U.S. Blocks European Tax Crackdown On Google and Amazon

Washington snubbed OECD plans to overhaul international tax rules and close loopholes exploited by multinational corporations, a subject of debate at this week's G20 summit.

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Brazil's "Other" Protesters Step In: Unions and Organized Labor

The young people protesting in Brazil over the last few weeks were not entirely pleased with Thursday’s demonstrations by the country’s trade unions, among others.

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Zimmerman's Acquittal and the Call for a New Civil Rights Movement

We must mobilize and organize to assert popular power independent of the courts and corporate political parties if we are to create a world where Trayvon, and the millions he has come to represent, can thrive without fear.

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What Edward Snowden Taught Us About American Freedom

Americans fully recognize the threat the U.S. security state poses to American liberty, with a poll last week showing 55% consider Edward Snowden a whistleblower, not a traitor. But who, now, will protect this hero?

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Occupy Museums Calls on Deans Nationwide to Support DebtFair For Students

Message to art school deans: "Begin a process of transparency: educate your students about the realities of debt, and disclose the relationships between your board members and predatory lenders."

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In Brazil Protests, People Triumphed In the Streets But New Uncertainties Emerged

In response to the abusive fare increases, the recent protests in Brazil make way, once again, for direct action tactics: taking the struggle out into the streets to effectively confront private interests and recent state politics.

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Doubling Student Interest Rates Will Turn A Generation Against Congress

The real story is about the slow dismantling of affordable education — one of the last means of upward mobility in America — and the exclusion of a generation from the "American Dream."

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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It

At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

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Boycott! A Call to Renew the Resistance that Works

Where are the momentous, consciousness-raising boycotts of yesteryear that rose up against injustice, bigotry, or plain stupidity, to advance legal, civil and workers’ rights?

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The End of the End of History – And Why the Era of Revolutions Is Upon Us

The ambiguity of the current revolutions is neither a postmodern novelty nor something that we should too hastily wish to disappear.

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