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From America With Love

Nick Turse Tom Dispatch
U.S. Commandos Are a “Persistent Presence” on Russia’s Doorstep.

The Public Bank Option – Safer, Local and Half the Cost

Ellen Brown The Web of Debt Blog
Phil Murphy, a former banker newly elected as New Jersey Governor, has made a state-owned bank a centerpiece of his platform. With his win on November 7, the nation’s second state-owned bank in a century could follow.

Lessons on the Anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre

Flint Taylor Truthout
In the most deadly 88 seconds in the history of Greensboro, the KKK and Nazi marauders fired over 1,000 projectiles with shotguns, semi-automatic rifles and pistols, leaving five of the march leaders dead and seven other demonstrators wounded.

The Sad, Sexist Past of Bengali Cuisine

Mayukh Sen Food 52
Party line suggested that widowhood made a woman’s sex drive fickle and vulnerable. A woman’s libido was a site of such agita that she couldn’t be trusted to keep it quiet, and so her body needed to be governed. The alienation imposed upon high-caste, Hindu Bengali women was meant to act as a hormonal suppressant, silencing the desire more dangerous than hunger for fish or meat: sex.

Upton Sinclair is Dead and the Food Industry has the Trump Admin. Right Where It Wants It

Alana Toulin In These Times
In an era when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are increasingly compromised, and workers in the American food industry are often poorly paid and under-protected, advocates and commentators must consciously work to dismantle the elitism that so often surrounds cultural discussions about food in the United States.

The Trump Doctrine

Michael T. Klare Tom Dispatch
Making Nuclear Weapons Usable Again