By Harry Targ Saturday, December 19, 2015

But the story of 21st century resistance is not just about countries, alliances, new economic institutions that mimic the old. Grassroots social movements have been spreading like wild fire all across the face of the globe. The story can begin in many places and at various times: the new social movements of the 1980s; the Zapatistas of the 1990s; the anti-globalization/anti-IMF campaigns going back to the 1960s and continuing off and on until the new century; or repeated mass mobilizations against a Free Trade Agreement for the Americas. (Harry Targ, “The Empire in Disarray: Global Challenges to the International Order,” The Rag Blog, April 10, 2013).

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By Loren Adams – 01.10.2016

In response to Donald Trump’s trending tirades, I offer this thesis: “If there was no Obama, there wouldn’t be a Trump.”

That statement will ruffle a few feathers, I’m sure, even among our most ardent activists in progressive circles – “blasphemous”, some may argue.

Let’s continue the irreverence just for the sake of provoking thought.

President Barack Obama’s soft-spokenness (“No Drama Obama”) is the core cause in this observation – the catalyst that creates the impending “effect”: the soon-triumphant tyrant.

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WHAT HAPPENS NOW TO THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE BETWEEN THE GLOBAL NORTH AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH?

One Thing Leads to Another