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    Remembering The Black Roots of Memorial Day

    Different stories told differently matter. Consider Memorial Day and the holiday that could have been if white media hadn't erased Black history.   In April 1865, a week before President Abraham Lincoln declared the end of...
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    Work and Anti-Work From Karl Marx to Reddit

    In 1853 Karl Marx took issue with the British "Economist" magazine over its reporting on workers and wages. A decrease in population had led to a slight increase in pay which afforded workers a golden opportunity...
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    A Para/Military Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans’ Backyards

    Hoffman, North Carolina, population 588, is a majority Black town in a majority-white county, next to which, not long ago, Oak Grove Technologies moved in. Oak Grove is a self described Tactical and Cultural...
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    Win the War. Invest in Peace. The Conversation We Need to Be Having Now

    In the middle of a brutal assault, it's difficult to talk about demilitarization. And so, it was with trepidation that I recently convened a conversation about exactly that.  One of my guests, Anastasiya Leukhina, a...
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    A Fascist World is Breathing

    Have you checked your American exceptionalism lately? I mean it. Have you checked where you stand on the idea that the United States is inherently different from other nations, and that the ghastly things that...
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    Democracy is Under Siege in Small Town USA

    Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Can a racist coup happen in America? I was in Wilmington, North Carolina on the day the congressional hearings into the events of January...
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    Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?

    Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Twenty-three minutes. That’s how long it takes for your brain to refocus after shifting from one task to the next. Check your email, glance...
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    F-Word: From SCOTUS to Shireen: Linda Sarsour: Same Extremism. Same Threat.

    From SCOTUS to Shireen: Linda Sarsour: Same Extremism. Same Threat.

    Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. I don't know about you but so many things seem to be happening all at once in our world right now that it feels...
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    Prices Spiking, Options Shrinking. We’re at a Tipping Point for Oil & Gas

    Gas prices are rising and the options for policy makers are few and getting fewer, but there are some good ones.  Let’s be clear. The US barely uses Russian oil (most of which goes to...
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    Bob Dylan: The Times They Ain’t a Changing

    Bob Dylan: The Times They Ain’t a-Changing  I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan, and the Nobel Prize winner’s sale of his archive to Universal Music changed nothing about that. In fact, sing as he...
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