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Richard Wolff: Enterprise Structure Is Key to the Shape of a Post-Capitalist Future
Richard Wolff discusses his conviction that making the transition from capitalism to socialism requires a deliberate critique of workplace organization.
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Frances Fox Piven | Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries
In ‘Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,’ Frances Fox Piven argues that the guarantee of a universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial …
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William Ayers: Teach Freedom!
In “Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,” retired education professor William Ayers writes about knowledge as an inherently public good.
How the Life of Jesus Became Embellished Into a New Religion Based on Fables
Author and scholar Reza Aslan outlines how Jesusu2019 crucifixion and his Judaism reflect on who he was and how the Gospels were not meant to be read as a …
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The Historical Jesus Was Crucified for Being a Revolutionary
The portrait of Jesus that emerges from Reza Aslan's “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” bears little resemblance to the image cultivated by the early Christian …
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Whose Radical Jesus? The Story of a Literary Success
Reza Aslan's “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” looks at issues of class and colonialism, oppression and rebellion, in first century Judea in a way that …
When J. Edgar Hoover Lost and Freedom Won
The author of “The Burglary,” Betty Medsger, speaks with Truthout about how a small group of determined, otherwise law-abiding Americans brought down powerful FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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How Antiwar Activists Robbed the FBI, Got Away With It, and Exposed Massive Covert Surveillance
“Burglary” is a fascinating and inspiring story of protestors who robbed the FBI - how they pulled it off - and how they exposed the agency's illegal surveillance and …
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Robert Reich: US Leads the Developed Nations and Many Third World Nations in Income Inequality
“Inequality for All” explains how the United States came to be a nation that is distinguished by its concentration of wealth in the top 10%, with much of our …
Nelson Mandela Was Only Removed From the US Terrorist List in 2008
Nelson Mandela was forever playing new roles; Danny Schechter talks to Truthout about them and his new book, “Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela.”