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      The Man Who Saw Trump Coming A Century Ago

      The Man Who Saw Trump Coming A Century Ago

      A reader’s guide for the distraught

      Ann Jones
      Apr 11, 2019

      Distracted daily by the bloviating POTUS? Here, then, is a small suggestion. Focus your mind for a moment on one simple (yet deeply complex) truth: we are living in a Veblen Moment.

      That's Thorstein Veblen, the greatest American thinker you probably never heard of (or forgot). His working life -- from 1890 to 1923 -- coincided with America's first Gilded Age, so named by Mark Twain, whose novel of that title lampooned the greedy corruption of the country's most illustrious gentlemen. Veblen had a similarly dark, sardonic sense of humor.

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      Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them

      Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them

      The fight for public education reminds us that working-class struggles around the world are linked—and that international solidarity is the key to victory

      Michael Galant
      Christian Addai-Poku
      Apr 07, 2019

      In February 2018, West Virginia teachers launched a strike that reawakened a movement. Tens of thousands of teachers from around the country have taken part in what is now the largest strike wave in decades, demanding better public education in the face of years of austerity.

      The fight for public education reminds us that working-class struggles around the world are linked--and that international solidarity is the key to victory.

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      What I Won't Miss as I Leave the US Army

      What I Won't Miss as I Leave the US Army

      The forever wars go on without me

      Danny Sjursen
      Apr 01, 2019

      "Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners." -- Robert Graves, Goodbye To All That (1929).

      I'm one of the lucky ones. Leaving the madness of Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape. Both the Army and I knew it was time for me to go. I'd tired of carrying water for empire and they'd grown weary of dealing with my dissenting articles and footing the bill for my seemingly never-ending PTSD treatments. Now, I'm society's problem, unleashed into a civilian world I've never gazed upon with adult eyes.

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