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Arundhati Roy: Another World Is Not Only Possible, She Is on Her Way
“Capitalism: A Ghost Story” is a passionate, detailed journey through the injustices of systemic inequality.
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The Economic Destruction of Gaza
In an incisive analysis of the plight of Palestinians, journalist Ali Abunimah offers lucid insight into a people denied a national identity.
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Nomi Prins | The Real Vice-President of the United States Is Wall Street
In “All the Presidents' Bankers” Wall Street journalist Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving US …
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The Legacy That We Are Leaving: The Extinction of Species
There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …
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Fixing the Facts To Create a Crisis With Iran
Fictitious WMDs created a pretext for launching the ill-fated and destructive war with Iraq.
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Profiteers Are Lining Up To Make Money Off Global Warming
Yes, there are profiteers positioned to make fortunes off of the misery of climate change. Read about the details in “Windfall: The Blooming Business of Global Warming.”
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Creating a Pedagogy in Common: Excerpt From “Toward a New Common School Movement“
The authors of “Toward a New Common School Movement” argue for defending a not-yet-realized “public” in public schools.
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Frances Fox Piven | Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries
In ‘Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,’ Frances Fox Piven argues that the guarantee of a universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial …
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William Ayers: Teach Freedom!
In “Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,” retired education professor William Ayers writes about knowledge as an inherently public good.
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Corporations? Corporations? Nobody Here but Us Chickens
Author Donald Lazere details the means by which American corporations render their own political and economic power invisible.