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The Dark Money of the Koch Brothers Is the Tip of a Fully Integrated Network
The Koch brothers hailed from a new generation of philanthropists, bent on using billions of dollars from their private foundations to alter the direction of US politics.
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Black Liberation: The Ghosts of the Past, the Potential of the Future
We have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes.
Why We Must Listen to Survivors of Solitary Confinement
Editors Jean Casella and Sarah Shourd discuss how the movement to end solitary is growing — inside and outside prisons.
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Building Human Connections and Resistance in Solitary Confinement
Todd Ashker details his efforts against solitary confinement at the infamous Pelican Bay State Prison in California.
Dogmas of Our Economic System Must Change, Says Former Economic Hit Man
Author John Perkins discusses how “economic hit men” today are even more entrenched in the US political system.
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Former Economic Hit Man Returns to Take on the “Death Economy“
The economic hit men system is fueled by something far more dangerous than a global conspiracy. It is driven by concepts that have become accepted as gospel.
Achieving Black Liberation: A Conversation With Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discusses Black liberation movements and why the US has always feared Black struggles.
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How Trayvon Martin’s Lynching Galvanized a Movement
The murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in the winter of 2012 was a turning point.
Henry Giroux on State Terrorism and the Ideological Weapons of Neoliberalism
Public intellectual Henry Giroux discusses how state terror has become the major organizing principle of US society.
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Terrorism Is American as Apple Pie
This nation was founded upon terrorism, namely that of slavery, whose unspeakable degradations hardly ended with formal emancipation.