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Climate Disruption Dispatches, With Dahr Jamail
The reality of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD) continues to outstrip our ability to model worst-case scenarios, as it is happening so much faster than was ever anticipated. Sixty-three percent …
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Gimme Shelter
Howard Mansfield's "Dwelling in Possibility"' suggests that how we construct our dwellings makes a cosmic difference in the quality of our personal and communal lives.
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Indigenous Voices in Climate Activism: Autonomous or Subjugated?
The voices of First Nations, often key to environmental activism through land right battles, should not be subsumed by other activist groups, says Sara Santiago.
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How the Antiunion Right Declared War in Chattanooga
If the NLRB fails to respond to the right-wing anti-union campaign in the Chattanooga VW plant elections, billionaires will be able to buy labor elections as well as political …
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Israel’s War on American Universities
Chris Hedges: Israel's heavy-handed reaction to campus organizations is symptomatic of its increasing isolation and concern about waning American support.
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Money in Hyping the Generational War Story
Dean Baker: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them …
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Billionaires… First They Came for the Economy
It's time to end America's oligonomy by rolling back the Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act, so that corporations can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles …
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Striking for the Public University
Once hailed as the “Great Equalizer,” public higher education today has arguably become a driver of inequality.
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A Thought for the Web’s Silver Anniversary
Let's learn from our not-so-distant past and share the gold. New technologies don't have to bring us new inequalities.
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture and Police Brutality
Regardless of a police officer's own ethnicity or socioeconomic background, it is the role that ultimately represents a virtual arm of white supremacy and class oppression.