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The ruins of Ludlow
Which Side Are You On?: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Struggle in 1914
The film Poster for Captain Phillips (2013)
Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama
Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, by Charles R. Geisst Philadelphia By Spencer Tyce Book Cover.
Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years
Euro coins.
European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.
Fifty Years and Counting
This Cold War-era poster carries the slogan 'Chairman Mao is the great savior of the revolutionary peoples of the world' and an illustration of African freedom fighters reading a copy of Mao's little book of quotations.
A New World Order? Africa and China
Communards with flags
The Socialist Legacy in France
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.
What to Do About the Money?
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.
Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson
Logo of General Motors.svg
The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors
The Great Dome at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Detail from the painting Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the French Revolution of 1830.
Socialism Takes Over France, Again?
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff Book Cover
Children at Play: An American History
Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.
Blood and Steel
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.
Between the East and the West
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand
The End of the World as We Know It?
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.
All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.
The Man Who Re-Invented China
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.
The Gifts That Keep On Giving
This detail from an illustration in a 1911 Industrial Workers of the World publication depicts a class of workers struggling to hold up finely dressed elites while they drink and dine.
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
Signal Soldiers train to protect against Nuclear Biological and Chemical threats.
The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry
In Senegal, a protester holds a sign rejecting "monarchy" in the form of proposed changes to the constitution which would extend the current president's term in office.
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

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