Truthout
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No Such Thing as Too Much Truth: Saving Ethnic Studies in Arizona
Cesar Chavez. Paulo Freire. Karl Marx. Howard Zinn. Are these authors socialists and communists and, if so, does this mean that they should not be taught to American high …
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Noam Chomsky: Occupy Points to a “Different Way of Living“
Noam Chomsky has seen a lot of social movements. He cut his teeth on the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He participated in the …
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The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism“
It is not news that Americans overwhelming disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And likely, it's not surprising that two-thirds of Americans told a London-based firm, Absolute Strategy …
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Iran’s Revolution and the Global Politics of Resistance
(Image: Melville House Books)The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (Brooklyn, New York: Melville House), 2010; $18.95. …
Pearson’s Peacekeeping
(Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012.) This short book, or elongated essay, concerns the political attributes of one of Canada's more …
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Historical Account of Class, Race Wars Relevant for Organizers Today
(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …
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The Problem With the Environment Is Not Too Many People
Los Angeles smog. (Photo: Harshil.Shah / Flickr) We've all heard the claim repeatedly: humans pollute, so if we just reduce the number of people - both the …
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High Noon and the West Coast Docks
High Noon is a 1952 morality play about people deciding whether or not to stand up to the forces of corruption and criminality. Scenes from it often come to …
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Are the War Hawks Watching? In Lauded Iranian Film, Self-Interest Yields Tragedy
(Image: FilmIran / Sony Pictures Classics / Memento Films) It's hard not to view the Oscar for Best Foreign Film awarded to Iran's “A Separation” as at …
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A Propaganda Windfall for the Imperial State: Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence
U.S. soldiers with Second Platoon, Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment fire a 105mm artillery barrage toward an insurgent rocket position near the Pakistan border, at Forward …