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The Inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Future of Mexico

Laura Carlsen North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
Newly inaugurated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador was inaugurated president last Saturday in a ceremony unlike any other seen in Mexico. What’s next for the radical new president, and what’s next for the majority of the Mexican people who now have very high expectations?

Inside the Evangelical Money Flowing Into the West Bank

Judy Maltz Haaretz
A Haaretz investigation reveals that Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the ‘Biblical Heartland’ over the past decade. That doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, like volunteer laborers

Taking on the GM Shutdown

Socialist Project Steering Committee Socialist Project
Unifor, Oshawa and Community Control

A 97% Decline in Monarch Butterflies

Gabrielle Canon The Guardian
In the 1980s, roughly 4.5 million monarchs wintered in California, but at last count, there may be as few as 30,000

Friday Nite Videos | December 7, 2018

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Bernie's Ideas Aren't on the Fringe Any More. Line Riders | Beethoven's 5th. Trump's Favorite Things! A Randy Rainbow Song Parody. Roma | Movie. PETA: Don't Drag Us into This.

Awake in Mississippi on a New Day

Susan M. Glisson Facing South
A movement for liberation requires long-term commitment. It requires truth-telling and courage and patience. And a movement should celebrate moving the needle, as Mississippians did.

Break Up Facebook (and Google, Apple, and Amazon)

Robert Reich Robert Reich
America responded to the Gilded Age’s abuses of corporate power with antitrust laws that allowed the government to break up the largest concentrations. It is time to use antitrust again. We should break up the high-tech behemoths.

First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

Manisha Sinha Jacobin
Donald Trump wants to destroy the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship. But before he sought to eliminate it outright, his elite predecessors mangled, misread, and misused the amendment in the service of capital.