Analysis
Brian Willson, a profile in pacifist courage at the Awareness Film Festival
October 19, 2017“In America, if you say ‘Brian Wilson,’ people think the Beach Boys, but in Nicaragua if you say ‘Brian Willson,’ people think of the peace activist."
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Arrest of People’s World reporter picked up by press freedom watchdog
October 6, 2017In 2017 there have been 31 arrests of journalists, 14 equipment searches and seizures, 28 physical attacks on them, and 4 border stops of journalists.
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Investing in tragedy: The political economy of mass shootings
October 2, 201750 are dead, more than 400 injured. Meanwhile, the stock prices of gun manufacturers are up sharply in Monday morning trading.
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Dangerous new immigration law passed by the House
September 28, 2017The bill would give the government expanded power to define organizations as “gangs” and then to round up non-citizen members—undocumented or documented—and deport them.
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Trump’s UN promises: War, racism, and an anti-communist crusade
September 22, 2017Trump revealed he is incapable of understanding our infinitely complex world, the existential crises we face, and the level of cooperation needed to solve them.
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