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The Clean Power Checkerboard

Originally published on TruthOut on September 10, 2015. With President Obama’s announcement of the Clean Power Plan, almost 50 new fronts are going to open up in the battle for energy democracy. It’s time for an all-out mobilization with potentially far-reaching consequences. Following the landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2014 affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s right […]

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The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It

Originally published in The Nation on August 6, 2015. Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum—America’s shrine to the technological leading edge of the military industrial complex—hear a familiar narrative from the tour guides in front of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic weapon on the civilians of Hiroshima 70 years […]

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The Next System Project at Left Forum 2015

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Socialism, American-Style

Originally published in the New York Times on July 23, 2015. THE great 20th-century conservative economist Joseph Schumpeter thought the left had overlooked a major selling point in pressing the case for public — i.e., government — control over productive capital. “One of the most significant titles to superiority,” he suggested, was that public ownership […]

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Building Bridges: The Next Economic System with Gar Alperovitz and Ed Whitfield

Originally posted in Internet Archive on June 13, 2015. Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Getting Serious About the Next Economic System With Gar Alperovitz, author, What Then Must We Do? and The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism and State Socialism

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