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Lucas Ropek
Lucas Ropek is a journalist based in Massachusetts. He worked for the Working Families Party in NYC on issues of income inequality and worker rights. His interests include U.S. foreign policy, pop-culture, and freedom fries.

Accusations of 9/11 government cover-up trouble U.S.-Saudi relations

The two parties don’t often agree, but they agree that 9/11 victims’ families shouldn’t be able to sue the Saudis.

4/25/16 10:13am by Lucas Ropek 5

Hillary Clinton has foreign policy experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s good

Hillary Clinton has tons of foreign policy experience, but that experience was largely disastrous.

4/4/16 1:26pm by Lucas Ropek 51

Nestlé’s plan to bottle water in Oregon just hit a major snag

Native American tribes and other local residents are doing what they can to block Nestlé’s plan.

11/9/15 9:42am by Lucas Ropek 7

Who is responsible for the collapse of the two-state solution?

One would think that peace would be possible, if only a few dishonest brokers weren’t standing in the way.

11/3/15 10:27am by Lucas Ropek 11

The thing you should be most afraid of this Halloween is Paul Ryan’s new job

There are few things you could go as for Halloween that are scarier than Paul Ryan’s agenda.

10/31/15 4:42pm by Lucas Ropek 14

Israel’s strategy for de-escalating violence isn’t working

Amid another round of violence in Israel, the question of who started it is less important than how it will end.

10/23/15 11:15am by Lucas Ropek 10

California activists are suing the Forest Service for letting Nestle illegally extract water

Nestle’s permit to extract water in California expired in 1988.

10/20/15 8:35am by Lucas Ropek 13

As America’s infrastructure crumbles, water privatization becomes more likely

Why manage our own natural resources when corporations are willing to do it for us (for insane profits)?

9/30/15 1:59pm by Lucas Ropek 18

Barack Obama is the new Ronald Reagan

Uncomfortable parallels between Obama and the Gipper.

7/6/15 12:00pm by Lucas Ropek 75

National Intelligence Council: Water wars are coming

Wars are fought over resources, and the world is running low on its most basic one.

7/2/15 2:00pm by Lucas Ropek 22

When corporations co-opt social justice, who pays?

Whatever values are assigned to corporate behavior, the motive is always profit.

6/3/15 12:00pm by Lucas Ropek 13

Mad Max’s reboot: Feminism and environmentalism as told through explosions

The dystopian action franchise rights the wrongs of its previous films.

5/19/15 12:00pm by Lucas Ropek 19

Nestle is closing in on privatized water in Oregon

The company will make over 99% profit on the water it extracts from one rural community.

5/13/15 1:30pm by Lucas Ropek 32

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Accusations of 9/11 government cover-up trouble U.S.-Saudi relations

Hillary Clinton has foreign policy experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s good

Nestlé’s plan to bottle water in Oregon just hit a major snag

Who is responsible for the collapse of the two-state solution?

The thing you should be most afraid of this Halloween is Paul Ryan’s new job

Israel’s strategy for de-escalating violence isn’t working

California activists are suing the Forest Service for letting Nestle illegally extract water

As America’s infrastructure crumbles, water privatization becomes more likely

Barack Obama is the new Ronald Reagan

National Intelligence Council: Water wars are coming

When corporations co-opt social justice, who pays?

Mad Max’s reboot: Feminism and environmentalism as told through explosions

Nestle is closing in on privatized water in Oregon

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