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What It Means to Be a Socialist

What It Means to Be a Socialist Chris Hedges gave this speech Sunday at a Santa Ana, Calif., event sponsored by the Green Party of Orange County. We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The […]

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Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago

Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago Minale Tattersfield / CC BY 2.0 Oil giant Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research in the 1970s, and then, without disclosing the findings of its scientists, worked to manufacture doubt about the scientific consensus of its own research. A groundbreaking investigation shows how the […]

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VIDEO: Noam Chomsky: Markets Aren’t ‘Democratic’— They Radically Restrict Choice in Important Ways

VIDEO: Noam Chomsky: Markets Aren’t ‘Democratic’— They Radically Restrict Choice in Important Ways In this short clip from a History Channel documentary, the renowned linguist and activist explains how markets actually bring out the worst in humans by turning us into people “dedicated to maximizing individual gain, not social concern.”    

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VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump

VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump Chris Hedges doesn’t spare Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or even Bernie Sanders in this wide-ranging take on the big swindle of neoliberalism and his warning for the future in the hands of a “rapacious oligarchic elite.” Hedges […]

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Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official Raises Concerns About Intelligence Manipulation

Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official Raises Concerns About Intelligence Manipulation     Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. (Partnership for Public Service / CC BY 2.0) James Clapper—Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence—is said to be in what a former intelligence official called frequent and “highly, highly unusual” contact with a ranking junior intelligence officer who sits […]

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Oil Giants Crush California Bill Aimed at Reducing Gasoline Use

Oil Giants Crush California Bill Aimed at Reducing Gasoline Use Steve Snodgrass / CC BY 2.0 The oil industry has derailed an environmental bill in California designed to reduce gasoline use by up to 50 percent by 2030. The Guardian reports: Senate president pro tempore Kevin de Leon announced on Wednesday that he would amend the bill, SB350, […]

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VIDEO: German Lawmaker on Why Wars Led by the U.S. Are at the Root of the Refugee Crisis

VIDEO: German Lawmaker on Why Wars Led by the U.S. Are at the Root of the Refugee Crisis Annette Groth, a member of the German Parliament, recently returned from a trip to Hungary, where she saw thousands of migrants stranded at the Budapest train station. “What is the root for this massive migration?” Groth asks. […]

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The Real Enemy Is Within

The Real Enemy Is Within Steve Mann / Shutterstock If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue. It is why I refuse to give a pass in this presidential […]

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Canada Clears Way for Ecuadorean Case Against Chevron Over ‘Amazon Chernobyl’

Canada Clears Way for Ecuadorean Case Against Chevron Over ‘Amazon Chernobyl’   A protestor shows his black painted hand as he carries an Ecuador flag to protest against Chevron and the oil contamination in Ecuador’s Amazon region during a joined global demonstration in Madrid, Spain, in 2013.. (Andres Kudacki / AP) Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that […]

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