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Except for military spending, that question is always asked. Health care.... where will we get the money? Education....how will we pay for i...

Insightful essay at dissidentvoice on why the US system of governance makes single-payer health care well-nigh impossible. I thank my lucky...

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“Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers,” Essays by Arundhati Roy, 2009 India is a caldron of ethnic, religious and class hatre...

The arguments of Dennis Kucinich against the healthcare reform bill can be found here . I don't see in what manner the bill improves mat...

Melt-down of the Minnesota Green Party? Curiouser and curiouser. Two months or so ago, Cam Gordon, a Green, received the endorsement of the ...

Petition to Harry Reid: When you read this I may be dead if I am one of the 93,000 who die each year from hospital infections or one of the ...

“Facing Reality – The New Society: How to look for it and how to bring it closer.” – CLR James & Grace Lee, with C Castoriadis, Intro...

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THE ECONOMIST MAY 6, 2001 US Imperialism The American flag is habitually burnt publically around the world by anti-imperialists while the Un...

“The Grass – A Young Man’s Journey to the Korean War” – Paul Zerby, 2009 Minneapolis’ own Paul Zerby has written a fictional account of a f...

As I've been arguing for quite some time, the problem in the USA is not the right; it's the left. More specifically, what masquerade...

“The Coming Insurrection” by the Invisible Committee, 2007 French edition, 2009 English Ed. This slim philosophical book was written by fr...

The following is a lucidly written essay by Nitzan and Bichler on the evolution of the terms "imperialism" and "financialism...

“The Great Crash, 1929,” by John Kenneth Galbraith, with 1988 forward, 1954 – 1988 This classic, recently cited by Rolling Stone’s Matt Tia...

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Stacked Chairs Making sure Mayday's chairs are stored correctly is an important task in book store management. Here, for the record, are...

Dahr Jamail Great book. Great author. Come to our next event: Dahr Jamail in Minneapolis

“Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary” – by Nelson Peery, 2007 Minnesota’s own Nelson Peery tells his story of his rev...

BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD. The U.S. health care is very good for many people including me---but it is not very good for the 40 million p...

“American Assassination – The Strange Death of Paul Wellstone” – by Four Arrows and Jim Fetzer, 2004 Are you a ‘conspiracy nut?’ This is the...