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Columbia University President's husband is a former Director of Communications for then-U.S. VP Joe Biden, a longtime friend of former Sec. of State Blinken and in recent years, an Airbnb executive....

Anti-homeless landscape designs for the public spaces adjacent to the entrance of Ocean Street were unanimously approved by the Santa Cruz City Council at their October 28 meeting. Renderings show a variety of hardscaping options that are intended to keep homeless people out of the areas to be redeveloped, and off the traffic medians, where individuals frequently panhandle. Modifications could include the addition of boulders, stones, and or concrete to form an "uneven grade" in order to make...

In the modern world, people talk as though the market is a deity. The market is a tool. It is a means to social outcome and satisfaction that can be positive, but it’s not a deity. You don’t turn society inside out to serve the market. The market is there to serve the people and their social goals. (Rob Johnson)...

Corner of Haste Ave and TELEGRAPH AVE, Berkeley...

The EU and the BRICS countries should make it clear to the US that the future world order is based not on hegemony but on the rule of law within the framework of the UN Charter. Only in this way can Europe and the world be truly secure. Dependence on the US and NATO is a cruel illusion, especially given the instability of the US itself....

Trump's tariff war on South Africa has escalated the economic crisis and pauperization of the South Africa people. General Industrial Workers Union Of South Africa president Mametlwe Sebei talk about Trump's war on South Africa and the condtitions of the working class....

A dual block-and-build approach means both exposing the hypocrisy and violence of the current regime and showing real ways in which people can find themselves in our politics and help shape something new. There must be room for both practical approaches and far-reaching visions....

Since the early 1990s, right-wing militias had been increasingly visible in public, especially after the 1995 right-wing terrorist attack in Oklahoma City. The Republican stablishment saw the radical right as a tool it believed it could control while opening the doors to power. As it turned out, the monster they had created soon turned against them....

The TINA principle (“There is no alternative”) is linked to a way of thinking that sees politics as determined by unavoidable constraints and can only conceive of maxims for action within a given framework of capitalist order. The power of the powerful does not last forever; it will have to bow to the power of the one who saves and liberates the oppressed....

At its wealthier end, skilled professionals continue to jump ship for more lucrative posts in direct service to capital: Scientists give up their research to become ​“quants” on Wall Street; physicians can double their incomes by finding work as investment analysts for the finance industry or by setting up ​“concierge” practices serving the wealthy....