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Angela Davis Featured at National Forum on Police Crimes at University of Chicago
The National Forum held workshops highlighting police crimes against undocumented and other immigrant workers, the labor movement and all workers, the LGBTQ community, women, peace, and solidarity activists, and …
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The Three Laws of Pentagon Robotics
Sadly, the Pentagon has instead hired a bunch of philosophy professors from leading US universities to tell them how to make robots murder people morally and ethically.
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How Stories Shape Our World
This issue of YES! looks at the ways new voices are being heard, and at how their stories are transforming our culture.
To Repair the Environment, Rehabilitate the Body Politic
"Environmentalists aren't wrong to urge us to break with fossil fuels. The balance of nature has been tipped and there's no question we're weakening the system with our bad …
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The Limits of MSNBC
What does MSNBC offer? Beyond its mocking of Republicans, it gives a significant pass to Democrats, resulting in dishonest presentations of facts and a proposed course of action that's …
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Derailing the Dynasty Train
In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.
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The Future of Food?
Global agricultural projection needs to increase by 70 percent, at a minimum, by 2050 in order to keep apace with a projected 40 percent increase in population by that …
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Chris Hedges | Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary
Thomas Paine never veered from the proposition that liberty meant the liberty to speak the truth even if no one wanted to hear it.
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The New York Times: Everybody Who’s Anybody Wants to Bomb Syria
Why would the Obama administration want to get the United States more deeply involved militarily in Syria? Didn't US public opinion decisively reject this last fall?
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If the Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so.