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Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich “Puertopians” Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island
Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are designing a recovery that defends their island. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas. By Naomi Klein.
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Reckoning with the Imperial We
"Before I can talk about Doug Mack’s travelogue-cum-history of America’s colonies, 'The Not-Quite States of America,' I’m going to take a quick detour to talk about the Red Sox..." By K.D. Atherton.
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Max Boot Resurrects the Lansdale Legend
[Per Boot] If only we'd listened to an eccentric CIA operative, we might have won the Vietnam War. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country
The historian Elizabeth Catte on J.D. Vance, colonial logic, and the end of coal in the region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand. By Regan Penaluna.
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The Economic Colonization of Rural America
The transformation of the American economy was supposed to usher in a new era of prosperity via a “rural renaissance.” Where has that dream gone and how do we bring it back? By John Ikerd.
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The strange history of an imperial skirmish in Niger
The US Africa Command is soon expected to release a series of reports on the October 4, 2017, skirmish in Niger that claimed the lives five Nigeriens and four US soldiers. In the meantime… By Jacob Mundy.
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Fat, unhealthy Americans threaten Trump’s defense surge
Rising obesity numbers, drug use, criminal backgrounds and other problems mean most people at prime military recruiting age are ineligible to serve. By Bryan Bender.
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50 Years Later: What Tet Didn’t Destroy, Deferments Did
If Americans are looking for where the 'two Americas' first began to form, Vietnam is a good place to start. By Gil Barndollar.
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Keeping the Darwinian Faith
A review of Michael Ruse’s book on the religion of scientism. By Charles LaPorte, Joseph LaPorte.
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Wrath of the Centurions
Max Hastings reviews "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968 and the Descent into Darkness" by Howard Jones.
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Darwin on Endless Trial
Morten Høi Jensen weighs two takes on Darwin’s legacy.
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They Wanted To Be A Better Class Of White Nationalists. They Claimed This Man As Their Father
Fifty years ago, France lost a war while trying to keep millions of Muslims French citizens. One French writer launched a movement to rethink “identity” in its aftermath and helped reinvent nationalism for the 21st century. By J. Lester Feder, Pierre Buet.
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Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Artists with the Shovels
Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico, documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook.
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A city in Niger worries a new U.S. drone base will make it a ‘magnet’ for terrorists
The U.S. military began eyeing Agadez as a drone hub almost as soon as it persuaded Niger's government to permit it to fly drones from Niamey in 2013. A year later, the government approved construction of the second base. By Sudarsan Raghavan, Craig Whitlock.
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Little House, Small Government
How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America. By Vivian Gornick.
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A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Thanksgiving
The pilgrims stole from graves, the Wampanoag were devastated by disease, and the peace between them was political. By Becky Little.
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How colonial violence came home
The ugly truth of the first world war. By Pankaj Mishra.
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The Best Way to Honor a Vet is With the Truth
Clinging to myths about Iraq and Vietnam only guarantees more war. By Maj. Danny Sjursen.
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Priti Patel and the Balfour declaration shows that we must re-orientate our foreign policy away from Israel
Among the diplomatic minefields facing the UK as it leaves the European Union, relations with Israel might not seem anywhere near the top of the list. If ever this was true, however, it changed over the past week. The coincidence, no more, of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and revelations about the very busy summer holiday enjoyed by the – now former – International Development Secretary forced the exposure of some very uncomfortable truths. By Mary Dejevsky.
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The Spheres of Insurrection: Suggestions for Combating the Pimping of Life
The world is in convulsion, and so are we. We are taken by a malaise, comprised of a mix of sensations. A dread in face of the sinister landscape brought by the rise of reactive forces everywhere, whose level of violence and brutality reminds us of the worst moments in history. Along with the fear, we are also taken by a perplexity in face of another phenomenon, simultaneous to the first: the takeover of worldwide power by the capitalist system in its new version—financialized and neoliberal—which extends its colonial project to its ultimate limits, its globalitarian realization.
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