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The West Marches East: The US-NATO Strategy to Isolate Russia
For the past quarter-century, Russia has stood and watched as the United States, NATO, and the European Union have advanced their borders and sphere of influence eastwards to Russia's …
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Scathing Report Finds Rocketship, School Privatization Hurt Poor Kids
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, documents the effects of both for-profit and non-profit charter schools that are taking over struggling public schools in Milwaukee.
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Giving Up Essential Liberty to Purchase a Little Temporary Safety
Like everyone on a no-fly list, Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim had no idea she was on it until her life was turned upside down.
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What’s Really Driving Inequality?
The World Bank is driving the inequality that is a defining problem of our times through its “Doing Business” rankings and criteria.
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William Rivers Pitt | Weaponized Cops and the Future of Freedom
It is hard to avoid the feeling that the tremendous arming of the police is inspired by the fear of unrest looming over the horizon, of rising seas, rising …
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A Fish Swims Like a Fish
The loss of sincerity, of humility as a product of deep practice is anethema to the corporate culture industry. Sincerity is vulnerability, it is the deep strength of a …
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Thirty-Five Years of a Not-Boring Labor Movement
Editor Jane Slaughter speaks at the 2014 Labor Notes Conference.
Fighting for Coveted Combat Badges and Patches
The problem with a professional military that is self-defined as “warriors.” is its members desire war: a chance, so they think, to test themselves in the crucible of combat.
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Looking Back on Easter 2014 – And Forward to Easter Next
The vast majority of our leaders and lawmakers do not yet seem to understand that national interest can no longer be at cross-purposes with planetary interest.
Forest Defense Sing Along With the Humboldt Board of Supervisors
Redwood Forest Defense, a grassroots non-violent direct action group committed to protecting the forest, came to the Humboldt Board of Supervisors meeting in mass to demand that the Humboldt …