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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.
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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.