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[firstoccupier]

Clinton's FTAA: Why It Faced Massive Opposition

Clinton Tried to Expand “Free Trade” to All of the Americas—Activists Said No Way 🌎🚫#Triangulation | August Blog Series In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton wanted to make a giant trade deal that would cover the whole Western Hemisphere—from Canada all the way down to Argentina. He called it the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). But activists, unions, and everyday people fought back hard.…

Clinton's FTAA: Why It Faced Massive Opposition

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Democracy Now! Focus COP26 UN Climate Summit

Democracy Now! Focus COP26 UN Climate Summit

Over the past few days Democracy Now! has posted several interviews around the COP26 UN international conference in Glasgow. COP stands for Conference of the Parties.  Early on, before the conference started, the corporations who were major sponsors were already complaining that the conference was “mismanaged.”  That is of course the major drawback to the conference, that it has corporate…

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Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration's Botched Response to the Pandemic

Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration’s Botched Response to the Pandemic

“President” Trump and the Corona VIrus Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration’s Botched Response to the Pandemic

MOTHER JONES  April 4, 2020

As the country was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic in March, President Donald Trump saw some of the best approval numbers of his presidency. Multiple polls showed that a small majority of Americans approved of his handling of the…

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Sierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and Inequality

Sierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and Inequality

Climate justice is given its due importance in the latest issue of Sierra with the recognition that: “Some people are consuming wildly more and wildly different than others…10 percent of the world’s population is responsible for about 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and about 60 percent of those people are in the Global North. The bottom half of the world’s population is responsible for…

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George Monbiot's Fantastic Writing>Politics & Economics vs. Environment | Game of Chicken

George Monbiot’s Fantastic Writing>Politics & Economics vs. Environment | Game of Chicken

His blog Game of Chicken is brilliantly articulated as usual, George Monbiot‘s works Need to Be Spread like Wildfire. I think Monbiot should be translated into 17 languages…What I just thought of in response: if we could just do “One less”: eat one less chicken, one less burger, one less shower, one less international flight, one less purchase of an article of clothing, one less car, have one…

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Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.

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Paul Street | How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature

Paul Street | How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature

We can’t skip the barricades and the hard work of making revolutionary change. There remains the question of how to develop and spread an alternative, popular, democratic and eco-socialist model of human development to ensure human survival and to prevent a reversion to sheer barbarism amid capitalism’s pestilential burnout.

By Paul Street  Truthdig  September 13, 2016

  2016 is the hottest…

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