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With respect to Korea, what Americans get from their mainstream news media abounds with crucial omissions and misleading distortions resulting in a false portrayal of the geopolitical realities.

“Many people don’t even have $100 in the bank, so paying 10 percent to a bond agent means that money won’t be going toward rent or food.”

Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.

The intersection of climate change and mass incarceration is not unique to California, but as the state experiences its deadliest and most destructive year on record for wildfires -- including the second-largest in the its history -- the state's incarcerated firefighter Conservation Camp program has come firmly under the microscope.

There’s no need to panic over the lavishly publicized Meltdown and Spectre security holes. Behind the bellicose roars of certain doom, a handful of important facts stand out.

Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror

Nice "trickle-down economics" you've got there.

Taking land by force was not an accidental or spontaneous project or the work of a few rogue characters. The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, second only to freedom of speech.

America has a long, complicated track record of dreading that robots would take our jobs.

The good news for 2018 is that with the defeat of Isis, the barbarous wars that have torn apart Iraq since 2003 and Syria since 2011 may finally be coming to an end. And now the winners and losers are emerging who will shape the region for decades.