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Tidbits - August 18, 2016 - Reader Comments: #M4BL; Black Lives Matter;...
Reader Comments: #BLM taking the baton from SNCC; More on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The world did not need this horrendous 'experiment'; Sanders, Clinton, Trump, Stein; Saluting Labor Notes; Growing...
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Team Refugee and the Normalization of Mass Displacement
Though President Obama rejected the “Global War on Terror” label in favor of the anodyne “overseas contingency operations,” the conflict remains global, and it remains a war. No one even claims that...
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Tidbits - August 25, 2016 - Reader Comments: Gabby Douglas and Ryan Lochte;...
Reader Comments: Douglas and Lochte- Tale of Black and White; Temp Organizing Gets Big Boost; New Memorial Will Honor Victims of Lynching; Black Lives Matter; Progressive Groups Demand Clinton Publicly...
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Turkey is Now in Syria; What it Means for the Middle East - Two Views
The Turks don't want a Kurdish mini-state on their frontier any more than the Syrians want to lose territory to the Kurds (and neither do the Iranians, nor do the Russians want a Kurdish state on their...
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A New Cold War? - Gorbachev Calls for Peace: Is there a way forward?
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, called for peace and a de-escalation in tensions between the US and Russia. What is the future for dialogue between the two countries under current...
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Tidbits - October 20, 2016 - Reader Comments: Trump-A Setting Time Bomb; Help...
Reader Comments: Trump-A Setting Time Bomb; You Can Help Protect Our Elections; Inequality (and Climate Change) ARE Defining Issues of Our Time; Women Share Rape Stories; Paul Ryan's Fear - GOP Loss is...
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Against the No-Fly Zone
A no-fly zone in Syria isn't a humanitarian response -- it's a call to war.The idea of enforcing a no-fly zone in Syria is gaining steam. Hillary Clinton said during the second presidential debate that...
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Tidbits - November 3, 2016 - Reader Comments: How American Politics Has...
Reader Comments: How American Politics Has Changed - Rigging the Election and Defeating Trumpism; Labor and Standing Rock - #NoDAPL; Vietnam Remembers Tom Hayden; Cubs Tribute; Push Obama to Pardon...
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The Rojava Project
According to the back of Meredith Tax's A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, a 'democratic society' with 'women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders' is growing in the midst...
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Syria and the Left
The Syrian tragedy is a key moral and political question today. Yet it has not been easy for leftists around the world to decide where they stand on Syria.To illuminate the history and nature of the...
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Congress Is Missing in Action as Trump Escalates War in Syria Amid Russia Probe
The US has launched hundreds of deadly airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Yemen in recent months, but putting boots on the ground in Syria signals a new level of participation in a war that Russia is also...
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U.S. Military Should Get Out of the Middle East
It's time to end US military engagements in the Middle East. Drones, special operations, CIA arms supplies, military advisers, aerial bombings - the whole nine yards. Over and done with. That might...
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Trump, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don't, and the...
Donald Trump just ordered the launch of dozens of Tomahawk missiles to strike Syria. It's an illegal and unauthorized escalation that could have devastating consequences, killing innocent Syrians and...
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Action | Stop US Military Action In Syria
Both the United Nations Charter and the Chemical Weapons Convention provide means for international investigation and sanction of the use of prohibited weapons. Unilateral use of military force in...
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Seven Lessons From Trump's Syria Strike
The attack raises a series of questions about the president's approach to America's political processes and institutions.When the Electoral College elevated Donald Trump to the presidency, it conferred...
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When Bombs Fall, There Is Always Someone Underneath
The US missile attack on Syria took place on the anniversary, one hundred years ago, of the United States’ entry into World War I. Writing in The Progressive in June 1917, Senator La Follette said that...
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The Syria Catastrophe
The response required at this late, desperate stage is neither anti-Assad nor anti-ISIS nor even anti-imperialist — it is antiwar.Author’s Note: I wrote and edited this consideration of the Syrian war...
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Tidbits - April 13, 2017 - Reader Comments: White House Explains the...
Reader Comments: White House Explains the Holocaust - Just in time for Passover and Easter; Trump and Syria - What We Know...and Don't - Take Action Now; A Nation Made By War - A Veteran's commentary;...
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Tidbits - April 20, 2017 - Reader Comments: Syria Catastrophe; Day Without...
Reader Comments: Syria Catastrophe - Who Benefits?; A Day Without Immigrants - Hundreds Of Thousands Will Strike May 1; Montana Special Election; Trump, McCarthyism, and Russian Hacking; Portside's...
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There’s No Strategy Behind Trump’s Wars — Only Brute Force
Trump's wars are now all over the map. The peace movement can fight back by joining already thriving intersectional campaigns. These are awesome days for headline writers. So many global settings,...
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