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Paul Krugman | What Does the US Gain From the Dollar’s Special Role?
What are the advantages of owning a reserve currency?
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US Bows Out After Plowshares Conviction Is Vacated
The 2012 Transform Now Plowshares anti nuclear action made the “Fort Knox” of weapons grade uranium look like “F Troop.”
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Warning: Industry Spin Likely Bad for Your Health and the Environment
Big food and agriculture companies are spending hundreds of millions to manipulate the public conversation about food.
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Consorting With the Devil: Professionals Selling Out for Blood Money
Scholars have received CIA and DoD funding for publications, collecting intelligence and even for spying.
The Colonial Origins of Conservation: The Disturbing History Behind US National Parks
We love our national parks, but it's time to recognize that conservation dogmas were originally rooted in colonial conquest and genocide.
Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation
Ejeris Dixon speaks to the need to address violence without relying on the criminal legal system.
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Surviving Violence Is Not a Crime: Justice for Cierra Finkley
Cierra Finkley, 24, fatally stabbed her ex-boyfriend when he tried to kill her and her 5-year-old daughter and was immediately labeled a criminal.
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Activists Work to Stop Building of New Prison in Appalachia
Feds want to build a maximum security prison on top of a former mountaintop removal mining site in eastern Kentucky.
Black Prisoners’ Lives Matter: The Dallas 6 Blow the Whistle on the Inside
The Dallas 6 is a group of jailhouse lawyers, beaten and charged with rioting after exposing brutality inside their prison. Three of the Dallas 6 stand trial Monday.
Neoconservatives Play the Long Game in Iran
David Bromwich examines the imperialist idealism that is the driving force behind the neoconservative version of reality.