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Capitalism Is Dooming Kids With Curable Cancers
Medicare for All is our only ethical choice.
![President Trump walks onstage during a campaign rally at Sudduth Coliseum on October 11, 2019, in Lake Charles, Louisiana.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/GettyImages-1180515943-400x300.jpg)
Depoliticization Is a Deadly Weapon of Neoliberal Fascism
In the current era, democracy is not merely under siege, but is close to being erased.
![Protestors hold posters as they block a street in midtown Manhattan during a rally against U.S. immigration policy on September 14, 2019, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/GettyImages-1168226343-400x300.jpg)
How Exploitation of Migrants Sustains Capitalism’s Power Over All Workers
Real transformation of society will only take place when migrants and all working people form alliances.
![Activists from New Yorks Indigenous and Black communities, along with decolonial advocates, led the 3rd annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour at the American Museum of Natural History, on October 8, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/GettyImages-1048158138-400x300.jpg)
For Life to Continue on Earth, Every Day Must Be Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Humanity’s future depends on re-embracing the Indigenous worldview.
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Henry A. Giroux on Neoliberal Ideology and the Road to Fascism
How has neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of far-right ideologies and populists around the world?
![The Marriner S. Eccles building of the United States Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/GettyImages-929753688-400x300.jpg)
Let’s Not Wait for the Next Crisis to Nationalize Wall Street Banks
It's time for quantitative easing, but for the people instead of the powerful.
![The Paraguayan Chaco, South America’s second largest forest, is rapidly disappearing as agriculture extends deeper into what was once forest. Here, isolated stands of trees remain amid the farms.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/10/2019_1007-south-america-400x300.jpg)
“Environmentally Friendly” Charcoal Is Subsidizing Destruction of Gran Chaco
Purchases of charcoal indirectly contribute to the destruction of South America's second-largest forest.
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Love and Perseverance Keep Communities Whole in the Face of Mass Consumerism
A new graphic novel tells a multidimensional love story that is personal as well as political.
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Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Will Admit the Problem Is Capitalism Itself
Cycles of growth followed by downturns is how capitalism has functioned for 250 years.
![A group of men is led down a hallway in California's Pelican Bay prison, where many people spend years in solitary confinement and only leave their cells with full chains on.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_2509-PRison-400x300.jpg)
“Gladiator Fights” Expose Prisons to Be Genocidal Machines
In "gladiator fights," guards pit known rivals against each other in the prison yard.