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Letter to a Young Army Ranger: Why the War on Terror Shouldn’t Be Your Battle
“Don't waste it in Iraq or Afghanistan or Yemen or Somalia or anywhere else the Global War on Terror is likely to send you.”
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Policing Economic Jargon
Jargon has its own dangers, most notably the dangers that it will be used in aid of pomposity.
Do Prisons and Mass Incarceration Keep Us Safe? (Part Two)
Eddie Conway continues his discussion with Maya Schenwar, author of “Locked Down, Locked Out,” this time focusing on alternatives to mass incarceration.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Last Year Was the Hottest Year on Record, and More
In today's On the News segment: According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, 2014 was hotter than any other year in their 120 years of record keeping, and more.
High Technology, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Hazardous Communication Tools
Though the dangers of high technology are numerous, responses can be made to mitigate their impacts.
Voters Not Congress Should Decide TPP Trade Pact
Few Americans have a deep understanding of the TPP (Trans Pacific Pact) terms. This includes most members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate.
Reproductive Sovereignty or Bust!
Unless there are many wider and deeper changes in our society, peer women's health education would not be the choice of the majority.
51 Former State Attorneys General Push for Reasonable Prisoner Phone Rates in Letter to FCC
The petition and the letter submitted today by the bipartisan group of former attorneys general argue that high phone rates are passed on to the consumers who pay for …
Dude, Where’s My Peace Dividend?
The war hawks and politicians in Washington DC will tell you it is being reinvested to defeat terror and secure American interests abroad; that the elusive dividend payment is …
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On Racism and Selective Commemoration
If you average out the murder rate in Chicago last year, it breaks down to about one murder every nineteen hours. Seventeen of those people were killed by our …