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Uncomplicated, in Afghanistan

By Kathy Kelly teleSUR
There are numerous, obvious solutions to problems in Afghanistan which NATO countries could consider, could even attempt if the alliance wasn’t there for the mineral wealth.

Main Mexico Leftist Party on Verge of Dissolution, Leader Says

The PRD, which Cardenas helped found in 1989, rules Guerrero state and the city of Iguala, where the government said 43 trainee teachers were abducted by police on the night of Sept. 26 and apparently handed over to a drug gang and killed.

Fossil-fueled Republicanism

By Michael T. Klare TomDispatch
At a time when more and more people around the world are coming to recognize the need for tough restraints on fossil fuel combustion, the Republicans are about to march forcefully in the opposite direction. Theirs will be a powerful vote for a fossil-fuels-forever planet.

Facebook Shuttle Bus Drivers Vote to Join Teamsters Union

By Jessica Guynn USA Today
In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month, Teamster Leader Rome Aloise wrote: "This is reminiscent of a time when noblemen were driven around in their coaches by their servants. Frankly, little has changed; except the noblemen are your employees, and the servants are the bus drivers who carry them back and forth each day."

I Love a Paranoid Country

Niall McLaren Truthout
The so-called, undeclared "war" we have been dragged into is the product of self-righteous, panicky people with an exaggerated sense of persecution and no ability to look objectively at history. That is, they are paranoid. Because of their bizarre views, paranoid people cause trouble, then they deny responsibility and use the victim's defensive reaction to justify further aggression. That is exactly the position of the West vis-a-vis the Muslim world.

This Mass Grave Isn’t the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For

Greg Grandin The Nation
Francisco Goldman writes that we might be witnessing the beginning of a second Mexican Revolution. Laura Carlsen says that the disappearances might take the “historic struggle between Mexico’s student left and the federal government, one that has been brewing for years if not decades” (at least since 1968’s Tlatelolco massacre) and generalize it “into the rest of the country.” Protests and civil disobedience are spreading throughout Mexico.

No More Backroom Deals

Dan Clawson Jacobin
A draconian proposal threatened Massachusetts teachers. Here’s how they defeated it.

Media Bits and Bytes - Cruzifiction edition

Portside
Who runs Wikipedia?; Brooklyn for net neutrality; Net lobbying; GOP tweets away campaign laws; Social media and socialization; Ted Cruz can't get no respect