The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Totalitarian Democracy Now
The 1% has no intention of giving up its wealth or its power, so the challenge facing us is well worth accepting.
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Blueprint For Sharing as Source Of Global Economic Change
Sharing wealth, power and resources is central to the formation of a growing movement of global citizens for a healthy planet – and here's how we're doing it.
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When Mainstream Meets Occupy: What the New Democratic Message Might Look Like
The 1 percent continue to capture virtually all of the country's income growth as the average incomes of the 99 percent fall, and Americans know it – which is why politicians and mainstream economists are now scrambling to respond.
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Money In Politics Takes Central Stage In New Hampshire Where A Rebellion Is Underway
Lawrence Lessig, who led the NH Rebellion, eschews the term "campaign finance reform" – he prefers "corruption," because money determines who wins primaries, who wins elections, who gets hired, and what laws get passed in D.C.
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“New Model Cities” In Honduras Would Hand All Power to Corporations
So-called Special Economic Development Zones will not only be economically independent, but they'll be exclusively governed by corporations, both local and international, which will create and enforce their own laws.
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Thousands of Californians March In Largest Ever Anti-Frack Protest, Calling For Statewide Ban
Californians marched Saturday through downtown Oakland calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to fulfill his promise as a climate leader by enacting an all-out ban on fracking in the state.
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"A Line in the Sand" in Fight to Release Thousands of Photos of Prisoner Abuse
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can’t release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Kirchner Cover-Up: Dead Prosecutor Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President
On Jan. 14, Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a 289-page criminal complaint accusing President Kirchner and others of covering up Iran’s involvement in the 1994 bombing. Five days later, he was killed.
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Net Neutrality Victory: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Declares "The Internet Must Be Fast, Fair and Open"
After facing a deluge of 4 million public comments, Wheeler announces "the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC... assuring the rights of internet users to go where they want, when they want."
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Berea Is Burning: Fracking, Fires and the Grassroots Action That's Inflamed Kentucky
Energy companies are quietly scrambling to lease mineral rights from eastern Kentuckian landowners, but this time they’re not after coal – and an activist community is rising to challenge corporate interests.
