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!["Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/2018_1202-q-400x300.jpg)
The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive
Author Roderick A. Ferguson discusses the commodification of queerness.
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Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
Our food system is linked to an economic system that is biased against what's good for people and the planet.
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Congress Is Full of Rich People. How Can They Represent Us?
If we want policy that favors working people, we must elect more of them to Congress.
![Central American migrants run along the Tijuana River near the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, after the US border patrol threw tear gas from a distance to disperse them on November 25, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/2018_1127-gas-400x300.jpg)
Tear Gas at the Border: Trump and the Endgame of Capitalism
To dismantle Trump's policies, we first have to dismantle the neoliberal society that created him.
![A construction worker stands with a dumpster, with windows of the main building visible blocked with white paper and painter's tape, at the Apple Park, the new headquarters of Apple Inc. in the Silicon Valley town of Cupertino, California, July 25, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-833511620-400x300.jpg)
Silicon Valley Is Undermining Democracy With Its Dangerous Ideology
Despite its slick PR, the tech industry is not inherently different from any other exploitative enterprise.
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A Socialist Response to Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers’ Report
The report's incoherence about socialism reveals the ignorance of its conservative, bourgeois authors.
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Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature
To overcome climate change, we require system change.
![Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on November 13, 2018, in New York City. We will all be better off when the depth and scope of capitalism's problems are openly debated.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/2018_1113-economy-400x300.jpg)
The Narrowness of Mainstream Economics Is About to Unravel
We will all be better off when the depth and scope of capitalism's problems are openly debated.
![Capitalist competition and manufactured scarcity have provided the fuel for the growth of far-right politics.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/2018_1030-climate-change-400x300.jpg)
How Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe
Capitalist competition and manufactured scarcity have provided the fuel for the growth of far-right politics.
![Then Brazilian Deputy Jair Bolsonaro looks on during a press conference he called to announce his intention to run for the Brazilian presidency in the 2018 presidential election, at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, on August 10, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/GettyImages-829442762-400x300.jpg)
World’s Capitalists Celebrate Win of Brazilian Fascist Jair Bolsonaro
Corporate excitement over Bolsonaro's ascent to power began when he prevailed in the first round of elections.