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The recent U.S. deployment of special operations forces to Syria expands a global U.S. battlefield that is at a historic size. This year, special ops have been sent to a record 147 countries—75 percent of the nations on the planet. It’s a 145 percent increase from the days of George W. Bush. And it means that on any given day elite U.S. forces are on the ground in 70 to 90 countries.

My recent Nobel peace prize win for my contributions in Tunisia shows that giving working people a say is the best path toward a more equal and just world

Burgers and fries have nearly killed our ancestral microbiome.

Bad news for consumers and workers: This year has already seen $4 trillion worth of mergers and acquisitions deals.

Many of 20th-century conservatism’s tricks were honed in 1930s agribusiness’s fight against farmworkers

Plenty of shows can self-reflexively comment on Hollywood’s systemic diversity and race problems, but Master Of None does so within an episode that simultaneously practices exactly what it’s preaching, which gives the show legitimacy.

Over 60% of Southwest's 8,000 pilots, represented by SWAPA, voted no on the agreement on November 4. Since then, the union's president and negotiating committee has submitted their resignations.

Alfred Hayes wrote it as a poem in upstate New York at a left wing retreat called Camp Unity during the Summer of 1936. Hayes met Earl Robinson there and upon hearing Hayes recite his poem Robinson instantly put the words to music as part of a campfire session celebrating the trade union icon. By that September the song had been published in The Daily Worker and became a popular song with members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade fighting Franco’s fascists in Spain.

We acknowledge that this was written in June, 2015. However we are posting it because it describes how tangled the lines are when it comes to US and British policy in the Middle East. Unless there is a real turn around in US strategy in the Middle East the only thing that will continue will be more death and destruction, and the repercussions are world wide. This should be a big question for the US presidential debates - but will it?

Buses, trains, bikes, and walking represent more than an efficient means of getting from one place to another. They move us toward a brighter future because of the many social and economic benefits they foster.