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“Final” TPP Round Not Final: Are Even More Secretive Talks Ahead?
Will TPP negotiations become even more secretive after imminent 19th round of TPP talks in Brunei, which is being called the last formal negotiating round?
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At AFL-CIO Convention, Leaders Ask: What Direction for Labor?
Without the commitment to build a social movement, all the innovative ideas coming out of the AFL-CIO convention may come to little, if anything.
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The Environmental Consequences of Privatizing Mexico’s Oil
Those Americans who have become so concerned about fracking or oil drilling or climate change need to lift their eyes beyond the confines of their own local and national …
The President’s Speech Reveals He Has Never Seen War
War is organized insanity. And, frankly, it's often not even that organized.
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How Verizon’s Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Rules Could Silence Minority Voices
Some believe big internet service providers are trying to diminish the black community's ability to be visible online.
LEAKED: The Internet Must Go
In 2012, I was dispatched to help the big ISPs to figure out how to sell their vision for a “faster,” "cleaner" internet. Six months later I produced this …
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Thanks, an Apology, and a Request: A Diplomat’s Farewell
I now ask the people of Japan for help. My country is no longer the country I once knew, a country moving at least in the direction of providing …
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Regarding Syria
While thinking about Syria it may be valuable to keep in mind something Chomsky regularly and wisely suggests: that the realization of a just and eventually peaceful world certainly …
Time to Reveal US Intel on Syria
The White House dispatched Chief of Staff Denis McDonough to the Sunday talk shows a choice that underscored the Obama administrationu2019s credibility problems and raised new doubts about the …
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Anticipating Apocalypse on the Road to Damascus: Dominionist US Military Superiors Find Common Ground With Islamic Extremists
The United States military is once again on the brink of bathing an already war-torn region in the baptismal waters of u201cregime change,u201d writes Weinstein.