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Havana Syndrome, directed energy weapons, and the new Cold War
Havana Syndrome might be science fiction, but directed energy weapons are very much science fact.
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Haitian refugees test the measure of nation’s humanity
Once more the plight of Haitian refugees tests the measure of this administration’s and this country’s humanity.
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How the U.S. gov’t. stokes racial tensions in Cuba and around the world
The framing of the protests as a Black uprising against a conservative, authoritarian, racist government was dealt a serious blow by Black Lives Matter itself.
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‘Incredible’: Covid stimulus funds reduced overall U.S. poverty in 2020
"The fact that the supplemental poverty rate dropped during the Covid-19 crisis is a huge victory for advocates of expanding the social safety net."
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Covid-19 and the U.S.: Societal disaster trumps individual heroism, scientific prowess
Despite the entrenched economic and racial inequalities that afflict the nation, the predatory nature of our mercenary medical complex, and our utterly miserly social safety net, it did…
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To avert failure, Biden should listen to the ‘radicals’ — not corporate media
If the President fails to act boldly and quickly, the Biden era will end quicker than you can say Jimmy Carter.
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Imagine if we had spent the last 20 years fighting climate change instead of war on terror
At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around.
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The empire does not forgive
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.
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The American empire in retreat
There are very few paths back from empire, back to just being an ordinary nation, that don’t involve a truly wrenching fall.
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A self-inflicted 9-11
Almost three thousand were killed in the 9-11 terrorist attack 20 years ago. Covid-19 already has killed 200 times as many Americans and is still raging.
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