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  Hynes: We Are Here Because You Were There

  Refugees at the US-Mexican Border
• Moore: Southern states funnel public money to fake abortion clinics

  14 states send tax dollars to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers", which pose as legitimate medical facilities offering free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds when in fact their true function is to dissuade people from seeking abortion
• Bolton: US and Brazil: The Creeping Fascism of Both Governments

  Trump sayinh he doesn’t want to be “beholden to courts,” represents a full-frontal assault on judicial independence and, by extension, the rule of law
• Tormos-Aponte: Puerto Rico Rises

  A rising tide of indignation is taking over Puerto Rico
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  Raina: Gandhi or no Gandhi, Priyanka Shows the Way.

  If Priyanka’s leadership is showing the way to the construction of an Indian People’s Front, nobody who subscribes to the ideals of a pluralist and democratic republic must let the moment be frittered away in lowly calculations
• Mondesire: What role for the Black American Left on Sudan?

  it is important for those of us who identify as Pan-Africanists to be in dialogue with and learn from people on the ground who are strategizing about how to maintain the channels for continued resistance
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  Chomsky: Trump Is Trying to Exploit Tension With Iran for 2020

  Interview on Iran’s military deterrence strategy and the actions taken by U.S. leaders who cannot countenance what the State Department describes as Iran’s “successful defiance”
• Levine: A Groundbreaking Public Health Study

  A sane society would also be asking this: What is it about U.S. society that creates so many abusive and neglectful adults?
• Meyerson: Fight for 15’s Long, Winding, and Brandeisian Road

  The progression of the Fight for 15 from a left-wing community organization and a left-wing union to left-wing cities to left-wing states to the Democratic mainstream is representative of the broader transformation of the Democratic Party in recent years
• Lindorff: The BS about Medicare-for-All Has to Stop!

  The clear advantage of government-provided over privately funded health care is why every other developed nation in the world, and many less developed ones, has some form of nationally-funded health care system
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  Cole: Putting the American in Somali-American

  Why does Ilhan Omar put a Scare into the US Power Elite?
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  McGovern: Making the Worst Case Appear the Better

  Democrats, stenographers who pass for journalists and the “Mueller team” will need all the time they can to come up with imaginative responses to two recent bombshell revelations
• Schwarz: Citizens United Opened Door to Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

  “Justice Stevens clearly saw what most people know, that corporations are not people and they should not have the same political rights”
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  Chomsky: “The Task Ahead Is Enormous, and There Is Not Much Time”

  Interview on climate change, US empire, antisemitism, Venezuela, and much more
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  Prashad: Revolutions are the Human Race Grabbing for the Emergency Brake

  The powerful not only control social wealth; they also control the public policy discussion — and what counts as intellectually correct
• Mark-Viverito: Nearly 100,000 in Puerto Rico Protest

  Demand Gov. Rosselló Resign over Lewd Texts & Corruption
• Cruz-Díaz: Ruminations on a Puerto Rican Revolution

  This revolt-in-progress is the end product of a simmering anger fed by five centuries of uninterrupted imperialism
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  Engelhardt: Planet of the Surreal

  Turning 75 in the Age of Trump
• Baskin: Do the preposterous

  I know that this is really hard for Israelis to...
• Nazarett, Juliet Barbara: Demand to #CloseTheCamps Escalates With Actions Throughout the Summer

  Immigrant justice, faith-based and civil rights organizations are continuing to...
• Skibell: Ethiopian-Israelis Protest Police Violence in a Divided Israel

  The fatal police shooting of an unarmed Ethiopian-Israeli, 18-year-old Solomon Tekah, on June 30th in the northern city of Haifa sparked a wave of demonstrations across Israel
• Hodes: Critics of Campus Activists Don’t Care About Free Speech

  They complain when students protest hateful speakers, but not when shadowy conservative groups and politicians write laws to punish our speech
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  Chomsky: “Worship of Markets” Is Threatening Human Civilization

  The suicidal impulses of the fossil fuel industry have been strongly supported by Republican administrations, by now, under Trump, leaving the U.S. in splendid isolation internationally
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  Baroud: Who Killed Oscar and Valeria

  The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis