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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police

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Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro: This Rightwing Coronavirus Troika Fails to Respect Human Life

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Green New Deal, Part VI: End Corporate Welfare Before It Kills Us

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My Friend David Graeber

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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese (1955 - 2020)

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Kevin Zeese speaks at a rally for Chelsea Manning. By Ellen Davidson.
David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59

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David Graeber at his home in Manhattan in in 2005. A public intellectual, professor, political activist and author, he captivated a cult following that grew globally with each book he published over the last decade.Credit...Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times
Green New Deal, Part V: We Must Break the Corporate Bailout 'Logic' to Tackle Covid-19 and Climate

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Battle Over Coal Exports Further Divides the West

In Washington and Oregon, people are turning out in force to protest the coal industry’s plans to send millions of tons of dirty fuel through their backyards.

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Opinion: Let's Defend the Disabled

If we want our anti-austerity movement to be effective in reaching across all boundaries, we should organize with the disabled.

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The Four "I"s of Occupy

To understand the impact of the Occupy movement it's important to think about these four words: Identity, Inclusion, Influence and Institutionalization.

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Collective Workplaces Exemplify Real-Life Democracy

Cooperative workplaces are the closest thing to real-life democracy we've got.

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Billionaires Warn Higher Taxes Could Prevent Them From Buying Politicians

A consortium of billionaires today warned that if their taxes are raised they will no longer have enough money to buy politicians.

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Why Student Loans Are the New Subprime

Now that student loans are undeniably in bubble territory, the officialdom is starting to wake up and take notice.

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The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net

The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a growing coalition of powerful CEOs, politicians and policy makers on a mission to lower taxes for the rich and cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the name of debt reduction.

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How the Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data

The U.S. government isn't allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge. But there are plenty of legal ways for law enforcement, from the local sheriff to the FBI, to snoop on the digital trails you create every day.

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