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Make New York City Ungovernable: Lessons From the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in the Age of Bill de Blasio
If there are any illusions, it's among the liberals who expect dramatic change from a de Blasio administration while they tell the left and workers to be quiet.
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Conscious Defiance: Catriona Rainsford’s “Urban Circus“
Author Catriona Rainsford ran away with the circus in Mexico, living and performing with an itinerant, fluid group of unicycle riding jugglers and fire
Duck Dynasty: A Final Word
Truthout readers have been provided a few comments on the suspension of the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch for extremely bigoted comments regarding gay and black people.
Syrian Refugee Crisis Results in UN’s Largest Emergency Appeal
According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees the number of Syrian refugees is now over 2.3 million.
2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt – the War Continues
2013 has been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed.
NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
For months, the “slam-dunk” evidence “proving” Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 Sarin attack near Damascus was a “vector analysis” pushed by the New York Times showing where …
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Chris Hedges | Overthrow the Speculators
Chris Hedges: Today's speculators have created grotesque financial mechanisms, from usurious interest rates on loans to legalized accounting fraud, to plunge the masses into crippling forms of debt peonage.
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Fifty Is the New 65: Older Americans Are Getting Booted From Their Jobs – and Denied New Opportunities
Age discrimination could be headed for you, sooner than you think.
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Drone Use Soars in Latin America, Remains Widely Unregulated
Human rights groups have been raising concerns over these fast-evolving technologies, citing the potential for abuse by various state agencies.
Malign Confusion About Growth, Economic Growth or “Degrowth”: Which Way Forward? – Parts Two and Three
climate scientists have suggested that intentional “de-growth” is the only hope to stop the rising emissions associated with economic development and growth.