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Trump’s trade war, his provoking of a global currency war, his monetary policy of forcing the Fed to lower rates all exacerbate the Wall of Money inflow to the US which hastens the decline of the global economy

This is a proposal which articulates the urgency of our situation regarding the climate crisis and then puts forward a comprehensive and understandable set of actions which could actually get us out of it

In the era of Trump, communities are organizing foot and bike patrols to protect their neighbors against immigration raids

About two million people have — with the flag of the MST — seized land across Brazil. Brazil’s land is some of the most polluted on the planet, with high doses of pesticides and fertilisers saturating the soil.

In the 1970s, Lucas Aerospace workers had a plan to make socially useful products and went to minister for industry Tony Benn for help. Do the workers occupying their shipyard in Belfast have a similar ally in John McDonnell?

One-fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in the past 50 years; further industrialization of the rainforest risks destroying another fifth, a loss that would be catastrophic for the global ecosystem

The United Nations is calling for the protection of the Amazon amid fears that thousands of fires raging across Brazil and some parts of Bolivia are rapidly destroying the world’s largest rainforest and paving the way for a climate catastrophe

Following the resignation of Gov. Rosselló, a series of people’s assemblies have emerged throughout Puerto Rico to keep the conversation—and the popular movement—going

The President of the United States is a criminal.  I’m not referring to the twenty-odd investigations of him currently underway for violations of the Constitution, obstruction of justice, and collaboration with the Russian election attack, among other misdeeds.  No, I’m referring to his and his administration’s intentional and reckless pursuit of national policies that condemn Read more…

Interview on the growing extremism of the Republican Party, Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, Democrats’ abandonment of the working class and impending threat of the climate crisis

Rebels staged actions outside Brazilian embassies in over a dozen countries last week to demand an end to the government-sanctioned destruction of the Amazon rainforest and violence against its indigenous people

If the truth sets us free, why do so many opt for ignorance and implicit compliance with a wretched, immoral system?

Research from me and others shows that fully renewable electric grids are feasible with current technology at current prices; barriers to using renewable electricity are more political and cultural than technological or economic

LGBTQ Workers Seek Equality

He’s enlisting his massive volunteer base to pressure companies to change their labor practices — and joining several protests himself

Where Bernie Sanders’ labor platform is most exciting is its proposal for new workers’ rights and forms of union representation that transcend the National Labor Relations Board framework of enterprise-based contract bargaining

Last  night I did a ruthless thing— I shut off all channel news; For once I felt I had enough Of unimpeachable views.   And I turned to an older love, Namely, Test Match Cricket. Here I was on a more contested, More honourable wicket.   I was served a bonanza With two Tests running Read more…

10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa

It is always encouraging when an international call for unified action on the climate crisis is put out and there’s a widespread, positive response to it at the grassroots

Here are seven ways we can connect to the power of removing our consent and cooperation, refusing to go along with injustice, and intervening in the destructive practices that cause harm

The Game-Changing Green New Deal

And More Likely to Succeed

What are we to make of Argentina’s surprise election results on August 11, which jolted pollsters and analysts alike, and roiled the country’s financial markets?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its benchmark revision to its job numbers shows that the economy created 501,000 fewer jobs between March of 2018 and March of 2019 than previously reported

Establishment Democrats would rather lose to the right, even to a proto-fascistic white-nationalist and eco-exterminist right, than lose to the left, even to a mildly progressive social democratic and environmentalist left within their own party

Over the past 20 years, the United States lost 5 million manufacturing jobs and nearly 90,000 factories. Some went to China or Vietnam or India. But a lot went to Mexico

What started as “food protests” grew into a political movement

There’s a strong argument to shift law enforcement resources from Muslim organizations to domestic white terrorists — but expanding the war on terror is a riskier proposition

There is a spirit that lives in Harlan, along with the ghosts of battles past

How is nonviolence more powerful than the weapons of war? It may not appear to be the case in the moment, but in the long run, the weapon-wielders lose. The opposite of nonviolence isn’t violence. The opposite is ignorance

The myth of American Exceptionalism is being exposed

If our supposed 24-hour news channels can’t tell us about the truly central story for our lives, then they are pretty useless

Adding Momentum to National Abolition Movement

An Indiana city learns that a weak response to white supremacists has predictable consequences

Our strategy is simple: mobilize millions of Americans across this country to stand up and demand that politicians choose a side, the American people or the pharmaceutical corporations

Volunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

What Colin Kaepernick lost – and won

When I was just 10, I already knew what it was like to plan for a future without my parents

We cannot win a currency war through the use of competitive currency devaluations that trigger a “race to the bottom”

Accuses Jewish American Democrats of Treason to Israel

Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues

The climate crisis is not only a byproduct of empire, but it’s becoming a rationale for even more empire

In a surprise announcement, the EZLN proclaim the creation of 11 new “caracoles” and autonomous municipalities, significantly expanding the territory under rebel control

“Laws are passed to manipulate labor, not help immigrants”

It is not that Hispanic and nonwhite immigrants do not want to integrate. Many Americans simply do not want to let them in

Trump Tries to Criminalize Antifa

Will They Elect a Progressive, or the Former Head of the DCCC?

“Right now you can’t just work in peace,” she said. “You’ve got to be in fear.”

Plan to Make Renewable Energy There

Interview on racism and technology