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Rio State of Mind: Favela Pacification and the 2014 World Cup
Under the pretext of ensuring order and security for the 2014 World Cup, favela “pacification” is the latest of Brazilian authorities' policies to exert control over the slums of …
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Viacrucis: Migrants Step Out of Shadows Into the Streets
US immigration policy, as well as its foreign policy and economic system, has moved much of Central America toward greater violence, poverty and instability.
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Don’t Walk Away From War: It’s Not the American Way
Here are five straightforward lessons that could be drawn from that last half century of every kind of American warfare.
Scapegoating Another American Veteran
The scapegoating of Bowe Bergdahl is a political diversion away from the illegal and failed policies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dark Money, Dirty War: The Corporate Crusade Against Low-Wage Workers
Attacks on worker organizing are taking place against a backdrop of an economy in crisis.
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“The World Turns Around a Spinning Ball”: Choreographed War and Other Aspects of the World’s Greatest Game
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
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What We Owe Nigeria’s Kidnapped Schoolgirls
Rather than issuing a blank check for military intervention, we need to stay focused on the girls and their well-being, now and into the future.
Econocide Over-the-Rhine
When disposing of the urban poor form the objective of overall urban policy, econocide is not some unfortunate byproduct of gentrification, but the game plan. Gentrification is really institutionalized …
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Lawmakers Push Back Against Administration’s Failed Latin America Policy
In a remarkable eruption of sanity in Washington, there is finally some pushback from Congress against the far-right and “center” on US policy toward Venezuela and Latin America — …
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Official Secrets: Absolute Control
Control of information by the government-corporate complex is expanding.