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Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal“
Policy must assure the security of state authority and concentrations of domestic power, defending them from a frightening enemy: the domestic population, which can become a great danger if …
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We All Must Become Zapatistas
The transformation by the EZLN is one that is crucial to remember as we search for mechanisms to sever ourselves from the corporate state and build self-governing communities.
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
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Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack and Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill for Walmart
Is this a nasty bug in the Obama presidency, or a corrupt core feature?
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Landscape of Paranoia
The architecture of city today reflects the emphasis on exclusionary privatized space and the limiting of any genuine commons. It is a landscape of paranoia.
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Covert US Military Training Goes to Africa
We have a poor record of even knowing who the people we train are.
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Police Target Black Children
All across the country black children as young as kindergarteners have been hand cuffed and arrested as if they are adults.
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Shots Fired. Madness in Progress.
The NRA and its gun lobby pals keep the market jumping.
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Henry Giroux and Brad Evans | Disposable Futures
As more and more individuals and groups are now considered excess, consigned to zones of abandonment, surveillance and incarceration, dystopian politics has become mainstream politics and the practice of …
Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam
How to monetize and what will the market bear are the guiding ethics of disaster capitalism, which exists seamlessly within the larger ethic of the US, capitalism.