When the US Supports It, It’s Not a Coup
By Alan MacLeod Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not…
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The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion
By Jessica Corbett The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a…
Global Corporate Financial Speculation Fuels Gentrification
By Yosef Brody PUSH, a new documentary that had its world premiere at the CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen in March, where it won the festival’s Audience Award, is coming to the U.S., and not…
Health Care Rationing Is Already Reality Under Private Insurance
The price of insulin in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2012. That’s put the life-saving hormone out of reach for some people like Nicole Smith-Holt’s son Alec. Read the original article at Huffington…
The Scale Of What We’re Up Against
Big money will be spent trying to convince you to disbelieve obvious truths… The Charles Koch Foundation had subsidized “pro-business, antiregulatory, and antitax” programs at over 300 institutes of higher education. All of these professors,…
Sanders Housing Plan Sets New Benchmark
A forty-hour-a-week minimum-wage job covers a one-bedroom apartment in only twenty-eight of the country’s 3,007 counties. This isn’t just a housing crisis. It’s a housing catastrophe. Read more at Jacobin.
Homes Guarantee: Make Housing a Right
The Homes Guarantee, introduced in early September by the People’s Action Coalition, a network representing roughly one million progressive activists in groups spanning 30 states, would invest billions of dollars in housing infrastructure and radically…
Future of US Jobs Looks Bleak—Unions Are the Answer
Newly released numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics project that six of the ten occupations expected to have the most total job growth over the next decade pay less than $27,000 a year….
Why Is It Okay for Employers to Constantly Spy on Workers?
Congress’ debate around passing privacy legislation has largely left out workplace protections. The current debate centers “consumer privacy,” but this distinction falsely creates dual identities with different protections for you the consumer and you the…
A Shit Job for One Is a Shit Job for All
It’s essential that organizers bring lessons from the AB 5 victory (expanding legal protections to more than a million workers, including gig workers like rideshare drivers) into all sectors while uniting unions and militant workers…