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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Eyes on the Spies: Art In the Age of Hyper Surveillance
A new exhibition opening Thursday in San Francisco depicts the depth and breadth of spying, listening, recording and gathering data.
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Totalitarian Democracy Now
The 1% has no intention of giving up its wealth or its power, so the challenge facing us is well worth accepting.
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Practicing Random Acts of Kindly Conservation As Drought Grips California
In a state of emergency in which conservation is voluntary, citizens of the Golden State write their own individual water plans and adhere to their own rules.
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Drought Dystopia: Are We Seeing the Prelude to the California Water Wars?
California is the only U.S. state that doesn't monitor groundwater thanks to the political clout wielded by corporate farming – but that may be changing as the drought creates sharp new divisions.
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The Tipping Point: "How to Oust A Congressman" This Election Season
If you can’t overthrow the government overnight, you might try to unseat a Congressman burdened with an atrocious voting record, something Carl Gibson shows us step-by-step how to do in his new book.
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Paris Isn’t Burning — Not Yet
Today, France isn’t occupied — unless you count multinational corporations as occupiers. Instead, it's the racists, the Anti-Semites and the members of the National Front who are fanning the flames of popular discontent.
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The Black Panther Past Reborn
The Panthers, who celebrated a reunion in northern California, have no blueprint for protest except to preserve their own history and to encourage today's young people. Their unfolding story of rebellion, resistance and revolution continues.
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An Interview with Occupy Activist and Author Nathan Schneider
Contradictions of Occupy, says Schneider? "Autonomy and accountability, sanity and madness, order and mischief, creativity and frustration, occupation and colonization, relief and recovery, grievance and self-sufficiency, ecstasy and failure."
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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse
Part pamphlet, part meditation, and part dispatch from the vortex of a fiery volcano, Nathan Schneider's book hits the ground running and doesn’t end until Occupy itself comes to an end. But maybe it hasn’t ended.
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The Hemorrhaging of America: From Charles Whitman in Austin to Adam Lanza in Newton
As long as Americans can buy guns legally and fairly easily over the counter, Americans will kill other Americans and kill themselves, too.
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Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
Posted 1 month 3 weeks ago
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
Posted 1 month 8 hours ago
The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
Posted 6 days 4 hours ago
