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NLG Calls on President Obama to Withdraw Executive Order Declaring Venezuela National Security Threat
President Obama issued Executive Order 13692, which declared a national emergency, calling Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
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Officially Unofficial: The Evolution of Mexico’s Student Protests
The problem with the official stories of the student demonstrations however, is their lack of truth.
The Flute at the Checkpoint: The Everyday Politics of Confinement in Palestine
A checkpoint incident is only one of thousands of small daily indignities suffered by Palestinians.
Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life
To be Black in America is to be evidence of a theft.
Peasant Sovereignty?
The European invasion of the tropics in the fifteenth century, the industrialization of agriculture in the nineteenth century, and the triumph of communism in the twentieth century proved catastrophic …
The Rise of Privatized Policing: How Crisis Capitalism Created Crisis Cops
With more private security guards than public police officers, what are the consequences for accountability?
Four Activists Arrested at Salvadoran Embassy Protesting Imprisonment of 17 Salvadoran Women for Miscarriages
Four activists were arrested this morning at the Embassy of El Salvador where they staged a sit-in to call attention to 17 Salvadoran women currently serving extreme prison sentences …
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Dahr Jamail | Experts Warn of “Cataclysmic” Changes as Planetary Temperatures Rise
We are at the very beginning of a period of “abrupt” climate disruption.
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Dean Baker | The Battle Over the Trans-Pacific Partnership and “Fast Track” Gets Hot
The president will have to play fast and loose with the truth to get the TPP through Congress.
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To Defend the Environment, Support Social Movements Like Berta Caceres and COPINH
The 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to Berta Caceres.