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Dayvon Love: “King’s Teachings on US Imperialism Opened My Eyes to Radical Thought”
Young Baltimore activist Dayvon Love tells Paul Jay how MLK's teaching that American blacks must be anti-imperialist, changed his life.
“We Want to Fight for This Cause”: Nuclear Refugees From Fukushima Join Anti-Nuke Protests
DN! speaks with a Japanese resident from the town that housed part of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant who is participating in weekly protests against the resumption of …
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Blow Hards
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MLK Day
Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Saint
The official US beatification of Martin Luther King has come at the heavy price of silence about his radical espousal of economic justice and anticolonialism.
Dean Baker | The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA
Dean Baker: Big money is at stake here and the big boys intend to get a win with TPP. Logic, numbers, and evidence face an uphill battle.
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Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal
We cannot right our upside-down ship of state as long as oppressed and oppressors share the same dark dreams and values.
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The New French Revolution
New theorists and activists argue that France's “representative democracy” is neither democratic nor representative, and they argue for a return to the Athenian model.
Marriage in a Prison Visiting Room
A social justice activist who married a prisoner and former Black Panther tells Truthout that after seven months they've only been allowed by the prison system to hold hands.
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Mike Lofgren | Gates Agonistes
The political psyops effort by Robert Gates disguised as a tell-all, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense at War,” proves that spies are inherently suspect people who must …