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Rating Capitalism and Socialism * Goodbye, Columbus * Christian Nationalists * Ivory Tower Economists * Power and Hip Hop * The Antiwar Right * New Anticommunism * From Fight Club to Joker

No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response

High crimes and misdemeanors of the fading American century.

Over these four decades, fires have burned on the streets of the countries that have gone to the IMF and then forced austerity upon their populations.

Widescale power shutdown reveals the depth of California’s infrastructure problems amid a growing climate crisis.

Although Trump’s unabashedly anti-immigrant agenda has amplified the brutality of the border regime, he is merely capitalizing on a massive, entrenched network of corporate power and political influence.

A major Israeli weapons company has been named as one of the top profiteers of US border militarization.

In Indian Country, we’re in a political moment which is ripe for Native grassroots organizing, the best in my lifetime. Tribal sovereignty will only be realized for all Indian Nations with a broad and deep democratic system.

A “military bourgeoisie” has used the country’s complex set of conflicts-within-conflicts for career advancement, financing their private wars through kidnapping, the taxation of commodities and movement of people, poaching, and protection rackets.

While Trump’s policies certainly deserve to be challenged, they should not be seen as a major departure from decades of cynical and treacherous U.S. policy toward the Kurdish people.