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The Loneliness of Anti-Imperialist Fighters
Nights are the worst. Because that is when it all hits you and, no matter whose fault it is, you feel concerned, guilty and often extremely frustrated.
Not a Good Day to Be a Woman or a Public Employee
Let's celebrate our freedom to be serfs!
Shouldn’t We Pay Nannies and People Who Care for Our Parents a Living Wage?
A recent US Supreme Court ruling weakening the unions of state-funded workers limits the ability of many domestic workers who care for our most vulnerable to win higher pay, …
The Future Is Now: Zapatista Memories of the Future
The Zapatistas have not only articulated a vision of the future outside of neoliberal disposability, but they are living that future reality now.
Are Economic Growth and Social Justice Incompatible?
Professor Jason Hickel and activist Alnoor Ladha discuss the fallacy of economic growth, the battle for social justice and how to organize against the neoliberal system.
The Surprising Truth About Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup
Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist talks about how hosting the World Cup or Olympics can help a city, but more often results in waste and sometimes even a decline in …
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The Importance of Admitting Error
You will be wrong sometimes, and need to do your best to figure out why. What you should never ever do, of course, is make excuses, or pretend that …
Economic Update: It’s the System
Updates on vaccine price gouging; Canadian corporate misdeeds; Massachusetts nurses fighting inequality; Denmark's greater equality; and Argentina as a hedge fund hostage.
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Lyndon Johnson on Civil Rights – Where Are We Now?
Despite all the progress made in the past fifty years since the Civil Rights Act, we still have a very long way to go.
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Cheney’s Campaign for Iraq War 3: Shaping the Narrative
With his latest media blitz, Dick Cheney hopes to preserve and solidify the “war on terror” as the dominant narrative presented to Americans as an explanation of US foreign …