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You Can Now Drive Across The US For Free, Mainstream Media Ignores It
A car company has announced that you can now drive an electric car across the continental US for FREE. And yet our corporate media does not seem to think …
Out of Occupy, a New Populist Political Party Forms
Carl Gibson, co-founder of U.S. Uncut, is joining with other Occupy Wall Street organizers to launch a new populist political party.
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Crowd Control, Political Revolt and the Accumulation of More
Even the teleprompter must know that it is the beast in the belly of the news reports, more of them every day in print and en blog, about income …
Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin: Dan Falcone Interviews Walter Naegle, Partner of the Late Bayard Rustin
Naegle was Bayard Rustin's partner from 1977 until Rustin's death in 1987 and he is executor and archivist of the Bayard Rustin Estate.
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The Zombification of the West
The Western world has become tolerant of despotic policies. But will recognition of that passivity's root causes bring much-needed resistance?
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Only Way To Get Big Money Out of Politics: Devalue Political Influence
Buying and selling political influence is a consensual crime with a radically different nature. Enforcing laws against this crime is practically impossible.
Chile’s Student Movement Leads the Way: Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet’s Second Term
This week, the daughter of Chile's Salvador Allende, the socialist president who was assassinated in a 1973 US-backed coup, took office as Senate President alongside Michelle Bachelet, marking a …
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Realistic Left Politics in Texas
In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.
From Fallujah to the San Fernando Valley, Police Use Analytics to Target “High-Crime” Areas
Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …
School Board Candidates Backed by Koch-Connected Nonprofit
The advertisement ran just less than a month before the race for school board in Douglas County, Colo. “Liberals are fighting school choice in Douglas County,” the announcer intoned. …