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  Shiva: Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

  When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves
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  Nader: Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations?

  It starts with us being indoctrinated into being powerless
• Rovics: Diary of a Smoke Refugee

  The fires here in Oregon have further exposed the deep divisions in this society, as have all the other previous or ongoing catastrophes, from the 2008 financial crisis to the current global pandemic
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  Hightower: Beware Corporate COVID Propaganda

  So middle-income workers get the boot, while the boss still has his job, gets more than $21 million in annual pay, and claims bragging rights for being an “ethical” corporate chieftain.
• Ludwig: Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill

  Please Help ZNet Source: Truthout Millions of children across the...
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  Brecher: Workers vs. the Coronavirus Depression

  This summer has seen two significant national strike actions–for Black Lives and for safe reopening of schools. These are hardly conventional strikes–indeed, they represent historically unprecedented forms of protest
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  Pitt: Another Day of COVID, Another Failed Stimulus, Another Thousand Deaths

  With an election looming just 47 tiny days away, fury at vicious Republican intransigence has begun to give way to something close to horrified awe
• Hartmann: Trump’s Destruction of America Started With Reagan

  If America is to recover from this hellscape that right-wing billionaires and their bought-off politicians have inflicted on us, it’s going to require a massive, nationwide awakening and a nonstop multiyear effort.
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  Cavanagh: Trump trade wars have led to lost US jobs and factories

  Trump is making false claims about his record in struggling states like Ohio and Michigan. The jobs haven't come back. They've been offshored to China
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  Jackson: Myths and Lies About Poverty in America

  The recent decision to block action on a second rescue package is a decision to increase the number of Americans in poverty, the number of children who go hungry
• Contributors: A 10-Point Pledge to Social, Racial and Economic Justice

  We will move forward together and we will accept nothing but freedom. We will not take one step back, and we will bring a new day to our beloved country
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  Chomsky: There’s Reason for Hope

  The Black Lives Matter movement is the biggest social movement in American history with support beyond anything that’s ever been registered in the past. It’s not alone. It’s a sign of substantial changes in popular consciousness
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  Olivier: Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union

  Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College
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  Albert: A Class Between Labor and Capital?

  What the two class view leaves out, however, is that capitalists are not the only class that has major relative advantages
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  Pitt: Every Trump Lie Is a Confession

  It is difficult to think straight when the president is ruining your country in real time at the top of his voice and right in your face. That, of course, is the entire point of the exercise
• Johnson: Climate Catastrophe Is Much More Expensive than Green New Deal

  "The Green New Deal is not too expensive because the alternative is far, far more dreadful, more destructive."
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  Prashad: The Difference Between the U.S. and China’s Response to COVID-19 Is Staggering

  The Chinese government remains vigilant and is willing to sacrifice short-term economic growth to save the lives of its citizenry
• McBrearty: Fighting Evictions: The 1930s and Now

  The fight for housing security has already become a part of the general struggle against inequality made possible by the epochal rise of the Black Lives Matter movement
• Smithberger: National (In)Security and the Pentagon Budget

  A Post-Coronavirus Economy Can No Longer Afford to Put the Pentagon First
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  Chomsky: Confluence of Crises

  Interview on a variety of topics