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Strangely, amid the spike in racial tensions after the killing of two black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, and of five white police officers by a black sharpshooter in Dallas, one American reality has gone unmentioned. The U.S. has been fighting wars -- declared, half-declared, and undeclared -- for almost 15 years and, distant as they are, they’ve been coming home in all sorts of barely noted ways.

A new book puts recent bombings in a larger context.

The new initiative will produce the first "truth report" on the U.S. invasion of Panama and could pave the way for reparations for victims.

Local Surveillance: Its impact on human rights and its relationship to national and international surveillance. Statements by grassroots organizations compiled by May First/People Link https://mayfirst.org/. The document was initially submitted to the United Nations Rapporteur on Privacy and is now being released publicly. It is the first compilation of local organizations' statements on surveillance and a look at a strategically critical area of movement work.

Achieving disarmament will probably take more than volunteers sailing into town to host a potluck picnic for yachters and stand-up paddlers. It will probably take more than “people who have never thought about war and peace,” as Jaccard calls them, spotting a sailboat with a peace symbol and wondering what it’s all about. Sometimes it takes something brave and brazen to catch a nation’s attention.

A FTT is an efficient and progressive revenue source. The rise of finance has been largely at the expense of other economic sectors, and that a well-designed FTT is also a very useful tool for shrinking the unproductive parts of this sector.

The first cells may have been anaerobic, heat tolerant, and hydrogen-fed.

The resolution isn’t a change in policy. But it strengthens the organization’s stance from 2010 and 2014 against charters.

The Fourth Circuit appeals court finds that Republicans “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

When U.S. firms dominate a $70 billion a year global market, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. There are occasional pieces that, for example, note the impact of U.S. weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia, or the disastrous dispensation of weaponry to U.S. allies in Syria. But the sheer size of the U.S. arms trade, the politics that drive it, the companies that profit from it, and its devastating global impacts are rarely discussed.