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Tagged with: Capitalism

Assassination of Philippine leader 35 years ago holds lessons for today

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Filipinos remember a disaster that hit their country 35 years ago. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Philippine leader...

Chairman John Bolton takes over North Korea

PYONGYANG --North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced today that he was resigning and appointing John Bolton as the country's new supreme leader. Kim, apparently acting...

Brown, Bloomberg (and their agenda) face protests at Climate Action Summit

As Governor Jerry Brown and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened the Global Climate Action Summit Thursday, they were greeted by hundreds...

The Climate Change Agenda for the week

More than 30,000 people marched for climate justice in San Francisco Saturday – and that was just the start of a series of events...

Why Trump will lose the trade war with China

When I first reported from China in 1980, bicycles outnumbered cars on Beijing's major streets, and the tallest building in town was a 25-story...

OPINION: US policy forced people to leave their homes and immigrate here

We've heard the living experiences of people who have had no alternative to leaving home to escape violence, war and poverty, who now find...

Inside the Yimby conference

Last weekend about 120 attendees from 17 cities gathered in downtown Oakland for the Yimbytown 2017 conference. Organized by East Bay Forward, the event...

Should Uber be shut down?

Everyone’s talking about Uber’s latest problems with management style, sexual harassment, company culture … and CEO Travis Kalanick, who embodied all of that, has...

Party Radar: Capitalize this

PARTY RADAR We're getting a Museum of Capitalism! And it's having a grand opening party! (Sat/17, 6-9pm, free. 55 Harrison, Oakland, in Jack London Square.)...

A gentrified language

Out of the fog comes a little white bus It ferries us south to the technical mouth of the bay. This is biopharma. Double...