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with Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Caleb Maupin (website)
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January 17, 2019
Caleb Maupin on Jan 15, 2019
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., May, 1965
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 12, 2019
Societies are held together by a web of social bonds that give individuals a sense of being part of a collective and engaged in a project larger than the self. The shattering of these bonds plunges individuals into deep psychological distress that leads ultimately to acts of self-annihilation, according to sociologist Emile Durkheim. Few reporters have examined this anomie better than Charlie LeDuff, first in his book Detroit, and now in his latest book Shitshow: The Country’s Collapsing and the Ratings Are Great. LeDuff joins Chris Hedges in the studio.
by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 10, 2019
The Occupy Movement ignited popular awareness of “horizontal” concepts, yet many years have passed and few movements – and even fewer organizations – have really figured out how to embody those ideas. Samantha Slade’s new book, Going Horizontal, offers practical tools and tangible practices for all of us seeking to walk our talk … and go horizontal.
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by Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Caleb Maupin (website)
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New Eastern Outlook, Jan. 2, 2018
January 7, 2019
When it comes to the genocide of Native Americans, the people of the United States seem to face an existential crisis. The cultural clashes and recent diversification of rhetoric around this issue illustrates how deeply confused the people of the United States truly are about their identity and their history.
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 6, 2019
The tools of nonviolent action and the skills of struggle are as vital to these times as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Training to use them is as essential as learning how to use a computer. The ability to boycott and strike is as important as the ability to drive a car. Every citizen who knows how to use email should also know how to protest, walk-out, shut-down, occupy, blockade, and more. This is the only way the power of the people can hold the power of oligarchs in check.
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with Greg Palast
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Greg Palast’s website
January 5, 2019
with Chris Hedges
from KPFK on October 18, 2018
KPFK Speaker Series featured one of the most sought-after speakers of our time! Chris Hedges who spoke about his new book, America: The Farewell Tour, where he argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. A bitter cry reported from communities across the country, America: The Farewell Tour seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.
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TheRealNews on Dec 29, 2018
Prof. Robert Pollin and Michael Lighty discuss the findings of a new study by the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst. The study finds Medicare for All could reduce total healthcare spending by 10 percent, while creating stable access to good care and improving the health of all U.S. residents.
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by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog
December 29, 2018
Calls for a Universal Basic Income have been increasing, most recently as part of the Green New Deal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and supported in the last month by at least 40 members of Congress. A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a monthly payment to all adults with no strings attached, similar to Social Security. Critics say the Green New Deal asks too much of the rich and upper-middle-class taxpayers who will have to pay for it, but taxing the rich is not what the resolution proposes. It says funding would primarily come from the federal government, “using a combination of the Federal Reserve, a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks,” and other vehicles.
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“All I want for Christmas is the abolition of imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy!”
by The Anti-Social Socialist
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published Dec. 24, 2017
December 24, 2018
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by Jim Kavanagh
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Polemicist, Dec. 19, 2018
December 21, 2018
Something’s happening here…
Class Act
The “yellow vest” (gilets jaunes) movement has upended French politics, at least.
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LeftStreamed on Dec 1, 2018
Warehouse Labour in the Digital Economy
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with Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Caleb Maupin (website)
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December 3, 2018
“It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot and I think it’s a word that a lot of people don’t know what it means. Neoliberalism is an economic term.” — Caleb Maupin
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 2, 2018
If you like being a peon, a serf, or a slave, by all means, continue on with business-as-usual. Your corporate overlords are delighted to exploit you. They’re thrilled at the prospect of profiting off your descendants for all eternity. But their hourglass is running out of sand. The planet’s ecosystems are collapsing. We will not last long as underlings. This is a paltry comfort as we slide toward mass extinction.
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“The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.” — Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, Nov. 24, 2013
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by Phil Rockstroh
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published Dec. 11, 2017
November 23, 2018
Humankind, being an inherently tool-making species, has always been in a relationship with technology. Our tools, weapons, machines, and appliances are crucial to forging the cultural criteria of human life. At present, amid the technology created phantomscape of mass media’s lurid — yet somehow sterile — imagery, one can feel as if one’s mind is in danger of being churned to spittle.
