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Big news from Latin America

Will the trade war leave a new bridge just sitting over an international waterway?

As “our” president took on Iran recently, I couldn’t help thinking about that antiwar song of the Vietnam era that began with the phrase “War, what is it good for?Absolutely nothin’.”

A reform designed to produce more centrist candidates has largely yielded traditional Democrat-versus-Republican contests, prompting renewed questions about whether the system is working as intended.

Mohsen Rezaei, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader and former IRGC Commander, says Tehran will not separate Lebanon from any deal with Washington, including a nuclear deal, as Iran seeks to redefine the terms of negotiations with the U.S.

The people vs. data centers

Backrooms brings liminal horror to the masses, and with it, a generation looking for a past that might not exist

Indicting Cuban officials over the incident is disingenuous, given the provocations by Brothers to the Rescue and U.S. actions against Cuba, which are in direct violation of international and U.S. laws.

Striking U.S. Workers Are Off to a Great Start (1786), YOU Are the Un-Americans! (1956), The Pentagon Papers, Warts and All (1971), ¡Vieques Libre! (2001), A Conspiracy of Hope (1986), The Beginning of the End for Apartheid (1976)

At a time when ocean heat, the slowing of the Gulf Stream, and other major changes are sending shock waves through scientific and decision-making circles, we need greater understanding of what we’re facing, not self-imposed blind spots.