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Occupy Wall Street Returns to Zuccotti Park to Celebrate its 15-Year Anniversary
Decried by critics as a "failed attempt," Occupy Wall Street has quietly built a powerful, long-lasting legacy — and will celebrate it in Zuccotti Park on…
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war and peace
The Spectrum of Escalation: How America Went From Soft War to Open War, and Got a Peace Medal for It
From Biden's sanctions to Trump's kidnappings, blockades, and bombs — a country-by-country accounting of an empire that finds a new enemy every morning and calls it…
USA
A Million Dollars Is Not a Law
What Californians Should Demand From Their Governor — and From Anyone Who Wants to Be President
USA
An Election Is Not a Family Heirloom
Why Democrats and Independents Must Demand International Monitors Before November 3
war and peace
Occupy at Fifteen: What the Tents Taught Us, and Why the Next Occupation Must Target Big Tech
An open letter to my Occupy Wall Street comrades — on Tunisia and Tahrir, on infiltrators and circular arguments, on why American courts will never convict,…
USA
Red Card the Host: Why Countries That Can’t Respect the Rules Should Never Host the Games Again
By Vahid Razavi — Author of The Age of Nepotism and Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof, Founder of EthicsInTech.com and NoEthicsInBigTech.com Producer of the Forever…
USA
A Senate Seat Is Not a Family Heirloom: The Graham Appointment and the Age of Nepotism
Lindsey Graham died on a Saturday. By Monday, a president had hand-picked his sister — a woman who has never stood before voters in her life…
USA
“BIRTHERS”, ANTI-IMMIGRATION AND THE REPEAL OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT
From Rand Paul in Kentucky to Carl Paladino in New York, Tea Party candidates have swept Primary races knocking aside the establishment candidates of the Republican Party. Their political pronouncements and policy platforms represent a shift…
USA
THE MAD TEA PARTY: SOCIO-PSYCHOPATHS RUN AMOK
With less than 3 weeks left before the upcoming Midterm elections, the US political scene resembles Wonderland as described by Lewis Carroll. One cannot help but to think of…
USA
POOR, POOR SARAH BY: WILLIAM RIVERS PITT
Twenty people were gunned down at a supermarket in Arizona on Saturday. Six were killed, including a nine-year-old girl. Fourteen others were wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,…
Global issues
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS IS A WATERSHED MOMENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS
Since the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Senator in 1968. Congresswoman Giffords remains in critical condition in a Tuscon hospital. Giffords was one of 9 people shot.…
USA
GOP LEADERS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT TEA PARTY CANDIDATES
The extreme rhetoric and politics of many Tea Party candidates for the upcoming Midterm elections have alarmed many Democrats, liberals and moderates. They are not alone. The statements…