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Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan: “If You Love Your Country, Let Nuclear Go!“
In the normal scheme of things, leaders of nations don't set out to deliberately wreck their countries.
Exxon’s Never-Ending Big Dig: Flooding the Earth With Fossil Fuels
Why on God's-not-so-green-Earth-anymore would anyone want to be Exxon's business partner?
Billionaire-Funded Charter School Juggernaut Hits Roadblock in Los Angeles
The LA school board blocks “out of touch” plan by billionaires.
Rebuilding Trust After Flint: What About the Water in Your City?
With enough investment and public oversight, water can be managed for the public good.
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Nickel and Dimed in 2016: You Can’t Earn a Living on the Minimum Wage
Holding a job should not be a test of how to manage life as one of the working poor.
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Time Spent in Guantánamo Is Time No One Gets Back – Whether Soldier or Prisoner
Time. We can't get it back. When it's gone, it's gone.
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Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back
For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they're only good for shareholders.
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Richard D. Wolff | On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don’t Agree
To understand capitalism today, consider framing the economic system in terms of workplace relationships.
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How the United States’ Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy
Politics, at its barest, is a market characterized by power-and the struggle for how power will be distributed.
Despite Stated Aims, Obama’s New ICE Policy Targets Immigrants for Minor Offenses
So far in 2016, hundreds of people have been rounded up in ICE raids, following a shift in US immigration policies.