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George Carlin Returns With Some Insights About Texas

September 10, 2021

George Carlin returns with some insights on the latest developments from Texas.pic.twitter.com/fJb7tMaa8W

— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) September 5, 2021

Did a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kill the Wrong Person?

September 10, 2021

The New York Times obtained exclusive security camera footage and witness accounts to show how the U.S. military launched a drone strike that killed 10 people in Kabul on Aug. 29 without knowing who it was hitting.

CODA | Movie

September 10, 2021

Every family has its own language. A CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) has two. Now on Apple TV+ and in select theaters.

September 10, 2021

Other People’s Rotten Jobs Are Bad for Them. And for You.

Terri Gerstein The New York Times

Man in a freezer with beef carcasses hanging from the ceiling

When people have bad working conditions and no voice on the job, it’s obviously bad for them. But rotten jobs affect our collective health, safety and well-being.

September 10, 2021

Professional Rioters

José A. Alcántara Plainsongs

Colorado poet José A. Alcántara has a thing or two to say about the difference between so-called professional revolutionaries and mere amateurs.

September 9, 2021

On 9/11, It’s Time for a Reckoning and Reflection of Decades of Failed U.S. National Security Policy

Katrina vanden Heuvel Globetrotter

A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue. America’s current vision of security has been ruinous both to the world and to the American people. A different future is possible.

September 9, 2021

The Decline and Fall of the Roman… Whoops!… American Empire - What Really Matters in the U.S. of A.

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch

They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” That cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it wasn’t pretty, was it? Not that anyone should be surprised. Even after 20 years of preparation, a burial never is

September 9, 2021

Imagine If We Had Spent the Last 20 Years Fighting Climate Change Instead of the War on Terror

Sarah Lazare In These Times

At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around.

September 9, 2021

Medicare Advantage Is a For-Profit Scam. Time to End It

Thom Hartmann Common Dreams

The simple solution to the Medicare Advantage problem is to kill off the program. It was just a Trojan horse to privatize Medicare, and its presence will make Medicare for All even harder to implement.

September 9, 2021

Tidbits - Sept. 9, 2021 - Reader Comments: GOP War on Women, starting in Texas, Going nationwide; Costs of Post 9/11; Afghan War fallout; Climate Crisis; Jobless Crisis; Nina Turner; Teenage Israeli Conscientious Objectors; Ed Asner; Domestic Workers

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Reader Comments: GOP War on Women, starting in Texas, Going nationwide; Costs of Post 9/11; Afghan War fallout; Climate Crisis; Jobless Crisis; Nina Turner; Teenage Israeli Conscientious Objectors; Ed Asner; Domestic Workers are Workers; more....