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March 22, 2015
Journalism as Subversion
The journalist P. Sainath has worked for more than 20 years to amplify the voices and lives of the rural poor of India as corporate-controlled media have attempted to erase them from history. (Pictured, an Indian farmer in his damaged field.)
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March 15, 2015
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the Seattle City Council, is up for re-election, and the Establishment is determined to defeat her and the ideas she champions before they spread.
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March 8, 2015
The Whoredom of the Left
If we accept prostitution as legal, we will take one more collective step toward the global plantation being constructed by our corporate pimps.
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March 1, 2015
Tariq Ali: The Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution
One of our most trenchant critics of corporate capitalism deplores the rise of an “extreme center” that has seized control of the political process and wages endless war while doing the bidding of global corporations. Our only hope, he says, is revolt.
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February 22, 2015
We Kill Our Revolutionaries
Siddique Hasan, who never committed murder, is on death row in Ohio not for what he did but for who he is.
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February 15, 2015
‘Pornography Is What the End of the World Looks Like’
“Fifty Shades of Grey” is part of a corporate capitalist onslaught that has seen women dehumanized, men desensitized, children damaged and violence and exploitation glorified.
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February 8, 2015
The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Both ISIS and the West revel in brutality that feeds the fever for war. The line that separates us from our enemies is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
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February 1, 2015
Malcolm X Was Right About America
The civil rights leader, assassinated 50 years ago this month, knew that empire cannot be reformed—it must be destroyed.
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January 25, 2015
Killing Ragheads for Jesus
The movie “American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—including the belief that Christians are called upon to exterminate “lesser breeds.”
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January 18, 2015
‘You Have a Mother’
Lola Mozes’ desperate plea to a Nazi camp guard did not save her mother. But by then her parents had taught her a lesson that has informed her life—no human being ever has the right to live at the expense of another.
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