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Climate Activists Must Heed the Lessons of North Carolina
Climate change activists should look to North Carolina for lessons on how to build a broad and diverse movement powerful enough to challenge the corrupt status quo on several …
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Chris Hedges | Suffering? Well, You Deserve It
Avner Offer, an economic historian describes neoclassical economics as a “just-world theory,” one that posits that not only do good people get what they deserve but those who suffer …
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Washington Post “News Article” Slams Obama for Not Bombing Russia
The Washington Post is claiming that the Russian military intervention in Crimea illustrates President Obama is too reluctant to use military force.
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Between Revolution and Tyranny: A Fluid and Highly Permeable Line
One reason for progressivism is the facility with which exogenous actors apparently manipulate revolutions to serve quite different goals from those espoused by indigenous adherents.
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CreativeResistance.org: Art Brings Joy And Clarity to the People-Powered Movement
CreativeResistance.org, a project of PopularResistance.org, launched this week. If you love art, music and poetry and appreciate the work of activist artists; if you grapple with the challenges of …
The Test Boycott Is On!
The testing boycott is official! Today, two Chicago teachers are refusing to distribute the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT), even though Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has said …
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Supreme Court Denies Review of NSA Warrantless Surveillance Case
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not hear Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama, a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of people within the …
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Looking Back at the Successes (and Failures) of the Stimulus
Paul Krugman: My quick verdict remains the same as it was from the beginning: this was a plan that did considerable economic good, but also considerable political harm.
Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis
Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.
Hundreds of Keystone XL Protestors Arrested, Look To Influence Obama’s Final Decision on Pipeline
Hundreds of students demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline deal, but Obama has already fast tracked the southern half of the pipeline which is currently delivering Canadian …