Latest Politics/Gov.
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Daley: The supreme court’s shameful endorsement of gerrymandering
The next redistricting cycle, which begins in 2021, will be a frightening and unfettered orgy of stolen partisan advantage
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Fraser: The New Deal in the American Political Imagination
The New Deal solidified capitalist democracy in the United States. The country has swung between hints of social democracy and free market absolutism ever since
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Solomon: After Biden’s Sharp Decline, Investors Are Reassessing Other Blue Chips
Investors are pondering where to put their money this week after the sudden decline in the assessed value of presidential candidate Joe Biden
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Levine: Socialism: Democratic Party Style
We are approaching a point where genuine progressives need urgently to unite not just against Trump and Pence and the sadistic incompetents Trump has empowered, but also against the last Clintonites – Joe Biden especially
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Cohn: Calling Trump’s Rationale “Contrived,” Supreme Court Halts Citizenship Question
In a surprise decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the...
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Hallinan: A Wounded Erdogan Could Be Dangerous
For the second time in a row, Turkish voters have rebuked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s handpicked candidate for the mayoralty of Istanbul
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Tax: Supporting dictators is not anti-imperialism
Why do so many Western leftists side with dictators in the name of anti-imperialism? A new book seeks to moved beyond the old “the West and the rest”-binary
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Cole: Caban’s Win Good News For Progressive Dem Presidential Candidates
Could Queens be a bellwether?
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Laforge: Trump’s Ministry of No Information
The Trump administration has halted, without explanation, the routine practice of reporting the current number of nuclear weapons in the US arsenal
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Sam McCann and Donna Smith: Bad Blues
Some of the House Democrats Who Deserve to Be 'Primaried'
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Engler: Canada enables corrupt Haitian president to remain in power
Almost entirely ignored by the Canadian media, Haitian protesters regularly criticize Canada
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The polling industry claims to offer live snapshots of what the public thinks. Yet the obsession with polls is reducing politics to market research
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Buell: Deregulating our Way to Disaster
Trump’s Dismantling of our Government
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Waller: Kansas Already Picked the First Winner of the Democratic Primary
Election reformers are touting Kansas as a trailblazer in making...
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Interview on socialism, anarchism, and the fight for progress in U.S. politics today
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Thomhave: Confronting Politicians with the Reality of Poverty
The Poor People’s Campaign gathered this week in Washington, demanding change from both presidential candidates and members of Congress
ZMag Politics/Gov.
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Cook: Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
In the combined success-failure of the Mueller inquiry, the left has an opportunity to understand in a much more sophisticated way how real power works and in whose favor it is exercised
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Solomon: The Toxic Lure of “Guns and Butter”
The current political brawl over next year’s budget is highly significant
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Pilger: Chelsea Manning Locked Down Again
Why aren't they massing in support of Chelsea Manning? This is the most significant act of principle, an inspiration to all decent people. People should be in the streets
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Pilger: The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage
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Davies: The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire
This self-reinforcing vicious circle endangers us all, not least those of us who live at the heart of this corrupt and ultimately self-destructive empire
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Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines U.S. Politics
Humanity faces two imminent existential threats: environmental catastrophe and nuclear war. These were virtually ignored in the campaign rhetoric and general coverage
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Daniels: The Unfulfilled Power of the Black Vote
The forces of reaction realize that if Blacks maximize voter registration and mobilize/organize large voter turn-outs, it is a threat to their retrograde agenda
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Boardman: GOP Governor Defends His Trump-Style Ethics?
Instead of forthrightly addressing the reality he created, the governor chose to go paranoid and conspiratorial
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Under pressure from the left lately and in response to strong public support for “clean elections,” putative foes of corporate influence have been forced to rebrand themselves as “progressives” who are free of “independent expenditure” taint
Video Politics/Gov.
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Varoufakis: On Julian Assange and the Political Economy & future of Europe
Interview on the socio-economic transformations taking place within the core of the European Union and how much time is left until it disintegrates
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Solomon: On the Democratic Party
Interview on the sequel to a report on how the Democratic party can revitalize and compete in 2018 and beyond
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Greenwald: Trump and NSA Surveillance
Interview on Donald Trump, NSA Surveillance, Facebook Scandal, Russiagate, Syria, Israel, Gaza & Yemen
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Raina: Democracy – Past, Present and Future
Indian democracy is at crossroads because it did not experience any intellectual revolution
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
Primer: FARM JUSTICE PROPOPOSALS FOR THE 2018 FARM BILL FARM...
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:...