• Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV)
    Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV)

    An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.

    New Deal for Higher Ed w/ Jennifer Mittelstadt
    New Deal for Higher Ed w/ Jennifer Mittelstadt

    We’re joined by Jennifer Mittelstadt (@MittelstadtJen), professor of history at Rutgers University, to discuss her involvement with Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education. We speak with Mittelstadt about how Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education is organizing to address the most pressing threats to US public higher education today, as well as about how her own scholarship on publicly-provisioned welfare systems in the United States shapes her political organizing and advocacy.

    Agroecology for Life: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part III)
    Agroecology for Life: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part III)

    A grassroots organization is building a new model for the production and distribution of food based on mutuality.

    How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup
    How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup

    Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that lasted from April through July, 2018. In the second of four articles, we look at how initial support for the coup relied on widespread use of social media.

    “Peak China” – a new low in Western attempts to persuade China to commit suicide
    “Peak China” – a new low in Western attempts to persuade China to commit suicide

    One of the latest covers of the magazine The Economist carries a headline “Peak China”. This, as its name suggests, is a claim that while during the last seven decades China’s has enjoyed a peaceful “rise”, specifically in relation to the U.S., this has now ended. It was the latest of decades long wildly inaccurate predictions regarding China.

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