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An ex-CIA agent looks back at 22 years of torture at Guantánamo Bay
“Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights, civil liberties, and civil rights group in the world that has expressed an opinion, as well as by the United Nations, and most countries in the world,” writes John Kiriakou.
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Charter schools will desert and violate thousands in 2024
Currently, about 3.7 million students are enrolled in roughly 7,800 privately-operated charter schools across the country. The U.S. public education system, on the other hand, has been around for more than 150 years and educates about 45 million students in nearly 100,000 schools.
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Upsurge of neo-fascism and ‘dollarisation’
Neo-fascist rulers like Javier Milei propose to control inflation not by curbing capital flight, but by launching a massive attack on the working class.
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In 41 U.S. States, richest 1% pay lower tax rates than everyone else
“Almost nobody says we should have the richest pay the least. And yet when we look around the country, the vast majority of states have tax systems that do just that.”
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Changes in hospital adverse events and patient outcomes associated with private equity acquisition
Question – How do quality of care and patient outcomes change after private equity acquisition of hospitals?
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U.S. claims huge portion of the ocean floor, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic
In an underreported but hugely important development, the United States is now claiming a vast portion of the ocean floor, twice the size of California.
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UN experts call on U.S. to halt first planned execution by nitrogen asphyxiation
Experts from the United Nations have called on the United States to halt what would be the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas, warning that it could cause severe suffering and possibly be considered torture. The state of Alabama plans to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death on January 25 using nitrogen hypoxia, or asphyxiation, […]
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Judge denies U.S. Department of Justice’s motions to dismiss and for early appeal in children’s constitutional climate lawsuit Juliana v. Unites States
On Friday, December 29, 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken issued an order and opinion denying the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) motions to dismiss the second amended complaint in the children’s constitutional climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States.
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On white supremacy and Zionism: a reflection on Claudine Gay’s tenure as president of Harvard University
Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.
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New Zealand Leaning to controversial AUKUS Alliance
As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports.
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In an age of forever wars, American popular culture has reimagined its veterans as victims rather than agents of empire
Long Forgotten Is the Role that Veteran Anti-War Activists Played in Ending the Vietnam War.
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Top democrat-linked PR firm tapped by pro-Israel groups to control Gaza war narrative
On December 6, it was announced with much fanfare that the 10/7 Project, a new “centralized communications operation to promote continued U.S. bipartisan support for Israel; push for accurate, complete coverage of the Israel-Hamas war,” and achieve a “stronger” media “focus” on the victims of October 7’s Al-Aqsa Flood would be launched, by a quintet […]
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The Russian Art of War: How the West led Ukraine to defeat
The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war.
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‘”Material support” in the form of speech can be criminalized’
Wadie Said on the new Gaza McCarthyism.
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Ukraine and Palestine: A double threat to U.S. hegemony
The outcome of U.S.-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too.
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United States Armed Forces: Ready for war? (II)
U.S. military spending is almost equal to that of the 10 countries that follow it in the table, including Russia, China and India, its NATO allies, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy as well as Japan, Korea of the South and Ukraine.
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There is a war coming shrouded in propaganda. It will involve us. Speak up
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.
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The mess they made of 2023
Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.
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Lee Sun-kyun’s death is a reminder of the lie of South Korean liberalism
The actor’s suicide highlights the truth about the overlooked despotism of a vital U.S. ally.
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The (Television) Season of Our Discontent: Streaming and Striking in 2023
In 2023, TV studios cut back on both product and labor—and labor struck back. Writers and actors, having had enough of belt tightening and penny pinching, joined many other unions in either threatening to strike or striking. Workers changed how the story was told, showing that studios, their bloated salaries, and their failure to compensate those actually creating the profit, were to blame for the current conjuncture.