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Reader Comments: Impeachment; Turkey, Kurds, Rojava; Climate Change and Militarism; Red Meat Safe - readers take issue; Abolish Columbus Day; Vietnam War; Knights of Labor resource; Announcements - Chicago, Berkeley, New York, Washington, DC; more...

How Private Equity Makes You Sicker

Eileen Applebaum The American Prospect
Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.

America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations

Jay Reeves AP
The discovery of the last ship that brought Africans to the United States as slaves may offer a test case for reparations. Relatives of steamship owner Timothy Meaher, still live in Mobile. So do descendants of the people he enslaved.

Winners and Losers From Trump Throwing Syrian Kurds Under the Bus

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Washington’s crusade against Iran and Russia (in the latter case with the exception of Trump) is irrelevant to this move, which is mainly about the Kurds and America’s further betrayal of them after they defeated ISIL for us.
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