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How to Make the TVA a Clean Energy Juggernaut

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
A Green New Deal is now on the agenda. Activists should embrace the public ownership option: mass decarbonization, using the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Mexican Workers Are Engaging in Wildcat Strikes at the Border

Kent Paterson In These Times
Catalyzed by the Mexican government’s minimum wage hike in the northern border zone, wildcat protests in Mexico’s assembly-for-export industry, or maquiladoras, greeted the first weeks of the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (A

Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019)

Vivek Chibber Jacobin
Erik Olin Wright was radicalized in the 1960s and remained a Marxist because his moral compass simply wouldn't allow him to drift away. With his death, the Left has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.

Uber Wins Big in NLRB SuperShuttle Decision

Alison Griswold Quartz
If SuperShuttle drivers, with all their restrictions and prohibitions, aren’t employees in the eyes of a Republican NLRB, then Uber’s case before that same board is no longer a question mark. It’s a slam dunk.

The Elite’s Crusade to Save the World Without Changing A Thing

Anand Giridharadas The Guardian
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Today’s new titans of tech and finance want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten their own wealth and power. These plutocrats believe capitalism’s winners, not its victims, should supervise all social change.

Friday Nite Videos | January 25, 2019

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Ari Melber Interview With Four Key Mueller Witnesses. Redemption (feat Jessie Davis) – Baba Brinkman Music Video. Get Me Roger Stone | Movie Trailer. Bernie Sanders on the End of the Government Shutdown. P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo.