Political Economy

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Prisoners Scapegoated While Rich Loot Society
14 Oct 2019
In an essay titled, “What Kind of Society Are We?” New York state prison inmate Donti Mitchell says citizens outside the walls should not be resentful that he is allowed
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Halt – Don’t Expand – Mass Incarceration in New York
14 Oct 2019
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration supports the “No New Jails NYC” campaign to prevent the city from building 12 new prisons to replace the cells that will be lost when the infamous Rikers Isl
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Corporate Domination is Central to Food Issues
14 Oct 2019
The lack of food outlets in Black neighborhoods is part of the larger reality of labor exploitation and corporate domination, according to Ashante Reese, professor of anthropo
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Phony Progressives Follow Trump Lead on Venezuela
14 Oct 2019
So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti
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NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery
14 Oct 2019
The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery
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The Case for Demolishing Facebook
08 Oct 2019
Facebook has become a tool of social control and the Deep State -- the world’s biggest monopolizer of human thought.
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Pelosi Slow to Impeach Trump, But Quick to Collaborate With Him
07 Oct 2019
Shahid Buttar, a lifelong activist who is trying to unseat Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi in her home district of San Francisco, says Pelosi “has actively enabled” the Trump administration by
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US Cops Act Like Soldiers, While US Soldiers Police the World
07 Oct 2019
Local police and foreign-deployed US militaries both practice a kind of “community policing” designed to control and gather intelligence on occupied populations, said Dererka Purnell
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Black Is Back Coalition: Fight US Imperialism at Home and Abroad
07 Oct 2019
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will mark its tenth anniversary with a march on the White House and national conference under the banner, “Turn Imperialist War
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Amerikaners: The Afrkaners’ First Cousins
01 Oct 2019
White America and white “Boer” South Africa share remarkably similar national mythologies. Let’s call them Amerikaners.