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“Broken Promises”: How Congressional Democrats Are Pushing the TPP to the Brink
The TPP looks far more in doubt than it ought to at this stage.

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How Trayvon Martin’s Lynching Galvanized a Movement
The murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in the winter of 2012 was a turning point.

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Terrorism Is American as Apple Pie
This nation was founded upon terrorism, namely that of slavery, whose unspeakable degradations hardly ended with formal emancipation.

Henry A. Giroux | The National Insecurity State
The war on terrorism has morphed into a new form of authoritarianism whose real enemy is not terrorism at all, but democracy itself.

The Elite of the Deep State Pull the Strings of the Marionette Theater in Washington
The “Deep State” is system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary and organized crime.

Noam Chomsky | Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US
Noam Chomsky discusses the historical embedding of an elite “guardian class” in US society going back to the framers of the Constitution.

The 13th Amendment Created Legal Slavery Through Incarceration
The very amendment to the US Constitution that was to have performed the miraculous conversion of “chattel into man” actually facilitated his and her re-chattelization through imprisonment.

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“When We Fight, We Win!”: The Art of Transformative Organizing
Winning requires a “we,” a community, a group, an organization. And transformative change, in the face of powerful forces, requires a fight.

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To the Oligarchy, Democracy Is Just a Marionette to Be Manipulated
We are conducting elections, but not under conditions that allow for a diversity of viewpoints and opposition to be heard.

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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
The teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx's “Das Kapital.”