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Drugs, Wars, and Capitalisms

Joshua Frens-String and Alejandro Velasco NACLA
NACLA's editors introduce the latest print issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas - Currency of Death: Unraveling the Political Economy of the Drug Wars.

Chelsea Manning Threatened: Indefinite Solitary Confinement

Chelsea Manning Support Network Chelsea Manning Support Network
July 28 Chelsea Manning found out she is yet again being threatened with the possibility of indefinite solitary confinement. In a jarringly callous move, Army officials are charging Chelsea with “offenses” related to her suicide attempt earlier this month. If convicted, her punishment could be indefinite solitary confinement, reclassification into maximum security, and an additional nine years in medium custody. Her chance of parole may be negated.

Looking Back, Looking Forward Resolving the Left Impasse Over Elections

Kurt Stand The Stansbury Forum
Defining a social justice agenda primarily in reaction to Clinton (oppose her, back her), or Trump (fight him, ignore him), allows the dominant two-party system to set the tone, reduces independent politics to slogans without substance. Failure to look at the whole political environment rather than any one aspect of it, has led to lost opportunities in the past.