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The USA and Afghanistan: Forty Years of War and Still Counting

Matin Baraki OpenDemocracy
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
After thirty-nine years of war, we must seriously seek new ways to peace. It is time to let the conflict be resolved by Afghans, in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan’s national interests. The following theses might serve as a basis for discussion.

Bernie Sanders and Palestine

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss
Bernie Sanders links Hitler’s murder of his family to his fight against occupation of Palestinians.

Youth Climate Case Against the Government

John Schwartz The New York Times
Since it was originally filed in 2015, the Obama administration had also tried to stop this case, arguing that these are issues suited to the executive and legislative branches, not the courts.

What We Did in the Resistance (Part 1)

Alison Luterman Rattle
California poet Alison Luterman moves the reader from the despair of the 2016 election to the longer passage “of empire and uprising,/ extinction and evolution….”

Schrödinger's Cat Could Be Saved, Say Scientists

Nicola Davis The Guardian
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment exploring the fate of an animal placed in a box with poison and radioactive material. Until now, the cat seemed to exist in a zombie state in which it was neither alive nor dead -- until you looked in the box