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What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks

Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan offers younger Americans the same benefits that Boomers have been afforded all along.

Geico Workers Organizing in Amherst NY

J. Dale Shoemaker PopularResistance.org
Efforts to unionize the insurance giant’s suburban operation is met with pushback from management.

600 SUVs ‘Disarmed’ in One Night

Damien Gayle The Guardian
Tyre Extinguishers say ‘climate disaster’ vehicles targeted in nine countries including the UK, France and Canada .

For the Sake of Humanity, Let’s Abandon American Exceptionalism

Aviva Chomsky TomDispatch
We can’t live without energy and we desperately do need to turn to alternatives to fossil fuels. But alternative energies are only going to be truly viable if we can also greatly reduce our energy needs, which means reconfiguring the global economy.

Trump’s Missing Phone Records Have a Familiar Stink of Criminality

Alex Shephard The New Republic
Seven hours and 37 minutes: That’s the length of the gap in the official White House records of phone calls placed to or from Donald Trump’s phone during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Three hours more than the Grateful Dead’s longest concert

Is Putin Heading Toward a Partition of Ukraine?

Zoltán Grossman CounterPunch
Teaching college classes about the geographies of Russia and East-Central Europe, it is becoming clear that Putin’s ultimate goal is to carve off a distinct Russian-speaking region from Ukraine. The partition of Ukraine is very much on the table.

Tidbits – March 24, 2022 – Reader Comments: Ukraine War; Ketanji Brown Jackson; War of Aggression or ‘Military Intervention’; Clarence Thomas and Jan 06; Triangle Factory Fire; Labor Media Coverage; Starbucks Organizing; Martin Luther King; More

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