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Climate Crisis
No Cheetahs or Cool Breezes: The World our Carbon Dioxide is Bequeathing our Children

No Cheetahs or Cool Breezes: The World our Carbon Dioxide is Bequeathing our Children

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By Frida Berrigan | – (Tomdispatch.com) – “I don’t want to live in a world without cheetahs, Mom.” Seamus loves cheetahs and what’s not to love — unless you are a Thomson’s gazelle? Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on the planet, formidable predators, sleek, saucy looking, and they even have spots. My six-year-old boy can’t […]

Corporate Surveillance
Are You Ready for the Trump Admin. to Know Everything about You?

Are You Ready for the Trump Admin. to Know Everything about You?

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By Judith Coburn | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we know we are surveilled 24/7 by the National Security Agency, the FBI, local police, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, hackers, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, data brokers, private spyware groups like Black Cube, and companies from which we’ve ordered swag on the Internet, is there […]

racism
Could Trump's War on Black NFL Players awaken a Sleeping Giant?

Could Trump’s War on Black NFL Players awaken a Sleeping Giant?

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Will Trump’s attacks on black athletes provoke a revolution in the NFL?

Pentagon
The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

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A combination of fear, ideology, and influence peddling radically skews “debate” there in favor of military outlays above all else

Saudi Arabia
Arms and Manipulation: How the Saudis and UAE took Trump for a Ride

Arms and Manipulation: How the Saudis and UAE took Trump for a Ride

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The embrace of reckless and undemocratic regimes by President Trump has far-reaching implications for American foreign policy

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