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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.

As more strikes succeed, Kate Bahn, chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, says workers are more likely to organize them at their own workplaces.

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.

A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.

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

“Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” was organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. More than one survivor remembers sustaining fellow-prisoners with vivid descriptions of the foods they’d eaten in their earlier lives.