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TheRealNews on Apr 14, 2018
Economist Michael Roberts says the change of tone within the OECD is interesting, but there are no takers ready to implement estate taxes to reduce inequality.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Mar 25, 2018
Peter L. P. Simpson, a Professor of Classics & Philosophy at the City University of New York, discusses the nature of democracy by deconstructing the political philosophy of liberalism.
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 16, 2018
Not every problem we face can be solved by the magic wands of benevolent legislators. In those halls of power, you’re more likely to encounter twisted curses than blessings and cures. Instead, you must study the interconnected web that weaves our world together. There you will find effective pivot points of change. Every piece of the destructive system is tied to people, workers, supplies, knowledge, money, social behaviors, opinions, profits, transportation and more. Each of these sectors offers many places to push for change.
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Previously published July 4, 2010
talkingsticktv
January 23, 2010
Talk by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett co-authors of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger recorded January 8, 2010 at Hogness Auditorium, University of Washington, Seattle.
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Dandelion Salad
Previously posted Feb. 24, 2012
This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
ClassWarFilms on Feb 13, 2012
A brief and crucial history of the United States
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by Susan Cain and Mark Mason
Guest Writers, Dandelion Salad
Mark Mason, PhD
crossposted from Dissident Voice Feb. 5, 2018
February 16, 2018
The American high school dropout is an unconscious revolutionary. Instead of casting aspersions upon the dropout, we should attempt to decode this behavior that is condemned by parents, school authorities, educational experts, religious leaders, politicians, and peers. To understand the distress of the American high school student requires us to examine the politics of quitting school. Leaving school is a political act. Its political causes cannot be investigated in a context of isolating and blaming the individual.
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 15, 2018
Rich people rule, make no mistake. They have ruled for centuries, and the toll of their reign has been high. At their feet can be laid the bodies of every child starved in a world with surplus food; every person who freezes to death in the streets while there are six empty houses for every homeless person; every death from lack of affordable healthcare; and the incalculable casualties of the world’s wars – which have all had the wealthy at the helm. Colonization’s genocides, slavery’s murders, and the living death of mass incarceration can all be added to the oligarchy’s tally.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 11, 2018
Juan Gonzalez, author of Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities, discusses the structural inequality of cities through class and racial policies formed by the US government.
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 9, 2018
Muster courage to resist. Outrage is a mere spark; it must ignite the flame of courageous determination or else its light dies swiftly. You will need the stronger fuels of love, hope, and vision to sustain you through the struggle.
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by William Bowles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Investigating Imperialism
London, England
February 3, 2018
Have you noticed that it’s no longer PC Dixon of Dock Green who mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens as he goes about his beat in your neighbourhood? Instead, it’s a Kevlar-armoured, video-monitored, taser-equipped, drone-surveilled, spit-masked supplied soldier, straight out of Star Wars, who now staggers along under the weight of an industrialized capitalism, visibly physically disconnected from the citizens they monitor by their bullet-proof uniforms, that more resemble a rack of tools in your local hardware store than the Bobby on the beat.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 28, 2018
David North, Chairman of the World Socialist Web Site’s International Editorial Board, discusses the capitalist crisis in the United States.
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
January 26, 2018
With the news cycle taken over by the latest madness emerging from the mouth or Twitter feed of the childish “orange one” in the White House, could we step back from the circus to reflect like adults on the social and historical forces that produced the clown presidency? Haymarket Books’ new collection of essays by leading left political analysts, US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: Essays on a New Reality, is required reading for anyone interested in such reflections on Donald Trump.
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by William Bowles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Investigating Imperialism
London, England
January 22, 2018
Before I go any further with this let me state that I’m not a Trotskyist, or a Leninist, or a Stalinist or a Maoist (but I might have been all of the above, with exception of Maoist, at one time or another). However, I might be a Zapatista, at least in spirit, but I’m definitely a Socialist Revolutionary (or is that a Revolutionary Socialist?). I’m not sure if I’m a Marxist either, but I’m definitely an admirer of the old man, he was a great artist and thinker, and possibly, along with Charles Darwin, the greatest mind of the 19th century. Whatever you call it, we need a socialist revolution and we need one now, we are running out of time!
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 6, 2018
Charles Derber, Author and Sociologist, discusses the failings of the American left through intersectionality.
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with Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Hudson
January 2, 2018
TheRealNews on Jan 1, 2018
Low interest rates, “quantitative easing,” and the mitigation of antitrust laws led to more mergers and acquisitions in 2017, but that’s only going to fuel greater wealth inequality and tighten the corporate grip on the political system, explains economist Michael Hudson.
