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Latest Politics/Gov.
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Epstein: Bannon Fired from White House
Interview about Bannon's firing and potential trade war with China
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Giroux: The Rise of Illiberal Democracy
Trump has dispensed with the fiction of democracy because he believes that in the interest of power both people and the planet are disposable, excess to be plundered and discarded
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Thornton: An Empire Upside Down
New directions in Trump’s approach to Latin America reveal the changed status of U.S. influence in the region
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Fisk: The death of an Irishman
What the death of an Irishman who lost his life fighting for Britain can tell us about the stupidity of Brexit
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In These Times: Ousting Corporations from Election
A community rights group in Youngstown, Ohio, is attempting to amend their city’s charter in order to ban corporate interference in their local elections
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Hussein: Who Gets to Vote in Indiana?
State and local Republicans have expanded early voting in GOP-dominated areas and restricted it in Democratic areas, prompting a significant change in Central Indiana voting patterns
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Greenwald: The Misguided Attacks on ACLU
That anyone who defends the legal rights of terrorists or gives them a platform is culpable for the violence they commit has been standard neoconservative and far right cant for decades
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Davidson: Education and Ideology
Our self-destructive stubbornness is a function of a successful, ideologically managed education
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La Botz: Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left
The socialist movement in the United States took a big step forward
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Golinger: Battle for Venezuela and Its Oil
There is a long history of Washington meddling in the affairs of Venezuela
ZMag Politics/Gov.
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Rasmus: Is Trump Really President?
Is it a presidency where he makes his late night calls to his moneybag friends, like the billionaire Mercers and others, to find out “How am I doing guys’’? while the rest of the representatives of the economic and political elite run the show? Is this a Trump presidency or a government by Generals-Goldman Sachs-Pence, with son in law Kushner functioning as intermediary between them
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Moyers: We Must Have A Special Prosecutor
Trump takes us for chumps. The Republic is nothing to him but a crap game. And he loads the dice.
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Chomsky: Undermining Our Survival
As I mentioned, the policies being formulated and enacted are drawn from the playbook of the most reactionary fringe of the Republican establishment. The abject service to private wealth and power is accompanied with an authoritarian and fundamentalist program to transform U.S. society
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The GOP had a memory loss when it came to the millions of emails erased by Dick Cheney, who claimed to hide rogue operations in the vice-president’s office, and to hide what may have been his illegal activities from the public.
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Bannon seems to believe in everything and nothing; one moment an economic libertarian, the next a white nationalist, then a worldwide conspiracy guy, but ultimately, perhaps, just someone who enjoys the rush of having power
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Boardman: Lies The White House Tells Us
Fake news as a denunciation peddled by Republican and Trump apparatchiks is an old-fashioned, fascist-style Big Lie with a neat capitalist twist.
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Boardman: Trump Inaugural “This American Carnage” Annotated
Is there any possible truth in this promise from a candidate who lost the popular vote, the vote of the people? What mechanism has Trump even hinted at that would provide for greater local government control anywhere? Trump’s determination to cut back on regulations is designed to empower corporations, not local governments, and certainly not individuals
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Winship: Donald Trump’s Mission Creep Just Took A Giant Leap Forward
You can see in the chaos a pattern: the political, religious and financial right collaborating to move America further from the norms of democracy with the triumph of one-party, one-man rule. There’s never been anything like it in our history.
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Beitman: Top Five Things You Didn’t know about “Polluting” Scott Pruit
Pruitt is a tool of big oil who blatantly copied an industry letter and sent it to the White House and EPA.Pruitt made national headlines in 2014 when the New York Times reported on the secret alliance he formed with major oil and gas companies to attack environmental protections
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Winship: Protests Stopped the Predators, They Will Be Back
All indications are that our incoming president regards the White House as a pirate galleon built to increase his family’s trove of plunder many fold, and the notion seems to be rubbing off on Congress
Video Politics/Gov.
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Chomsky: Building Sustainable Economies
Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America
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Wilpert: Venezuelan Vote Count
The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes
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Barghouthi: Jerusalem Protests
The deadly Israeli crackdown on Palestinians protesting restrictions at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of an effort to divide the holy site and undermine the Palestinian struggle for freedom
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Jesse Jackson and Bernie Sanders team up to stop Kris Kobach's Crosscheck program
Audio Politics/Gov.
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Rasmus: Coporations 5, Workers -1
Dissecting key provisions in the Republican Congress’s recently passed ‘Omnibus’ Appropriations bill
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Rasmus: Oil Deflation, Russia’s Recession, and Ukraine Depression
Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy
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Rasmus: New Republican Congress’s 4th Corporate Offensive
Congress is about to develop new policies on behalf of Corporate America, many of which represent a resurrection of past policies of the Bush administration
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Rasmus: Predicting the Midterm Elections
Analysis of the likely outcome of next week’s US midterm elections, providing reasons why the Democrats will lose the Senate
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Rasmus: Which Way for Independent Political Action, Part II
Jack Rasmus invites presidential candidate of the Green Party, Jill Stein, to discuss the second in the series of shows on ‘which way for independent political action’
Politics/Gov. Blogs
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Wilson: De Mystifying Crop Insurance in the Farm Bill
Crop Insurance has gotten a lot of attention in discussions...
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Wilson: First Ever? Map of Farm Bill NET Impacts
(Note: ZSpace photo albums were taken down in the site...
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Wilson: Commodity Crops Vs. Vegetables? Data Slides Fix the Myth
(Authors note, 8/12/14: This blog introduced a new “Photo album”...
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Wilson: Duped by Chicken Little’s ‘Dairy Cliff?’ That’s Your Brain on Agribusiness
Your Brain on Agribusiness I find more than 200,000 hits...
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Wilson: Oxfam on Corn/Climate/Hunger: One-Horned Analysis Lacks Farm Bill Macro Solutions
I’ve started tweeting, and I’ve been running into a lot...
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Wilson: Farm Bill: Turn Back? Take Back the Clock!
“These words may fall with an ominous sound on the...
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Wilson: Eight Myths Block Dairy Farm Justice
For years we’ve faced a horrifying crisis for US dairy...
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Wilson: Slides: The Dairy Crisis and the Farm Bill
The US (and beyond) dairy crisis is an enormous tragedy...
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Wilson: PRIMER: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
FARM JUSTICE PROPOPOSALS FOR THE 2014 FARM BILL Introduction Here...
Politics/Gov. Books
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: Worst-Case Scenario – Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies...
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Garrigues: Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
"Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes...
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Garrigues: Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach
"Human rights’ is not a thing, but a concept, a...
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Garrigues: The Politics of Nonviolent Action: The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action
The Politics of Nonviolent Action is a major exploration of...
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Garrigues: The Politics of Nonviolent Action: Power and Struggle
The Politics of Nonviolent Action is a major exploration of...
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Garrigues: The Politics of Nonviolent Action: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
The Politics of Nonviolent Action is a major exploration of...
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Garrigues: A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency
"Conant has an ear for story, poetry, and wonder; his...
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In recent years, the Darfur conflict experienced unprecedented...
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Neigh: Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History
From the back cover: Social Policy and Practice in Canada:...