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October 12, 2019

Puerto Rico’s Future Clouded Under New Debt Restructuring Plan

Ed Morales OpenDemocracy

Puerto Ricans participate in a silent protest in New York.

Last month, Puerto Rico’s federally imposed Fiscal Oversight and Management Board announced its debt-restructuring plan that predictably will expand draconian austerity measures while ignoring policies that would promote economic sustainability.

October 12, 2019

The Same American Myths That Drove Frontier Expansion Support Closed Borders

Sammy Feldblum The Baffler

In 1914, US and Mexican soldiers march up and down to maintain the boundary between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

The US territorial march has stopped, but its energies live on at the militarized, brutal US-Mexico border. As US capital finds new frontiers, its government puts clamps on the border, just the latest twist on a hundreds years old American motif.

October 12, 2019

Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies Common Dreams

Protests against government corruption and austerity programs in Haiti and Iraq, are directed at corrupt neoliberal governments imposed on them by the use of U.S. military force.

October 12, 2019

Making ‘The Moment’ Now

Gwen McKinney Washington Informer

"Moments come and moment pass. But you cannot freeze them if you do not seize them," is the theme of Gene Bruskin's musical exploration of Reconstruction when this nation had the chance to do the right thing. Like then, the moment is still now.

October 11, 2019