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Trump regularly tells reporters that he's "the least racist person that you've ever encountered." But his record tells another story.

Peter Linebaugh was in Toronto in May 13-16, 2016. An internationally known historian, Professor Linebaugh is considered one of the most important Marxist historians of our time. He is a historian of class struggles in Britain and the colonial Atlantic. A former student of E. P. Thompson, Linebaugh has taught in New York University, Harvard University and the University of Toledo.

Fannie Lou Hamer was 'sick and tired of being sick and tired,' and she told the 1964 Democratic National Convention

Something strange and ominous is happening in the oil industry, and the “peak oil” debate, whether oil production has hit its peak, rages anew. There is still oil in the ground, but the cost of extracting it is increasingly prohibitive. Some ecologists had long argued for investment in renewable energy sources while energy profitability was still high, now they fear we must build “a bridge to the energy future, while the highway we’re on is crumbling beneath us.”