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Rosenberg Executions: Let the Full Truth Be Known

Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol Just Security
We call on Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to follow her own wise counsel and direct the NSA and the National Archives to open all files relating to Ethel Rosenberg to us and to every American. Let the chips fall where they may.

Survey: Belief in God Not Necessary To Be Moral

Janell Fetterolf and Sarah Austin Pew Research Center
In European and North American countries, at least six-in-ten respondents believe that it is not necessary to believe in God in order to be moral. Responses differ by political affiliation, age, religious belief and education level.

Cornel West: The Primaries Call

Tom Gallagher The Stansbury Forum
Hopefully, West’s supporters will prevail upon him to undertake his fight in the most effective arena that currently exists, where the greatest light-to-heat potential lies – the primaries.

Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West

Patrick Bigger and Sara Nelson Dissent Magazine
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right and surging wildfires will take a progressive green industrial policy,

Ecuador’s Divided Electoral Landscape

Marc Becker NACLA
Facing certain impeachment, on May 17 Ecuador's deeply unpopular rightwing president Guillermo Lasso pulled the plug and dissolved the National Assembly, calling for new elections.
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