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• Cohen: LA Teachers Are Mad About Charter School Growth

  Why Won’t Democrats Acknowledge That?
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  Baroud: The Moral Travesty of Israel Seeking Arab, Iranian Money for its Alleged Nakba

  For Israel to be seeking compensation from Arab countries and Iran is a moral travesty, especially as Palestinians refugees continue to languish in refugee camps across Palestine and the Middle East
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  Cook: Israeli politics is being dragged into the grubby realm of reality TV

  As Benjamin Netanyahu demands a televised showdown with his corruption accusers and Roseanne Barr prepares to address the Knesset, the poverty of public discourse has never been more apparent
• Blanc: Billionaires vs. LA Schools

  The Los Angeles teachers' strike isn't all about wages. At its core, the strike is a fight against a hostile takeover of public schools by the superrich
• Paarlberg-Kvam: For Women, A Contradictory Peace in Colombia

  So long as Colombia’s peace accords fail to contend with the liberal economic order or challenge extractivism and militarism in the country, they will fall short of achieving true gender justice
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  Baker: The Next Recession: What It Could Look Like

  If we rule out the collapsing bubble as the story for the next recession, we are left with the standard story that explains every recession since the end of World War II and before 2001
• Cruz: “Public Education Is Not Your Plaything”

  L.A. Teachers Strike Against Privatization & Underfunding
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  Jamail: A Planet in Crisis

  The Heat’s On Us
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  Bond: Jim Yong Kim’s mixed messages to the World Bank, and the world

  Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist...
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  Cole: GOP must reject Trump’s Wall to really Repudiate Rep. Steve King’s Racism

  The only way Republicans can avoid being taken over by the Neo-Nazis the way they were previously taken over by the Evangelicals is to make a clean break with Trumpism and Breitbartism and Mercerism
• Dayen: Shuttered IRS Is Sending Automated Warnings of Asset Seizures

  With Nobody to Call to Stop Them
• Sacks: LA Teachers Go On Strike for First Time in 30 Years

  On Monday, the Los Angeles Unified School District teachers strike...
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  Cockburn: Refugees are in the Channel thanks to the Actions of the West

  Though the US and its allies are unlikely to win victories against Iran or Bashar al-Assad, by keeping a permanent crisis simmering they ensure many civilians risk everything to flee to Europe
• Kiel: As Shutdown Drags On, IRS Aids the Rich While Targeting the Poor

  tAn appeal from the mortgage industry has resulted in hundreds of IRS staffers returning to the agency to carry out income verifications for lenders
• Dirik: Kurdish MP on hunger strike prepared to “protest to the death”

  Imprisoned HDP MP Leyla Güven is in critical condition after 68 days of hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan
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  La Botz: DSA Two Years Later

  Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
• Jorden: It Has Begun: One in Five Million Protest in Serbia

  Tens of thousands of protestors are packing the icy January streets of Belgrade, Kragujevac, Niš and other Serbian cities in demonstrations that began in early December demanding an end to what to they call a dictatorship
• Natapoff: How Misdemeanors Turn Innocent People Into Criminals

  I think that we should imagine and understand that the people in the misdemeanor system are not a “they”; they are an “us.” And that insight, to me, is the heart of the most important kind of criminal justice reform
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  Falk: Toward Geopolitical Disengagement: Uncertain yet Desirable

  For the first time in the 21stCentury it is possible to envision positive developments in the region as reducing the level of violence and turbulence
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  Grandin: How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”

  A Timeline of Border Fortification
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  Prashad: 5.5 Million Women Build Their Wall

  On Jan. 1, 5.5 million women in the Indian state of Kerala (population 35 million) built a 386-mile wall with their bodies
• Rall: Here is the Progressive Agenda

  Progressives: you are no longer the ugly stepdaughter of the Democratic Party. You own the joint. Now’s the time to demand what’s yours, what you want and what’s right
• Oglesby: A Coup in Guatemala is the Real Emergency

  U.S. policy must support those in Guatemala who are struggling to maintain the rule of law, and Congress must demand that Guatemala's anti-impunity commission be allowed to continue its work