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https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2022/10/17/the_rebellious_life_of_mrs_rosa BYAmy Goodman, Democracy Now! The new documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks gives a comprehensive look at the legacy of the woman known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. Beyond helping to inspire the Montgomery bus boycott that ended Alabama’s bus segregation law, Parks was also a lifelong supporter of the Black Power movement and organized in campaigns to seek justice for wrongfully imprisoned Black people, political prisoners, and Black rape survivors like Recy Taylor, whose case Parks investigated for the NAACP in 1944. We speak to the film’s co-director, Yoruba Richen, who says Par...

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on October 11, 2022. BYAshley Smith, Truthout The Biden administration just released its new National Security Strategy. It is designed to restore and enforce Washington’s domination over global capitalism and the international state system against pretenders to its throne as the imperial hegemon. As the document puts it, the world order is at an “inflection point;” “the post-Cold War era is definitely over, and a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next.” This is a new predicament for the U.S. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Washington resembled a modern-day Rome with unrivaled geopolitical, economic, and military power to enforc...

BY DEAN BAKER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Not much can surprise me these days, but I admit to being somewhat surprised when the near universal reaction to the October jobs report was that the Fed will have to keep raising interest rates. The key issue of course is whether the labor market is so tight that it is creating inflationary pressures in the economy. The 261,000 job gain reported for the month can be seen as bad news in this respect. It is faster than we can sustain in an economy that is near full employment. But it is not that much faster, and other data indicated a strong, but more normal labor market, like we had in 2019. The share of unemployment due to voluntary quits fell sharply from the record high reported in September. The 14.6 percent share is lowe...