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White Supremacy, Patriarchy, & Capitalism
Robert Jensen
There is a close connection between who rules and who benefits. Today in the U.S the gap between rich and everyone else has reached levels not seen since the 1890s. Tax breaks and tax cuts have enabled the top 1% to corner 20% of the nation’s income and more than 40% of the wealth. Those […]
Dr. King and the American Dream
Michael Eric Dyson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr has been branded and packaged. The sharp edge has been largely replaced with a dull and unthreatening one. King moved way beyond his poetic “I Have a Dream” speech to a radical societal analysis. His ideas in his last few years have been glossed over and sanitized. This is what […]
Commercial Surveillance Culture
Jeff Chester, Kathryn Montgomery
Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, once described the internet as a “permissionless space for creativity, innovation and free expression.” In the early days, you may recall, the internet was also called the “information superhighway.” It would be open, free and with no advertising. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Tech […]
Confronting Government Lies
Howard Zinn
Humpty Dumpty, that great social philosopher, told Alice in a scornful tone, “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.” Alice replied, “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” To which Humpty Dumpty responded, “The question is to be master-that’s […]
The Politics of Hate
Arjun Singh Sethi
There is a stench in the air. Hate is out in the open. The number of hate crimes has dramatically escalated in the last couple of years. Recall Dylann Roof who killed nine in an African-American church in South Carolina or Gregory Bush who murdered two black shoppers in a grocery store in Kentucky. The […]
Artists in a Time of War
Howard Zinn
The role of artists, writers, poets, actors, and musicians have an enormous impact on society. Because of the special place they occupy in people’s hearts and minds their influence is central. Artists shine light into the dark crevices of the human psyche. They question, nudge and agitate. Bonnie Raitt, Michael Franti, Arthur Miller, Alice Walker, […]
Sports & Resistance to Fascism
Dave Zirin
Many believe that sports are apolitical and neutral. But it isn’t. Sports are intricately enmeshed within the larger societal context. Some athletes speak out. Muhammad Ali in 1967, with the United States at war in Vietnam, refused to be inducted into the military, saying “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” He was widely […]
Arab Revolts
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Lecture.
Fascism & Resistance in India
Arundhati Roy
Fascism in India? It’s a secular republic, according to its constitution but the country under its prime minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, has drifted sharply to the religious right. The BJP ideology is Hindutva, Hindu nationalism. Its mother ship and muscle is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the RSS. It’s a […]
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Loan sharks prey on the vulnerable, loaning to people who can’t get help elsewhere. Sharks are great salesmen, appearing as friends when you need a lift out of an economic hole. The shark is good at hiding the true terms of the arrangement, and soothes your fears about his demands for collateral. When the inevitable […]
The Olympics: Celebration Capitalism
Jules Boykoff
The Olympics are perhaps the crown jewels of sports. The pomp and circumstance, the pageantry and international competition make the games special. They began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, king of the gods. Today, the gods are fame, fortune, and national pride. The Olympics are a multi-billion dollar […]
Money or Life?
David Korten
“They strutted up and down the avenue, throwing out their chests and bidding the world stand to one side. They were 100 percent American big businessmen who took back talk from nobody. Now they take a handout wherever they can get it. Billions will be ladled into the mouths of these very individualistic big businessmen […]

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