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Links Between Climate Change and Increased Social Unrest Unacknowledged
The thundercloud-like effect of smoke from a wild fire. (Photo: Greg Seitz / Flickr) In many respects, 2011 has been marked as much by the mayhem of …
Grounds for Common Cause Between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party? An Interview With Timothy P. Carney
Wall Street protest on September 26, 2011, in New York's Financial District. (Photo: _PaulS_) Last week, I challenged libertarian populist writers for The Washington Examiner, who had …
What Are Economics for? Interview With Economist Jerry Epstein
Economist Jerry Epstein. (Photo: David Gray / Flickr) Center for Popular Economics longtime staff economist and founding Co-Director of the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute …
An Interview With Henry Giroux: Youth Movement in a Culture of Hopelessness
(Photo: Jessica Lehrman / Flickr) A protest encampment near the heart of the United States' financial capital in New York City started out with a few dozen …
One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: “We Are Not Helpless!“
Rep. Jan Schakowsky. (Photo: davidcharns) Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Illinois) $227 billion jobs bill was more or less dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House. And while she's …
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman on Human Rights Abuses Enabled by “War on Terror”
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman, one of three recipients who split the award this year, spoke in New York City at the Brecht Forum in September 2010 …
Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges on the 99 Percent
This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Chris Hedges explain why the 99 percenters are “the best among us.” Plus: Occupy L.A., Obama’s …
What Role for Labor in the Progressive Uprising? A Conversation With Stephen Lerner
Stephen Lerner (left) talks to the President of SEIU Local 1 as they walk past Goldman Sachs Headquarters on the way to Wells Fargo Regional Office in Chicago to …
Losing Our Civic Religion: A Conversation With David Shipler (2)
This April, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times in Israel and the Soviet Union, released “The Rights of the People.” The …
“American Autumn” Will Depend on People, Not Parties
Dr. Margaret Flowers, a core organizer of the October2011.org Movement. (Photo: Bill Hughes) No sooner did President Obama take office than the first cracks in the wall …