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  Roy: “Capitalism has Become a Weapon of Mass Destruction”

  Interview on India, nationalism, literature and politics
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  Cole: Greening Earth and creating Jobs

  Biden to slash Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Extend Wind, Solar Credits
• Abello: LA Mall Purchase Would Be the Biggest Victory Yet for Community-Driven Development

  Until now there was never a project of this scale for community ownership of community spaces for the benefit of community rather than the purpose of making a lot of money
• Young: Georgia’s Voter Suppression Is Sparking Boycotts

  History Shows They Can Work
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  Grim: Republicans Are Poised to Gerrymander Their Way Back to the Majority

  But only if Democrats stand aside and let them
• Fryklund: The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis

  Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America
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  Monbiot: Sea Change

  At last people are waking up to the fishing industry’s devastating impacts
• Schuhrke: The Movement to End At-Will Employment Is Getting Serious

  Unlike much of the world, the U.S. doesn’t ensure “just cause” employment. This coalition in Illinois hopes to change that
• Freudenberg: Corporate Versus Public Control of Science And Technology

  Are the public health crises of the last decade harbingers of a world doomed to declining human and planetary health or a wakeup call to act now to create a better future?
• Hartford: Jim Crow Voting Laws — Then and Now

  Though the old and new methods and details are different, the political goal remains the same — maintenance of white-supremacy
• Soley: Colectivo Coffee workers fight for a union

  Workers came together using email blasts, petitions, social media campaigns and direct action in the workplace in order to win these concessions
• Wright: The Significance of the NUMSA Appeal to the World for Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Trade unions such as NUMSA are important to offset the post-independence corporate neo-colonialist paradigm
• Stancil: Biden Creates Commission to Study Supreme Court Reform

  "To restore our democracy, we must expand the Supreme Court," says Rep. Mondaire Jones
• Jacobs: Biden, Blinken and DOD

  Although the Blinken-Biden foreign policy approach may be more palatable to European governments and much of the US population, that doesn’t mean it’s that different from what preceded it.
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  Chomsky: Without Regrets

  In a wide-ranging talk, the 92-year-old rebel with many causes discusses the role of activists, intellectuals and Joe Biden in America
• Graham: Defending The Indefensible

  There’s No Case For Keeping A Justice System That Fails Half The Population
• McAlevey: Blowout in Bessemer

  A Postmortem on the Amazon Campaign
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  Kelly: Hunting in Yemen

  “It’s not normal for people to live like this,” says Iman Saleh, now on her twelfth day of a hunger strike demanding an end to war in Yemen.
• Emspak: Bessemer – A Big Step Forward

  There is every reason to believe that the workers in our new industries will react the same way workers in the past responded to defeats - they continued to organize because, in reality there is no substitution for a union in the workplace
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  Kolhatkar: Why Republicans Are Betting the Farm on Attacking Transgender People

  Transgender people, like immigrants, voters of color, and those seeking abortions, are the latest scapegoats that the GOP is counting on to fuel bigotry among its base
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  Raptis: Turks and Greeks: the Human Case (Part 1 of 2)

  This extremely potent instrument of Religion is used by the Trumps of the world for their personal benefit