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Equal Justice or Double Standards?
By Murray Polner When David Petraeus left a federal courtroom last April in Charlotte, NC, contrite, humiliated, and guilty, it was less a victory for our system of justice than another example of how...
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Patriotism at a Price: US Military Paid NFL Teams to ‘Honor’ Soldiers at Games
By Sarah Lazare (Left: Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Army service members salute during a ceremony at Giants stadium before the New York Jets game against the Jacksonville Jaguars....
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Their Precious Young Minds and Our Precious Young Minds (Anti-Empire Report 139)
By William Blum, Contributing Editor She was a redheaded rebel, the singer in the family, a trash-talking, tattooed 21-year-old wrapped up in a hip-hop dream of becoming Holland’s Eminem. Then Betsy...
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Arab Leaders and the Insanity of Sectarian Warfare
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. [Photo: James Gordon.] Wars are Planned to Entrap Mankind Wars kill human beings and destroy human habitats, but the Western warmongers flag it as a positive development for...
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The Fire This Time: Black Youth and the Spectacle of Postracial Violence
By Henry A. Giroux, Contributing Editor [Ghetto kids. Source: Dreadscott.net.] “Let’s hope it isn’t too late to listen, listen intently, carefully, minds open, hearts full. Let’s hope.” – James Baldwin...
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Mozgovoy’s Murder and the Role of Western Journalists
By Joaquin Flores The murder of Mozgovoy yesterday sent shock waves through Novorossiya, its citizens and fighters, and the community of those closely following the unfolding events in Ukraine and...
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Neocons: The Men of Dementia
By William R. Polk [Pablo Picasso’s 1955 painting of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.] It was over half a century ago that I first read Cervantes’ marvelous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha. I was then...
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Flipping the Script: Rethinking Working-Class Resistance
By Henry A. Giroux [Monument of the Working Class in Haymarket, San Francisco. Photo: BrendleSignature.] I have often thought about when that moment came in which my working class sensibility turned...
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The Struggle for a Cohesive Left
By Henry A. Giroux, Contributing Editor. (London student protest, via Bowalley Road.) Eric Poulin interviews Henry A. Giroux on “Soapbox” on the seeming failures of the Left to mobilize effectively. He...
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They Knew Exactly What They Were Doing The New World Disorder
By Tariq Ali (Graphic: Duncan C / flickr.) Three decades ago, with the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of the South American dictatorships, many hoped that the much talked about ‘peace...
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Pope Francis’ forthcoming clash with global capitalism
PAUL B. FARRELL | MARKETWATCH } Simulpost with The Greanville Post Opinion: Pope Francis’s anticapitalist revolution launches on Thursday June 18 treatise from Pope Francis will get the ball rolling...
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Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change
NOTE: THIS IS AS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PAPER OF RECORD FOR THE US POWER ELITES. For that reason, we reproduce the document in its entirety. As noted below, it is however packaged in the...
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George Orwell’s socialism
By Luca Tavan George Orwell is often presented as a critic of any thoroughgoing attempt to change the world. Yet he was a socialist and a fighter against inequality, exploitation and oppression....
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No, ‘Je Suis Charleston’?: The De-Politicization of Black Oppression
By Ajama Baraka [Photo: Dylan Roof with Confederate flag and gun. Photo from his manifesto via The African Eye.] Where are the international marches of solidarity with African Americans? The statements...
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Behind the Greek Crisis
By William R. Polk (former U.S. diplomat) [Photo: Alexis Tsipras Komotini] Focusing exclusively on the monetary aspects of the Greek crisis the media misses much of what disturbs the Greeks and also...
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Pope Blasts ‘Unbridled Capitalism'; Begs Forgiveness from Native Americans
By Jon Queally [Francis visits a favela in 2013 while at the World Youth Festival. Tânia Rêgo/ABr – Agência Brasil.] In a far-reaching speech in Bolivia on Thursday, Pope Francis offered his apologies...
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How Black People – And Poor And Middle-Class White People – Are Being Used As...
By Eric L. Wattree [Graphic via Wattree.] I want to preface this assessment of America by assuring the reader that I’m neither a radical nor an ideologue. In fact, I don’t even like ideologues, of any...
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SPECIAL: Blase Bonpane on Pope Francis 2nd Encyclical Laudato Si’ (Praise Be...
BLASE BONPANE, Director Office of the Americas (OOA) Blase Bonpane Comments on The 2nd Encyclical of Pope Francis Laudato Si’ (Praise Be to You) On the Care of Our Common Home Pope Francis receives a...
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Hiroshima and the Responsibility of Intellectuals
By Henry A. Giroux, Contributing Editor [Photo: 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, origin unknown.] [Editor’s Note: This is an except from an excellent article by Henry A. Giroux. The article in its...
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On the Passing of the Working Class And Other Linguistic Shackles Guiding Us...
By Jack Balkwill When people ask, “Why is it that we have such a corrupt government, with rigged elections and an economy which serves only wealthy transnational investors and their transnational...
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