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“Illegal Immigration” Is a Policy Used to Exclude and Exploit
Aviva Chomsky explores how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor increasingly shaped US immigration policy in an excerpt from her book,
Losing Heads and Sending Arms
This was the ISIS in Iraq.
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Ferguson: Living Through the Replay
We seem repeatedly surprised by the anger generated by educational inequity, vanished jobs, income disparities, lost affordable housing, and racial and ethnic profiling.
From Freedom Summer to Black August
At the dawn of mass incarceration, the creators of Black August saw that racism itself was being reinvented or at least being updated through the criminal justice system.
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The Lash May Change, But the Pain Remains the Same: the Enduring Legacy of Slavery in Mississippi
I don't give a damn how much Southern pride people have; the only way anybody's going to find ambiguity in that chunk of history is if they manufacture it …
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No Rights That a White Man Is Bound to Respect: The Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing of Africa-America
The persistence of the Ferguson uprising has the signature of something larger and deeper.
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A USS Liberty’s Hero’s Passing
On June 8, 1967, the Israeli government learned that it could get away with murder, literally, and the crime would be covered up.
Ukraine: The Collapse of the Liberal “Left”
War - is peace! Freedom - is slavery! Democracy - is the limitation of all rights! Freedom of speech - is silence!
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Supremacy: A Social Order of Division, Control and Enslavement
I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.
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Riddles, Lies, and Lives – From Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali to Albert Einstein and Barbie
Eduardo Galeano's book, “Mirrors” is a history of humanity in 366 episodes, from our first myths to late last night.