Truthout
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Chevron May Yet Have to Pay Billions for Its Ecuadorian Catastrophe
Ecuadorian and Canadian court rulings against Chevron for polluting the Amazon's waterways may hold the company accountable.
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On Police Injustice: “Fires of Rebellion Burn With Rage, but They Shine With Hope“
The reason Michael Brown's story is not simply a statistic is because the people of Ferguson fought back.
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The Revolution That Was Not Televised: Lessons From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
The US war in Vietnam was the first televised war, but television alone did not create opposition to it.
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Latin America’s Open Veins: From Brutal Colonialism to Exploitative Neoliberalism
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
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Tortured in Guantánamo, Uncharged Prisoner Details a US-Created Hell
Mohamedou Slahi shares his horrific journey of torture, and he is currently still imprisoned in Guantanamo.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The Plunder of Black Life Was Drilled Into This Country in Its Infancy“
Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the killing fields set up by whites that sacrifice Black life on a daily basis.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Meaning of Ferguson
Ferguson is a wake-up call to build social, radical, revolutionary movements for change.
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Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body
Beneath the still-rising mushroom cloud, a huge portion of Nagasaki vanished.
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Kafka’s Last Laugh
“Octavia's Brood” starts from the premise that both science fiction and activism are engaged in the imagining a better world.
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Women Are at the Forefront of the Zapatista Revolution
People around the world have been inspired by images of Zapatista women like Major Ana Maru00eda, Comandanta Ramona and Comandanta Ester.