What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I’ve tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this … The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War was WonRead more
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Getting arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters have
A few hours after this column is published, I hope to be in a police cell. I don’t yet know what the charge will be, … Getting arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters haveRead more
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Ukrainian Fascists Trained US White Supremacists
While the Trump administration has fought to keep nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen from traveling to the United States for fear that … Ukrainian Fascists Trained US White SupremacistsRead more
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Flawed Investigations of Sexual Assaults in Children’s Immigrant Shelters
Hundreds of police reports document allegations of sexual assaults in immigrant children’s shelters since the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America began in 2014, … Flawed Investigations of Sexual Assaults in Children’s Immigrant SheltersRead more
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Pentagon Aims to Surveil Social Media to Predict Domestic Protests
The Pentagon aims to use social media surveillance “to preempt major anti-government protests in the US,” Nafeez Ahmed reported for Motherboard in October 2018. While … Pentagon Aims to Surveil Social Media to Predict Domestic ProtestsRead more
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Still Manufacturing Consent
Alan MacLeod interviewed Noam Chomsky via Skype on March 13, 2018, for MacLeod’s new book Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. They discussed … Still Manufacturing ConsentRead more
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How Wall Street, Banks Used the 2008 Housing Crash to Get Rich
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, 12 Democratic presidential hopefuls will spar this evening at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, during the fourth official Democratic primary debate. As … How Wall Street, Banks Used the 2008 Housing Crash to Get RichRead more
Posted inEconomics / Medicine / ToMl / USA Empire
Opioid Crisis Cost $631 Billion to U.S. Economy Over 4 Years
The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year — and it may keep getting more expensive, according to a … Opioid Crisis Cost $631 Billion to U.S. Economy Over 4 YearsRead more
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Would Brett Kavanaugh Be on the Supreme Court If the FBI Had Fully Probed Sexual Misconduct Claims?
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is in the spotlight again … Would Brett Kavanaugh Be on the Supreme Court If the FBI Had Fully Probed Sexual Misconduct Claims?Read more
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Concerned about poor people. But not their background
David Ruccio This week, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three economists doing research on the issue of poverty; Abhijit Banerjee … Concerned about poor people. But not their backgroundRead more