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Exclusive: retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley calls for clemency for Indigenous activist who has been in prison for nearly 50 years

I see a nation where 63 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck — paycheck to paycheck. What does that mean? It means that every day you are living under incredible stress — scared to death that if your car breaks down, if your kid gets sick, if your landlord raises the rent, if you get divorced or separated, if you become pregnant, if for whatever reason you lose your job, you will find yourself in the midst of a financial catastrophe.

Is the Republican Party the political equivalent of Chucky?

Berlin Bulletin #206 January 17 2023 The lack of homes for working class and also for middle-class seekers is a nation-wide emergency. Somehow, allegedly due to rising costs, there is never enough money to build affordable homes, repair schools, open needed kindergartens and reverse damaging reductions in public health care.

The leader of the Poor People’s Campaign will train the next generation of ‘moral fusion leaders’ at the Yale divinity school

America's Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe

At the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos this week, elites will try to address problems from climate change to the threat of worldwide recession. But these elites’ endless thirst for profit will doom their efforts to fail.

How nuclear weapons gradually became a key part of international relations.

King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."