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Tom Engelhardt: The Shadow Surveillance State Is Really a Secret Religion
“The usefulness of this system seems a matter of bedrock faith rather than reality,” says Tom Engelhardt.
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Maya Schenwar | Mandatory Rehab Is Just the Newest Front in the War on Drugs
Sentencing people to diversion programs still involves uprooting and confining them in an effort to make society “safer.”
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Students Are “More Than a Score” on Standardized Tests
“More Than A Score” is a collection of throughts by students, parents, teachers and administrators who are participating in a growing movement.
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Why We Need to Talk About Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West explores whether the soul of the United States can be salvaged by a rekindling the Black prophetic tradition.
Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Andrew Jackson Were Proponents of Native American Genocide
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks about her book on the true history of how the United States became a nation and Eurocentric racism that justified it.
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The United States Is Founded Upon the Model of European Conquest: Dispose of the Disposable People
In order to expand, the original 13 colonies had to decimate the Native-American nations and seize their lands.
From Indigenous Socialism to Colonial Capitalism, Examining Native History of a Settler State
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of “An Indigenous People's History of the United States,” argues that an understanding of the history of the settler state is essential.
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In Which the Authors Interview Ralph Nader in the Bathtub
The first book by the co-founders and hosts of Citizen Radio is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes deadly serious clarion call in support of independent media and independent thinking.
“Have F—-ing Beliefs, Not Teams”: Citizen Radio’s Hosts Talk #NEWSFAIL, Advertising, Veganism and More
Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein talk about their new book, discuss why independent media is so needed and more.
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Noam Chomsky: Resisting Empire for More Than Four Decades
The foreword to the Chomsky essays by activist and public intellectual Marcus Raskin.