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  Glick: Remembering, This Memorial Day Weekend

  So much violence, militarism, war and suffering that need not be in this world. And yet there are people all over the world fighting against the systems that perpetuate these things
• Risen: The Indictment of Julian Assange

  A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship
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  Cohn: An Attack on Iran Would Violate US and International Law

  As President Donald Trump, National Security Advisor John Bolton and...
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  Varoufakis: The left refuses to get its act together in the face of neofascism

  While we would have loved not to run, and instead to support existing parties that have worked with us on a meaningful policy agenda, Diem25 has taken the plunge, running in several countries at once with a single, substantive, ambitious green new deal agenda
• Sen: The Terrifying Implications of India’s Elections

  The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t
• Anderson: America Needs a Long-Term Care Program for Seniors

  By 2035, seniors will outnumber children. A new plan in Washington state shows how we can care for them — and for their caretakers
• Jeltsen: Abortion Providers Fear For Their Safety As Rhetoric Ratchets Up

  Abortion clinics and their staff are on high alert as the anti-choice movement steps into high gear
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  Raina: Let not Truths remain Tongueless

  Athens feared the cloutless Socrates, Because he said what he...
• Corbett: ‘This Is About Attacking Journalism’

  "This is about retaliation for publishing evidence of U.S. war crimes and other crimes by the most powerful nation on Earth."
• Parker: Shut Down The Business School

  What follows is a transcript of an interview with Martin...
• Sonnenblume: Chelsea Manning is Showing Us What Real Resistance Looks Like

  Chelsea’s act of resistance is public and her motivations are clear. She is providing an example of a tactic—dedicated non-cooperation—that if followed by enough people in enough ways, would lead to dramatic, widespread, systemic change
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  Falk: R2P and the Palestinian Ordeal: Humiliating the UN

  The only path to ending current patterns of criminal victimization is by a combination of Palestinian national resistance and global solidarity initiatives
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  Feffer: Russia and the Future of Europe

  With EU elections approaching, the Kremlin has backed some of the most noxious reactionaries now operating on the world scene
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  Cole: Bye Bye Miami

  New Estimates Double Expected Sea Level rise to 6′
• Tveten: Space Capitalists

  If you want your sales pitch for a Moon rocket to be written up as a news article in the Washington Post, it helps to own the Washington Post
• Copeland: Indigenous Resistance Against the Escobal Mine in Guatemala

  As the Guatemalan state backs out of court-ordered consultations and intensifies repression of territorial defenders, communities turn to independent research and analysis to strengthen the right to consultation on their own terms
• Lacy: Ocasio-Cortez Backs Tiffany Cabán in Pivotal Queens DA Race

  “We deserve a district attorney that understands that to make our community safer we help people prosper.”
• Nairn: Deadly Protests Erupt in Indonesia

  U.S.-Trained Generals Wage a War on Democracy
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  Cole: Could US-Iran Conflict Tear Iraq Apart Again?

  The rising tensions between the Trump administration and Iran have the potential to roil the entire Middle East, and no country feels the heat more than Iraq
• Dika: The Coming American Assault on Iran, Part II

  What American officials want is stability, not democracy, and by “stability” I mean the continuation and, when possible, expansion of Saudi, Israeli, and Egyptian power in the Middle East
• Walker: US-Iran dispute threatens to escalate into serious conflict

  By withdrawing from the JCPOA without a fallback position beyond punitive sanctions and threats of military action, the US has separated itself from its allies and left itself few options beyond further sanctions – or military threats
• Da silva: Global Threats, Neoliberalism, Bolsonaro, and More

  Greenwald Interviews Lula on a wide range of issues, including Bolsonaro and Brazil, but also the dangers the planet faces from collective threats and global political changes around the world