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This piece was originally written for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) in early February 2018 before the appointments of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State and John Bolton as National Security Advisor. These appointments render an already alarming situation even worse.

There is an old story about Marx: you throw him out the front door and he sneaks back in through the rear window. That is what happened once again.

TigerSwan has also been preying on relief needs in hurricane-hit areas like Houston and Puerto Rico since 2017. So far, the mercenary firm keeps its media presence at a minimum level, attracting little attention from the press.

Strikes can improve wages and working conditions, but history shows that more formal channels of negotiation are required to resolve the contradictions between society's reliance on public employees and its failure to value their labor.

Obama revived Pell grants for prisoners, but the program faces a cloudy future.

Around 150,000 people took part in the Great March of Return, Ahmad Abu Artema, a commemoration of Palestinians killed by Israel forces during the general strike against the 1976 Israeli annexation of land. This year, Israeli fire killed 16 Palestinians and injured another 1400.

The white-collar rising of 2018 reflects millennial militancy, the death of the Norquist pledge, and one more issue on which Democrats need to move left.

Two takes on Sinclair and Cambridge Analytica; Liberal media blues x 2; Mega Media got algorhythm

Had he lived, there is little doubt that King would have opposed the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, not only based on his principled commitment to nonviolence and against war, but because, like the Vietnam War, these wars have robbed our nation of essential human and economic resources, ...

"No Turning Back" tells the stories of ordinary people caught in a cataclysm. A review of the book by journalist Rania Abouzeid.