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Socialism Facilitates Human Liberation
In this most capitalist of countries, growing numbers are concluding that capitalism doesn't work.
Runaway Inequality Is Ripping Us Apart
Les Leopold, author of “Runaway Inequality,” discusses how progressives can form a united movement against income inequality.
Economic Elites Will Only Give Up Power and Wealth When Forced to Do So
It's time to face up to runaway economic inequality - what causes it, what it's doing to us and what we can do about it.
Corporations, Not People, Have Been Made Stakeholders in the New Global Order
Susan George, author of “Shadow Sovereigns,” discusses the rise of corporate personhood on a global scale.
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The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
Everywhere you look you find masses, droves, gangs of unelected, unaccountable, profit-oriented individuals, corporations and new institutions surfacing, making official policy.
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Noam Chomsky | The US Believes It Has an Inalienable Right to Exploit Developing Nations
The lessons of 1954 and 1973 are very clear, and the victims of US violence will ignore them at their peril.
Noam Chomsky | The Hubris of the United States
The US always claims that when it kills, it's in the name of democracy and virtue.
“The Feminist Utopia Project”: Figuring Out the Futures We Want to Build
Contributors to a new anthology discuss the value of imagining a feminist utopia.
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Drafting a Feminist Constitution
A feminist constitution begins from the ground up.
“Rad American Women A-Z” Author on Confronting Patriarchal Narratives of US History
Author Kate Schatz discusses the significance of elevating women activists within US historical narratives.