In the Philippines, a Youth Movement Stands Between Duterte and Dictatorship
Duterte will take control of Congress, but his quest for more power must be stopped.
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Where does your plastic go? Global investigation reveals America’s dirty secret
Source: The Guardian
A Guardian report from 11 countries tracks how US waste makes its way across the world – and overwhelms the poorest nations
What happens to your plastic after you drop it in a recycling bin?
According to promotional materials from America’s plastics industry, it is whisked off to a factory where it is seamlessly transformed into something new.
This is not the experience of Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thắm, a 60-year-old Vietnamese mother of seven, living amid piles of grimy American plastic on the outskirts of Hanoi. Outside her home, the sun beats down on a Cheetos bag; aisle markers from a Walmart store; and a plastic bag from ShopRite, a chain of supermarkets in New Jersey, bearing a message urging people to recycle it.
It Will Take Organizing To Expand Our Political Imagination
Source: In These Times
To overcome the insistent messaging of the corporate media and Democratic establishment, we need grassroots people power.
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign with impossible promises, from erecting a massive, Mexican-funded border wall to revitalizing dying industries. Instead of being dismissed as a huckster, he raised Republican voters’ expectations of the possible and normalized the party’s shift to its extreme. Trump’s victory seemed to turn on its head the conventional wisdom that only centrists win general elections.
Yanis Varoufakis: “We Have Nothing to Lose but Our Debts”
Four years after he became a slavish enforcer of EU dogmas, Greek leader Alexis Tsipras is finally set to lose office. But for former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, next month’s snap elections are a chance to take the fight against austerity back into parliament.
Vijay Prashad: To Be Effective, Socialism Must Adapt to 21st Century Needs
Is socialism making a comeback? If so, what exactly is socialism, why did it lose steam toward the latter part of the 20th century, and how do we distinguish democratic socialism, currently in an upward trend in the U.S., from social democracy, which has all but collapsed? Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and a leading scholar in socialist studies and the politics of the global South, offers answers to these questions.
The GOP’s White Supremacy Now Has a Smoking Gun
The racism of the citizenship question should at least be apparent to the American public—if only mainstream media outlets covered the story with the gravity it deserves.