Michael T. Klare
Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular, is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of The Race for What’s Left. A documentary movie version of his book Blood and Oil is available from the Media Education Foundation. Follow him on Twitter at @mklare1.
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Tread carefully, think big: Impressions on AOC and the Green New Deal
It will be up to the activist communities she came from to defend the Green New Deal and push for it to become a reality in 2020 and beyond.
Why Bernie Sanders’ plan to recruit 1 million volunteers is a winning movement strategy
What’s more, the presence of volunteers draws more people to support the campaign and demonstrates that there is a place for them to fully engage.
Howard’s end
Now, it seems, all you need to get the media to anoint you is the money to buy an infinite amount of media. For Schultz, like Trump, it’s all about money and media.
Lots of presidential candidates talk a good talk. Look at their records instead.
Voters need to demand candidates whose life trajectories and past actions make it clear that they have more to offer than politically convenient sound bites.
Ending the punishment of poverty: Supreme Court rules against high fines & civil asset...
On Wednesday, the court ruled the Eighth Amendment protects people from state and local authorities imposing onerous fines, fees and forfeitures to generate money.
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