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Jackson Water Crisis: A Legacy of Environmental Racism?

Chi Chi Izundu, Mohamed Madi & Chelsea Bailey BBC
Experts and advocates say what is happening in Jackson - and in towns like Flint in Michigan, where the water supply was contaminated with lead - is a direct legacy of generations of discrimination and segregation.

Chile on a Knife Edge

Hugo Guzman Morning Star
The issue is whether Chileans will live in a repressive political structure and exploitative economic model installed by a dictatorship decades ago, or whether they will choose to start a new and egalitarian chapter in the history of Chile.

Peace Literacy: Education for Life

H Patricia Hynes Portside
What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?

Mississippi Used Welfare Money To Pay Brett Favre

Ken Dilanian and Laura Strickler NBC
The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.

Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch

Robert Ovetz Dollars & Sense
What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.”

96% of Freight Rail Workers Want To Strike, Survey Finds

Aaron Gordon VICE
Photo of a train and a road sign for train crossing.
The survey was conducted by Railroad Workers United, an umbrella organization that stretches across the freight rail industry’s multiple unions, 13 of which are involved in contract talks with most of the nation’s largest freight rail carriers.

How Will the War End?

Boris Kagarlitsky Russian Dissent
A precise answer requires precise questions