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Budget, Economy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Right Wing
Finding Security by Helping the ‘South’
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Official Washington’s new group think is that more money must be poured into the Military-Industrial Complex to continue wars in the Middle East and hem in Russia and China on their borders. But the real security threats come from mass…
Budget, Campaign 2016, Constitution, Economy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration
Meaning Behind the Republican Bile
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There has been little inspirational about the U.S. presidential race, especially on the Republican side where insults have replaced argument and bigotry has become a cheap currency for winning over voters, but there are also significant lessons in this debased…
Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Politics
Faulting Sanders for Lacking Experts
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Frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who has the backing of nearly the entire Democratic foreign policy establishment, taunts Bernie Sanders about his lack of a similar roster, but ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar says what’s more important is the judgment of the…
Human Rights, Lost History, Right Wing, Secrecy
Mystery of the Civil War’s Camp Casey
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From the Archive: U.S. history is distorted by the prism of race, even the Civil War, which was fought over slavery but then enshrined white heroes when Jim Crow racism quickly asserted itself, a reality relevant to Black History Month and to Chelsea Gilmour’s investigation into the…
Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Religion, Right Wing
Testing Out Repression in Israel
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Jeff Halper, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sees the brutal practice of destroying Palestinian homes and similar tactics as part of an experiment in social repression that can have broader implications as income inequality spreads across the globe,…