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A Tale of Two Responses to LGBTI Violence
The US lambasts deteriorating conditions for LGBTI people in Russia but supports the Lobo regime in Honduras despite rampant human rights abuses there.
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Learning From World War I
The deadliness and unreliability of chemical weapons were not the only lessons of World War I. A far more important lesson is that a war can take on a …
From One Nobel Peace Laureate To Another: Open Letter to President Barack Obama
There is no doubt that the use of chemical arms is immoral and to be condemned, but your government has no moral authority whatsoever to justify an intervention.
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Supertankers to Ply the Great White Slushie: Global Warming’s Latest Feedback Loop
Less predictable are the insane human behavior feedback loops, where the warming climate triggers a self-destructive pathological greed within corporate culture.
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Resisting the Global State: A Perfectly Timed Perspective
An uncannily timely book that can well serve as manual for political education and guide to action.
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The “Systematic Murder” of Philadelphia Public Schools
Philadelphia schools have turned into skeletons of their former selves and are woefully unprepared for the start of classes this year.
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Overruling the Judicial Amendments – What Is to Be Done?
Right wing judicial lawlessness harms the National Labor Relations Act.
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Black America and A New Freedom Budget
The authors of a new book demonstrate how we need immediate, radical change as the lives of the majority of Americans become more insecure and less hopeful every day.
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The Prison System Welcomes My Newborn Niece to This World
During and after the birth of my niece, my sister was allowed no family or friends at her bedside. Following the birth, a guard shackled my sister's ankles …
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When the Police Become a Standing Army, Liberty is Sacrificed Without Security
A shift to militaristic and arguably unconstitutional policing would have shocked the conscience of America's founders, according to Radley Balko in his book