The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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As Strikes Paralyze Athens, Neighboring Bulgarian Government Resigns
Thousands of anti-austerity demonstrators marched in Athens on Wednesday as unions staged a general strike to protest government spending cuts and tax hikes.
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A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium
On Tuesday, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton solidified a $6 million deal to rename its football building GEO Group Stadium, after the private prison corporation.
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Private Debt – Not Government Debt – Will Destroy America
There are two kinds of debt. One that’s relatively harmless. And one that can destroy us all.
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RFK Jr.: "Why I Got Arrested at the White House to Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline"
The pipeline is a conduit to the past. Rather than deepening our addiction to fossil fuels, it’s time we did what presidents reaching back to Richard Nixon have called on us to do and reduce our dangerous dependence on oil.
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Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
A deal involving Bank of America that came to light recently shows how bank bailouts have continued, even if in a much quieter form than in the depths of the financial crisis.
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Corporate Power: Exposing the Global 1%
The Transnational Institute offers a visual insight into who dominates our planet at a time of economic and ecological crisis.
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Austerity Takes the Stage in London
Playwright and activist Anders Lustgarten's new play, opening February 20 at the Royal Court Theatre in London, explodes the ethos of austerity, examining the shock treatment issued by the financial world.
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Refugees Demanding Rights Continue 4-Month-Long Occupation in Berlin
Dozens of refugees have been occupying a central square in Berlin's bustling Kreuzberg district since October, as part of a growing nationwide movement to abolish refugee camps and end deportations of asylum seekers from Germany.
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Poem: W! T! F!
WTF's happened, in the land of the free? The rich getting richer, sea to shining sea.
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Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists and got away with it.