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Novelist Uses Fiction to Depict War’s True Aftermath
Kristen Hannah's twentieth book, the novel
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Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: A Review
At its heart, Twilight of the Elites is an indictment of the meritocracyu2014or what passes for it.
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The Coming Mega-Drought: Tightening the Screws of Want and Thirst in the American Southwest
The Southwest is a beautiful country of blue skies, little water and plenty of land, most of which is semi-arid, arid or desert. Deserts are by definition inhospitable to …
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Can an Unequal Economy Self-Correct?
Lars Osberg, Instability Implications of Increasing Inequality: What can be learned from North America? Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. May 2012. Economist Lars Osberg has been writing about income distribution since …
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Living for the City: David Harvey’s “Rebel Cities“
A public street that has been semi-privatized, the street is often the center of a struggle between citizens and private interests over the nature of the public square. Battles …
The Trojan Women Still Weep as Wars Rage
Click here to support news free of corporate influence by donating to Truthout. An engraving of the death of Astyanax. (Image: Wikipedia) Aristoteles gives credit to Euripides for being …
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One Sees a Tree, the Other, a Canoe: The Humor and Struggle of International Solidarity
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity Ramor RyanAK PressOakland, 2011 The Zapatistas have lingered in the imaginations of progressives and radicals …
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How Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Remains in “Command” and Continues to “Strike Fear“
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sat stone silent inside the courtroom at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, refusing to answer routine questions from the judge presiding over his arraignment …
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More Personal Than Political, “London River” Explores Terrorism’s Aftermath
“London River,” directed by Rachid Bouchareb, starring Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate.In English and French with English subtitles, 90 minutes.US release December 2011. Premiered at the Berlin International Film …
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The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time
This book wasn’t yet published when the Occupy Wall Street protests got under way, but The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time provides a solid foundation for that movement’s critique of …