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Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination
In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power,” Max Haiven postulates the need to reclaim and reimagine the commons, to restore humanity and human …
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The Historical Jesus Was Crucified for Being a Revolutionary
The portrait of Jesus that emerges from Reza Aslan's “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” bears little resemblance to the image cultivated by the early Christian …
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How Antiwar Activists Robbed the FBI, Got Away With It, and Exposed Massive Covert Surveillance
“Burglary” is a fascinating and inspiring story of protestors who robbed the FBI - how they pulled it off - and how they exposed the agency's illegal surveillance and …
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Mandela Was Unable to Dismantle the White Oligarchy Keeping South Africa in Economic Chains
Danny Schechter offers insight into how while South Africa changed in terms of who politically ruled it, the economic power remained concentrated in white and western economic hands.
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Conscious Defiance: Catriona Rainsford’s “Urban Circus“
Author Catriona Rainsford ran away with the circus in Mexico, living and performing with an itinerant, fluid group of unicycle riding jugglers and fire
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Thom Hartmann | Are Economic Royalists Leading the US Over a Precipice?
Was the near meltdown of our economy at the end of the Bush administration just a prelude to a more crushing collapse? Thom Hartmann says yes! Read an excerpt …
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Bill Moyers | The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy
There is nothing idealized about the difference between a society whose arrangements serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.
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“Twelve Years a Slave”: Kidnapped Into the Horror of Slavery
Solomon Northup's memoir offers a vivid, horrifying account of the abominable practice of slavery.
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A Daughter Is Born in the Swat Valley of Pakistan and Set Free by Knowledge
My father always said, “Malala will be free as a bird.” I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and …
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US is Faced With a Feverish Populism of Anger and Hatred
In an excerpt from his book