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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

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Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

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"This Land:"  The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time

“This Land:” The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By beginning with Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” and then switching to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land […]

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Authoritarianism
Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?

Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?

By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | – – You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s […]

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Why Trump’s Immigration Order is a Tragedy for Everyone, Except Trump

Why Trump’s Immigration Order is a Tragedy for Everyone, Except Trump

By Barbara Elias | (Informed Comment) | – – For the moment, federal courts have interrupted the president’s immigration order. Judge Robart remarked in his […]

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China
Trump’s Coming “Islamo-China” War . . . or, Whatever

Trump’s Coming “Islamo-China” War . . . or, Whatever

By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – What kind of national security policy will the Trump administration pursue globally? On this issue, […]

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Culture
SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders

SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders

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Far Right
Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists

Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an interview with Bill O’Reilly airing Sunday afternoon, O’Reilly observes of Russian President Vladimir Putin: […]

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Climate Change
Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land

Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives “away a taxpayer-owned resource […]

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Authoritarianism
When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .

When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .

TeleSur | – – The illustrator is a Cuban immigrant  who put his views on Trump into a piece of art that is now on […]

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Iraq
Militia Feuding, Insecurity in East Mosul hold up Advance on ISIL

Militia Feuding, Insecurity in East Mosul hold up Advance on ISIL

Mustafa Habib | ( Niqash.org ) | – – The biggest problem in eastern Mosul, post-extremists, is security. The Iraqi army needs to move on, […]

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