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  Terrell: Ending the War in Yemen- Congressional Resolution is Not Enough

  Support for this legislation needs to be accompanied by a somber recognition of its limitations and with the uncompromising and urgent demand that the U.S. end the war in Yemen now
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  Porter: America’s Permanent-War Complex

  Eisenhower's worst nightmare has come true, as defense mega-contractors climb into the cockpit to ensure we stay overextended
• Twenge: What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?

  Teens who spent more than five hours a day online were twice as likely to be unhappy as those who spent less than an hour a day
• Nathanson: Activists Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.

  Arising from this trial are two debates: that of criminalizing nonviolent protest and that of the legality, and ethics, of deportation charter flights
• Dos Santos: A Tale of 90 Days Foretold

  The hopes brought by the August economic reforms have quickly dissipated
• Bacharach: The Egregious Lie Americans Tell Themselves

  Poverty—both individual and social—is a policy, not an accident, and not some kind of natural law. These are deliberate choices about the allocation of resources
• Agency: UNGA votes in favor of 8 pro-Palestine resolutions

  The votes are proof that the international community stands behind and supports the Palestinian cause despite of efforts by the United States to change that
• Shimo: Nestlé extracts millions of litres, residents have no drinking water

  Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land
• Hunt: With Nearly 400,000 Dead in South Sudan, Will the U.S. Change Policy?

  It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?
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  Prashad: Wreaking havoc on poor while protecting financial elite

  Thanks to the IMF, the pockets of the forgotten from Argentina to Mexico will suffer so that finance is left intact.
• Nahem: Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN

  The 2018 UN vote against the US blockade strengthens Cuba’s position in this volatile and explosive period in world and Western Hemispheric politics, and in the international class and national liberation struggles, that are now unfolding
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  Giroux: Trump and the Ghosts of the Past in Fascist America

  Trump is unapologetic about the looting of the country by the ultra-rich (including him) and by mega-corporations
• Arauz: Moreno’s Neoliberal Restoration Proceeds in Ecuador

  Lenin Moreno won Ecuador’s presidency in 2017 by campaigning to...
• Robinson: Color of Change

  Facebook Retaliated Against Protests by Pushing Anti-Semitic, Anti-Black Narratives
• Karlis: Lab rats for the long-term effects of toxic wildfire smoke

  As air quality hits hazardous levels in the Bay Area, scientists say we’re descending into unknown territory
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  Greenwald: Prosecution of Assange Poses Grave Threat to Press Freedom

  The Trump Justice Department inadvertently revealed in a court filing...
• Gavazut: The First Victim of the Economic War Shouldn’t be the Truth

  Ever more frequently and with greater concern I observe that, the fallacious nature of politics is resurfacing in the exercise of the Bolivarian Government
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  Monbiot: The Earth is in a death spiral

  It will take radical action to save us
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  Jensen: Thanksgiving? No, thanks

  Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited -- and condoned -- by the very men we idolize as our 'heroic' founding fathers
• Richardson: Who, Us?

  Corporate Media Ignore Their Role in Trump’s Refugee ‘Invasion’ Panic
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  Grossman: A Political Seesaw in Germany

  While Americans teetered, arguing as to which side gained more in the elections, Germans have been balancing on a seesaw of their own – which can also have decisive consequences
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  Feffer: Is Korea’s Cold War About to End?

  The media is missing the real story on the peninsula. If that gives Koreans space to lead, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
• Stein: Sanders wants to penalize Walmart’s owners

  Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation to force Walmart to raise its workers’ wages to at least $15 an hour, the latest move in the senator’s campaign to target large U.S. corporations over low pay