Austerity

For the rich under neoliberalism, the last few decades have been "heads I win, tails you lose!"

New reports reveal many communities across the US have contaminated drinking water.

Industrial monoculture has made Greece dependent upon the European Union for most of its agricultural products.

Over 300,000 low-income children in Britain will plunge further into poverty thanks to a controversial austerity measure.

In Vermont, a battle is pitting teachers against a school board determined to drive through an austerity agenda.

The parallels between the two eras aren't perfect, but today's political climate is strikingly similar to the late 1930s.

Clinton's VP choice, Tim Kaine, bends to pressure from Wall Street and the mainstream media.

In the ultimate paradox, it is only from the tragic ashes of Brexit that an EU worthy of its founding ideals can finally be born.

Brexit is the fruit of empire. Britain is reaping what it sowed in its imperial exploits.

Revolt against the inevitability of globalized capitalism takes diverse and often desperate forms when "there is no alternative."