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Lessons From James Boggs: Capitalist Automation in the 21st Century
The racist antagonisms in the UAW led James Boggs to revolutionary conclusions about the US capitalist system.
Why Don’t We Know How Many People Are Shot Each Year in the US?
Has nonfatal gun violence increased or decreased over the past 10 years? No one really knows.
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Portland Is First US City to Divest Funds From Walmart
The initiative also prohibits the city from purchasing Walmart bonds in the future.
Saudi-Iran Thaw Troubles the Neocons
Neocons and other hardliners are still fanning the flames of confrontation with Iran, but the recent thawing of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is making the hawks' work …
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Returning Equality to the Campaign Finance Debate
In the years since Citizens United, campaign finance reform efforts have either been small ball (e.g. more disclosure) or shoot for the moon.
Louisiana’s New Abortion Law Is the First Step in Turning Private Physicians Back Into Illegal Abortion Providers
While clinics are being shut down throughout the country by restrictive and medically unnecessary state laws, patients may soon learn that their last hope - their own private physician …
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Radical Art Is an Act of Uncompromising Passionate Resistance
To be a radical and revolutionary artist is to be defiant of any imposition of form or content by any economic system, artistic academy or political status quo.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Another Trade Liberalization Scam
The TPP has little to do with trade and everything to do with setting loose capital on a global scale.
Militarization of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef Harms Indigenous Communities
Much has changed in the 20 years since the Cayos Cochinos were declared a protected area.
Study Confirms US Is Ruled by Rich, Corporate News Ignores It
American democracy is no longer very democratic, according to a new university study.