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The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism
Renewable energy cannot grow fast enough to avert climate catastrophe under capitalism's growing demand for energy.
![Members of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America were arrested for an act of civil disobedience, June 6, 2018. The act was in response to the detainment of Pablo Villavicencio by ICE.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/07/GettyImages-968740472-400x300.jpg)
The Importance of Being Uncivil
Why should we be civil while internment camps, travel bans, police murder and other atrocities rule the land?
![Night traffic in San Francisco, California, January 13, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/07/b-400x300.jpg)
Wealth Can’t Protect Environmentally Ravaged Silicon Valley From Climate Change
The tech empire’s power and money are no match for the fierce drought and wildfires exacerbated by urban sprawl.
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Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear in One Generation
Intergenerational wealth, which slavery enabled white families to accumulate, contributes to the racial wealth gap.
![Protesters demonstrate after comments from Donald Trump on rolling back Dodd-Frank and his finanical executive order written by former Goldman employee Gary Cohn at Liberty St. near Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February 7, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/07/GettyImages-634223504-400x300.jpg)
Goodbye Regulations, Hello Impending Global Financial Crisis
Wall Street is again free to pursue speculative profits at the cost of workers, communities and social programs.
![A Cuban man seeking asylum waits along the border bridge after being denied into the Texas city of Brownsville which has become dependent on the daily crossing into and out of Mexico on June 22, 2018, in Brownsville, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/06/pittimmigration-400x300.jpg)
Capitalism, Politics and Immigration: A Tale of Profitable Suffering
The capitalist drive for profit at the cost of human life and dignity must be cast aside.
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Renegade Capitalism: How Our Economy Was Designed to Plunder You
U.S. protectionism violates capitalism's free-market principle.
![Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and white supremacists encircle counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/06/GettyImages-831336742-400x300.jpg)
Henry A. Giroux: The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
It's time we recognized that capitalism is not democracy.
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Marine Heat Waves, Changing Ocean Currents and Capitalism’s Threat to Life
On World Oceans Day, let's commit to preserving this vital ecosystem.
![University of Washington Academic student employees represented by Union Auto Workers Local 4121 striking on May 15, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/06/2018_0601cognitive-400x300.jpg)
Academic Alienation: Freeing Cognitive Labor From the Grip of Capitalism
In the neoliberal university, intellectual labor has largely become inscribed into the machine of knowledge production.