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Washington reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their US backers within the
Continue readingUS Ousts Imran Khan But His Revolutionary Narrative Endures
ON the Coercive Arm of Government a new paper is available at the Princeton website. ABSTRACT: Policies to make police forces more representative of communities have centered on race. But
Continue readingAre the Police demographically representative of those whom they serve?
By Adam Isacson for IPS: “The migrants try to organize themselves to stay safe,” a humanitarian worker told me as we stood near a town square in Reynosa, Mexico, steps
Continue readingUS Migration Policy Is Enriching Cartels at the US-Mexico Border
The Congress has voted to strip Moscow of its preferential trade status with the United States and to ban the import of Russian energy into the U.S. The legislation will
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Somini Sengupta, Global Correspondent, Climate, for The New York Times: I find most valuable in the new report this week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us
Continue readingClimate Change: We Have the Tools to Slow Warming
Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam & William T Williams — all of them are key figures in the history of abstraction. The presentation marks the first time the artists’ works will
Gathering for Ramadan for the First Time Since the Pandemic Began: Last week, Maleika Jones was still waiting for a package of Ramadan decorations. In her preparations for the monthlong
Continue readingBreaking the Ramadan Fast in Anchorage, Alaska
E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport on Voting as Public Responsibility at Literary Hub: One hundred percent democracy sounds like a grade someone has achieved in a course—and we would like
Continue readingAn Argument For Compulsory Attendance at the Polls
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager and Evgeniya Pyatovskaya in The Conversation: The West is punishing Russia, hoping that the dire economic crisis provoked by sanctions will put an end to the bloody war
Continue readingHistory Indicates the Russians Won’t Abandon Putin. West Thinks Otherwise.
President Biden has quietly assembled a team to determine how to respond if Russia were to unleash chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The Tiger Team, as the group is known,
Continue readingRussia, Ukraine Conflict: Biden Assembles ‘Tiger Team’
Congratulations to the workers at Starbucks for your union organizing success. A union means not only better wages and working conditions, it means having some control over your job and
Continue readingBernie Sanders on Corporate Greed, Corrupt Political System, Oligarchy
THE SCALE OF THE WESTERN RESPONSE to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been as surprising as the invasion itself. In the span of a few days, a highly integrated capitalist economy