaffolding on Houses of Parliament
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  Falk: Interpreting Turkey’s Military Operation in Syria

  Trump’s diplomacy, as usual, irresponsibly sent the most mixed possible signal to all interested parties
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  Cole: “Shameful” Pence Agreement

  Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority Leader Chuck Schumer lambasted the pause in fighting by Turkey negotiated by vice president Mike Pence “sham ceasefire”
• Kvangraven: Impoverished economics?

  Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize
• Madeloni: Chicago Teachers Go Out On Strike Again

  This time, 25,000-member CTU is joined on strike by Service Employees (SEIU) Local 73, which represents 7,500 classroom assistants, bus drivers and aides, security guards, and other support staff
• Patel: How to Resolve the Chicago Teachers Strike

  Tax the Rich
• Koshgarian: Fund ‘Medicare for All’ by Slashing the Military

  We’ve identified more than $300 billion in annual military savings alone that we could better invest in priorities like Medicare for All
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  de Sousa Santos: Ecuador: From the middle of the world to the end of the world

  Ecuador is geographically located in the middle of the world. And now, from all appearances, neoliberalism has decided to carry out its end-of- the-world maneuvers in this country
• Fraser: The Greening of the New Deal

  The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now
• Chamberlin: Healing the Rift Between Political Reality and Ecological Reality

  We need policy that aligns individual and collective motivations, creating common purpose towards the shared goals of affordable energy and a better future
• Balhorn: “The Most Radical Economic Transformation Britain Has Ever Seen”

  Interview on the revival of the Labour Left, the relationship between Momentum and the wider party, and what prospects he sees for a democratic socialist transformation of the United Kingdom under Jeremy Corbyn
• O'Connell: When German Unions Built Housing for the People

  In postwar Germany, a cooperative run by trade unionists created Europe’s largest housing company. Building over 400,000 homes, “Neue Heimat” showed we don’t have to live on the terms dictated by landlords — we can take control for ourselves