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![The film Parasite hints at an urgent need for as-yet unimagined new futures that work better for more people.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/12/2019_1203-parasite-400x300.jpg)
“Parasite” Reaches Toward a Classless Future We Haven’t Fully Imagined
The film exposes the cruelty of capitalism and urges us to keep imagining new futures.
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Thanksgiving Is Dedicated to Erasing the Ruthlessness of English Settlers
Settler colonialism is based not on giving thanks but on the taking of Native life and land.
![A young woman with a face mask on stands in front of an extremely smoggy city](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/11/2019_1118-woman-smog-400x300.jpg)
Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet — Capitalism Is
A new book dubs our current geological era the “Capitalocene.”
![Thousands take part in the "People's Climate March" to call for an ambitious climate policy, on April 29, 2017, in Amsterdam.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/11/2019_1112-climate-change-protest-400x300.jpg)
World Scientists Call for Global System Change to Address Climate Emergency
Without transformative changes to save the biosphere, there will be untold suffering, scientists warn.
![Elizabeth Warren on Environmental Justice, Capitalism and Billionaires](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/11/Seg-Warren-AmyG-400x300.jpg)
Elizabeth Warren on Environmental Justice, Capitalism and Billionaires
Warren discusses the climate crisis, public health, shutting down pipelines, capitalism and more.
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Thousands Could Be Kicked Out of Privatized Affordable Housing in Los Angeles
Tenants are fighting back against privatized affordable housing and against concepts of capitalist land ownership.
![We Are the Zombies of Our Capitalist Apocalypse](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/2019_1030-zombie-capitalist-2-400x300.jpg)
We Are the Zombies of Our Capitalist Apocalypse
In the horror show of late capitalism, our unfettered consumption has made us the zombies. But we don't have to be.
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John Taylor Gatto Challenged the Ideas Inherent in US Mass Schooling
Gatto envisioned an education system that placed freedom and justice above technology and efficiency.
![Federal Reserve Building](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/GettyImages-113690314-400x300.jpg)
The Federal Reserve Was Set Up to Provide Capital to Largest Wall Street Banks
The Fed has paid Wall Street banks to effectively purchase the government's debt.
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No Matter Who’s Elected, We Must Keep Demanding More
Democrats are advocating for more progressive priorities -- thanks to grassroots activists.