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Short of the emergence of a progressive people’s movement in Ukraine, there may be little that can be done to stabilize the country and prevent bloodshed. What is needed is a strategy the Bolsheviks called “revolutionary defeatism.”

It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play.

What is the pretext that the US and NATO are looking for? Because it seems clear that the climate of uncertainty, in this dangerous moment, is rife for precisely such a pretextual scenario.

“Society loses its moral grounds when we stoop to the actions of the most broken people to punish those who hurt people. But I’m living proof that hurt people not only hurt people — we can heal.”

Americans regularly lose access to water simply because they are poor and unable to pay their bills. Water bills are cruel and unnecessary. We should just get rid of them.

Early neuro-imaging results provide powerful new evidence of what so many other studies have found — a more secure and adequate family income alters children’s lives in concrete ways and expands their opportunities to succeed and thrive.

Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

Bellecourt and the American Indian Movement taught us that colonizing society is weak because of its sense of superiority. It has God, guns, and gold, but its soft underbelly is glory. 

Perhaps foreshadowing the confirmation battle we’ll see in the coming months, the right has already dismissed the idea of a Black woman justice of the Supreme Court.

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