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How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza

September 14, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

As the Gaza war enters its 12th month with no end in sight, the ongoing horrors continue to be normalized in U.S. media and politics.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: biden, book, food, History, Human Rights, Media, Middle East/Gaza, Middle East/Israel, Norman Solomon, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, United Nations

The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements

September 14, 2024 By Egberto Willies

The U.S. and many other societies are cycling into situations of toxic polarization today; discussion, let alone consensus, often appears impossible and the advantage goes to exclusionary social movements built on malignant rather than goodwill impulses.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia, Asia/China, Asia/India, Asia/Vietnam, Climate Change, economy, Europe/France, Europe/Germany, Europe/Greece, Europe/Hungary, Europe/Italy, Europe/Russia, Europe/United Kingdom, GOP/Right Wing, History, identity politics, immigration, Labor, Middle East, Middle East/Iraq, Middle East/Turkey, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, Trump, War, Women’s Rights

How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?

September 14, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

While attention has been brought to the privatization of warfare, the growing privatization of policing continues to progress globally.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: economy, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Time-Sensitive

Recycling the Discarded

September 14, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Climate Change, Community, Criminal Justice, environment, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Prison Reform, social justice

Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires if She Wants to Win

September 14, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Billionaires are busy pressuring political candidates to keep their taxes unjustly low. Their opinions shouldn’t—and don’t—matter.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: economy, Media, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections, Time-Sensitive

Why Children’s Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism

September 8, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Birth equity is essential for ecological security.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Climate Change, economy, environment, Human Rights, Middle East/Iran, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, United Nations

The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

September 8, 2024 By Richard Wolff

The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia/China, economy, Europe/United Kingdom, History, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Benefits, War

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth

September 4, 2024 By Richard Wolff

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia/China, book, economy, Europe/Russia, History, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, UBI, Universal Basic Income

Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S.

September 4, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing impact will affect policies beyond the conflict in the Middle East.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: AbandonBiden, biden, Democratic Party, economy, GOP/Right Wing, Middle East/Israel, Middle East/Palestine, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections, Trump, War

Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires

September 4, 2024 By Independent Media Institute

Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an unexpected historical pattern.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia, Asia/China, economy, europe, Europe/Italy, History, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics

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