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The Caribbean: A Clean Energy Revolution on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Clean energy technologies are making headway throughout the Caribbean - and the US should take note.
Richard D. Wolff | Capitalism’s Deeper Problem
Globalization distributed capitalism's deepening inequality throughout the world.
Dahr Jamail | A Nation on the Brink: How US Policies Sealed Iraq’s Fate
In a searing analysis covering the ongoing disaster in Iraq, Dahr Jamail provides this current perspective on how the legacy of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq continues …
Water Wars and Creeping Privatization
The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act holds promise for life in a world shaped by climate change. However, privatization proponents are working hard to privatize ownership and control …
Time to Speak Up: Women’s Prison Resistance in Alabama
While abuses inside an Alabama women's prison have made headlines, less attention has been paid to the activism and organizing by women inside.
Israel’s Assault on Gaza Obscures Core Issues: Racism, Occupation, Colonization
Nobody pays attention to the settlement project or thuggish incitement when there are air raid sirens in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Formerly Incarcerated People Lead Movement to Confront Oppressive “Justice” System
The quest to overturn structural racial and economic injustice in the United States is arguably most powerful in the growing movement to end the racialized system of mass incarceration. …
Getting Serious About Teaching Economics to Boost Developing Countries, Not Just the Big Guys
Overhauling the free market university curriculum must go further than addressing inequality.
A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public …
Crowdsourcing Our Way Out of the Crisis of Democracy
Democracy rebellion rolls across the United States as Americans are repeatedly shown how anti-democratic the government really is.