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Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe
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Can Climate Solutions also help Low-Income Consumers fight inequality?
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Wind Power Juggernaut Really doing for 100K Workers what Trump only Promised
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Big news on the wind power front. First, it has emerged in the US as the number one renewable energy source, generating more…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701013654im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/image-20170308-24192-1xrq31w-750x580-1-187x137.jpg)
The Rural-Urban Divide in the US in 6 Charts!
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Even in the Trump Era, Inequality can be Reduced
By Josh Hoxie | (Otherwords.org) | - - With Washington looking hopeless, it's up to local communities to close the gap between the richest and the rest. In a lot of ways,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701013654im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/5ea3f71722228ebb05459982db954ace.square-1.png)
It’s the Economy, Stupid: Ending ‘Religious’ Violence in the Middle East
Moha Ennaji | (Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701013654im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/51lR32j-RSL._SY344_BO1-1-187x137.jpg)
Can America’s Middle Class make a Comeback?
By Munir Moon | (Informed Comment) | - - The middle class is getting crushed. But there is hope. The most common argument about the middle class destruction is the declining or…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701013654im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/shadowgovengelhardt-1-180x137.jpg)
US Elites Abandoned their Workers: Trump is their Revenge; & You ain’t seen Nothin’ Yet
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Aside from Super-Rich, All Americans are poorer this century
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Saudi Arabia’s Vision: Cut Subsidies to Workers, Middle Class, put Women to Work
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Why Americans are Angry: The Minimum Wage Trap
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The GOP Race as America’s Hunger Games
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As Oil Prices Crater, Algeria needs an Actual Economy or big Trouble Looms
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Game of Groans: How focus on Trump Taunts hides GOP war on Middle Class, Workers
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Bernie Sanders launches “Political Revolution” w/ 100K Virtual House Partiers
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New Poll: Bernie Sanders Leads All Republican Front Runners including Trump
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European Companies poised for Iran Gold Rush but will Hill Keep US Out?
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Celebrating Bernie Sanders via Stand-Up: He doesn’t Give a —
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