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Nixon’s War on Drugs Began as Strategy to Attack ‘Antiwar Left and Black People’

Amid new global discussion about ending prohibition, a buried admission by a former presidential aide.

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How the Peoples Party Prevailed in 2020

The rest, as they say, is history.

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There’s Already a Wall Between US and Mexico

The ideological wall that separates America and Mexico.

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Frances Moore Lappé: Why I’m Facing Arrest to Get Money Out of Politics

Democracy Spring is expected to be the largest civil disobedience action in decades.

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More Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: This Time, They’re Coming for Your Democracy

“Things have just gotten so much worse.”

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How to Fix the Supreme Court: Tell Your Senators to Do Their Job

Public pressure is the only way to get GOP senators to release their choke hold on the Supreme Court. Public pressure is up to you.

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The American Fascist

Viewing Donald Trump in light of the fascists of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Paul Mason: PostCapitalism, A Guide to Our Future

Low-profit tech brings real abundance, but is (absurdly) incompatible with capitalism’s need for scarcity.

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Is Water a (Positive) Human Right?

I went on a search to find our right to clean drinking water in U.S. and international law.

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White Nationalist Group Supports Trump, ‘Hitler Without the Mustache’

America’s extremist white supremacist groups are supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.