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The Snowden Saga Begins: “I Have Been to the Darkest Corners of Government, and What They Fear Is Light“
Glenn Greenwald's new book, “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Security State,” chronicles his last near-year swept away by the Snowden affair.
Surveillance Posing as Counter-Terrorism: Foreword to “The Rise of the American Corporate Security State”
This Foreword to Bea Edwards' “The Rise of the American Corporate Security State,” describes how peace, financial stability and civil liberties are threatened by the antidemocratic legal regime.
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Unions Need to Build Power
In this excerpt from the new afterword to “Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell),” Jane McAlevey argues that unions have to start focusing on the inequality of power.
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Privacy Tools: Encrypt What You Can
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the inner secrets of the NSA, he has been urging Americans to use encryption to protect themselves from rampant spying.
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Matt Taibbi | “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap“
In his new book, Matt Taibbi explains how two of the most troubling trends in the United States are interwoven: economic inequality and mass incarceration. Wealth can merit an …
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Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy
Four decades of neoliberal policies have resulted in an economic Darwinism that promotes privatization, commodification, free trade and deregulation, Henry Giroux writes in the introduction to his book.
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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 …