Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy

Why does any legislator believe railroad workers should be forced to use what few vacation days they may have if they fall sick and request permission to be absent days in advance, as if illnesses are scheduled events? Congress members and their staff do not work under these conditions.

Henry Giroux: The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism

"Neoliberal capitalism is the underlying pandemic feeding the current global shortage of hospitals, medical supplies, beds and robust social welfare provisions, and increasingly an indifference to human life. The social contract has been all but eliminated while notions of the public good, social obligations and democratic forms of solidarity are under attack."

Naomi Wolf> The streets of 2012

The streets of 2012 By Naomi Wolf (about the author)    January 3, 2012  opednews.com What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in lower Manhattan, or is 2012 likely to see an escalation of the politics of dissent? The More

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