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  Petersen-Smith: The Backstory to Portland? Two Decades of ‘Homeland Security’

  The calls for oversight and demands that federal agents be withdrawn from our cities are urgent. The move to deploy these forces in brazen contempt for civil rights is escalating repression to a frightening new level
• Stephenson: Is Big Pharma more Interested in Profiteering than Protecting us from Coronavirus?

  Forty years of private corporatist Big Pharma and oligarch control of our economy has left the public totally exposed and ill-prepared to face the public health crisis of COVID-19
• Green: Rural Organizing Pays Off

  "Organizing in rural spaces with progressive, multiracial solidarity messaging is the future. Either we get there first or white supremacists get there first.”
• Devich-Cyril: Trump’s Threat to Press Freedom Is Global

  Attacks on the press are part of a broader effort to breed a level and type of confusion that forces a power vacuum which centralizes authority over U.S. institutions into the hands of the executive branch
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  Grossman: Some Come, Others Go

  The pressure to move instead towards diplomacy, détente and demilitarization – to safeguard our troubled world – now on Trump, after January 20 hopefully on Biden, must grow and grow
• Lewis: Pro-Labor Candidates Are Upending New York Politics—Where Are the Unions?

  If this year’s results are any indication, unions should worry less about their relationships with a political establishment that just keeps losing, and instead embrace the opportunity to elect working class people with a bold pro-worker agenda
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  Cole: ‘Day of Judgment’ Protesters Occupy Gov’t Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections

  Angry about the criminal government negligence that led to the destruction of Beirut’s port and part of the city by ammonium nitrate stores, they occupied the offices of the ministry of the economy, the ministry of energy, the ministry of the environment, and the foreign ministry
• Webbe: Debt cancellation is vital for global recovery

  Cancelling debt for poor countries is desperately needed to shore up public health systems, social protections and address global structural inequality
• Wilkins: Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione

  Although Dan Mitrione has been dead for half a century, his legacy lives on in the words and deeds of a new generation of US torturers
• Dimondstein: Is Trump Sabotaging U.S. Postal Service Ahead of Election as Part of His Attack on Mail-in Voting?

  Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is sabotaging the United States Postal Service ahead of the November election, when a record number of votes are expected to be cast by mail
• Cassella: A Pandemic Side Effect: Permanent Job Losses

  More jobs are disappearing for good, dashing hopes of a rapid economic rebound
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  Cole: How did Americans become such Wimps?

  Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud
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  Rasmus: Trump’s Executive Orders: EOs as PR and FUs

  Less than 24 hours after Trump broke off negotiations on the economic stimulus package with Congressional Democrat leaders, Pelosi and Shumer, last Friday August 7, Trump issued a series of Executive Orders
• Scott: Lynching Is Not a Relic of a Jim Crow Past. It’s a Modern Form of Racial Terror

  Some things have changed, however. These brutal deaths have engendered an unprecedented call for reform
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  Lerner: What Racism Smells Like

  Ravaged by Covid-19, Polluted Communities Demand Environmental Justice
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  Nader: Ranking the Infinite Greed, Power and Controls of Giant Corporations

  At the end of the day, we are all paying the price of the full measure of the infinite avarice spiraling from these corporate supremacists and their private governments of controls
• Mike Taylor: From colonialism to COVID-19, Indigenous peoples show resilience in the face of evictions

  With special emphasis this year on resilience in the face of COVID-19, it’s time to turn the spotlight on the strength and dignity of Indigenous peoples and acknowledge the contribution they make protecting our planet. 
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  Prashad: How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela

  Trump wants a war, but not an open war; the U.S. military knows that it might be able to flatten Caracas, but it would not be able to win a war against the Venezuelan people
• Caldicott: Hiroshima: The Lessons We Haven’t Learned

  75 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, we remain perched on the precipice of unparalleled catastrophe
• Theisen-Homer: The ‘Broken Windows’ Approach to Teaching Is Breaking Our Schools

  And Students of Color Are Harmed the Most
• Siddiqa: The rise of the Middle Kingdom in the Middle East: China’s Belt and Road Initiative

  China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands as the most prominent example of the pivotal shift in Chinese foreign policy from Deng Xiaoping’s “bide and hide” philosophy to the current ambitious endeavors