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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet

Ellen Brown Web of Debt
Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival.

Gaza Is Under Siege But Not Alone! Let’s Build Towards a Military Embargo

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)
Paelstinian demonstrators under Israel attack
We must channel our rage at Israel’s atrocities into effective actions to hold Israel accountable. Together, we can escalate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns.

12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor

Noah Berlatsky Dollars & Sense
A survey of a dozen self-help books reveals a genre with an ideological axe to grind: it’s not the system that needs changing, it’s you.

Broad Band

Dylan Schleicher Porchlight Book Company
A "computer" used to be a job description, not just a machine. At the time, most computers were women. Dylan Schleicher reviews a fascinating history of how "computers" helped make the computer networks that are so interwoven into contemporary life.

What’s Been Stopping the Left?

Dani Rodrik Project Syndicate
If progressive political parties had pursued a bolder agenda in the face of widening inequality and deepening economic anxiety, perhaps the rise of right-wing, nativist political movements might have been averted. So why didn't they?