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On 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, nuke threat rises
August 6, 2020Doomsday Clock is only 100 seconds before nuclear war, closest ever since the height of the Cold War.
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Jewish Labor Committee remembers coronavirus dead on traditional mourning day
July 29, 2020A vow, in the words of famed union organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones: “Mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
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150,000 dead of coronavirus in U.S.: What monument will they have?
July 28, 2020We have a collective grief to deal with in our land, yet from our highest tribunes all we hear is, “This will be over sooner than you know it, get back to work."
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Iconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history
July 23, 2020For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.
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Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy
July 23, 2020Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.
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