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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Smithberger: National (In)Security and the Pentagon Budget
A Post-Coronavirus Economy Can No Longer Afford to Put the Pentagon First
ZMag Economy
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Rasmus: Second COVID-19 Wave and the U.S. Economy
It’s not a COVID-19 economy. It’s a capitalist economy, the instability of which has been rendered even more unstable by the current COVID-19 health crisis
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Rasmus: Trump Whacks the Middle Class & US GDP 1st Qtr 2019 Analysis
It’s clear Trump’s 2018 tax cut is making the middle class pay for corporations, businesses, investors and the wealthiest 1% households historic tax cuts totaling no less than $4.5 trillion over the next decade
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U.S. neocons are once again back in charge of U.S. foreign policy, driving the U.S. toward yet another war and attempt at regime change of a foreign government
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Coles: Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools
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Rasmus: Global Oil Price Deflation 2018 & Beyond
Global oil prices cannot be understood apart from understanding what’s happening with other financial asset markets and prices
Video Economy
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Gindin: Canadian Workers Fight to Nationalize GM Plant
In Oshawa Ontario, workers organize for a public takeover an unused GM plant to produce electric vehicles or supplied to fight the pandemic
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Kelley: What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?
Talk by Robin D. G. Kelley on "What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?" recorded November 7, 2017 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Sponsored by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.
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Klein: The Case for a Green New Deal
Interview on the case for a Green New Deal that tackles the causes and impacts of climate change while confronting racial and economic inequality
Audio Economy
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Rasmus: China Chasing Its Shadows
A look at China’s efforts since 2010 to tame its foreign ‘shadow banks’ that have been playing a central role in creating financial bubbles in its residential housing, local infrastructure, and currency markets
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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: The Consequences of the Global Oil Price Crash
Talk on how the net effect on the global economy will likely prove to b significantly negative overall, and that the price decline could fall as low as $40/barrel in coming months
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Bohmer: Thomas Herndon’s Dismantling of Study Justifying Austerity
April 20, 2013 Thomas Herndon studied economics and political...
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Greeman: Scrooge Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Brussels, Chrismas Eve, 2012. (From our Special Correspondant). Reactions...
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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: Slides: The Dairy Crisis and the Farm Bill
The US (and beyond) dairy crisis is an enormous tragedy...
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Wilson: PRIMER: Revenue Insurance in the 2012 Farm Bill
PRIMER: Revenue Insurance in the 2018 Farm Bill This is...
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Wilson: PRIMER: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill
Primer: FARM JUSTICE PROPOPOSALS FOR THE 2018 FARM BILL FARM...
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Simpson: GOP Economics: Failure Is Not An Option. It’s a Requirement.
Republicans are very good at confusing people about the economy....