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Dahr Jamail | A Nation on the Brink: How US Policies Sealed Iraq’s Fate
In a searing analysis covering the ongoing disaster in Iraq, Dahr Jamail provides this current perspective on how the legacy of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq continues …
Water Wars and Creeping Privatization
The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act holds promise for life in a world shaped by climate change. However, privatization proponents are working hard to privatize ownership and control …
Right-Wingers Advised to Invest in Water as Fracking in Drought Areas Prompts Activism
Some see this crisis in one of the essential needs for human life as an opportunity for profit.
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Which Is Worse – Government or Corporate Bureaucracy?
Getting rid of government would let corporations step in to fill the gap. And corporate bureaucracy is just as bad, or even worse, than any government bureaucracy.
What I Don’t Like About Life in the American Police State
To quote Number Six, the character in the British television series The Prisoner: I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my …
In Palestine the Time Is Now
The Palestinian struggle as our own.
Washington’s Support of Israel Should Be Conditional on Them Using US-Supplied Armaments Ethically
In a week of fighting, Israel has carried out more than 1200 air-strikes.
The US’s “Rutterless” Immigration and Border Policies
In order to forge a more accurate rutter for immigration and border policies, political and military leaders, news pundits, talk-show hosts, even US citizens, will themselves have to travel …
The Party’s Over: A Critic’s Take on Brazil’s Dismal World Cup Legacy
If a favela can be displaced, they are going to try to displace it, and if they can use the World Cup and the Olympics as a pretext to …
Time to Speak Up: Women’s Prison Resistance in Alabama
While abuses inside an Alabama women's prison have made headlines, less attention has been paid to the activism and organizing by women inside.