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Abunimah: Justice in Palestine Is Fundamental to Global Struggle Against Racial, Economic Domination
“You can't predict the future based on what people are willing to accept right now,” Ali Abunimah says in an interview covering his new book, "The Battle for Justice …
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Why No Sustained Protests (Yet)?
Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff
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Social Change: We Are the Problem We Are Seeking to Solve
Social change movements want to fix a world dominated by exploitative relationships. Most social change theory aims at fixing particular systems, practices, toolkits, etc. Theory that works from the …
Truthout Interviews John Pilger on Aborigine Assimilation by Abduction in Australia
Author and film-maker John Pilger talks about continuing Australian government policies that assure the cultural - and ultimately material - elimination of the Aborigines.
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ANR Pipeline: Introducing TransCanada’s Keystone XL for Fracking
Another TransCanada-proposed pipeline with a similar function as Keystone XL is flying under the public radar, but this pipeline would bring to market shale gas obtained via fracking.
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Tiny House Living, Off the Grid? Here’s How to Do It in Style
A growing movement of tiny housers and tiny house villages is taking the simplicity, sustainability and freedom of tiny houses to the next level by building their tiny homes …
Are Police Officers’ Body-Worn Cameras a Win for Accountability?
Questions remain about whether body-worn cameras will curb police violence.
Wisconsin Had Best-Run Elections in US, So Republicans Fixed ‘Em
Wisconsin has high rates of participation, short lines and no problem with fraud, yet Republicans have remained uniquely fixated on enacting sweeping changes to how the state's elections are …
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Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.
A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality
If we measure inequality with a yardstick that only wonks can decipher, weu2019ll end up with a society too confused to do anything meaningful about it.