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Greasing the Path to Military Intervention
As the Kurds have learned, oil can instantly heal longstanding rifts.
From Freedom Summer to Black August
At the dawn of mass incarceration, the creators of Black August saw that racism itself was being reinvented or at least being updated through the criminal justice system.
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Street Sweepers, Part I: The Battle for the Cecil
Downtown Los Angeles is home of two extreme phenomena: hypergentrification and a homeless population rising more rapidly than any other city in the nation.
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Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United …
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A Rising Tide Only Lifts All Boats When Everyone Has a Boat
A rising tide lifts only lifts all boats when everyone has a boat.
Climate Crisis Connects Us, Climate Justice Requires Unity
What do rigged corporate trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Treaty, an international climate agreement to be signed in 2015, have in common?
How Often Do Wrongful Convictions Involve Black Defendants?
How have wrongful convictions historically been broken down by race?
Hagel Ignores Leading NGOs’ Call for Release of Gitmo Force-Feeding Tapes
The methods being used to force-feed our desperately ill client are gratuitously brutal.
A Teacher in Kabul
Zekerullah yearns for knowledge as well as justice, and he's willing to sacrifice for both.
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The Lash May Change, But the Pain Remains the Same: the Enduring Legacy of Slavery in Mississippi
I don't give a damn how much Southern pride people have; the only way anybody's going to find ambiguity in that chunk of history is if they manufacture it …